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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:19:18 +0000
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On 12/12/2024 09:52, D wrote:
> Massive organizations can do a lot wrong, and still survive a long time. 
> My fear is that they are repeating the errors that led up to ww2. They 
> are crushing the middle class with taxes and eco-fascist policies and 
> inflation.

There is an aphorism that a large company only has to get one chance in 
twenty right to survive, but a small company cannot afford to get more 
than one in twenty chances wrong or it goes under.

> 
> A far-right agitator will popup (hello AfD!) and say, vote for me and 
> all will be well. Since there's literally no other alternative, the 
> middle class will do it, and then it could become dangerous.

Yes. It's alarming to think that at the time Adolf was seen as  the best 
of a bad lot.

But once they let him in, they were stuck with him.



-- 
How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

Adolf Hitler