Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.bofh.team!paganini.bofh.team!not-for-mail From: R Daneel Olivaw Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:17:51 +0200 Organization: To protect and to server Message-ID: References: <20241014080601.00007478@gmail.com> <38fb5a91-5d00-be42-4bfe-2a05232a82c1@example.net> <1420907830.750803935.503389.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 08:17:51 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: paganini.bofh.team; logging-data="1375423"; posting-host="XBJBjenliTep7OIZ0g9xdw.user.paganini.bofh.team"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@bofh.team"; posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A"; User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3 Bytes: 3773 Lines: 47 Peter Flass wrote: > Pancho wrote: >> On 10/15/24 20:29, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>> On 15/10/2024 20:23, rbowman wrote: >>>> On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:06:23 +0200, D wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Mon, 14 Oct 2024, rbowman wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 08:06:01 -0700, John Ames wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Welcome to the 21st century, where each and every single goddamn thing >>>>>>> is just a delivery platform for advertising...it's enough to make a >>>>>>> guy wanna go live in a shack in the woods :/ >>>>>> >>>>>> Ted Kaczynski had a good thing going for a while. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> Hmm, but could it perhaps be the lack of ads that finally made him go >>>>> crazy? After all, our ads is the opium of the mind, keeping us happy and >>>>> productive members of society! >>>> >>>> At this point political ads are coming close to unleashing my inner >>>> berserker. >>> >>> Our new government has united the country in a most unexpected way. >>> Everyone agrees they are total crap. >>> >> >> The failure of our democracy, and US democracy, is that we don't have >> reasonable candidates to vote for. >> >> Starmer, wasn't popular before the election, he actually got a much >> lower absolute number of votes than most winners, lower than Corbyn's >> both times. >> >> I went through my candidates, one by one, trying to find one I could >> vote for. I couldn't find one. I think PR would help. >> >> Same in the USA, who wants to vote for Trump or Harris? >> > > I want to vote for “Not Trump.” > How the f*** did this discussion end up in a "The joy of FORTRAN" thread on alt.folklore.computers, crossposted to comp.os.linux.misc? False flag? Mission creep? Time to channel my inner Andrea Bocelli / Sarah Brightman.