should have worn a helmet

On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 3:14:44 PM UTC-8, wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 8:58:55 AM UTC-6, wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 1:10:25 AM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 3:42:31 AM UTC, wrote:
On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 9:08:27 PM UTC-6, AMuzi wrote:
https://nypost.com/2019/01/23/betsy-...ling-accident/


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The article says it happened last month. December. She is supposedly from Michigan. Or has one of her mansions in Michigan. Or her Amway husband's mansion. I'm pretty sure its cold in Michigan in December. So bicycling accidents are kind of rare in December when its freezing cold. I live a couple hundred miles south of Michigan and there is NO bicycling in December in my state. Was she vacationing in the Bahamas or Caribbean when this accident occurred? Boss on vacation in the tropics while the poor education teacher peons have to work?

WTF is this marxist class struggle on a bicycle tech conference?

Andre Jute
Out in Oz we called people like Russell "Pommie Wreckers"

Well Russell is convinced that with Socialism we could be as well off as Venezuela.

Only a fool such as yourself believes Venezuela practices socialism. Most of the so called socialist countries are not socialist. They are dictatorships. Venezuela, Russia/Soviet Union, North Korea and others are/were all dictatorships. One guy takes power through the military and steals everything. Probably China is the only somewhat successful true socialist country. They had/have plenty of dictatorship too. But they did/do more or less practice socialism. They improved the lives of the vast majority of their citizens (one Billion). They tried/trying to distribute the benefits to everyone. In China today you have maybe half the one billion who are middle class. Whatever is considered middle class in China. And 50 million rich. And 450 million poor/peasant. Compared to capitalism where you would have 50 million rich, 100 million middle class, and 850 million poor/peasant.. So socialism has worked in China.

Only a fool believes that socialism doesn't always lead to dictatorship.

On 1/24/2019 5:33 PM, wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 3:14:44 PM UTC-8, wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 8:58:55 AM UTC-6, wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 1:10:25 AM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 3:42:31 AM UTC, wrote:
On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 9:08:27 PM UTC-6, AMuzi wrote:
https://nypost.com/2019/01/23/betsy-...ling-accident/


--
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www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

The article says it happened last month. December. She is supposedly from Michigan. Or has one of her mansions in Michigan. Or her Amway husband's mansion. I'm pretty sure its cold in Michigan in December. So bicycling accidents are kind of rare in December when its freezing cold. I live a couple hundred miles south of Michigan and there is NO bicycling in December in my state. Was she vacationing in the Bahamas or Caribbean when this accident occurred? Boss on vacation in the tropics while the poor education teacher peons have to work?

WTF is this marxist class struggle on a bicycle tech conference?

Andre Jute
Out in Oz we called people like Russell "Pommie Wreckers"

Well Russell is convinced that with Socialism we could be as well off as Venezuela.

Only a fool such as yourself believes Venezuela practices socialism. Most of the so called socialist countries are not socialist. They are dictatorships. Venezuela, Russia/Soviet Union, North Korea and others are/were all dictatorships. One guy takes power through the military and steals everything. Probably China is the only somewhat successful true socialist country. They had/have plenty of dictatorship too. But they did/do more or less practice socialism. They improved the lives of the vast majority of their citizens (one Billion). They tried/trying to distribute the benefits to everyone. In China today you have maybe half the one billion who are middle class. Whatever is considered middle class in China. And 50 million rich. And 450 million poor/peasant. Compared to capitalism where you would have 50 million rich, 100 million middle class, and 850 million poor/peasant. So socialism has worked in China.

Only a fool believes that socialism doesn't always lead to dictatorship.


Polybios says that in the beginning the biggest meanest guy
was King. Disenchanted with the dictator, an oligarchy of
the wise and rich depose him. Corruption leads to popular
unrest and then a democracy. Democracy leads to profligate
spending and anarchy, out of which a dictator arises
promising order.

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:14:43 -0800 (PST), "
wrote:

On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 8:58:55 AM UTC-6, wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 1:10:25 AM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 3:42:31 AM UTC, wrote:
On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 9:08:27 PM UTC-6, AMuzi wrote:
https://nypost.com/2019/01/23/betsy-...ling-accident/


--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

The article says it happened last month. December. She is supposedly from Michigan. Or has one of her mansions in Michigan. Or her Amway husband's mansion. I'm pretty sure its cold in Michigan in December. So bicycling accidents are kind of rare in December when its freezing cold. I live a couple hundred miles south of Michigan and there is NO bicycling in December in my state. Was she vacationing in the Bahamas or Caribbean when this accident occurred? Boss on vacation in the tropics while the poor education teacher peons have to work?

