However, (unless you are being ironic – although I am British I have a tin ear for irony and often do not recognise it) you are very innocent about the banks.

For example, the Royal Bank of Scotland (which started insisting that people call it “RBS” – that was an early indication that somethign was wrong) left an handsome building in Edinburgh – to build itself a wildly expensive alien space station like H.Q.

It is one of the “laws” of C. Northcote Parkinson – when a company (or anything) becomes obsessed with what its H.Q. looks like something is very wrong – and it is time to run away from it.

“But Santi is not covered by Basil II” – true, but do not touch it with a barge pole (at least so the shade of Parkinson would advise).

Private-sector banks, like pretty much no other business on Earth, are focussed on maximising shareholder value.

How does any of the stuff in the video, contribute to that end?

On Basel II – it made a rotten system even worse (Spain was wise to stay out of it – but that may not save the Spanish banks over time).

Spanish unemployment is no stange thing – it has some of the worst labour market laws on the planet.

And, rather than replealing these regulations, the Spanish government has relied on spending money trying to create “Green jobs”.

Yes the policy the leftists are now trying in the United States.

The bubble was just one of many we’ve have since the war and was created by several factors. But the collapse of the banking system when the bubble burst was caused by Basel II.

On the other hand, “unexplainable” is derived from the verb “explain”, from the Latin explanare, meaning to smooth out.

Treating “explicable” as the adjective form of “explain” is clearly incorrect – they are different words with different English etymology (it’s possible they are related in or before Latin, I suppose), which simply happen to sound reasonably similar and have very similar meanings. The unconjugated verb “explicate” is reasonably obscure, but my dictionary lists it as correct. “Explainable” and “unexplainable” aren’t especially obscure though – a quick Google search finds “unexplainable” to have about a quarter of as many instances as “inexplicable”

So disappointing — the first shots made it look like you climbed in and got whisked around, Blade Runner style. Then reality intruded.

Prediction — the robots will be retired within a year.

Interesting but the word is ‘inexplicable’ not ‘unexplainable’.

And if not, are you prepared to admit that causation is a false one?

On the subject @video: I like the building complex, the concept, the competence of industrial engineers – and I like the red robots. Even though it is hard to imagine actual experience or practicality from that video.

And I could never understand people in innovative and fast-paced professions who sigh for heavyweight clumsy and unpractical pre-modern architecture.