Re: OT: "We're not treating this as a terrorist attack"

On 6/01/2025 4:53 am, john larkin wrote:

On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 11:18:16 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
 

On 1/5/2025 11:01 AM, john larkin wrote:

On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 17:45:19 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
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On 1/4/2025 5:04 PM, john larkin wrote:

On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 14:33:10 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
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On 1/4/2025 12:20 PM, john larkin wrote:

On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 11:30:07 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
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On 1/4/2025 11:09 AM, john larkin wrote:

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You invent people as targets for your need for contempt. You would
have been an ardent Nazi in the 1930's Germany. Tribal.
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also: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law>

 Makes sense. Nazi-ism was a tribal/racial-purity movement that killed
maybe 100 million people and is damaging the world still.
 Nazi Germany tolerated no dissent, like China, Russia, Cuba, North
Korea, Iran today.

And the American MAGA movement.

 None do notable electronic design. The Enlightment was good for
electronic design, kick started free thinking.

You probably need to read this book
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/radical-enlightenment-9780199254569?cc=au&lang=en&
Jonathon Israel distiguishes the Radical Enlightnment - which mostly derived from Baruch Spinoza - from the Moderate Enlightenment which was a watered-down variant which didn't worry the people in power at the time, mainly because it wasn't all that effective.
The Radical Enlightenment ran from 1650 to 1750. Electronic design couldn't get started until we'd discovered the electron in 1897.
I rate Alan Dower Blumlein as the first modern electronic designer. He was born in 1903 and died in 1942. His genius didn't owe much to the enlightenment, but he was brilliant at collaborating with his
colleagues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Blumlein
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Bill Sloman, Sydney