WTF is this marxist class struggle on a bicycle tech conference?

Andre Jute
Out in Oz we called people like Russell "Pommie Wreckers"

Well Russell is convinced that with Socialism we could be as well off as Venezuela.

Only a fool such as yourself believes Venezuela practices socialism. Most of the so called socialist countries are not socialist. They are dictatorships. Venezuela, Russia/Soviet Union, North Korea and others are/were all dictatorships. One guy takes power through the military and steals everything. Probably China is the only somewhat successful true socialist country. They had/have plenty of dictatorship too. But they did/do more or less practice socialism. They improved the lives of the vast majority of their citizens (one Billion). They tried/trying to distribute the benefits to everyone. In China today you have maybe half the one billion who are middle class. Whatever is considered middle class in China. And 50 million rich. And 450 million poor/peasant. Compared to capitalism where you would have 50 million rich, 100 million middle class, and 850 million poor/peasant. So socialism has worked in China.

But I think that the reason that socialism worked in China was that
China had been ruled by the Emperors from the beginning of recorded
history until the 1900's so no concept of independent action by the
proletariat existed. Added to that was the truly horrible conditions
that existed in the country. The country had been in chaos from the
Boxer rebellion (1895 )to post WW II. Western countries had taken over
the Chinese government's economic systems - taxes, customs duties,
etc., it was truly a mess,, people were starving to death, even in the
good years.

Then a guy came along and told people "support me and I'll make things
better". They did and he did. Admittedly "better" wasn't better in
Western terms but when your kids are starving to death and someone
gives you a cup of rice it is definitely "better" in your terms.


Cheers,
John B.

On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 3:19:25 PM UTC-8, jbeattie wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 3:01:29 PM UTC-8, wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 8:33:09 AM UTC-6, AMuzi wrote:
On 1/23/2019 9:42 PM, wrote:
On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 9:08:27 PM UTC-6, AMuzi wrote:
https://nypost.com/2019/01/23/betsy-...ling-accident/



The article says it happened last month. December. She is supposedly from Michigan. Or has one of her mansions in Michigan. Or her Amway husband's mansion. I'm pretty sure its cold in Michigan in December. So bicycling accidents are kind of rare in December when its freezing cold. I live a couple hundred miles south of Michigan and there is NO bicycling in December in my state. Was she vacationing in the Bahamas or Caribbean when this accident occurred? Boss on vacation in the tropics while the poor education teacher peons have to work?


No cycling in December? It's around zero F here with 8" of
fresh snow and yet there's cycling in Wisconsin.

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

There is very little cycling in Wisconsin right now. Just like with all the northern half of the USA. Cycling goes down to almost zero in the cold, snowy months. I am sure you have a bike rack in front of your store. And in the summer months there are a few bikes parked in it. How many bikes are in the rack today? And the only people who cycle in Wisconsin in the winter are the truly dedicated who cycle no matter what. Not the ones who cycle for fun. I doubt old Betsy is a serious dedicated cycle at all costs person.

It's global warming here -- the mildest January I can recall in the last 35 years. No rain gear today and lots of riders. I wore a wool long sleeve jersey and light jacket to work this morning and light long finger gloves. During the first weeks of January, I'm almost always in full winter gear coping with rain, ice and periodic snow. It's still raining a fair amount, but that's it so far.

-- Jay Beattie.

It's colder than a witch's tit here and for the last two months. Yesterday it was 37 degrees in Castro Valley I've only gotten in 4 rides for January and even at that I have two or three layers of thermals. I think that every morning for the last two months its been warmer in Anchorage than here.

What has happened to LinkIn? They keep hiding my resume and my really good recommendations. Originally I had a 14 page resume but the HR people would say that was off-putting. So I reduced it to 5 or 6 pages and posted it on LinkIn and it keeps disappearing. Dr. Sean Michael McCown gave me a recommendation that even surprised me. That disappeared completely. My resume appears now to be only three entries. Do you have to pay for the higher class service to actually get that stuff?

I found Dr. McCown. He was a lecturer in Chemistry at U of Conn I believe. But he seems to have completely disappeared from there. Since he was overweight and never exercised and was a couple of years older than me I can assume that he's probably in some hospice somewhere but the University won't give me any information. That seems a bit strange for a rather first rate lecturer.

