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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 10:51:47 +0000
Organization: A little, after lunch
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On 11/01/2025 23:41, D wrote:
> Fun fact... when Ericsson built out cell phone
> networks in africa, they quickly discovered that every base station needed
> guards. If not, as soon as they were built, and the crew left, some 
> local tribes
> dismantled it and sold it as junk.

Musk got that one right with Starlink. Kinda hard to pillage a satellite 
60 miles overhead..

-- 
“Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of 
other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance"

    -  John K Galbraith