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At least with this government it's a self solving problem. Two or three more years of them running the country and they'll be able to ask for volunteers and get all they need. .

Or perhaps the children were the ones doing the target practice, on the pets while waiting for a spent battery. .

The Tour De France is starting from Nice shortly today with lots of fans already present and no doubt the route for the next three weeks will be lined with tens of thousands of fans as usual. Seems a handy way of distributing the current big infection surge around the country, ensuring the...

A great ride and thanks for sharing. Not trying to set up a competition, but of all the many videos I've watched over the whole 14 year life of this forum, this is the winner. Of course you did have a little bit of help from that fantastic scenery! ;) .

No. This government will probably divide our figures by ten and declare that what they are suffering is specifically an EU strain, saying that's backed by the science and adding how lucky we are to be out of the EU. .

I'm not even confident of that time frame Ross. The reason governments are so keen is their potential to eliminate the human caused accidents. However, as the problems increasingly become insurmountable I think it far more likely that we'll settle for the obvious compromise. Retaining human...

I'm definitely against handing the driving I enjoy to automation, even if it were possible, but not against alternative means of transport. That said, there's few things more boring than seated in an airliner with someone else twiddling the controls. .

As I've previousl;y acknowledged on this subject, I haven't ruled out all circumstances and have said there will be of course be instances for driverless cars to be used. Indeed they already exist in public use. But this is what I posted and you quoted: "You won't see them replacing our...

I did know, but there's also the evolution by elimination which you seem to be discounting, a.k.a survival of the fittest. That may already be in operation to a small degree with Covid-19 in high population density areas, if London is anything to go by. .

No I won't and there's need to lecture me on progress, I've been watching it since I was born into an environment not far short of a century ago that still had many Middle Ages elements. I've been all SSD for many years, and my website provider switched all their servers to them recently, but...

As I've long maintained, we will never see them. They are impossible in our infrastructure and we aren't going to be able to completely replace that. The way we are going with the world and its economy we'll be lucky to even survive with what we've got now. .

Not so, the infection does have effects in any age group, albeit to varying degrees, so does have an evolutionary effect. And as I posted, a long term policy. .

Fully agree, but there is another way. Long, long ago Harold Wilson as PM was promoting it: Forge ahead with mechanisation and automation in what he called the "White hot heat of technology", with the aim of creating his "age of leisure" by the elimination of most of the work for subsistence...

It's the law, or don't you have that in Leeds? .

Another vote for Schwalbe Marathon Plus tyres, one slow thorn puncture in one since 2007, and that so slow I rode six miles home on it with a single quick top up of air. In contrast my tries with slime always ended in failures to repair and a horrible mess to deal with. A thought prompted by...

The problem is though is that it's a moving target, and why we've always failed to produce a vaccine against the common cold despite huge international effort. Our human immunities are much better than vaccines at dealing witn moving targets, just look at all the things we catch and easily...

No I think this is entirely sensible. After all, unlike the rest of the workforce, they demonstrably do little that's useful, sensible or productive, so no point in going to the Commons. .

Does it really matter long term though? If death rates stay very low, especially if they are mainly of the elderly, while the infection rate constantly increases, that will inevitably eventually lead to immunity due to evolution. If a vaccine proves impossible as might well be the case...

One major City of London company has made the option a right now. I suppose it's much easier to implement in the financial sector. .

You're lucky the local kids don't practice the "Knock, Knock Ginger" game! Knock, knock, ginger (also known as knock down ginger, ding dong ditch, chap door run and numerous variants) is a prank or game dating back to 19th-century England, or possibly the earlier Cornish traditional holiday of...