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Comment Public awareness of HIV (Score 1) 70

As someone whose teenage years were the 1980s, I remember the big public awareness campaigns regarding HIV and AIDS. Basically, contracting HIV was a death sentence. The messages were use condoms and don't share needles. Scare stories about people leaving infected needles in public telephone coin returns. Yet I do not recall seeing any major HIV awareness campaign since the 1990s. Granted, it is no longer the death sentence it was back in the 1980s, thanks to developments in drugs, but it appears to have been given a backseat when compared to awareness of other sexually transmitted infections.

Comment Re:Not quite as cheap as expected (Score 2) 93

How did you manage to spend about £115 on accessories? The official R-Pi PSU is £13 on Amazon. You can get a reasonable mouse and keyboard for under a tenner each if you didn't have any spares lying around the house. R-Pi cases are at a similar price point, some as low as a fiver. And about a fiver for a 16GB microSD card. That's about a £40 spend on accessories.

Comment Re:Because... (Score 2) 164

When M*A*S*H was shown on BBC2 in the UK (1980s), it was broadcast without the laugh track. A few years later, one of the satellite channels was running the show but with the laugh track. Man, that laugh track got annoying real fast. Every time Hawkeye opened his mouth, canned laughter was sure to follow.

Comment Re:Brainwashing (Score 2) 267

Back in the 1990s, I used to work in an independent electronics store when home cinema was taking off. We had the Laser Disc of Jurassic Park on a continuous loop all day, every day to demonstrate the 5.1 system and the subwoofer. If I never see that film again, it'll be too soon.

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