Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1 Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 11:50:24 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <211ce27f-c7e3-a1ed-3108-37ecf0ce88e7@example.net> References: <8b262a1f-507f-ef10-e4d3-a981dca5b7d1@example.net> <036dd555-4c8b-1d1f-9a82-7f60087bd457@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2272588"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:63885 On Mon, 6 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote: > On Sun, 05 Jan 2025 23:47:18 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > >>> Add to that the ability to plan long term, and there's nothing to fear. >> >> Given the scarcity of companies that can see past the next quarter, >> I think there's quite a lot to fear. > > I'm not sure the government even looks that far ahead. It was hybris to > talk about a thousand year Reich but at least they were thinking about it. > I think it was in Speer's autobiography where he talked about designing > buildings that would make scenic ruins in a thousand years. > The government looks at most 4 years ahead. They have serfs and not customers. That's why companies always crush the government and always do better, unless they live off government handouts, in which case they are really just a branch of government.