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


Can you say early retirement...?



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Old February 8th 04, 07:22 AM
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On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 20:10:10 -0800, "R.Hubbell"
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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
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Old February 8th 04, 11:33 AM
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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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Old February 8th 04, 12:32 PM
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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


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Old February 8th 04, 12:57 PM
Roy Smith
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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.
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Old February 8th 04, 07:48 PM
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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 he

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ed...=Searc h+News

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

R. Hubbell


Ron Wanttaja

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Old February 8th 04, 10:19 PM
Don Tuite
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On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 11:48:12 -0800, "R.Hubbell"
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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
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Old February 16th 04, 03:45 AM
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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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