Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Wed, 25 Dec 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 12/25/24 6:30 AM, D wrote:

  On Wed, 25 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:
 

On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 22:46:42 +0100, D wrote:
 

On Tue, 24 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:
 

On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 15:21:51 +0100, D wrote:
 

We will see. When the wife drags me on a trip to the US, we'll stay
for 2-3 weeks atleast and then there will be plenty of scouting.

 That's the condensed version. In '88 I spend from May to October
scouting out the US west of Texas. I'd already poked around the eastern
states extensively.  It's a big place :)

 This is the truth! And it will become bigger still, when Canada joins
the union! ;)

 To say nothing of Greenland. I'm surprised Denmark got its hackles up. A
cash sale versus pouring in a few billion kroner a year? It must have
something to do with Denmark's long history of losing real estate; they
want to hang on to the little they have.

 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?

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 Denmark just decided to put a billion into Greenland's
 defense. That'll be the Danish portion. Trump's little
 ruse worked - and FAST.

This is the truth! The scandinavians are a naive and easily scared lot, as can be seen by sweden joining Nato in record time.

 There have LONG been deals with the US mil ... numerous
 bases in strategic locations. This can be expanded (though
 kinda quietly for reasons of national pride).
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 The Greenlanders themselves - sorry, but it IS a low-income
 proposition. Fish, some minerals, no transport, no infrastructure,
 no way to pull it together ......
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 They'll have to wait until it all melts. Geologists say it
 will have a huge long lake in the middle. Prime post-warming
 real-estate ! Condos, hotels, mansions  :-)
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I was surprised when I read the suicide rate in Greenland peaks in the
summer. I guess it's easier to stay drunk in the winter without the light
hurting your hungover eyes.

 Be careful! Sweden has been rumoured to be very fond of suicide, but I've heard that it is a modern myth, and that there aren't in fact that many more suicides per capita, compared with other countries.

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 Maybe the threat of being hacked-up by Islamists in
 the streets has perked 'em up ? Nothing like a little
 danger to add value to life  :-)

;) I moved away instead. But yes, plenty of car burning going on from time to time as soon as someone disagrees with islam.

 From what I can tell, for a good generation or so
 Sweden had become "Just TOO Boring" - everything
 was fair and safe and taken-care-of. This sort of
 'utopia' may NOT be so good for humans.

Haha, socialist utopia maybe. If you are a billionaire, sweden is actually quite a nice country without wealth tax and inheritance tax. It also tends to be fairly easy to get time with the leaders, since it is such a small country and they want to tan themselves in the glory of a billionaire in order to secure well paid consultancy gigs after their political careers are over.
If you are a worker, you'll be taxed to death at 50%-65% so forget about trying to save or move upwards on the social ladder. I think that is unfair, but the socialists apparently think its great.

 "She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the
 sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her
 by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and
 star of many Norwegian møvies"   :-)

Sorry?

I think it was Ernest Gann who talked about flying transports in WWII and
refueling in Greenland. The fjords looked all the same; pick the wrong one and you were screwed.

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 "Earth" it ... an insanely rough, brutal, depressing
 coastline. Not a place for humans. MAYbe after the
 Big Melt ......
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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. ;)

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 Yea, they DID have farms - and then there was a cold
 wave and they all starved.
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 Today Eric the Red would own "Radical Red's Used
 Car & Truck Emporium"   :-)

Could very well be true!