Taking the historical view
Belgarion, can you please, please, please stop lecturing me to read "Dirty Politics". Any more and you'll have me thinking that you're in cahoots with the publisher!
The book simply details the mechanics of what was already quite apparent.
When people decide to "do whatever it takes" to ensure that they "win at all costs", they generally demonstrate that they're not as clever as they think they are, and that they tend to have an under-developed sense of judgement.
I lean towards considering the present mess in terms of the 1972 US Presidential election. Nixon and his allies were going to win. But to "make sure", they did all sorts of unnecessary dumb stuff. And got pinged for it.
Nixon won the election and lost the Presidency.
Have The Germans Been Here Before ? ? ?
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belgarion
But very, very slow GTM. And unlikely that your suppliers or customers would accept it.
Once those "grubby envelopes" of yours get moving, Belg, it's security not speed that's important. For all parties to the transaction.
From The Guardian of 15th July:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...g-surveillance
"German politicians are considering a return to using manual typewriters for sensitive documents in the wake of the US surveillance scandal.
The head of the Bundestag's parliamentary inquiry into NSA activity in Germany said in an interview with the Morgenmagazin TV programme that he and his colleagues were seriously thinking of ditching email completely.
Asked "Are you considering typewriters" by the interviewer on Monday night, the Christian Democrat politican Patrick Sensburg said: "As a matter of fact, we have – and not electronic models either". "Really?" the surprised interviewer checked. "Yes, no joke," Sensburg responded."
Hopefully, Warehouse Stationery also sell typewriters.
But, either way, I rest my case. . .