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1. Free Software Foundation
   Free Software Foundation was all about regaining what is lost, not coming up with any really novel ideas and philosophies. Freedom was taken away and they prompted to take it back. GNU General Public License was written by Richard Stallman as a license to be used with software which people are free to use, modify and share; to grant and protect those freedoms. This is exactly the role which GPL continues to play today. The intentions haven't changed.
2. Greeting Cards -- Miscellaneous
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3. Computer Help Desk
   The purpose of the Computer Help Desk is as its name suggests: to members of the Connecticut College Community with their computer woes. Phone calls are the most common method used to help users with their problems. Callers can be faculty, staff, students or alumni (1st year alumni only). If a faculty or staff members' problem cannot be solved over the phone, the help desk worker will log this call, and the information will be passed along to a technician for some personal attention.
4. The Sun Newspaper -- Miscellaneous
   Regular color-print photos can be mailed to: The Sun, c/o The Pets Page, P.O. Box 1477, Lowell, MA 01853 (Attn: Jendhamuni Sos). If you wish to have your photo returned, please include a stamped, self-addressed envelope.
5. Poker -- Party Poker
   [I]n 2004 online poker has grown by over 600% and in 2005 Party Poker is predicting the market will continue at this rate over the next 12 to 18 months. With this in mind, Party Poker has been rumored to be going public on the London Stock Market sometime within the year. PartyPoker.com accounts for more than 50% of the entire online poker market, and could valued as high as $5 Billion US Dollars when they go public.
6. Trademark Infringement -- Courts
   Larry Klayman, former Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Florida and founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, sues the Bush administration for trademark infringement. Today, Larry Klayman went to the federal court in Miami to have the theft of his trademark “Freedom Watch” become a legal issue. At the launch of the “Freedom’s Watch” program, designed to raise support for the war in Iraq, Klayman was already warning the organizers that the title was trademarked.
7. Illinois Lemon Law -- Manufacturers
   Most State's Lemon Law provides that manufacturers may set up arbitration programs. These programs receive consumers' complaints and are supposed to attempt to resolve the legitimate ones prior to a lawsuit being filed with a Court of Law. If the manufacturer has properly set up such a program and it is certified by the Attorney General, then the consumer's case must proceed through such a program before a Complaint may be filed with a Court of Law. However, not all the manufacturers have such certified arbitration programs and many times the vehicle is ineligible for arbitration due to age or mileage, per the arbitration programs' own rules. In those cases, the consumer may file a Complaint with a Court of Law without resorting to the arbitration procedure first.
8. Passwords -- Access
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9. Overstock -- Companies
   Along with business groups, members of Congress, investors, academics, and other companies, Overstock has repeatedly called for the SEC to reform Regulation SHO. Specifically, Overstock has urged the SEC to adopt the "G.O.L.D." standard in Regulation SHO reform: "G": eliminate Regulation SHO's "G"randfather clause; "O": eliminate Regulation SHO's "O"ptions market maker exception; "L": require short-sellers to "L"ocate and borrow shares before selling them; and "D": require the exchanges to "D"isclose fully and promptly the aggregate failure-to-deliver positions for every threshold list company. To its credit, the SEC has eliminated the grandfather clause. However, the SEC has been slow to consider the remaining necessary reforms.
10. Jet Set Willy -- Manic Miner
    In the early- to mid-1980s, Matthew Smith wrote a pair of games for the Sinclair Spectrum: Manic Miner and Jet-Set Willy. Manic Miner, in particular, was a stunningly good quality game for its day, and took the world by storm; it created a huge demand for a sequel, which eventually arrived in the form of Jet-Set Willy (JSW). Despite being a bit rushed, and having a number of serious bugs in it, JSW was, if anything, even more popular than the original. Both games were converted to all the major (and most of the minor) computer platforms of their day, and became something of a cult legend; they were certainly among the most popular computer games ever released. Their appeal was partly in the skill required to play them, partly in the exploration element (it was a real challenge to get to some of the less accessible rooms and see what was in them), and partly thanks to their quirky, dream-like conception and off-beat humour.

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