Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On 14/12/2024 19:13, rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 11:43:56 +0100, D wrote:
 

Ahh... so they can take the children away and bring them up as perfects
servants of the state. Make sense. =(

 They may sometimes do beneficial work but Child Protective Services
strikes fear in many parents. A couple of weeks ago there was an article
about parents being charged because the 10 year old decided to walk to
town. At that age nobody thought anything of me hiking down to the hobby
store to see if they had any new models.

In the UK we have two incidents.
And attempt was made to remove a child from a Romanian family by social services. The community rioted to stop them.
In another case a Pakistani girl was beaten to death by her father while her family stood by and watched. Social services knew what was going on, but forbore to 'increase racial tension' by imposing western standards of behaviour on a deeply traditional Pakistani  family.
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     “I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.”
     ― Leo Tolstoy