It’s an interesting thought to consider how we will be buying and selling in another 20/30 years, now that we can use our phone to make purchases.
I am sure you are right and we are beginning to see the demise of coinage and paper money.

Have you noticed how inconvenient real money has become. Having to find some coins for parking, or a few quid for a sandwich at work because they don’t take card.
I have to plan ahead or go out of my way to get real money. Virtual money is instant. The way to go in my opinion.

Isn’t this a precursor to paper money finally dis-appearing? I would guess 95% of most peoples money is already in `bits` on a computer somewhere.
Bit-coin is no different from trading conkers for sweets or allotment carrots for cabbages.
You can already trade in virtual commodities online. Online gamers have been selling their virtual wares for years and in some instances converting virtual money for real money.
As for being a conduit for fraud. I had 192’000 shares in a company that continued to trade knowing the shares were worthless and managed it legally.

thanks to everyone at EK for an excellent evening of entertainment. The fireworks were amazing – and I think better than last year, which was hard – and nice to see the SW-36 in operation (finally!)

you just need to sort the hog roast queue now!

I went and had a very enjoyable evening. The kit and bomb talks were very informative. The Lancaster at night very evocative.
Never seen a search light in operation before (btw what’s the history of the search light?. It’s a lot smaller than I would have expected of a ww2 search light. Anyone know what it’s range is?).
I agree the queues for the hog roast were too long and excluded us from taking part. In fact if we hadn’t grabbed a burger early we wouldn’t have been able to eat.
But I can’t complain as everything else made the day.
Did anyone else do a double take watching the crew standing by the bomber. Certainly made me think.

Well the French need a two stage toilet to cope with the cack they normally spout.
Personally I prefer the two stage with after burner.

When this story broke a few days I’ve been thinking about the rights and wrongs of it.
I think it depends on the circumstances and the attitudes of those involved.
In the heat of battle or a situation where the troops are at risk or in danger, the dispatching of an unarmed captured enemy could be considered justified.
But I think in this case it’s an unjust killing and those involved should be brought to justice.
If we allow this to go unchecked then what happens the next time a British serviceman is captured? Beheading, public execution?
If you read about the war in Afghanistan the enemy are not all savages. They show courage and combat discipline.
What I would like to know is where was the chain of command?
If you read about Tiger Force in Vietnam and the killings of unarmed civilians it was caused by a break down in the chain of command. Commanders turning a blind eye.
How did this go unchecked?

What I don’t understand about the BBC is why some hold it in such high regard, above all the others?
They produce top quality TV – on occasion – but so do all the other channels.
It’s just another channel that I choose to watch or not. Let them fight it out with the rest.
The fact I have to pay £12 for the privilege of watching that one (or two) channels makes no sense at all when £20 gets me 120 channels on cable.
True a lot of that 120 is tat but there are some good programs and I have a choice.
I can’t choose the bbc. I have to subscribe.
That’s not fair.

I thought all you Spitfire bods were data plate mad!
So, what’s it say on a Seafires data plates? If it says Seafire it’s a Seafire.

Ahh, that old institution the BBC.
Easy solution. Have adverts, get rid of the license fee and they can do what they like with their money.
I may stop by one day when I’m browsing the 80+ channels on my tivo box. Or watch a film when I’m bored of netflix and my rather large dvd collection.
In fact I’ll probably do what I do now when I think of the bbc.
Not care.