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Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:06:31 -0500
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] More 'Sam I am'
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On Fri Feb 10 09:04:57 EST 2006, wes@village.com wrote:
> ...
> But once in a while something happens that shows that it doesn't have to 
> be that way. Read _Action This Day_ about how WWII was really won by the 
> very smart folks at what is now Britain's GCHQ, including many from 
> allied countries. The thing is, somewhere there has to be a Churchill 
> directing people to be led by people who are smarter than themselves.
> ...

Yes. This has come up in many conversations recently.
The people who are smart and should know better about
computery thingies really dropped the ball and didn't
step up to say the direction was misguided. For whatever
reason, it doesn't matter now, it's all gone pear-shaped
and the wheels are about to fall off.

--jim