MrRant

ESPN Gamer Pretty good site.

Comcast is rebuilding a lot of areas so it may come soon. You can have them do a serviceability check and they may be able to do something.

Perhaps all we need is a whole lot of interracial sex so we can see where the otherside is coming from.

A power plant.

Now if they would only sexually assault each other on the court.........

Excuse me while I laugh all the way to the bank. You guys really need to understand what you are talking about. Cable will own DBS for awhile. Such ignorance. MTV X wasn't changed by Comcast... try the people who, you know... OWN the channel (MTV). And by some of these "stories" that I am seeing are outright exaggerated from you guys. Any place will give you credit for downtime its usually a federal and state law. Next time... please know what you are talking about. Thank you.

It will just force them to change it up. Disney has done it before.

Lame? Emperor's New Groove was not lame. That last move Lilo and Stich wasn't that bad. Disney will never die and the people who think it will are obviously not well informed of the business side of Disney.

Jets will do better than your "prediction", Cleveland is going 7-9 or 8-8 at best. SD is NOT going 10-6. Jax will be around the 7-9 mark. Why have you not posted your preview on the other site? Slacker.

Because it is a bunch of jackass writers who decide who goes in. Instead of fans who should really be able to choose IMO.

I hate you all.

By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press Writer ORLANDO, Fla. - Investigators are examining whether a note stating baseball slugger Ted Williams wanted to be frozen after his death was forged, and if so, whether a crime was committed, a prosecutor said Wednesday. The inquiry is the result of a criminal complaint made last year by the husband of Williams' eldest daughter and renewed after Sports Illustrated reported new details on the state of Williams' body. The grease-stained note is signed by Williams, his son, John Henry Williams, and his daughter, Claudia Williams. Its origin is being examined by the State Attorney's Office that covers Citrus County, where Williams lived, said Ric Ridgway, chief assistant state attorney in Ocala. His office will decide whether to do nothing or pursue a full criminal investigation. "I'm trying to clarify what the allegation was, if the note was signed the way the note was presented it was signed, and how the note was used," Ridgway said. Bobby-Jo Williams Ferrell challenged the decision to send her father's body to an Arizona cryonics company where it was frozen after his July 5, 2002 death, claiming the slugger's 1996 will made clear he wanted to be cremated and his ashes scattered off the Florida coast. After running out of money to pay her legal bills, she dropped the challenge in December and reached a settlement with her siblings. Her husband, Mark Ferrell, said Wednesday that affidavits have been presented to investigators from two of Ted Williams' caretakers who claim Claudia Williams wasn't at the hospital on Nov. 2, 2000, the day the note is dated, and that she didn't know her father was hospitalized until a couple of days later. "I think the witnesses we have and the documentation we have can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt ... that the note is a complete fraud," Ferrell said. Ridgway said even if it's determined the note was forged, it doesn't necessarily mean a crime was committed since the law is very specific about what documents must be forged for the act to be criminal. John Henry Williams' attorney has said his client left the note for an extended period of time in some files in his car trunk, where it was stained by oil or grease. Neither he nor his attorney, Eric Abel, returned phone messages Wednesday. Claudia Williams has an unlisted number and could not be reached for comment. Sports Illustrated reported this week that Ted Williams was decapitated by surgeons at the cryonics company where his body is suspended in liquid nitrogen, and several samples of his DNA are missing. The magazine's report, appearing in the issue that hit newsstands Wednesday, is based on internal documents, e-mails, photographs and tape recordings supplied by a former employee of Alcor Life Extension Foundation. Science fiction writer Charles Platt, a consultant to Alcor Life Extension Foundation, disputed the magazine's report. He said the DNA samples can't be missing because, "I can say with total certainty that Alcor has never taken a DNA sample of anyone." The article also says Williams' head was shaved, drilled with holes and accidentally cracked 10 times. Carlos Mondragon, a director at Alcor, said microscopic cracking is part of the freezing process. Mondragon described one of the magazine's main sources, former chief operating officer Larry Johnson, as a disgruntled employee. Paula Lemler, the wife of Alcor President Jerry Lemler, said her husband is undergoing chemotherapy treatment and could not comment. -------------------------------------- They have a fucking SCIENCE FICTION writer as a CONSULTANT? WTF?

Ah-nold teams up with Buffett California gubernatorial candidate brings in billionaire financial guru to advise campaign. August 13, 2003: 5:46 PM EDT NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - California gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger said Wednesday billionaire financial guru Warren Buffett has joined his campaign as an adviser. Buffett, influential chairman of the financial firm Berkshire Hathaway Inc., will serve as senior financial and economic advisor to Schwarzenegger, a Republican seeking to replace Democratic Governor Gray Davis, who is blamed by Republicans for the state running an enormous budget deficit. "I have known Arnold for years and know he'll be a great governor," Buffett said in a statement. "It is critical to the rest of the nation that California's economic crisis be solved, and I think Arnold will get that job done." The campaign said Buffett would gather a team of "prominent" business leaders and economists to advise Schwarzenegger, an actor derided by Democrats as lacking the experience to manage a state the size of California, which has the world's fifth-largest economy. In a statement, Schwarzenegger described Buffett as "the greatest investor ever, my mentor, and my hero." "Warren has a common sense approach to business issues and an integrity that is unmatched. That's the same way I want to approach governing. Warren always tells it the way it is," Schwarzenegger said. Buffett, who has sided with Democrats recently in criticizing President Bush's dividend-tax-cut plan, will not be paid for his services, the Schwarzenegger campaign said. Republicans led the campaign to recall Davis, taking advantage of public dissatisfaction with the state's $38 billion budget deficit and a lingering energy crisis. Hundreds of candidates, including Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt, former child actor Gary Coleman and former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth, have joined the race to replace Davis if he is recalled in an Oct. 7 vote

Uninstall and reinstall IE. If you can.

