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by Jdsk
27 Mar 2024, 10:19pm
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: touring wheels upgrade
Replies: 64
Views: 2540

Re: touring wheels upgrade

roubaixtuesday wrote: 25 Mar 2024, 7:13pm ...
I agree it's all but irrelevant for touring, but it is good to get the facts straight IMO
Yes, it's worth getting the physics right first. And the language, including distinguishing between mass, weight and the relevant moment for rotation. Then it's possible to be sure that everyone is talking about the same things.

The size of effect may not be particularly important in particular settings. And if it isn't the physics will explain why.

Jonathan

PS: I also suspect that there are some pre-Newtonian concepts of momentum lurking in the undergrowth.
by Jdsk
27 Mar 2024, 8:51pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Take These (Supply) Chains from My Heart
Replies: 809
Views: 43976

Re: Take These (Supply) Chains from My Heart

Jdsk wrote: 6 Mar 2024, 11:19am
al_yrpal wrote: 6 Mar 2024, 11:15am... and thus our food hygene people have to be very careful what is imported too.
"Defra confirms funding withdrawal for Dover illegal meat checks":
https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/eu-referendu ... s-at-dover
Defra Secretary Steve Barclay was asked to explain the Department's stance on funding checks for illegal meat imports when he appeared in front of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee on Tuesday.
Prior to the meeting, EFRA published a damning letter to it from Lucy Manzano, head of Dover port health & public protection, which suggested Defra had misled the committee of MPs in its response in February to questions on illegal meat import checks at the port and the decision to move legal customs checks to a new inland site from April.

https://www.npa-uk.org.uk/Barclay_quest ... hecks.html
https://committees.parliament.uk/commit ... committee/

Jonathan
by Jdsk
27 Mar 2024, 8:30pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: What Has Made You Laugh Today ?
Replies: 1471
Views: 96518

Re: What Has Made You Laugh Today ?

colin54 wrote: 27 Mar 2024, 7:52pm
Jdsk wrote: 27 Mar 2024, 7:19pm Do you know the Zen... story?
I do; perhaps Pirsig's friend would have been less upset with a gold plated shim, my current choice for my British Eagle's drive-side bb cup.
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Is it an in-joke referring to that? Because the difference in views wouldn't work with a product designed to be used for the purpose for which it is used...

Jonathan
by Jdsk
27 Mar 2024, 7:19pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: What Has Made You Laugh Today ?
Replies: 1471
Views: 96518

Re: What Has Made You Laugh Today ?

colin54 wrote: 27 Mar 2024, 11:44am As the OP, continued thanks for all the laughs. :)
This made me laugh today whilst looking at the SJS site, £4.99 inc postage; also available at your nearest shop complete with contents for slightly less.https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/gear-spares ... -shim-set/
: - )

Do you know the Zen... story?

Jonathan
by Jdsk
27 Mar 2024, 7:18pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: GPX devices...Garmin alternative
Replies: 24
Views: 849

Re: GPX devices...Garmin alternative

PH wrote: 27 Mar 2024, 7:12pm
carlislemike wrote: 27 Mar 2024, 3:11pm Tempted by using it as default and I think I can use my saved Cycle Travel routes on it. Simple question, can I load CT routes onto Garmin or other devices?
With a Garmin Explore 2*, from PC** to phone to Explore, at home with wi-fi it couldn't be simpler. Have Garmin Connect on the phone, have that open and the Garmin turned on, check the phone recognises the Garmin, save the route in CT > GPX > Send to Garmin Connect and it's all done. It sometimes takes a couple of minutes to show, though you can hurry it along by pressing "sync" on the Connect app.

* Probably on other models as well, I'll stick to commenting on the ones I have.
** Probably with a Mac as well, but again I'll stick to what I know
My most common workflow is from a Mac to a Garmin Edge 1000, so I can help with that side.

But I usually move route files by mounting the Garmin as a USB mass storage volume rather than using Garmin Connect. (I do use Garmin Connect for device and map updates.)

Jonathan
by Jdsk
27 Mar 2024, 7:15pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: GPX devices...Garmin alternative
Replies: 24
Views: 849

Re: GPX devices...Garmin alternative

carlislemike wrote: 27 Mar 2024, 7:01pm Regarding the last two answers, I created my routes on a MacAir / AppleMac laptop. I can follow routes on CT as long as I’ve saved them but I’m not wholly convinced that I’m using the right processes. At nigh on 76, I’m a techno-Luddite
That's OK, we can take this one step at a time.

