Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On 15/12/2024 10:42, D wrote:

  On Sun, 15 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:
 

On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 23:15:52 +0100, D wrote:
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I always find it interesting, that the cheap rhetorical device of
connecting someone with holocaust deniers, passes unnoticed through even
the most major and established media houses.

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All I will say about that is it took a while to develop the campaign.
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The teacher introduced us to linoleum block printing in the 'art' class in
the late '50s. Swastikas were a popular motif among the male members.
Today we would all be marched off to re-education camp. Japs weren't
popular but the Germans had a certain mystique.
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 It still happens from time to time. Didn't one member of the british royal house dress as a nazi at a masquerade? I also know that a few politicians here and there from the sweden democrats have been kicked out for having nazi tattoos that at one time or other were caught on camera.
 Then I remember when I was young, I met one guy who was into collecting Nazi mementos. I wonder how long he would have survived growing up in todays world. ;)
 

I once bought a book.
It purported to be the memoirs of a SS captain IIRC, who fought in France and Germany, and then joined the French foreign legion to fight in French Indo-China (Vietnam).  He professed to loathe communism and communists. His tactics were brutal, But effective.
I think I paid a couple of bucks for it in a second-hand book store in Johannesburg.
I lent it to someone who didn't give it back, so I looked to see if it was still for sale.
It was, For *hundreds of pounds*, on ebay.
That prompted me to look for other examples of Nazi themed items. This shit goes for unbelievable sums. People with a lot of money love the whole Nazi meme. It is and was great theatre. Great logo. Fantastic marketing. Let's all be supermen and kick the shit out of the [insert social group you despise most]...who secretly doesn't want to do that?
(I found the book in the bookcase of the person I lent it to, she simply forgot it, so I took it back)

I also sometimes wonder if he today is a computer security consultant.

Far more likely he runs an advertising company.
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    "Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
  George Santayana