Re: Disc Compatibility?

Rolf Mantel <news@hartig-mantel.de> wrote:

Am 07.03.2025 um 19:08 schrieb Catrike Ryder:

On Fri, 07 Mar 2025 09:57:32 -0800, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
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:
 
 

With apologies for Facebook link!
<https://m.facebook.com/story.php?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"
<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>

 
I think I favor permanent DST, but, whatever....   it's not an issue
with me. I live on my own time.

 
One of the benefits ob being retired I guess.  For most of the working
population, school times and shift pattersn of working time are
overwhelming.
 
As a research student, I also lived in my own time: get up at 9 or 10,
go to university, read e-mail and the newspaper up till lunch, work in
in the afternoon till around 22:00, then cycle home in the night.
 
 

Most of my working life has been shift work or at least out of the 9-5
hours,which means I’ve never generally luckily had to experience it!

My work and home are some 10 miles away and both outer London so it is
faster by car 40ish minutes, but potentially longer if something goes wrong
as it’s large major roads so if it does that can more than double the time!

Even in London public transport is still set up outer-inner london than
radial though that is changing, hence cycling is the easiest option as it’s
around a hr guarantee and hassle free, I generally don’t need to mess with
large junction or traffic can just chill and ride.

The absolute fastest is though Heathrow 50mins but it’s less than 5mins
faster than the slightly less direct route picking up the old cycleway
which has far less stops.

So I rarely do so as I can’t be bothered. My commute of various routes I
commonly use, I’m a outlier in terms of number of traffic lights I’ll
encounter, ranging from 5 to 9 so somewhere from just over a mile and bit
between lights (average) to almost two miles.

Directly across Heathrow and using the larger direct roads adds another
handful of lights, so even though it, is 10 miles vs almost 12 miles only
gains 5 mins or so unless one is lucky with the lights + middle of the day
so Heathrow perimeter roads are clear so you don’t end up getting caught by
3 or so lights though Heathrow plus numerous lights on the urban multi lane
roads.

Roger Merriman