[geeks] FYI: CompUSA is offering OS X 10.5 for $99 (after rebate)

[Phil Stracchino]

Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> From: Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net>
>> Date: 2007/11/02 Fri AM 06:29:48 CDT
>> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>> Subject: Re: [geeks] FYI: CompUSA is offering OS X 10.5 for $99 (after rebate)
> 
>> Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>>> Organized piracy only exists in a power vacuum.  The Ottoman military  
>>> fleets were no threat  by then.
>> Point of information:  Organized piracy is alive and well to this day in
>> the South China Sea.  (As a matter of fact, it's been on the increase
>> lately.)
> 
> Links:
> 
> 2 years ago: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4409662.stm
> 
> Earlier this week: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SJJD8O1&show_article=1

Yup.  And the US Navy is assisting with a hijacked Japanese tanker, also
off Somalia.  There's a Mexican standoff right now after the Navy fired
on and sank the pirates' skiffs tied up to the tanker.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/11/02/somalia.pirates.japan.ap/index.html


Maybe time for Q-ships again.


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