[Info-vax] VSI and Process Software announcement

[Dirk Munk]

David Froble wrote:
> Dirk Munk wrote:
>> Kerry Main wrote:
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On Behalf
>>>> Of Dirk Munk via Info-vax
>>>> Sent: 28-Sep-16 9:32 AM
>>>> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
>>>> Cc: Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] VSI and Process Software announcement
>>>>
>>>> IanD wrote:
>>>>> On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 6:18:37 PM UTC+10, Dirk
>>>> Munk wrote:
>>>
>>> [snip..]
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I find people struggle to even read an email properly these
>>>> days.
>>>>>
>>>>> I dread dealing with IT support folk who, even though you
>>>> number or
>>>>> bullet-point your questions and do the old quality
>>> confirmation
>>>>> statement such as '2 (two)', etc, all you get back is some
>>> half-
>>>> arsed
>>>>> response to your first point only
>>>>
>>>> Very true, I have the same experience. Always use bullets or
>>>> numbers in front of your questions, otherwise people don't
>>> grasp
>>>> what you're writing. The same is true for reports etc. to
>>>> managers, always use bullets.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Even simple things like the ability to concentrate on
>>> something
>>>> longer than 30us is too hard for a lot of folk
>>>>>
>>>>> Yep, the world is becoming dumber by the minute IMO
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> This is similar to what was discussed on one of the US news
>>> channels yesterday.
>>>
>>> When on-air, It was stated that News people need to use a grade 8
>>> vocabulary in order to reach their max audience.
>>>
>>> The analysts stated Donald Trump has been using a grade 4
>>> vocabulary i.e. very, very simple language (I am a winner, I am
>>> great, name calling, you are a loser, high level generalities
>>> like NAFTA is bad without any specific references to what parts
>>> are bad) to reach his base audience.
>>>
>>> Interesting times.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Kerry Main
>>> Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com
>>>
>>
>> After Donald became the Republican nominee, Bill Maher commented that
>> "the question if Nazi Germany could happen in the US has now been
>> answered". What he meant was i.m.o. is that if so many people buy the
>> kind of BS that Trump is selling, that a man like Hitler could also be
>> elected.
>>
>
> The thing everyone needs to remember is that those supporting Trump have
> issues with how things are now.  Those issues are very real, and most of
> them are "good" people.

Sounds like Germany in 1933

> Some of it has been caused by "smart" people
> not giving a damn as long as the next quarter numbers look good, and, it
> goes downhill from there.

And it has been caused by the people of the US itself, by electing a 
Democratic president, and then electing a Republican majority in both 
houses of congress, and that majority had only one agenda, blocking 
everything Obama wanted. Then indeed nothing gets done.

Add to that the general idea that taxes are very bad, and the federal 
government can never be trusted, and you get a very poisonous atmosphere 
where it is impossible to start major projects like rebuilding the 
crumbling road infrastructure of the US.

>
> Not saying that I agree with Donald's solutions, because I do not.
>
> Another thing to consider, on the Democratic side there also are people
> who are unhappy, and they were supporting Bernie.  Too bad the Democrat
> leadership had already made up their mind on "more of the same".

Bernie is a great man, but that doesn't mean he would have been a great 
president. Look at Jimmy Carter, also a great man, but not a very good 
president. However, he certainly is the best ex-president the US ever 
had, he used his position as ex-president of the US all over the world 
to bring peace.

Bernie did show the Democratic party that there is an enormous group of 
young enthusiast voters on the left of what was their traditional 
position the last decades. That may help to redefine the Democratic party.

The Republicans however are in deep trouble. They did the most stupid 
thing they could have done, they started to believe their own BS. Now 
they're stuck with lots of crackpots and lunatics in their party, and 
"The Donald" is the superlative of this.

A highly respectable Republican statesman like Colin Powell can only 
describe Trump as "A national disgrace, and an international pariah".