…ck-busting; Americans prefer to attack specific targets with precision instruments. ‘What could be better? Our planes come over in daylight, and knock down what the British missed at night.’4 Admittedly blockbusters or blockbusting didn’t spread like wildfire after that point, as the next mention I can find is in December; but that’s the same pattern as in Britain and Australia had a four-month head start. Shortly it became quite common in all thr…
…addicts (which eventually led to his writing of the book, Drug Addicts Are Human Beings), including prescribing addicts measured doses of the very drugs to which they were addicted, with surprising (anecdotal) success. In his 1938 book, Williams predicted with a high degree of accuracy that, fifty years later, drug-smuggling would grow to become a five-billion-dollar industry. Williams died still trying to end the drug war, his uncharacteristic bo…
…litz rendered in Unreal Engine‘. Some fairly good buildings, and excellent rubble, but there’s some kind of split screen thing going on, with two ruined streets on top of each other. Now let’s try ‘the London Blitz | photorealistic‘. It’s not what the Blitz looked like, or rather not what images of the Blitz look like; but it is nicely evocative of violence being done to a city. Clearly that’s what the AI goes to when it is told to do ‘the London…
…erred him. But that we didn’t have. To a degree, Dresden was the ultimate fruit of inter-war pacifism. Brett Holman Roger: Thanks for your comment. I largely disagree. It simply not true to say that there was no ‘suggestion of “minimum force”‘. For example, the question of whether German civilians were legitimate targets was hotly and publicly debated during the Blitz (I’ve written an article about this, which you may not have access to, but I’ve…
…he only remedy seems to be that the police should have the power to eject drunken people from shelters and the shelter marshals authority to exclude them. It might be tempting to write him off as a wowser, but he has a point: if drunken behaviour is disturbing the equanimity — and perhaps the morale — of shelterers, then it needs to be minimised. Yet surely shelters are for all, not just the sober, and just because some people are having fun — or…
