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I left my old position I on what I thought were good terms. I found out today that my old supervisor explicitily forbid my old co-workers to give me an employment reference. Can he do that?

I currently have a USB Ethernet DSL Modem

GT701/GT701A that I got from Qwest in 2007. I'm moving and the guy transfering my service wanted me to get a "fiber ready" modem.

Is it necessary? Will my older modem work? I think he may have just trying to upsell. Thanks!

If I purchased an expired web domain in which trademark or copyright was not an issue, could I legally sell it back to the original owner at a profit? Say if they offered to buy it back? Could I face any legal repercussion?

Note: This question is for research purposes. Please provide a source for your answer if possible.

Have you heard the expression "not right yet" used as one would say "not right now"? Ex. Daddy, can I go play? Not right yet, we have to finish dinner.

I say this and my wife thinks it's weird and that I picked it up when we lived in KY. Do you use it? And if so, where are you from?

How do you catch a fly ball? I can't get it. Any tips?

I like "Child of God"

I'm thinking fast food

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I want to buy a first edition of a book but it has all the hallmarks of being from a library i.e. ink marks, stamps, card sheath glued inside. Otherwise it's in very nice condition. So 1st, how much do these imperfections affect the value (there were 3000 copies of this 1st edition printed) and is it possible to repair/remedy these?

It's like an electronic clarinet or something. It kind of looks like a toy. What is it?

I heard part of a story on NPR and it sounded like mortgage rates in the US might drop to something crazy like 4%. Is there any validity to this?

It was NPR a week or 2 ago. She had such a unique voice and an incredible, insane octave range. Who is she? Again it isn't Odetta

during the U.S. civil war parallels the "liberation of the Iraqi people" rationale for the current war in Iraq?

Is there a way to avoid loss of image quality when going from a bitmap file to a jpeg?

Can anyone recommend a good intro book on generative grammar. I'm thinking something by Chomsky but I'd like to look at any good introduction to the topic

the book lover breaks his glasses?

Last night my wife and I were watching TV and started to smell "bandaids". This AM I found a black, elongated beetle on the floor. I picked it up and it was clearly the source of the smell. Can anyone help me identify it? I lost my field guide!