Re: Disc Compatibility?

executive director On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 14:46:27 -0600, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 3/7/2025 11:57 AM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 11:23:38 -0500, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 

On 3/7/2025 12:46 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:

Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote:

On 6 Mar 2025 12:46:35 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:
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With apologies for Facebook link!
<https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10154178800268586&id=13533633585>

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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.

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All good logical points and my wife probably tried to explain at the time!

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Another clue is that it was posted on Mar 31, 2016 (US), which would
be April 1 in England.
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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.

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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"
<https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/29/text>
 
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:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_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:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_California_Proposition_7>
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Benjamin Franklin wrote a few paragraphs in his
Autobiography about enjoying a bright warm early morning in
June while the rest of Philadelphia slept. He postulated
that rising earlier would allow better use of summer sunlight.
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From that minor comment, Woodrow Wilson spun it into a
bright shining lie by decreeing DST "to save oil for the war
effort". It doesn't. Economists absolutely love natural
experiments and this is a classic. There is no savings
whatsoever.
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Mr Nixon also introduced DST in midwinter 1974 by the same
false reasoning. Diligent research showed no fuel savings at
all.*
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Even better, some States have at times changed by county,
leaving adjacent counties (in Indiana for example) with
similar population, economy, latitude and so on with or
without DST.  There is no fuel savings.
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It's just another bad idea from The Planners, IMHO. People
who rise early enjoy dawn in summer. Those who don't don't.
This is not a national policy problem IMHO.
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*I had an excellent first date with a cute waitress the
evening before and had no idea DST was ordered. I dropped
her at her diner at the "wrong" 5am; an hour late. Ouch.

I live by my own timetable. I'm happy change to clocks so I know what
the rest of the world is doing and to fit into it when I must. (like
my scheduled flight to Colorado in July) Otherwise, after we "spring
ahead," I'll just be sleeping until 3:30 instead of 2:30, and I might
stay up until 8:30. My wife's fancy chime clock will have to be
changed and I'll change the alarm clocks in the bedroom even though we
seldom need an alarm, but most of our clocks and all of our watches
change by themselves. My old bike computer's GPS needed about a half
hour of satellite exposure to adjust, but the new one seems to take it
in stride as do the phone's GPS. We seldom watch a TV show as it's
being broadcast, and the recording changes will be automatic.

For the most part, the DST change is just a pain in the butt.

--
C'est bon
Soloman