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    Call countries by their local names?

    I believe Japan is actually called Nihon:) also... China: Zhongguo Egypt: Misr
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    What are you summer-holiday plans?

    at the moment my plans are going to spend all of July in Germany on a work experience thing then sometime in august i'm hoping to go and stay with my exchange partner in Romania for a week or so. It'll be my most adventurous summer ever. (and i get paid for the work in germany!)
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    In what countries have you been?

    France Belgium Germany Switzerland Austria Italy Vatican City and about 100metres into spain and then back again, because we were at a town on the border, where the town centre was in france and the car park in spain!
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    Possible Memory Problem

    Thanks for your suggestions. I have managed to find out that it is the memory. Its either faulty or just not fully compatible with my motherboard- im not sure. im going to take the memory back and ask to swap it for the same make of memory as my friends, since that works fine in my machine.
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    Possible Memory Problem

    I just built a new computer with the help of my friend. We eventually discovered that the reason we couldnt format the hdd and load windows was because the memory was bad. (discovered this by trying some of my friends memory in the comp). we loaded windows with this memory. i've since been...
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    How many languages can you understand?

    English Currently doing A-level german (so my german's pretty good) a teeny weeny itsy bitsy bit of French i'm trying to get into a japanese class at the moment. Also various words from a few other languages
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    Earthquake for Dukey & Rodgers?

    I was still awake when it happened. My first thought was "Oh my God, someone's kicking the door in!". I soon realised what it was. It wasn't very strong up here though.
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    have space aliens visited earth?

    So then why are they no longer around today, using our resources and enslaving us. why did they make themselves widely know around the world and then disappear. surely a race which can travel between the stars could have scanned the planet from space or something in order to decide if it was...
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    have space aliens visited earth?

    I do believe in life on other planets, but they have NEVER EVER EVER visited Earth. There is no evidence that they did. The cave paintings and and egyptian carvings are just people interpreting them very wrongly. I ask you, if you were an alien thousands of years ago, why would you visit...
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    How many nukes do you build?

    I also try to avoid Manhattan Project as long as possible. I only build it if theres nothing else to build in a city. And i only use nukes if the AI hasn't got SDI defense. i maybe build 1-2 nukes per game, if that.
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    Ftp

    This may be true.....since i don't know what it is!!! Out of curiosity...what is it??
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    Ftp

    I've downloaded SmartFTP. seems good. however, i'm having trouble connecting. i type in the address to connect to. i type in my username and password. as it goes through the connection process, it finds the server, accepts my username but then says 'Password required for mchorlton' and...
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    Ftp

    Anyone know a decent FREE program i can use to transfer stuff to my webspace? The 'FREE' part is important!
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    e-mail virus question

    Thanks i do have the latest virus defs. so i suppose it wasn't. i use Outlook Express, so i don't suppose the security features are as good, but i don't want to use Outlook. i got cencerned becaus i'm VERY careful about who i give my e-mail address to. i rarely ever get any spam. so i...
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    e-mail virus question

    is there an e-mail virus going around with the subject line 'Ellie's Birthday Photos'. I have deleted this message without looking at it since i do not know the person who sent or and i don't know anyone called Ellie. It worries me though that the e-mail address that sent the mail was from...
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    Victims of 911 attack

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    norton utilities

    a friend of mine has installed an english version of Norton Utilities on a German version of WindowsME. It works fine, but has changed all the 'File' and 'Edit' menus into English. Is there a way to fix this or does he need to get the german version of Norton Utils?
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    Brits - what do you hate about our country?

    Why so much hatred toward McDonalds? We can't hate McDonalds that much. there are 2 McD's near me, whenever i go in either of them the queues are either very long or out of the door and theres never anywhere to sit. they are not exactly small ones either. infact a third McD's is being built...
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    MGE no limits

    mmmmm...i see. i think i'll just have to put up with the bother of putting the CD in when i want to play. (sounds simple enough; but my room's a dump. finding a CD even if it was only used last yesterday requires a big expedition to every nook and crany in the room!). oh well, no matter...
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    Greece: Illegal to play games?

    sounds just like something the Taliban would do
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