First to 10k posts

offer is rumored to be around 200 million, that's not much at all. I'd figure if youtube can get 1.65 billion, Digg could at least 1 billion

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Blogger uncle_benji went over to Best Buy and purchased an HP dv6815nr for $599.99 plus tax. When he saw the Windows Vista EULA and the HP EULA, he decided he wanted to move to Linux. He wasn't happy that there wasn't an option to decline the EULA, but didn't take his revenge on Microsoft by just grabbing one of the many Linux distro install discs. Nope, first things first: this user decided to call HP and demand a refund for Microsoft's latest operating system. After all, Microsoft's EULA does say to contact the manufacturer if the user does not agree with it. This user simply took it a step further and made sure that he was not paying for something he wasn't going to use.

After many phone calls, insistence from HP representatives that it does not support Linux (drivers and so on), suggestions to contact Microsoft instead or to choose another laptop, many e-mails back and forth, a letter to the CEO Mark Hurd, and months of waiting, uncle_benji received a check in the mail. The check was for $200, addressed from HP. Now he is offering the check up for grabs, starting the bid at $250 and promising to donate the difference from $200 to Ralph Nader's presidential campaign or the Electronic Frontier Foundation (winning bidder's choice). I have to say that's a very good way to celebrate the extra cash!

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lol

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Martin Lawrence movies I find buyable

Bad Boys 2
National Security
What's the Worst That Could Happen?
Big Momma House
Blue Streak
Life
Bad Boys
House Party
Do the right thing

that's 10 total, 8 new.

17 total.

imdb is awesome..................

Christopher Reid

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:...7/kidnplay.jpg

dude on the left. Kid

House Party 2
House Party

2 total..guess he fails, really hasn't acted in any movies.

Fred Griffith

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV...100_SY125_.jpg

Gods and Generals

1 new movie

18 total.

Jeff Daniels

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV...100_SY136_.jpg

101 Dalmatians
Fly Away Home
Speed
Gettysburg
Arachnophobia


22 now.

Keanu Reeves

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV...X99_SY140_.jpg

Constantine
Hard Ball
The Replacements
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Point Break
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

6 new


28 now

Alex Winter

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV...100_SY138_.jpg

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Death Wish 3

1 new.

29

Charles Bronson

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV...100_SY140_.jpg

Never knew he died, RIP.

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
Death Wish 3
Death Wish
The Great Escape

WOW, his first acting role came in 1951

# You're in the Navy Now (1951) (uncredited) .... Wascylewski
... aka U.S.S. Teakettle (USA)

1970 information.

January 1 - The Unix epoch occurs at 00:00:00 UTC

# January 2 - The last studio performance of The Beatles

January 5 - The first episode of All My Children is broadcast on the ABC television network.

January 5 - At least 15,621 killed, Richer Scale 7.7 magunitude of Yunnan earthquake at China.

January 11 - The Kansas City Chiefs beat the heavily-favored Minnesota Vikings 23-7 in Super Bowl IV.

January 12 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war.

January 14 - Diana Ross & The Supremes perform their farewell live concert together at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas, and Ross's replacement, Jean Terrell, is introduced onstage at the end of the last show.

January 15 - After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafran forces under Philip Effiong formally surrender to General Yakubu Gowon.

# January 20 - The Greater London Council announces its plans for the Thames Barrier at Woolwich to prevent flooding. The barrier opened in 1981.

# January 21 - Five lifeboatmen are killed when the Fraserburgh lifeboat Duchess of Kent capsizes during a rescue off Kinnaird's Head, Aberdeenshire.

January 26 - Mick Jagger is fined £200 for possession of cannabis.

February 1 - A train collision near Buenos Aires, Argentina, at least 236 killed.

February 2 - British philosopher and logician Bertrand Russell dies.

February 10 - An avalanche at Val d'Isère, France kills 39 tourists.

February 11 - Osumi, Japan's first satellite, is launched on a Lamba-4 rocket.

February 13 - Black Sabbath's debut album, Black Sabbath (album) released; often regarded as the first true heavy metal album.

February 14 - Iconic live album "The Who: Live at Leeds" recorded.

# February 17 - MacDonald family massacre: Jeffrey R. MacDonald kills his wife and children at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, claiming that drugged-out "hippies" did it.

February 17 - Author David Irving is ordered to pay £40,000 libel damages to Capt. John Broome over his book "The Destruction of Convoy PQ17".

February 18 - A jury finds the Chicago Seven defendants not guilty of conspiring to incite a riot, in charges stemming from the violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Five of the defendants are found guilty on the lesser charge of crossing state lines to incite a riot.

February 21 - Construction begins on the Bogazici Bridge crossing the Bosphorus in Istanbul.

February 22 - Guyana becomes a Republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.

March 1 - Rhodesia severs its last tie with the United Kingdom, declaring itself a racially-segregated republic.

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect, after ratification by 43 nations.

A bomb being constructed by members of the Weathermen and meant to be planted at a military dance in New Jersey, explodes, killing 3 members of the organization.

Teenagers in the United Kingdom vote for the first time, in a by-election in Bridgwater.

The Expo '70 World's Fair opens in Suita, Osaka, Japan.

The complete New English Bible is published.

My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.

General Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.

March 18 - United States Postal Service workers in New York City go on strike; the strike spreads to the state of California and the cities of Akron, Ohio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chicago, Boston, and Denver, Colorado; 210,000 out of 750,000 U.S. postal employees walk out. President Nixon assigns military units to New York City post offices. The strike lasts 2 weeks.

