Re: French politics

On May 10, 7:42 pm, joseph2k <quiettechb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
John Larkin wrote:

The Europeans, at least the French, seem to believe in a zero-sum game
of employment. They figure that if they reduce the workweek, more
people will be hired to do the work. And if old people are
force-retired, more jobs will be created for young people. And that if
it's hard to fire people, more people will stay employed.

They're insane, of course.

John

Yes, like most industrialized countries they are trying to delete the right
to fail. The right to fail is arguably the single most important right
possible.

According to a hilarious book I have on Murphy's Law[1], the
FUTILITY FACTOR:

"No experiment is never a complete failure -- it can always serve as
a negative example."

Unless, of course, you don't permit the failure; then there are no
negative examples to teach us.

[1] "Murphy's Law, and other reasons why things go wrong!", Arthur
Bloch, ISBN 0-8431-0428-7. Published in 1977 (and very funny), it has
a great deal of prescient, practical engineering wisdom embedded. It
even foretells the rise of Microsoft. For example:

THE LAWS OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
1. Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
2. Any givem program costs more and takes longer.
3. If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
4. If a program is useless, if will have to be documented.
5. Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.

or, under KLIPSTEIN'S LAWS
5. A transistor protected by a fast-acting fuse will protect the fuse
by blowing first.

Cheers,
James Arthur

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