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AOL Browser Beta Build 0.89 AOL Browser puts the power of the Web at your fingertips like never before. It is a stand-alone browser featuring tabbed browsing, thumbnail tab popups, and many more special features. The beta version is available to anyone with an AOL membership or an AOL Instant Messenger Screen Name. Some of the additional features include Desktop Search, Tabbed Browsing, Clear My Footprints, and Thumbnail Previews. And that’s just the beginning. There are more exciting new features and improvements on the way! Latest Changes: Middle Mouse wheel now supports opening and closing tabs on click New tabbed browsing features Warning when closing browser window that contains multiple open tabs Background loading of tabs preference Drag and drop functionality enabled on the tab layer Tools ->Power Browsing menu has been reordered with flyouts Restore Defaults function has been added to all settings tabs in the Tools->Settings menu New Sign On touch point in the Menu layer New Startup folder included in AOL Browser favorites folder New Panel Chooser now available under AOL Browser Settings menu to customize left hand slideout panels New Search Quick Access Panel on hover over magnifying glass search icon on navigation layer something different..uses IE shell...quite fast.......installer downloads file content from AOL website....but microsoft antispyware and ad aware both haven`t found anything...tabs work well..not too badly set out...i`ll just play around a while...... :)

the drivers eyes are coloured bloodshot from counting all those passengers.....

i see a turtle shell..... :)

or this... :bigsmile: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/ma3d.html

there is this..... :bigsmile: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/albumcf.html

thanks for the info mate..welcome to beatking.... :)

more sad news on the rock front.... r.i.p.

there`s an easy way around this...a couple of christmases ago i dressed up as santa claus..there was about 20 kids from my wifes girls junior marching team there (at our house).....i had all the presents in a big sack...it was easy......give an unsuspecting child a present and mutter threats out of the side of your mouth..(if you don`t behave yourself you little #%**$$, i`ll get you later)...no one can see your lips moving through a large white bushy beard....what with the santa costume and the kids all selling each other out for the presents i couldn`t lose...parents remarked later on how well behaved the kids all were....didn`t even have to lay a hand on any of them..... :bigsmile:

Pope in ‘serene abandonment to God’s will 25.03.05 9.20am VATICAN CITY - A cardinal who stood in for Pope John Paul at a Holy Thursday ceremony at the Vatican said the ailing Pontiff was "serenely abandoning" himself to God’s will. The 84-year-old Pope, whose health is still precarious following throat surgery last month, watched the service on television from his Vatican apartments. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, a senior Vatican cardinal, presided at the first of two Holy Thursday rites which the ailing Pope will have to skip. "Through his absence, he is more than ever present at this Mass," Re said in his sermon during the solemn service in St Peter’s Basilica. "We want to thank him for the witness he continues to give us even through his example of serene abandonment to God, which he links to the mystery of the cross," Re said. Throughout his various illnesses and brushes with death, even following the assassination attempt against him in 1981, the Pope always said his life was in God’s hands. But Re’s words in his sermon were all the more poignant because this year is the first in John Paul’s papacy that he is missing Holy Week services leading up to Easter this Sunday. At the start of the Mass, Re read a message from the Pope. "I am united ideally with all of you who are gathered in the Vatican basilica," the Pope said in his message. "Via television from my apartment, my dearest ones, I am spiritually with you. " Read more......... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10117085

Right-to-die parents lose final appeal 25.03.05 9.10am PINELLAS PARK, Florida - The US Supreme Court has rejected a plea from the parents of Terri Schiavo to restart her feeding, leaving them nearly out of options and time in the seven-year legal fight for their brain-damaged daughter’s life. The highest US court turned away Bob and Mary Schindler’s request for an emergency order to reinsert Schiavo’s feeding tube, which was removed six days ago. The court did not explain its decision to stay out of the Florida family drama that was taken up by Congress and President George W. Bush. A Florida court rebuffed another last-ditch attempt to prolong Schiavo’s life by Governor Jeb Bush, the president’s brother. The Republican governor wanted a state welfare agency to take custody of the 41-year-old woman who suffered brain damage from a cardiac arrest when she was 26. The court decisions signify the end was near in the wrenching legal dispute between Schiavo’s husband and legal guardian, Michael Schiavo, and her parents over whether she should live or die, a case that snowballed into an emotional and highly politicised drama. Read more......... http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10117084

