<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 2:07 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span> I think there may be a hardware solution to<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>corruption, but if I try to discuss it here, I see no possibility of<br>evading politics.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">I'm not sure what you have in mind but it <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">sure </span>sounds like an interesting topic<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span> it's a pity we<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">'re forbidden from discussing it. </span> </font></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>The biggest meta-question around is why the US is taking a course<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>similar to that Germany took under Hitler.</blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Exactly.</font></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>How long could a<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>discussion of this go without mentioning the current (irrational)<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>POTUS?</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">It would be like discussing the history of relativity without mentioning Einstein, or writing a 1000 page book about Bill Gates without one word about him being rich or about him knowing what a computer was.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> In other words it would be silly.</span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div></div></div></div>