Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 12:17:57 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <1eff17be-4352-4c2a-c85b-05e0044c7dda@example.net> References: <8b262a1f-507f-ef10-e4d3-a981dca5b7d1@example.net> <655acbf6-05e5-69ff-8a44-9f7075aafa2e@example.net> <3a10433d-bf8f-7480-4d8c-191e4fd834c5@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="8323328-1566617849-1739186278=:16712" Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="3566818"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:65352 comp.os.linux.advocacy:685562 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --8323328-1566617849-1739186278=:16712 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Mon, 10 Feb 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 09/02/2025 21:46, D wrote: >> >> >> On Sun, 9 Feb 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >> >>> On 08/02/2025 23:41, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >>>>> Were you successful? Did you become a powerful technologist with wealth >>>>> and many women? >>>> I found a niche job.  Not wealthy, not hurting.  And one woman is enough. >>>> I have strange ideas of success, so that'll do. >>> >>> I did end up with many women first, then a powerful technologist with >>> money. >>> In the end none of it was that important.  It all 'just happened' while I >>> was busy doing something else. >> >> So would you have traded it for something else? >> >> My specialty is turning down women, because they do not reach my >> aesthetical standards! ;) >> > A gentleman never turns down a woman. > It took me a long time to learn how not to be one. Haha, my wife caught me, before I learned how to be a gentleman. ;) >> When it comes to the powerful technologist with money part, how come your >> ego has not been inflated to dangerous levels, and you then continuing with >> moonshot projects or tanning your self in the adoration of the the public? > > Where's the fun in that? Personally, no idea! > I'd rather watch the sun go down than a rocket go up. > > Hell is being noticed by people. This is the truth. Wealth beyond a certain point, creates a golden cage for you. I have not yet worked out where that limit is. It depends, of course, on the country you're in. In sweden, it could be as low as 100 million EUR. --8323328-1566617849-1739186278=:16712--