Supreme court rejects Schiavo plea Mar 25, 2005 The United States' Supreme Court has rejected a plea from the parents of a brain-damaged Florida woman to order her feeding tube reconnected. The highest US court denied without comment a request made late on Wednesday by Bob and Mary Schindler for an emergency order to restart nutrition for Terri Schiavo, whose feeding tube was removed six days ago. With the parents' hopes of prolonging Schiavo's life now all but closed, a Florida court was considering a petition from a state government agency to take custody of her. Schiavo, a 41-year-old woman who suffered brain damage from a heart attack when she was 26, had her feeding tube removed last Friday under a state court order.

US army deserter not a refugee Mar 25, 2005 A US soldier who deserted because he opposed the war in Iraq does not qualify as a refugee and would not face excessive punishment for his actions if sent home, Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board ruled. Jeremy Hinzman, 26, was the first of several US deserters to file asylum claims in Canada. He fled from the 82nd Airborne Division two years ago and sought refugee status in Canada. Hinzman had maintained the US-led war in Iraq was illegal and he feared committing atrocities if he was sent there. The ruling said Hinzman's reasons for refusing to fight in Iraq were "inherently contradictory" because he was willing to serve but only in a non-combat role. "Surely an intelligent young man like Mr Hinzman, who believed the war in Iraq to be illegal, unjust and waged for economic reasons, would be unwilling to participate in any capacity, whether combatant or non-combatant," the refugee board said in its decision. "The Federal Court ... clearly sets out that one cannot be a selective conscientious objector." Read more............ http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_world_story_sk...7%3fformat=html

Man to pay for no sex Mar 25, 2005 A Sicilian man who withheld sex from his wife for seven years after an argument was ordered by an Italian court to pay maintenance. The man, Francesco, decided to punish his wife Piera after she opposed him in a family argument - a punishment that lasted seven years. The highest Italian appeals court called the man's actions - or rather inactions - an "offence to her dignity," and said it constituted grounds for separation. The court ordered him to pay court costs and maintenance to his now former wife and their children, born when their marriage saw happier times. "The refusal to have sexual and affectionate relations over seven years with his wife constitutes a very serious offence to her dignity and has caused frustration with serious consequences for her psychological equilibrium," the court judgment stated. The behaviour is a violation of article 143 of the civil code, which imposes a duty of moral and material assistance between husband and wife, the court ruled.

this issue will come back to haunt bush...it has badly hurt the republican party already.....

i guess you could say that the chili was finger-lickin` good........ :bigsmile:

morning all at beatking (9.52 AM here).....i`ve been looking for an alternative to gmail (storage space) and yahoo could be it with this storage space increase to 1GB...wifey has used yahoo for quite some time and we`re finding it (yahoo)very user friendly..... :) :) ......massive thunderstorms rolling across the country today....already some power outages and a couple of houses and buildings hit already.......we may be on and off line most of the day...depending on how the local substation holds out..... :)

i knew it!!..i just knew it!!...remember this thread redneck??... :bigsmile: http://www.beatking.com/forums/index.php?s...l=carrie+fisher

hot from tonites letterman show........2 nites ago in the states.. Top Ten Signs You've Hired A Bad Easter Bunny 10. Shows up wearing the costume head and nothing else. 9. Reeks of tequila and Easter egg dye. 8. Immediately asks if he can have Easter off. 7. Refuses to hop because it aggravates his double hernia. 6. For an extra 20 bucks, parents can buy an ounce of his special "Easter grass". 5. Only gives the kids candy after they attend his presentation on the time-share condos. 4. Keeps muttering something about "infidels" and "jihad". 3. Costume is made from animal skin he scraped off the interstate. 2. Habitually licks and grooms himself. 1. The enormous ears? Steroids

gotta watch those fucking kiwis...especially when they`re as stupid as this one...must have been from the South Island.... :bigsmile:

good old elvis costello...short and not so sweet..... :)

i thought cyberpunk was good..... :)

bloody shocking isn`t it............he was lucky to get 7 years.......probably had a great time in there being someones bitch....

choice one mate...

