Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Chris Ahlstrom Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1 Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 10:55:47 -0500 Organization: None Lines: 99 Message-ID: References: <4RVeP.812124$bYV2.164030@fx17.iad> <08d05lx8s4.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <3uRfP.66870$2xE6.46054@fx18.iad> <7PqcneaP1-evdOL6nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@earthlink.com> Reply-To: OFeem1987@teleworm.us MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:55:49 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1489bd1cdf771035602083a562185100"; logging-data="3606377"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18N7sthc56tdZVhxWLtzAt1" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5X8hy3nGvIelfVbfKNonMWgK8/4= X-User-Agent: Microsoft Outl00k, Usenet K00k Editions X-Mutt: The most widely-used MUA X-Slrn: Why use anything else? X-Face: 63n<76,LYJQ2m#'5YL#.T95xqyPiG`ffIP70tN+j"(&@6(4l\7uL)2+/-r0)/9SjZ`qw= Njn mr93Xrerx}aQG-Ap5IHn"xe;`5:pp"$RH>Kx_ngWw%c\+6qSg!q"41n2[.N/;Pu6q8?+Poz~e A9? $6_R7cm.l!s8]yfv7x+-FYQ|/k Bytes: 6698 186282@ud0s4.net wrote this post while blinking in Morse code: > On 1/9/25 9:58 AM, CrudeSausage wrote: >> On 2025-01-09 00:29, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: >>> On 1/8/25 8:18 PM, CrudeSausage wrote: >>>> On 2025-01-08 19:42, rbowman wrote: >>>>> On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 17:53:21 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Someone was circulating the theory that Trump's (and Musk's) desire to >>>>>> annex both Canada and Greenland is the result of wanting access to the >>>>>> minerals there, which are crucial to the development of electric >>>>>> vehicles. I would imagine that there are lots of strategic military >>>>>> reasons too. Maybe the man isn't joking... >>>>> >>>>> https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/china-arctic-russia/ >>>>> >>>>> Shipping, gas, oil, minerals, fisheries...  Historically, Denmark >>>>> hasn't >>>>> done well protecting its interests since the Danish-Hanseatic War and >>>>> certainly can't defend Greenland nor is an independent Greenland >>>>> feasible. >>>>> >>>>> Canada is a far reach but with Trudeau the Lesser quitting, who >>>>> knows. The >>>>> SAM provinces might be weighing which is worse, DC or Ottawa. >>>> >>>> There will be lots of resistance simply because Canadians have >>>> traditionally seen themselves as "better" than Americans and don't >>>> want to be a part of the "inferior" culture. In reality, there is >>>> nothing better here except for the women in Quebec. They look better >>>> than what the US produces, but they're just as dim. >>> >>>    Talk/jokes/etc aside, Canada will not be joined with >>>    the USA any time soon. The culture/system/history is >>>    just too different for a good fit. >> >> Loyalists vs rebels, yes. However, most of Canada is still Protestant so >> there is already similarity there. The United States has also been a >> melting pot traditionally, but now it is more of a multicultural society >> like Canada. Clearly, that's a bad thing, but it means that there is >> similarity. >> >>>    Trump makes these statements For EFFECT ... not because >>>    he's really serious. He mostly wants Canada to deal with >>>    all the immigrants coming down. He's a native salesman >>>    and thus creates grand illusions - intending to deal >>>    somewhere to the middle. >>> >>>    With Greenland, for example, it was barely a week after >>>    he talked about buying/occupying that Denmark suddenly >>>    put a LOT more money into defense efforts there. This >>>    is more what he really wanted. As an actual territory, >>>    Greenland would be a huge money-loser. SO, real world, >>>    expect more EU and US military watch bases there. That >>>    is 'good enough'. >> >> Militarily, I would imagine that having American bases in Greenland >> would be interesting to the Americans. They have a base pretty much >> everywhere else. > > > The US already HAS at least one active base there now. > Used to have more during the Cold War. > > Saw a docu recently about a base they embedded deep in > a glacier - complete with its own nuke reactor. Soon > found out that ice was not nearly as stable as they > imagined ... the whole thing kinda sunk in and fell > apart. > > Then a couple weeks ago there was a tourist photo of > that glacier ... bits of the mil base were now oozing > out the side of the ice. > > There are a number of micro-settlements all around > the Greenland coast. Hard to say how many are US > or EU radar stations - they won't tell. > > My grand-daddy visited Greenland in the late 1800s to > see if there were any farming prospects. Answer - NO ! > Can't even put in roads, gotta hop from fjord to fjord > by boat and the glaciers are too unstable to try and > drive on top of. Not to mention they're a mile or two deep! Been reading an interesting book "Climate Crash"; it starts out discussing exploration etc. of Greenland in the first 4 chapters. It's a little out-of-date (2005). -- X windows: The ultimate bottleneck. Flawed beyond belief. The only thing you have to fear. Somewhere between chaos and insanity. On autopilot to oblivion. The joke that kills. A disgrace you can be proud of. A mistake carried out to perfection. Belongs more to the problem set than the solution set. To err is X windows. Ignorance is our most important resource. Complex nonsolutions to simple nonproblems. Built to fall apart. Nullifying centuries of progress. Falling to new depths of inefficiency. The last thing you need. The defacto substandard. Elevating brain damage to an art form. X windows.