Ah, but did you know that that was much used in Private Eye ?

I am reminded of some graffiti that I saw in a pub toilet in England "all the beer in this pub has been passed by the management".

Hmmm: I wonder if the use of English is understandable in the USA or elsewhere.

I am a Brit. I was in my 40s before I heard "pissed" meaning angry but when I was younger I went to pubs and got pissed.

The Atlantic is wider than you think.

How much will space grown drugs cost ? Who will be able to afford them ? Are they really that much better than stuff grown on Earth ?

as I do not like finger marks on them. I mainly use Linux at the command line so a touch screen would not be much use anyway. I can touch type, maybe I could be identified from the way in which I hit keys.

of a DNA based storage system could really be something interesting!

If you have paid for annual membership then they should not be allowed to change the terms until after renewal time. However there is prolly some clause buried deep in the T&Cs agreement that allows them to do almost anything -- that is part of the trouble with these "agreements" they are entirely one sided.

or would meiosis be a better description ?

What is Bill Gates' percentage share holding of Microsoft these days ?

what matters is that they do not change -- so people know what the name refers to. So what it if is named after some pompous old git or beautiful lady ?

What next: how about food, should we rename the Peach Melba, the Sandwich or Garibaldi biscuit ? Then start on drinks Earl Grey tea, Tom Collins or Incredible Hulk!

Have some people not got better things to do ?

to go and have a piss and make a cup of tea that will make me want to go again 1 hour later.

Disclaimer: I do not have amazon prime, indeed I buy nothing from them.

In November The UK Supreme Court has blocked a planned £3.2 billion ($4.3 billion) British class action against Google. This is presumably google saying "thank you" and "please kill any future court cases". A good return on google's money.

Thought — ie past tense, like IBM's glory days.

Those people are somebody else - not me. I consume what I do because I need to, I drop litter because I am too busy to pick it up; it is only little old me, what I do is miniscule and will not affect the planet -- it is the huge number of others that are responsible.

The above is unfortunately how many see things - it is not their responsibility; why should they behave better when others do not. Complete lunacy but the sort of thing that I hear enough from not just ordinary individuals but politicians who ought to know better. These creeps pollute our world for their benefit.

I praise those who try hard to protect the planet knowing that what they do will have little effect - but that millions like them can change the world.