On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 3:58:03 PM UTC-8, AMuzi wrote:
On 1/24/2019 5:33 PM, wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 3:14:44 PM UTC-8, wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 8:58:55 AM UTC-6, wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 1:10:25 AM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 3:42:31 AM UTC, wrote:
On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 9:08:27 PM UTC-6, AMuzi wrote:
https://nypost.com/2019/01/23/betsy-...ling-accident/


--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

The article says it happened last month. December. She is supposedly from Michigan. Or has one of her mansions in Michigan. Or her Amway husband's mansion. I'm pretty sure its cold in Michigan in December. So bicycling accidents are kind of rare in December when its freezing cold. I live a couple hundred miles south of Michigan and there is NO bicycling in December in my state. Was she vacationing in the Bahamas or Caribbean when this accident occurred? Boss on vacation in the tropics while the poor education teacher peons have to work?

WTF is this marxist class struggle on a bicycle tech conference?

Andre Jute
Out in Oz we called people like Russell "Pommie Wreckers"

Well Russell is convinced that with Socialism we could be as well off as Venezuela.

Only a fool such as yourself believes Venezuela practices socialism. Most of the so called socialist countries are not socialist. They are dictatorships. Venezuela, Russia/Soviet Union, North Korea and others are/were all dictatorships. One guy takes power through the military and steals everything. Probably China is the only somewhat successful true socialist country. They had/have plenty of dictatorship too. But they did/do more or less practice socialism. They improved the lives of the vast majority of their citizens (one Billion). They tried/trying to distribute the benefits to everyone. In China today you have maybe half the one billion who are middle class. Whatever is considered middle class in China. And 50 million rich. And 450 million poor/peasant. Compared to capitalism where you would have 50 million rich, 100 million middle class, and 850 million poor/peasant. So socialism has worked in China.

Only a fool believes that socialism doesn't always lead to dictatorship..


Polybios says that in the beginning the biggest meanest guy
was King. Disenchanted with the dictator, an oligarchy of
the wise and rich depose him. Corruption leads to popular
unrest and then a democracy. Democracy leads to profligate
spending and anarchy, out of which a dictator arises
promising order.

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

Originally the kings were almost entirely egotistical and hence very dictatorial. Enter Christianity - tis was the first religion EVER that said to honor EVERYONE. To forgive anyone that honestly were sorry for what they did. That was the turning point in human history. From that point on Kings would compete for what they could do for their people. You could not save your soul and be evil. Was that system perfect? What system of man is?

Where Christianity did not get a strong hold you had things like the Emperor of Japan that allowed his military to attack the USA or a couple thousand years of Emperors of China who luckily felt so far above the common man that he didn't bother to exploit them too much.

All the great civilizations without Christianity were ephemerous? Because of Christianity, Rome still survives in every western nation.

On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 4:04:09 PM UTC-8, John B. Slocomb wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:14:43 -0800 (PST), "
wrote:

On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 8:58:55 AM UTC-6, wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 1:10:25 AM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 3:42:31 AM UTC, wrote:
On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 9:08:27 PM UTC-6, AMuzi wrote:
https://nypost.com/2019/01/23/betsy-...ling-accident/


--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

The article says it happened last month. December. She is supposedly from Michigan. Or has one of her mansions in Michigan. Or her Amway husband's mansion. I'm pretty sure its cold in Michigan in December. So bicycling accidents are kind of rare in December when its freezing cold. I live a couple hundred miles south of Michigan and there is NO bicycling in December in my state. Was she vacationing in the Bahamas or Caribbean when this accident occurred? Boss on vacation in the tropics while the poor education teacher peons have to work?

WTF is this marxist class struggle on a bicycle tech conference?

Andre Jute
Out in Oz we called people like Russell "Pommie Wreckers"

Well Russell is convinced that with Socialism we could be as well off as Venezuela.

Only a fool such as yourself believes Venezuela practices socialism. Most of the so called socialist countries are not socialist. They are dictatorships. Venezuela, Russia/Soviet Union, North Korea and others are/were all dictatorships. One guy takes power through the military and steals everything. Probably China is the only somewhat successful true socialist country. They had/have plenty of dictatorship too. But they did/do more or less practice socialism. They improved the lives of the vast majority of their citizens (one Billion). They tried/trying to distribute the benefits to everyone. In China today you have maybe half the one billion who are middle class. Whatever is considered middle class in China. And 50 million rich. And 450 million poor/peasant. Compared to capitalism where you would have 50 million rich, 100 million middle class, and 850 million poor/peasant. So socialism has worked in China.

