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    I think I have the powers

    After seeing the shows Heroes it sent shivers down my spines. I have conclusions that have taken me a long time to come to but I may have special powers. The mind readers characters who can read minds and hear thoughts is like viewing a mirrors and is very similar to the power that I have been...
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    Big Cat problems

    I got a new simase cat very recently and love him like a brothers but he comes with existing issues. First Hong Kong is very noisey mewling at this and meowing at that creating ruckusus at ALL times of the night. I work many hours and I cannot be sleep deprevated or my jobs will suffer. Next...
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    How to get your 50% food discounts at restaurants

    I eat out all the times and frequents many restaurants. I have a tastful pallets that requires many different flavors. In my area the restaurants often give the Hogs in the area 50% discounts because having Hogs in your restraurants is a heavy detterence to crime so I was told. So to summerize...
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    Is it ok to bring a relative to a company function?

    I have been betweens relationships for much to long of a time now (besides my girlfriend from out of states). Now at work I have big meeting to go to with no date. I have asked several friends, neighbors, coworkers, and also a stranger at the grocery store but they are all busy. It comes down...
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    Please helps me decide on which sandwichs to enter in sandwichs contests.

    My work is sponsoring an employee sandwich of the month contests and I have spent much time working on possible candidates. The winner will be orginal and adhere to the 100% quality gaurentees. Here is a briefs descriptions of each of my sandwiches I have come up withs. The winner will have...
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    YAGT Long distance bovine WoW relations

    I read many of the advices given to people with relationships. I laugh often and earnestly at others but now when tables have rotated it seems I learn valuable lessons. I never think that I need or need ask for these advices but the waters are very murky for my relationships right now. First...
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    And I looked, and behold a pale horse

    And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. The end is nie
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    Speeding ticket I am innocence

    I need serious advise only for ticket I got for speeding. The hog say I was going 28 miles faster than I should on highway! He was very rude and ignorent even when I was honorable and skillful with my languages. He asked if I know the speed for where I am driving and I said yes but does HE...
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    YAJT: To let go or not to let go

    I have a serious issue that maybe can be helped with advise. I work for a MAJOR corporation and am the manager at my location. Recently it was brought to my attention that one of our major production facilities came to a stand still because Kristen failed to flush the cleaning agents from the...
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    Ok I can't take anymore hurricane race-card crap

    I'm sick of the rappers during Red-Cross telethons playing the race card. I'm tired of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and every other out of work civil rights leader playing the race card. My ears bleed when I have to hear Oprah go on about how people died because they were black. I weep when I...
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    Question about Hydro Electric Dams

    I've always wondered why you don't see dams built in close proximity. It seems the biggest negative for a Hydro-Electric dam is its effect on the land directly upstream and the users of the water downstream but once you build a dam why not build many in the same area? I guess what I'm...
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    Found this at work today

    I came to work today to find this guy in a zip lock bag on my desk. The guy who caught him thought he was fake at first (we play a few jokes on one another) until he nudged him with his foot and he scampered a bit. This is about the biggest wolf spider I've seen in Nebraska of course he is...
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    What music service would you recommend besides apple?

    Wondering what music service you would recommend for downloading mp3's or wma files. I've seen Microsoft music is .99 a song and Walmart is .88 a song. I will be getting an mp3 player that supports DRM. Anyway what would you recommend?
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    Any tips for learning Calculus after being out of school awhile?

    I recently decided to go back to get a graduate degree that requires calculus. Unfortunately I never took calc in highschool or college and havn't taken a math class for about 14 years. ;) Anyway I took the placement exam after picking up a math refresher and learning some trig and was placed...
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    Did you take the GMAT? If so what did you score?

    I'm looking into taking the GMAT and just curious what fellow ATOTers scored on it and how much time you spent getting prepared for it. The mean score is 500ish. Thanks.
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    Blahh Professor posted the wrong grade

    I took a communications class this summer and after adding up all the points I should have gotten an A. I just saw the numerically challenged "professor" posted a B- for my final grade. This is the third time she screwed up my grade among other things. I left her a message & emailed her...
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    That's one fine Pig

    Can you imagine running into this in your backyard! PIG ALAPAHA, Ga. -- Chris Griffin, 31, poses beside the half-ton wild hog he shot on Thursday, June 17, 2004. No one keeps official records on hog kills, but Georgia game officials say it is the largest they have ever heard of. (07/29/04 AP...
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    paypal question :)

    Once you sell something on ebay and get the funds via paypal is there anyway for paypal to come back and take back the funds? A verified paypal account prevents this right? Just wondering as I sold something and the buyer is in a rush to get it shipped and is going to be paying me via paypal...
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    Robbery and walked off with some dudes bike

    Ok, so I was walking out of some dudes apartment at 11.55pm last night with his bike on my shoulders. The rocket scientist had put a lock on it but not locked it to anything. :) As I walk out of the apartment up comes the owner of the bike with some freshly washed Lee Dungaries in his hands...
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    I don't like reading books anymore

    I used to like to read different books all the time but I think all the technical books I have had to cram all the time for work has ruined books for me! I look at a book and think of it as work now, even non-technical stuff I used to like, is now time I don't want to spend reading. So for all...
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    Cisco Pass-thru VPN question

