Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.vintage,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Early-2014 Macbook Air and Linux Mint Cinnamon Date: 22 Jun 2026 20:51:54 GMT Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <1115q51$la$1@dont-email.me> <11165cp$3uc0$1@dont-email.me> <1117u54$iqhs$1@dont-email.me> <1118486$h4pm$1@news1.tnib.de> <1119nsk$13ui0$1@dont-email.me> <111ajpl$mjpg$1@news1.tnib.de> <111av41$1dcu1$3@dont-email.me> <111bnmb$1l7s8$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net zc+DVM0PJshjpKJ/TGZ55gJ6A4hIM/82sKZG2+yUfgiN5T1BLR Cancel-Lock: sha1:kGJD3TyBeNeGz/9w7UWIOCcM5bE= sha256:K+7B8g9g3NhJwZnP4W921TJ0vWNJy5kb7tytyC9tDvo= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.vintage:1711 comp.os.linux.misc:88218 On Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:25:47 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 22/06/2026 15:03, rbowman wrote: >> On Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:26:25 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >> >>> I have never ised it in that sense although living at the centre of UK >>> horseracing I know plenty who have, Every so often someone wins big >>> and takes his mates to a big champagne dinner and the local papers >>> talk about it. >> >> I don't think it's rare enough to make the papers but at least in the >> US a 'trifecta' is when you pick the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place horses in >> a single race. The concept has been expanded to the lotteries. >> >> New York state was one of the first to start a state run lottery. There >> was a bit of a scandal when someone found the winning ticket was pulled >> from the set of all tickets printed, not the set of the tickets >> actually sold. An innocent mistake, I'm sure. >> >> What odds are the books giving on your next PM? At least you can get >> rid of the bastards in less than 4 years. > > Odds on what? that he dies from a surfeit of peaches and cider? > > My guess is he wont be able to do anything constructive, At best he may > do nothing at all. I meant who are the odds makers saying will be the next up. Burnham? At least he lasted longer than Liz though he may have eclipsed Trump's record for going from shiny to shit.