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    Best Way to move 3,000 miles?

    Hello friends, I'm moving from Richmond, VA to San Francisco in a couple months - whats the best way to do it? I have a car and can just manage to fit all the crap I have into one carload (will buy furniture or store the rest). I could go with the standard moving service, or even...
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    Do homeschoolers ever get a crush on their teachers?

    I consider this another missed opportunity compared to public schooling. I remember a particular social studies teacher back in high school that really educated me about the Washington Monument. Any homeschoolers wanna rebuke this fact?
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    Remix of recent Iraq war footage

    I'm sure people remember this link - the description was an Apache blowing away some people who just planted some road side bombs I think. These guys ran it through in slow-mo and it looks like it was just a bunch of farmers doing their farming thing - no sign of bombs in the middle of a...
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    Check Cashing at Wal Mart?

    Do they cash checks at walmart? I just got paid in my first real job, but they cut me a check because Direct Deposit takes a couple weeks to activate. Can I take a pretty sizable check to wal mart to cash? I would just pop over but there isn't one that close to me so I thought I'd save a trip...
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    So I just moved to Richmond, Va

    Moved here for a job that starts next week. Live sort of in West End, but closer to the Fan. Don't know anybody here or any attractions, what should be first on my list? Then second, etc..
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    New Mideast war = $5.00 gas, good deals ahead?

    Anyone else expecting to find some good deals when the gas starts ramping up soon due to more "uncertainty"? $100/barrel isn't out of the question - I'm hoping to find some nice estate sales from people who couldn't afford to drive 50 miles to work each day anymore.
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    American cost of the Mideast's new war: $100 oil

    Link This is the result of war with the Mideast at any cost. Must be frustrating to those of us with insecurity issues who love war and love their SUV. Why can't them muslims be in non-oil countries? Then we could blow them up real good without havin' to take mo' home equity out to fill 'er...
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    I wish my lawn was emo...

    So that it would cut itself :(
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    Government "Orwellianism" vs. Post-Katrina Response

    From all of the issues with civil rights coming along recently from wiretapping, banking and other government intrusion whistleblowers, I was getting pretty agitated/paranoid about intrusion into my life. It's easy to think that there's some building somewhere building cases on all of us...
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    DMV HORROR

    Hey guys, So I bought a Lexus from my neighbor (first car of my own!) up here in NYS while I'm visiting my dad. I need to get it registered in Virginia which is where I'll be starting my job out of college. So I got the loan from my credit union, paid my neighbor, she pays off the...
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    Colbert Lampoons Bush at White House Correspondents Dinner

    You can watch the video here: link Who in the administration picked Colbert to be the keynote speaker? He positively ripped the lame liberal and conservative media, along with Bush, generals and plenty of other people. Hilarious video and he really has some balls to say this stuff 10 feet...
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    First car out of college, what to get?

    So I'm starting a job out of college this July starting at 55k in a medium sized city in Virginia. Right now I have an Audi 100CS from 1993, it's basically a first-gen A6. It runs well but has 170k miles and is starting to have tranny problems, weird electrical stuff, etc. I decided its time...
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    viewing a local website while SSH'd through 2 boxes? Linux

    Hello, Sorry for the confusing topic but i'm not sure how else to explain it. I'm helping to set up a network monitoring package for an employer but I am working from home while on vacation. To get into the network I ssh to a gateway computer in linux (command line), and from that box i SSH...
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    Website Critique!

    Hey all, Spent the past 6 months or so redesigning the campus newspaper i work for (@ virginia tech).. The old layout is here The new layout is here! Although a better representation of what the site will look like when school starts again is here I did the design and brought...
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    PHP file downloader?

    Hey all, A site i'm looking at has a cool php script for a movie listing program he wrote. I want to download it but the download link is broken for some reason. Are there any programs out there that will let me download a copy of his website so i can grap that script? He has it set up as a...
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    Waterproofing a digicam?

    Is there any way to waterproof a digital camera for SCUBA diving, without having to pay out the ass for a plexiglass holder? I'd imagine a plastic bag with a good enough seal could do the same job as long as it was tight over the lens part, right? I don't think i'll be going any deeper than...
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    Vacation to Bocas del Toro - any info?

    Hey all, Going in June to Bocas del Toro for a couple weeks; it's a chain of islands off the coast of Panama and supposed to be a great place to go. Does anybody have any experiences they can share from visiting there? I know it's the rainy season around this time of year, is it not a big...