I dare say if the media industry had lisened more closely to the potential critics, or if they at least realised that it isn't an effective way to combat piracy and too much of an expense, they might have done without it. But I guess it is a typical sort of knee-jerk reaction to early internet...
Well, maybe her reputation certainly amongst the working classes and old-Labour types up here would have been less bad had she died in '83- before the miner's strike, it being handled in the way it was. Certainly though the subsequent time in office has probably improved her reputation in...
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Played it ever?
Read back into the thread- it's been mentioned.
If CDs or their equivalents could be held off long enough, I supose they might possibly stand a chance, and might not cost in the thousands.
Sorry to bump again, but you know me and subjects like this.
I wonder if one thing that could help this along might be a format war? IIRC one reason for the CD becoming dominant is it was pretty much a standard for igital music- both Sony an Philips worked on developing it, and other...
I don't know whether this was kicked off by the fact that the ruling party in Syria shares a name with that of Saddam's regime, or what, but...
Anyway, assuming that the coalition decides against attacking Iraq, and Saddam Hussein and his lot stay in power in Iraq, and assuming the current...
Basketball also requires a basket or hoop. Football (the real one) requires less, though- a ball and something to mark the goalposts. (At least school playground football, anyway).
Or rather, all games are adapted and evolve. I'd imagine that association football, rugby, American football, Australian rules football &c. are all modern variants of a game which has been played for centuries too. Even basketball, otherwise thought to be a modern invention, is thought to have...
I think it was invented by a Canadian living in the States...
But based on something much older, which I believe still survives today over here as the children's game, rounders. (The term 'baseball' does come up in the opening chapter of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, I think...)
Just a thought I had this morning: would it be possible after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the US might lift the embargo with Cuba, seeing as any real threat has probably gone (not so likely to be a potential missile base)? Would it actually require the Castro regime to somehow be...
Having only really scratched the surface in terms of actual alternate history fiction myself (I mean, I've read some stuff but not much), I'm wondering if anyone can recommend any particular books worth reading for someone needing to get a grip on the genre? (Not just me, bear in mind- don't...
They might call for some of them, but don't forget Jerusalem is closely associated with Israel and few would want that nuking, and both Mecca and Medina are in Saudi Arabia, also so far as I know an ally- you don't want to be pissing off Suadi Arabia (bye bye oil...). (Not to mention actually...
If you managed to make it in around 1975 or 76, you at least avoid the Star Wars effect, though. How might it play out then? (Would the culture have changed enough for the female Number One character for instance? Maybe they could play up the feminist angle?)