Unless a cop actually sees you doing a ridiculous speed they aren't going to check for P/W ratio or motor output
Electric scooters are illegal in the UK, but police don't have time or inclination to stop their widespread usage on public roads, and you're safe to ride past them unless you're doing something stupid.
So many things like this have people getting away with it that the laws are just ignored eventually.
When one has an incident ... Well, the hand wringers are out in droves telling everyone they told us so.
Underfunded and under resourced police can't cope with the workload, for a change.
>Unless a cop actually sees you doing a ridiculous speed they aren't going to check for P/W ratio or motor output
Which in practice means that anyone who doesn't pass a vibe check can be stopped for a fishing expedition and the officer can say in the report "well, they appeared to be going faster, oops".
> Underfunded and under resourced police can't cope with the workload, for a change.
In the US, the issue is mostly cops in cars. I'm pretty fortunate that my city has cops on bikes in common biking areas. That has reduced a huge amount of bad behavior of people on ebikes.
Technically they're not illegal, but they are classified as motor vehicles and require a driving license, tax, and insurance. However, no one actually offers insurance, and I guess you'll also run in to problems registering them for tax, so they are effectively illegal.
This is just silly and because of a 1980s legal definition of "motor vehicle": "a mechanically propelled vehicle intended or adapted for use on roads". Non-enforcement seems like a good thing in lieu of parliament amending this unintended and silly classification. This is exactly what happened here in Ireland and some other countries.
Paying cops to run a checkpoint and dyno test bikes?!! That seems like a huge waste of government resources unless the goal is to save money on other enforcement areas by instilling a message of "don't you dare goose step an inch out of line, we're watching". I suspect it's more about pandering to police supporting demographics and looking busy than it is about enforcing anything.
Might be tamed by asset (vehicle here) forfeiture provision in some of the stricter European countries for when you do worse than just minor speeding: get caught e.g. street racing and now the state auctions off your vehicle, without you seeing a cent.
One of the best reasons to pay after you eat is so you can question the bill in case of an unsatisfactory dish or service.
Tipping is optional in many areas, and can depend on the quality of the Front of House staff. Picking up a payment for £100 and finding £110 that was left because you've done a good job can be motivation to some people.
I don't think he's arguing to pay the bill up front, just to ask for the bill up front to avoid the whole "waiting for the check" thing. The idea doesn't appeal to me because I'm not confident that I know what I'll be ordering in total that early. Dessert, for instance... I rarely order dessert, but sometimes at the end of a meal, I do. I can't predict at the start whether or not that will be the case.
But I do have a different habit to speed things along: instead of asking for the check, waiting for it to arrive, then giving my card, I just hand the server my card in the first place and say I'm paying the bill. That eliminates one whole back-and-forth cycle.
I wonder what on earth these people are dreaming of when they try to stop one person promoting a book by making a move guaranteed to kick off the Streisand Effect and having the whole media machine do it for her?
Maybe they're getting paid royalties on the publication?
Also, .torrent file available on TPB in 3 2 1 ... (It wasn't at time of posting).
I wouldn't recommend this without reservations, but I passed my bike test at 40 and got a 1 litre adventure sport motorcycle.
I'd ridden bikes in my youth and have been a professional driver for most of my life. Knowing how roads work, how dangerous all the other fools on them are, and being used to the hazards on UK roads, I started off slow. Every car driver is a "didn't see you, mate" waiting to happen.
The freedom and joy of riding through North Yorkshire, the beauty of the place, the days out in the sun, and the people you speak to make it a massive thing in my life that I wish I could do more of.
You're telling the guy who pays for development to keep paying. Everything was well so long as Automattic paid and you went along for free, right?
You can tell him he's a dick for messing with the status quo and most people will agree with you, but the guy who did the paying won't agree. And when you think about it you wouldn't have agreed with it if you were the payer, would you?
You're telling him "man up and keep paying". Maybe you wouldn't put it like that? Would you say "you earn [number goes here] so you can pay a hundred FTEs to work on open source when your biggest competitor pays for one" or something?
