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Hi folks. My wife just got back from a trip to Chicago. She had a great time; she prefers it to New York, and she's a New Yorker! Anyway, she asked me to ask you Chicago Freepers a question: Why are there so few campaign signs in the Chicago area? She traveled not just downtown, but out to the suburbs as well, but only saw 3 signs over several days. How come?

As many of you heard, Lt. Bryan Suits wants to collect boots and warm socks to hand out to the Iraqi kids. Most of them are still wearing sandals although the weather has grown colder and it rains a lot. If you would like to help out Bryan, you can by sending him children's -sized rubber rain boots and wool socks. Packages can be mailed directly to Bryan at: Lieutenant Bryan Suits C CO, TF161INF 3BCT, 1CavDiv APO AE 09348 Thanks for supporting Boots for Suits!

Hi folks. I bought my wife a Delphi Sky-Fi radio for my wife's birthday and had it installed in our SUV. Right away we started having trouble. The signal would cut out often, from one second to an hour. The installers tried a different antenna but with no improvement. Anyone have experience with this problem? TIA.

<p>WASHINGTON -- Letters from hometown soldiers describing their successes rebuilding Iraq have been appearing in newspapers across the country as U.S. public opinion on the mission sours. And all the letters are the same.</p> <p>A Gannett News Service search found identical letters from different soldiers with the 2nd Battalion of the 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, also known as "The Rock," in 11 newspapers, including Snohomish, Wash.</p>

Is there a pool going? There should be two, I think: 1) When will be the first sighting of US troops on the CNN Baghdad cam? 2) When will the statue of Saddam in the trafic circle bite the dust?

<p>Jody Mason of Olympia is locked to the Washington State Grange office building Tuesday to protest war. He intended to chain himself to a federal Department of Energy office building, but discovered he was at the wrong location.</p> <p>OLYMPIA -- A man spent hours chained to the wrong building Tuesday in an ill-planned effort to protest war with Iraq, police said. Jody Mason padlocked himself to an entrance of the Washington State Grange building at 924 Capitol Way S., thinking it was a sub-office of the U.S. Department of Energy.</p>

Hi folks. Spring is finally here after a long, icky winter. Time to lighten up a bit! So, here are a few "Spring Is Here" haiku: Spring is here at last! Grass grows green where dog poop thaws Mower tune-up time! Mower needs new plug, Water in gas tank must go No compression! Dang. The old Briggs is dead. Trip to saw and mower shop A manly pleasure. Checkbook is empty All hail the brand new Toro The grass will tremble. Gas tank is top't off Mower starts on the first pull Now the rain has come.

Hi folks. After retiring my old PC (AMD K62-300), I want to convert it into a Linux Box networked to my new XP box, with a router handling the cable modem connection. I would like to have the old box be pure Linux, without a Windows partition of any kind, but I forsee a problem with the install. I bought a set of Mandrake 8.1 CD's and a new hard drive on Ebay...I'll be starting from zero. So no drivers for the CD-ROM. If I just pop the Mandrake CD into the slot will anything happen? TIA.

POSTED: 3/26/01 TiVo's Data Collection and Privacy Practices By David Martin Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Denver Introduction Vendor Response TiVo Background and Business Model Information Gathering by the TiVo Device The Diagnostic Log File The Viewing Information File Viewing Information: Anonymous or Not? Technical Details: Transferring the Information TiVo's Privacy Disclosures Legal Concerns Recommendations to TiVo Inc. Recommendations to TiVo Subscribers Listening to TiVo's Transmissions Acknowledgments Related Links Introduction The TiVo personal television product gives home viewers the ability to pause live television, record TV shows by name rather than time and channel, and generally allows users ...

"Mister bin-Laden" Uncle Sam says, wrench in hand "Your table is ready"

A lovely nose ring-- excuse me while I put my head in the oven. After the warm rain the sweet smell of camellias. Did you wipe your feet? Her lips near my ear, Aunt Sadie whispers the name of her friend's disease. Looking for pink buds to prune, the old mohel wanders among his flowers. Today I am a man. Tomorrow I will return to the seventh grade. The sparkling blue sea reminds me to wait an hour after my sandwich. Tea ceremony-- fragrant steam perfumes the air. Try the cheese danish. Lacking fins or tail the gefilte fish swims ...