If visitors to their town library are prevented from doing anything more than checking their email, it makes the computers nearly useless. I don’t suppose there was a queue. The local paper will be interested in visitors who may think twice before going back!

There is some point to the restrictions though as they must make sure that people can’t use the council-owned library equipment for unpleasant purposes, however much it affects those with innocent purposes in mind, going about their normal harmless activities like looking at pictures of trees, flowers and beach huts.

As with so many other aspects of life, organisations have rules which are those they find the easiest to enforce, rather than ones which distinguish properly between good and bad behaviour, and whether it actually prevents the latter.

Did they manage to save Earth?

It reminds me of the Star Trek film I saw I few days ago where Kirk’s team boarded the unmanned space craft threatening Earth to communicate with its computer control. The craft looked rather like this picture, with petals and an intricate centre, but space-worn and dirty, and much less colourful.