NEW YORK - Ted Williams was decapitated by surgeons at the cryonics company where his body is suspended in liquid nitrogen, and several samples of his DNA are missing, Sports Illustrated reported. The magazine's report, appearing in the issue that hits newsstands Wednesday, is based on internal documents, e-mails, photographs and tape recordings supplied by a former employee of Alcor Life Extension Foundation. After Williams died July 5, 2002, his body was taken by private jet to the company in Scottsdale, Ariz. There, Williams' body was separated from his head in a procedure called neuroseparation, according to the magazine. The operation was completed and Williams' head and body were preserved separately. The head is stored in a steel can filled with liquid nitrogen. It has been shaved, drilled with holes and accidentally cracked 10 times, the magazine said. Williams' body stands upright in a 9-foot tall cylindrical steel tank, also filled with liquid nitrogen. The procedure, approved by Williams' son, John Henry, and daughter, Claudia, carries a $136,000 bill. Alcor claims it is still owed $111,000. The magazine said that according to a taped conversation between former Alcor chief operating officer Larry Johnson and a board adviser, eight DNA samples among 182 taken from Williams are missing without explanation. Spokeswoman Paula Lemler, wife of Alcor chief executive officer Jerry Lemler, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that company officials had not seen the article and would have no comment.

By JOSHUA HAMMANN, Associated Press Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The federal government's do-not-call list should save millions of Americans from pesky telemarketers, but Tom Mabe had to take it one step further. The comedian and jingle-writer goes on the offensive on "A Wake-Up Call for Telemarketers," his new CD being released Tuesday. Last year, Mabe traveled to Washington, D.C., for a telemarketers convention and stayed at their hotel. He waited until the wee hours of the morning — and started dialing. Telemarketer: "Hello. Hello." Mabe: "Hi, this is Tom Mabe. I'm calling on behalf of the Telemarketers With Insomnia Foundation. How are you doing this evening sir?" Telemarketer: "Excuse me?" Mabe: "This is Tom Mabe. I'm calling with the Telemarketers With Insomnia Foundation. We call you at this hour only so you can better understand what these poor telemarketers with insomnia go through." Telemarketer: "You're an idiot." Mabe: "Sir with your help, we can help some of these telemarketers get some rest." Telemarketer: "You're an absolute idiot." Mabe: "I don't appreciate you calling me an idiot." Telemarketer: "Well I don't appreciate being called at this hour. You're an idiot." Mabe manages to ask the increasingly agitated victim for his credit card number before the phone slams down. While Mabe, 36, was commuting from his Louisville home to Nashville, Tenn., to write jingles and television theme songs, he said most of his inspiration struck at night, leaving him to sleep during the day. When the phone rang, almost every call was from a telemarketer. "They wouldn't take no for an answer," Mabe said. "I tried to be nice but nothing worked." Eventually, Mabe started luring telemarketers into embarrassing and awkward situations with his quick tongue, which provided the material for his first two comedy CDs. He revisits the gag on his new disc. Mabe asks one caller to wait a moment while he sees who is at the door. Listeners then hear Christmas carolers, followed by a series of shotgun blasts and murderous shrieks. Mabe then asks the confused telemarketer — who was selling a service that pays your credit card bill if you are incapacitated — if the system works for people in prison. "Telemarketers tell you that they are just doing their job, but some of them will rip you off," he said. Anyway, "telemarketers hate telemarketers." The Federal Trade Commission begins enforcing its do-not-call list Oct. 1; millions of people have already signed up. Admittedly, it will cut into Mabe's act. But as telemarketing evolves — "When you call suicide hot lines, they'll try to sell you prearranged funeral packages," he predicts — so will Mabe. "I'm going after (spam) e-mail next," he warns. "I have no idea how, but I'm going to get them."

Perhaps I shall hold off then. I got NCAA 2004 and KOTOR and Galaxies to keep me busy.

How is EA going to fix it? They don't do LIVE downloads so that will be interesting.

Don't be too sad. I've had to talk with many...MANY people who don't run Windows Update. The patch has been available for a little more than a MONTH.

To bad you didn't get the right fixes there.

The real question is.... who will be the first to run to teacher complaining that the other is calling them names or being mean? JMA or Zsasz?

Well I had my work draft today and COMPLETELY forgot about and didn't even get a chance to make up my list but it looks like I got a few good players. QBs - Chad Pennington, Mark Brunell RBs - LaDainian Tomlison, Travis Henry, Antowain Smith WR - Issac Bruce, Laveranues Coles, Ike Hilliard TE - Todd Heap, Kyle Brady K - Jeff Reed, Paul Edinger DEF - Miami, Washington D - Jimmy Williams

Sounds like the Windows Messenger service.... does it look like a WEB pop up or is it grey? If it is grey then it could be the Messenger pop up which you can disable (XP/2000) by going to Control Panel->Adminstrative Tools->Services. Find Messenger on the list. Right click on that and go to Properties. Under Start Up Type select Disable and click on the Stop button and that should take care of the issue if that is what it is.

Knowledge in film is trivial at best unless you are talking about actual production. Everything else is opinion. GTD certainly is knowledgeable about films (and I respect his opinon), but that doesn't mean that if he has watched 1000 movies to my 999 or if he has stayed up all night after drinking a 12 pack of Coke watching IFC that he is an authority of what is good/bad or what should be where. Most of it is all opinon. No one really is an "authority" on good movies because it is as you said subjective to a taste.