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I got this email today. BARRISTER ASHOK SANCHETI ASHOK SANCHETI & ASSOCIATES. LONDON ENGLAND. EMAIL:ashoklawfirm@tiscali.co.uk Dear, Compliments of the day! I am sorry for contacting you through this medium without a previous notice,I had to use the E- mail because it is an easier and more confidential way of making contact with people around the world. My name is Barrister ASHOK SANCHETI, a Forty Six (46) year old Attorney in practice here in London- England. The nature of my services covers individuals,corporate bodies and institutions. I also represent Government Departements as an External Solicitor. I wish to notify you on behalf of the Trustees an…

Hey, I lost my glasses does anybody know where they are? I have the case, but no glasses. Please help!

Anyone know of any good (aka free) blogging software?

I'm gonna be freshmen in september http://www.snafuuniversity.com/ tell me what you guys think

i finally convinced my parents to get high speed internet. whcih is better, dsl or cable?

Unless Im missing something, there is no where to post meteorology or climatology... ecept in General Science... but computers and engineering have their own section. Unless topics which include meteorology would go in physics? Although alot has to do with temperature, it is quite a different field. I think we should have one (unless i just dont know where to find such topics) - do you?

Spurs and the Piston series was tied up. I think game 5 will be very critical; who wins it, who has less pressure. The first 4 games were craps. The margin of difference were way too big. I want to see some classic tight game, but hope it will happen this Sunday. So guys, according their performance, who has mroe advantages to win the Final??

Hello all, Please help me and a friend solve a long-running argument. One of us is stating simply that birds are reptiles. The other is stating that while they may have both evolved from Dinosaurs, birds are distinctly a seperate group of animals. Please help!!!!!

I am 21 years old this year, hoping to gain 2 inches taller. Is it possible if I live normally? Did you see any incident that your friends who were 20 something gain some taller every summer?

I don't understand what the "Warning Maturity" thingy is, what do the numbers represent, I mean, they show the things are in order of maturity, but why not 1 to 10 or sumin?

Hi Xenon here Im from Australia and i have just finished an environmental course at TAFE (thats our version of technical college). The course opened my eyes to a world of hurt earth wise. I am commited to helping the earth in any way i can, i have been commited for years, but during my study on our (humanity) progress, i became very depressed. Goverment beurocracy, multinational companies and human attatudes (I don't care, ect) are holding up valuable technologies that can help us to hold onto the little that remains of our world. Now before someone criticises me for using electricity (someone always does), i am powering my work using a combination of green en…

Hi, I was hoping people could give me thier opinions on whether science is capable of finding out what conciousness is. I dont have a huge amount of knowledge in science but would like to study it next year at uni and was wondering if searching for conciousness through science was a dead end. Now it is just a matter of choosing which field to get into. My own ponderings have taken me from physics and various theories of quantum conciousness which seems to be way above my head, to molecular biology and the chemistry of mind altering drugs like lsd. It seems none of these fields focus heavily on conciousness. I noticed that Francis Crick moved away from molecul…

the question has been the topic of debate amongst my friends and I recently...

jewish ninjas...http://www.merriol.freeserve.co.uk/products/ninja.htm

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge/ This is, I believe, part of the stuff that Rick Santorum and the AccuWeather folks want to stop (see recent discussion on the politics board). This particular system integrates weather radar with "geospatial elements", i.e. terrain, highways, and political lines (county/state borders, etc). I'm not certain of this, and it doesn't say anything about it in the PDF that's linked on that page, but I believe the system also incorporates new passive RADAR technology that exploits the proliferation of digital television broadcast signals. Passive RADAR is nothing new, but digital signals are supposedly better at reflecting off weather (…

The one thing that annoys the heck out of me with my iPod is the fact that you can't pull songs from the iPod back to your hard drive. I just realized this. Now I've got to go hunt down some free software to do it for me. Any suggestions?

Anyone been/going somewhere nice this year? I just got back from orlando and clearwater. my first impresions of america were good although orlando is somewhat superficial.

how many can you take to make you excessively numb to pain, but without ODing and losing consciosness? not on regular but say on some special ocasion when you need to be immune to pain? I guess illegal stuff would do the job better, but i'm to lazy to risk my butt trying to get drugs.

Hey, I saw part of the Greatest American thing on Discovery the other day. http://tv.channel.aol.com/greatestamerican They are voting on the top 25 I think now. I don't know where Madison went! Seriously man, the main author of the Constitution?! Who do you think is the greatest American?

Post your character details here if you want to participate in the Flash Animation. Tell us some details about your character, but don't get too detailed. I am repeating this procedure here, because as Phi pointed out in the other game thread, some people were getting toooo detailed. S So, here is your final chance to participate in the animation!

It has come to my attention, that we do have a few animators here, but not all of them are very good artists. Thus, I feel that we need some artists to help us out. We need very simple characters to be drawn out and possibly coloured for us. We also need some backgrounds and other objects. We would appreciate all help that you give us. Your first job (for all those who are willing), is to start drawing basic sketches of the characters outlined in the "Characters" thread. Post the drawings here. Thankyou.

I have decided to post this in the GD forum, because while it touches on biomedical ethics, it also touches on many other areas, including politics, religion, medical procedures etc... I want a bit leeway for the discussion to explore things, from personal responses to professional opinions. A holistic thread. I may post in BM ethics some specific issues in which case I will link to them here. I also didn't want to further drag off the handwriting topic, and I felt this topic was worthy of it's own page. Nuff said. Dr Jayant Patel, is suspected of having been responsible for between 80 and 120 deaths at Bundaberg Base Hospital, due either to reckles…

Just curious if anybody here has any experience running a Tor server. It's kinda the latest thing in web browsing anonymizers, but it relies on a third-party server to launder your packets along the way to their destination (as I understand it). I'm thinking about setting one up but I don't know all the ins and outs of it. Thanks!

this is just for game cheats. in line with the thread "what type of games do you like to play." if anyone has a back issue of "nintendo power" for the gameboy advanced game..."super mario world"? if so..........if your done using it...........are you willing to part with it? thank you.

Hello. I just heard that some rocks can explode if you heat them up enough. I know that they are more likely to explode if they are porrous and water filled because the steam inside will burst open, but this is all I know. Has anyone ever experienced this, and should I try it, or is it too dangerous?