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I feel like I've seen this movie before. Cue the tanks and armored personnel carriers. Tell the uniformed dictator promising stability that he's on deck next. Meanwhile, the military police should be removing their uniforms so we can all "wonder" where the death squads came from. The middle class can practice incredulity and outrage at the suggestion that the vast majority of the "criminals" executed without trial or simply disappeared will be Black or Indigenous. Once they start killing white students, the country can insist on democracy again.

From Soup....... To Nuts......

Or PRISTINE ????

Neat article on Margaret Hamilton, one of the lead programmers of the Apollo flight computers. Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—And Invented Software Itself http://www.wired.com/2015/10/margaret-hamilton-nasa-apollo/

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Been there twice and did not get to sample the boy brothels either time!

I read an interview with one (or more) of these spacesuit seamstresses a few years ago. They were acutely aware of the life-or-death nature of their work, and made the point that they had never in their life paid so much attention to making every single individual stitch perfect. Like so much else in Apollo, it was really impressive.

"Hamilton remembers. Once the code was solid, it would be shipped off to a nearby Raytheon facility where a group of women, expert seamstresses known to the Apollo program as the “Little Old Ladies,” threaded copper wires through magnetic rings (a wire going through a core was a 1; a wire going around the core was a 0). Forget about RAM or disk drives; on Apollo, memory was literally hardwired and very nearly indestructible." and programing at MIT at 24 years old. Impressive.