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.287.
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... Issue # 287 Aug-17-2001
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Hello,
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Shouts and greets from the text editor of my brand new
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spiffy linux box. It took me seven failures of everything
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from freeBSD, to redHats 6.0, 6.2 and even redhat 4.5 before
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finally seeing some success with Caldera 2.3
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I still use one win95 box which I'll keep maintaining for a
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time til I've hunted down each of the programs I regularly use
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and come up with a decent linux equivalent. That may take a
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couple weeks or a month or so I'll bet.
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And then I'll finally be free. :)
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So it's Friday, August what, the 17th? I'd always hoped to
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have *nix running on at least one box by Dec99. But I guess
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I missed it by a couple little years, eh? Oh well.
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Should I columnize some, even though I'll be writing something
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up about webzine.ws this week? Hmmm. OK. But I'll make it short.
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````````````````YOU'VE GOT TO BE SHITTING ME,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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Best Buy owns Sam Goody as of last November. Wish I knew that
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when I went and bought my newest Luckyboys CD, "Throwing The
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Game." I was making Best Buy my last resort as I checked which
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stores might have it. I struck out at a couple spots, they'd
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never even heard of them yet, and one place (we won't mention
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any names, right Tom?) doesn't have copies I guess, because he
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doesn't like them very much. We've tried to get them hired
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back here as headliners at least 5 other times since they'd
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been to town warming up Little Blue Crunchy Things with
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Mustard Plug. But nogo. "Nah, I just don't like 'em much,"
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is all we'd get. Oh well. His loss, not ours really. We're
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willing to travel for 'em.
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So I end up buying it in SamGoody, thinking ok, at least it
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wasn't Best Buy. Well, little did I know. Right? Turns out
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just like buying Keystone beer because you're boycotting Coors.
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What??? Adolf Coors owns Keystone too? Yupper.
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OK, how did I find out? Well, I go into SamGoody yesterday
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thinking I'd just see how many Luckyboys CD's there are and
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ask if there's someone local I could ask about moving them
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somewhere prominent and thinking up some extra display ideas
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since their first MTV video is going to hit in a couple days
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and their second single got released the other day.
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Well, the woman I speak with tells me she'll ask the district
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supervisor if they can maybe use one of the poles that holds
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the ceiling up because they contain the only square inches that
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aren't controlled by corporate HQ. "SamGoody's corporate?" I
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ask. "No, Best Buy," Double-Take. "Wha??" I say, "Yup, bought
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us out last November."
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"Yikes," I ask her. "Didn't SamGoody just buy out MusicLand
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and a bunch of other small music chains the year before that?"
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"Longer ago than they were willing to tell us," was all she'd
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say. Not into telling me exact dates or particulars or anything.
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So Best Buy now owns almost every record store left in the
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continental United States. Perhaps the whole world soon, eh?
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I'll end this column saying that just really sucks.
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marco
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AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY WEBZINE.WS
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Holy wah! I had such a great time in the CBGB's
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Gallery attending nyc's first Webzine conference.
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I'll write up some of my observations and feelings
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here.
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Wow, many people were able to write about Webzine2001
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right after the smoke settled. I'm glad. It was good to
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read many of the reflections. I wish I was able to
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write something up just minutes after the event. Hell,
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I shoulda written a gonzo piece while sleeping in Penn
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station between Zamboni cleanings, maybe. But I decided
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to wait because I felt Webzine deserves so much more, so
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much better. Fear not, I journalled a lot so there'll be
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plenty to "collate," or move around into this little ditty
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about the con. Hmmm. Maybe I'll go really long and need to
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continue it in 3 or 4 issues like some of our other
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"trilogies."
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Hehehehe. I see Aaron's most recent trilogy is going
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to finish up at 4 pieces. "Part four of this trilogy,"
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way to go. Nothing wrong with that, trust me, it's quite
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precedented. Look it up yourself. Some of your favorite
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trilogies are 4, 5 and sometimes even 9 stories long,
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huh?