But I think that the reason that socialism worked in China was that
China had been ruled by the Emperors from the beginning of recorded
history until the 1900's so no concept of independent action by the
proletariat existed. Added to that was the truly horrible conditions
that existed in the country. The country had been in chaos from the
Boxer rebellion (1895 )to post WW II. Western countries had taken over
the Chinese government's economic systems - taxes, customs duties,
etc., it was truly a mess,, people were starving to death, even in the
good years.

Then a guy came along and told people "support me and I'll make things
better". They did and he did. Admittedly "better" wasn't better in
Western terms but when your kids are starving to death and someone
gives you a cup of rice it is definitely "better" in your terms.


Cheers,
John B.

There were taxes in Imperial China. But the government was tiny and hence the taxes were those that could easily be handled. As Socialism begins is promises to make everyone equal. Well, let's face it - everyone is NOT equal. There are those that work and those who disapprove of working. The only way to take from the haves to give to the have-nots is by force after a certain level.

You hear it all the time - some dunderhead that won't work to support himself cants what others want. That guy has a billion dollars and that isn't fair. I want it. Socialism is nothing more than the runaway version of that. And in the end only total control will work. No socialism can stop devolving into a dictatorship or an oligarchy with absolute control over people. And why should the workers work simply to have it stolen from them? The workforce productivity eventually falls to zero as it did in Venezuela - what was once more prosperous than Canada and the second richest country in the western hemisphere.

All of the peons voted in socialism, stopped working on the plantations and moved into the city and went on the dole. The dole got progressively smaller and smaller as the government seized all of the assets of the plantation owners until at this point there is NOTHING there but the small amount of oil they have - and despite the leftist press it is a pittance. Annually they produce what Russia and the USA produce in one day.

Sweden did miss the bullet - but they were very hard working people to begin with and they tried socialism for ONE YEAR and immediately backed of in disgust when the lower class workers started seeing that their companies were going bankrupt trying to pay the way of everyone else. They SAW what would happen if it continued and they immediately stopped socialism. It was not the rich people that did this but the workers. I think that one of them said "I don't want to be like Russell" and everyone agreed instantly with the view of a turd in their minds.

On 1/24/2019 6:17 PM, wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 3:19:25 PM UTC-8, jbeattie wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 3:01:29 PM UTC-8, wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 8:33:09 AM UTC-6, AMuzi wrote:
On 1/23/2019 9:42 PM, wrote:
On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 9:08:27 PM UTC-6, AMuzi wrote:
https://nypost.com/2019/01/23/betsy-...ling-accident/



The article says it happened last month. December. She is supposedly from Michigan. Or has one of her mansions in Michigan. Or her Amway husband's mansion. I'm pretty sure its cold in Michigan in December. So bicycling accidents are kind of rare in December when its freezing cold. I live a couple hundred miles south of Michigan and there is NO bicycling in December in my state. Was she vacationing in the Bahamas or Caribbean when this accident occurred? Boss on vacation in the tropics while the poor education teacher peons have to work?


No cycling in December? It's around zero F here with 8" of
fresh snow and yet there's cycling in Wisconsin.

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

There is very little cycling in Wisconsin right now. Just like with all the northern half of the USA. Cycling goes down to almost zero in the cold, snowy months. I am sure you have a bike rack in front of your store. And in the summer months there are a few bikes parked in it. How many bikes are in the rack today? And the only people who cycle in Wisconsin in the winter are the truly dedicated who cycle no matter what. Not the ones who cycle for fun. I doubt old Betsy is a serious dedicated cycle at all costs person.

It's global warming here -- the mildest January I can recall in the last 35 years. No rain gear today and lots of riders. I wore a wool long sleeve jersey and light jacket to work this morning and light long finger gloves. During the first weeks of January, I'm almost always in full winter gear coping with rain, ice and periodic snow. It's still raining a fair amount, but that's it so far.

-- Jay Beattie.

It's colder than a witch's tit here and for the last two months. Yesterday it was 37 degrees in Castro Valley I've only gotten in 4 rides for January and even at that I have two or three layers of thermals. I think that every morning for the last two months its been warmer in Anchorage than here.

