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After a year of dedicated use after a computer mishap described in this thread: The Computer is Broken. Seems to be Circling the Drain in a Loop. TECH PING LIST SUPERSTARS03.02.08 chickensoup http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1979332/posts#73 Having a similar problem but the boot on the XP Pro disk doesnt seem to help. got to the blue screen once and hit the 'R" key and it loaded but just sat there and hummed. so i started to type in chkdsk/r but it would only let me type in "c".... It is now back to circling the drain to the white on black screen that...

D/FW AIRPORT — Alan Burks invited himself on this flight, the one that took off in the early afternoon Wednesday bound for the Middle East. On board the American Airlines 767 were 2 tons of supplies from the nonprofit he started in memory of his son Pete, an Army platoon leader from Dallas killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2007. No way would Burks miss the chance to go and mingle with the troops. He took Pete’s younger brother, Zac, with him to share in the experience. "He’s more than ready," Zac Burks said. "This has been his...

I've have been assigned by my college English teacher to write a 4 page essay on the Ethics of Buying, following MLA standards. I know this is something really dumb and already rigged, but I would like to know how to approach writing such a thing, keep it conservative, and still not royally tick off my liberal English teacher. Any sources that could be recommended would be appreciated as well.

Please share your thoughts with me after reading the following: Background: Private co-ed Christian school. 65 students in this grade level. Student elections for Student Council. Positions on the Council: Two Officers & unknown number available for specific events. 11 students running - all girls. All students required to make one poster and give one short speech to the 8th grade class. FFw to speech & election day. All students presented their speeches. Prior to students returning to their respective classrooms to cast their votes, the students were told that the ballots would have all 11 girls' names listed. Each...

Here's the problem. I defragmented, as usual, and restarted my computer. For some reason, my widescreen monitor went back to it's original "stretched" form. I cannot remember how I fixed this problem when I first installed the monitor, just remember it was an SOB to fix and a fluke that I got it right. Please, any advise or fix would be greatly appreciated.

My eighteen month old great-grandson Alfonso has undergone open heart surgery today for a congenital heart defect. There were complications. He is in critical condition in a Mexico City hospital. His parents are natually distraught.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States is working to rush assistance to Mexico as it fights violent drug cartels, including equipment to help authorities track the narcotics mafia, according to the top US military officer. "We're all working very hard to move the capabilities that are desirable to Mexico as quickly as we can," Admiral Mike Mullen told reporters by phone from his aircraft after holding talks in Mexico. During his meetings with the country's military leadership, Mullen said he discussed how Washington could help in the battle against the powerful cartels, citing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) as a...

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To all of the patriot Michiganders...I would like to schedule a Tea Party event here in Michigan but would like some suggestions as to location, speakers, musicians (it's too bad Ted Nugent no longer lives in Jackson!)etc. If anyone can offer any help, please email me. Of all states, we need this party. We are a state of socialists!!!

I can't find the help page. Where is it or is it at all? I have an illustration I want to post. It's not very reverent to obambi so I'll check the rules again.

After 7 weeks of unemployment, I started a new job last week. I have an appointment with human resources to fill out my benefits paperwork tomorrow. I've studied the 403b plans in the handbook and am having trouble understanding what it all means. The plans include the usual mutual funds, which I don't want to put my hard earned money into. There is also a money market fund available, the Oppenheimer Cash Reserves N Fund, which states it is based on a 3-month T-bill. I read on the internet that even T-bills are risky now. Should I forget about enrolling...

I download some music this morning and when I removed my USB connector to my Sony MP3 player my computer went dead. I tried a hard boot, but the computer is not booting up. I am assuming that "she's dead, jim", right? The fan won't start and my zip drive has conniption fits when I start try to start her up. My CD rom won't open either. Is there any way I can recover the contents of my hard drive? How do I dispose of the computer and get rid of the personal information. Is this a good computer?

Obama offers no housing fix, little hope February 13, 2009 BY STEVE HUNTLEY The nearly $800 billion stimulus bill will be signed, sealed and delivered in a day or so. Even those of us with doubts about its priorities, its big spending and its non-stimulus agenda of liberal goals hope it will deliver a much-needed jolt to our staggering economy. We're all in this leaky boat together. Still, doubts about the bill's effectiveness are compounded by the slowness of the Obama administration, like the Bush White House before it, to address the source of this economic calamity, the housing collapse....

Good evening everyone, and welcome to the new week's thread.Our new president will treat us to another exhorting, scolding speech Monday night as the Senate prepares to vote on the Depression and Mind-Boggling Deficit Act of 2009.Meanwhile Sec Treasury Timothy Geithner, AKA The Treasury's Own Tax Cheat, will unveil yet another bank bailout Tuesday...but that could change...stay tuned.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2009 – With April 15 looming, the Defense Department is on call to take the sting out of tax return preparation for servicemembers. “Each of the legal offices provides some form of tax preparation assistance,” Air Force Lt. Col. Don Svendsen, executive director for the Armed Forces Tax Council, said. “People that are doing the return preparation have been trained [and] certified by the [Internal Revenue Service]. “Usually we can prepare the return right there on the spot,” he added. To make sure that a return can be finished in one visit to a tax center,...

Good evening everyone.Statism continues to run amok in Washington.The O administration is set to soon unveil a Big Bank Bank Bailout...more debt onto debt for as far as we can see.But a ray of hope: there are hints that some Dems as well as the Rs in the Senate have qualms about the Depression & Huge Deficit Act of 2009 which passed the House last week.So we shall see.Meanwhile we can have a lottery: how many Executive Orders will the new president sign THIS week??

Anyone have any experience with this nasty piece of spyware. I had not even heard about it, until this morning when I put it on my neighbor's computer. It would have been bad enough if I had done it to my own, it's horribe I did it to his...so...what's the best way of ridding myself of this evil interloper. And for once, I'm using that term about something other than Obama! Thanks!

Has anyone ever gotten an EZ Pass bill with charges that belong to someone else? Did anyone ever return an EZ Pass unit--the transponder--and find that it turned up still in use by someone else, charging you for their travel?

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's economic stimulus legislation is headed for the Senate after a surprisingly partisan vote in the House in which Republicans united in opposition and 11 mostly conservative Democrats defected. ... During Senate debate next week, the measure is expected to pick up at least some GOP support. But Obama's hopes of changing Washington's partisan culture went unmet despite the popular president's separate high-profile meetings on Capitol Hill on Tuesday with House and Senate Republicans.