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  MIT Student hacks XBOX

  by bboyneko in

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  http://msn.com.com/2100-1103-931364.html?tag=hudns&subj=news&part=msn&type=pt&form=feed

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  so now I know what happens to other below average programmers like myself: they go work for microsoft! lol

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  Men in Black II

  by SpiceItUp in

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  i f you liked the first one then you will like this one.. i found it very funnie.

  lots of laughs...then again i think will smith is fabulous (not to mention..what a hottie .

  i give it .

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  I was really looking forward to this movie and felt a bit disappointed. specifically, I didn't like the way will smith's character got all "rookie-ish" after K was back in the office. I also didn't think the script explored k's life and his wife leaving him. that would have opened an entirely new dimension to the film. it did have good effects. I am looking forward to minority report also. hopefully I wll get a chance to see it soon.

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  Freaky Bank of America commercial

  by Elsewhere in

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  has anyone seen the new bank of america commercial for home mortgages?

  it has a woman writing a letter to her husband about how she misses him.

  at the end of the letter she says: i love you with every fiber of my being.

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  hm. i thought the commercial was weird too. I do think, though, that its original intent was to set the viewer up for something, in this case a husband gone far away maybe to war in a distant country, and give them something else (he's actually in the house doing loan apps). but it was sort of freaky the way she crawled about on the floor and I can see how it can be seen as demeaning. but, I guess my first reaction was "gee, her husband's an idiot to be taking so long."

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  What do you like to watch?

  by SpiceItUp in

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  ok...not that there is anything wrong with serious threads (i for one enjoy them) but i was looking through the ones today and decided i needed a bit of fluff in my day (been way too serious lately).

  so my question is..even though its rerun season...what tv shows do you like to watch?.

  myself - i was an avid "x-files" fan but alas they have ended the series .

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  I really got into alias too. there are still about 5 or 6 episodes I haven't seen. I really expect vaughn to be alive. I am also really into the shield, dead zone, the wire, the practice, farscape, stargate sg-1, west wing and law and order. due to my wife's influence, I have also been into real world, road rules and spongebob squarepants. heh. and we have no kids.

  is anyone else in here waiting impatiently for the sopranos and sex in the city to start up again?

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  How Common is this amongst JW's?

  by stevieb1 in

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  i found this material on a pro-jw newsletter, and i've had this personal experience myself and know many others who have also.

  before i became a jw i experienced a tremendous amount of "love" from the congregation i associated with, but once baptized they leave and move on to the next potential convert.

  as a single person, i was never invited out to gatherings very much and always felt a little left out in the very clique-ish congregation that i attended.

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  lack of love is the main reason I stopped going to the hall. I was never baptised, I was an approved associate. my mother was baptised when I was in the 8th grade. I won't go into my history with borg here because it is a big digression. but, when I was 20 my mom slipped and twisted her ankle really badly on the ice in the winter time. I had already moved out and i was still attending the hall. I was going to visit her. she was laid up for weeks. whenever I went to the hall, everyone was asking how my mom was. there was a MS from our cong living right ACROSS THE STREET from my mom and about three other dub families within a block radius. NOT ONE of them bother to check in on my mom. not a phone call or anything. that was the final straw for me. I stopped cold. and after associating for something like 7 years, 8 years, helping out by manning the mikes at meetings and being the book study reader for the book study that was two houses down from where I had moved out on my own at, after all of that, I think that a group of elders may have come by once. twice at best. made me sick that I had dealt with them as long as I did.

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  HELP-I'M ADDICTED!!

  by Perfection Seeker in

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  i just found this website on june 23- and haven't done anything else since!

  i am spending 25 (lol) hours a day on this site!

  i can't leave.

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  this is a great site. I've been a lurking off and on for a couple years. this past year I have been visiting and reading a lot more of this site. I've been "out" since 92, but I still find that the root cause of a lot of my behavior is tied up in the influence the WTS had over me when I was younger. my wife doesn't understand completely because she was never in. I try to explain but unless you have lived in the borg, you can never really understand what it is like and how insidious its influence is. I say insidious because you never really see how bad it is until you leave it alone and "get some serious perspective" on it. still, she listens to me ramble on about the WTS when I think that maybe I can relate an incident or practice that would make sense to her, something that would help her see why I have such anger toward the WTS. on this board, its a great feeling not to have to explain because nearly everyone understands on some level.

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  New book pisses active Witnesses off!

  by Intuit39 in

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  my sister just called me at work to let me know that her husband (until recently, unsympathetic to her doubts) is thoroughly confused and pissed off by the new 'worship' book!.

  he has been comparing it with the 'united' book, has noted the obvious differences (3 missing chapters), and has begun examining it word for word...now he is raving looney about it.. to top it off, they were at bethel within the last few days, somehow ended up in brother larson's personal office, and were astonished to find a model spanish galleon replete with huge crosses, and a huge portrait of good ol' max towering over the watchtower itself.

  she said her husband thought it looked like a propaganda poster for 'big brother'..... finally!

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  does anyone think that maybe it may be harder now for the GB to let go of the blood issue because of the internet? when I was in jr high studying for talks (back in 82/83) I remember hearing some mention of 1975 but no one ever really laid out exactly what had happened. it wasn't until years later (92/93) that I actually found out what the fuss was about. and I found out about it online. now, with the internet so much more accessible than it was and the numerous accounts of people's personal stories/tragedies involving the blood issue on many different sites, is it even plausible that the GB would actually still try to deny that they counseled against taking blood for so many years?

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  Age Sex Location Occupation Anyone?

  by Perfection Seeker in

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  33 female iowa massage therapist happily married no children (yet).

  anyone else?

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  • 31
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  • iowa
  • IT support in local library
  • married (mostly happily ) for 7 years now

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  I finished my novel.

  by JeffT in

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  well, my mother will find about 10,000 edits because that used to be her job, but i'm done.. took longer than i want to talk about, but 91,000 words are a mouthful.

  i'm going to take a deep breath then go look for an agent.

  for those of you who don't know, its based very loosely on my years as a dub.. .

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  congratulations. that is a serious accomplishment. I've been writing in my free time for years, but haven't got anything decent enough to send out for "real" publication. I've had a few things published in student journals and college magazines, but nothing big. I would be interested to know how you fare shopping the novel around and finding a publisher and all that other "practical" writing business. again, congratulations.

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  Does anyone here workout on a regular basis?

  by Leander in

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  i just wanted to get a little dialog going with some of the members here who workout.

  i know reborn works out quite a bit and i've been doing fairly well as of recently in getting back into a regular exercise regimine.

  so far i've worked out everyday for the past 17 days, i usually try to do weight training at least 3-4 times a week and i usually do some cardio everyday.

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  for the past 5 or 6 years, I've averaged working out about 4 days a week. at my peak of working out, I was lifting 3 times a week and running about 2-3 miles on the opposite days. now I'm down to working out only 3 times a week. I was at one time 235 lbs. at my lightest I was 170 lbs. I got into swiming last summer and did that until classes started up. right now I'm at 183 and I feel comfortable. I do, however, wanted to drop about 5 lbs before we go off to vegas here in a month.

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