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Yup, so webzine, what can I say about WZ2001NYC besides
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that Michael Moore was his great usual self, that the
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guy from http://www.fuckedcompany.com gave great panel,
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that the guy who attacked staples school in western
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connecticut was fun to listen to. Well, read on, and
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you'll see.
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Everyone's heard of SOHO, how come NOHO isn't a house-
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hold word like Soho??? I guess because they don't have
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their "woody allen."
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So how did I get involved with webzine in the first
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place? Well it goes back to '98 or so when the first
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cons in San Francisco were happening. I couldn't
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afford to travel there and back once a year so I find
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myself wanting to help out as much behind the scenes
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year round well, why? Mostly just because I'm "down
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with all that."
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I'm leaving some of these notes very raw from my
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journals because they lose too much good edge the
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minute I start editing myself. :)
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"You know the drill..."
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Scarleteen. Sysop said web porn used to be male
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dominated for the longest time. Now it's 52% women
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run. Hmmmm.
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Met Ryan, met Dru, met Michael Moore again met a
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ton of other great people I don't remember the names
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of.
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"Many foreigners hate Americans for the exact
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reasons most Americans have said they loathe me."
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--Tim McVeigh
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16May01
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...I notice I'm still unwinding from my NY trip for
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webzine.ws. Wow. It really effected me. Left quite an
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impression. Neat.
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Aug 31, Guild will close down their Westerly, RI
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plant. Fender, which bought them in 1995 will move
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all ops to its manufacturing HQs in Corona, Calif.
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"The move will allow the company to 'streamline' its
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production of the Guild guitars."
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Gee, streamlined. Where have I heard that before???
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Lately, I guess the question is where HAVEN'T I heard
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it, eh?
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I'll end this puppy here giving a quick shoutout to
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Srini. The "Go work on your website" sticker is now
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placed prominently on the case to my Epiphone.
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#'s
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http://iirg.org
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http://killyourtv.com
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http://www.annoyances.org
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http://www.gregpalast.com
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http://www.countryjoe.com
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http://www.anarchogeek.com
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http://www.potatoland.org/bbhold
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http://www.freesk8.org/magicfx.html
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http://www.angelfire.com/band2/ducky
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http://anarchosyndicalism.org/as.htm
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http://devinasch.tripod.com/carlo.html
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http://squat.net/ascii/links/links.html
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http://www.yankthechain.com/webzine.html
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http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/jacob's.htm
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http://free.freespeech.org/xaa/xaa0002.txt
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http://www.whatmepresident.com/default.html
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http://www.potatoland.org/bbhold/barburl.htm
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http://www.angelfire.com/tn2/senaa/index2.html
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http://artists2.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/M._Borkson
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http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/kaplan/rklist.htm
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http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99jun/9906kissinger.htm
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http://users.rcn.com/napier.interport//puritans/hippy.html
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http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/larry.html
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http://home.online.no/%7Ebhundlan/scripts/JacobsLadder.doc
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http://www.angelfire.com/home/senaasweden/Roberta/carinaphotos.htm
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******
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******
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******
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******
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**********
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(,)(,)
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u
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*.....*
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LETTUCE
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to ati@etext.org
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" and I'd like to do more about it than "make sure
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ALL coffee famers are paid $1.26 per lb.!!" "
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you just did. also maybe you can open peoples eyes
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to the structures of colonialism who aren't even aware
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that colonialism even exists. believe it or not those
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people do exist. not everyone was born knowing the
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world is fucked up.
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maybe we get a hint the first time someone yells at
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us? but in the meantime doesn't somebody have to raise
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coffee prices? isn't simply ending suffering in itself
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a good thing?
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maybe i don't have the time or the patients or the
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connections to do that, but somebody's got to.
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-ati List Member
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>O_, >O_,
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(__/ (__/
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Hey, ATI is a *great* zine.
