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: 4 Jan 2025 05:24:24 GMT Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <67707879@news.ausics.net> <366b4ad1-4849-d7a9-cade-67d1eba035c3@example.net> <35a09fa5-08b1-8121-51c7-28d3aac1cd0f@example.net> <3002e7b9-095e-c292-1202-b151f7776587@example.net> <8b262a1f-507f-ef10-e4d3-a981dca5b7d1@example.net> <21409652-159c-6d4f-8ddc-b42bae2236cb@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net IxS/szhFLf63+MY8IbsUSQB1nOoihOwmcRVB5tZZfryMDePUQv Cancel-Lock: sha1:wr5IQfdn6vyK9K2/dZLYqwj6/OI= sha256:lxRp/B+Sgh05ZimFwWEyUk6/bEgXTjWzZio3tFGnNTY= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:63721 comp.os.linux.advocacy:682701 On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 01:26:24 +0100, D wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jan 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> On 03/01/2025 13:32, -hh wrote: >>> Sea levels have already risen by 4 inches since 1993, and hard science >>> has found the primary energy imbalance reason why:  its >>> anthropometric. >> >> Sea level rise has been 3mm/yr for the last 4000 years. Nothing has >> changed > > Let me also add that the dutch have been able to handle it for several > 100s of years, so there absolutely nothing to be worried about. It is > natural, and we can handle it perfectly. Neal Stephenson's novel 'Termination Shock' is complex like many of his books. The base theme is in any geoengineering attempt to mitigate climate change there will be winners and loser. What seems like a good idea for one area might cause the Indian monsoons to fail. A main character is the queen of Netherlands who tries to travel around incognito and one of the events in a North Sea tsunami when the Maeslantkering fails. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeslantkering It doesn't get the best reviews. It's 700 pages with many threads. Some are offended by hints the Greens couldn't fix their eBike, let alone the climate. The reviews aren't as bad as those for his latest, 'Polostan'. It too is convoluted but what really set people off is it is the first in a series and ends abruptly. A lot of indie authors do that but each book is under $5 or generally free to read with KindleUnlimited, not $15 for the kindle version. I guess he's working on his retirement plan.