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For the record, Solitaire is exclusive - 2004-02-03
Spam e-mail made up for over 30 percent of all e-mails received by Irish business users in January, as reported by the Internet service provider IE Internet.com.

According to the Web site, A Shareware Life, playing solitaire on computers breaches the "Goldberg Patents", in particular claim 18 of one particular US patent, 6,264, 560. The patent is similar to a "game playing method and apparatus for automating games such as blackjack, poker, craps, roulette, baccarat and pai gow" over the Internet or interactive cable television.
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Drug Warriors Attempt to Censor Their Foes - 2004-02-03
Representative Ernest Istook (R-Okla.) has found a mortal endangerment to the republic. The threat is a display ad by a pro-drug legalization group, Change the Climate, Inc., on Washington DC's bus and subway system. The ad exhibited a young couple, with the caption: "Enjoy Better Sex! Legalize and Tax Marijuana."

This is not the first time that the blackjack of withholding federal funds has been used to manipulate recipients into supporting pet policies of politicians, but it has to be one of the more odious.
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