Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John B. Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Job Offer Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 08:00:17 +0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <9qbetjpheo5f0gike1t2kq0co704h16ln1@4ax.com> <0saftjp1nlgbj68akbvukqa3o21j1d05gl@4ax.com> <4sogtjphlifjt0a1m8ml0gd7l75dpp4i7s@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 02:00:22 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c347a0fee47fc9da8828734e86a01f8b"; logging-data="1397398"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/xR4FYzyNq4U8QePQho481vpeZrXhSp3A=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/7.10.32.1212 Cancel-Lock: sha1:6yS71ITaVS/ze0MPLP/GS3KxrAo= Bytes: 3306 On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:22:38 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote: >On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:10:39 +0700, John B. >wrote: > >>On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 22:40:26 -0700, Jeff Liebermann >>wrote: >>>Education can also be a weapon. Education can be used for the general >>>good and for personal benefit. However, it can also be used for evil >>>and personal detriment. For example, I consider working on military >>>devices and weapons of mass destruction to be in the latter category. >> >>Why ever did you immigrate to the U.S. At war with someone.some where >>for 90% or more of their history. Even Israel has to stretch to keep >>up with them :-) > >Immigration to US wasn't my decision. I was 5 or 6 years old when my >parents dragged me kicking and screaming to the land where the streets >are paved with gold. Actually, after WWII and the concentration >camps, the US looked much better than all the other countries that had >been trashed by WWII. Almost every displaced Jew wanted to relocate >to Israel after WWII. Most of my relatives went to Israel. A few >idiots went back to Poland or worse. The problem was that the British >"owned" Israel and didn't like the idea of a mass Jewish exodus to the >promised land. They didn't allow immigration to Israel until 1948, >the year I was born: > > >What's different about US wars is that most of them involved fighting >someone else's war or revolution as a result of entangled alliances. >Other countries had the same problem, but were generally smart enough >to default on their promises when the results of a war or revolution >were not guaranteed. > >>>Drivel: I have a headache and need to stop writing. Read some history. The bulk of U.S. "wars" were not defense from attack, but rather the opposite. -- Cheers, John B.