Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Wed, 25 Dec 2024 12:30:50 +0100, D wrote:

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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
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.

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.