Topic: - on November 14, 2002 at 10:45:12 PM CET
Ballmer
We didn't realise we were the dominant force in the market.
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has told the company's users that it took anti-competitive actions because it failed to realise how dominant it was. In an open email sent to Microsoft users, Ballmer claims that "even five years ago, we still tended to think of ourselves as the small start-up".
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Topic: - on November 14, 2002 at 2:59:44 PM CET
85yo 'needs marijuana to live'
AN 85-year-old former French Foreign Legion soldier suffering from cancer says he may take his own life if he cannot get the marijuana he needs to ease his pain.
Swiss-born Frederic De Spychygern ) appeared in the Brisbane Supreme Court today, charged with production of 8.5kg of cannabis sativa.
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Topic: - on November 12, 2002 at 12:04:07 PM CET
Australian burglars hide in wrong place
Police say the two men fled the scene of a break-in in Sydney and gave them the slip - by entering the grounds of the governor-general's official residence.
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Topic: - on November 11, 2002 at 10:58:15 AM CET
Bosnich career peril after cocaine test
Mark Bosnich's football career appears to be in tatters after it was revealed that he has tested positive for cocaine. The Chelsea reserve goalkeeper took a test last Monday, conducted by UK Sport. The result has since been leaked, catching UK Sport, which has yet to set a date for the B test to be analysed, by surprise.
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Topic: - on November 10, 2002 at 12:17:31 AM CET
10 Years for Cocaine in False Leg
A Jamaican man who tried to smuggle $103,000 in cocaine into Britain in his artificial leg has been jailed for 10 years, customs officers said on Saturday.
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Topic: - on November 9, 2002 at 12:52:04 AM CET
Angry Janesville Man Barbecues Slow Modem
Janesville police responded to a smoke complaint around 1 a.m. Tuesday and found a man barbecuing his computer modem. The 39-year-old man told police the modem was operating too slowly, and he decided grilling it might make it dial up faster.
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Topic: - on November 9, 2002 at 12:45:18 AM CET
Teens with strobe lights pull over Adrian’s police chief
Memo to cop wannabes: When impersonating a police officer, never pull over the real thing.
A pair of Adrian teenagers did just that Wednesday, when they attempted a traffic stop on Adrian’s police chief.
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Topic: - on November 8, 2002 at 6:02:36 PM CET
Judge goes on leave for smoking joint at concert
District Judge Thomas Gilbert has taken an indefinite voluntary leave from his duties after he was spotted smoking marijuana at a Rolling Stones concert at Ford Field in Detroit. Haley said he interviewed an unidentified Elk Rapids woman last week who reported she witnessed Gilbert twice take a drag from a marijuana cigarette as it was passed along a row of people at the concert.
You can't always get what you want
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Topic: - on November 8, 2002 at 5:46:42 PM CET
'Stupidity' author caught soliciting minor online
James F. Welles wrote the book on stupidity -- two, in fact -- and then he proved he knew what he was talking about, police say.
This is how they tell it: The 61-year-old author of The Story of Stupidity and Understanding Stupidity had written extensively about the dumb moves people make, so when he made a date with a 15-year-old girl he met over the Internet, he tried to be cautious.
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Topic: - on November 8, 2002 at 5:36:31 PM CET
Snaps spark city drugs raid
PHOTOGRAPHS handed in to a city centre branch of Boots the chemist sparked off a major drug seizure in the Capital. Two addresses were raided after a photo lab assistant spotted what looked like cannabis plants in the background of some of the pictures and alerted the police. As a result of the raids, a total of five people have been arrested and charged with drugs offences and more than £15,500 worth of drugs recovered.
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Topic: - on November 4, 2002 at 10:49:08 PM CET
'Osbournes' calling it quits after 2nd season
If she had to do it over again, Sharon Osbourne says she wouldn't have invited MTV's cameras into her home. The cancer-stricken matriarch of television's favorite dysfunctional family told ABC's Barbara Walters that she's calling it quits after an upcoming, 10-episode season is through. "This is definitely the last year," Osbourne said in an interview that will be broadcast on "20/20" Wednesday. "We can't do it anymore."
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Topic: - on November 4, 2002 at 10:46:57 PM CET
Officers assaulted with hammer
A 48-year-old man is in custody after he allegedly attacked two police officers with fireworks and a masonry hammer. Police say the suspect was protecting a marijuana grow operation in his house with a street value of almost $7,000.
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