Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Peter Flass Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: OT ; Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2024 18:11:59 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 15 Message-ID: <1511514198.749696950.187154.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> References: <1smdnSjX3YoxgWf7nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@earthlink.com> <851708060.749423067.699188.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:11:59 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e6776f1b3738bbe19c96a9e575767c31"; logging-data="4148418"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18KT+IUbdfGmhFwUce19jmQ" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.3.1 (iPad) Cancel-Lock: sha1:54NdDE0ClzgZ9GWWCuDHxDfx8Gw= sha1:c8rUjC/a/4yfV61/md8BvIVA8eE= Bytes: 2495 Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Thu, 03 Oct 2024 23:55:51 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > >> Thomas Malthus figured this out over 200 years ago. > > He was wrong, though. Human ingenuity (i.e. science and technology) kept > things going long after he thought they would fall apart. > Population in developed countries is now declining. Europe, US and Canada, Japan, even China. Hucksters are now complaining about this, as they have fewer people to peddle their junk to. -- Pete