@clacke @brianstorms @countcol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Hill

@gwagner Saudi Arabia ... remind me ... isn't that the place that makes all its money getting carbon out of the ground for people to burn?

@strypey Um ... my email address is controlled by me. Sure, I pay someone to actually run it for me, but if I don't like what they're doing I'll move it to another supplier ... as I've already done once.

@kagan The police I've dealt with (quite a few, I was a councillor for a number of years) were mostly pretty pragmatic. No point in doing something that costs money and doesn't actually work.

@kagan One version of that is the observation by the police that some young men can be a right bloody nuisance from the ages of about 16 to 26 after which they settle down and become at least tolerably well behaved citizens.

"So, at the first sign of trouble, how's about we lock them up and release them at age 26 when their brains have matured?"

No, that won't work, say the police. Because what turns these lads into decent citizens is that they get involved with a woman who says "sort yourself out or I'm off", and there's no opportunity to meet such a woman in prison.

@drj It's an awful long time ago that I wrote any 68000 assembler - this was during the development of the QL which actually used a 68008.

One booby trap I seem to recall was to do with moving more than one byte at a time via an A register used as a pointer and containing an odd number. Didn't work at all, but I have a vague feeling that this got "fixed" (at the cost of additional bus cycles) in later processors?

@f4grx @drj It was then, but I have a vague feeling that the 68010 or 20 allowed odd addresses. At a performance cost.