Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: zen cycle Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Disc Compatibility? Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 12:46:02 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 84 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 18:46:04 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3ea909d926a5569b97002a04bcc0cbc6"; logging-data="275388"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+m2j34OASE5J4gC59HPjf1/LaY/VWZDJU=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:+KyjI8I8GpgtPvsR+DWVTlCd5JQ= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 5170 On 3/7/2025 3:50 PM, AMuzi wrote: > On 3/7/2025 1:34 PM, Zen Cycle wrote: >> On 3/7/2025 12:57 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: >>> On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 11:23:38 -0500, Frank Krygowski >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 3/7/2025 12:46 AM, Roger Merriman wrote: >>>>> Jeff Liebermann wrote: >>>>>> On 6 Mar 2025 12:46:35 GMT, Roger Merriman wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> With apologies for Facebook link! >>>>>>> >>>>>> story_fbid=10154178800268586&id=13533633585> >>>>>> >>>>>> A stone that size would weigh about 25 tonnes (or tons).  The trailer >>>>>> in the video might be able to handle 1 tonne.  With the trailer >>>>>> wheels >>>>>> shown, probably less.  The painted rock is likely to be a fake. >>>>> >>>>> All good logical points and my wife probably tried to explain at >>>>> the time! >>>>>> >>>>>> Another clue is that it was posted on Mar 31, 2016 (US), which would >>>>>> be April 1 in England. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Would have been 2014 the original one, or at least the one that >>>>> fooled me >>>>> for a while, it’s why such folks as my self get a higher rate of >>>>> conspiracies theories and gambling and so on. >>>> >>>> I did a reflecting ceiling sundial on the ceiling of my study at home. >>>> When the clocks change, I just jack up the house and rotate it 15 >>>> degrees. >>> >>> "S.29 - Sunshine Protection Act of 2025" >>> >>> >>> If the bill passes, year round daylight savings time will become the >>> new standard time unless a state decides to ignore daylight saving >>> time, leave things alone, or add some more amendments to really screw >>> things up. >>> >>> Personally, I wouldn't mind switching to GMT/UTC but that's likely to >>> make things worse.  Pick a standard, any standard: >>> >>> but don't change the time in mid-year. >>> >>> I'm still waiting for a study of how much energy and dollars was saved >>> by enlarging DST in the US: >>> >> Daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States> >>> >>> In 2019, California attempted to make DST more "flexible" (which means >>> adjust the dates to which way the political wind is blowing).  The >>> bill failed to pass: >>> >>> >> I would support basing everything off 24 hr GMT. I don't see how that >> would make anything 'worse', if anything, it simplifes everything. A >> zoom meeting at 1200 is 1200 everywhere, regardless if you're in >> Berlin Germany or NYC. No more excuses of forgetting to account for >> time zones. No more needing to base your clock setting off longitude. >> >> While we're at it, get rid of the 24/60/60 system, base it all on >> tens: Ten hours in a day, ten minutes in an hour, ten seconds in a >> minute. A day becomes 1000 seconds long rather than 86400 seconds. We >> already use base ten to divide seconds anyway, so subdividing into >> milli, micro, pico, nano, and femto seconds will be nothing new, we >> would just use them more often (which incidentally would help with >> converting globally to the metric system). Plank time wouldn't need to >> change, just the conversion to seconds: >> >> https://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Value?plkt > > I came to agree with that as a smartass teenager. > > The entire argument gets a glazed look or an eye roll. I convinced not > one person and eventually learned to shut up about time systems. > +1 lets just say that isn't a hill I'm ready to die on