True, they are expensive, but that build quality and the availability of firmwares to do what you are looking for with just a quick flash makes them handy AF for keeping in a pocket to play with.
I have found several uses for mine which weren't in mind when I made my decision to purchase.
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?
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