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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Peter Flass Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 12:04:35 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: <1765470015.751141668.284691.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> References: <20241014080601.00007478@gmail.com> <38fb5a91-5d00-be42-4bfe-2a05232a82c1@example.net> <82bcedf2-be4a-a2da-3f77-fbbed147ef30@example.net> <689497968.750888255.940557.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 21:04:36 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="fe450107674df59c4520e7f2adc0d8b3"; logging-data="579803"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/YCRgl3omkqjCualxFStT8" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.3.1 (iPad) Cancel-Lock: sha1:82eSc4AiGiUATp1TflS/Q3iEXUc= sha1:SHapxmcW5F/oL8VeIxiYV0DmTcA= Bytes: 2908 rbowman wrote: > On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:39:22 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > >> Still, those stories of German businessmen meeting with their U.S. >> counterparts in New York in 1940 are a bit chilling. > > https://www.americanheritage.com/how-america-helped-build-soviet-machine > > "In the 1920s the cream of American firms involved with automobiles, > electricity, and workplace management were eager to sell the state of > their art—give or take a few years—to the “Reds,” despite powerful > anticommunist voices on the right. The Soviets were ready to buy, despite > their aversion to capitalism. (They distinguished, as many Americans > cannot even today, between America’s history-shaping means of production > and our free-enterprise economic superstructure.) The United States had > never enjoyed greater worldwide respect—or envy—than after World War I. > The Soviets believed that the American system of production could > consolidate the Bolshevik Revolution." > > https://it.usembassy.gov/america-sent-gear-to-the-ussr-to-help-win-world- > war-ii/ > > Which was the evil empire depended only on who lost the war. > The Russians killed a lot more people than the Germans. They’ve just managed to mostly keep,it under cover all these years. -- Pete