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  1. MrRant

    Stealing cable?

    I used to love cutting people off. It brought pleasure to my day.
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    One and Only NFL Week 4 Thread

    8-4 so far.
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    I need to move to Philly

    Hopefully I will get an excuse to go to the Philly HQ and get me one of those.
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    What's your 5 favorite

    No order: Classic WB Classic Disney Classic Universal Simpsons Duckman - Duckman owns everything. Pay homage bitches.
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    One and Only NFL Week 4 Thread

    As much as I despise the Raiders.... I need them to win.
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    General Computer Problems

    Well upgrading from XP Home to Pro you should have to format the HD. So you may have screwed youself over there. A system restore I don't think will get you back to Home. I would format and reinstall whichever one you want to use and go from there.
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    Randy Moss vs TO

    I think Koren Robinson could be special. If he shows up to meetings on time.
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    One and Only NFL Week 4 Thread

    4-3 so far today. Ugh.
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    JESUS CHRIST ALMIGHTY

    Don't forget about the collector value if there are only 1000 sets. They don't have so many conventions for nothing.
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    JESUS CHRIST ALMIGHTY

    827.09 with the current conversion.
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    JESUS CHRIST ALMIGHTY

    Bow before the set. It is cubed and it is good.
  12. NORFOLK, Va. - A sudden, irresistible urge. A portable toilet. A confrontation with an angry construction worker. Now, a federal lawsuit. William Tremmel, 68, of Altoona, Pa., needed to go. Badly. So he dashed to the nearest portable toilet on the Virginia Beach boardwalk. Problem was, it belonged to construction workers for Weeks Marine, a company hired by the city to replenish the beach. And those workers were fed up with outsiders using the company can. They retaliated, Tremmel claims in a lawsuit filed last month, by driving a bulldozer or front-end loader to the toilet and blocking the doorway, pinning him "inside the rank tomb." Tremmel is seeking $100,000 for the Aug. 19, 2001, incident. Weeks doesn't deny its employee blocked Tremmel in the toilet but says the worker was within his rights. Tremmel says he was locked inside for 25 minutes. He claims members of his family shouted at the worker, but the man left and returned with his foreman, who chastised Tremmel through the closed door and accused him of trespassing. Tremmel says the "abduction and false imprisonment" caused him "humiliation, mortification, shame, vilification, injury to his feelings, mental suffering, insult and indignity." Tremmel and his wife were celebrating their anniversary. The lawsuit also says Tremmel has emphysema, was recovering from prostate surgery and had undergone double-bypass heart surgery. Weeks Marine denied that the workers chastised Tremmel or that he was locked in the toilet for almost half an hour. Weeks says in court papers that its workers believed blocking Tremmel's exit was "reasonable" because he was "wrongfully using the port-o-let." No hearing date has been set.
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    San Fran 49ers...

    5 Oct 5 Detroit - W 6 Oct 12 at Seattle - L 7 Oct 19 Tampa Bay - L 8 Oct 26 at Arizona - W 9 Nov 2 St. Louis - Can't tell They have a very good chance at going only 3-6 or 4-5 going into their bye week. That wouldn't be good considering their next games are: Pittsburgh at Green Bay at Baltimore Arizona at Cincinnati at Philadelphia Seattle
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    MTV2 Headbanger Ball Tour Dates Announced

    11/14/03 Vancouver, WA Commodore The fuck? Vancouver is a small market. Unless they are trying to get some of the Portland crowd.
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    San Fran 49ers...

    And everyone argued with me saying that the 49ers would crumble with Erickson as coach. Well now I can say HA... HAHAHAHAHA.
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    One and Only NFL Week 4 Thread

    Sounds like to me that the Seahawks could win the NFC West since the Cards and 49ers are in a deep hole and the Rams look to be going to .500 .
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    Name Change Please

    Tthat name is pretty bad.
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    MS Browser Holes Lead to AIM, Dial-Up Attacks

    Mozilla 1.4 . However when Firebird reaches 1.0 then that would be my pick. You can try it now of course as well.
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    I'm boycotting ROH

    I want to try and see some ROH but I would like to rip RFVideo off. Can someone PM me a good place to get tapes or preferably DVD?
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    JESUS CHRIST ALMIGHTY

    Supposedly only 1000 made worldwide.
  21. Yeah this isn't good for most people on the board who may not be able to afford a $20 tape of a indy promotion and don't want to spend that much just to see if they even like the promotion. Just to let you know... I've ratted you all out to the WWE, FBI, CIA, NBA and NAACP.
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    Cablers Facing NFL Network Blitz

    NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - The NFL Network will have a tough time convincing cable operators to carry the channel before its Nov. 4 launch, sources said. But the NFL said it is confident that operators will come to recognize the value and strong brand of its network as well as the advantage of partnering with the league in advance of being able to bid on the long sought-after NFL Sunday Ticket subscription package of out-of-market games. With a DirecTV deal in hand, the NFL Network has been wooing operators to become charter members with such incentives as free video-on-demand content and a slew of high-definition TV programming. The league's formal proposal reached operators Sept. 19, days after network chieftains entertained cable executives at New York Giants and Jets games at the Meadowlands in New Jersey. Talks have stalled over the league's insistence that operators offer the network on digital basic tiers, which reach all digital customers at a cost of $10-$15. Cable executives want the NFL to follow NBA TV's model and let them offer the football network as part of a lineup of niche sports services that customers would have to pay yet another fee (about $5) to obtain. The NFL argues there is nothing "niche" about pro football. Preseason games are among the top-rated shows every summer, and "Monday Night Football" is a consistent top 15 show for 30-plus years on ABC. But the industry has balked at the estimated license fee of 10 cents a subscriber, partly over its relatively heavy cost and partly because of suspicions that the league will take a page from ESPN's playbook when it puts Sunday Ticket on the market following the expiration of the league's TV contract after the 2005 season. DirecTV has attracted about 1.5 million-1.6 million customers (who pay $179 or $209 a year) -- about 15% of its subscriber base -- with the exclusive property. That grosses the company roughly $300 million a year minus the NFL's split. Cable operators want that package badly but are wary of the NFL Network because of their experiences with ESPN, whose $2-plus license fees rise by 20% a year because the channel gets operators to kick in to help pay for its $4.8 billion NFL deal, sources said. While recognizing the value of the network's brand and being eager for the VOD content, operators want long-term protection against sharply rising costs and the league's ability to use Sunday Ticket as leverage to impose surcharges on its core license fee. The key question is: Who holds the high cards now -- operators who feel under no pressure to launch the NFL Network or the league with its Sunday Ticket package percolating? Will operators who don't launch the channel today be at a disadvantage in obtaining Sunday Ticket, or will all of that become irrelevant in 2005? "I would think operators would drive a very hard bargain," one source said, adding that in the short run, "The issue is going to be what kind of leverage the NFL has until such time that the (Sunday Ticket) deal gets opened up." Not coincidentally, Steve Bornstein, the man who was instrumental in shaping ESPN's aggressive sales strategy in the late 1980s and '90s, is running the NFL Network. Bornstein is counting on the cache and marketing power of the NFL, arguably the most popular sport in America, if not the most attractive television property around, inside or out of sports. "Cable operators are not wildly interested in carrying a high-priced sports channel without premium product," said one industry executive, who said that cable companies would love to get access to the NFL's extensive library to help jump-start its nascent VOD lineup. "The majority of large operators are trying to aggregate large packages of free VOD." The NFL Network will not offer regular-season games -- though it will show exhibition contests -- but executives believe they have prepared a slate of attractive programming that can help operators solve their problem of keeping digital customers. About 5% of them "churn" or disconnect the service after their initial purchases. "Nobody can go out and co-brand with the NFL," said Adam Shaw, senior vp distribution at the NFL Network and a former top executive at Fox Cable Networks. "We are going to allow bigger partners to have marketing opportunities where it could be 'the NFL and Charter bringing you X, Y and Z.' " Shaw said the network is willing to be flexible and allow operators to offer the network on sports tiers as long as the network is in front of a majority of operators' customers by 2006. "No one expects us to be a digital sports tier-only network," Shaw said, adding that a few operators in football-crazy towns have even expressed a desire to put the network on analog tiers that reach almost all of their customers. "At the end of the day, you have to make a certain penetration commitment." The network's primetime schedule is a mix of programming aimed at the hard-core fan and the casual viewer. At 8 p.m., the network will air "NFL Total Access," its flagship show with former ESPN "SportsCenter" anchor Rich Eisen that will go beyond the Xs and Os of the game and include a heavy celebrity quotient. The network also recently added former NFL players Sterling Sharpe and Glenn Parker to its on-air talent pool. "We think that this is going to appeal to women, going to appeal to all ethnic groups," Shaw said. "This goes to the idea that this is not a niche channel." A 10 p.m. show, "Playbook," is designed for the hard-core fan with segments on fantasy football and heavy "chalk talk." The NFL looks at its service as a "lifestyle channel," not a sports one. Off-season shows will include "NFL Cribs," a knock-off of the popular MTV show that peeks into stars' homes, and a behind-the-scenes look at how women become cheerleaders. But for now, operators believe they will never hold this much leverage over the league again. "In 2005, all bets are off," one source said. "Everything will be up for grabs at the time." Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
  23. They are probably working on it. Both series air on Toon Disney though.
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    MS Browser Holes Lead to AIM, Dial-Up Attacks

    I suggest Mozilla 1.4 (However Firebird rules all but it's not at version 1.0 yet even though the 0.6 version I am using right now is rock solid.)
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    Is Magnavox a good brand for portable CD players?

    Magnavox is the low end arm of Phillips so it's good stuff.
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