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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Cycling editorial Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 11:16:48 -0700 Lines: 57 Message-ID: <s49d2jdblmu3fkcu18o019mbsuoemdqg9c@4ax.com> References: <ukcUN.584428$jO2.303043@fx10.ams4> <uvsp0i$2niub$1@dont-email.me> <JpqUN.576727$gq2.214651@fx02.ams4> <uvu06g$3225a$1@dont-email.me> <uvu2up$32mkh$1@dont-email.me> <uvukc2$36dd4$2@dont-email.me> <u5i92j9omab27tbbq7tlmvm6ma83rireh3@4ax.com> <v039fl$bnbi$1@dont-email.me> <v04079$b1hl$1@dont-email.me> <lc2b2jts662hgaps881bfup2egi9c2vb3o@4ax.com> <v0429i$h1hf$1@dont-email.me> <hjkb2j1vt9aue1trp3qkrbmgoo7lktk37f@4ax.com> <v05m2v$v1ul$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net CJEjAIwqfnGXZ4yQepb7uA/psRWqtSPHQPSQPUH59uu2YUvSp0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:KsAnoYYstVz0i8TiNiz4OMqBL4E= sha256:IRb8pxNFGuswvx1cDhUhYC3iSa8JzwdWaYB4yLgUqoo= User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Bytes: 3563 On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 07:44:15 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote: >On 4/21/2024 10:18 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: >> On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 17:00:19 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote: >> >>> On 4/21/2024 4:54 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: >>>> On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 17:24:56 -0400, zen cycle >>>> <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I don't believe there's a rule against mounting a water bottle on the >>>>> bars. I could be wrong. >>>> >>>> You're wrong: >>>> <https://road.cc/content/news/49519-uci-sets-sights-drinking-bottles-next> >>>> "The new rule Article 1.3.024 will only allow bottles to be positioned >>>> on the down tube and seat tube." >>>> >>>> <https://assets.ctfassets.net/761l7gh5x5an/7s1ma6mVAVlFwi8rRgy0Iw/1bef531dd9e9f534c34ff016c68e3c72/Clarification_Guide_of_the_UCI_Technical_Regulation_-_20211005_-_ENG.pdf> >>>> See pages 49 to 51. >>>> >> >>> heh heh heh >>> >>> Riders used to complain that the 'white sox only; must cover >>> the ankle' rule was silly. And also the official with a tape >>> measure checking distance between hem of shorts leg and knee >>> back during the 'black shorts only' rule era. >>> >>> But as they say all is change. A new era with even more >>> arbitrary and ridiculous rules. >> >> In the interest of not starting a political discussion, I'll just >> mention that the problem has been well known for many centuries and is >> commonly known as the Chinese version of legalism: >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalism_(Chinese_philosophy)> >> Legalism can be made to work, but does not scale easily to large >> numbers without using coersion. >> >> "Change everything" (I have a rubber stamp with those words). >It's universal to bureaucracies as Hayek brilliantly explained. Yep. His book "The Road to Serfdom" is on the basic reading list for prospective Libertarians. <https://ctheory.sitehost.iu.edu/img/Hayek_The_Road_to_Serfdom.pdf> I read it in college, along with "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand: <https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.458873> (90 MBytes) Both books convinced me that the default answer to excessive bureaucracy is NOT more bureaucracy. Where is my rubber stamp hiding? -- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272 Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558