Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy

On Thu, 1 Nov 2024, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

In comp.os.linux.misc The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 31/10/2024 18:17, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2024-10-31, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

If you reject 'white mans' knowledge on racist grounds, well bye bye hi
tech.
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And I suspect that is what will happen. If the chinese dont take over,
the barbarians will. And will be welcomed by those who have been taught
to hate their own culture and fear science.

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It's odd, though, how these barbarians, however anti-tech they may be,
manage to hold on to enough technology to create weapons.
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Or are they simply paying someone else?
Only the Iranians have any technological nous.
Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Morocco, Algeria..,Somalia...
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Not exactly putting men on the moon are they?

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Well you could argue that the USA paid Germans to put them on the
moon.

Apart from the fact that the US had rocket research going on in parallel, Germany and the US are very much part of the same cultural hemisphere, so I don't think that is a good counter argument.
Relying on Mr. von Braun no doubt accelerated the research.

Videos on YouTube of how they make things in some of those
countries are facinatingly backwards in terms of tech, though often
clever in their own way.
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Smartphones seem to be universal though. Somehow the one piece of
tech I choose to live without is the only luxury that people in the
poorest countries appear to always seek out.
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