Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy Date: 9 Nov 2024 01:42:23 GMT Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <38b4c4eb-2ab5-df94-0baa-c2d7fcdda60d@example.net> <7c5edef0-d4ec-a8fc-3f70-8ffa2a2b1df0@example.net> <2132040480.752628420.877076.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <10a1e4fa-c029-1ce7-173f-da67ddf34c16@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net cijyoYqV5fv+Dph2g/WpMQhd64tgCAtd/JiEOAmdm5B7mh3Ohh Cancel-Lock: sha1:UVFye7gIAFNwo+MjkdqeOFWuSIg= sha256:3rpsCv7KbU7XlLzZGbCnQMRY635ahrLJg1hdyhtuW1A= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:228751 comp.os.linux.misc:60796 On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 21:56:17 +0100, D wrote: > True. If you would like to experience a country with as few US > influences as possible, I'd recommend some of the enemies (at your own > risk of course) of the US such as China or a moslem country or two. > There is a certain charm to being "lost in translation", but in my case > that charm is not big enough to offset the trouble, lost time and cost > of the trip. The King Khalid airport used Forth for some of the automation so there were some lucrative contracts for experienced Forth programmers. I took a pass. In later years the company I worked for was bidding on a project for the Saudis and we were visited by them. We had an earlier project that had many difficulties. I'd seen a battery powered flying pig dressed in motorcycle leathers and goggles as a play on Harley hogs. I thought it apropos since I have a Harley and I figured the project would be completed when pigs learned to fly so I bought it and hung it from the rafters in my area. I was directed to get rid of the pig left the Saudis be offended. The Saudis left, we didn't get the contract, and the pig rode again.