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Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 23:18:36 +0100
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On Sat, 14 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 11:43:56 +0100, D wrote:
>
>> Ahh... so they can take the children away and bring them up as perfects
>> servants of the state. Make sense. =(
>
> They may sometimes do beneficial work but Child Protective Services
> strikes fear in many parents. A couple of weeks ago there was an article
> about parents being charged because the 10 year old decided to walk to
> town. At that age nobody thought anything of me hiking down to the hobby
> store to see if they had any new models.
>

The world is strange. At that age, I did go to school myself. Either 
walking, 15 minutes, or the bus, 5 minutes. Sometimes, accompanied by my 
father if I started early, otherwise not.

Children today are over protected, and this is destroying an entire 
generation. There are always exceptions, those are what give me hope, but 
the vast majority are quite sad.