What has happened to LinkIn? They keep hiding my resume and my really good recommendations. Originally I had a 14 page resume but the HR people would say that was off-putting. So I reduced it to 5 or 6 pages and posted it on LinkIn and it keeps disappearing. Dr. Sean Michael McCown gave me a recommendation that even surprised me. That disappeared completely. My resume appears now to be only three entries. Do you have to pay for the higher class service to actually get that stuff?

I found Dr. McCown. He was a lecturer in Chemistry at U of Conn I believe. But he seems to have completely disappeared from there. Since he was overweight and never exercised and was a couple of years older than me I can assume that he's probably in some hospice somewhere but the University won't give me any information. That seems a bit strange for a rather first rate lecturer.


"It's colder than a witch's tit here and for the last two
months. Yesterday it was 37 degrees"

Woosie.
Minus 13F with a stiff wind 'as if' minus 35F and 9 inches
of fresh snow blowing all over hell.

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:28:09 -0600, AMuzi wrote:

On 1/24/2019 6:17 PM, wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 3:19:25 PM UTC-8, jbeattie wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 3:01:29 PM UTC-8, wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 8:33:09 AM UTC-6, AMuzi wrote:
On 1/23/2019 9:42 PM, wrote:
On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 9:08:27 PM UTC-6, AMuzi wrote:
https://nypost.com/2019/01/23/betsy-...ling-accident/



The article says it happened last month. December. She is supposedly from Michigan. Or has one of her mansions in Michigan. Or her Amway husband's mansion. I'm pretty sure its cold in Michigan in December. So bicycling accidents are kind of rare in December when its freezing cold. I live a couple hundred miles south of Michigan and there is NO bicycling in December in my state. Was she vacationing in the Bahamas or Caribbean when this accident occurred? Boss on vacation in the tropics while the poor education teacher peons have to work?


No cycling in December? It's around zero F here with 8" of
fresh snow and yet there's cycling in Wisconsin.

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

There is very little cycling in Wisconsin right now. Just like with all the northern half of the USA. Cycling goes down to almost zero in the cold, snowy months. I am sure you have a bike rack in front of your store. And in the summer months there are a few bikes parked in it. How many bikes are in the rack today? And the only people who cycle in Wisconsin in the winter are the truly dedicated who cycle no matter what. Not the ones who cycle for fun. I doubt old Betsy is a serious dedicated cycle at all costs person.

It's global warming here -- the mildest January I can recall in the last 35 years. No rain gear today and lots of riders. I wore a wool long sleeve jersey and light jacket to work this morning and light long finger gloves. During the first weeks of January, I'm almost always in full winter gear coping with rain, ice and periodic snow. It's still raining a fair amount, but that's it so far.

-- Jay Beattie.

It's colder than a witch's tit here and for the last two months. Yesterday it was 37 degrees in Castro Valley I've only gotten in 4 rides for January and even at that I have two or three layers of thermals. I think that every morning for the last two months its been warmer in Anchorage than here.

What has happened to LinkIn? They keep hiding my resume and my really good recommendations. Originally I had a 14 page resume but the HR people would say that was off-putting. So I reduced it to 5 or 6 pages and posted it on LinkIn and it keeps disappearing. Dr. Sean Michael McCown gave me a recommendation that even surprised me. That disappeared completely. My resume appears now to be only three entries. Do you have to pay for the higher class service to actually get that stuff?

I found Dr. McCown. He was a lecturer in Chemistry at U of Conn I believe. But he seems to have completely disappeared from there. Since he was overweight and never exercised and was a couple of years older than me I can assume that he's probably in some hospice somewhere but the University won't give me any information. That seems a bit strange for a rather first rate lecturer.


"It's colder than a witch's tit here and for the last two
months. Yesterday it was 37 degrees"

Woosie.
Minus 13F with a stiff wind 'as if' minus 35F and 9 inches
of fresh snow blowing all over hell.

Miserably cold here too. This morning it was 23 degrees (C) at 0600
:-)


Cheers,
John B.

On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:17:13 -0800, sltom992 wrote:


What has happened to LinkIn? They keep hiding my resume and my really
good recommendations.

Did it ever exist?
Did you meand LinkEDIn.com perhaps.

with Frank Krygowski wrote:

*SKIP*
Take eyeglass mirrors, for instance...

Phew, these are so old. I request augmented reality, NOW!

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Torvalds' goal for Linux is very simple: World Domination
Stallman's goal for GNU is even simpler: Freedom