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For those of you who have or are looking at getting XM radio, it seems that the "commercial free" service may not be so commercial-free after all... http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2006/tc20060413_150389.htm What's more, I've been told that customers who are cancelling...

http://www2.dearaol.com/letter Read this and see what you think...doesn't seem very smart to me! What's worse is, they actually spam-filtered e-mails on AOL for awhile that had a link to this site. Until the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) publicized it, they acted like nothing was...

As I'm sure you're all aware, different Christian sects and denominations have different ways of treating women. To the best of my knowledge, it is only certain Protestant denominations that give women equal status in the church up to and including the right for a woman to be ordained as a...

I've been really disturbed by several posts I've seen in my time of being here, with certain comments about Catholics. I've seen them treated by some as non-Christians, heretics, and so on. Why is it OK to persecute others who claim the name of Christ? Why is it OK to persecute ANYONE...

Check the main page of the forum, at the bottom. BWAAAAHAAHAHA...I had to announce it. ;)

I was wondering...can tinnitus occur without any hearing loss whatsoever? I've had it ever since I was little--I had a lot of ear infections that I think could've done it. My sinuses always seem to be a bit clogged and they drain into my ears. Can hearing people have chronic tinnitus...

This is kind of a weird question, but I was wondering... When you see people making out in a public place, does that bother you at all? Is it something that doesn't faze you, or do you wish you could tell them to find somewhere private? I'm not talking about anything that would be illegal...

Guidelines for a Helpful Art Review I have seen too many inappropriate, un-useful reviews of art, literature, music, and movies on various forums I frequent that I felt the need to write up a set of guidelines on how to do the a good review. Apologies in advance to those of you who will be...

I've noticed a lot of threads complaining about stereotypes but I haven't seen much discussion at all of what can be done to prevent them from happening in the first place (or at least making people aware of them so they can work to change). As for me, I am a firm believer in the power of...

I'm not going to name names because I expect the rude threads have been reported, but let me suggest in the meantime not replying to people who appear to be here for no other purpose than spamming this board with nonsense...all that does is make it worse.

Most of what I saw on the Internet about this seems to be from a Wikipedia article. Is there anybody here who has any expertise in tactile signing who can tell me things like, what the most common form of it is, and how it tends to work for people using it in a conversation? Basically, a more...

FedEx To Pay $108,000 In Damages In Disability Suit DOW JONES NEWSWIRES March 2, 2006 5:28 p.m. -- FedEx Corp. (FDX) must pay $108,000 in damages after a federal jury found in favor of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in an employment discrimination suit against the package...

OK, I'm really starting to wonder about my cat now. She is NOT friendly with other animals...hisses and spits around other cats especially. However, she is just fine with strange humans (unless she's in the vet's office in which case she knows it's gonna hurt or be uncomfortable!). The...

This thread isn't really a debate about the rightness or wrongness of getting involved in Iraq. This is a different kind of Iraq thread--for sci-fi geeks. Yeah, you read that right. Is it me, or is there a tremendous parallel between the events that have been unfolding in post-war Iraq and...

If you've got employees ready and happy to do this, I think it could be pretty neat... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10779857/

Something very cool happened to me in a dream... I don't remember why I started doing it, but in the dream, I discovered I still remembered how to fingerspell! This is a HUGE accomplishment for me because I'm hearing, totally self-taught, and haven't ever actually had a chance to use it. I...

I've always found the way some people interpret this commandment rather odd... This is the one I usually hear people quote as "Don't take the Lord's name in vain." Usually when I hear this quote, it's people getting angry at someone for using a phrase like "Oh my God." The reason this...

That's right...my parents' house has a watch-bird now. When my mom told Grandma about it, their theory is it's a wren. This bird lives on our porch light under an overhang, and what a great place to get away from the winter and get a nice little hot pad to sleep on! The really funny...

I can't believe how much time I waste on this thing when I get to playing with it! ;) http://www.tektek.org/dream/dream.php Sample result: this guy, the lead character for a story I wrote once. http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/8336/186d2f43e8f270d6a12e63c9eca498.png

I was wondering if any of you can offer perspectives on this: would you say there are any special challenges for a kid who grows up both intellectually gifted, and "disabled" in the eyes of the world, that are unique to the combination of the two? Maybe some of you have experienced this? Does...