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by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Oct 18th, 2007 at 12:38:14 AM EST
Good morning, Fran.  I have a couple of articles I'd like to post, and then I'm off to class!

Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Thu Oct 18th, 2007 at 12:42:19 AM EST
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Hi bruno-ken, thanks for posting all those articles and hope you have a fun class.
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Oct 18th, 2007 at 12:49:51 AM EST
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Someone could you do me a favor and call Bluewin/Swisscom support. ET access has now been blocked since Monday and I still can not access. Maybe if I am not the only one calling (and I also will ask Bob)this will put some fire under "the seat of their pants". :-)

The number I have is 0844 844 884 - though this is the German access, however, they might speak English. When there is the announcement you have to wait a moment until it is finished and then push 2 and tap in your phone number and # at the end - this should lead you to a technician. Thanks!

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Oct 18th, 2007 at 01:05:33 AM EST
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I don't know what kind of contract you (and Bob and someone) have with Bluewin, but in your shoes I'd be looking for another ISP.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Oct 18th, 2007 at 01:44:32 AM EST
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Except for the ET problem, which is not even caused by Bluewin - I have no problem whatsoever with them.
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Oct 18th, 2007 at 01:49:26 AM EST
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Who's it caused by then?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Oct 18th, 2007 at 03:54:35 AM EST
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It's at this site: www.ip-plus.net but I just saw that they might be connected through swisscom.
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Oct 18th, 2007 at 10:57:31 AM EST
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Don't see anything on their site that makes me think it's anything other than a misconfiguration on some of their security kit.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Oct 18th, 2007 at 08:36:50 PM EST
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I'll see what I can do.
by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Thu Oct 18th, 2007 at 02:23:39 AM EST
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A nice day to you all!
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Oct 18th, 2007 at 01:06:28 AM EST
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Good morning. First frost of the year here ...
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Oct 18th, 2007 at 03:46:44 AM EST
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Obama is vice-president's distant cousin, says Cheney's wife | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
Barack Obama makes much of his varied heritage. His father was from Kenya, his mother from Kansas. But there is one element of his family history that has remained obscure: his eighth cousin is Dick Cheney. The revelation that the man promising a new style of politics is related to a vice-president credited with an unprecedented attempt to consolidate the power of old politics was made by Mr Cheney's wife.

Lynne Cheney told an interviewer that she discovered the connection between her husband and the candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination while researching a memoir of growing up in Wyoming, entitled Blue Skies, No Fences, although she did not include this fact in her memoir. She said that the two were both descended from a man who moved to Wyoming from Maryland.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Oct 18th, 2007 at 01:16:55 AM EST
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But, but... at that level of remove, an awful lot of people are related. It'd be surprising if he weren't related to anyone well-known. Even if Cheney is a blot on the escutcheon.

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'It depends on which research report you read,'says Hattie, 'and sorry about this, but I do tend to believe the ones that suit me.'

by JQL (deinikoi at gmail dot com) on Thu Oct 18th, 2007 at 02:18:38 AM EST
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incestuous lot these Americans.

Last month the Chicago Sun-Times revealed the equally startling news that Mr Obama is an 11th cousin of President George Bush, thanks to a 17th-century Massachusetts couple, Samuel Hinckley and Sarah Soole.

from same article

doesn't that also mean that

by PeWi on Thu Oct 18th, 2007 at 05:46:25 AM EST
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doesn't that also mean that Bush and Cheney are related?
by PeWi on Thu Oct 18th, 2007 at 05:47:10 AM EST
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As far as my memory serves me practically everybody alive can be traced back to a few hundred common ancestors within a suprisingly brief time-frame. Now maybe some of our demographic experts can be more precise but I don't recall it exceding a millenium.

Hell, I even ate a hotdog in the same place Dick did.

by de Gondi (publiobestia aaaatttthotmaildaughtusual) on Thu Oct 18th, 2007 at 06:36:35 AM EST
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http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,tt4m1/kultur/special/736/89647/index.html/kultur/artikel/744/138461/arti cle.html

Kann ein Schnellzug einen Achterbahn-Looping fahren? Wir haben sehr junge Ingenieure gefunden, die es beweisen
by PeWi on Thu Oct 18th, 2007 at 06:09:22 AM EST
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I loved this, from Groucho


Integrity and fair-dealing are the basics of good business - fake that and you've got it made



"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Thu Oct 18th, 2007 at 06:25:10 AM EST
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by das monde on Thu Oct 18th, 2007 at 08:00:40 AM EST
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