On 2024-05-31, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 31 May 2024 03:19:38 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>
>> I don't think Russia would object to Poland taking what was
>> traditionally theirs. This is not the Russian-speaking part of Ukraine.
>> I'm also guessing that Romania and Hungary (or Slovakia?) would be able
>> to get back their traditional territories taken from them by the Soviet
>> government and given to Ukraine.
>
> It can be like the early days of WWII. Germany grabbed Sudetenland, the
> ethnic German part of Czechoslovakia. Poland annexed the Trans-Olza,
> Hungary grabbed Ruthenia, and the Slovaks formed their own republic allied
> with Germany.
>
> Then came the ethnic cleansing after the war led by the sot Churchill,
> Franklin the Red, and their buddy Joe .
>
> Supposedly they were going to sort things out and form homogenous
> countries but they fucked that up just as badly as Wilson's self-
> determination dream after WWI.

The puppeteers behind the scenes (a.k.a. the Deep State, or the Rothschilds)
like breaking up bigger countries into smaller, more easily controlled ones.
They desperately want to do this to Russia. They even supported the South in
the Civil War for this reason. They've been at this world domination crap
for a long, long time. Americans used to be AGAINST empires. Unfortunately
there are now a lot of neo-CONS who are for it these days. "Our" MSM is
always pushing for war and the gullible fall for it. If we survive the
collapse of our empire, maybe we can worry about a government for Americans
again, instead of pandering to the Deep State and their obsession for
obtaining world control.

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On 2024-05-31, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
> On 2024-05-30 11:19 p.m., RonB wrote:
>> On 2024-05-30, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>> On 2024-05-30 7:13 a.m., RonB wrote:
>>>> On 2024-05-29, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-05-29 12:17 p.m., Relf wrote:
>>>>>> "give me liberty or give me death" -- Ukraine
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks like Russia has chosen to give them the latter.
>>>>
>>>> I guess the Ukrainians wanted "liberty" to kill their Russian speaking
>>>> countrymen more than they wanted peace. Just a lot of wannabe neo-Nazi
>>>> thugs. It's too bad, though, that the non-Nazi Ukrainians are caught in the
>>>> middle of this, losing their lives for a drug-addicted "comedian" and his
>>>> cadre of boot-lickers.
>>>
>>> I've heard that Poland now wants a chunk of Ukraine, as it was
>>> traditionally Polish territory. It actually pains me to imagine this to
>>> be a fact.
>>
>> And then they can give back to Germany the part given to them by the Soviets
>> after World War II. (Not likely to happen.)
>>
>> I don't think Russia would object to Poland taking what was traditionally
>> theirs. This is not the Russian-speaking part of Ukraine. I'm also guessing
>> that Romania and Hungary (or Slovakia?) would be able to get back their
>> traditional territories taken from them by the Soviet government and given
>> to Ukraine.
>
> If I were in a position of any kind of authority in Poland, I would
> actually negotiate with Russia in an effort to gain that territory,
> inexpensive oil and free trade in exchange for turning a blind eye to
> what they're doing in Ukraine or even helping them out. I wouldn't mind
> severing ties with the Americans because the US has no bargaining chip
> of any worth to my country. American values are contrary to Polish ones,
> they clearly have no respect for democracy, their education system is
> ineffective and prefers to propagandize rather than educate, and they
> built military bases on my territory. At the very least, Russians share
> a culture and genes with my people. I can work with that.

Unfortunately there is a long history of mistrust between these two
countries. But Putin has already hinted that he wouldn't object to the Poles
taking back their traditional chunk of Ukraine.