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I have been reading it for sometime and feel
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that I may have something that I would hope could
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spark your interest. My friend Jerome (sk8) was
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arrested while employed at Los Alamos National
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Labratories in January of this year.
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A website has been setup at
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http://www.freesk8.org
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and I encourage you to
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take a look. As of now the case is very shady. The
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FBI has been trying to use hackers as scapegoats ever
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since the giant evolutionary leaps that the PC has
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contributed. After Hoover met his demise, they have
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been trying to find a way to secure a positive public
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image. It seems very unlikely that anything unique
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will come from the case after many previous situations
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very similiar have been prosecuted. I encourage you
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to watch how the new director of the FBI (Mueller)
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will handle this especially since he was the one that
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setup the so called "Cyber Crime Units" sometime ago.
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He would hate to lose his first cybercrime case with
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the units that he himself setup. Just think of how
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the public would view his senate confirmation after
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that!?
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hah. Regardless, I want to spread the word about
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Jerome in hopes that something positive may come out
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of the FBI's relentless scrutanizing of the online
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underground community. Thanks, raganr0x
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[ zSh ]
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>O_, >O_,
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(__/ (__/
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Hi capelli,
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Remember the deal I told you about in yesterday's email?
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Well, I got the deal! It's official. And I want to tell
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you a little about it, before I give you the link to pick
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up the full story.
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You know, when people come to me with the newest marketing
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software out there, I tell them, "Technology can never make
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up for a lack of marketing know-how." Don't you agree with
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this statement?
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{ed note: not really. }
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...The man I'm talking about is the ONLY marketing guru still
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living today that has a success record at...
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Not easy to do!
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Not only that, but he helped develop some of the most wildly
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successful advertising campaigns in history
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- The Marlboro Man
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- Pillsbury Dough Boy
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- Charlie the Tuna
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- The Jolly Green Giant
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- Tony the Tiger
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And, let's not forget the world famous "Fly the friendly skies"
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tagline of United Airlines.
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Yesterday, I made special arrangements for you to personally
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meet this man and "pick his brain" for an entire day!...
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...All the best,
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Brad Cohen
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Executive Vice President
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SearchHound.com...
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...PPPS.
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If you're trying to squeeze that last ounce of profit out of
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a dying business model, click
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http://www.guerrillamarketingbootcamp.com/bradcohen
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and visit the Web page now!
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{I truly don't remember anything you told me yesterday.
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Were you a telemarketer? Did you write me a letter?
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Knock on my door? I'd say refresh my memory, but please
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don't.}
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>O_, >O_,
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(__/ (__/
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Dear Windows User,
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Now you can boost the reliability of ordinary
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Windows 95, 98 and ME to nearly the level of
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Windows NT or 2000, Microsoft's professional
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and industrial version of Windows.
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The new WinFix is a very effective way to
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improve the reliability of Windows, because
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it...
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{Umm, what part of "I've been moving all my b0x3n
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over to *nix do you not understand???}
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Arlen "Mikee" Dixon
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CEO, Pinewood Software Marketing
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>O_, >O_,
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(__/ (__/
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Dear Ezine Editor
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The reason that I am contacting you is to see if your
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Ezine readership would be interested in reading a free
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article entitled:
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How to make the cash in your bank account
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work as hard as you
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If so, please...
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{hehehehoohoohoohahahahahohohohehehehe...}
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>O_, >O_,
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(__/ (__/
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You are receiving this message because you are in my email
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list, you must have posted or requested information from
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one of my many sites that I Host... If you would like to
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stay in my list just reply back, if you wish to be removed
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do nothing and you will be removed. This is a one time
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{jejeje. that's a good one. Did you hear the one about...}
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,==(~ \
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) /
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.'/
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{ `~..
