Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: OT ; Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 10:33:33 +0100 Organization: A little, after lunch Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <1smdnSjX3YoxgWf7nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@earthlink.com> <851708060.749423067.699188.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <1511514198.749696950.187154.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2024 11:33:33 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3e495bff133823aa2acdd6f619ee470d"; logging-data="197589"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19kKXqy8Ovf2n9FHTJ+PLTe9MXBNN2lglE=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:euGRBoWJNGBAylRy/fmsRWN8J04= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <1511514198.749696950.187154.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Bytes: 2899 On 04/10/2024 02:11, Peter Flass wrote: > 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. > And political economists are shaking in their shoes, since government debt is a reverse Ponzi scheme and always requites more people to pay the accumulated interest. Hencc mass importation of migrants -- "Women actually are capable of being far more than the feminists will let them."