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On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:45:54 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:

> nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) wrote:
>>Same in Dutch. 'Plusminus 70 kg' certainly does not mean either plus 70
>>kilograms or minus seventy kilograms.
>>
>>Some schoolmasters and physicists have tried to stamp this usage out, as
>>an error, stupid, ignorant, etc. but of course this hasn't worked,
> 
> That is impossible to kill. So is ftp, and calling 10.11.12.0/24 a
> "Class C network". Or using killall. Or using sudo su -. Or invoking a
> useless use of cat. Or calling perl without -w.

What do you have against 'killall'?  I have the Brave browser open and it 
currently has 27 processes.