Yes...and I'd want to know how we invest in preserving sustainable stocks of the species that will become rare breeds. Especially the "high yield" species that no-one will want any mor… (View Post)

If not king, king-maker? (View Post)

Be careful. You'll invoke the demons of the Cambridge Cycling Underworld who will pile on and tell you you are a fascist who wants to see them dead for giving voice to such heresies. (View Post)

Ah, yes - the other one I forgot to mention is "Stalingrad" - a German war movie from ~1992/1993. It's brilliant, and my other half based a whole section of one of her Star Trek novels… (View Post)

Yes - I guess we always use "invention of the machine gun" as a shorthand for a much more comprehensive set of developments in the ability to fire a large number of bullets, continuously, b… (View Post)