March 21 - The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.

March 21 - "All Kinds of Everything" sung by Dana (music and text by Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith) wins Eurovision Song Contest 1970 for Ireland.

March 25 - The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight (700 mph/1127 km/h).

March 31 - NASA's Explorer 1, the first American satellite and Explorer program spacecraft, reenters Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.

March 31 - Japan Airlines Flight 351, carrying 131 passengers and 7 crews from Tokyo to Fukuoka, is hijacked by Japanese Red Army members. All passengers are eventually freed.

April 1 - President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, banning cigarette television advertisements in the United States, starting on January 1, 1971.

April 1 - American Motors Corporation introduces the Gremlin.

April 8 - A huge gas explosion at a subway construction site in Osaka, Japan kills 79 and injures over 400.

April 10 - Paul McCartney announces that the Beatles have disbanded, while at the same press conference, announcing the release of his new solo album.

April 11 - 74 people, mostly young boys, die as an avalanche buries a tuberculosis sanatorium in the French Alps.

April 11 - Apollo program: Apollo 13 (Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert) is launched toward the Moon. On April 13, an oxygen tank in the spacecraft explodes, forcing the crew to abort the mission and return in 4 days.

April 16 - Rev. Ian Paisley won a by-election to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland.

April 16 - The National Westminster Bank begins trading in the United Kingdom.

April 17 - Safe return & splashdown of Apollo 13 (Apollo program).

April 21 - The Hutt River Province Principality secedes from Australia.

April 22 - The first Earth Day is celebrated in the U.S.

April 24 - China's first satellite (Dong Fang Hong 1) is launched to orbit using a Long March-1 Rocket (CZ-1).

April 29 - The U.S. invades Cambodia to hunt out the Viet Cong; massive antiwar protests occur in the U.S.

May 1 - Demonstrations against the trial of the New Haven Nine, Bobby Seale, and Ericka Huggins draw 12,000. President Richard Nixon orders US forces to cross into neutral Cambodia, threatening to widen the Vietnam War, sparking nation wide riots and leading to the Kent State Shootings.

May 4 - Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed and nine wounded by Ohio State National Guardsmen at a protest against the incursion into Cambodia.

May 6 - Arms Crisis in the Republic of Ireland: Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney are dismissed as members of the Irish Government, due to accusations of their involvement in a plot to import arms for use by the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland.

May 6 - Feyenoord wins the European Cup after a 2-1 win over Celtic.

May 8 - Unionized construction workers attack about 1,000 students and others protesting the Kent State shootings near the intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street and at New York City Hall, leading to the Hard Hat riot.

# May 8 - The Beatles release their 12th and final album Let It Be

May 9 - In Washington, D.C., 100,000 people demonstrate against the Vietnam War.

May 11 - Henry Marrow is murdered in a violent hate crime in Oxford, North Carolina.

May 11 - Lubbock Tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Lubbock, Texas, the first to hit a downtown district of a major city since Topeka, Kansas in 1966 (28 are killed).

May 14 - Ulrike Meinhof helps Andreas Baader escape.

May 14 - In the second day of violent demonstrations at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, state law enforcement officers fire into the demonstrators, killing 2 and injuring 12.

May 17 - Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II, to sail the Atlantic Ocean.

# May 23 - A fire occurs in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in north Wales, contributing to its partial destruction and amounting to approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage.

May 24 - The scientific drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the USSR.

May 26 - The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.

May 27 - A British expedition climbs the south face of Annapurna I.

May 31 - The 1970 Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.

May 31 - The 1970 FIFA World Cup is inaugurated in Mexico.

June 1 - Soyuz 9, a two man spacecraft, is launched in the Soviet Union.

June 2 - Norway announces that it has rich oil deposits off its North Sea coast.

June 4 - Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.

June 8 - A coup in Argentina brings a new junta of service chiefs; on June 18, Roberto M. Levingston becomes President.

June 10 - U.S. President Richard Nixon signs a measure lowering the voting age to 18.

June 11 - The United States gets its first female generals: Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington.

June 21 - Brazil defeats Italy 4-1 to win the 1970 FIFA World Cup.

June 22 - The English rock band Led Zeppelin performs in Iceland, with the visit inspiring them to write the Immigrant Song.

June 24 - The United States Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.

June 25 - The Greater London Council's Policy and Resources committee endorses the "Fleet Line" and the extension of the Piccadilly Line to Heathrow Airport.

June 28 - U.S. ground troops withdraw from Cambodia.

July 1 - Colorado State College changes its name to University of Northern Colorado.

July 4 - A chartered Dan-Air De Havilland Comet crashes into the mountains north of Barcelona; at least 112 are killed.

July 4 - Bob Hope and other entertainers gather in Washington, D.C. for Honor America Day, a nonpartisan holiday event.

July 6 - Air Canada Flight 621 caught fire after landing at Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Ontario, all 108 passengers and crew are killed.

Ashanti is hot as hell.

July 11 - The first tunnel under the Pyrenees links the Basque towns of Aranoutes and Biesma.

Ali Larter is as well.

her whipped cream bikini in Varsity Blues was epic

July 16 - Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh opens.

July 21 - The Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.

July 23 - Said bin Taimur, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, is deposed in a palace coup by his son, Qaboos.