It's perhaps different in the US, where I understand Hulu exists as a separate service, but the "Star" section of Disney+ UK at least has a massive archive of 'adult' content (primarily Fox, some ABC) which certainly we enjoy watching. Our kids love the Disney/Pixar and Star Wars stuff (they haven't really got into Marvel yet) - it's certainly not just "a bunch of old animated movies".

Can't say I'm overly enthused by every media company starting its own streaming service (Paramount, Discovery, Peacock etc) but I guess we can dip in and out if something takes our fancy.

Possibly the most famous case in the UK concerned Jaffa Cakes, which had characteristics of both biscuits and cakes. For one reason or another, cakes are zero-rated for VAT in the UK but chocolate biscuits are considered a luxury and have VAT payable. A detailed analysis of the product was performed to determine whether it was a biscuit or a cake - it has characteristics of both, but ultimately it was determined to be a cake for tax purposes:

Jaffa Cakes - Taxation

Wine has clean room guidelines (https://wiki.winehq.org/Clean_Room_Guidelines) which specifically forbid looking at Microsoft code (leaked or otherwise - e.g. Windows Research Kernel).

In many cases I suspect the code would not be all that useful anyway - some of Wine’s glitches and foibles arise simply because of differences between Linux/macOS and Windows that can’t easily be accommodated. And an unknown user who suddenly dumped a load of code without otherwise building up their experience with Wine and so on would be looked upon very suspiciously.

Nah, this is for your GEM applications - PAINT.APP, BASIC2.APP, and good ol' DOODLE.APP. :)

Microsoft of course has prior history with this - Office jumped from version 4.3 to version 7, as they bumped up Excel, PowerPoint and Access so they all matched Word (Word was previously v6, Excel v5, PowerPoint v4 and Access v2). Then they did the same thing with Visual Studio 6.0 to match VB6 - VC++ went from 4.2 to 6, J++ from 1.1, and InterDev was introduced with v6 being the first version.

More recently, Microsoft has been skipping version 13 of both Office and Visual Studio.

Of course, back in the (pre-GPRS) day, that's basically how WAP phones worked. You were charged on a per-minute basis, as the phone was basically dialling in for Internet access. I can also remember hooking my phone up to my computer and using it as a modem. It was extremely slow (I think it synced at about 9.6Kbps), but it was functional. :)

So has anybody created a fork of Firefox yet that includes all the browser optimisations, faster JavaScript, etc, but doesn't bugger up the UI every month for no good reason (and ideally has a sane version numbering system)?

Spain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands should all be on GMT. Personally, I think that would make far more sense than Britain switching to CET. The Greenwich meridian is in the UK, for heaven's sake!

While I certainly applaud moves to reduce the roaming rip-off within the EU, the downside to this is that, in order to make up for their lost profits, the mobile companies significantly increase their charges if you leave the EU. Two years ago, I could make calls in the USA with my T-Mobile UK phone for a vaguely reasonable 55p/minute. Now, that price has skyrocketed to £1.20/minute. Other providers are even worse, with O2 charging nearly £1.40/minute for the same call. I hope we're not going to be significantly penalised again for non-EU roaming if these changes make it into law.

Surely you need not wait until your imminent untimely death to give your trusted wife said password. Is there really a problem with her being to manage your mutual finances now?

Having two lines on escalators, people standing on the right and walking on the left, has been the de facto standard everywhere I have been (so most of Europe), and I'd assume most of the civilised world does similarly.
In the UK and central/western Europe where I've dealt with them most often, this courtesy is often pointed out by signs, and people standing in the way will be asked (politely or not) to move across, or sometimes if not just shoved out the way.

As for lack of escalators on England railways, it's simply not possible to put escalators everywhere, due to both cost and spacial issues (particularly as most of the rail infrastructure in the UK was built by the Victorians, who didn't really do escalators, and liked stairs).
That said newly built lines/stations tend to be quite accessible.

That's only because 98lite would replace explorer.exe with a version from Windows 95. 98lite could still remove various aspects of IE without replacing Explorer, of course, but the core rendering engine would still be installed. For all intents and purposes, explorer.exe and iexplore.exe in Windows 98 were basically both just a wrapper for the IE engine.

It's Alt-D, just like in a web browser. Which, considering the history of Windows Explorer, is not surprising!

Am I the only one whose first thought at this headline was the flying party building from the Hitchhiker's Guide?

I can't imagine that this new venture will be significantly more productive...