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From: don polite [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 1:32 PM To: Keith Johnson; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Aaron Holbert; Clayton Harrison; don polite; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Harvey George; Kenny Cash; Rodney Brown; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The Holy Infinite Triumvirate; Wes Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tracey de Morsella; Gabriel, Dexter; JohnScott Lucas; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: wow look who they say is no 1 May 23 http://old-wizard.com/?p=728 Top 10 Most Powerful Superheroes of All Time Written by old-wizard.com http://www.old-wizard.com/ 5. The Hulk http://old-wizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/5.jpg 5.jpg If World http://old-wizard.com/?p=228 War Hulk showed us anything, its just how powerful the Hulk is. Never mind the fact that in Hulk #470, he was choked out by an ordinary python, or that he was once injured by Wolverine's bone claws. We at Old-Wizard simply attribute that to poor writing. At his best, the Hulk is a 7-foot, one-ton green behemoth with near-unlimited strength, rapid tissue-regenerative powers and nigh-inexhaustible stamina. He is highly resistant to physical, as well as psychic attacks. He's been shown to be immune to temperature extremes, diseases, and poisons. His powerful legs allow him to leap into Earth's upper atmosphere, or even across continents, and when injured he can heal from almost any wound, inherently embodying the most ubiquitous panacea. He has gone toe-to toe with almost all of Marvel's elite heroes and villains, and has usually come out on top. All of his powers depend on how mad he is, and at his maddest, his footsteps are enough to shake the entire Eastern Seaboard, and his punches capable of shattering small planets. 4. Doctor Strange http://old-wizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/6.jpg 6.jpg Earth's Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Steven Strange, has unparalleled sagicity of the mystic arts, and stands as humanity's first and last line of defense against all magic-based menaces that threaten our dimension. In addition to being able to perform such feats as astral projection, telepathy, and hypnotism, he also has a number of combat related powers as well. He can fire energy bolts with potentially enough power to destroy an entire planet (ala Death Star), create impenetrable protective shields, teleport and perform telekinesis. Basically, Strange can do anything that the writer can imagine. There are no rules. He can even withstand the power of the infinity gauntlet. There seems to be no clear limitations on his powers. He can snuff out the feeble flame of any mortal's soul with the mere twitch of his finger, and stop or even turn back time itself. Doctor Strange clearly stands amongst Marvel's elite heroes. 3. Superman http://old-wizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/7.jpg 7.jpg Rocketed from the exploding planet Krypton by his scientist parents, and crash-landing on the planet Earth, Kal-El grew to adulthood on a small Kansas farm, raised by the wholesome Kent family. Raised as Clark Kent, once puberty set in he learned that his adopted planet's yellow sun and weaker gravity gave him powers far beyond those a mere mortal man. Endowed with brazen strength, speed, and senses, not to mention flight, heat vision, and the ability to blow hurricane force winds and near-invulnerability, he moved to Metropolis and started calling himself Superman, where he fights for truth, justice and the American way! Superman practically has every super power you can imagine, or want (X-ray vision, wink wink, nudge nudge), which puts him in a league of his own. In addition to possessing all of these powers, time and time again, Superman has gone up against villains many times more powerful than himself, magic-wielders and even villains using kryptonite against him, and yet he always comes out on top. Somehow that square always finds a way to win. 2. The Silver Surfer http://old-wizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/8.jpg 8.jpg The Silver Surfer is the on-again, off-again herald of Galactus. These two are the Ross and Rachel of the cosmos. And like all heralds of Galactus, the Silver Surfer possesses the power cosmic, an energy source capable of doing almost anything, from re-arranging molecules, to energy blasts, to bringing people back from the dead. With the Silver Surfer it's more of a question of what he can't do, than what he can. He has enormous strength, can fly at speed, and is nearly invulnerable (he has withstood the destructive power of stars and even black holes). He is virtually in-destructible, and only characters near his power level are capable of harming him. He can navigate through space, dimensional barriers, and hyperspace at will. He has even been depicted as capable of time travel on several occasions. Riding his board which is capable of traveling through space, made of the same cosmically powered silver material as his skin, and mentally linked to him, he's almost unbeatable. Almost. 1. Thor
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On Memorial day weekend, my husband Chris got what we thought was a lawsuit notice for #2,000 from a law firm representing a credit card company we had no relationship. After doing some research, we figured out it was a scare tactic threatening a lawsuit in 20 days if we did not pay. So I investigated the credit laws in my state and federally and sent them a letter called a request for validation asking for specific types of documentation including proof that my husband agreed to buy the debt and that he agreed that the debt was transferable. A request for validation letter is basically a request for the creditor to prove you are who you say you are and that I owe what you say I owe. They are required to respond or they have to remove the mark off your credit report. So far, no law suit. We are going to contact the credit reporting agencies and request that the mark is removed from his credit report. -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reece Jennings Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Debt Collection Abuse? What Debt Collectors Can and Cannot Do Maurice C. Jennings Certified Credit Consultant Credit Justice Services FEATURES THE 75 Day Credit Makeover. A client can potentially see an increase of 50 - 100 points in their credit score in 75 days or less! 100% Money Back Guarantee* *Terms and conditions apply Identity Theft Solutions, too! http://www.creditjusticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 http://www.creditjusticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 [EMAIL PROTECTED] blocked::mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 860-202-1041 Debt Collection Abuse? What Debt Collectors Can and Cannot Do by www.SixWise.com http://www.sixwise.com/ With the economy slumping and food http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/08/05/21/Why-are-Food-Prices-so-High-Why -is-There-a-Global-Food-Shortage-The-Facts.htm and gas prices through the roof, many Americans are finding it difficult to keep up with their monthly expenses. Add in a layoff, medical problem or other unforeseen expense and it's easy to fall behind in your bills ... making you a ready target for debt collectors. http://www.sixwise.com/images/articles/2008/07/16/39160340.thb.jpg Even if you fall behind in bills, you still have a right to be treated with respect. Keep reading to find out YOUR rights if a debt collector calls. There are an estimated 6,500 collection agencies in the United States, and complaints against them rose 26 percent in 2007, and 43 percent in the last five years, according to the Better Business Bureau. For the past three years, in fact, debt collectors have been the subject of more complaints than any other industry, according to The Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Among the top complaints: * Using vulgar language * Trying to collect more than they're owed * Sharing the person's debt information with friends and family * Trying to collect extra fees such as late fees or court costs It's quite common for debt collectors to use this type of harassing, intimidating behavior to try to get you to pay ... but it's not always legal for them to do so. If a Debt Collector Calls, What Rights Do You Have? Knowing your rights is the first step to protecting yourself from a collection agency, and your first right is to have proof that the debt is yours. Ask the debt collector to send you written proof of the debt. Otherwise, it's possible the debt may actually belong to someone else with a similar name. Also, before you agree to pay anything or state that you do owe the money, find out if the debt is still enforceable. Depending on your state, certain debts have statute of limitations that range from three to 15 years. If, in fact, you believe you don't owe the debt, you can get a debt collector to stop contacting you by sending them a written letter stating you do not owe the money. While the debt collector may not contact you after this point, you can still be sued for the money if it's determined that the debt is yours. What CAN the Debt Collector Do? The collector may contact you by mail, in person, by telephone, telegram or fax. However, they may not contact you at unreasonable times or places, such as before 8 a.m. or after 9 p.m., unless you agree. debt collection http://www.sixwise.com/images/articles/2008/07/16/24750994.thb.jpg Certain debts expire after three to 15 years. To find out the statute of limitations in your state, contact your state attorney general's office. If you have an attorney, the collector is required to contact him or her instead of you. However, if you don't have an attorney a debt collector may contact other people, typically only once, to find out where you live or work, or to get your phone number. The collector may not tell anyone other than your attorney that you owe money. What CAN'T the Debt Collector Do? The Fair
[scifinoir2] Brightest star in Galaxy has competition
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cool science stuff. Brightest star in Galaxy has competition URL to an interesting article in Science Daily News _http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080715131623.htm_ (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080715131623.htm) I wonder how close a star could be to one of these monsters before the radiation would make it impossible for life to form - 10 ly, 100ly? I know that when it blows up it will sterilize nearby systems, but what about during its normal lifespan? First few paragraphs ScienceDaily (July 15, 2008) — A contender for the title of brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy has been unearthed in the dusty metropolis of the galaxy's center. See also: _Space Time_ (http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/space_time/) * _Stars_ (http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/space_time/stars/) * _Nebulae_ (http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/space_time/nebulae/) * _Astronomy_ (http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/space_time/astronomy/) * _Galaxies_ (http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/space_time/galaxies/) * _Extrasolar Planets_ (http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/space_time/extrasolar_planets/) * _Astrophysics_ (http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/space_time/astrophysics/) _Reference_ (http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/) * _Supergiant_ (http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/s/supergiant.htm) * _Star cluster_ (http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/s/star_cluster.htm) * _Orion Nebula_ (http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/o/orion_nebula.htm) * _Cepheid variable_ (http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/c/cepheid_variable.htm) Nicknamed the Peony nebula star, the bright stellar bulb was revealed by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and other ground-based telescopes. It blazes with the light of an estimated 3.2 million suns. The reigning brightest star champion is Eta Carina, with a whopping solar wattage of 4.7 million suns. But according to astronomers, it's hard to pin down an exact brightness, or luminosity, for these scorching stars, so they could potentially shine with a similar amount of light. The Peony nebula star is a fascinating creature. It appears to be the second-brightest star that we now know of in the galaxy, and it's located deep into the galaxy's center, said Lidia