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Because sport by necessity operates on a set of rules above and beyond that of common law, enforced by contract. This is why, for instance, players don't get to sue referees for loss of earnings if they get sent off. Look, I don't think anyone disagrees that the sports authorities occasionally overstep the line between "we must regulate this in order for the sport to work" and "we are above the rule of sovereign nations". Forcing the Brazilian government to sell beer in stadia so as to not piss off beer sponsors, for instance. And there are obviously specific cases where the law has to intervene in matters that the footballing authorities would rather deal with themselves (for instance, human rights issues regarding players: Bosman has fucked shit up for club football, especially smaller teams, in a big way, but it simply had to be done). But in terms of how the competition itself is actually run, it isn't at all difficult to understand why allowing local courts to make decisions which would override those laid down in the contracts that clubs sign would cause chaos. For all this talk of "mickey mouse courts" and whatever, Rangers broke a contract. If they were a normal business, you'd suppose that the courts would consider such a breach to be grounds for the SPL / SFA to summarily tear up their membership.

You're an idiot. Anyway, yeah, Mark Allen. The sooner football does this the better.

The Chelsea managed by Terry, Drogba and Lampard?

Compared to some of the fuds you get on a football pitch, at any level, O'Sullivan is like Jesus.

He's right. I'm not best pleased about the dartsification aspects (whooping idiots in Arsenal shirts)* but it makes the sport money and gets it column inches, and if I had my way everyone would still have a fag during breaks** and a whisky at the table. And there'd be terraces. * Though, to be fair, I've a well-heeled friend who went to the darts for a few days down south recently and fucking loved it ** Although I am the world's biggest supporter of the smoking ban

This is fucking brutal all of a sudden.

Kenny Deuchars.

Best thread ever.

The alternative is what? Refuse to put in seating and expect that a group of SPL chairmen whose clubs mostly paid huge sums to install their own seating will make an exception in the interests of football?

That's nearly twenty megabytes a day. Web pages are compressed when sent, so the average P&B page (for instance) is about 20-30kb of your allowance. That's roughly 650 page views every day of the month if you're not watching videos; you could probably spend the whole of every day surfing and not hit your limit.

Could you elaborate? It's not just that your text zooming has been reset or something? Try hitting Control and + or Control and - to see if that helps.

That's a virtual location. It doesn't exist on the disk. he needs to disable shadow copying for shared folders by following the instructions here (ignore the bit about Trend Micro).

Carlsberg Export, for a change. Was on a better deal than wifebeater. I'm not a fan of regular Carlsberg at all, but this is at least bland enough not to make you sick and strong enough not to make you feel you've wasted your money. Still, if I were a Danish customs officer I'd probably be more interested in imports.

I'm surprised it's that low. It'd be interesting to see how different "team" choices break down in terms of green dots. I'd imagine Dundee would be at the top purely for Barry (although there are a number of funny b*****ds in the first division forum), with either Livi or Celtic at the bottom thanks to the sheer number of total roasters sitting on -300 for both.

Peckhams usually has a decent selection of global beers. Until the fucking SNP ruined everything it also sold offsales until midnight, which was excellent.

Doubt it. It'll be a config problem. There's no reason the Home Hub wireless won't work directly. Have you followed the guide here?

The CSS isn't loading. Usually a server problem. Hit Ctrl+F5 to reload the page bypassing your cache (might be Shift+F5 on Chrome, not sure).

I assume it's out of warranty? If you want to have a go of opening it up to push the socket back out, download the service manual for the model in question (you'll either get it off the manufacter's website or off Google) and be prepared to keep track of a lot of screws as you remove components trying to get to the socket. Or you could just take it into Kustom or somewhere in the town to see if they'll have a go.

Your registry is corrupt. It's fixable and not that difficult, but there are a fair few steps. Follow the instructions here and take your time. It'll take you a good hour if it's your first time.

Turn on the rotation lock.

Having done ISP technical support, you've been pointed in the right direction. First check it's nothing internal (i.e you daughter downloading movies, next door leeching your wireless). Then check the line if it's DSL (move the router to the master socket). If you're still getting problems, phone them and get BT to check the line. Be aware that in this weather you'll be lucky if it's done by March.

Priceless in Tradeston.

Not to be That Guy Who Doesn't Answer The Question, but do you desperately need Microsoft Office? OpenOffice does a good enough job for pretty much anything except heavy use of tables or spreadsheet programming, and doesn't cost anything.

It means there's I/O activity. It could be anything from scanning for viruses to defragmenting the disk to indexing your files to make searches quicker to sending all your passwords to some Russian gangsters. No way of knowing without more details.