Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: vallor Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english,alt.english.usage Subject: Re: Floppies Date: 22 Sep 2025 00:07:18 GMT Lines: 87 Message-ID: References: <9fjemlxbio.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <4cnjplxbgm.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <101fck52laaigefq5tubi6i7b0qpccmuic@4ax.com> <9DOdncYo-vBzE1r1nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> <10a8mbc$1q6g1$8@dont-email.me> <10afh2l$3hcc0$1@dont-email.me> <10ag0tf$3l3a7$1@dont-email.me> <10agpn4$3qpp8$2@dont-email.me> <10ah9i6$3v8gp$1@dont-email.me> <10ai0bj$599f$1@dont-email.me> <10anapm$1de7s$1@dont-email.me> <10aoae0$1jd5c$1@dont-email.me> <10appff$1vm6v$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net TgddVAduV5eP/CONcWdW2gilWAuCrM3mNMCTb6gSpEGifIuEI9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:O9TLl1kMS0SvnXmEl0oY8oEZi/Q= sha256:V7uq4aaMEx08OjKejI33tAheuS/QYLHHUADV2AR7leg= X-Face: +McU)#<-H?9lTb(Th!zR`EpVrp<0)1p5CmPu.kOscy8LRp_\u`:tW;dxPo./(fCl CaKku`)]}.V/"6rISCIDP` User-Agent: Pan/0.164 (UA6; fe8cfad3; Linux-6.16.8) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:74789 alt.usage.english:1128615 On Sun, 21 Sep 2025 14:07:57 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote in <10appff$1vm6v$1@dont-email.me>: > Make all the fun you want of Californians but the state is the 4th > largest > economy in the world. ...and I looked it up: the UK is the 6th largest. I remember a talk given by Newt Gingrich where he concluded that the U.S. would do better with the Silicon Valley model, rather than the Detroit model, of economic development. Make of that what you will. I live in the North SF Bay, in Sonoma County. I've lived in SF; in Alameda; and in Neah Bay, Washington. (And a few months at boot camp in Cape May, NJ; as well as RM "A" school at Petaluma, CA.) Sonoma County suits me best. YMMV. Just went to my 40th HS reunion, and the topic of where we'd all ended up at one time or another came up: some folks had moved away, and came back. Others were happy to visit from wherever they flew in from. A friend of mine lives in Vancouver, and is trying to get a visa for his SO so they can move to the South Bay. My wife grew up in Santa Clara, but said she liked it better up here. Standard of living is very high, so housing costs more: Sonoma County, not as much as Sillycone Valley, but it's up there. But the people and the weather are fabulous. No tornadoes to worry about, no hurricanes. Earthquakes, sure, but we've been building for that now. We're due for a Big One someday, and that's a risk, so keep a go-bag. Then there's the fires. We had to evacuate for the Tubbs fire, which came all the way from Calistoga and took out part of Santa Rosa. We were blessed to have a modest class-C RV to load our animals into -- it was our "lifeboat". Went across town to the office and plugged in there. Kept pinging our home router to make sure the house was still there, and had not burned. A lot happened that night, and we almost lost that whole hillside. We were lucky. Others weren't so lucky, and some friends lost their homes. We gave them support and donations to rebuild. A lot of our employees were evacuees, and we arranged for them to stay at the office. My wife and I helped keep people fed, with feeds such as pizza parties. > Housing has been neglected since Reagan ran the > nation and provided tax cuts for those who do not need them, at the > same time > he cut child care and stalled benefits to Seniors to make his budget > balance. > Oh but he was a good narrator on Death Valley Days. > > Actually Californians, North and South, are questing for sanity in a > mad > world. I think anywhere you go in the U.S., you'll find jerks -- and you'll find people who have set down roots, are friendly, and help their neighbors. For me, it's the right way to live. YMMV. ObLinux: Friday night, I updated my Linux Mint, which did something to my display drivers. Had to reboot to recovery mode to fix graphics. Details in alt.os.linux.mint. ObEnglish: Use of "they" as a genderless singular: First attested: ~1370s (Chaucer). Common literary usage: 14th–19th centuries. Suppressed by grammar rules: 18th–20th centuries. Re-accepted and standardized: Late 20th–21st centuries. Note that the suppression was due to Latin-educated teachers...the same folks who say one can't split an infinitive. (In Latin, you can't, but that's not how folks use English.) -- -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G OS: Linux 6.16.8 D: Mint 22.2 DE: Xfce 4.18 NVIDIA: 580.82.09 Mem: 258G "Clarvoiants meeting cancelled due to unforeseen events."