Single player RTS games. Mega-lo-mania on the Amiga/Mega Drive was my introduction, and Command & Conquer really got me hooked.
Sadly the genre is a shadow of its former self now, and what’s left is mostly multiplayer focused. I miss the days of good long campaigns with slightly campy FMV cutscenes.
Video rental shops. Going into town to pick a movie for the weekend used to be a weekly thing for us.
We have a cheap and reliable black and white laser printer at home for convenient printing of stuff like return labels.
On the rare occasion colour of photo prints are needed, there’s a great little independent print and photo place in town that does prints for pennies.
Seems to be the best of both worlds.
From 16 a British person can bear much of the responsibility of an adult (with some caveats) but receives none of the political rights in return. That's always seemed incongruous to me, that someone can say, start a family, but have no say over their future.
It certainly seems much bigger change than messing with the edges, I don't think any extension of the franchise could be seen as minor.
It think it's an important step in the right direction, but yes we do need to go a lot further in other ways also.
This feels like a big shift for it actually to happen, but I think it's the right decision overall.
The idea that 16 legally a person can (with some caveats) live independently in their own home and raise a family, and pay all the relevant tax along the way, but not have their say in elections has always seemed incongruous to me. It's the young who feel the political outcomes the longest after all.
How many young people will actually turn out is another question politically though.
Younger people still trend left, but they also may trend lefter than Labour. Which could mean more splitting of the overall vote and more unpredictability with our FPTP system.
I thought the size of carry on luggage was checked at check in before boarding. It was the last time I flew.
The war in Ukraine seems quite real, and so does America’s growing isolationism and taste for autocracy. In a visibly more unstable and divided world, a greater focus on defence is sensible.
How we are going to pay for it however is another question.
The new windowing system looks like a big improvement.
I think I remember running that on a Live CD that came with a Linux magazine.
Bloody hell I’m old.
The owner’s phone:
All of the time restrictions (and more) being proposed can already be done with parental controls that are built into devices now, and have been for years.
The state setting digital curfews is a ridiculous level of overreach. The OSA and now this, we are heading in a dangerous direction.