Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!193.141.40.65.MISMATCH!npeer.as286.net!npeer-ng0.as286.net!peer02.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer03.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx09.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc From: Charlie Gibbs Subject: Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy References: <086607f1-2283-f7fb-ddf9-ac4766b06530@example.net> <3RPUO.364883$v8v2.299927@fx18.iad> <6723f0c1@news.ausics.net> <785VO.74803$vtH3.68101@fx07.iad> User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Lines: 28 Message-ID: <8o7VO.458085$WOde.431584@fx09.iad> X-Complaints-To: https://www.astraweb.com/aup NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:32:04 UTC Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:32:04 GMT X-Received-Bytes: 2195 Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:228380 comp.os.linux.misc:60309 On 2024-11-01, Scott Lurndal wrote: > rbowman writes: > >> On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 22:57:35 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> >>> Yes, I recently saw a video of someone on the street in India >>> rebuilding a starter motor. Primitive but effective. Meanwhile, >>> others in the background were overhauling heavy equipment. >>> You do what you gotta do. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riding_Solo_to_the_Top_of_the_World >> >> First off, in the US a 350cc bike is considered marginal to ride down to >> the Stop'n'Rob for a sixpack. Back in the '90s I have a 400cc Yamaha Seca >> I put a lot of miles on both on pavement and on goat tracks so that's >> bull. > > A Honda 50 should be good enough for anyone :-). I had a Yamaha 80. I rode it half of everywhere, then put 50 cents' worth of gas in it and rode the other half. -- /~\ Charlie Gibbs | Growth for the sake of \ / | growth is the ideology X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | of the cancer cell. / \ if you read it the right way. | -- Edward Abbey