Hmmmmm: I'm not 100% convinced. Textiles was one the very first industries to be mechanised, but it hasn't really changed the need for low cost labour. The machines are cheap, can be moved around, an… (View Post)

I like the entirely non-binary nature of simply naming your kids by birth order. We personally went binary. And obviously, taking our queue from indices, started at zero. So, they're zero, one, one-z… (View Post)

We debated having a fixed length, but felt that would either be wasteful or -worse- we'd run out of address space and need to start over. There was also the question about whether we should use signe… (View Post)

Oh, my first posting on this was completely wrong: I assumed that she -like me- had no idea. (View Post)

Oh come on @BlancheLivermore, I was all for calling for Rayner's resignation because she dodged taxes (or at the very least took actions to remain ignorant of them). That was a serious offence: it wa… (View Post)