Did you ever read any of Bank's Culture novels? The human-like creatures in that effectively sat in the gap between pets and playthings of the Culture’s super-intelligences. And it’s still a bet… (View Post)

***Cough*** get_iplayer ***Cough*** (View Post)

Alas, it's missing 'An Unearthly Child' as, apparently, the son of the writer is a loon. (View Post)

Traditionally, when a British government decides that keeping some people alive will cost too much they just outsource the dirty work to NICE. Johnson’s mistake was not sending the decision across to… (View Post)

My Mac stuff tends be put out to pasture due to lack of security updates rather than hardware failure. (View Post)