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|/ (*)
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THERE AND BACK by Aaron Kreider
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(CON'T From Last Issue)
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[ed note: part IV of this trilogy. :)]
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...illegal, but tolerated. The only main rule was that I wasn't allowed to
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solicit people for money (a local city rule). He was somewhat puzzled that
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I was hitchhiking as he was used to seeing homeless people doing it. There
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was a lot of traffic, though half of the trucks took another exit where
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they would be unlikely to stop for me. I guess that most of the car traffic
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was local, as I saw a lot of Iowa license plates. I didn't see a single
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Indiana plate on a car. So I hitched through the night, ate two bags of
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potato chips (99 cents each for about 90 grams), a 20 oz pepsi and 20 oz
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coke for caffeine, and a "super biggie" order of fries (hope they're
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vegetarian, they weren't from McD). Overall on this trip I probably lost
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several pounds as I had brought a lot of snack food (granola, dried fruit
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and nuts), but I wasn't eating that much. I took some break time, say
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around 3am, to sit down, eat and drink and read the 20th anniversary Earth
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First! Journal. There wasn't any good place to crash so I stayed awake the
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entire time. I should have been ok, since I'd slept until early afternoon
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the day before, but perhaps it wasn't good sleep as I was extremely tired.
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In the morning, I was even nodding off when I'd sit-down or even standing
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up trying to hitch a ride. Maybe I should have drank more caffeine? What
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made my failure to get a ride even worse, was that every couple hours a
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Greyhound bus would arrive, either going to Chicago, New York, or Los
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Angeles. So I knew that I could easily be on a bus and take that back home
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to South Bend. The first time or two that I saw a bus, I optimistically
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figured that I could get a ride back to South Bend faster than the bus -
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since Greyhounds don't drive as fast and I expected to get a direct ride
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from a truck so I wouldn't have to wait at the Chicago station for the
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South Bend bus. I took a short break from hitching when it started to rain
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as a storm passed through.
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Eventually, around early afternoon (2-3pm) I decided that I was too tired
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to continue hitching. By this time, I was possibly not the most
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friendly-looking hitchhiker as I was getting madder and more frustrated as
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time passed, though I make an effort to smile at times. I think making a
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sign listing how long you'd been trying to get a ride might be a good idea
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to negate the free-rider problem, as everyone assumes that someone else
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will pickup the hitchhiker. So you could cross out the number of hours
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you've been there, or even write "Stuck Here since 3pm". During all this
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time at Iowa 80 I switched between using my "EAST I-80" and "SOUTH BEND"
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signs. At first I was using the South Bend one, but when I later decided
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that I'd accept a ride to Chicago I went with the EAST I-80 one. So I got
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tired and decided to take the bus. It wasn't a regular stop, but the driver
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figured out how much it would cost to go to Chicago by calling the
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Greyhound number (around 33$). Since I wanted to go all the way to South
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Bend, he asked for a $25 deposit and then we'd get a ticket at the next
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station which was Chicago.
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I had two seats and slept easily on the bus. By now I could have slept on a
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concrete floor. In Chicago, I got my bag and waited around a bit for the
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bus driver. But he'd disappeared, so I looked for him in the station, but
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didn't find him. Rather than try to navigate the Greyhound chaotic
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bureaucracy and get a ticket to South Bend, I decided that I'd just go take
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the South Shore commuter train instead since it was more comfortable,
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cheaper, and likely faster. So I don't know if my driver kept the money or
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gave it to Greyhound. While I was in the Chicago Greyhound station (on my
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way out), a young guy asked me for money to help pay for his ticket which
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cost more than he'd been originally told. As I was pondering and somewhat
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doubting his story, an elderly woman came up to us and exposed him since
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she'd already promised to pay the extra money and here he was still asking
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around! Even after this, she was still willing to give him the money(!!!),
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but he refused and since he was caught in the act he walked away. The
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problem with people making up these stories is that if someone actually had
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a problem it would be very hard for them to get help. At least I have a
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very hard time telling the difference. In this case, Greyhound messing up
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the fare made sense since Greyhound often messes things up.