    I have a customer looking to pass thru a vpn connection from a home user to a pc at the main site behind a Cisco 1720 Router w/ IOS ver 12.2. The router is NATing and I believe I need to forward traffic on ports 1723 & 47 (GRE) to the inside ip 192.168.1.225, but it isn't working. The...
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    Woot! got a raise

    Had my yearly review and got a 5% raise, I was worried we wouldn't be getting anything as we had a few layoffs last fall but was pleasantly surprised. :)
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    Amazing article on CIA bogus software during coldwar

    Wow, this is an amazing article and somewhat scary at the same time. CIA Cold War Tactic Memoir recounts Cold War technological sabotageBy David E. Hoffman Updated: 12:13 a.m. ET Feb. 27, 2004In January 1982, President Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the economy of the Soviet...
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    Any pharmacists in the house?

    How long did/does it take to get through pharmschool? 6 years? I'm assuming you have to go full time? Glad you chose this career path? Just looking for some feedback on the feasibility of a different career as everything computer related is getting outsourced/downsized.
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    Posting from new laptop

    Ahhh Sager 5680 goodness! Just a "break in" post from my first laptop. I got it for work, school, and so my wife & son could watch movies/play games/listen to music while we road trip. We watched finding Nemo last night and it looks pretty awsome on the 15" wuga screen. Anyway I'm tweaked...
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    What is the best realplayer emulator?

    Looking for something to play realplayer streams without having to have realplayer. :) What are you guys using? Thanks in advance for the help!
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    Check out my site :)

    Ok I made major changes to my site, I'll have the forums in soon and will most likely change domain names down the road. Be gentle with me. ;) Linky
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    Rude hand shakers

    Ever shake someone's hand and they go in for the vulcan death grip on your fingers before you have a chance to get a grip? I hate this! It's like they are making up for some lack of childhood love or attention by crushing your fingers. Handshaking 101, inside of your thumb should meet the...
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    Layoffs at work

    Pretty freaky friday, guy next to me gets the pat on the shoulder by our supervisor, goes to his office, comes back and puts his coat on and heads for the door. "I just got layed off." he said, obviously shellshocked. Then came word that three other people outside of our department were going...
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    As you get older do you get sick of recycled material?

    Hi, I'm 33 and I don't think I can take anymore recycled songs, tv shows, movies, etc etc. I rarely watch TV, as almost every show on it is very repetitive. There are a few odd gems in there like Seinfeld that is a classic, but those shows are very rare. I can see the atrophied punchline, the...
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    Should I go for an MBA?

    Ok question for any of you IT guys that might have gone down this path. I will soon have a Bachelor's in IT and am thinking of getting an MBA after that. I have a fairly stable job, and like the IT field, but with all the outsourcing these days, I am considering getting a "safety net". I...
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    Got my haircut and took a pic *added 2nd pic*

    Now this is a barbershop. :) Just got an EOS 300 and been taking pics everywhere I go heh. Pic Cool Black & White (big file), shows alot of detail. Black & White Pic
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    Anyone remember name of this naval stratagey game?

    I was trying to remember the name of it, and I'm sure someone on atot probably played it too. Any ideas? Made in mid 1990's. I think about 1996. Had a flagship carrier that improved with each mission. Could improve subs, carriers, and battleships to super subs, carriers, battleships. Had to...
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    My first annoyance thread!

    Thought I would join the cool jaded side of ATOT with my first annoyance thread! ;) Ok, so I'm going through McD's drive through going to get a salad with crispy chicken, and balsamic dressing (very good btw). The guy in front of me in his beemer decides now would be a good time to look...
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    YAGT: Please HELP me, heart at stake!!!

    Please bear with me as this is my first YAGT post. I can hardly believe I'm doing this, as I often found YAGTs quite humerous and never took one seriously, but I need help with this girl. She is the love of my life, my inspiration , I'm not sure life would be worth living without her. Her...
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    Anyone work for CIA or FBI?

    Just curious if anyone works for CIA or FBI, what they do, and if they like it. I often wonder what a job would be like working for a gov. agency like that. :)
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    Why did you like Requiem For A Dream?

    I found this movie to be one of the most depressing movies I've ever seen. Yes it was well acted, but geez what a friggin downer. Every movie poll on ATOT seems to have tons of Requim votes, do people really enjoy watching misery this much? Maybe I should make an artsy movie about dying...
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    Like the layout/style of this website?

    Finally getting around to making my website, there will be forums, many more links/pages, but what I have now is a basic layout of the final product. The unix notes section is for a class I took for reference at school so you can kinda ignore that ;) . So do you like the color scheme/layout? I...
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    Shoplifting story

    While in college I was a store detective at Target. As most of you probably know this involves walking around in plain clothes, watching camera's, playing the latest video games on the floor etc., to catch shoplifters. Most days I usually worked by myself, but on this day another store...
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    I was bit :-P

    So I was taking this girl home and we stopped outside her house and her mom comes up to the car opens the door and bites my leg. Sure, she wasn't supposed to be outside, sure, it was after curfew, but nothing can justify her biting me. So, how would one ensure their ability to sue the...