Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Date: 22 Aug 2025 00:48:17 GMT Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <107f281$35moq$4@dont-email.me> <107gjq8$3iasj$2@dont-email.me> <107gvbi$3lqmd$4@dont-email.me> <107j4le$5ipa$1@dont-email.me> <107jb12$6imt$5@dont-email.me> <107o8dl$1btq6$1@dont-email.me> <107pok7$1k377$26@dont-email.me> <107rasm$20k71$18@dont-email.me> <107s89h$279li$1@dont-email.me> <107vld7$365u2$2@dont-email.me> <10842ho$7mtq$5@dont-email.me> <10847do$7mtq$18@dont-email.me> <1086brq$or10$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net S2buJfjFIWLMxO2/1ykbDAyBkKzf/DnfK8RWvldBVwSsmxQw6n Cancel-Lock: sha1:Foh1GABCYKB3xKJggX80vwvfsAk= sha256:XuQVxvslkGS4qUXvyj4k3AboBwSDiefNVcLpDEirXtw= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-11:22693 comp.os.linux.misc:71887 On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 22:03:06 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2025-08-21, rbowman wrote: > >> On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 22:46:31 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote: >> >>> Maybe too it had something to do with the people >>> writing the Coonstitution. All property owners many of them owning >>> human property. What a vile concept. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shays's_Rebellion >> >> Can't have farmers and such getting uppity. Funny how Sam Adams decided >> there were good rebellions and bad rebellions. One man's freedom >> fighter... >> >> Somehow the speculators who had bought up the debt incurred during the >> war for pennies on the dollar were made whole by the new government >> while the yeomen who had financed the war were screwed. So it goes. > > Sounds like an early version of "too big to fail". Alexander Hamilton would be right at home today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton#Report_on_Public_Credit Too bad Burr shot him about 30 years too late. At least when I was in school we had to read the Federalist Papers. I found the anti-Federalist papers on my own. The antis were pretty much correct.