On Tue, 20 May 2025 17:26:55 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Worth it. But the cost will be $5 trillion.

There's 3 trillion coming from DOGE. Oh no, wait...

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On Thu, 22 May 2025 09:01:56 -0700, Paul S Person
<[email protected]d> wrote:

A related theory suggests that this caused the Soviets to modernize,
that is, move to computers. Which they of course "invented" after
careful examination of American PCs. This helped with the clerical
problems, but it produced two more:
-- printers/photocopiers could be diverted to print /samizdat/ books
-- networking could send file copies of /samizdat/ books everywhere to
be printed out everywhere
which made control of publishing (ie, censorship) a lot harder.

I know there were Soviet knock-offs of the Apple II (I saw pictures in
computer magazines) so would presume they had either built or knocked
off more powerful machines back then and subsequently.

No question the fact that the Internet is so internationalized and
distributed is anathema to totalitarian folks.

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On Fri, 23 May 2025 08:17:07 -0700, Paul S Person
<[email protected]d> wrote:

Not gonna happen, just wishful thinking on your part. Three million=20 >>people a year are joining Medicare (the last of the baby boomers), 65=20 >>million or so at the moment, and one million a year are leaving. That=20 >>is a huge voting block. And seniors vote in the USA.

That's the common belief -- and I share it.

How is that true? I know I have only missed one election (federal,
provincial or local) since coming of age and THAT was deliberate since
I was moving 1500 miles away 6 weeks after the election and didn't
feel I had the right to vote for legislators since I'd be paying all
my taxes in another jurisdiction far away.

(I kinda got into that mode after seeing my grandfather run
unsuccessfully twice for federal office - for one of the major parties
but which wasn't strong in that particular district - though he did
sign up the man who eventually DID take that seat for the party 2 or 3 elections later and held it for 15 years)

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On Sat, 24 May 2025 12:58:06 -0700, Bobbie Sellers <[email protected]> wrote:

No we send our young teens to work in poultry packing plants >and in other dangerous and unhealthy jobs. In case you had not heard >Southern states particularly are repealing Child Labor laws, after all what >is there to do with all that learning after the 8th Grade?

I dunno - I did my pre-calculus and first calculus classes in high
school after 8th grade and that's somewhat important in engineering :)

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On Sat, 24 May 2025 20:39:34 GMT, [email protected] (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:

No, the people of the USA voted the thieves out. And for sanity.

No, 1/3 the electorate didn't vote at all. So really, about 25%
of americans actually voted for the orange clown.

So are you arguing for the Australian system of mandatory voting?

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