Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 17:59:15 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <2d60ea9e-620a-9883-141c-fb9f33d03f99@example.net> References: <7896d790-e533-a390-b024-abc1edcd1c15@example.net> <253549be-ac18-daa7-6b9a-a3b41e3e91e7@example.net> <54acad70-d817-060f-5378-304258c3a1f0@example.net> <6650dffd-d5e8-0d72-0a01-ba62815a6667@example.net> <057f7ff0-2fda-0431-2ef8-e860a4772b69@example.net> <3a439b82-71cc-6aff-65dd-630c0707ff3f@example.net> <0d5d463f-af08-46aa-97e3-ef251ba64cc4@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="3004125"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:62463 On Sun, 15 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 15/12/2024 10:42, D wrote: >> >> >> On Sun, 15 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 23:15:52 +0100, D wrote: >>> >>>> I always find it interesting, that the cheap rhetorical device of >>>> connecting someone with holocaust deniers, passes unnoticed through even >>>> the most major and established media houses. >>> >>> All I will say about that is it took a while to develop the campaign. >>> >>> The teacher introduced us to linoleum block printing in the 'art' class in >>> the late '50s. Swastikas were a popular motif among the male members. >>> Today we would all be marched off to re-education camp. Japs weren't >>> popular but the Germans had a certain mystique. >>> >> >> It still happens from time to time. Didn't one member of the british royal >> house dress as a nazi at a masquerade? I also know that a few politicians >> here and there from the sweden democrats have been kicked out for having >> nazi tattoos that at one time or other were caught on camera. >> >> Then I remember when I was young, I met one guy who was into collecting >> Nazi mementos. I wonder how long he would have survived growing up in >> todays world. ;) >> > I once bought a book. > It purported to be the memoirs of a SS captain IIRC, who fought in France and > Germany, and then joined the French foreign legion to fight in French > Indo-China (Vietnam). He professed to loathe communism and communists. His > tactics were brutal, But effective. > > I think I paid a couple of bucks for it in a second-hand book store in > Johannesburg. > > I lent it to someone who didn't give it back, so I looked to see if it was > still for sale. > It was, For *hundreds of pounds*, on ebay. > > That prompted me to look for other examples of Nazi themed items. This shit > goes for unbelievable sums. People with a lot of money love the whole Nazi > meme. It is and was great theatre. Great logo. Fantastic marketing. Let's all > be supermen and kick the shit out of the [insert social group you despise > most]...who secretly doesn't want to do that? > > > (I found the book in the bookcase of the person I lent it to, she simply > forgot it, so I took it back) I am not surprised. I have some downloaded movies that are no longer available online. I also have some used books which I think might command way higher prices than when I bought them, since no new books on those themes have been released. >> I also sometimes wonder if he today is a computer security consultant. > > Far more likely he runs an advertising company. Maybe.