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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 21:16:59 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:44:25 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2024-10-17, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:39:21 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>
>>> On 2024-10-17, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 18:48:39 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, far better to bring in the hyper-capitalists who will sell us
>>>>> all out for a dollar.
>>>>
>>>> Sell us to whom?
>>> 
>>> The highest bidder.
>>> 
>>>> Whose money is it doing the buying?
>>> 
>>> Our own, after they take it from us.
>>
>> How do they take it from us? There’s no law that says we have to hand
>> it to them.
> 
> How about highly persuasive - or coercive - marketing practices?

Are people that dumb?