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 00:29:04 GMT Lines: 74 Message-ID: References: <9fjemlxbio.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$1@dont-email.me> <5FLzQ.110783$OHH2.12315@fx14.iad> <10aoava$1jlb8$1@dont-email.me> <10aq40u$226u4$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net JfpyWXdOsXg815ShYaIBGgt96HulUeToVa9HofcPd5p41gp8jn Cancel-Lock: sha1:0lDlUHNqpP0Csy+Wzc4YyXpcwFc= sha256:+uSwv0J0Fh9pNA26J75EEKYr6yCDjMfF7YLEJ9aDd0E= 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:74793 alt.usage.english:1128620 On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 10:07:54 +1000, Peter Moylan wrote in <10aq40u$226u4$1@dont-email.me>: > On 22/09/25 05:06, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> On 2025-09-21, Hibou wrote: >> >>> We Hibous have benefitted, since our flat has increased enormously in >>> value since we bought it. All the same, I don't think the situation is >>> healthy, and I suppose Something Ought to Be Done. >>> >>> (Building more houses, perhaps, but please not more of our bland, >>> depressing estates.) >> >> Governments here in Canada (federal, provincial, and municipal) think >> that building more housing is the silver bullet. They'll propose a >> plan that takes care of 1% of the demand, then pat themselves on the >> back and go off to do more good deeds, never looking back to see >> whether their wonderful plans will come crashing to the ground. >> >> And even if you could build enough housing, you still have to provide >> infrastructure. But infrastructure doesn't get votes; it's not sexy. >> The new housing is going to need more water (from existing depleted >> watersheds), more sewage treatment, and more electrical power. > > Water is also a major issue in my part of the world. The politicians > blissfully talk about doubling the population in the forseeable future, > but they haven't even started the negotiations to buy water from some > other country. We already have some desalination plants, but they are > expensive, and aggravate the global warming problem. > > Sydney is fast approaching the time when the residents will have to make > a choice between washing and drinking. Will your citizens tolerate that? The economic costs of water (supply/demand) will mean a new source of water will be used: the sea. There are highly populated, developed places that used desalination plants. Such as, here in California: https://www.vwd.org/departments/water-quality/desalination Capitalism, with social democracy...finds a way. And (sigh), here we go again: ObLinux: Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.17-rc7 as the last planned release candidate of the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel that is expected to go final next weekend. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-rc7 ObEnglish: From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: English [...] 2. The official name of the database language used by the old Pick Operating System, actually a sort of crufty, brain-damaged SQL with delusions of grandeur. The name permitted {marketroid}s to say “Yes, and you can program our computers in English!” to ignorant {suit}s without quite running afoul of the truth-in-advertising laws. -- -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 "Think "HONK" if you're a telepath"