Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1 Date: 1 Jan 2025 20:38:13 GMT Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <4f7tmjplbte7cnuh2pqrh1fufs4iatv3fd@4ax.com> <1126njll2vjtnlvjhrtme7k7oe3cds496q@4ax.com> <696149c1-ea5d-8a08-6db1-8f69ede19d92@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net F+oZjUM3uEucnTgM0zj0DA7QCSBLKP1mEXkq7CtSkVDcJcrK8t Cancel-Lock: sha1:W3dOw205WLM77HPMAk4ajR+aYY8= sha256:F//ErMGslOBMi/i3FFx4lTAP0zR4sy+X6uSxi37cCAw= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:63500 comp.os.linux.advocacy:682100 On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 14:53:34 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote: > Lorry drivers in Spain, long ago, were known as gentlemen of the road. > Certainly not so in recent times. They are exploited, and it shows in > their tempers. They drive around tired. The US has regulations going back to the '30s that almost guarantee driver fatigue. A Simple description is you can only drive for 10 hours in one period and then you must be off for at least 8 hours. The 10 hours becomes 11, with a mandatory break of at least 1/2 hour, and a 15 minute vehicle inspection. All in all you wind up with a 19 hour day. LA to Denver is 1000 miles. The company mandated you could log an average speed of 60 mph, another fiction, meaning the first leg was 600 miles, which put you someplace in Utah. Then you were supposed to presumably sleep for 8 hours despite it being around 5 PM before you could wake up at 1 AM and continue on. That was the theory. Personally I would drive straight through, back into the loading dock in Denver at around 5 PM Sunday, have supper, read a while, and have a good night's sleep before the crew showed up on Monday to unload the truck. Some creativity was needed to produce a log book showing the legal times for the company's records and any nosy DOT cop. I had my adventure and went back to programming before they radio-collared trucks.