billyruffian

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by billyruffian 6y ago
Why is it that I find on certain websites (this one included) that some keystrokes aren't recognised when I use Safari? The letter 'e' not being recognised is common. Chrome works fine. This is on a Mac with Catalina and a Br
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by billyruffian 6y ago
The video says it wasn't recognised by the Guiness Book of World Records, but it appears in the 1988 edition[0]. I can never quite believe that we're willing to waste helium in balloons. --- [0] https://archive.org&#x2F
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by billyruffian 6y ago
The BBC has done some of the work for you. Here you go https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/China_hidden_cam...
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by billyruffian 6y ago
This collection is not owned by the UK Government. The Royal Collection has some items owned by the Queen herself as a private individual and some items are owned by the Crown (which is a difficult enough abstract concept even if you are Br
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by billyruffian 6y ago
I think it was Niall Fergusson, perhaps in 'Empire' or maybe 'Civilisation', who argued that the modern purpose of monarchy is to protect the citizenry from its government -- particularly the emergence of extreme forms o
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by billyruffian 6y ago
What do you mean by that? Prevention, detection or prosecution? Genuinely interested. For certain crimes (I'm thinking of the Salisbury poisonings for example) CCTV seems, on the face of things, pretty central to finding out what actua
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by billyruffian 6y ago
Also https://mailcow.email -- it's stupidly simple to get a full email stack working
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by billyruffian 6y ago
I am a native speaker (UK) and concur. My grandmother would always threaten to "read us the riot act" if we were in real trouble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_Act