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I would consider that functionality to be machine learning, not artificial intelligence.
Semantics, pedantics ….. 🙂
Meself, like, Ah try to look at a thing’s function whilst ignoring the label. But I know a lot are label-obsessed these days. Identity as image rather than substance. It’s everywhere! Identity-shaped objects!!
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Thanks for the replies. Needs some sort of threadlok then being a LH thread but the crank always loosening it.Yes, with Loctite 242 being the usual stuff.
Loctite 242 remains quite putty-like when dry – with enough strength to stop a treated threaded item from loosening; but it can be easily broken by unscrewing (or screwing-in). It also cleans off the threads easily so you can put a new coating on them when re-installing summick.
You can wait ’til the loctite has dried-off on the threads before screwing the item back in. The loctite will deform but still grip. Or you can screw the item back in while the loctite is still “wet” then wait for it to dry in-situ (takes much longer as it needs air to dry-off).
Loctite 242 in a reasonable amount on the threads seems to keep enough of its stickiness to continue working even if a part is unscrewed then screwed back in a couple of times or so. Many adjuster bolts rely on this to allow the user to make quite a few adjustments before the thread-fit of the adjuster goes slack as the loctite degrades via several thread movements.
Me too – about 3 months ago.
Me too – about 3 months ago. It happened after I undid the central bolt to remove the chainset during a maintenance operation. I obviously moved the outer ring when doing so and this broke the blue loctite bond holding it in place. It fell out during a ride and didnae notice until getting home.
After eventually finding the correct replacement (there are various thread pitches and diametres, internal & external) I installed the new outer ring with blue loctite all round the threads.
I’ve now learnt the lesson – when removing and replacing the chainset with this attachment arrangement, take off, clean and re-loctite the outer ring as well.
Up by 13%, is that above or below the rate of inflation at the moment?Many of the head-oners are so because drunk, it seems. Many were directed there by their stupid-nav.
Others will be going car-jousting because they’re drunk on freedumb. Who is this “society” (that doesn’t exist anyway ‘cos The Thatcher Thing banned it) that dares to say I can’t DO WHAT I WANT?
Others again will have seen a robber-hero do it on an yank cop movie so it must be cool. See the second-raters swerve-crash out of his way!
Oh Brave New Blighty, that has such carloons in it.
I read somewhere that “every cyclist who has killed someone has gone to jail” which may or may not be true. I haven’t researched that, just read it.Because of that, I googled something on the lines of “% of drivers who kill someone in an accident who then go to jail”. In an article that appeared in the Sun (I know, that hardly makes it the perfect source) they said “13 drivers a month who have killed someone get sentenced to Community Service”. I should probably look into this further, but the Sun seem to be saying that every other day a driver who has killed just gets communuity service.
Understand that it’s in the context of thinking that gaol is useless as a deterrent in the vast majority of cases of all kinds but I feel that penalties that attempt to make recompense, rather than providing revenge, to those left suffering the loss of loved ones (or and/or economic supports) is a far better way to punish drivers who maim and kill. However ….
The “community service” given as the penalty should be far more stringent and demanding than the sort of “pick up some litter for a bit” stuff currently imposed on miscreants. If you deprive a wife and children of a working and loving husband, you should be required to spend a long, long time providing as much physical recompense as practicable.
This might be your time working and paying most of your wage to your victims, for years and years and with only enough for you & yours to survive left after the recompense is paid over each week to your victims. It might require 7 days per week working to earn more. Or the penalty might also include paying over the vast majority of any capital and assets you have. You might be made their indentured servant for all sorts of tasks, for several years.
In addition, access to the sorts of technologies that would allow you to perform another foolish act of the sort currently called “accident” should be permanently withdrawn, with large penalties applied to anyone facilitating you getting at such technologies illegally. No car for you, criminal!
For the irresponsible who cause trafic accidents through self-indulgent carlooning, this might even work as a deterrent. Be lethally careless, become a slave, perhaps for the rest of your life.
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Putting people in gaol is largely about revenge, which doesn’t actually help victims in any genuine fashion or work as a deterent. (People who do bad things do so “accidently” or at the behest of uncontrolled momentary emotions or in the belief that they’ll avoid detection). It costs us all a lot of money to gaol someone. Gaols are schools that create even worse criminals of those going in to them.
Some people are so dangerous that they can’t be dettered from future evil acts by anything other than confinement. But that’s a very small percentage of the people who currently end up in gaol.
There are many conditions
There are many conditions underpinning injustice. Two of huge significance and effects are:
* Many widely avaialble manufactured things and “services” encourage, induce and even enforce nasty behaviours that segue from nasty to criminal. Cars made to speed and be driven aggresively are an example of the former; gambling is an example of the latter. There are hundreds more-such in our consumer-producer hegemony, which itself in a huge encourager of nasty >>>> criminal behaviours.
* Social conditions are arranged primarily for the benefit of a tiny cabal of what used to be called aristocrats – those with the power and wealth to arrange conditions as they wish, which conditions are often a zero-sum game that degrade vast sections of a nation’s populace. The degraded conditions produce degraded behaviours, resulting in both illegal criminal acts and what might be called legalised “criminal” acts.
These two massive pressures on the justice “system” are growing by the day. For many, there is no effective justice system anymore. This suits criminal behaviour, which is even now becoming just normal behaviour.
Probably something to do with the balloon festival. The predatory autonomous vehicles are trying to snatch low-flying balloons out of the sky.A thrilling spectacle of nature.
