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Whilst a Carrington or solar storm are expected to take out satellites, substations and Datacentres. What is the likelihood of them causing battery operated vehicles to explode?

So what about the millions of PCs that have been unnecessarily thrown away? The $billions pointlessly wasted? But the cynic in me wonders if it is to install the Win11 spyware onto PCs that their owners cannot afford to replace and may just go and buy a RaspberryPi5, or a Chromebook. As I have...

An update from a UK newspaper today.

Like I said, I simply installed it into a folder that I had created. I have located a very, very old install instruction and just amended it by removing the company and program names. Maybe that will help. Without spending quite a lot of time I haven't any details about later improved versions...

How is this not theft? How different is it to someone entering your house and then stealing something. The thief sis doing it because they understand and believe it will be to their benefit and not yours. How different is that to what Microsoft doing for their sole benefit?

I always installed RunTime on customers' PCs to prevent them running the program using a different version of Access to my developed version. If they had the same version of Access installed, I still used RunTime, just in case they installed a later version afterwards. But mainly because I...

Tony Benn, Clinton and Jo Brand....what are you doing with rubbish like that on your shelves? Surely you haven't paid for them? Maybe it's a bit fuzzy because whoever took it was shaking with embarrassment? You'll never sell them if that is the intention.:)

On the Bovaer and the Gates equivalent Rumin8, organic farms cannot feed those synthetic feed additives to their cattle. Hopefully, only buying organic milk, cheeses and yoghurt will avoid any future issues. We'll see. Last week I did see some advice that those additives should not be Fed to...

Those in the USA may have a problem with her Moss Side, Manchester accent.

Giving a bunch of goat herders, just off the boats, jobs on road repairs is proving to be a mistake. However, I have been told that the person in charge of this gang was Angela Raynor. Which may just explain it as she has only just started doing sentences and things. (for those in the USA...

A knowledgeable synopsis from the Dos, which after reading it you have to conclude - "why am I eating anything with it in" It is in sliced meat over here. I first saw dextrose, or fructose in the sliced meat in France maybe ten years ago. Then not long after it was in ours. So not eaten any the...

Big food uses all sorts of scams when displaying ingredients. The once ubiquitous E numbers have mainly disappeared. They are replaced by super, super processed natural products. Basically they are identical to E numbers but are listed as their original name. Normally if you see that an...

Correct! It works perfectly and will probably be quicker than my Function that does the same. Cheers for that.

@cheekybuddha I usually do use + and prefer them. Basically as always used them in other languages from way back. I'd actually tested it out on one of my address tables before I posted in #5 Thanks anyway.

Thanks for that Colin. Sainsburys isn't handy for us but next time I'm passing I'll call. Only really use them for the occasional Argos order.

@Gasman & @arnelgp Impressed with those. I've never thought of doing that in Dlookup() & not indicated in my Language Ref. Maybe the time I've spent on queries I'd rather not think about! Rather than showing addresses vertically, I'll often concatenate addresses onto one line on Forms & Reports...

In England it is difficult to locate tomato puree that isn't in a lead squeeze tube. The largest supermarkets only do it in lead. When we come across it in tins we stock up.

If I'm not familiar with something, I'll just check if there are emulsifiers in the list. If there are then it goes back on the shelf. The YUKA application on the mobile phone is worth downloading and can give you a few surprises. ( https://yuka.io )

I read years ago that Brits retire out to France, Spain, Greece, or somewhere that was great to go on holiday to. Then within a few short years have drunk themselves to death out of boredom. I looked around and thought that there were plenty of the retired doing the self same thing here. So I...