Oskinova of Potsdam University in Germany. There are probably other stars just as bright if not brighter in our galaxy that remain hidden from view. Oskinova is principal investigator for the research and second author of a paper appearing in a future issue of the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. Scientists already knew about the Peony nebula star, but because of its sheltered location in the dusty central hub of our galaxy, its extreme luminosity was not revealed until now. Spitzer's dust-piercing infrared eyes can see straight into the heart of our galaxy, into regions impenetrable by visible light. Likewise, infrared data from the European Southern Observatory's New Technology Telescope in Chile were integral in calculating the Peony nebula star's luminosity. Infrared astronomy opens extraordinary views into the environment of the central region of our galaxy, said Oskinova. The brightest stars in the universe are also the biggest. Astronomers estimate the Peony nebula star kicked off its life with a hefty mass of roughly 150 to 200 times that of our sun. Stars this massive are rare and puzzle astronomers because they push the limits required for stars to form. Theory predicts that if a star starts out too massive, it can't hold itself together and must break into a double or multiple stars instead. Not only is the Peony nebula star hefty, it also has a wide girth. It is a type of giant blue star called a Wolf-Rayet star, with a diameter roughly 100 times that of our sun. That means this star, if placed where our sun is, would extend out to about the orbit of Mercury. With so much mass, the star barely keeps itself together. It sheds an enormous amount of stellar matter in the form of strong winds over its relatively short lifetime of a few million years. This matter is pushed so hard by strong radiation from the star that the winds speed up to about 1.6 million kilometers per hour (one million miles per hour) in only a few hours. Ultimately, the Peony nebula star will blow up in a fantastic explosion of cosmic proportions called a supernova. In fact, Oskinova and her colleagues say that the star is ripe for exploding soon, which in astronomical terms mean anytime from now to millions of years from now. When this star blows up, it will evaporate any planets orbiting stars in the vicinity, said Oskinova. Farther out from the star, the explosion could actually trigger the birth of new stars. In addition to the star itself, the astronomers noted a cloud of dust and gas, called a nebula, surrounding the star. The team nicknamed this cloud the Peony nebula because it resembles the ornate
[scifinoir2] Fw: Open letter to Sen. Barack Obama from Bob Petrusak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Open letter to Sen. Barack Obama from Bob Petrusak Eloquently written, historically correct and reflective of the perception they must of experience and necessity hold. Well done. July 15, 2008 Dear Senator Obama: With Israel rehearsing an attack on Iran and the Bush administration considering the alternative of a low-level diplomatic mission in Tehran, it is necessary to revisit your June 4th speech to the AIPAC convention in Washington. In that address, you denounced the Iraq War as a conflict which strengthened Iran and asserted that Iran has always constituted a greater threat to Israel than Iraq. You stated that Iran now constitutes the greatest challenge in the region. You even asserted that Iran is part of a tyranny of oil in which the high price of oil is one of the most dangerous weapons in the world because petro-dollars abet the killing of Israeli civilians and American soldiers. In so doing, you are taking an easy road to toughness on national security issues that still allows you to trumpet your opposition to a war that is now overwhelmingly unpopular. This road may follow the footsteps of Woodrow Wilson and Lyndon Johnson, Democratic Party candidates who talked peace only to lead our people deeper into war. Your AIPAC speech represents a refusal to acknowledge the fundamental problem in American-Iranian relations. This is the fact that we are still dealing with the revolutionaries who overthrew the repressive Shah installed by the United States at the expense of an elected government. This nascent democracy led by Mohammed Mossadegh, struggled against a tyranny of oil very different from the one you constructed to inflame sentiment against Iran. Your so-called tyranny wields a high-priced weapon forged through the wasteful consumption of its victims. The tyranny faced by Mossadegh involved a British multi-national, the forerunner of today's British Petroleum, backed by every other major oil company on the planet. This tyranny sought to perpetuate a concession system originally granted by a corrupt, foreign-influenced monarchy, which denied Iran's people a fair share of their most important resource. This tyranny would also include the British navy which helped enforce a world-wide boycott of Iranian oil, and our C.I.A. which orchestrated the violent military coup that overthrew Mossadegh in August, 1953. Apologists for the coup unabashedly claimed that it saved an unstable Mossadegh government from a Soviet takeover. However, any alleged instability was the obvious result of a grossly unfair and patently illegal boycott of Iran's largest export. Moreover, the Soviets were in no position to attempt a takeover of Iran a few months after Stalin's death and in fact, Mossadegh's government was finding ways to survive the boycott. The coup thus stands as a very sordid regime change that crushed a secular Third World democracy which sought to reclaim national resources from a colonial arrangement. Similarly, the quarter-century from the 1953 coup to the 1978-79 Islamic Revolution saw U.S. support for the Shah's military and secret police and corrupt, multi-billion dollar arms deals which offset efforts by the Shah to look tough on Western oil companies. In many Iranian eyes, the passage of these 25 years only aggravated the coup of '53. For Iran, this was the second time within 42 years that a representative government had been destroyed by foreign intervention. Iran's Constitutional Revolution begun in 1905, had struggled to create a parliament, a free press and a rule of law to control a corrupt monarchy that sold national resources to foreign interests on generous terms. This struggle even produced an American hero, Howard Baskerville who died leading a Constitutionalist attack on Monarchist forces, and is still recognized as the American Lafayette in Iran. Yet by 1911, British and Russian intervention had dispersed the parliament and restored monarchal despotism. The effective replay of these events in 1953 would convince many Iranians that democracy, with its openness and freedom, could not maintain national independence against foreign intrigue. Such feelings combined with an old feud between the clergy and the reinstalled, American-supported dynasty created perfect conditions for the growth of religious militancy. . Such facts are essential to an understanding of the 1979-81 hostage crisis which was sparked by fear of yet another restoration of the monarchy. I appreciate the horrific nature of kidnapping and hostage-taking and as an assistant state attorney general, helped secure severe penalties for such crimes. However, the quarter-century rule of the American-supported Shah would also involve political executions and torture. This repressive monarch became the cornerstone of American policy in the region and a status of forces
Re: [scifinoir2] Watermelon May Be A Natural Viagra
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RE: [scifinoir2] Debt Collection Abuse? What Debt Collectors Can and Cannot Do
Well-done! Maurice C. Jennings Certified Credit Consultant Credit Justice Services FEATURES THE 75 Day Credit Makeover. A client can potentially see an increase of 50 - 100 points in their credit score in 75 days or less! 100% Money Back Guarantee* *Terms and conditions apply Identity Theft Solutions, too! http://www.creditjusticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 http://www.creditjusticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 [EMAIL PROTECTED] blocked::mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 860-202-1041 _ From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracey de Morsella Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:56 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Debt Collection Abuse? What Debt Collectors Can and Cannot Do On Memorial day weekend, my husband Chris got what we thought was a lawsuit notice for #2,000 from a law firm representing a credit card company we had no relationship. After doing some research, we figured out it was a scare tactic threatening a lawsuit in 20 days if we did not pay. So I investigated the credit laws in my state and federally and sent them a letter called a request for validation asking for specific types of documentation including proof that my husband agreed to buy the debt and that he agreed that the debt was transferable. A request for validation letter is basically a request for the creditor to prove you are who you say you are and that I owe what you say I owe. They are required to respond or they have to remove the mark off your credit report. So far, no law suit. We are going to contact the credit reporting agencies and request that the mark is removed from his credit report. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com] On Behalf Of Reece Jennings Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:10-7%40yahoogroups.com com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:40sRus%40yahoogroups.com com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Debt Collection Abuse? What Debt Collectors Can and Cannot Do Maurice C. Jennings Certified Credit Consultant Credit Justice Services FEATURES THE 75 Day Credit Makeover. A client can potentially see an increase of 50 - 100 points in their credit score in 75 days or less! 100% Money Back Guarantee* *Terms and conditions apply Identity Theft Solutions, too! http://www.creditju http://www.creditjusticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 sticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 http://www.creditju http://www.creditjusticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 sticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:mjennings%40creditjusticeservices.com ticeservices.com blocked::mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:mjennings%40creditjusticeservices.com ticeservices.com 860-202-1041 Debt Collection Abuse? What Debt Collectors Can and Cannot Do by www.SixWise.com http://www.sixwise. http://www.sixwise.com/ com/ With the economy slumping and food http://www.sixwise. http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/08/05/21/Why-are-Food-Prices-so-High-Why com/newsletters/08/05/21/Why-are-Food-Prices-so-High-Why -is-There-a-Global-Food-Shortage-The-Facts.htm and gas prices through the roof, many Americans are finding it difficult to keep up with their monthly expenses. Add in a layoff, medical problem or other unforeseen expense and it's easy to fall behind in your bills ... making you a ready target for debt collectors. http://www.sixwise. http://www.sixwise.com/images/articles/2008/07/16/39160340.thb.jpg com/images/articles/2008/07/16/39160340.thb.jpg Even if you fall behind in bills, you still have a right to be treated with respect. Keep reading to find out YOUR rights if a debt collector calls. There are an estimated 6,500 collection agencies in the United States, and complaints against them rose 26 percent in 2007, and 43 percent in the last five years, according to the Better Business Bureau. For the past three years, in fact, debt collectors have been the subject of more complaints than any other industry, according to The Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Among the top complaints: * Using vulgar language * Trying to collect more than they're owed * Sharing the person's debt information with friends and family * Trying to collect extra fees such as late fees or court costs It's quite common for debt collectors to use this type of harassing, intimidating behavior to try to get you to pay ... but it's not always legal for them to do so. If a Debt Collector Calls, What Rights Do You Have? Knowing your rights is the first step to protecting yourself from a collection agency, and your first right is to have proof that the debt is yours. Ask the debt collector to send you written proof of the debt. Otherwise, it's possible the debt may actually belong to someone else with a similar name. Also, before you agree to pay anything or state that you do owe the money, find out if the debt is still enforceable.
