It is barmy. It is also not true. the slots are controlled by independent bodies for each country. The ACL in the UK is perfectly capable to postpone the rules under these circumstances and in fact for certain international slots it seems they did.

This is just more baseless anti EU FUD from our hopefully soon to be ex-members the UK.

The letter the Secretary send that you can find on twitter is addressed to the ACL, the UK independent body that manages the slots. It has precious little to do with EU rules. Secondly, the UK body is prerfectly capable to postpone the regulations, in fact they did just that for certain internation slots. And lastly, this is as much if not more the result of international regulations, not EU ones. Stop posting this anti EU nonsense.

Indeed.. And it is trivial to figure out that the UK Transport secretary send the mail to the ACL which is a UK entity who manages the slots. In fact, all countries do it this way and the rules are more or less international, but the ACL is perfectly capable to suspend this rule as they all ready did on certain international slots. This anti EU FUD is beginning to get really tiresome. Perhaps the UK should invest that time and energy in actually getting the hell out of our union once and for all. We are better of without those obstructionist, non team playing idiots.

The problem is data.

Being able to access data storage will be critical and no amount of 6502 or Z80's will help with that. The next issue will be communications. For this, you do not really need microprocessors initially. The notion that some event would throw us back into the stone age is not realistic in any way. It is not like people would suddenly forget their education or what life was like before the event.

At worst, the world would be set back to early 20th century standards, a state which arguably a lot of the world still experiences to this day. But then with any luck, books about practical engineering, physics, history and so on will survive.

Rebuilding means communicating this knowledge in some way, probably radio but at least 1 computer with USB in every community would also do nicely.From this springboard state, the world would see new silicon production in under 2 decades at worst.

And serious podcasts and vlogs willingly plug scams like VPN services lying about those glorified proxies protection privacy and security. Ads are an archaic, unethical and must go.

Manipulating photons willy nilly at least sounds like the start of such technology.

I doubt it is possible though as the only field that does such a thing is gravity and that is only by a tiny amount with massive bodies like the sun.

Suppose we'd have a machine that could turn energy into a very specific gravity well in a certain location. Given Einsteins famous equation, would that not mean having to generate a massive amount of energy to "simulate" that gravity producing mass?

Surely it would require far more energy than the photons carry to Earth. In that case, why not simply use that energy transmitting technology to simply send out our energy surplus?

In fact I am in the middle of a Nog episode when I saw this. S03E25. Bit weird and sad.

Well, you would be wrong then. SystemD has done more for Linux than any small anal retentive cabal of idiots have done in decades. Your dislike of what was needed for Linux to make the next step is just as inconsequential as your wish for it to remain some small esoteric semi-skill you can brag about to people who don't give a toss.

And efforts to circumvent it just wasted time and energy that could have gone into making Debian better.

Indeed, the though of a company whose primary product is the personal information of its users is more one of fear than amazement.

Ah, one shitty company asking for help from another shitty company.

They could just spend a small amount on a campaign that tells people why and how to install ad-blockers and pi-holes.

"The Coliseum in Rome isn't news, agreed?"

The what?

(Colosseum)

That truly sucks.. But.. I thought that sub 10K /. members were practically immortal god like creatures..

"One of my worse bike crashes was much like that"

This is what I find fascinating.. One of your worst crashes, which implies you have several bad ones and a number of less serious cycling accidents.

My main mode of transportation has been the bike for the last 35 years. The number of accidents I have been a part of during that time is 2 or 3 and those were very minor altercations resulting in no damage or injury and they did not involve cars at all. This is not the result for a lack of trying either. In my... formative years, I have had BMX bikes, mountain'esque bikes, fast sporty bikes and flimsy cheap bikes.

I do recognize that cheap bikes or poorly maintained bikes are more... error prone. In fact, all of my near accident experiences with bikes are due to cheapness or lacking maintenance during operation. There is such a thing as a bad bike. Poorly designed and constructed bikes appear often in countries with no cycling culture. I think it is criminal that, for example in the USA, people are sold tour-bike facsimiles as a mode of transport in cities. That is absolutely nuts!!!

In a busy city, regardless of cycling infrastructure, most, if not all commutes are equally fast or faster on a 3 speed folding bike compared to a 27 speed Giro D'Italia resembling ultra-light racing bike. The only difference is that the folding bike is safer because you are seen better and you can see more yourself.