Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Wed, 25 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Wed, 25 Dec 2024 12:30:50 +0100, D wrote:
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This is ridiuclous! Greenland is just losing them money, and should a
war happen, they have _no_ capability of defending it either as one of
the tiniest countries on the planet. They should sell it while they are
ahead,
or possibly bargain to sell the country, while retaining rights to oil
and minerals, if that is why they are holding back. Maybe they expect
hueg oil, gas and mineral findings? But if so, why haven't they
exploited those?

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According to the Danes their expanding of the military budget for
Greenland was coincidental. There is even the theory Trump was trying to
nudge them. With the Russian and Chinese interest in the Arctic somebody
better be minding the store.

Could be. I always tell people to look at what Trump _does_ and not to listen to what he says, since that is often just negotiating tactics.

There's also the problem of the US inheriting a massive welfare state well
beyond anything the leftist even dream of. 50,000 Inuits on welfare
wouldn't fly.

Haha. Would that even be noticeable among the millions in the US? Give them a bottle of vodka or two, and they will take care of themselves. ;)

Sounds reasonable! Did you know that the vikings had farms in greenland?
I wonder how that was possible, since the only thing that changes the
weather is cars. Hmm.

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Ericsson was a hell of a salesman. Jared Diamond has a book, 'Collapse',

This is the truth! A true entrepreneur!

that makes some interesting points. He has spent some summers in this area
and describes how marginal it is. The only crop that really works is hay
which supports dairy operations. A little cooler and that wouldn't be
tenable either.
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He includes Easter Island and Greenland in places that collapsed because
of the ecology. His ideas on Eastern Island have been challenged. I didn't

I saw a documentary about easter island and they came to the conclusion that is was not ecological disaster that lead to the depopulation. However, annoyingly I cannot remember exactly what they thought happened instead or if they thought it was a combination of factors.

buy his idea that the settlers left Greenland as the maxima wound down
because they wouldn't eat fish. He based that on not finding fish bones in
the middens.  Somehow I didn't believe that the tastes have changed so
much that surströmming and hákarl got on the menu in the following
centuries, let alone the more edible fish versions.

Hákarl is the Donald Trump of party snacks! A lot of fun! I like it, it has a very strong concentrated taste, and is slightly chewy. I do not understand why people are so against it, but I suspect it is because it smells so strongly and they think it will taste the way i smells.

That reminds me. Lutefisk miraculously appears in the markets here this
time of year. It's edible, given enough melted butter. I think frozen
pizza is more popular in Norway, but those ethnic urges die hard. I brewed
up a batch of sauerbraten and rotkohl myself.

On my mother side, in iceland We have red cabbage with lamb. I don't think it is something traditional, and perhaps only in her family but for me, I associate it with lamb steak.
The most "weird" thing I had yesterday as part of the swedish tradition was sop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sop and hte liquid used is the fat from the christmas ham (julskinka) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_ham .