RE: [scifinoir2] Debt Collection Abuse? What Debt Collectors Can and Cannot Do
Oh...if you can't get it removed, that's what I do...get those things removed. Maurice C. Jennings Certified Credit Consultant Credit Justice Services FEATURES THE 75 Day Credit Makeover. A client can potentially see an increase of 50 - 100 points in their credit score in 75 days or less! 100% Money Back Guarantee* *Terms and conditions apply Identity Theft Solutions, too! http://www.creditjusticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 http://www.creditjusticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 [EMAIL PROTECTED] blocked::mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 860-202-1041 _ From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracey de Morsella Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:56 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Debt Collection Abuse? What Debt Collectors Can and Cannot Do On Memorial day weekend, my husband Chris got what we thought was a lawsuit notice for #2,000 from a law firm representing a credit card company we had no relationship. After doing some research, we figured out it was a scare tactic threatening a lawsuit in 20 days if we did not pay. So I investigated the credit laws in my state and federally and sent them a letter called a request for validation asking for specific types of documentation including proof that my husband agreed to buy the debt and that he agreed that the debt was transferable. A request for validation letter is basically a request for the creditor to prove you are who you say you are and that I owe what you say I owe. They are required to respond or they have to remove the mark off your credit report. So far, no law suit. We are going to contact the credit reporting agencies and request that the mark is removed from his credit report. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com] On Behalf Of Reece Jennings Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:10-7%40yahoogroups.com com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:40sRus%40yahoogroups.com com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Debt Collection Abuse? What Debt Collectors Can and Cannot Do Maurice C. Jennings Certified Credit Consultant Credit Justice Services FEATURES THE 75 Day Credit Makeover. A client can potentially see an increase of 50 - 100 points in their credit score in 75 days or less! 100% Money Back Guarantee* *Terms and conditions apply Identity Theft Solutions, too! http://www.creditju http://www.creditjusticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 sticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 http://www.creditju http://www.creditjusticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 sticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:mjennings%40creditjusticeservices.com ticeservices.com blocked::mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:mjennings%40creditjusticeservices.com ticeservices.com 860-202-1041 Debt Collection Abuse? What Debt Collectors Can and Cannot Do by www.SixWise.com http://www.sixwise. http://www.sixwise.com/ com/ With the economy slumping and food http://www.sixwise. http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/08/05/21/Why-are-Food-Prices-so-High-Why com/newsletters/08/05/21/Why-are-Food-Prices-so-High-Why -is-There-a-Global-Food-Shortage-The-Facts.htm and gas prices through the roof, many Americans are finding it difficult to keep up with their monthly expenses. Add in a layoff, medical problem or other unforeseen expense and it's easy to fall behind in your bills ... making you a ready target for debt collectors. http://www.sixwise. http://www.sixwise.com/images/articles/2008/07/16/39160340.thb.jpg com/images/articles/2008/07/16/39160340.thb.jpg Even if you fall behind in bills, you still have a right to be treated with respect. Keep reading to find out YOUR rights if a debt collector calls. There are an estimated 6,500 collection agencies in the United States, and complaints against them rose 26 percent in 2007, and 43 percent in the last five years, according to the Better Business Bureau. For the past three years, in fact, debt collectors have been the subject of more complaints than any other industry, according to The Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Among the top complaints: * Using vulgar language * Trying to collect more than they're owed * Sharing the person's debt information with friends and family * Trying to collect extra fees such as late fees or court costs It's quite common for debt collectors to use this type of harassing, intimidating behavior to try to get you to pay ... but it's not always legal for them to do so. If a Debt Collector Calls, What Rights Do You Have? Knowing your rights is the first step to protecting yourself from a collection agency, and your first right is to have proof that the debt is yours. Ask the debt collector to send you written proof of the debt. Otherwise, it's possible the debt may actually belong to someone else with a similar name. Also, before you agree to pay anything or state
RE: [scifinoir2] Debt Collection Abuse? What Debt Collectors Can and Cannot Do
thanks -Original Message- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reece Jennings Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:06 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Debt Collection Abuse? What Debt Collectors Can and Cannot Do Oh...if you can't get it removed, that's what I do...get those things removed. Maurice C. Jennings Certified Credit Consultant Credit Justice Services FEATURES THE 75 Day Credit Makeover. A client can potentially see an increase of 50 - 100 points in their credit score in 75 days or less! 100% Money Back Guarantee* *Terms and conditions apply Identity Theft Solutions, too! http://www.creditjusticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 http://www.creditjusticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 [EMAIL PROTECTED] blocked::mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 860-202-1041 _ From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracey de Morsella Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:56 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Debt Collection Abuse? What Debt Collectors Can and Cannot Do On Memorial day weekend, my husband Chris got what we thought was a lawsuit notice for #2,000 from a law firm representing a credit card company we had no relationship. After doing some research, we figured out it was a scare tactic threatening a lawsuit in 20 days if we did not pay. So I investigated the credit laws in my state and federally and sent them a letter called a request for validation asking for specific types of documentation including proof that my husband agreed to buy the debt and that he agreed that the debt was transferable. A request for validation letter is basically a request for the creditor to prove you are who you say you are and that I owe what you say I owe. They are required to respond or they have to remove the mark off your credit report. So far, no law suit. We are going to contact the credit reporting agencies and request that the mark is removed from his credit report. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com] On Behalf Of Reece Jennings Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:10-7%40yahoogroups.com com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:40sRus%40yahoogroups.com com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com ups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Debt Collection Abuse? What Debt Collectors Can and Cannot Do Maurice C. Jennings Certified Credit Consultant Credit Justice Services FEATURES THE 75 Day Credit Makeover. A client can potentially see an increase of 50 - 100 points in their credit score in 75 days or less! 100% Money Back Guarantee* *Terms and conditions apply Identity Theft Solutions, too! http://www.creditju http://www.creditjusticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 sticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 http://www.creditju http://www.creditjusticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 sticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:mjennings%40creditjusticeservices.com ticeservices.com blocked::mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:mjennings%40creditjusticeservices.com ticeservices.com 860-202-1041 Debt Collection Abuse? What Debt Collectors Can and Cannot Do by www.SixWise.com http://www.sixwise. http://www.sixwise.com/ com/ With the economy slumping and food http://www.sixwise. http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/08/05/21/Why-are-Food-Prices-so-High-Why com/newsletters/08/05/21/Why-are-Food-Prices-so-High-Why -is-There-a-Global-Food-Shortage-The-Facts.htm and gas prices through the roof, many Americans are finding it difficult to keep up with their monthly expenses. Add in a layoff, medical problem or other unforeseen expense and it's easy to fall behind in your bills ... making you a ready target for debt collectors. http://www.sixwise. http://www.sixwise.com/images/articles/2008/07/16/39160340.thb.jpg com/images/articles/2008/07/16/39160340.thb.jpg Even if you fall behind in bills, you still have a right to be treated with respect. Keep reading to find out YOUR rights if a debt collector calls. There are an estimated 6,500 collection agencies in the United States, and complaints against them rose 26 percent in 2007, and 43 percent in the last five years, according to the Better Business Bureau. For the past three years, in fact, debt collectors have been the subject of more complaints than any other industry, according to The Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Among the top complaints: * Using vulgar language * Trying to collect more than they're owed * Sharing the person's debt information with friends and family * Trying to collect extra fees such as late fees or court costs It's quite common for debt collectors to use this type of harassing, intimidating behavior to try to get you to pay ... but it's not always legal for them to do so. If a Debt Collector Calls, What Rights Do You Have? Knowing your rights is the first step to protecting yourself from a
[scifinoir2] Babylon A.D. Tailored To Michele Yeoh
Babylon A.D. Tailored To Yeoh Michelle Yeoh, who stars with Vin Diesel in the upcoming futuristic thriller Babylon A.D., told journalists that the role she plays was originally written for a very different type of actress. It's based on a book by [Maurice Georges] Dantec, Babylon Babies, but this is really [director Mathieu Kassovitz's] interpretation of this book, Yeoh said in a group interview while promoting The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. In the French novel, Yeoh's character is a 60-year-old, short, dumpy, French nun, the Hong Kong actress said. And I look at [Kassovitz], and I go, 'Very interesting,' Yeoh recalled. I look in the mirror and go, 'When did I become short and dumpy and French?' So you have to see the movie to see that I'm not. The film, from the French director of Gothika, follows a mercenary (Diesel) and a nun (Yeoh) charged with protecting a genetically altered young woman (Melanie Thierry) who may be carrying the next messiah. Yeoh said that her agent, who also represents Kassovitz, suggested her for the role of Sister Rebecca, because she provided a strong contrast to Diesel. [Mathieu] knew that the Vin Diesel and Melanie role needed a third character to bond them, to put that link together, Yeoh said. And so he thought, 'Who would protect a young girl like this? Who would be [the] opposite [of] a Vin Diesel, the big giant? It should be like a small, feisty French nun ... someone who could stand up against Vin physically and mentally, like that.' So that was when the idea came to Mathieu, and he started working on that, and lo and behold, I was in the film with him. Compared to the experience of filming the third Mummy movie, under the direction of Rob Cohen, Yeoh said that the Babylon A.D. shoot was much less structured and sometimes difficult. We had a rough shoot, Yeoh said. I think with Mathieu, it was very clear what he wanted. And so he brought in people who were very strong. And that was the only way his characters evolved. He worked very similar to Asian directors, different from Rob. Rob is Asian in the sense that he can do 30 shots a day. But he was very, very clear in what he wanted to do. With Mathieu, he would get onto the set and try and round it up from us. It's good, in a sense, because things happen. It's bad when it's such a big production, and there's a certain discipline that needs to be in place. So it was up and down. But it was very interesting at the end of the day. Babylon A.D. opens Aug. 29. - http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=57715 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
