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 21:11:53 GMT Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <1126njll2vjtnlvjhrtme7k7oe3cds496q@4ax.com> <4rm7nj5bp7p6t1uojs6f6sc64netbf1qot@4ax.com> <94kbnjd3ogg051ghlbhj67ds8kf3eorm5a@4ax.com> <9d09fc36-f503-1661-c626-692f7720e545@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net XPYQkfy7yhcDwSx47sulSge9oFvTSOUvnzgj4PO0F1eRhYe5Im Cancel-Lock: sha1:rq7NhmYP7eeeQPH5NFxZRI3Dlx8= sha256:BV5EsBWrhIzv7kXy4fTXfg9cXjH2e+k5Qhegbzh6Enw= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:63801 comp.os.linux.advocacy:682831 On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 10:07:13 -0500, Andrzej Matuch wrote: > On 2025-01-04 01:27, rbowman wrote: >> On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 01:49:55 +0100, D wrote: >> >>> I think there's a sabb with an even wider one, but cannot find it. I >>> saw it in a garage many decades ago. >> >> Oh, the 900. I've seen a few of those. Saabs always were a minority >> brand in the US. I liked the old ones, but there were some really >> strange beasts like the Sonnet II. I don't know why there was a Volvo >> on every block while Saabs were driven by middle-aged lesbians. > > Volvo used to be synonymous with safety and they were built to last > forever. It was their reputation and it was very much the reality. Once > Ford bought the company though, everything went downhill. Now the > Chinese own them and I can't help but notice that they're at the bottom > in the reliability index. A friend's father gave him a new Volvo when he graduated college. He had some sort of feeling that he would live as long as the Volvo or something and hung on to it for years. After a minor accident he was irate when the insurance company paid out based on the value of the car, which was about $100, despite his paying for a policy that was designed for people with rare vintage cars. Another friend who lived in Boston had two Healey 3000s stolen which were never recovered. Sick of the aggravation he bought a Volvo. That too was stolen but the cops found it abandoned with little damage.