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Rowing Across the Atlantic

Posted by michael on from the gosh-are-my-arms-tired dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Wired News has an article about 68 men and women who are rowing across the Atlantic. "All 34 boats in this year's race are equipped with Global Positioning System (GPS) devices, and practically all the rowers have satellite phones and other wireless gadgets with Internet access.""

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  1. Re:Gulf stream. by imrdkl · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is not yet comparable to what you refer to. But make no mistake, my sig is with you. Come out and join my sig! You may be as one! Otherwise, go jump in a lake.

  2. Re:Gulf stream. by Stiletto · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Yea you go, tough guy. Let's "kill the bastard".

    I believe it is at least customary in civilized parts of the world to give someone a fair trial and convict them, before punishing them for a crime. Or does this not apply for "people you really really really don't like"?

  3. Re:Gulf stream. by imrdkl · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    If that happens, so be it. What must be done shall be done, and it seems most of the world agrees with this manhunt. What my sig supposes is that he finds a way to give himself up. A vision? nah. But a possibility.

    Re-alliancing is the way the Afghanis hold their country together, it seems. He may be simply handed over officially. yikes.

    We gotta be ready to face this Test. I dont understand why we are being tested so much lately, but that's just the way it is.

    Now, can we leave it alone? It's just a damn sig, after all. sheesh.