billyruffian

Why is it that I find on certain websites (this one included) that some keystrokes aren't recognised when I use Safari? The letter 'e' not being recognised is common. Chrome works fine. This is on a Mac with Catalina and a British keyboard.

The video says it wasn't recognised by the Guiness Book of World Records, but it appears in the 1988 edition[0].

I can never quite believe that we're willing to waste helium in balloons.

---

[0] https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.115614/2015.115...

The BBC has done some of the work for you. Here you go https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/China_hidden_cam...

This collection is not owned by the UK Government. The Royal Collection has some items owned by the Queen herself as a private individual and some items are owned by the Crown (which is a difficult enough abstract concept even if you are British but in this context, it basically means the reigning monarch).

The collection is managed by a charity, The Royal Collection Trust, and other than the tax advantages all charities have, there's no taxpayer involvement here.

I think it was Niall Fergusson, perhaps in 'Empire' or maybe 'Civilisation', who argued that the modern purpose of monarchy is to protect the citizenry from its government -- particularly the emergence of extreme forms of government. You might not agree but I found it quite persuasive.

What do you mean by that? Prevention, detection or prosecution? Genuinely interested. For certain crimes (I'm thinking of the Salisbury poisonings for example) CCTV seems, on the face of things, pretty central to finding out what actually happend.

Also https://mailcow.email -- it's stupidly simple to get a full email stack working

I am a native speaker (UK) and concur. My grandmother would always threaten to "read us the riot act" if we were in real trouble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_Act