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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 04:00:49 +1100
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On 16/02/2025 2:55 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 10:07:18 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
> (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
> 
>> Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com> wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>> For once - once! - a politician makes a speech I actually enjoyed!
>>
>> It was clearly aimed at the home market; he was supposed to be there to
>> talk about security in Europe and never even mentioned Ukraine.  All
>> that this speech has done is to turn most European countries against the
>> kind of ignorant, thuggish, self-serving America he represents.
> 
> Nice work.
> 
>> Fortunately there are still many Americans who are not like that.
>>
>> Trump doesn't seem to realise that you can make friends with a bear but
>> he will still eat you when he wants his next meal.
> 
> The history of Europe is millenia of warfare. And it's not over.

The history of the world includes a lot of wars. It's a stupid way to 
work out who controls particular resources, but  if you kill off enough 
of the people who don't want you to control them, you can get control if 
you don't get killed off in the process.

There are cheaper and less destructive ways of settling differences of 
opinion, and there have been periods when they've worked. Sadly, it's 
hard to keep psychopathic idiots out of power. Free elections with 
proportional representation have done well recently, but there are 
techniques to mislead the voters - and if you have enough money you can 
buy experts who will help you get elected. A good education system 
produces less gullible voters.

Western Europe has had that for a while. The US education system isn't 
all that good, Eastern Europe is even worse, and Russia is dire.

China has had to cope with a truly terrible writing system. To get 
access to Western technology they've had to train a lot of people to 
read an alphabetic (phoneme-based) writing systems, and it may yet save 
their bacon, but it's a pretty recent change. Computerised text 
processing may be starting to help them cope with the defects of a 
syllable based writing system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_Chinese

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney