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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/20/20 9:45 AM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org">paulz@ieee.org</a>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Apparently I spent too much
of my adult life working at companies staffed by responsible
clear-thinking people who were good at developing a product
and shipping it. Now my daily contacts are not limited to
people who were screened by HR and a hiring manager, I am
having more and more encounters with folks who seem to live in
a different universe. To my thinking, their world is so
bizarre I sometimes think I am living in some sci-fi
dystopia. Obviously people who have enough mental power to
set up websites and want to talk about Linux can not be
lacking in IQ. </div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Apparently I have been too
long in a bubble surrounded mostly by people who do critical
thinking all the time. Can someone try to explain to me where
these other tribes come from?</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">No need to try to explain
politicians. Unless demonstrated otherwise, it is probably
that whatever they say is based on political expediency of the
moment.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">BTW, the link at the bottom
of the original email is no longer valid.</div>
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<p>You have had the advantage of spending large portions of your
adult life surrounded by sane, rational, thinking people. The
magic thinking people have always been here its just that in the
past the only way for these people to spread their madness was a
mimeograph machine and standing on a street corner. Then came the
Intertubes. The great thing about the Internet is every man is a
publisher, the downside to the Internet is every man is a
publisher.</p>
<p>In 1973 my family moved from New York to Norfolk, VA., home of
Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and the 700 Club
started out on a bankrupt low power UHF TV station in Portsmouth,
VA. The signal barely covered the area. He somehow managed to talk
the local cable TV company into carry the 700 Club and he became
just another crazy on local cable access. It was only when one of
the big cable providers picked up the 700 Club did his influence
grow.</p>
<p>It's because communication, Cable TV and Internet, has gotten a
lot more inexpensive and ubiquitous that the crazies have been
able to find each other and their madness is now a positive feed
back loop. These people have always been with us and we can't seem
to get rid of them. <br>
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<p>Josef<br>
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Josef Grosch | Another day closer |
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jgrosch@MooseRiver.com">jgrosch@MooseRiver.com</a> | to Redwood Heaven | Berkeley, Ca.
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