Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Over-Elaborate Shell Scripting Date: 14 Mar 2026 03:08:00 GMT Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <10otpi4$1opu8$3@dont-email.me> <10otrqi$1p9ft$1@dont-email.me> <10ou2q9$1qp29$1@dont-email.me> <10oucet$vo4d$2@news.xmission.com> <10ouhk5$22anv$1@dont-email.me> <10ov1lu$27u8r$2@dont-email.me> <10ov2m4$296s5$3@dont-email.me> <10ov520$27u8r$5@dont-email.me> <10p0sjs$30rut$11@dont-email.me> <10p11k4$3l1sp$1@dont-email.me> <10p219n$3kl4p$5@dont-email.me> <10p24vv$3mphb$1@dont-email.me> <10p25ak$3mf5s$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 4UeuVRproalbTW7DJ0cEcgbddaKF1Fe/Gyq+lUlAwaBdEL0yy6 Cancel-Lock: sha1:oNyPQHQ/naGpuI4c0u2HmMFbl4Q= sha256:CP8J+lWOwMNnK1/se6uCrWpDP9cDUMFjnHo4WU8pOIo= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.unix.shell:26718 comp.os.linux.misc:82956 On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:07:00 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > The US has the weapons, it just has its own internal preoccupations > (particularly religious ones) to deal with, which don’t necessarily > align with the rest of the so-called ”West”. Like this stupid > distraction with Iran right now. That goes back to the Reagan era. There were several highly placed people whose game plan was to get all the Jews in Israel to fulfill prophecy and bring on Armageddon and the Second Coming. I think assholes like Huckabee are still on that page. Gibbon came to the conclusion that one of the main causes for the fall of the Roman Empire was Christianity. That may be pertinent to the American Empire too. Why Europeans imported an Asian messiah escapes me. > Like it or not, the Europeans have to learn to be more independent of > the US. It means leaving that oh-so-pleasant post-World-War-II comfort > zone, that they have become addicted to over the last half-century or > so. If the Europeans want to rattle their sabers it would help if they had some sabers that weren't rusty and dull. Props to Meloni for saying 'Screw this.' She has bigger balls than Starmer but that's a low bar. Muggeseggele describes his equipment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muggeseggele