Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring
On 9/19/05, R.A. Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> wrote:
At 2:29 PM -0400 9/19/05, Steve Furlong wrote:
What does George Bushitler stand to gain from this machine?
There you go again...
Just to be clear, that's what I'd expect the current wave of j-school grads to be asking, not what I'd be asking. (Not that I'm particularly fond of the Prez, but I'm not one of the LLLs who say he's worse than Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and Ronald Regan combined.) (Stalin doesn't go into that equation because he was, you know, a good guy whose actions have been misinterpreted.) -- There are no bad teachers, only defective children.
-- Steve Furlong <demonfighter@gmail.com>
(Not that I'm particularly fond of the Prez, but I'm not one of the LLLs who say he's worse than Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and Ronald Regan combined.) (Stalin doesn't go into that equation because he was, you know, a good guy whose actions have been misinterpreted.)
No no, Stalin was "a very bad man" - yet, not however, as bad as Ronald Reagan et al. Furthermore the five year plans involved no bloodshed whatsoever, well only a teensy weensy little bit, nothing like what General Motors does in its well known slave labor camps, and the liquidation of the kulaks was self defense against a vicious attempt by the peasants to starve the proletariat. :-) --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG ikKvUYkvyBE7ikT3WsIGcsxLztiI6VjO7F+lbUPi 43u1MspIR5iABmysKM+9wkz7R+H7AgDDsuhTSZJ4A
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