RE: [scifinoir2] Debt Collection Abuse? What Debt Collectors Can and Cannot Do
Thank you, sir. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Wed, 7/16/08, Reece Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Reece Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Debt Collection Abuse? What Debt Collectors Can and Cannot Do To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 8:27 PM I wonder how many people have NOT caught bills like this, Martin...? Good for you! Maurice C. Jennings Certified Credit Consultant Credit Justice Services FEATURES THE 75 Day Credit Makeover. A client can potentially see an increase of 50 - 100 points in their credit score in 75 days or less! 100% Money Back Guarantee* *Terms and conditions apply Identity Theft Solutions, too! http://www.creditju sticeservices. com/?ccc= 2173 http://www.creditju sticeservices. com/?ccc= 2173 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ticeservices. com blocked::mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ticeservices. com 860-202-1041 _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com] On Behalf Of Martin Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 5:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Debt Collection Abuse? What Debt Collectors Can and Cannot Do Reece, a line in this, regarding owing a debt, is something I experienced a few months ago. Since I've gone on Medicare, I've seen a lot of multiple-billing dances during the course of my treatment, but one really took the cake, and it had my name on it. I got a bill for services rendered from a hospital I hadn't set foot in in *thirteen years*, because that hospital has an arrangement with my regular hospital. The bill also included a statement that this wasn't really a bill (despite having the word bill on it in bold print), and that Medicare might take care of it. I called Medicare to inform them of it. A week later, I got a letter of thanks from them. And I haven't had any double-billings since. http://www.youtube. http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik com/watch?v= fQUxw9aUVik --- On Wed, 7/16/08, Reece Jennings mcjennings124@ mailto:mcjennings1 24%40yahoo. com yahoo.com wrote: From: Reece Jennings mcjennings124@ mailto:mcjennings1 24%40yahoo. com yahoo.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Debt Collection Abuse? What Debt Collectors Can and Cannot Do To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:10-7% 40yahoogroups. com com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:40sRus% 40yahoogroups. com com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:scifinoir2% 40yahoogroups. com ups.com Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 5:08 PM Maurice C. Jennings Certified Credit Consultant Credit Justice Services FEATURES THE 75 Day Credit Makeover. A client can potentially see an increase of 50 - 100 points in their credit score in 75 days or less! 100% Money Back Guarantee* *Terms and conditions apply Identity Theft Solutions, too! http://www.creditju sticeservices. com/?ccc= 2173 http://www.creditju sticeservices. com/?ccc= 2173 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ticeservices. com blocked::mailto: mjennings@ creditjus ticeservices. com 860-202-1041 Debt Collection Abuse? What Debt Collectors Can and Cannot Do by www.SixWise. com http://www.sixwise. com/ With the economy slumping and food http://www.sixwise. com/newsletters/ 08/05/21/ Why-are-Food- Prices-so- High-Why -is-There-a- Global-Food- Shortage- The-Facts. htm and gas prices through the roof, many Americans are finding it difficult to keep up with their monthly expenses. Add in a layoff, medical problem or other unforeseen expense and it's easy to fall behind in your bills ... making you a ready target for debt collectors. http://www.sixwise. com/images/ articles/ 2008/07/16/ 39160340. thb.jpg Even if you fall behind in bills, you still have a right to be treated with respect. Keep reading to find out YOUR rights if a debt collector calls. There are an estimated 6,500 collection agencies in the United States, and complaints against them rose 26 percent in 2007, and 43 percent in the last five years, according to the Better Business Bureau. For the past three years, in fact, debt collectors have been the subject of more complaints than any other industry, according to The Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Among the top complaints: * Using vulgar language * Trying to collect more than they're owed * Sharing the person's debt information with friends and family * Trying to collect extra fees such as late fees or court costs It's quite common for debt collectors to use this type of harassing, intimidating behavior to try to get you to pay ... but it's not always legal for them to do so. If a Debt Collector Calls, What Rights Do You Have? Knowing your rights is the first step to protecting yourself from a collection agency, and your first right is to have proof that the debt is yours. Ask the debt collector to send you written proof of the debt. Otherwise, it's
Re: [scifinoir2] Dark Knight Shift: Why Batman Could Exist
I feel that the toll issue was addressed in Knightfall, when Bane released all of the inmates of Arkham solely to make Batman run himself down. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Wed, 7/16/08, ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [scifinoir2] Dark Knight Shift: Why Batman Could Exist To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 6:50 PM http://www.sciam. com/article. cfm?id=dark- knight-shift- why-bat Dark Knight Shift: Why Batman Could Exist--But Not for Long QA with movement researcher E. Paul Zehr By JR Minkel Batman is the most down-to-earth of all the superheroes. He has no special powers from being born on a distant world or bitten by a radioactive spider. All that protects him from the Joker and other Gotham City villains are his wits and a physique shaped by years of trainingcombined with the vast fortune to reach his maximum potential and augment himself with Batmobiles, Batcables and other Bat-goodies, of course. In the 2005 blockbuster Batman Begins, vengeful Bruce Wayne (played by Christian Bale) hones his killer instincts in the streets for seven years before landing himself in a Bhutanese prison, where he falls in with the mysterious League of Shadows, who teach him the way of the ninja. The Dark Knight, the next movie in the Batman franchise, opens in theaters Friday. To investigate whether someone like Bruce Wayne could physically transform himself into a one-man wrecking crew, ScientificAmerican. com turned to E. Paul Zehr, associate professor of kinesiology and neuroscience at the University of Victoria in British Columbia and a 26-year practitioner of Chito-Ryu karate-do. Zehr's book, Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero (The Johns Hopkins University Press), due out in October, tackles our very question. An edited transcript of the conversation follows. What have comic books and movies told us about Batman's physical abilities? There's a quote from Neal Adams, the great Batman illustrator, who said Batman would win place or show in every event in the Olympics. Probably if I were Batman's handler, I'd put him in the decathlon. Although Batman is shown in the comics as being the fastest and the strongest and all these other things, in reality you can't actually be all of that at once. To be Batman properly, what you really need to do is be exceptionally good at many different things. It's when you take all the pieces and put them together that you get the Batman. What's most plausible about portrayals of Batman's skills? You could train somebody to be a tremendous athlete and to have a significant martial arts background, and also to use some of the gear that he has, which requires a lot of physical prowess. Most of what you see there is feasible to the extent that somebody could be trained to that extreme. We're seeing that kind of thing in less than a month in the Olympics. What's less realistic? A great example is in the movies where Batman is fighting multiple opponents and all of a sudden he's taking on 10 people. If you just estimate how fast somebody could punch and kick, and how many times you could hit one person in a second, you wind up with numbers like five or six. This doesn't mean you could fight four or five people. But it's also hard for four or five people to simultaneously attack somebody, because they get in each other's way. More realistic is a couple of attackers. How long would Bruce Wayne have to train to become Batman? In some of the timelines you see in the comics, the backstory is he goes away for five yearssome it's three to five years, or eight years, or 12 years. In terms of the physical changes (strength and conditioning) , that's happening fairly quickly. We're talking three to five years. In terms of the physical skills to be able to defend himself against all these opponents all the time, I would benchmark that at 10 to 12 years. Probably the most reality-based representation of Batman and his training was in Batman Begins. Why such a long training time? Batman can't really afford to lose. Losing means deathor at least not being able to be Batman anymore. But another benchmark is having enough skill and experience to defend himself without killing anyone. Because that's part of his credo. It would be much easier to fight somebody if you could incapacitate them with extreme force. Punching somebody in the throat could be a lethal blow. That's pretty easy to do. But if you're thinking about something that doesn't result in lethal force, that's more tricky. It's really hard for people to get their heads around, I think. To be that good, to not actually lethally injure anyone, requires an extremely high level of skill that would take maybe 15 to 18 years to accumulate. Where does that
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Interesting that Thor should be placed ahead of the Hulk. I seem to remember an instance in which the Hulk startled Thor by being only the second being, next to Thor, to be able to pick up and wield Mjolnir and, if the only difference between the two is the mystical warhammer forged and dovetailed by Dwarven blacksmiths, I am going with the green guy! ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Tracey de Morsella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: don polite [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 1:32 PM To: Keith Johnson; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Aaron Holbert; Clayton Harrison; don polite; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Harvey George; Kenny Cash; Rodney Brown; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The Holy Infinite Triumvirate; Wes Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tracey de Morsella; Gabriel, Dexter; JohnScott Lucas; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: wow look who they say is no 1 May 23 http://old-wizard.com/?p=728 Top 10 Most Powerful Superheroes of All Time Written by old-wizard.com http://www.old-wizard.com/ 5. The Hulk http://old-wizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/5.jpg 5.jpg If World http://old-wizard.com/?p=228 War Hulk showed us anything, its just how powerful the Hulk is. Never mind the fact that in Hulk #470, he was choked out by an ordinary python, or that he was once injured by Wolverine's bone claws. We at Old-Wizard simply attribute that to poor writing. At his best, the Hulk is a 7-foot, one-ton green behemoth with near-unlimited strength, rapid tissue-regenerative powers and nigh-inexhaustible stamina. He is highly resistant to physical, as well as psychic attacks. He's been shown to be immune to temperature extremes, diseases, and poisons. His powerful legs allow him to leap into Earth's upper atmosphere, or even across continents, and when injured he can heal from almost any wound, inherently embodying the most ubiquitous panacea. He has gone toe-to toe with almost all of Marvel's elite heroes and villains, and has usually come out on top. All of his powers depend on how mad he is, and at his maddest, his footsteps are enough to shake the entire Eastern Seaboard, and his punches capable of shattering small planets. 4. Doctor Strange http://old-wizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/6.jpg 6.jpg Earth's Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Steven Strange, has unparalleled sagicity of the mystic arts, and stands as humanity's first and last line of defense against all magic-based menaces that threaten our dimension. In addition to being able to perform such feats as astral projection, telepathy, and hypnotism, he also has a number of combat related powers as well. He can fire energy bolts with potentially enough power to destroy an entire planet (ala Death Star), create impenetrable protective shields, teleport and perform telekinesis. Basically, Strange can do anything that the writer can imagine. There are no rules. He can even withstand the power of the infinity gauntlet. There seems to be no clear limitations on his powers. He can snuff out the feeble flame of any mortal's soul with the mere twitch of his finger, and stop or even turn back time itself. Doctor Strange clearly stands amongst Marvel's elite heroes. 