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On 2024-05-31, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
> On 2024-05-30 11:38 p.m., RonB wrote:
>> On 2024-05-30, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>> On 2024-05-30 7:40 a.m., RonB wrote:
>>>> On 2024-05-30, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-05-29 10:12 p.m., rbowman wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 29 May 2024 21:14:52 -0400, Joel wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Andrzej can talk about my sexuality/etc. all he wants, he just sounds
>>>>>>> like an imbecile and it doesn't affect me, as a secure person, but his
>>>>>>> and Ron's bullshit about Russia is bona fide *traitor* shit. If they
>>>>>>> love Putin so much, GTFO out of North America then, move to Moscow, go
>>>>>>> to their cheap grocery stores, blow up a Ukrainian hospital, just do it
>>>>>>> away from us, please, asswipes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Out of idle curiosity why do you give a shit about the Ukraine? No CIA
>>>>>> inspired rants about freedom and democracy, just why do you personally
>>>>>> care?
>>>>>
>>>>> It's treason to disagree with whatever assessment our leaders and media
>>>>> have made for us!
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, they were calling Tulsi Gabbard a "traitor." Because, having seen war,
>>>> she's not keen on endless, idiotic wars — like the morons in our government
>>>> (and their braindead zombie myrmidons, take your bow Joel) who want to send
>>>> our kids to die in an effort to keep the world safe for Wall Street
>>>> corporate plundering.
>>>
>>> There was a time when sending your citizens out to war was considered to
>>> be a last resort, something to be avoided at all costs. Over the past
>>> eighty years, it seems to be the main objective of American governments
>>> to do so.
>>
>> Yep. I think the war mongers should be forced to go to the front lines any
>> time they push us into war. Bet we would have a lot fewer wars if that was
>> the case. Cowards don't mind putting other people's kids in danger, but
>> their own lives (and their kid's lives) that's a whole different matter.
>
> Agreed wholeheartedly. Even the kings and queens of old would send their
> own children to war because they believed in the cause. Somehow, the
> cause is so serious that American congresspeople aren't willing to
> sacrifice themselves or their children.

They're bought and paid for by the corrupt war mongering arms industry. (And
by Big Pharma, and by the Big Banks, and by the insurance industry, and Wall
Street.) They'll sell themselves out to anyone who has money. The definition
of an "honest politician," is one that, once he sells himself out, stays
sold.

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On 2024-05-31 9:55 a.m., RonB wrote:
> On 2024-05-31, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>> On 2024-05-30 11:19 p.m., RonB wrote:
>>> On 2024-05-30, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>>> On 2024-05-30 7:13 a.m., RonB wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-05-29, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>>>>> On 2024-05-29 12:17 p.m., Relf wrote:
>>>>>>> "give me liberty or give me death" -- Ukraine
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It looks like Russia has chosen to give them the latter.
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess the Ukrainians wanted "liberty" to kill their Russian speaking
>>>>> countrymen more than they wanted peace. Just a lot of wannabe neo-Nazi
>>>>> thugs. It's too bad, though, that the non-Nazi Ukrainians are caught in the
>>>>> middle of this, losing their lives for a drug-addicted "comedian" and his
>>>>> cadre of boot-lickers.
>>>>
>>>> I've heard that Poland now wants a chunk of Ukraine, as it was
>>>> traditionally Polish territory. It actually pains me to imagine this to
>>>> be a fact.
>>>
>>> And then they can give back to Germany the part given to them by the Soviets
>>> after World War II. (Not likely to happen.)
>>>
>>> I don't think Russia would object to Poland taking what was traditionally
>>> theirs. This is not the Russian-speaking part of Ukraine. I'm also guessing
>>> that Romania and Hungary (or Slovakia?) would be able to get back their
>>> traditional territories taken from them by the Soviet government and given
>>> to Ukraine.
>>
>> If I were in a position of any kind of authority in Poland, I would
>> actually negotiate with Russia in an effort to gain that territory,
>> inexpensive oil and free trade in exchange for turning a blind eye to
>> what they're doing in Ukraine or even helping them out. I wouldn't mind
>> severing ties with the Americans because the US has no bargaining chip
>> of any worth to my country. American values are contrary to Polish ones,
>> they clearly have no respect for democracy, their education system is
>> ineffective and prefers to propagandize rather than educate, and they
>> built military bases on my territory. At the very least, Russians share
>> a culture and genes with my people. I can work with that.
>
> Unfortunately there is a long history of mistrust between these two
> countries. But Putin has already hinted that he wouldn't object to the Poles
> taking back their traditional chunk of Ukraine.

I'm sure that Poles themselves saw a lot of themselves in Putin if they
watched his interview with Carlson. They might not have the same goals
or history as he does, but his mannerisms were no different than the
ones I got accustomed to growing up with my Polish relatives.

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Le 26-05-2024, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> a écrit :
> Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> <brevsnip>
>>
>> I never launch a GUI program from a terminal because it's inefficient.
>> When you do it, you show me how I'm right about it.
>
> Heh, I rarely start a GUI from anything but the command line.