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Whose Right to Life? Thursday, 24 March 2005, 12:17 pm Whose Right to Life? The nation's attention is riveted on the fate of one poor woman in a Florida hospice. Terri Schiavo has been in a persistent vegetative state, with no upper brain function, for 15 years. Ten state courts have upheld Terri's husband's request to remove her feeding tube. Those courts have determined by clear and convincing evidence, a standard set by the United States Supreme Court, that Terri would not have wanted to be kept alive in such a condition. Nevertheless, Terri's parents, aided by Republicans in Congress and George W. Bush, are fighting to keep her alive. They have made her case a cause celebre. A memo circulated to GOP senators over the weekend described this as a "great political issue" because it will play to the "pro-life base" of the Republican Party. The abortion debate has long been framed in terms of "pro-choice" versus "pro-life." But this dichotomy has always struck me as misleading. What is the "right to life"? Does it simply include unborn fetuses, stem cells, and people in persistent vegetative states? Or does it also refer to health care for the 40 million Americans who don't have it; aid to children whose single moms can't make ends meet; and billions of dollars in Medicaid - a virtual lifeline for millions - that Bush tried to cut? What about the 1524 American soldiers and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis who have died in a war that never should have happened? Didn't they have the right to life? Unprecedented emergency legislation rushed through Congress on the eve of the Easter recess has sent the Schiavo case into the federal courts for a new round of hearings. After he signed the bill in the wee hours of Monday morning, Bush said, "In cases like this one, where there are serious questions and substantial doubts, our society, our laws and our courts should have a presumption in favor of life." This statute directly contradicts Bush's actions while Governor of Texas. Then, Bush signed a bill that allows hospitals to stop feeding a patient whose prognosis is so poor that further care would be futile, if the patient cannot pay his or her medical expenses. Just this past week, a baby was pulled off life support in Texas, against his mother's wishes. As Governor, Bush refused to stay executions in numerous death penalty cases. Alberto Gonzales, then counsel to the Governor, provided his boss with "scant summaries" on capital punishment cases that "repeatedly failed to apprise the governor of crucial issues: ineffective counsel, conflict of interest, mitigating evidence, even actual evidence of innocence," according to the Atlantic Monthly. Gonzales prepared a summary of the case of Terry Washington, a mentally retarded man executed for murdering a restaurant manager. The jury was never told about Washington's mental condition. Gonzales's three-page summary mentioned only that Washington's defense counsel's 30-page plea for clemency (which covered the mental competency issue) was rejected by the Texas parole board. Bush declined to stop executions in 56 of the 57 cases in which Gonzales wrote abbreviated memos. In those cases, did Bush follow "a presumption in favor of life"? Conservatives support the principle of federalism, or states' rights. Each state should be able to maintain its own legal system, free from federal encroachment, according to this doctrine. But many Republicans have championed states' rights only when they liked the outcome and rejected it when they didn't. As Congressman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich) said on the floor of the House during the debate on Monday, "Last month, the Majority passed a class action bill that took jurisdiction away from state courts because they feared they would treat corporate wrongdoers too harshly. Today we are sending a case from the state courts to the federal courts even though it is the most extensively litigated 'right to die' case in our nation's history." "By passing legislation which wrests jurisdiction away from a state judge and sends it to a single pre-selected federal court," Conyers said, "we will abandon any pretense of federalism. The concept of a Jeffersonian Democracy as envisioned by the founders, and the states as 'laboratories of democracy' as articulated by Justice Brandeis will lie in tatters." One of the most tragic aspects of the Schiavo case is the effect this legislation will have on family decisions for years to come. Although the Democrats agreed to the bill only if it were limited to Terri Schiavo's situation, it will certainly open the floodgates to litigation which inserts the courts into private matters. This attempt by Republican leaders to "shamelessly interject the federal government into the wrenching Schiavo family dispute" amounts to a "constitutional coup d'etat," according to the Los Angeles Times. It is "the new front in what began as the abortion war, an effort to translate religious dogma into law under the right-to-life banner."