Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1 Date: 7 Jan 2025 19:01:28 GMT Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <8b262a1f-507f-ef10-e4d3-a981dca5b7d1@example.net> <036dd555-4c8b-1d1f-9a82-7f60087bd457@example.net> <211ce27f-c7e3-a1ed-3108-37ecf0ce88e7@example.net> <6250ab53-6de0-9d06-ed7c-e2950b6fc3a9@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Kg3bWEdYSoNxF76TKrvHvghLbT9GZLQxmo1LOqw2ZRxsXCDs4J Cancel-Lock: sha1:duRH2l5Syzx3TX6R5whB5t8bwFs= sha256:nPBcs2cDrIWRwqI8OhCx7TGWPLxBrvcUfAfG5Lxt3PE= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:63936 On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 11:41:41 +0100, D wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> On 06/01/2025 10:50, D wrote: >>> unless they live off government handouts, in which case they are >>> really just a branch of government. >> >> No. Government is just another branch of the companies. > > Depends on the country. I guarantee you that the government calls the > shots in sweden. In the US, I'm not so sure, but then, the US is not a > socialist as sweden. In theory the government calls the shots. In practice Harris spent over a billion dollars on her failed campaign. Where do you think that money came from? Had she been elected do you think she would have treated the people who paid for her job favorably? Currently almost every day brings news of another company kicking in a million or so to Trump's inauguration party. Is that selfless giving? Then there is the revolving door and regulatory capture. Somehow the people in the supposed regulatory agencies come from the industries they are supposedly regulating. When their time as regulators comes to an end they receive plum jobs back in the industry. The framework for the heralded Obamacare was written by Montana's former Senator, Max Baucus, and his aide. Single payer was never a possibility since it was really Big Pharma writing the bill. The aide got a high paying job in the health care industry for her efforts. Max got an ambassadorship to China. I don't know if that was a reward or punishment since Max could barely speak coherent English but at least we got rid of the bastard.