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    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

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    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."

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    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.

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    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

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    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.

  12. Posted · Edited by MrRant · Report reply

    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.

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    And if someone doesn't like Bonnie and Clyde and thinks Star Wars is better? Do you call them an idiot?

     

    Who are YOU to judge someone else's tastes? People like you make it hard to discuss movies because you like to state your opinion as fact. LOR is an EVENT~! movie but I don't see you shitting on that (You may have).

     

    Saving Private Ryan was the same thing. You can't hate a movie for starting a trend.

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    I'm going to have to respectfully disagree. I believe the AFI list takes a lot of cultural impact into consideration. In that case then Star Wars deserves to be up there.

     

    Pulp Fiction is a better movie then Star Wars but will never have the impact on our culture that Star Wars has had.

     

    So if you look at the impact on the culture and also the fact that Star Wars is a good movie then you get the ranking.

     

    I get upset when I see "Movie Buffs" say that this and that movie shouldn't be there because they have flaws in acting or filming etc and some other little movie that barely 100 people in the state they live in have watched should be up there and totally disregard the importance of a movie like Star Wars because it wasn't a Indie Film Classic or ever shown on TMC or AMC (before the relaunch as a crapfest).

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    Basically I have some extra space on my server and I know people here have:

     

    A. Wrestling Sites that lead into some funky Geocities site.

     

    or

     

    B. Need a place to host pictures (some of you).

     

    or

     

    C. May just want their own small site or forum.

     

     

    Basically what I had in mind is custom hosting for those that need it, and relatively cheap. Say you want to have your own domain and website for your tape site? Want [email protected]? Depending on your needs around like $4-5 dollars a month.

     

    Just want a like 20MB of space and some bandwidth for pics? Perhaps 2-3 dollars a month.

     

    Just want e-mail? I can do that to for you. Example: I buy MrRant.com and just want to use [email protected], then depending on how many e-mail addy's you want something around the $1-2 dollar a month range.

     

    If interested PM me with what you are looking for and perhaps we can come up with something.

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    No.. a router (hardware firewall is about $40) and a software one is free. Check the links I posted. Here is a sample of my logs... see all those Port 135s? Those are this infection trying to get on my machine but have been turned back.

     

    4.65.25.135 135

    24.166.217.36 137

    4.65.29.20 135

    4.64.26.129 135

    4.64.248.252 135

    4.65.17.144 135

    4.64.248.252 135

    4.65.27.185 135

    4.65.30.253 135

    61.98.102.192 17300

    207.46.134.94 1310

    4.65.16.224 135

    207.46.134.94 1054

    4.65.33.75 135

    4.65.18.219 135

    207.46.134.94 1290

    4.65.22.55 135

    4.65.32.111 135

    4.64.228.36 135

    4.65.5.128 135

    4.65.31.71 135

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    How is Star Wars overrated? Its never been held up as a classic masterpiece. Its has from what I have seen just been considered the best sci-fi film of all time. Even though I personally think 2001 is better.

     

    As far as underrated: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn. That movie I can watch over and over. Ricardo Montalban was GREAT in the movie.

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