3. Superman http://old-wizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/7.jpg 7.jpg Rocketed from the exploding planet Krypton by his scientist parents, and crash-landing on the planet Earth, Kal-El grew to adulthood on a small Kansas farm, raised by the wholesome Kent family. Raised as Clark Kent, once puberty set in he learned that his adopted planet's yellow sun and weaker gravity gave him powers far beyond those a mere mortal man. Endowed with brazen strength, speed, and senses, not to mention flight, heat vision, and the ability to blow hurricane force winds and near-invulnerability, he moved to Metropolis and started calling himself Superman, where he fights for truth, justice and the American way! Superman practically has every super power you can imagine, or want (X-ray vision, wink wink, nudge nudge), which puts him in a league of his own. In addition to possessing all of these powers, time and time again, Superman has gone up against villains many times more powerful than himself, magic-wielders and even villains using kryptonite against him, and yet he always comes out on top. Somehow that square always finds a way to win. 2. The Silver Surfer http://old-wizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/8.jpg 8.jpg The Silver Surfer is the on-again, off-again herald of Galactus. These two are the Ross and Rachel of the cosmos. And like all heralds of Galactus, the Silver Surfer possesses the power cosmic, an energy source capable of doing almost anything, from re-arranging molecules, to energy blasts, to bringing people back from the dead. With the Silver Surfer it's more of a question of what he can't do, than what he can. He has enormous strength, can fly at speed, and is nearly invulnerable
[scifinoir2] Re: FW: Top 10 Most Powerful Superheroes of All Time
That must have been in the Ultimates universe. Hulk has never been able to pick up Thor's hammer. You have to be worthy enough to wield the hammer. The only heroes I remember being able to wield it are Captain America and Beta Ray Bill. I've seen several Hulk Thor fights and the Hulk always seemed to get the worst of it. Folks are sleeping on Thor. The guy was much more than a lunkhead with a hammer. He's got ways to beat the Hulk without resorting to a brawl like dimension dumping him, draining the radiation from his body and reverting him back to Bruce banner, etc. He just likes to fight but when the chips are down he uses his powers in some pretty creative ways. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting that Thor should be placed ahead of the Hulk. I seem to remember an instance in which the Hulk startled Thor by being only the second being, next to Thor, to be able to pick up and wield Mjolnir and, if the only difference between the two is the mystical warhammer forged and dovetailed by Dwarven blacksmiths, I am going with the green guy! ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Tracey de Morsella tdlists@ wrote: From: don polite [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 1:32 PM To: Keith Johnson; cinque3000@; maxwell1295@; Aaron Holbert; Clayton Harrison; don polite; everythingist@; Harvey George; Kenny Cash; Rodney Brown; thanos110@; The Holy Infinite Triumvirate; Wes Cc: wendellsmithis@; Tracey de Morsella; Gabriel, Dexter; JohnScott Lucas; KeithBJohnson@ Subject: wow look who they say is no 1 May 23 http://old-wizard.com/?p=728 Top 10 Most Powerful Superheroes of All Time Written by old-wizard.com http://www.old-wizard.com/ 5. The Hulk http://old-wizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/5.jpg 5.jpg If World http://old-wizard.com/?p=228 War Hulk showed us anything, its just how powerful the Hulk is. Never mind the fact that in Hulk #470, he was choked out by an ordinary python, or that he was once injured by Wolverine's bone claws. We at Old-Wizard simply attribute that to poor writing. At his best, the Hulk is a 7-foot, one-ton green behemoth with near- unlimited strength, rapid tissue-regenerative powers and nigh-inexhaustible stamina. He is highly resistant to physical, as well as psychic attacks. He's been shown to be immune to temperature extremes, diseases, and poisons. His powerful legs allow him to leap into Earth's upper atmosphere, or even across continents, and when injured he can heal from almost any wound, inherently embodying the most ubiquitous panacea. He has gone toe- to toe with almost all of Marvel's elite heroes and villains, and has usually come out on top. All of his powers depend on how mad he is, and at his maddest, his footsteps are enough to shake the entire Eastern Seaboard, and his punches capable of shattering small planets. 4. Doctor Strange http://old-wizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/6.jpg 6.jpg Earth's Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Steven Strange, has unparalleled sagicity of the mystic arts, and stands as humanity's first and last line of defense against all magic-based menaces that threaten our dimension. In addition to being able to perform such feats as astral projection, telepathy, and hypnotism, he also has a number of combat related powers as well. He can fire energy bolts with potentially enough power to destroy an entire planet (ala Death Star), create impenetrable protective shields, teleport and perform telekinesis. Basically, Strange can do anything that the writer can imagine. There are no rules. He can even withstand the power of the infinity gauntlet. There seems to be no clear limitations on his powers. He can snuff out the feeble flame of any mortal's soul with the mere twitch of his finger, and stop or even turn back time itself. Doctor Strange clearly stands amongst Marvel's elite heroes. 3. Superman http://old-wizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/7.jpg 7.jpg Rocketed from the exploding planet Krypton by his scientist parents, and crash-landing on the planet Earth, Kal-El grew to adulthood on a small Kansas farm, raised by the wholesome Kent family. Raised as Clark Kent, once puberty set in he learned that his adopted planet's yellow sun and weaker gravity gave him powers far beyond those a mere mortal man. Endowed with brazen strength, speed, and senses, not to mention flight, heat vision, and the ability to blow hurricane force winds and near- invulnerability, he moved to Metropolis and started calling himself Superman, where he fights for truth, justice and the American way! Superman practically has every super power you can imagine, or want (X-ray vision, wink wink, nudge nudge), which puts him in a league of his own. In addition to
Re: [scifinoir2] FW: Top 10 Most Powerful Superheroes of All Time
Pretty cool, though I think leaving Phoenix off the list is a mistake. The Phoenix-force would put her up there with Thor and Surfer. I'm not sure the Green Lantern should be so low. With the proper will, a Lantern's ring is said to be the most powerful item in the DC universe. With the will of someone like, say Bruce Wayne, the Power Ring could give pause to even Surfer or Thor. They should add the Scarlet Witch to this list. Her reality-warping powers are unstoppable. She literally reshaped all of Earth, time, space, and history during the House of M saga, where she recreated the Earth's reality into a world ruled by mutants. And then, with the three words No more mutants, Wanda rendered 99% of all Earth's mutants powerless. Not many heroes could stand against that kind of ability... -- Original message -- From: Tracey de Morsella [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: don polite [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 1:32 PM To: Keith Johnson; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Aaron Holbert; Clayton Harrison; don polite; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Harvey George; Kenny Cash; Rodney Brown; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The Holy Infinite Triumvirate; Wes Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tracey de Morsella; Gabriel, Dexter; JohnScott Lucas; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: wow look who they say is no 1 May 23 http://old-wizard.com/?p=728 Top 10 Most Powerful Superheroes of All Time Written by old-wizard.com http://www.old-wizard.com/ 5. The Hulk http://old-wizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/5.jpg 5.jpg If World http://old-wizard.com/?p=228 War Hulk showed us anything, its just how powerful the Hulk is. Never mind the fact that in Hulk #470, he was choked out by an ordinary python, or that he was once injured by Wolverine's bone claws. We at Old-Wizard simply attribute that to poor writing. At his best, the Hulk is a 7-foot, one-ton green behemoth with near-unlimited strength, rapid tissue-regenerative powers and nigh-inexhaustible stamina. He is highly resistant to physical, as well as psychic attacks. He's been shown to be immune to temperature extremes, diseases, and poisons. His powerful legs allow him to leap into Earth's upper atmosphere, or even across continents, and when injured he can heal from almost any wound, inherently embodying the most ubiquitous panacea. He has gone toe-to toe with almost all of Marvel's elite heroes and villains, and has usually come out on top. All of his powers depend on how mad he is, and at his maddest, his footsteps are enough to shake the entire Eastern Seaboard, and his punches capable of shattering small planets. 4. Doctor Strange http://old-wizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/6.jpg 6.jpg Earth's Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Steven Strange, has unparalleled sagicity of the mystic arts, and stands as humanity's first and last line of defense against all magic-based menaces that threaten our dimension. In addition to being able to perform such feats as astral projection, telepathy, and hypnotism, he also has a number of combat related powers as well. He can fire energy bolts with potentially enough power to destroy an entire planet (ala Death Star), create impenetrable protective shields, teleport and perform telekinesis. Basically, Strange can do anything that the writer can imagine. There are no rules. He can even withstand the power of the infinity gauntlet. There seems to be no clear limitations on his powers. He can snuff out the feeble flame of any mortal's soul with the mere twitch of his finger, and stop or even turn back time itself. Doctor Strange clearly stands amongst Marvel's elite heroes. 3. Superman http://old-wizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/7.jpg 7.jpg Rocketed from the exploding planet Krypton by his scientist parents, and crash-landing on the planet Earth, Kal-El grew to adulthood on a small Kansas farm, raised by the wholesome Kent family. Raised as Clark Kent, once puberty set in he learned that his adopted planet's yellow sun and weaker gravity gave him powers far beyond those a mere mortal man. Endowed with brazen strength, speed, and senses, not to mention flight, heat vision, and the ability to blow hurricane force winds and near-invulnerability, he moved to Metropolis and started calling himself Superman, where he fights for truth, justice and the American way! Superman practically has every super power you can imagine, or want (X-ray vision, wink wink, nudge nudge), which puts him in a league of his own. In addition to possessing all of these powers, time and time again, Superman has gone up against villains many times more powerful than himself, magic-wielders and even villains using kryptonite against him, and yet he always comes out on top. Somehow that square always finds a way to win. 2. The Silver Surfer http://old-wizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/8.jpg 8.jpg The Silver Surfer is the on-again, off-again herald of Galactus. These two are the Ross and Rachel of the cosmos. And like all heralds of
[scifinoir2] When IT People Go Bad