‘Ere, that seems to be Hambini excitedly greeting his hairdresser! He seems ready to ream something, anyway.
The Young Ones – way ahead of its time…A curious notion, this idea that some sort of current event is not really current but a visitation from the future. Generally something described as “way ahead of its time” means only “I was surprised at this event as its unusual in my own generally mundane experience“.
Mind, modern cultural artefacts and constructions can be time-confused, as there’s the imagined-futures (a la Star Trek et al) as well as the “historical” novel and filum. But in fact, both tend to be very much reflections of current concerns, assumptions, prejudices and other ways of thinking-as-we-do-now in the mass media-constructed noosphere.
But humans love to create “heroes” and “special ones” – in the case of “ahead of their time” generally meaning only that “I liked it’s apparent novely (to me)” rather than some truly new, innovative and entirely made-by-the-hero item magically created out of nothing but their immaculate mind like an Ayn Rand character.
“The Young Ones” can be traced back through centuries to Diogenes emitting his body fluids upon others in the market-place and similar – and probably further back, if we had anything written to navigate by.
Whilst it may be an exageration to suggest that, “There’s nothing new under the sun” a case can certainly be made that today’s novely consist of 99.9% of the familiar with 0.1% added glamour, PR or grasping attempt to make some intellectual copyright as feedstock to making some more money.
But I digress. (I forget from what). 🙂
Jogle wrote:
[quote=Jogle][b]Milton Keynes councillor resigns after motoring conviction[/b] I saw the headline and thought that, for once, a politician had done the honourable thing; been convicted of something and resigned. Then I read the article and the councillor was convicted of driving without due care and attention, on a provisional licence and without insurance (caught after crashing into another car) in May but only resigned recently as the local newspaper reported it. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-66408067%5B/quote%5D
A perfek emblem of The Toryspiv – amoral and stuffed i’ the big hugly heed with the notion that there’s one law for the serfs and another for the aristocrats such as hisself. (Or, rather, no law at all).
I’m surprised he resigned, when found out, rather than making howls & barks about his freedumbs. But perhaps the local Toryspivs have not yet devolved into the fullblown Boris Bokum mode?
Pure gold today from the World Bollard Association!That’s “an installation” by a-one o’ them postmodern “artists”. You can tell because no one has gone to view it excpet a photog from the mass media.
It will be bought for $1,050,999 by an American, who will have formed an expectation that he has also bought the street, bollards and surrounding buildings, so there’ll be an expensive court case lasting 13 years and paid for out of the local rates.
I thought it was four black Audis working to keep a stereotype alive, but I see now that one is a black VW.“Hey guys, want to go to the beach? Why don’t the four of us all drive separately?”
They’re all Sports Hearses – straight from carlooning to carcarting off to the ‘ole in the ground.
There’s nothing to stop you,
There’s nothing to stop you, me or anyone else riding their bike to an NT place. When I lived and cycled in NW England, a fine run to the Sizergh Castle NT cafe was a regular ride.
I suppose you could argue for better bike theft prevention measures for those who want to leave the bike for a wander in the castle or the hoosey …. but in practice a good lock in a pannier bag and a bit of metal fence or other solid anchor for the lock can easily be found and used in most NT and similar places.
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I read an interesting New Statesman article this morning that points out (with some of those unfashionable fact things, mind) that car use is already plummeting as a result of a whole raft of Toryspiv “policies” (if you can call almost complete inaction and culture war tropes policy). In practice, ever increasing millions of we Blighters can’t afford a car – to lease, buy, run, maintain or otherwise pay for.
Of course, Dumbak will have no idea about these effects as they’re hard to discern from a helicopter. Also, you have to want to notice and admit facts, which is not a Toryspiv ability or inclination. (See Frosty the No-man for details).
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As to the bleat from various cyclists (who appear to have adopted a me-my-I drivist mentality) requiring specialist cycling facilities of various costly kinds …. well open yer peepers! The roads are very good indeed for cycling and will become moreso when drivist loon numbers gradually go down and many become cyclists, ironically because Frosty and the other Toryspivs are making us “a poor country”.
Bore off.Cheep cheep cheep.
Here’s an interesting article about torque wrenches and their calibration…What’s the twist?
It’s: that wrist action that can work a torque wrench to avoid stem-snap or similar; a mental transformation that can distort the meaning of a string of words into something one would prefer to read rather than wot wuz writ; or an intimate personal action producing a paroxym of pleasure from one’s “spot” whilst gazing with lust & abject admiration at a picture of Mrs Thatcher in full handbag and hairspray, sneering & snarling at an uppity peasant anxious about being homeless and starving.
It was also a dance in the olden days, when I were a bairn unable to appreciate how daft it made a fellow look when doing it.
I did hear that you can get bottles of wine from which a cheap metal cap is twisted off rather than having to perform the proper ritual with cork & extractor tool (preferably a Campag one). Some have a knack with champagne bottles obviating the need for the tool, although you can put the best man’s eye out if you’re incautious with your twisting.
There’s a few on ebay from
There’s a few on ebay from time to time (usually 6700 pairs). Also 5700 (105 10-speed) that will work with 6700 mechs. I can’t find any new ones in on-line shops, not even SJS Cycles which did have some until recently.
The Tiagra 10-speed levers (perhaps also the GRX) seem to be 10-speed but with a different pull ratio. You could buy those plus a new rear mech to match, perhaps?