The Mac laptop should work fine for this. You can practise exporting your routes from cycle.travel, that might be different from saving.

Which model of Garmin are you considering?

Jonathan
by Jdsk
27 Mar 2024, 3:54pm
Forum: For Sale - bits of bikes, etc.
Topic: Garmin Edge 130 Sold
Replies: 1
Views: 101

Re: Garmin Edge 130

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by Jdsk
27 Mar 2024, 3:17pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: GPX devices...Garmin alternative
Replies: 24
Views: 849

Re: GPX devices...Garmin alternative

carlislemike wrote: 27 Mar 2024, 3:11pm ...
Simple question, can I load CT routes onto Garmin or other devices?
Yes. They need to be exported in the common GPX format. That's rarely a problem nowadays.

And you have to decide how you'd like the two devices to communicate, eg wired USB, Bluetooth, WiFi, email...

On what device will you be running cycle.travel to generate the routes?

Jonathan
by Jdsk
27 Mar 2024, 2:44pm
Forum: Health and fitness
Topic: Why are the general population resistant to getting fit?
Replies: 97
Views: 4977

Re: Why are the general population resistant to getting fit?

Psamathe wrote: 27 Mar 2024, 2:38pm With the health aspects of exercise one wonders if an increasingly stretched NHS might start to focus more on exercise as a treatment.

It gets very complex involving health policy, balancing budgets, treatment availability, moral case, NHS charter, etc. most way beyond my knowledge.

But behaviour aspects do (or at least did) affect the treatments you could be offered under the NHS. As I understand it, if you drink excessively then you wont be considered for a liver transplant until you get your drinking under control.

Mental Health help from exercise? (endorphins?). Not a cure but maybe some alleviation for some conditions?

I seem to remember something about GPs being able to prescribe a limited duration course of gym. My local council operates several quite good leisure centres incl. gyms, things like badminton, squash, etc. some with swimming pools. Did that scheme get anywhere? still running?
At the level of what individual practitioners can do for individual patients it's currently called "social prescribing". The evidence about what works and what doesn't is appearing, and there's some discussion in the archives.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/personalised ... escribing/

But a lot of what is needed isn't currently within the remit of the NHS. It includes explicit assessments of effects on health of other areas of policy: transport, food, education, employment... just about everything.

Jonathan
by Jdsk
27 Mar 2024, 1:44pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Jihadi Brides and their Children.
Replies: 576
Views: 24170

Re: Jihadi Brides and their Children.

briansnail wrote: 27 Mar 2024, 1:06pm
Do we forgive and forget and welcome them back ?

Or do "Actions have Consequences."
I should preface my reply.Its good to be patriotic and love one's country.Whoever,wherever.With this we need to be curious and respectful of all nationalities,religions and people everywhere.

That said I feel .We need to forgive and forget.To err is human,forgive divine .However actions do have consequences and they should not be allowed back.Two supporting reasons .Firstly it sends out a wrong message.If one robbed a bank and was told you are a nice person and you know what ?.You do not have to go to prison.The banks would be bankrupt in a week.
Also I feel maybe 98% would be successfully rehabilitated in the community.All it takes is for one or two people to be seriously radicalized again.If they misbehaved on a big scale.
This would lead to increase in the ultra far right and destabilize the whole of the United Kingdom.Why take a chance?.
Thirdly look at USA.Russians make up one of the highest intakes.A fraction will be sleepers for Russian FSB. The Intelligence services do not have the manpower to keep tabs on everyone.
M15/M16 in England have the same problem.Budgets.No country would allow them back.Please name one if you disagree.
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My emboldening.

Has anyone suggested that she should be told that is a nice person and that she should not be sent to prison?

That's the precise opposite of my view. She should be returned to the UK and prosecuted in the same way as other people who are suspected of having committed crimes. And that isn't happening while she is held in a refugee camp.

Jonathan
by Jdsk
27 Mar 2024, 1:00pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: UK Leasehold Changes?
Replies: 12
Views: 222

Re: UK Leasehold Changes?

Psamathe wrote: 27 Mar 2024, 12:50pm I can understand the Gov. wanting to change legal constraints on leasehold contracts for the future but I can't see justification for retrospective changes to contracts entered into freely, normally with legal advice, etc. that were legal when agreed.