Wow. Of course, I'd never do this to my people! Still, it never hurts to be a little extra nice to your friendly neighborhood LAN guy. I'm particularly fond of fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies. And Haagen Daas vanilla ice cream. Having a few Dove chocolate candies at your desk wouldn't hurt either... :) I'm a litle surprised no one else can get in, though I guess, even if there are other admin-level IT guys on the job, he must have gone in and jacked up their accounts and passwords too... http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/148427 - A network administrator has locked up a multimillion dollar computer system for San Francisco that handles sensitive data and is refusing to give police the password, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday. The employee, 43-year-old Terry Childs, was arrested Sunday. He gave some passwords to police, which did not work, and refused to reveal the real code, the paper reported. The new FiberWAN (Wide Area Network) handles city payroll files, jail bookings, law enforcement documents and official e-mail for San Francisco. The network is functioning but administrators have little or no access. Childs, who remains in custody, is accused of improperly tampering with computer systems and causing a denial of service, said Kamala Harris, San Francisco's district attorney, on Monday afternoon. The bail has been set at $5 million, and the exposure in this case if he were convicted on all counts would be seven years in prison, Harris said. Harris said it's unknown why Childs tampered with the system. The Chronicle, however, reported that Childs was disciplined recently for poor performance. Childs worked in the Department of Technology for San Francisco, making close to US$150,000 a year, the paper reported. City officials told the paper that Childs may have caused millions in damage while also rigging the network so that other third parties could monitor traffic, posing a huge data security risk. He is also alleged to have installed a tracing system to monitor communications related to his personnel case. (Robert McMillan in San Francisco contributed to this report.) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Increasingly, secure company sites are also generating a picture that lets you confirm it's them. You log in and select from dozens of options. It could be a picture of a mountain range, a cat, a forest, etc. One bank I do business with uses the picture, then allows me to name the picture and on top of that, uses a challenge question (such as what was the name of your first pet?) that makes it very secure and hard to clone. -- Original message -- From: Reece Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice C. Jennings Certified Credit Consultant Credit Justice Services FEATURES THE 75 Day Credit Makeover. A client can potentially see an increase of 50 - 100 points in their credit score in 75 days or less! 100% Money Back Guarantee* *Terms and conditions apply Identity Theft Solutions, too! http://www.creditjusticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 http://www.creditjusticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 [EMAIL PROTECTED] blocked::mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 860-202-1041 _ From: Maurice C. Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 5:17 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Beware: Copycats are Cloning Banking, Investment and Other Business Sites Beware: Copycats are Cloning Banking, Investment and Other Business Sites by www.SixWise.com http://www.sixwise.com/ Online scam artists are becoming gutsier than ever, now creating fake Web sites to get you to hand over your personal information. The latest victim? Citadel Investment Group. http://www.sixwise.com/images/articles/2008/07/16/30347947.thb.jpg Be aware of small changes in the URLs of the Web sites you frequent -- it could indicate a scam. Scammers from China cloned the Citadel Web site, creating a spot for investors to input their passwords. Although the site was discovered before any major damage was done, the culprits have disappeared without a trace. The site looked remarkably similar to Citadel's real site, including their standard logo and even making up fake vice presidents and bios. And this is not nearly an isolated case. Financial institutions are cloned quite often, and it can be very difficult for consumers to distinguish between legitimate and cloned sites. TD Ameritrade, Investment bank Sandler O'Neill and Partners, and even the IRS have recently faced similar problems. How Can You Protect Yourself? Cloned Web sites can be harder to identify than even phishing http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/01/18/dont-get-caught-by-phishing-sca ms-on-the-internet.htm scams or other http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/06/06/14/ransomware_the_new_dangerous_-- _and_highly_offensive_--_computer_scam_to_watch_out_for.htm online fraud, simply because the Web site will appear legitimate. However, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team recommend doing the following to avoid becoming a victim: http://www.sixwise.com/images/articles/2008/07/16/30446531.thb.jpg You can usually tell a Web site is secure if it has https in the URL, or displays a lock icon on the screen. 1. Don't send sensitive information over the Internet without checking the Web site's security. To do this, read the site's privacy policy, and check for evidence that the information will be encrypted. Sites that begin with https instead of http will do this, as will those that display a lock icon in the bottom right corner of the screen. 2. Pay attention to the Web site's URL. Though the site may look identical, the URL will not be. Look for variations in spelling or a different domain (.com instead of .net, for instance). 3. If you are unsure about the site's legitimacy, contact it directly by phone or known e-mail address (not through the site but through your persona account) to verify. Maurice C. Jennings Certified Credit Consultant Credit Justice Services FEATURES THE 75 Day Credit Makeover. A client can potentially see an increase of 50 - 100 points in their credit score in 75 days or less! 100% Money Back Guarantee* *Terms and conditions apply Identity Theft Solutions, too! http://www.creditjusticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 http://www.creditjusticeservices.com/?ccc=2173 [EMAIL PROTECTED] blocked::mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 860-202-1041 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [scifinoir2] Dark Knight Shift: Why Batman Could Exist
Wow, amazing and cool how seriously some peole take comics. The discussion of Batman--not superman, but at the same time, possessed of peak-human abilities in vaires areas that might conflict, such as agility and strenght and speed--remeinds me of Captain America. Technically, Steve Rogers is also not a superhuman, yet he's peak human in all areas; speed, strength, endurance, reflexes. Rogers literally could do what this guy discusses, which is enter a whole bunch of disparate Olympic events and win at each one. So while no single ability of Rogers' is superhuman, the fact that he can wield *all* of them at once isn't something we can do. I mean, how can he weigh 225 pounds and outrun Michael Johnson, yet have faster reflexes than Bruce Lee and be able to run a marathon as well? For Rogers, the answer is the Super Soldier Serum, which allows him to be peak human across the board. Batman doesn't ahve that out. I just usually assume he's as strong and fast as a guy with his build can be... -- Original message -- From: ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=dark-knight-shift-why-bat Dark Knight Shift: Why Batman Could Exist--But Not for Long QA with movement researcher E. Paul Zehr By JR Minkel Batman is the most down-to-earth of all the superheroes. He has no special powers from being born on a distant world or bitten by a radioactive spider. All that protects him from the Joker and other Gotham City villains are his wits and a physique shaped by years of trainingcombined with the vast fortune to reach his maximum potential and augment himself with Batmobiles, Batcables and other Bat-goodies, of course. In the 2005 blockbuster Batman Begins, vengeful Bruce Wayne (played by Christian Bale) hones his killer instincts in the streets for seven years before landing himself in a Bhutanese prison, where he falls in with the mysterious League of Shadows, who teach him the way of the ninja. The Dark Knight, the next movie in the Batman franchise, opens in theaters Friday. To investigate whether someone like Bruce Wayne could physically transform himself into a one-man wrecking crew, ScientificAmerican.com turned to E. Paul Zehr, associate professor of kinesiology and neuroscience at the University of Victoria in British Columbia and a 26-year practitioner of Chito-Ryu karate-do. Zehr's book, Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero (The Johns Hopkins University Press), due out in October, tackles our very question. An edited transcript of the conversation follows. What have comic books and movies told us about Batman's physical abilities? There's a quote from Neal Adams, the great Batman illustrator, who said Batman would win place or show in every event in the Olympics. Probably if I were Batman's handler, I'd put him in the decathlon. Although Batman is shown in the comics as being the fastest and the strongest and all these other things, in reality you can't actually be all of that at once. To be Batman properly, what you really need to do is be exceptionally good at many different things. It's when you take all the pieces and put them together that you get the Batman. What's most plausible about portrayals of Batman's skills? You could train somebody to be a tremendous athlete and to have a significant martial arts background, and also to use some of the gear that he has, which requires a lot of physical prowess. Most of what you see there is feasible to the extent that somebody could be trained to that extreme. We're seeing that kind of thing in less than a month in the Olympics. What's less realistic? A great example is in the movies where Batman is fighting multiple opponents and all of a sudden he's taking on 10 people. If you just estimate how fast somebody could punch and kick, and how many times you could hit one person in a second, you wind up with numbers like five or six. This doesn't mean you could fight four or five people. But it's also hard for four or five people to simultaneously attack somebody, because they get in each other's way. More realistic is a couple of attackers. How long would Bruce Wayne have to train to become Batman? In some of the timelines you see in the comics, the backstory is he goes away for five yearssome it's three to five years, or eight years, or 12 years. In terms of the physical changes (strength and conditioning), that's happening fairly quickly. We're talking three to five years. In terms of the physical skills to be able to defend himself against all these opponents all the time, I would benchmark that at 10 to 12 years. Probably the most reality-based representation of Batman and his training was in Batman Begins. Why such a long training time? Batman can't really afford to lose. Losing means deathor at least not being able to be Batman anymore. But another benchmark is having enough skill and experience to defend himself without
Re: [scifinoir2] When IT People Go Bad
Keith, I trust that you've passed this along to those in your place of work... ;-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Thu, 7/17/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [scifinoir2] When IT People Go Bad To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008, 10:33 AM Wow. Of course, I'd never do this to my people! Still, it never hurts to be a little extra nice to your friendly neighborhood LAN guy. I'm particularly fond of fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies. And Haagen Daas vanilla ice cream. Having a few Dove chocolate candies at your desk wouldn't hurt either... :) I'm a litle surprised no one else can get in, though I guess, even if there are other admin-level IT guys on the job, he must have gone in and jacked up their accounts and passwords too... http://tech. yahoo.com/ news/pcworld/ 148427 - A network administrator has locked up a multimillion dollar computer system for San Francisco that handles sensitive data and is refusing to give police the password, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday. The employee, 43-year-old Terry Childs, was arrested Sunday. He gave some passwords to police, which did not work, and refused to reveal the real code, the paper reported. The new FiberWAN (Wide Area Network) handles city payroll files, jail bookings, law enforcement documents and official e-mail for San Francisco. The network is functioning but administrators have little or no access. Childs, who remains in custody, is accused of improperly tampering with computer systems and causing a denial of service, said Kamala Harris, San Francisco's district attorney, on Monday afternoon. The bail has been set at $5 million, and the exposure in this case if he were convicted on all counts would be seven years in prison, Harris said. Harris said it's unknown why Childs tampered with the system. The Chronicle, however, reported that Childs was disciplined recently for poor performance. Childs worked in the Department of Technology for San Francisco, making close to US$150,000 a year, the paper reported. City officials told the paper that Childs may have caused millions in damage while also rigging the network so that other third parties could monitor traffic, posing a huge data security risk. He is also alleged to have installed a tracing system to monitor communications related to his personnel case. (Robert McMillan in San Francisco contributed to this report.) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: FW: Top 10 Most Powerful Superheroes of All Time