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I left the bus station and walked about half an hour to the South Shore one
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which I found without much trouble. Took the 5:10pm train ($9) to the South
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Bend airport (note hitching would have been better since the interstate is
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only a mile from my home), then caught the bus (75 cents) and transferred
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downtown to take me home. I arrived home around 8:30pm. So the return trip
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took three days and six hours.
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Miles - On the Way There
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140 - from I-70 to I-80
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350 - Nebraska, west on I-80
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400 - Wyoming, west on I-80
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160 - north to Alpine
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20 - from Alpine to campsite
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<EFBFBD>1070 miles
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(2.33 days of hitching - 459 miles/day)
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Miles - On the Way Back
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200 - from Alpine to Ogden
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70 - Ogden to Evanston
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400 - Wyoming, east on I-80
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450 - Nebraska, east on I-80
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280 - to Iowa 80 truck stop, east on I-80
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<EFBFBD> 1400 miles
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(3 days of hitching - 467 miles/day)
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So I hitched for a total of 2470 miles. On average I traveled 460 miles per
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day which was about the same as my first trip (where I averaged 500
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miles/day), though this time I got significantly less sleep since I didn't
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get to sleep in trucks. I also got really stuck twice. In comparison to
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these two times, spending the night in North Dakota stuck in the Theodore
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Roosevelt National Park (on my first trip) was nothing.
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Apparently hitching is far easier in Europe. A lot of American truck
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drivers would be willing to pick you up, but companies have rules against
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it stemming from insurance reasons. So they're taking a significant risk,
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unless perhaps they own their truck.
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Overall I probably won't go on a long hitchhiking trip for a while. I think
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shorter trips are fine, say one or two days where you can go without sleep.
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But longer ones are draining. Being homeless isn't that fun, and if you're
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going to pay $35 for a motel you might as well save money by taking and
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sleeping on Greyhound. You definitely do meet fascinating people and it is
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the most adventurous way I know to travel, but you know that, for instance,
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when you start composing new verses to "The Bear Went Over the Mountain",
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singing "500 bottles of soy milk on the wall" or decide to hitch-hike
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standing on one foot - that there are more exciting things to do than stand
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by the side of the road for ten hours. That's not to say that everyone
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shouldn't try it at least once, especially males for whom it's less risky.
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Hitchhiking is an ideal. I believe that people are good and by hitchhiking
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hope to learn to trust and like people whom I'd never ever meet. I don't
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think it should be too impossible to make hitching an effective form of
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transportation. Everyone used to do it. My dad even hitched to his wedding.
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Ideally hitchhiking is part, albeit a rather small part, of my radical
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commitment to build a just society.
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[read this "trilogy" as one big long t-phile at:]
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[http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/ATI/trilogy/thereandback.txt]
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[and read about his first similar trip at:]
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[http://www.nd.edu/~akreider/essays/ontheroadzineversion.txt]
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DON'T HATE ME BECAUSE I'M A POP-STAR THINKING I'M A DIVA
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Jewel was joined at Central Park Summerstage last Thursday night
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by teen diva Willa Ford and five finalists in a contest for any
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aspiring singer/songwriters.
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Jewel's six-song set was part of a promotional appearance on
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behalf of Pantene, LLC.
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"The only difference between graffitti
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and philosophy is the word 'fuck'."
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--Valkyrie D
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This has been ATI issue 287.
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Laterness mode activated.
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bye/f
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preguntas o problemas?
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ati@etext.org
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>O_, >O_,
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(__/ (__/
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* -- Some of the clip art in 2day's zine was taken
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off of Jackie Fenton's great Kayaking pages
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as if they were clip-art. She has copyrighted
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them, so we offer up this link:
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http://www.gasp-seakayak.org/ascii-art.html
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in name of good faith and fair use rather than just
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swiping. Please follow suit if you reuse. This helps
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build a real ethic since no one else seems to care,
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lately, eh? |