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    Canadian dollar = US dollar, first time in 31 years

    Fellow Canadians, time to go shopping in the US! http://ca.today.reuters.com/ne...-DOLLAR-PARITY-COL.XML
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    Searching for good TV/Electronics store in the UK

    Hi all, I'm in London, helping a friend relocate (Canary Wharf). We have been searching for an LCD TV, but not sure what shops offer the best deals. I've been to Currys and wasn't too impressed with their selection - is there a store equivalent to BestBuy in London, and if so can anyone...
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    IBM said to be in negotiations to sell their PC business

    I.B.M. Said to Put Its PC Business on the Market http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12...4&partner=homepage "According to the people close to the negotiations, I.B.M. is in serious discussions with Lenovo, China's largest maker of personal computers, and at least one other potential buyer for...
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    Here come the Billionaires

    http://billionairesforbush.com...20In%20The%20House.mp3 Just found this earlier, and the song rocks! It's a part of the album "Never Mind the Rabble - Here come the Billionaires", (funny if you remember the old sex pistols album) and all the mp3s are available for free from their site above...
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    New York Times endorses John Kerry

    http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10...opinion/17sun1.html?hp "We look back on the past four years with hearts nearly breaking, both for the lives unnecessarily lost and for the opportunities so casually wasted. Time and again, history invited George W. Bush to play a heroic role, and time and...
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    IDF puts 20 bullets in 13 year old girl walking to school

    http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/487788.html IDF soldiers claim that the commander walked up to the girl after she had been shot to 'confirm the kill' and unloaded many bullets at close range. She had a backpack on which the IDF said looked suspicious but she was 400 metres away...
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    Sharon Aide Says Goal of Gaza Plan Is to Halt Road Map

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/...s/A11236-2004Oct6.html
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    Israeli Nuke Whistleblower to be Released after 18 years

    Mordechai Vanunu, the man who blew the whistle on Israeli nuclear plans will be released on Weds after 18 years in prison, including 12 in solitary confinement. I don't know if you know much about solitary confinement, but it is brutal for even a few days, let alone a couple of years. The...
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    Bye bye roadmap

    Bush has agreed to just about all of Sharon's demands. The first president to legitimize the illegal settlements, and basically saying good bye to the roadmap and making it more difficult to ever find a final peace settlement. Bush says Israel could keep some occupied land
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    UT2K4 goes Gold.

    Shipping March 15! I stopped playing FPS after the original Unreal Tournament, and now I have been playing the UT2K4 demo which is just as addictive. Graphics, vehicles, weapons, huge maps, VOIP, user voting system... list goes on. UT'ers rejoice! UT2004 Goes Gold Oopps, didn't notice...
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    Would T41 harddrive work in R40? (and vice versa)

    Please let me know. I'm thinking of getting a T41 for myself and giving my system to a relative, and swapping the HD. This is because I want to buy a T41 with a 30 or 40 GB drive to save money, since my R40 has 60 GB. (Fujitsu) Also would save me a lot of time transferring my files. Thanks
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    thinkpad R40 battery charging freezes at 99%

    Hi there I am wondering if it is normal that on recharge my thinkpad charges only to 99% according to the battery maximizer gauge. I think it would eventually get to 100% because the tooltip on the gauge says approx 30 mins to completion. Why would it take 30 mins to charge 1%? Faulty...
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    dog chewed on power cable

    Ok, this might be a silly question, but I don't know anything about electric cables. Anyhow, my jack russell just partially chewed through a power cable connected to an electric heater in my room. Thing is, this cable is permanently attached to the heater so I can't just replace the cable...
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    allofmp3 - use paypal get 10% bonus credits

    If you use PayPal between Jan 16 - 26, you get a 10% bonus. So if buy $10 in credits, they will give you an additional dollar, or about an extra album.
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    13 of IDF elite special-operations force refuse to serve

    "We say to you today, we will no longer give our hands to the oppressive reign in the territories and the denial of human rights to millions of Palestinians," reads the letter addressed to the prime minister, " and we will no longer serve as a defensive shield for the settlement enterprise."...
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    Thinkpad Intel Boot Agent Error

    Hi there.. Got a little problem that I hope thinkpad owners can help me with. I have a 2722GCU R40. When I boot, I sometimes get an error that reads "PXE-E05: The LAN adapter's configuration is corrupted or has not been initialized. The Boot Agent cannot continue". Followed by an error...
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    Typing Lag in Windows XP

    Hi there, I am running Windows XP Professional SP1 on a Thinkpad R40 (Pentium M 1.5, 512ram), and notice that there is some intermittent typing lag. Although it doesn't happen often, it happens even when I'm not doing anything cpu intensive (on msn messenger for example). I don't have reall...
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    difference betwen R40 or T40

    Hi there, I'm looking to buy a new laptop. I need it mainly for school and work, which includes some programming, but also a bit of gaming on the side. I am not a guy that needs 60+ fps for everything, but something good enough for the mainstream. More important is durability, which is why I...