Most people buying a property look around to find what meets their needs, take legal advice, get the opportunity to read contracts and reasearch anything they don't understand, etc. So to have a contract entered into freely that complied with the law at the time retrospectively changed to the benefit of one party would seem very wrong.

Maybe the property purchase price was reduced on the basis of the ground rent. There is much more to buying a property that number of bedrooms. When I was house hunting I could have purchased a bigger better house for less money but in a flood zone and I didn't want to handle flood risks. My choice so I went for less house for more money but no flood risk. People make choices.

What am I missing about the arguments for retrospective changes?
Fairness, as above.

"Leasehold reform in England and Wales: What’s happening and when?":
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/le ... and-wales/

Jonathan

PS: There's a typo in the Subject.
by Jdsk
27 Mar 2024, 12:36pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Jihadi Brides and their Children.
Replies: 576
Views: 24170

Re: Jihadi Brides and their Children.

Psamathe wrote: 27 Mar 2024, 12:21pm
Jdsk wrote: 27 Mar 2024, 10:06am ...

And British.

And those are what still seem relevant to me. But judges who know more than me have ruled differently.

The recent timeline:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamima_B ... Government

Please could someone explain the legal decisions or point to an expert who has.
I don't think it changes the moral considerations but I thought that she is also a Bangladesh citizen so revoking her British citizenship does not make her stateless (which would have been against the law). As I say, to me this is a techincal aspect that does not comment on the moral aspects of the decision.
The DAG article, IIUC, says that this part of the legal argument hasn't changed in the recent hearings but the Supreme Court might address it.

Jonathan
by Jdsk
27 Mar 2024, 12:31pm
Forum: Using the Forum - request help : report difficulties
Topic: Thread derailment
Replies: 19
Views: 892

Re: Thread derailment

Psamathe wrote: 27 Mar 2024, 12:29pm
Jdsk wrote: 27 Mar 2024, 10:25am
slowster wrote: 20 Feb 2024, 1:14pm One of the stated aims in the Forum Guidelines is that the forum develops and maintains 'a reputation for friendliness, inclusiveness, helpfulness and knowledge'. When someone joins the forum to ask for help, they should not see their thread quickly become derailed by numerous off-topic posts, something which has happened on two threads very recently.
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My enjoyment of the site has recently been lessened by a particular habit. When someone asks for help on fixing something they aren't asking for a review of the entire technological and marketing history. That history is often absolutely fascinating and I love reading it and I'm impressed by the knowledge, but I'd much prefer that it was in a different thread or blog because it gets in the way of understanding the responses to the original cry for help.
But it can be a difficult one. eg "Custom Storage" thread (viewtopic.php?t=160418) where new'ish member was asking about contributors experiences building a storage shed for a bike. But OP also stated why he was wanting to build a shed and many responses (including my own) was to provide solutions to the reason for needing a custom bike shed. I felt the alternative solutions useful but they were not answering the OP's question.
Yes, but in that case the responses were still attempting to solve the problem.

And it is often necessary to try and track back beyond the OP's question to identity the real problem!

Jonathan
by Jdsk
27 Mar 2024, 12:20pm
Forum: Health and fitness
Topic: Why are the general population resistant to getting fit?
Replies: 97
Views: 4977

Re: Why are the general population resistant to getting fit?

Psamathe wrote: 27 Mar 2024, 12:15pm ...
But also we are increasingly being told (from credible sources) that staying active and fit helps avoid many major medical issues that can affect people of breeding age (and thus a more direct impact on natural selection).
...
And the more we study the subject the more we recognise the usefulness of survivors beyond breeding age. The grandmother effect has recently been identified in giraffes!
https://www.popsci.com/animals/giraffe- ... ypothesis/

Jonathan
by Jdsk
27 Mar 2024, 11:10am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Jihadi Brides and their Children.
Replies: 576
Views: 24170

Re: Jihadi Brides and their Children.

Jdsk wrote: 27 Mar 2024, 10:06am NB date.
Vorpal wrote: 2 Mar 2021, 2:09pm ...
Let's not lose sight of the fact that she (Begum) was legally a child and that she was groomed.
And British.

And those are what still seem relevant to me. But judges who know more than me have ruled differently.

The recent timeline:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamima_B ... Government

Please could someone explain the legal decisions or point to an expert who has.
Found it. New DAG article on 29 February 2024:
"The statelessness of Shamima Begum":
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/idea ... mima-begum

Jonathan