Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 09:25:53 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2024-12-27, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
 

On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 21:41:29 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
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   Read up on the Italian and Greek city-state eras.
   The "town over the hill" was always attacking.

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Thucydides got an Amazon best seller out of it. If the bible can be
believed the tribal god was big on genocide when somebody else was
living on the land he gave you. That hasn't changed a bit.

 
I once set myself a project of reading the Bible end to end, rather than
depending on other people's summaries.  I bogged down around I Kings -
all that violence was getting too depressing.

I don't know if I ever made it that far. Ecclesiasticus (not Ecclesiastes)
isn't too bad; it reads like Hesiod or the Havamal. The first time I made
it through the NT was 'Good News for Modern Man'. It was more or less in
English and about all I had to read at the time.

As for the rest I'm surprised it preserved. Joseph's brothers sell him as
a slave. He wheedles his way to second in command in Egypt and sets up a
scheme to store all the confiscated grain in the good years. He also
invites all his friends and relatives to share in the good times.

Bad times come and he sells the grain back to the starving farmers, taking
all their land. The Egyptians get pissed off so Joe and his tribe call
down some plagues, steal everything that isn't nailed down, and beat feet.

Fine, upstanding story...