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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: nice layout
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:57:10 +1100
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On 24/03/2025 10:08 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:44:39 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/23/2025 1:37 PM, john larkin wrote:
>>> On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:19:27 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 3/22/2025 10:48 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
>>>>> On 23/03/2025 9:28 am, john larkin wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:15:43 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
>>>>>> <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 3/22/25 16:13, Phil Hobbs wrote:
>>>>>>>> john larkin <jlArbor.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://regmedia.co.uk/2023/03/09/dutch_shutterstock.jpg?
>>>>>>>>> x=954&y=477&crop=1
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ;)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Of course with a square package and no pin 1 mark, it’s impossible
>>>>>>>> to tell
>>>>>>>> whether the glorious achievement is Dutch or French.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Of course the EU will convene another summit and fail to decide, as
>>>>>>>> usual.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Phil Hobbs
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I sometimes think that huge, irresolute governments are good.
>>>>>>> They can't decide on new regulations to bother and impair us.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jeroen Belleman
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Better yet, they can't enforce them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Some small portion of the population is actually productive. We make
>>>>>> the food and power and roads and buildings for the rest.
>>>>>
>>>>> John Larkin doesn't understand much, so it looks that way to him.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Most government employees are useless or worse.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you don't understand what they are doing. it can look that way.
>>>>>
>>>>> The anti-government propaganda which has formed John Larkin's thinking
>>>>> on the subject is paid for by US industry, which wants to be free make
>>>>> as much money as possible by organising itself into cartels and over-
>>>>> charging its customers.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/big-myth-9781635573572/
>>>>>
>>>>> The same author's also wrote
>>>>>
>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt
>>>>>
>>>>> which is about the climate change denial propaganda machine which has
>>>>> formed John Larkin's opinions about climate change.
>>>>>
>>>>>> But if we fire them, they will just join the existing mob of useless
>>>>>> drones, so maybe not much will change.
>>>>>
>>>>> If it did John Larkin would only notice if his favourite propaganda
>>>>> sources told him that it had. The US education system does seem to churn
>>>>> out a lot of gullible suckers, and Trump does seem to want to make sure
>>>>> that it doesn't get improved by any Federal government intervention.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Despite having a personal admiration and fascination for them Musk
>>>> sometimes forgets that a lot of people still don't like Hitler, Mao, and
>>>> Stalin:
>>>>
>>>> <https://archive.is/SNNyw#selection-857.0-869.170>
>>>
>>> Musk does invent things, and is pretty hands-on.
>>>
>>> You guys should try designing some electronics. It's an activity that
>>> rubs your nose in reality.
>>>
>>
>> He seems to have given it up to be a politician/social media
>> "influencer", he can't have been that good...
> 
> As the richest person on Earth, he must have done something right.

He seems to have been better at buying up people who did know what they 
were doing and needed more capital, that he was at inveting stuff for 
himself.

US venture capitalism is all about backing twenty companies and 
recovering all the money invested from the one that was worth buying.

> I don't think he's being paid for the DOGE thing. It's a volunteer
> public service.

Like Carrie Nation.

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

Musk's objections to bureaucracy seem to be just as intense as Carrie 
Nation's dislike of alcohol, and even more poorly rationalised.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney