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In <524002d3$0$6553$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net>, on
09/23/2013
   at 10:59 AM, Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> said:

>Your description of what Ada is about sounds very much like a
>description of planned economy in Stalinist states of not long ago.
>8-)

My reading of history is that stalin gave no consideration whatsoever
to the people who had to maintain what he decreed. If something didn't
work, it was off to the gulag for them, not a reevaluation of his
planning. But "Peter and the Commissar" applies equally well to the
corporate world.

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