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R.Hubbell
February 8th 04, 04:10 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/08/nyregion/08pilot.html


Can you say early retirement...?



R. Hubbell

Ron Wanttaja
February 8th 04, 07:22 AM
On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 20:10:10 -0800, "R.Hubbell" >
wrote:

>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/08/nyregion/08pilot.html
>
>Can you say early retirement...?

Not when they want my name, profession, and income level to view items on
the site...

Ron Wanttaja

Martin Hotze
February 8th 04, 11:33 AM
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 07:22:50 GMT, Ron Wanttaja wrote:

>>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/08/nyregion/08pilot.html
>>
>>Can you say early retirement...?
>
>Not when they want my name, profession, and income level to view items on
>the site...

then do what governments typically do: lie

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Abafon Goula
February 8th 04, 12:32 PM
I had to go through the registration process, endure pop-ups and then
sit through a ****in' e-commercial for that "news" flash?

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 20:10:10 -0800, "R.Hubbell"
> wrote:

>
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/08/nyregion/08pilot.html
>
>
>Can you say early retirement...?
>
>
>
>R. Hubbell

Roy Smith
February 8th 04, 12:57 PM
In article >,
Ron Wanttaja > wrote:

> Not when they want my name, profession, and income level to view items on
> the site...

I registered with my cat's name and put down some random values for the
other stuff.

R.Hubbell
February 8th 04, 07:48 PM
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 07:22:50 GMT Ron Wanttaja > wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 20:10:10 -0800, "R.Hubbell" >
> wrote:
>
> >
> >http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/08/nyregion/08pilot.html
> >
> >Can you say early retirement...?
>
> Not when they want my name, profession, and income level to view items on
> the site...


Are people still so easily deterred? :)

I followed the link from google news and it didn't ask for any reg.??
Some more new trickery from the NYTimes I guess, but who needs them
ther are plenty of links to the article here:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&q=pilot+christian&btnG=Search+News

That old saying comes to mind about teaching a person to fish vs. giving a
fish.... :)

R. Hubbell

>
> Ron Wanttaja

Don Tuite
February 8th 04, 10:19 PM
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 11:48:12 -0800, "R.Hubbell"
> wrote:

>That old saying comes to mind about teaching a person to fish vs. giving a
>fish.... :)

Or Terry Pratchett's "If you build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a
night, but if you set him on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his
life."

Don

David Lesher
February 16th 04, 03:45 AM
Roy Smith > writes:

>In article >,
> Ron Wanttaja > wrote:

>> Not when they want my name, profession, and income level to view items on
>> the site...

>I registered with my cat's name and put down some random values for the
>other stuff.

20505 is a good zip code to use....
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