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Skydive Chicago and (I think) Chicagoland Skydiving Center both have had radio ads in the Chicago area.

Making law around the circumstances of one dirtbagperson is not generally a good idea. Like in the case of John W. Terry?

If that jurisdiction thing applies as you state it, it's going to make it really hard to prosecute the children of illegal immigrants for pretty much any crime, since the US wouldn't have jurisdiction over those people.

I think that this is the most interesting practical question had the court decided the other way... How do you decide whether a suspect is invoking the right by simply not talking? Is it 10 minutes? 1 hour? 10 questions? Is answering basic "what's your name"-type questions exempt? If you're talking and you get to a point where you decide you no longer want to talk, is shutting up enough? And if so, how are the cops to know without you saying it? Without reading the decision, I wonder if the outcome is as much a practical consideration as a legal one. The police, according to the Fifth Amendment" are not allowed to make you incriminate yourself through questioning. Their job is to gather evidence that you committed a crime and that evidence should be all they need to prosecute you. I know what the 5th Amendment says, what I am saying is - if the SCOTUS had gone the other way, I wonder where the limit between 'the suspect's silence is not enough to establish he is exercising his right to remain silent' and 'by his silence, the suspect has exercised his right to remain silent and the police is continuing with the questioning anyway' is. I could see trials spending a lot of time in that gray area, where defense attorneys would argue against the admissibility of ANYTHING the suspect said after a given period of silence saying 'he exercised his right, and the police continued their interrogation to where he broke'.

Agreed... and I think Kane and Toews will break through one of these games.

I think that this is the most interesting practical question had the court decided the other way... How do you decide whether a suspect is invoking the right by simply not talking? Is it 10 minutes? 1 hour? 10 questions? Is answering basic "what's your name"-type questions exempt? If you're talking and you get to a point where you decide you no longer want to talk, is shutting up enough? And if so, how are the cops to know without you saying it? Without reading the decision, I wonder if the outcome is as much a practical consideration as a legal one.

I'm a relatively recent hockey fan, but it looked to me like the Hawks won the two games without much from their first line, and you'd think Kane and/or Toews will show up at some point this series and make their mark... Go Hawks! (and if they win it, why not the Cubs..?)

Damn, you got off easy! Amen! Student loans are affecting jumping because I'm just starting out in my career. I'm sure after a few years, when I'm further along, it'll be much more manageable.

DPRK has a large Army. Up to 1M strong. It's effectiveness is largely seen as limited though due to factors that there isn't enough infrastructure to keep it going beyond a couple few days (in an all-out offensive). More troublesome than that though, is that there are literally thousands of artillery rockets and long range shells aimed at Seoul, which could wreak havoc for sure. The south has the ability to blow out all the DMZ mountain passes and tunnels, so a land confrontation would face some significant obstacles, ones that many think DPRK's army could not overcome. Thanks for the reply. So in essence, for South Korea, the key would be to just hold out those first few days, really. Obviously, not trying to trivialize any sort of conflict that leads to destruction - but I wanted to know if it was going to be something like you mentioned, or a real possibility that South Korea could fall.

Important note: Many computers don't have a CMOS battery (they use a permanent capacitor). Some motherboards don't have a battery. For these machines, there's a jumper you change or remove to clear the CMOS. Alienware, last I heard, uses the jumper method. That said, I think it's fixable by changing BIOS settings. First, try changing your boot device, and reordering the boot devices. Thank you! - I'll look into it. Right now, the boot order is CD, then hard drive. I'll change them and then change back to see if it makes any difference.

I am asking without any kind of cynicism, but really because I don't know: What kind of force does North Korea actually have to back up those threats? Occasionally there's the missile tests and stuff, and rhetoric about developing nukes, but what actual capacity for conflict do they have?

OK, I'll be the one to say it since it's a wind tunnel discussion... WHAT ABOUT CHICAGO!?!?!?

oh, I forgot to ask... could it be a bios issue? I didn't fiddle with trying to update those because I don't want to do anything to aggravate the problem.

Thank you - I really appreciate it. I am not sure how to find and remove the battery, but I will look into how to do it without destroying the machine or myself. I'll let you know what develops!

Thanks for the reply! The hard drive is the only one in the machine. As far as the other method you describe - can you go into a bit more detail? Unfortunately, I haven't kept up with computer stuff in quite a while and prior to this, doing reformatting on a computer I've had in the past has never been a problem. Also, why is the startup screen getting stuck on the "boot from DVD" prompt when a disk is in there? Is it because it's not a valid boot disk? Isn't the recovery disk and/or the Windows 7 upgrade install disk supposed to be bootable?

Hi all, So I've tried to find solutions online, and was hoping that the collective geek wisdom of DZ.com could help me out. I am selling my alienware Area 51-7500 to a friend, as I don't need a computer like that and I bought a laptop to replace it. I wanted to reformat the hard drive to a) give my friend a computer that's basically clean so he can do whatever he wants to it and b) I have some sensitive work documents in there and while I don't think my friend will do anything that will get me in trouble, for piece of mind I'd rather just have that stuff gone. So the computer originally came with Windows Vista 32bit installed because at the time the online portal of the company I work for did not support 64 bit - but the hardware can run 64bit apps. I have the recovery DVD, but they have this thing called Alien Respawn to re-set the computer to factory settings that was an extra option that I did not get. So the computer has only the recovery DVD. In January (before I knew I'd be selling the computer), I got Windows 7 - the upgrade version - and installed it. I successfully installed the 64 bit version. Now, I can't either a) restore the computer with the recovery disc to Vista or b) reinstall Windows 7. If I put in either the recovery DVD or the Windows 7 upgrade disk and restart - it goes to the 'boot from DVD' prompt and just stays there. If I press a key, it does nothing. I tried reformatting it from the Windows 7 system recovery menu, but with either disk it tells me it cannot find a valid Windows installation CD. Once, when I restarted, I got the menu that allows a restoration to an earlier point in time (though I'm not sure how that happened). I thought about going to the earliest point possible and then trying to restart it, in case it was any of the windows 7 updates that's causing this mess, but I didn't want to screw things up further. Basically, i just want to wipe the hard drive, and have Windows 7 freshly installed. Based on this, can anyone help???? Is there more info I should post? Thanks!

I like this description for Apple too.

When walking against a strong wind, you instinctively try and track against it.

still waiting for the Hawks beat down...

Well, I came over when I was 6 years old when my dad got sponsored by his employer to come to the states, so while it's relative-related, no one in my family has been born here. However, with your categories, I have an engineering degree (now, I got this at an American university, so whether or not that opportunity would have been there for me had I not been here is another issue).

Congratulations to both of you!

Wasn't Ted Williams in the air force or something like that - right in the middle of his baseball career, no less.

Maybe I missed it, but how much are these things expected to cost?

Oh, you don't know the half of it. We also eat live kittens in front of small children. Oh- and the genocide in Rwanda? That was us, too. Well, if the lawyer-types are not involved in this yet, I bet they will be soon...

freakin' camper! That is really amazing!!