You're correct. Only Cap and Beta Ray Bill could wield Mjolnir. Though, in the horrid TV movie with Hulk and Thor, David Banner picked up Mjolnir with no effort at all in a lab. Not only didn't the hammer resist him, it was so light he was waving it around in one hand as though it were a feather! Horrible movie, horrible characterization of Thor! -- Original message -- From: B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] That must have been in the Ultimates universe. Hulk has never been able to pick up Thor's hammer. You have to be worthy enough to wield the hammer. The only heroes I remember being able to wield it are Captain America and Beta Ray Bill. I've seen several Hulk Thor fights and the Hulk always seemed to get the worst of it. Folks are sleeping on Thor. The guy was much more than a lunkhead with a hammer. He's got ways to beat the Hulk without resorting to a brawl like dimension dumping him, draining the radiation from his body and reverting him back to Bruce banner, etc. He just likes to fight but when the chips are down he uses his powers in some pretty creative ways. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting that Thor should be placed ahead of the Hulk. I seem to remember an instance in which the Hulk startled Thor by being only the second being, next to Thor, to be able to pick up and wield Mjolnir and, if the only difference between the two is the mystical warhammer forged and dovetailed by Dwarven blacksmiths, I am going with the green guy! ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Tracey de Morsella tdlists@ wrote: From: don polite [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 1:32 PM To: Keith Johnson; cinque3000@; maxwell1295@; Aaron Holbert; Clayton Harrison; don polite; everythingist@; Harvey George; Kenny Cash; Rodney Brown; thanos110@; The Holy Infinite Triumvirate; Wes Cc: wendellsmithis@; Tracey de Morsella; Gabriel, Dexter; JohnScott Lucas; KeithBJohnson@ Subject: wow look who they say is no 1 May 23 http://old-wizard.com/?p=728 Top 10 Most Powerful Superheroes of All Time Written by old-wizard.com http://www.old-wizard.com/ 5. The Hulk http://old-wizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/5.jpg 5.jpg If World http://old-wizard.com/?p=228 War Hulk showed us anything, its just how powerful the Hulk is. Never mind the fact that in Hulk #470, he was choked out by an ordinary python, or that he was once injured by Wolverine's bone claws. We at Old-Wizard simply attribute that to poor writing. At his best, the Hulk is a 7-foot, one-ton green behemoth with near- unlimited strength, rapid tissue-regenerative powers and nigh-inexhaustible stamina. He is highly resistant to physical, as well as psychic attacks. He's been shown to be immune to temperature extremes, diseases, and poisons. His powerful legs allow him to leap into Earth's upper atmosphere, or even across continents, and when injured he can heal from almost any wound, inherently embodying the most ubiquitous panacea. He has gone toe- to toe with almost all of Marvel's elite heroes and villains, and has usually come out on top. All of his powers depend on how mad he is, and at his maddest, his footsteps are enough to shake the entire Eastern Seaboard, and his punches capable of shattering small planets. 4. Doctor Strange http://old-wizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/6.jpg 6.jpg Earth's Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Steven Strange, has unparalleled sagicity of the mystic arts, and stands as humanity's first and last line of defense against all magic-based menaces that threaten our dimension. In addition to being able to perform such feats as astral projection, telepathy, and hypnotism, he also has a number of combat related powers as well. He can fire energy bolts with potentially enough power to destroy an entire planet (ala Death Star), create impenetrable protective shields, teleport and perform telekinesis. Basically, Strange can do anything that the writer can imagine. There are no rules. He can even withstand the power of the infinity gauntlet. There seems to be no clear limitations on his powers. He can snuff out the feeble flame of any mortal's soul with the mere twitch of his finger, and stop or even turn back time itself. Doctor Strange clearly stands amongst Marvel's elite heroes. 3. Superman http://old-wizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/7.jpg 7.jpg Rocketed from the exploding planet Krypton by his scientist parents, and crash-landing on the planet Earth, Kal-El grew to adulthood on a small Kansas farm, raised by the wholesome Kent family. Raised as Clark Kent, once puberty set in he learned that his adopted planet's yellow sun and weaker gravity gave him powers far beyond those a mere mortal man. Endowed with brazen strength, speed,
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: FW: Top 10 Most Powerful Superheroes of All Time
Here's a question. Where's Miracleman on this list? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Thu, 7/17/08, ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: FW: Top 10 Most Powerful Superheroes of All Time To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008, 8:22 AM Interesting that Thor should be placed ahead of the Hulk. I seem to remember an instance in which the Hulk startled Thor by being only the second being, next to Thor, to be able to pick up and wield Mjolnir and, if the only difference between the two is the mystical warhammer forged and dovetailed by Dwarven blacksmiths, I am going with the green guy! ~rave! --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com, Tracey de Morsella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: don polite [mailto:don_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 1:32 PM To: Keith Johnson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ..; maxwell1295@ ...; Aaron Holbert; Clayton Harrison; don polite; everythingist@ ...; Harvey George; Kenny Cash; Rodney Brown; [EMAIL PROTECTED] .; The Holy Infinite Triumvirate; Wes Cc: wendellsmithis@ ...; Tracey de Morsella; Gabriel, Dexter; JohnScott Lucas; KeithBJohnson@ ... Subject: wow look who they say is no 1 May 23 http://old-wizard. com/?p=728 Top 10 Most Powerful Superheroes of All Time Written by old-wizard.com http://www.old- wizard.com/ 5. The Hulk http://old-wizard. com/wp-content/ uploads/2008/ 05/5.jpg 5.jpg If World http://old-wizard. com/?p=228 War Hulk showed us anything, its just how powerful the Hulk is. Never mind the fact that in Hulk #470, he was choked out by an ordinary python, or that he was once injured by Wolverine's bone claws. We at Old-Wizard simply attribute that to poor writing. At his best, the Hulk is a 7-foot, one-ton green behemoth with near-unlimited strength, rapid tissue-regenerative powers and nigh-inexhaustible stamina. He is highly resistant to physical, as well as psychic attacks. He's been shown to be immune to temperature extremes, diseases, and poisons. His powerful legs allow him to leap into Earth's upper atmosphere, or even across continents, and when injured he can heal from almost any wound, inherently embodying the most ubiquitous panacea. He has gone toe-to toe with almost all of Marvel's elite heroes and villains, and has usually come out on top. All of his powers depend on how mad he is, and at his maddest, his footsteps are enough to shake the entire Eastern Seaboard, and his punches capable of shattering small planets. 4. Doctor Strange http://old-wizard. com/wp-content/ uploads/2008/ 05/6.jpg 6.jpg Earth's Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Steven Strange, has unparalleled sagicity of the mystic arts, and stands as humanity's first and last line of defense against all magic-based menaces that threaten our dimension. In addition to being able to perform such feats as astral projection, telepathy, and hypnotism, he also has a number of combat related powers as well. He can fire energy bolts with potentially enough power to destroy an entire planet (ala Death Star), create impenetrable protective shields, teleport and perform telekinesis. Basically, Strange can do anything that the writer can imagine. There are no rules. He can even withstand the power of the infinity gauntlet. There seems to be no clear limitations on his powers. He can snuff out the feeble flame of any mortal's soul with the mere twitch of his finger, and stop or even turn back time itself. Doctor Strange clearly stands amongst Marvel's elite heroes. 3. Superman http://old-wizard. com/wp-content/ uploads/2008/ 05/7.jpg 7.jpg Rocketed from the exploding planet Krypton by his scientist parents, and crash-landing on the planet Earth, Kal-El grew to adulthood on a small Kansas farm, raised by the wholesome Kent family. Raised as Clark Kent, once puberty set in he learned that his adopted planet's yellow sun and weaker gravity gave him powers far beyond those a mere mortal man. Endowed with brazen strength, speed, and senses, not to mention flight, heat vision, and the ability to blow hurricane force winds and near-invulnerabilit y, he moved to Metropolis and started calling himself Superman, where he fights for truth, justice and the American way! Superman practically has every super power you can imagine, or want (X-ray vision, wink wink, nudge nudge), which puts him in a league of his own. In addition to possessing all of these powers, time and time again, Superman has gone up against villains many times more powerful than himself, magic-wielders and even villains using kryptonite against him, and yet he always comes out on top. Somehow that square always finds a way to win. 2. The Silver Surfer http://old-wizard. com/wp-content/ uploads/2008/
Re: [scifinoir2] When IT People Go Bad
you know it! They're serving bluebell ice cream and snickers tomorrow. Seriously! -- Original message -- From: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keith, I trust that you've passed this along to those in your place of work... ;-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Thu, 7/17/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [scifinoir2] When IT People Go Bad To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008, 10:33 AM Wow. Of course, I'd never do this to my people! Still, it never hurts to be a little extra nice to your friendly neighborhood LAN guy. I'm particularly fond of fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies. And Haagen Daas vanilla ice cream. Having a few Dove chocolate candies at your desk wouldn't hurt either... :) I'm a litle surprised no one else can get in, though I guess, even if there are other admin-level IT guys on the job, he must have gone in and jacked up their accounts and passwords too... http://tech. yahoo.com/ news/pcworld/ 148427 - A network administrator has locked up a multimillion dollar computer system for San Francisco that handles sensitive data and is refusing to give police the password, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday. The employee, 43-year-old Terry Childs, was arrested Sunday. He gave some passwords to police, which did not work, and refused to reveal the real code, the paper reported. The new FiberWAN (Wide Area Network) handles city payroll files, jail bookings, law enforcement documents and official e-mail for San Francisco. The network is functioning but administrators have little or no access. Childs, who remains in custody, is accused of improperly tampering with computer systems and causing a denial of service, said Kamala Harris, San Francisco's district attorney, on Monday afternoon. The bail has been set at $5 million, and the exposure in this case if he were convicted on all counts would be seven years in prison, Harris said. Harris said it's unknown why Childs tampered with the system. The Chronicle, however, reported that Childs was disciplined recently for poor performance. Childs worked in the Department of Technology for San Francisco, making close to US$150,000 a year, the paper reported. City officials told the paper that Childs may have caused millions in damage while also rigging the network so that other third parties could monitor traffic, posing a huge data security risk. He is also alleged to have installed a tracing system to monitor communications related to his personnel case. (Robert McMillan in San Francisco contributed to this report.) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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That's right... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Thu, 7/17/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] When IT People Go Bad To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008, 11:48 AM you know it! They're serving bluebell ice cream and snickers tomorrow. Seriously! -- Original message -- From: Martin truthseeker_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] com Keith, I trust that you've passed this along to those in your place of work... ;-) http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik --- On Thu, 7/17/08, KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: [scifinoir2] When IT People Go Bad To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008, 10:33 AM Wow. Of course, I'd never do this to my people! Still, it never hurts to be a little extra nice to your friendly neighborhood LAN guy. I'm particularly fond of fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies. And Haagen Daas vanilla ice cream. Having a few Dove chocolate candies at your desk wouldn't hurt either... :) I'm a litle surprised no one else can get in, though I guess, even if there are other admin-level IT guys on the job, he must have gone in and jacked up their accounts and passwords too... http://tech. yahoo.com/ news/pcworld/ 148427 - A network administrator has locked up a multimillion dollar computer system for San Francisco that handles sensitive data and is refusing to give police the password, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday. The employee, 43-year-old Terry Childs, was arrested Sunday. He gave some passwords to police, which did not work, and refused to reveal the real code, the paper reported. The new FiberWAN (Wide Area Network) handles city payroll files, jail bookings, law enforcement documents and official e-mail for San Francisco. The network is functioning but administrators have little or no access. Childs, who remains in custody, is accused of improperly tampering with computer systems and causing a denial of service, said Kamala Harris, San Francisco's district attorney, on Monday afternoon. The bail has been set at $5 million, and the exposure in this case if he were convicted on all counts would be seven years in prison, Harris said. Harris said it's unknown why Childs tampered with the system. The Chronicle, however, reported that Childs was disciplined recently for poor performance. Childs worked in the Department of Technology for San Francisco, making close to US$150,000 a year, the paper reported. City officials told the paper that Childs may have caused millions in damage while also rigging the network so that other third parties could monitor traffic, posing a huge data security risk. He is also alleged to have installed a tracing system to monitor communications related to his personnel case. (Robert McMillan in San Francisco contributed to this report.) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [scifinoir2] Babylon A.D. Tailored To Michele Yeoh
Good on Michelle Yeoh. I like her work. :-) Brent Tracey de Morsella [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Babylon A.D. Tailored To Yeoh Michelle Yeoh, who stars with Vin Diesel in the upcoming futuristic thriller Babylon A.D., told journalists that the role she plays was originally written for a very different type of actress. It's based on a book by [Maurice Georges] Dantec, Babylon Babies, but this is really [director Mathieu Kassovitz's] interpretation of this book, Yeoh said in a group interview while promoting The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. In the French novel, Yeoh's character is a 60-year-old, short, dumpy, French nun, the Hong Kong actress said. And I look at [Kassovitz], and I go, 'Very interesting,' Yeoh recalled. I look in the mirror and go, 'When did I become short and dumpy and French?' So you have to see the movie to see that I'm not. The film, from the French director of Gothika, follows a mercenary (Diesel) and a nun (Yeoh) charged with protecting a genetically altered young woman (Melanie Thierry) who may be carrying the next messiah. Yeoh said that her agent, who also represents Kassovitz, suggested her for the role of Sister Rebecca, because she provided a strong contrast to Diesel. [Mathieu] knew that the Vin Diesel and Melanie role needed a third character to bond them, to put that link together, Yeoh said. And so he thought, 'Who would protect a young girl like this? Who would be [the] opposite [of] a Vin Diesel, the big giant? It should be like a small, feisty French nun ... someone who could stand up against Vin physically and mentally, like that.' So that was when the idea came to Mathieu, and he started working on that, and lo and behold, I was in the film with him. Compared to the experience of filming the third Mummy movie, under the direction of Rob Cohen, Yeoh said that the Babylon A.D. shoot was much less structured and sometimes difficult. We had a rough shoot, Yeoh said. I think with Mathieu, it was very clear what he wanted. And so he brought in people who were very strong. And that was the only way his characters evolved. He worked very similar to Asian directors, different from Rob. Rob is Asian in the sense that he can do 30 shots a day. But he was very, very clear in what he wanted to do. With Mathieu, he would get onto the set and try and round it up from us. It's good, in a sense, because things happen. It's bad when it's such a big production, and there's a certain discipline that needs to be in place. So it was up and down. But it was very interesting at the end of the day. Babylon A.D. opens Aug. 29. - [ http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=57715 ]http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=57715
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Re: [scifinoir2] Babylon A.D. Tailored To Michele Yeoh
Me too! I consider her to be one of the best Bond Girls ever, because she wasn't just eye candy or a woman to be rescued by James. And unlike Halle Berry's Jinx, Yeoh's character was completely convincing as a secret agent. -- Original message -- From: brent wodehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good on Michelle Yeoh. I like her work. :-) Brent Tracey de Morsella [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Babylon A.D. Tailored To Yeoh Michelle Yeoh, who stars with Vin Diesel in the upcoming futuristic thriller Babylon A.D., told journalists that the role she plays was originally written for a very different type of actress. It's based on a book by [Maurice Georges] Dantec, Babylon Babies, but this is really [director Mathieu Kassovitz's] interpretation of this book, Yeoh said in a group interview while promoting The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. In the French novel, Yeoh's character is a 60-year-old, short, dumpy, French nun, the Hong Kong actress said. And I look at [Kassovitz], and I go, 'Very interesting,' Yeoh recalled. I look in the mirror and go, 'When did I become short and dumpy and French?' So you have to see the movie to see that I'm not. The film, from the French director of Gothika, follows a mercenary (Diesel) and a nun (Yeoh) charged with protecting a genetically altered young woman (Melanie Thierry) who may be carrying the next messiah. Yeoh said that her agent, who also represents Kassovitz, suggested her for the role of Sister Rebecca, because she provided a strong contrast to Diesel. [Mathieu] knew that the Vin Diesel and Melanie role needed a third character to bond them, to put that link together, Yeoh said. And so he thought, 'Who would protect a young girl like this? Who would be [the] opposite [of] a Vin Diesel, the big giant? It should be like a small, feisty French nun ... someone who could stand up against Vin physically and mentally, like that.' So that was when the idea came to Mathieu, and he started working on that, and lo and behold, I was in the film with him. Compared to the experience of filming the third Mummy movie, under the direction of Rob Cohen, Yeoh said that the Babylon A.D. shoot was much less structured and sometimes difficult. We had a rough shoot, Yeoh said. I think with Mathieu, it was very clear what he wanted. And so he brought in people who were very strong. And that was the only way his characters evolved. He worked very similar to Asian directors, different from Rob. Rob is Asian in the sense that he can do 30 shots a day. But he was very, very clear in what he wanted to do. With Mathieu, he would get onto the set and try and round it up from us. It's good, in a sense, because things happen. It's bad when it's such a big production, and there's a certain discipline that needs to be in place. So it was up and down. But it was very interesting at the end of the day. Babylon A.D. opens Aug. 29. - [ http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=57715 ]http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=57715 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [scifinoir2] Babylon A.D. Tailored To Michele Yeoh
Yes! She smartened up the role. Brent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Me too! I consider her to be one of the best Bond Girls ever, because she wasn't just eye candy or a woman to be rescued by James. And unlike Halle Berry's Jinx, Yeoh's character was completely convincing as a secret agent. -- Original message -- From: brent wodehouse [ mailto:brent_wodehouse%40thefence.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good on Michelle Yeoh. I like her work. :-) Brent Tracey de Morsella [ mailto:tdlists%40multiculturaladvantage.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Babylon A.D. Tailored To Yeoh Michelle Yeoh, who stars with Vin Diesel in the upcoming futuristic thriller Babylon A.D., told journalists that the role she plays was originally written for a very different type of actress. It's based on a book by [Maurice Georges] Dantec, Babylon Babies, but this is really [director Mathieu Kassovitz's] interpretation of this book, Yeoh said in a group interview while promoting The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. In the French novel, Yeoh's character is a 60-year-old, short, dumpy, French nun, the Hong Kong actress said. And I look at [Kassovitz], and I go, 'Very interesting,' Yeoh recalled. I look in the mirror and go, 'When did I become short and dumpy and French?' So you have to see the movie to see that I'm not. The film, from the French director of Gothika, follows a mercenary (Diesel) and a nun (Yeoh) charged with protecting a genetically altered young woman (Melanie Thierry) who may be carrying the next messiah. Yeoh said that her agent, who also represents Kassovitz, suggested her for the role of Sister Rebecca, because she provided a strong contrast to Diesel. [Mathieu] knew that the Vin Diesel and Melanie role needed a third character to bond them, to put that link together, Yeoh said. And so he thought, 'Who would protect a young girl like this? Who would be [the] opposite [of] a Vin Diesel, the big giant? It should be like a small, feisty French nun ... someone who could stand up against Vin physically and mentally, like that.' So that was when the idea came to Mathieu, and he started working on that, and lo and behold, I was in the film with him. Compared to the experience of filming the third Mummy movie, under the direction of Rob Cohen, Yeoh said that the Babylon A.D. shoot was much less structured and sometimes difficult. We had a rough shoot, Yeoh said. I think with Mathieu, it was very clear what he wanted. And so he brought in people who were very strong. And that was the only way his characters evolved. He worked very similar to Asian directors, different from Rob. Rob is Asian in the sense that he can do 30 shots a day. But he was very, very clear in what he wanted to do. With Mathieu, he would get onto the set and try and round it up from us. It's good, in a sense, because things happen. It's bad when it's such a big production, and there's a certain discipline that needs to be in place. So it was up and down. But it was very interesting at the end of the day. Babylon A.D. opens Aug. 29. - [ [ http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=57715 ]http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=57715 ][ http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=57715 ]http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0id=57715
RE: [scifinoir2] Beware: Copycats are Cloning Banking, Investment and Other Business Sites
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