Re: OT: America could go bankrupt : Musk

On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 08:48:15 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
<cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:

On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 15:06:01 -0700, john larkin wrote:
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On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 12:03:00 +0100, Clive Arthur
<clive@nowaytoday.co.uk> wrote:
 

On 25/10/2024 17:23, bitrex wrote:

On 10/25/2024 4:59 AM, Clive Arthur wrote:

On 25/10/2024 06:20, bitrex wrote:

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Milton Keynes wrote:

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Not what I meant to write, but not a bad summary of how Musk et al
operate! Milton in the good times, Keynes in the bad times.
 
I've been scooped by AEI anyway:
 
<https://www.aei.org/articles/are-we-all-milton-keynesians-now/>

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They were scooped long ago...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Keynes
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It's a much-derided town (now a city) infamous for its roundabouts and
concrete cows.

 
Been there. Had a meeting about building a tomographic atom probe, in a
former cow barn. Sort of cool, actually.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imago_Scientific_Instruments

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A most awful, depressing place. How long ago were you there?

A few hours. We were staying in Oxford, which is a magical place.

One of the dons was a pioneer in atom probing, so we did most of our
meetings there. I have no idea why we met in a cowshed in MK.

An old building here is 100 years old. Over there, it's 1500. Good
thing that earthquakes are rare, or most of England would be a pile of
rubble.