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OpenOffice - free office suite, replaces Microsoft Office, almost entirely compatible with Word and Excel, also prints PDFs

Google Earth - photos of anywhere in the world, needs broadband connection

Trillian - combines MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and AIM in one program

VLC Media Player - free DVD playing software, not region-coded, great all-round media player

Tweak UI Power Toy - lets you fiddle with hidden XP settings

Ad Aware Personal - same as Spybot, I run both anti spyware programs together

Windows Defender - ditto, free anti spyware software from Microsoft

K Lite Codec Pack - decoders for all movie & music file types, plus Real Alternative and Media Player Classic to replace bloated XP software

And if you download Firefox (listed above) there are some excellent add-ons for it:

Ad Block Plus - filters banners and Flash ads, even Google text ads, from web pages

No Script - blocks all scripts and executable content from web pages unless you allow them

IE Tab - runs IE in a Firefox page, so you can open pages that don't like Firefox

Mouse Gestures - navigate the web in Firefox using combinations of mouse movements

Five more:

Tiga - Far From Home (DFA Instrumental Mix)

The Sugarcubes - Birthday (Justin Robertson Mix)

Silversun Pickups - Well Thought Out Twinkles

The Presets - Are You The One?

MF Doom - Cedar

Oh, and Stipe - it was the first guess - hopefully pregnancy is a long way off!

That's not padding.

That's padding.

Stipe:

Yes.

(Now that's minimalist padding.)

One hundred? You workshy fogeys! Some of us are still here preparing for job interviews, no time to blatant padding posts, no sir.

Well, I've decided in an effort to remove the oxygen wasters from the planet to cut my oxygen intake by half, starting now.

Erm.

I may have to rethink this.

Couple of quick thoughts on that:

How do you fairly and accurately decide which ones can't be rehabilitated at some point in their lives?

How do you make sure that they are truly guilty? The idea of "safety of others" is counterbalanced by the worry that someone will accidentally or deliberately be wrongfully executed. I mean, it's not like we have a great record of that in this country!

I do understand the frustration with the current system, and it is in bad shape, but I'd be the first out of the country if we moved to a system where we make a quick decision on whether someone is worth rehabilitating or just killing, and hope that that we're right.

I think it is wrong for a state to kill a person for breaking the laws that the state has set...

 

I think it is hypocritical to kill a murderer as it is commiting the same act as the person is being punished for. When it comes to kiddy-fiddlers and rapists, the other great taboos of our society I am swayed by the argument that if you assign the death penalty to these offences then it makes the offender less likely to keep the victim alive...

 

I reject the deterent argument for several reasons such as no criminal ever thinks they will get caught, hence they still commit crimes..etc..

 

Capital punishment usually ends up as retribution rather than justice...

And:

The solution being, don't release them, in my opinion. Like BT, I disagree with the state not abiding by it's own laws. And, harsh as it may sound, I don't like hearing victims' opinions - of course many will support the death penalty, but they can't be objective, can they?

And:

Absolutely agree that victim's families should have no input in sentencing - makes it less of a crime to kill a miserable old git who smelt and was hated by everyone than someone whose mother loved them - not right.

I'm not used to seeing this much sense posted on a football forum! Excellent stuff beag_teeets, Stevie_J and leeslover.

Nice selection in the first post there rummy.

My five:

Can - I'm So Green

Dibaba - The Truth Bending Consortium

Colder - To the Music

Koushik - Battle Rhymes for Battle Times

Ratatat - Wildcat

Matt75 on the other board...

I still reckon Hall will be out at the end of the season - definitely if we go up, probably if we're still here.

He's not really had much of a chance to get a run of form in the first team, it's true, but in 45-odd appearances (mostly as a sub) he still hasn't really looked the part. A loan out is probably his best chance to impress.