Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Distros specifically designed for children Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025 15:51:25 +0100 Organization: A little, after lunch Lines: 47 Message-ID: <101n25d$20jc$4@dont-email.me> References: <100lcd7$30vat$1@dont-email.me> <100le5o$318dd$1@dont-email.me> <100ljn1$30vat$2@dont-email.me> <6831b9a7$0$8595$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <6832fab9$0$11442$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10131kd$28rgm$2@dont-email.me> <10184uj$3fruv$4@dont-email.me> <1019ljc$3s6rv$4@dont-email.me> <101damu$mkpm$5@dont-email.me> <101detf$nrh9$1@dont-email.me> <101g272$1gvrm$1@dont-email.me> <101k3rp$39a21$3@dont-email.me> <101lsmt$3q48r$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:51:25 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9af0f27d64947adc1eb442b37e0ce959"; logging-data="66156"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/+XF00YZfV8w8sj77S07iWnsnsdTyPawA=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:vkA/O/01VLyMOQibMBnCH3MiStE= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB On 03/06/2025 14:26, Borax Man wrote: > Of course, society would be far better if people could get together for > a shared interest, and no one made it about having to share political > views as well. That would just be common sense, right? One of my ex employees said 'working with you was hard work, but I didn't realise what a pleasure it was workjng in a company where there were NO politics, until I went to work in one where it was all politics'. Running a company IMHO is about focussing on getting jobs done for customers in the most effective way possible. The only criterion is cost benefit analysis. Is it worth doing? I wasn't there to make any political points, espouse any religions, or dictate what my staff should or shouldn't wear. Just to mange the business to make sure people had what they needed to get the job done, knew what the job was, that needed to get done and in fact did get the job done. I only once commented when the guy with the tongue rings and tats came in with blue hair...' 'You are not visiting customers with that' I said. It was gone in a few days. The problems is that today we are bombarded with political and commercial marketing telling us what we *ought* to be doing. Most from a moral perspective,. The Left love their moral compasses and social justices and all that crap. Everything has to be Fair. My schoolmaster dismissed that within a month of arriving in his class. He had fought in WWII "Life is rough, tough and *desperately* unjust, and you had better learn to get used to it" Today's whiny little snowflakes have no idea. -- "Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them" Margaret Thatcher