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Yes, you’re absolutely right, I’d forgotten about that.

I think my main point is still valid though - Godzilla is a physical manifestation of the destruction that nuclear activity can cause.

As I read on another post somewhere: “Ask a Japanese, and radiation creates monsters. Ask an American, and radiation creates superheros.”

I hate that this is even a thing.

• Godzilla is a metaphor (either intended or simply ingrained in the Japanese psyche) for Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• King Kong is a “Beauty and the Beast” love story

They are from different eras and are important films in their own way.

But we end up getting this shite because monsters must fight monsters, apparently.

It’s all a load of fucking shit and devalues the importance of each movies. It should never have been made.

Anyway, I haven’t seen the movie but Godzilla would win. Atomic breath. Come on guys, the monkey’s dead meat that you can’t touch for a hundred thousand years.

I’m unclear about the Fraud charges.

In a Fraud case, you deliberately set out to take other people’s money, illegally, from the offset.

I don’t think he did that. I think his intentions were honest but he got too cocky by providing loans and overspending. However, I feel that he thought he was smart enough to make it all back and make good, like Nick Leeson.

I don’t think he set out to be a crook. I think he set out to be extremely wealthy, thought he was smarter than he was, then couldn’t cope when things started to collapse.

It’s different from setting out to craft a scheme to rob people.

Regardless of the sentence, I’d wager he’ll do ten.

This will be a tough one to fix. There must be millions upon millions of embedded systems out there with 16-bit epoch burned in.

They’ll all be much tougher to find than “YEAR PIC(99)” in COBOL was.

Y2K wasn’t a problem because thousands upon thousands of programmers worked on it well in advance (including myself) we had source code and plenty of static analysis tools, often homegrown.

The 2038 bugs are already out there…in the wild…their source code nothing but a distant dream.

Yorkshire here. Get a train on the east coast mainline to Leeds (they’re hourly) and increase your sample size to include Northern accents this improving the quality of your report from “being south of Watford”.

Don’t forget, Porkshire, Wankashire and the Norfuck broads.

Came here to write exactly that! .

One exception would be the “MOAB”, which officially stands for “Massive Ordnance Air Blast”, but is surely unofficially the “Mother Of All Bombs” - a poker at Saddam Hussein’s statement that he would unleash the “Mother of All Wars”.

Brexit + economic carnage + small country with little heavy industry -> please let us sit one round out to dig our way out of that fucking economic shambles and then we’ll be right back on the Climate train handing out HS2 lanyards.

Brit here, Leeds centre. ISP is “City Fibre”. Fibre-to-property. 512Mbps. £27/month.

He’s going down for a long time, and personally I think he’s an over-confident, misguided fool.

But I don’t think he’s a crook, in the sense that he originally set out to be dishonest from day one.

I think his well-intentioned, cocky plans turned to shit when he found himself playing a game of cryptopoly with other people’s real money and landed on the "Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass ‘Go’. Do not collect £200“ square.

I feel ever so slightly sorry for him. His entire life is now fucked.

Hmmm yeah you might be right. As soon as a package is in the hands of Royal Mail then it may not be opened. At Customs, it’s still outside RM’s domain. The Customs guy effectively posts it into the domestic system.

Wow what a detailed, well-written and fascinating response. Thank you for writing that, I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.

It would almost be worth putting #2 to the test, just to see what would happen. As you mention it would be a legal minefield.

Interestingly (and I guess this is the same in the US?), it’s illegal to open someone else’s mail. For sure Law Enforcement could get around that, but they would need a court warrant and you’d have to pity the judge whose desk that landed on.

The law states:

84 Interfering with the mail: general

A person commits an offence if, without reasonable excuse, he—

intentionally delays or opens a postal packet in the course of its transmission by post, or intentionally opens a mail-bag.

I think that if the package was innocuous (i.e. didn’t have <b>Jeff’s Gun’s By Post </b> emblazoned on it with a drawing of a strutting Texan blowing the smoke from his revolver), then it could be tough to find “reasonable excuse" to open the package.

Joking aside, if the recipient was a known member of forums promoting hatred or violence then it could be considered reasonable to make at least a cursory examination based on “why was this package received from from there?”.

It’s legislation with good solid intent (IMHO), but it’s so vague that it can’t cover everything.

Nor yet anyway.

As we come from different nations, our feelings on the matter may differ and I don’t really want to discuss that. But thank you, you’ve made it easier to understand the context.

Brit here. I have a couple of questions:

1. If they aren’t firearms, then what are they sold as? Replicas?
2. If they aren’t sold as weapons, does that mean someone could import one into my own country?

(I have no intention of doing this, in case this triggers some GCHQ bot and my home ends up like Waco but without all the tiddies)

UK here. Can they do the maths for us too please?. Just a few billion would let us employ a few thousand more doctors… That’d be awesome…Thx.

I’m sorry, I’m stupid and not up-to-date with this.

Taken at face value, Constitutional Recognition for the indigenous population sounds correct.

So what was wrong with it?

I mean, you couldn’t be more right. This is aid-point zero.

This conflict couldn’t be more zany if it tried. Russia will be asking the moon for aid next. At least India have got something up there which Russia could steal, melt down and make into an Arquebus or something.

No worries, panic over! Unless someone else knows something else…

He’s bound to read it here. What better place to write it.

My friend does not use platforms like this. I know him better than you do.

Ditto. Both my wife and I were heavy smokers and moved to vapes. As soon as I used a vape I thought “this is the solution!” after trying to quit smoking many times for decades.

They really provide 80 to 90% of the satisfaction of a cigarette and take the edge off those moments when you damn well need a ciggie.

After a couple of years of vaping I find it now much easier to do without them for a few days, although I do like one with a beer.

You have to have been on that 10 or 20 year journey of smoking cigarettes to understand how hard they are to put down, and vaping was the tool that got me away from burning the evil tobacco leaf.