On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 12:12:16PM -0500, John Foust via cctalk wrote: > At 09:15 AM 10/18/2022, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote: > >>Own your land. > >>Museum or individual. > > > >You never own your land. They can always take it. > > Far more probable than someone taking your property? Wanting to give it up. > Needing to give it up. Or your death, and then someone else wants and needs > to get rid of it. > > A year ago today, someone made a great offer on my office building and I had > less than 30 days to move out 30 years and 4,500 square feet of crap. > I managed to down-size into about 1,500 square feet.
Some time ago I gave an advice to this group. Ok, it was half tongue in cheek, but the more I read this thread, the more it seems like the only viable way for classic hobbists. I.e. it looks not as stupid as depending on goodwill of some future people, benevolence of the rich etc. Basically, my advice was to make a friend for c-tech, either have a friend in government or a friend in some well established church. It can be taken further - make preservation of old tech into the constitution. Or, build a religion around it. This way, scraping functional item would become federal offence or even a sin. Repairing broken item and making it useful would become... well, I am not sure. Generally those long term institutions are good in castigating here and now, while promising good thing in a future (if you follow their rules), so I guess it should be something like this - those who get enough points (repair enough S100 cards) will be allowed to... dunno, you would have to fill in the gaps. Otherwise, all collections are subject to random screwups, evictions, vandalism, jokery (in my country, from time to time, one joker or another burns churches, old, wooden, centuries-old, for the reason known only to them - perhaps they think it is funny or are mentally fucked, so destruction is only going to be mitigated, postponed, but not stopped). If gubmints and churches smell too bad, I advice befriending scouts. You (c-tech hobby, c-computer collections) need a friend that is rooted for by the people. Not because it can give money, but because of some non-monetary achievement. A lot of people do various deeds to defend constitution or come to clean their parish, but AFAIK not for the money. Just MHO, as I am not quite a hobbist (just reading about old stuff from time to time). -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com **
