The computer may be incompetent in itself--that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where computers are designed and manufactured.
It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted _ secretly, it was being dictated instead by the needs of technology _ by a conspiracy between human beings and techniques, by something that needed the energy-burst of war, crying, __oney be damned, the very life of [insert name of Nation] is at stake,_ but meaning, most likely, dawn is nearly here, I need my night__ blood, my funding, funding, ahh more, more _ The real crises were crises of allocation and priority, not among firms _ it was only staged to look that way _ but among the different Technologies, Plastics, Electronics, Aircraft, and their needs which are understood only by the ruling elite _
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It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted _ secretly, it was being dictated instead by the needs of technology _ by a conspiracy between human beings and techniques, by something that needed the energy-burst of war, crying, __oney be damned, the very life of [insert name of Nation] is at stake,_ but meaning, most likely, dawn is nearly here, I need my night__ blood, my funding, funding, ahh more, more _ The real crises were crises of allocation and priority, not among firms _ it was only staged to look that way _ but among the different Technologies, Plastics, Electronics, Aircraft, and their needs which are understood only by the ruling elite _
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