Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 5]

[Grey_Area]

Grey_Area said:

Punctilio said:

Roofless Toothless said:

The BBC newsreader just said
that demonstrators in Paris have clashed with riot police.

I wonder at what point demonstrators become rioters,

Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

Or just Google…







https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/64/enact...

[Punctilio]

Grey_Area said:

Or just Google…

Another one having trouble with the thread concept, if we all googled there would be no dialogue.

[Grey_Area]

Punctilio said:

Grey_Area said:

Or just Google…

Another one having trouble with the thread concept, if we all googled there would be no dialogue.

Thank you for your advice.

Edited by Grey_Area on Sunday 19th March 07:26

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Grey_Area said:

Thank you for your advice.

Punctilio is full of useful advice.

Well, full of something anyway.

edit: Also I grok your username, meat fker

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Sunday 19th March 07:41

[Grey_Area]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Grey_Area said:

Thank you for your advice.

Punctilio is full of useful advice.

Well, full of something anyway.

edit: Also I grok your username, meat fker

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Sunday 19th March 07:41

Why thank you CC. Big fan.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Grey_Area said:

Why thank you CC. Big fan.

Me also

[Zumbruk]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Grey_Area said:

Why thank you CC. Big fan.

Me also

+1

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Zumbruk said:

+1

I think I love you, Zumbruk. We certainly seem pretty aligned.

[Punctilio]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

I think I love you, Zumbruk. We certainly seem pretty aligned.

Please, keep your loins under control granny

[Zumbruk]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Zumbruk said:

+1

I think I love you, Zumbruk. We certainly seem pretty aligned.

Awww, (blush)

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Punctilio said:

Please, keep your loins under control granny

I'm only 53!


Ok, fair enough. I guess I am granny age now. FML

Seriously, FML

[Zumbruk]

Punctilio said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

I think I love you, Zumbruk. We certainly seem pretty aligned.

Please, keep your loins under control granny

'Ere, you leave my girlfriend alone!

[Sway]

Zumbruk said:

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Grey_Area said:

Why thank you CC. Big fan.

Me also

+1

Off topic, but a couple of years after his passing, I discovered I'd completely missed Excession somehow.

So, I rectified that. Not only is it pretty much his best Culture book but the poignancy of knowing it'd be the last time I ever read one of IMB's 'fresh' lead to many occasions of a very dusty room...

[21st Century Man]

If a few dozen vehicles were driving along the road and a wormhole opened up taking them back to the mid seventies, whilst the cars would presumably be the property of their owners? (although I would expect the State to take possession of both cara & drivers), would the manufacturers of the cars be able to claim IP/Patent rights over the technology in the vehicles?

[Punctilio]

21st Century Man said:

If a few dozen vehicles were driving along the road and a wormhole opened up taking them back to the mid seventies, whilst the cars would presumably be the property of their owners? (although I would expect the State to take possession of both cara & drivers), would the manufacturers of the cars be able to claim IP/Patent rights over the technology in the vehicles?

Would 1970s scientists even understand 2023 digital micro-technology and computers ?

To patent something you have to explain how it works.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Punctilio said:

Would 1970s scientists even understand 2023 digital micro-technology and computers ?

To patent something you have to explain how it works.

Arthur C. Clarke is famously quoted as saying “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

I do not believe that in the 1970's the modern day would be "sufficiently advanced" and I believe that minds greater than yours would easily grasp new concepts.

You wouldn't, though. You struggle to grasp common decency, As your reply to this will probably demonstrate. And if it does not it will be your most inclusive post ever.

[Punctilio]

I'm saying presented with a modern car's EMS, ECU or any control module,
1970s scientists and their testing equipment would have trouble
figuring out it's functions. Unless they had a early Pifco or Amstrad OBD11 connector.

But I defer to you and the noted nonce Clarke's opinion.

[glazbagun]

The planet Jupiter is has kept its name since Roman times (the Greeks named it after Zeus who was their version of the same deity).

What did eastern cultures call it? Did they also name them after gods or did they have other poetic names?

[glazbagun]

Sway said:

Off topic, but a couple of years after his passing, I discovered I'd completely missed Excession somehow.

So, I rectified that. Not only is it pretty much his best Culture book but the poignancy of knowing it'd be the last time I ever read one of IMB's 'fresh' lead to many occasions of a very dusty room...

I was the same but with the Hydrogen Sonata, but finding the best Culture book last must have been a treat!

[Halmyre]

glazbagun said:

I was the same but with the Hydrogen Sonata, but finding the best Culture book last must have been a treat!

My first Banks was Consider Phlebas, and it was a wow! moment, big fk-off space opera with knobs (turned up to 11) on.