So what? You do what you want. I believe you do it more efficiently than
him. But even if you don't, you do what you want, I don't care. I
comment his way because he says it's the best when it's the worst. And
that gives arguments to Linux haters.

>> When you launch your GUI applications from the terminal, you have two
>> issues. And that takes forever. The first one is you need to move it on
>> another workspace, you do it with your mouse and it's slow (and when you
>> loose the focus and interact with another application, it's fun to see
>> how you struggle to do basic things). And second, when your application
>> is on your right workspace, you need to resize it. Which takes you
>> forever a second time.
>
> Heh, most WM's will let you do all that with keystrokes.

Yes, that's exactly my point. He doesn't know how to use/configure his
WM and is very inefficient.

>> When you launch something every day, it should be very fast and your way
>> is very slow. I don't need a mouse driven menu, but for a GUI lackey
>> like you, you should configure it to suit your needs and to be
>> efficient.
>
> I set up some Fluxbox menus, but also hot-keys for my most frequent actions.
> I do like Fluxbox's menu navigation, though. Super-M P P, for example.
> Super-M brings up the desktop menu, P selects my personal sub-menu, and
> P then selects Power Off.
>
> Or I can type pow<tab> from a terminal.
>
> But this is stock stuff, anybody who spends much time on Linux will find their
> best way to do things.

Yep. Exactly my point. There are a lot of ways to be efficient with
Linux. Some ways feel more comfortable for some people, others prefer
different ways. Everything is fine, anyone should find its way. Except
FR/DG/LP/NV/whatever who looks like he's discovering his WM each time he
needs to do something.

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Le 26-05-2024, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> a écrit :
> Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote at 21:13 this Saturday (GMT):
>> Le 25-05-2024, Diego Garcia <dg@chaos.rocks> a écrit :
>>>
>>> colavid.mp4
>>
>> Once again, thanks for the good laugh (in the beginning, I didn't looked
>> at everything because it becomes boring). With this video, you proved,
>> once again, that I'm ten times faster than you.
>>
>> First, when you are writing the name of a directory in your terminal,
>> you should use your [TAB] key: it's faster and it would avoid you to
>> misspell it (and the need to write it a second time).
>>
>> Second, why do you use a terminal to launch GUI applications? I know,
>> it's because you are unable to configure your menu. It shows because it
>> takes you forever to find your applications in it. You should learn how
>> to configure it.
>
> Could also be a $PATH issue.

The issue is more likely between the chair and the keyboard/mouse.

> I know I had to launch some programs from the terminal until I learned
> about .xsessionrc because Debian doesn't add $HOME/.local/bin for some
> reason.

Exactly, at the beginning, you were inefficient because first you had to
be able to do it. And then you learn how to improve your way. And
FR/DG/LP/NV/whatever never managed to pass the discovery point even when
he claims he's the master of his own distro.

> I'd recommend rofi for a simple launcher.

Yep, dmenu is good too. But rofi is for X11, so I use wofi for wayland.

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Le 27-05-2024, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> a écrit :
> On 2024-05-26, Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:
>>
>> If I had a script like that, I wouldn't launch it from a terminal. I'd
>> launch it from a keystroke with the help of wofi. Something like when I
>> want to see a pdf file:
>> bindsym $mod+z exec find ~ \( -path ~/Download\* -o -path ~/divers\* -o -path ~/Lecture/Pdf/ALire/\* \) -a \( -name "*.pdf" -o -name "*.ps" -o -name "*.epub" \) 2>/dev/null | wofi -d | x
args -r -I % zathura "%"
>>
>> When I press [Windows]+[z], there is find who will look for my pdf
>> files, open the list in wofi and wofi open the one I select in zathura.
>>
>> Wofi, rofi are dmenu are very good to launch graphical applications
>> without the need to open a terminal.
>
> I'm so used to going to a terminal that it's second nature to me now.

You do what you want, I'm not telling you to change anything. I'm
telling you only what I'm doing. And in fact, if you want to know, I can
use the terminal to launch a graphical application if I'm already using
it. For example, I'm in a directory and see a pdf or an image which I
don't remember, I can open it directly with zathura or feh from the
terminal. Or when I download something, like his video, I have an alias
"md" which opens the most recent video in mpv. When I'm done, I have
another alias "rd" to delete it. It's fast and easy.

