Given that fact it's surprising that I was able to install various linux distros which *did* work, eh Mark?

The old farts, just the same as it is now.

The youngsters spend all day twatting each others' facegrams.

Pretty much summed up what happened when Mrs Hog bought a laptop with Win 8 on it. Apart from being horrified that it automatically logs you into everything when you start it, so you try creating a local user, but that doesn't do updates or something, so you say sod it, I'll create a new throwaway account. And then you forget the password...

Since Windows7 does everything you need

Everything except sound & wifi, based on 2 out of 3 machines I've replaced XP on.

Spïñäl Täp didn't.

Depends on the water. Hard water tends to coat the pipes and so dissolves less lead than soft water.

If you're loading from the same place you could do it with a static robot/smart crane. These have been in use in warehouses for decades.

For loading/unloading where the layout isn't standardised, perhaps a smaller version of this would work. http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...

Does it depend on systemd?

I think you might want to look up.

Or they could just have detonated the bombs in uninhabited or sparely populated areas

They dropped one on an actual city, and that wasn't a strong enough hint so they had to drop another one on another city.

This makes me suspect that if they'd put one across the bows the response would have been along the lines of "Ha! Missed, aah-sole!"

and then threatened to use them against the mainland.

I'm not sure they had many spares, if they had any at all.

Or just waited a bit longer for the Japanese to give up because the people were literally starving

So instead of killing them, they should have killed them slowly.

it was clear to many at the top of the government that the war was already lost.

So clear that they had to be nuked twice before the penny dropped.

... que cricket sounds ...

I never new Manuel from Fawlty Towers posted here.

Naming is an entirely different issue. It's a natural law that if a country has "Democratic" or "The people's" in the title then it isn't.

Sort of like degree courses with "Science" in them. [ducks for cover]

And 3 x 5 = 8, for sufficiently 2ish values of 3 and 4ish values of 5.

Bet you couldn't even point to it on a map. Oh there it is, near New Zealand, that one's shaped like a bird...

Not to be confused with mook:

noun: A person who posts an explanation of something that everybody (even tribes deep in the Amazon jungle and Japanese who think WW2 is still going on) knows, in the hope of getting modded up.

You could argue that's a good preparation for the world of work.

But if you want to stop it then don't let the students choose. The prof can draw up a rota, or just pull names out of a hat.