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PeejayAdams wrote: VHS dominated the marketplace over Betamax but it was, by all accounts, the inferior product.
Betamax failed mostly because of poor marketing decisions by Sony (no licensing of the format, short recording times, etc.). VHS succeeded because JVC did not make those mistakes. By he time Sony realized its errors, it was too late. Videotape format war - Wikipedia
A similar thing happened in the OS/2 vs Windows wars of the '90s.
PeejayAdams wrote: I'd be hugely surprised if no-one's ever come up with a better (non-Apple) 'phone/tablet OS
I'd be hugely surprised if someone did.
Google's masterstroke of providing an entire phone/tablet O/S for free - just write your own hardware drivers - enabled them to do what they planned all along, which was to collect data they could sell on practically everyone. It also made it uneconomical for almost anyone (unless you have Apple's or Microsoft's deep pockets) to write a phone/tablet O/S.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Your Highness took an entirely new meaning.
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Actually, the queen is not at all related to this person. And you cannot blame Ms Markle for the behaviour (in fact quite legal) of some distant(ish) relative.
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No she won't - she's not related to either of the people getting married. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Shh, dont say that, it's treason! 
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Car crash? The guy's just been gifted a gilt-edged marketing opportunity.
"Pennies from Heaven" would be a more apt description.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Car crash for the Queen.
Good god she must be wondering what happened to that protected world of elite people, people whose lives were private, whose affairs were discreet, who married into the same club of people who understood those rules, generation after generation.
Diana changed those rules, and now her son has married someone of mixed race with some very colourful relatives!
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Surely to God, pretty well every person on the planet is of mixed race. It's the healthy alternative to inbreeding.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Yes. I'm half Scottish and half English and probably some other stuff (Viking, etc.) further back so I am of "mixed race" just like nearly everybody else. People only mention it (wrongly) as a "bad thing" when the skin colour is a bit different - bah!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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PeejayAdams wrote: Car crash?
Not unless she has an affair and then divorces him
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I saw the topless pics of her yesterday - I can see what Harry sees in her.
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She has been kissed by some famous actor too, when they were acting together. She has certainly got around.
I applauded William for marrying a commoner, Middleton is about as common as you get, but Harry looks to have stretched the limits of who and what a royal can marry to completely new limits! 
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Harry looks to have stretched the limits
It's what he does!
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You have the same kind of royal vision ?
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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The more I think about this, the less related they are:
Assuming Harry is already married to Meg, just to keep things easy, Meg's cousin is the cousin of the wife of the son of the Queen's son's former wife.
There's every chance that the Queen is more closely related to Kevin Bacon!
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Megs nephew isnt it?
That makes the Queens granddaughter in law the aunt of a cannabis farmer. Sounds pretty close to me!
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Ah yes, sorry, nephew not cousin - these things are a bit hard to follow.
I guess it's a closer connection than some people on the Civil List could claim!
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A cousin working on the family tree told me that I am distantly related to the Queen having descended somehow from Henry VII. If the right 250,000(ish) people suddenly die, I'm the king of England!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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There doesn't seem to be an official list of any great length, so if we ever get hit by a major plague, it might be worth exaggerating your claim a little.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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How do you know the Queen doesn't like to smoke a blunt now and then?
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