> Guake (which I use for full screen stuff) is Shift-Control-N.

In fact, I was never a fan of it. It's as easy to open a new terminal
with [Windows]+[ENTER] and to close is with [CTRL]+[D] that I never feel
the use to configure a falling terminal.

> I'll take a look at wofi, but what I've got works well for me. And it looks
> like I would have to learn a bit (or maybe a bit more) before using wofi and
> I already know how to do what I do.

If you want to use wofi/dmenu/rofi to open the results of script, it
will take some time but nothing impressive.
But if you want just to launch a GUI application, there is nothing to
learn. You launch it, start writing the name of your application and
select it to open it. It works right out of the box.

> Taking a closer look at your "binding" (if that's the correct term) it looks
> like you still have to choose a file name, once it's opened.

There is a moment I need to chose the file I want to open, it's not
magical. But I don't chose the name inside zathura, when zathura opens,
it's already loaded. The list of my pdf names are displayed in wofi, so
I use wofi to select the one I want (with a few letters to restrict the
selection and with the arrow when it's close).

> similar with my Emacs script when I want to write a file in Fountain format.

Yes, it looks similar.

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Le 28-05-2024, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> a écrit :
> On 2024-05-28 9:34 a.m., DFS wrote:
>> On 5/26/2024 10:00 AM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>>> Le 26-05-2024, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :
>>
>>
>> <big snip>
>>
>>
>> Nice!  Your beatdowns of Feeb have become masterful.
>
> What sucks is that you don't speak French and that those beatdowns
> aren't happening verbally. To me, nothing is elegant than a Frenchman
> using his mastery of his beautiful language to insult the heck out of
> anyone. I just spent an hour at work with one who substitutes here
> because merely hearing his thoughts on things like wine and politics
> sounds so much better because of the accent and his choice of vocabulary.

I don't often rely on mere insults because I find them boring. And it's
a difference between English movies and American movies. In American
movies, the insults are all fuck[ing]-something or something-fucked. And
very limited. In English movies, they can be more interesting.

In Matrix, when Christophe Lambert starts swearing in French, it's
funny.

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Le 28-05-2024, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> a écrit :
> On Tue, 28 May 2024 14:52:54 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>
>> What sucks is that you don't speak French and that those beatdowns
>> aren't happening verbally. To me, nothing is elegant than a Frenchman
>> using his mastery of his beautiful language to insult the heck out of
>> anyone. I just spent an hour at work with one who substitutes here
>> because merely hearing his thoughts on things like wine and politics
>> sounds so much better because of the accent and his choice of
>> vocabulary.
>
> Tabernak! Odds are that means nothing to Stéphane.

Why do you believe that? I know what's a tabernacle and a calice and
their meaning in French Canada. The Canada is far away but there are
some exchanges between the countries. Some popular band/singer in Canada
have been well known in France. I'm not speaking only of Céline Fion.
But Les cowboys fringants, Le vilain pingouin or Félix Leclerc, are only
a few of them.

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Uncle_Matuch: I'm sure that Poles themselves saw a lot of themselves in Putin
if they watched his interview with Carlson.

I love the way Putin_Jong_Un & Hamas slaughter Sub_Human Jews & Ukrainians
for fun & profit. Blame everyone but the arsonist ! </Sarcasm>

Nationalists, Landlords & breeders ( like Trump ) are punished.
Thugs & squatters are coddled.

On 2024-05-31 2:40 p.m., Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
> Le 28-05-2024, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> a écrit :
>> On 2024-05-28 9:34 a.m., DFS wrote:
>>> On 5/26/2024 10:00 AM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>>>> Le 26-05-2024, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :
>>>
>>>
>>> <big snip>
>>>
>>>
>>> Nice!  Your beatdowns of Feeb have become masterful.
>>
>> What sucks is that you don't speak French and that those beatdowns
>> aren't happening verbally. To me, nothing is elegant than a Frenchman
>> using his mastery of his beautiful language to insult the heck out of
>> anyone. I just spent an hour at work with one who substitutes here
>> because merely hearing his thoughts on things like wine and politics
>> sounds so much better because of the accent and his choice of vocabulary.
>
> I don't often rely on mere insults because I find them boring. And it's
> a difference between English movies and American movies. In American
> movies, the insults are all fuck[ing]-something or something-fucked. And
> very limited. In English movies, they can be more interesting.
>
> In Matrix, when Christophe Lambert starts swearing in French, it's
> funny.