Financially it's ruinous to buy disposables when you can pick up a simple cigar sized vape with rechargeable battery and replaceable coil/pod for the same price, then refill it over and over again.
The amount of lithium ending up on the road and in bins is silly. The tax on vaping is putting the price of everything up, so now is the time to buy an Xross Pro or something that lasts all day.
For adults (who don't need to conceal their habit) it makes a lot of sense to buy coils/pods in quantity and keep a spare in the car/handbag.
Also ... Can we stop vilifying this life-saving habit? Smoking kills, we all know it. Vaping is MUCH safer and yes, just as addictive. Nicotine isn't the killer ingredient in smoking, so encourage people to vape, don't demonize them for it.
> Also ... Can we stop vilifying this life-saving habit?
As a former smoker I’ve recently started vaping because I love nicotine and I think the risk / reward is worth it.
Vaping has been around at this point for over a decade, yet the evidence of harm is minimal. Some inflammatory responses, oxidative stress and potentially pre cancerous changes in gene expression. But that’s pretty much it (for UK legal products at least).
I wouldn’t call it healthy but consider it more like alcohol or sugar rather than traditional tobacco.
One thing that makes my blood boil, and I've seen it in many countries I've lived in, is that people who vape tend to see it as being fine to vape e.g. on trains. Here in Germany people are vaping in the trains nonstop, and while it's not as bad as people dropping cigarette butts on the street (usually literally directly next to a bin!), it still makes it difficult to respect the group, given how shockingly common it is.
Honest question, asking for informed responses: How harmful is second-hand vape?
Littered cigarette butts don't biodegrade.
Second-hand smoke causes cancer and the smell lingers on material.
Does other people vaping near you in an enclosed space have a meaningful physiological effect or otherwise? Or is it just association with second-hand smoke that people decry?
Even if it's 100% safe, which it isn't as are every other particulates you inhale, I don't like it, I don't want it. I don't walk around farting in elevators and burping in my fellow train commuters' faces even through it's perfectly safe, it's just basic common sense and politeness.
The vapor droplets contain the nicotine and other dissolved particulates so yes. And there are numerous studies showing heavy metal dissolution into them. I avoid them like the plague.
Anecdotally, it seems to depend on the liquid. Some are very thick and give me an impression like I can’t breathe. Others aren’t so bad, but have an extremely vile smell.
I’d say I’m not particularly prejudiced against vaping in general, I actually do vape from time to time.
Nicotine consumption causes the vascular system to constrict and a person's heart to start beating faster to push the blood through. Similar environment to a fetus in a over pressurized antibiotic sack, too much fluid. Doctors monitor for this and may remove fluid to depressurize so the heart and other major organs don't fail. Just like alcohol, nicotine does not have any health benefits.
People often over simplify complex systems. It is not just one, smoke, but multiple factors that cause health issues. Chewing tobacco proves toxicity is not just from carcinogens and tar build up in the lungs. Vaping may decrease the probability of dramatic health issues it does not drop it to 0.
It's actually not the nicotine that gives you cancer in chewing tobacco. And given all this harm with cigarettes isn't it sensible that we legalize a less harmful method that people have used quite successfully to wean off cigarettes when other efforts have failed them? Social smokers/vapers are always going to exist, the buzz goes together too well with booze, but there are people who do use this stuff to actually see substantially better health outcomes.
Calling vaping safer without there being any good evidence for that is quite a stretch. However I despise this pure resource waste. Can we just stop that instead while we investigate the effects of inhaling burning copper and plastic?
This is honestly getting tiring. Not only is the billeting tone pointless, neither are those reports conclusive or evidence on their own. I formed my opinion over the years of the diseases that are being caused by a lot of people using these devices. Now these could be by overuse, other issues, bad mixtures, shoddy made devices, idk the list can continue. Maybe vaping is overpowered if controlled correctly. Could be. Just don't state it as a fact, when, in fact, it is not known.
It makes intuitive sense: all other things being equal, inhaling combustion products is worse than not inhaling combustion products. Thus, nicotine with combustion products is worse than nicotine without combustion products. We would need sufficient evidence to veer away from this data.
More than sufficient to host a site, even dynamic.