The Off Topic Topic

[celedhring]

Are you banning the spork??

If they are one-use, yeah.

[Josquius]

What's so special about pods?  There's billions of other plastic package thingys out there.

A lot of one-use plastic packaging and tools (i.e. plastic dishes, forks, straws) are getting banned in Europe.

Good. Plastic forks piss me off so much. They should be taxed to oblivion to force shops to use wood ones.
I miss old fashioned wooden chip forks.

[garbon]

They should be taxed to oblivion to force shops to use wood ones.

Maybe if they can get them to not feel like a tongue depressor going in one's mouth. Mostly make me feel like gagging.

[Josquius]

[Razgovory]

Who was watching musicals in the silent film era?

[Savonarola]

The IEEE Spectrum had a couple articles on Minitel; the French Bulletin Board Service from the 80s:

Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web

Log on like it's 1985; A Fragment of Minitel Returns!

True to the title of the last article, you can actually visit a reconstruction of Minitel:  http://sm.3615.live/

If you're a parent; show your kids this and tell them how easy they have it now.   

[The Brain]

Who was watching musicals in the silent film era?

Heterosexuals.

[celedhring]

Who was watching musicals in the silent film era?

One can argue that the music video was invented during that era. Many companies shot short films to accompany popular songs that were played live in cinema parlors.

[The Larch]

A lot of one-use plastic packaging and tools (i.e. plastic dishes, forks, straws) are getting banned in Europe.

Good. Plastic forks piss me off so much. They should be taxed to oblivion to force shops to use wood ones.

The EU has already banned them for 2021.

[Savonarola]

Who was watching musicals in the silent film era?

From what I remember, in the very early days of silent movies they'd film music hall acts and record the music separately. They didn't have a way to synchronize the sound and music; so it didn't catch on.  The relatively high percentage you're seeing around 1910 is before movies really took off as a commercial art form, so even a small number of experimental films would make for a decent percentage.

[Josquius]

Who was watching musicals in the silent film era?

I would if I was around at the time. Sounds more enjoyable than modern musicals.

[Duque de Bragança]

The IEEE Spectrum had a couple articles on Minitel; the French Bulletin Board Service from the 80s:

Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web

Log on like it's 1985; A Fragment of Minitel Returns!

True to the title of the last article, you can actually visit a reconstruction of Minitel:  http://sm.3615.live/

If you're a parent; show your kids this and tell them how easy they have it now.   

Hé oh!  Other European countries had comparable systems though France seemed to have the most success, per capita. Mongers and I mentioned the Minitel not long ago in fact.
1985 is actually pretty charitable.

[Eddie Teach]

Who was watching musicals in the silent film era?

From what I remember,

Grumbler?

[grumbler]

Who was watching musicals in the silent film era?

From what I remember,

Grumbler?

I was in my dotage by that era, so don't remember.

[The Brain]

I got gas.