Christopher Lambert's insults in the Matrix are something I can't wait
for my students to see. They're watching the Matrix Reloaded in class,
and we haven't gotten to that part yet. Since they're a group whose
interests are in engineering and science, I figured they'd get a kick
out of the complexity of the second Matrix movie. That part in
particular will be a treat.

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On 2024-05-31 2:49 p.m., Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
> Le 28-05-2024, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> a écrit :
>> On Tue, 28 May 2024 14:52:54 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>
>>> What sucks is that you don't speak French and that those beatdowns
>>> aren't happening verbally. To me, nothing is elegant than a Frenchman
>>> using his mastery of his beautiful language to insult the heck out of
>>> anyone. I just spent an hour at work with one who substitutes here
>>> because merely hearing his thoughts on things like wine and politics
>>> sounds so much better because of the accent and his choice of
>>> vocabulary.
>>
>> Tabernak! Odds are that means nothing to Stéphane.
>
> Why do you believe that? I know what's a tabernacle and a calice and
> their meaning in French Canada. The Canada is far away but there are
> some exchanges between the countries. Some popular band/singer in Canada
> have been well known in France. I'm not speaking only of Céline Fion.
> But Les cowboys fringants, Le vilain pingouin or Félix Leclerc, are only
> a few of them.

Les Cowboys Fringants were huge here, but I can't say that I've ever
even heard one of their songs. When the lead singer died, the media
treated it like the death of an important politician. One of your big
stars in France in the 1990s and 2000s, Mylène Farmer, was actually born
a few blocks from where I lived as a teenager.

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On 5/31/2024 2:40 PM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

> In Matrix, when Christophe Lambert starts swearing in French, it's
> funny.

Lambert Wilson

On 31 May 2024 18:49:53 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

> Why do you believe that? I know what's a tabernacle and a calice and
> their meaning in French Canada.

Would the average person on the streets of Paris? In high school the
French teachers' brand of Parisian French differed quite a bit from what
some of the kids spoke at home. Quebec pretty much went its own way in the
18th century.

It's not only French I was buying pastries in Canada and a woman, probably
in her '50s, in the checkout line said "Those are bloody good!". Then she
blushed, covered her mouth, and apologized. Apparently 'bloody' meant more
to her than some obscure term from BBC dramas.

Spanish? I worked with a native Spanish speaker from Columbia. When we
were dealing with a client in Puerto Rico she would set in on the
teleconferences to translate the side conversations the PRs were having
with themselves. It worked to some extent until their discussions got fast
and heated.

On 31 May 2024 18:40:55 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

> I don't often rely on mere insults because I find them boring. And it's
> a difference between English movies and American movies. In American
> movies, the insults are all fuck[ing]-something or something-fucked. And
> very limited. In English movies, they can be more interesting.

Years ago I saw 'Sexy Beast' in a theater. About all of the dialog I could
follow was Ben Kingsley saying 'fuck' repeatedly and with feeling. 'The
Navigators' came with subtitles on the DVD thankfully. Ken Loach prided
himself in a dialog only comprehensible to a Yorkie.

On 2024-06-01 12:57 a.m., rbowman wrote:
> On 31 May 2024 18:49:53 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>
>> Why do you believe that? I know what's a tabernacle and a calice and
>> their meaning in French Canada.
>
> Would the average person on the streets of Paris? In high school the
> French teachers' brand of Parisian French differed quite a bit from what
> some of the kids spoke at home. Quebec pretty much went its own way in the
> 18th century.

I'll say this much. Even though I speak excellent French and can pass as
a "de souche" Quebecer, I can't watch a few movies from France without
subtitles. Taxi 4 is an excellent example of that.

> It's not only French I was buying pastries in Canada and a woman, probably
> in her '50s, in the checkout line said "Those are bloody good!". Then she
> blushed, covered her mouth, and apologized. Apparently 'bloody' meant more
> to her than some obscure term from BBC dramas.
>
> Spanish? I worked with a native Spanish speaker from Columbia. When we
> were dealing with a client in Puerto Rico she would set in on the
> teleconferences to translate the side conversations the PRs were having
> with themselves. It worked to some extent until their discussions got fast
> and heated.

I truly regret not having slept with a Spanish woman.

