Do You Trust The Government?

No!

Get real dude! The only reason I trust white people to tell me the time of day is because it is so easy to check.

Believe that is racist if you want.

I used to work for IBM. You test the performance of computers with benchmarks. I never saw the word benchmark on any IBM documentation. They introduced a machine called a Datamaster 23 to replace the 5120. I wrote and ran my own benchmarks, a bubble sort and a prime numbers program. The old machine was almost twice as fast as the new one.

I remember at least two meetings where the branch manager talked about what an ethical company IBM was.

Oh no, you're a racist if you don't help white people maintain their self righteous delusions.

 

From the little I know about computers of that era, the 5120 was a real computer whereas the Datamaster 23 was a very good toy.

 

The better question is what do I trust government to do. How can you trust a government that you are suspicious of?

 

The Datamaster 24 had 2 8" floppy drives while the 5120 only had a tape drive. A small database program would have worked better on the 23.

But IBM also sold the Displaywriter with an 8086 processor but only distributed it with word processing software. Digital Research by Gary Killdal sold computer software for it. That would have made more sense.

But IBM didn't tell.

 

Yes, given the cost of processing power then I'm not sure we needed a 16-bit system for Displaywriter word processing. It might have been more useful in the Datamaster which I think used an 8085, which was just a couple of instructions beyond an 8080 - SID and SOD, and only a certain amount quicker.

 

IBM had different divisions. The Datamaster was by the General Systems Division and the Displaywriter was from the Office Products Division. I was a Customer Engineer (on site repair tech) for the GSD.

I don't know how much the divisions cooperated at the design level.

 

I trust the government somewhat. As Daniel said, I trust them more on some issues than I trust some others.

For example, I trust my country's government run health insurance over a profit minded private health care company system. The government in that position at least in theory holds our health as it's top concern, not trumped by profit.

 

The U.S. 'healthcare system' is based on commission, so the more goes wrong the more they make. Although they get some details right, the overall picture shows a lack of good results:

 

Yes. There is profit motive to deny you care. The top priority of the health care system isn't health care. At least with a government system it is theoretically.

 

wait, so you don't want more government, big Government forcing things upon you, and telling you what you can and can't do?

What are you, a republican that values morality, logic, and the Constitution or something? geesh! people these days! lol.

 

There's a major fault in democracy, that a candidate can lie a lot and then do the opposite of what he said he would do.

Joe Biden destroyed national security by opening up the Southern border and started a major war.

Stupid Zelensky who ran as the peace candidate in the 'servant of the people' party, cooperated in starting that war and in refusing to negotiate.

I don't think that's what his people wanted either.