How to get a European only released game

2011-07-01 Thread Matt Williams
My wife and I are pretty big Tour de France fans. A new Xbox/PS3 game based on this race came out today, but only released in Europe. I believe it will play here in the states, but I'm not sure how to get it. Order from Amazon UK? Beg a friend over that way to ship it? Any advice? ~~

Re: Going at my debt with a murderous rage...

2011-03-22 Thread Matt Williams
Obviously a lot of factors come into play. Yes, many places require $3000 or so to even get into the fund. And the performance of the last 10 years sucks. I'm not current enough to know specifics of where to do it, but if you can get an index fund and stay in there for 20+ years (kid's college,

Re: Going at my debt with a murderous rage...

2011-03-21 Thread Matt Williams
>I could easily pay off the >truck but with 0% APR, why? If you pay off the truck, you could put those payments into an interest bearing savings or mutual fund. Better to earn at 8-12% than pay off at 0%. I vote for Dave Ramsey too. His "Total Money Makeover" book describes the steps from gett

Re: Would this be Tour-orism?

2010-12-07 Thread Matt Williams
I hope those tourists have learned keep these spray cans available: http://media.gamerevolution.com/images/misc/image/batman-oceanic-repellents.jpg -matt w >http://fxn.ws/dSIrW4 > > > >-- >Scott Stroz >--- >You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can >wonder

Re: CFUnited Conference - Done

2010-06-30 Thread Matt Williams
>Just saw this on the twittersphere. This is that last year for >CFUnited. The conference will not happen in 2011. > >http://bit.ly/beqV4v > I think the community is still plenty vibrant. Look at the many mini-conferences that have sprouted up across the country. I would speculate that the ov

Re: DA bullies blogger in Apple case (was Re: Apple bullys journalist)

2010-04-27 Thread Matt Williams
There are definitely gray areas here. I don't buy the argument that the DA or police started the criminal investigation and Apple had nothing to do with it. I doubt the DA saw it as criminal until consulting with Apple. If the felony it is simply receipt/purchase of the lost item, then why con

Apple bullys journalist

2010-04-27 Thread Matt Williams
I suppose y'all have heard about Gizmodo revealing the iPhone 4. http://gizmodo.com/5520471/the-tale-of-apples-next-iphone?skyline=true&s=i Did you hear the police confiscated all of Jason Chen's computers because "it was used as the means of committing a felony"? http://gizmodo.com/5524843/ I

Re: The hardest thing about homeschooling.....

2010-04-15 Thread Matt Williams
>I don't think that homeschooling should be legal, unless you are a teacher. > >Eric Right, because you can't teach anything unless you've been taught how to teach it. It's a wonder that homeschoolers can even read. /end sarcasm You know nothing of homeschool teachers (moms and dads) until yo

Re: first colorado trip!!!

2010-01-14 Thread Matt Williams
And now I'm one of those double-posters. I got a JRun error the first time I posted and even checked to see if it had gone through anyway before reposting. Whatever. Maybe this is why I hadn't posted before... ~| Want to reach

Re: first colorado trip!!!

2010-01-14 Thread Matt Williams
Hi, my name is Matt. I'm an occasional lurker and chocoholic. //Hi Matt// I've been a subscriber to CF-Talk and other lists for years. I don't subscribe to Community (too many e-mails), but I do go to HOF now and then to see what the topic(s) du jour is. I noticed this post about the place I liv

Re: first colorado trip!!!

2010-01-14 Thread Matt Williams
Hi, my name is Matt. I'm an occasional lurker and chocoholic. //Hi Matt// I've been a subscriber to CF-Talk and other lists for years. I don't subscribe to Community (too many e-mails), but I do go to HOF now and then to see what is on folk's minds. As the OP here was about the place I lived for

Re: first colorado trip!!!

2010-01-13 Thread Matt Williams
If things haven't changed since I moved away from there about 3 years ago, then your lift ticket for Breck also works at Keystone and Arapahoe Basin. With night skiing at Keystone, you can easily fit A-Basin and Keystone in on one day if you like (they are a short distance from each other and h

PDF attachment

2009-05-14 Thread Matt Williams
My boss sends out this email: Attention Staff: Please do not open up any PDF attachment from an unknown sender. Spammers and hackers are using vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader to infect machines A bit of googling didn't show any recent viruses related to pdfs. Any ideas where this concern is