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On 6/1/24 6:44 AM, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>
>I truly regret not having slept with a Spanish woman.

Of course you do, as a Catholic dupe, even though they falsely say it's a
sin, they make it trivially easy to be forgiven! Not like you're a
homosexual, or anything, right? Kill yourself, retard.

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> On 6/1/24 6:44 AM, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>
>>I truly regret not having slept with a Spanish woman.

I'm sure she's glad, though. :-D

> <snip>

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On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 06:44:12 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

> I'll say this much. Even though I speak excellent French and can pass as
> a "de souche" Quebecer, I can't watch a few movies from France without
> subtitles. Taxi 4 is an excellent example of that.

PBS must have run out of British programs to poach so now there is a
French crime drama on late Saturday night. It does have subtitles but I
turn it off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Pines

I enjoyed the series although it was mostly English iirc. My grandmother
could speak French but none of that got passed down.

> I truly regret not having slept with a Spanish woman.

I never had the opportunity but I have no regrets either.

On 2024-06-01 14:11, rbowman wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 06:44:12 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>
>
>> I'll say this much. Even though I speak excellent French and can pass as
>> a "de souche" Quebecer, I can't watch a few movies from France without
>> subtitles. Taxi 4 is an excellent example of that.
>
> PBS must have run out of British programs to poach so now there is a
> French crime drama on late Saturday night. It does have subtitles but I
> turn it off.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Pines
>
> I enjoyed the series although it was mostly English iirc. My grandmother
> could speak French but none of that got passed down.
>
>
>> I truly regret not having slept with a Spanish woman.
>
> I never had the opportunity but I have no regrets either.

A few opportunities, but I never took them because I tend to be way too
honest in relationships. If I'm already with someone, even if the other
person is loads better, I stick around.

On 6/1/24 2:50 PM, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>On 2024-06-01 14:11, rbowman wrote:
>> On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 06:44:12 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>
>>> I truly regret not having slept with a Spanish woman.
>>
>> I never had the opportunity but I have no regrets either.
>
>A few opportunities, but I never took them because I tend to be way too
>honest in relationships. If I'm already with someone, even if the other
>person is loads better, I stick around.

You're so proud of being a repressed homosexual who sticks with your woman,
even as you admit you thought others were "better", but you attack me for
loving who I love. This is your brain on Catholicism.

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Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote at 18:09 this Friday (GMT):
> Le 26-05-2024, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> a écrit :
>> Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote at 21:13 this Saturday (GMT):
>>> Le 25-05-2024, Diego Garcia <dg@chaos.rocks> a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> colavid.mp4
>>>
>>> Once again, thanks for the good laugh (in the beginning, I didn't looked
>>> at everything because it becomes boring). With this video, you proved,
>>> once again, that I'm ten times faster than you.
>>>
>>> First, when you are writing the name of a directory in your terminal,
>>> you should use your [TAB] key: it's faster and it would avoid you to
>>> misspell it (and the need to write it a second time).
>>>
>>> Second, why do you use a terminal to launch GUI applications? I know,
>>> it's because you are unable to configure your menu. It shows because it
>>> takes you forever to find your applications in it. You should learn how
>>> to configure it.
>>
>> Could also be a $PATH issue.
>
> The issue is more likely between the chair and the keyboard/mouse.

Maybe..

>> I know I had to launch some programs from the terminal until I learned
>> about .xsessionrc because Debian doesn't add $HOME/.local/bin for some
>> reason.
>
> Exactly, at the beginning, you were inefficient because first you had to
> be able to do it. And then you learn how to improve your way. And
> FR/DG/LP/NV/whatever never managed to pass the discovery point even when
> he claims he's the master of his own distro.

Er thanks. I always like finding little things to add to my system..

>> I'd recommend rofi for a simple launcher.
>
> Yep, dmenu is good too. But rofi is for X11, so I use wofi for wayland.

Well, I personally don't like wayland that much, but good luck!
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Le 01-06-2024, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> a écrit :
> On 31 May 2024 18:49:53 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>
>> Why do you believe that? I know what's a tabernacle and a calice and
>> their meaning in French Canada.

Of course. More than 30 years ago, the VRP sang tabernacle:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd7dAiUAnyQ>
They couldn't have done it if wasn't well known in France.

> In high school the French teachers' brand of Parisian French differed
> quite a bit from what some of the kids spoke at home. Quebec pretty
> much went its own way in the 18th century.

It's not because we don't use the same words we don't know them. The
accent are very different and it can be very difficult for a French guy
to understand a Quebec movie. The writings are easy to understand.

> It's not only French I was buying pastries in Canada and a woman, probably
> in her '50s, in the checkout line said "Those are bloody good!". Then she
> blushed, covered her mouth, and apologized. Apparently 'bloody' meant more
> to her than some obscure term from BBC dramas.

So she was used to some words but knew their meanings in different
country, which is what I'm saying.

> Spanish? I worked with a native Spanish speaker from Columbia. When we
> were dealing with a client in Puerto Rico she would set in on the
> teleconferences to translate the side conversations the PRs were having
> with themselves. It worked to some extent until their discussions got fast
> and heated.

I was only speaking about the French language in Quebec and France. I
don't speak Spanish (I learned a few words some years ago) And I have no
clue how it's used in other countries.

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Le 01-06-2024, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> a écrit :
> On 2024-06-01 12:57 a.m., rbowman wrote:
>> On 31 May 2024 18:49:53 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>>
>>> Why do you believe that? I know what's a tabernacle and a calice and
>>> their meaning in French Canada.
>>
>> Would the average person on the streets of Paris? In high school the
>> French teachers' brand of Parisian French differed quite a bit from what
>> some of the kids spoke at home. Quebec pretty much went its own way in the
>> 18th century.
>
> I'll say this much. Even though I speak excellent French and can pass as
> a "de souche" Quebecer, I can't watch a few movies from France without
> subtitles.

I'm not that surprised. The accents are different, it's not the all
thing.

Once, in Paris, I was with an Irish woman. When a friend of her spoke to
her, she explained to me after that, she had to speak very slowly with
her. Her friend was a Scottish girl ad their accents were so different
they had issues understanding each others. It doesn't mean they didn't
speak both English. It's the same with French and Quebec people. They
know the differences between the languages and have difficulties in
speaking but in writing it's easy.

> Taxi 4 is an excellent example of that.

I'm not sure I saw this one. The first was a great movie, the others
were only follow-up.

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Le 02-06-2024, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> a écrit :
> Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote at 18:09 this Friday (GMT):
>> Le 26-05-2024, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> a écrit :
>>> Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote at 21:13 this Saturday (GMT):
>>>> Le 25-05-2024, Diego Garcia <dg@chaos.rocks> a écrit :
>>>>>
>>>>> colavid.mp4
>>>>
>>>> Once again, thanks for the good laugh (in the beginning, I didn't looked
>>>> at everything because it becomes boring). With this video, you proved,
>>>> once again, that I'm ten times faster than you.
>>>>
>>>> First, when you are writing the name of a directory in your terminal,
>>>> you should use your [TAB] key: it's faster and it would avoid you to
>>>> misspell it (and the need to write it a second time).
>>>>
>>>> Second, why do you use a terminal to launch GUI applications? I know,
>>>> it's because you are unable to configure your menu. It shows because it
>>>> takes you forever to find your applications in it. You should learn how
>>>> to configure it.
>>>
>>> Could also be a $PATH issue.
>>
>> The issue is more likely between the chair and the keyboard/mouse.
>
> Maybe..

If you are not sure about it, it's because you never read his messages.
Which is not a big loss. It's only a lack of fun and you do what you
want.

>>> I know I had to launch some programs from the terminal until I learned
>>> about .xsessionrc because Debian doesn't add $HOME/.local/bin for some
>>> reason.
>>
>> Exactly, at the beginning, you were inefficient because first you had to
>> be able to do it. And then you learn how to improve your way. And
>> FR/DG/LP/NV/whatever never managed to pass the discovery point even when
>> he claims he's the master of his own distro.
>
> Er thanks. I always like finding little things to add to my system..

It's exactly the point of my messages. I don't tell you what you should
do. Either you discover something new and you like it, or you don't like
it and keep as you did before. I don't care: I just provide information,
you do what you want with it.

>>> I'd recommend rofi for a simple launcher.
>>
>> Yep, dmenu is good too. But rofi is for X11, so I use wofi for wayland.
>
> Well, I personally don't like wayland that much, but good luck!

I neither like or dislike wayland. But as X11 is dying and the only
thing available is wayland, I'd rather be ready.

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