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...to guide us in medical matters these days? Seems like folks are pretty happy to just go with their guts on things that are studied and tested and researched by "professionals" and to disregard or call into doubt the results of the pro's research. Are we in a post-fact medical era now? On the flip side, have folks also lost their minds on being able to spot clickbait vs real information? I see an awful lot of "I read recently xyz is bad for you" or "It's actually good for you to xyz instead of abc". What level do you keep your BS-meter set at and have you recalibrated it recently? Tom

Get a Santa hat on your avatar, and then we can talk about that other idiot's avatar. Until then, you're on shaky ground. Tom

Food. Probably a few bugs, but they would become "food" somewhere along the alimentary canal. Tom

The ones I don't like. Those are the bad ones. The ones I think a cool are the good ones. This isn't too tough Tom

Is there a "People of Tesco" website? Tom

Why would you cut ties with the future? Looking to ride the trails on a penny farthing? Or a boneshaker? Tom

I find the few minutes I spend every 100-200 miles relubing my chain to be 1) no big deal and 2) a good time to look at the drivetrain in general. I find Garth's method a PITA. I have a maintenance chart where I write down any routine or special work on my bikes, and can't say it is much of a time sink over a whole year. But, yes, Garth added graphite, and this is a classic example of why Rodale screwed us by just dropping their forum without first saving it somewhere for future searching. I know SW tried to get them to give him the database, but they sucked and didn't. Major league idiocy. Tom

Seems like you understood the post without too much effort! Tom

Yeah, learning and study and research and science are pretty progressive. Tom

Cute little suckers! Tom

...but why would it be any different now considering it has been an ongoing issue and security threat since day 1. It is funny in light of how folks were discussing the iPhone X and upgrading to the "latest". Apparently, with Android, if you aren't buying a new phone ever 2 years (MAX!), you are leaving yourself open to all sorts of issues that come with being, essentially, abandonware. -------------------------------------- Conclusion We’ve seen that Android devices appear to be getting more out of date over time. This makes it difficult for developers to target “new” Android API features, where new means anything introduced in the past few years. It also means that there are a lot of Android devices out there that are behind in terms of security. This is true both in absolute terms and also relative to iOS. Until recently, Android was directly tied to the hardware it ran on, making it very painful to keep old devices up to date because that requiring a custom Android build with phone-specific (or at least SoC-specific work). Google claims that this problem is fixed in the latest Android version (8.0, Oreo). People who remember Google’s “Android update alliance” announcement in 2011 may be a bit skeptical of the more recent announcement. In 2011, Google and U.S. carries announced that they’d keep devices up to date for 18 months, which mostly didn’t happen. However, even if the current announcement isn’t smoke and mirrors and the latest version of Android solves the update problem, we’ve seen that it takes years for Android releases to get adopted and we’ve also seen that the last few Android releases have significantly slower uptake than previous releases. Additionally, even though this is supposed to make updates easier, it looks like Android is still likely to stay behind iOS in terms of updates for a while. Google has promised that its latest phone (Pixel 2, 10/2017) will get updates for three years. That seems like a step in the right direction, but as we’ve seen from the graphs above, extending support by a year isn’t nearly enough to keep most Android devices up to date. But if you have an iPhone, the latest version of iOS (released 9/2017) works on devices back to the iPhone 5S (released 9/2013). If we look at the newest Android release (8.0, 8/2017), it looks like you’re quite lucky if you have a two year old device that will get the latest update. The oldest “Google” phone supported is the Nexus 6P (9/2015), giving it just under two years of support. If you look back at devices that were released around when the iPhone5S, the situation looks even worse. Back then, I got a free Moto X for working at Google; the Moto X was about as close to an official Google phone as you could get at the time (this was back when Google owned Moto). The Moto X was released on 8/2013 (a month before the iPhone 5S) and the latest version of Android it supports is 5.1, which was released on 2/2015, a little more than a year and a half later. For an Android phone of its era, the Moto X was supported for an unusually long time. It’s actually a good sign that things look worse as look further back in time, but at the rate things are improving, it will be years before there’s a decently supported Android device released and then years beyond those years before that Android version is in widespread use. It’s possible that Fuchsia will fix this, but Fuchsia is also many years away from widespread use. In a future post, we’ll look at Android response latency is also quite interesting. It’s much more variable between phones than iOS response latency is between different models of iPhone. ---------------------------------------- For Don who loves graphs and charts: Tom

More likely "didn't care"? Have you read the sort of stuff these guys receive to play at top tier colleges? Tom

Is it three - as in all three will still be on the team? Or is it two (one sucker takes the fall)? Or is it even lower? ----------------------------------- The three UCLA men's basketball players arrested on shoplifting charges Tuesday will remain in Hangzhou, China, and are not with the team on its flight back to Los Angeles after the Bruins' season-opening 63-60 win over? Georgia Tech in Shanghai on Saturday, sources told ESPN. The three players -- freshmen LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill -- were questioned about allegedly stealing sunglasses from a Louis Vuitton store next to the team's hotel in Hangzhou, where the Bruins had been staying before leaving for Shanghai on Tuesday. They were released on bail early Wednesday morning and have been staying at a lakeside hotel in Hangzhou since then while the team had been in Shanghai preparing for Saturday's game. They remained there as of Saturday night along with a team representative. A source with firsthand knowledge of the investigation said the players could be in Hangzhou for "a week or two." The source noted that there is surveillance footage of the players shoplifting from three stores inside of a high-end shopping center, which houses Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Salvatore Ferragamo stores. ----------------------------------- Tom

It is hard to argue with common sense. Tom

Meh. Home theaters have been around a long time. I like being able to pause, hit the restroom, grab some more stuff to gnosh on, hit play, and then fall asleep. Can't do that in a movie theater. Tom

But can he ride a bike like our good friend Krabbe? Tom

Who could resist this sales pitch??? Tom

...with their continued non-conformity to US television season standards. They need to hop on the 20 or 30+ episodes per season boat, and stop with this "less than 10" nonsense. I just get my groove going, and then -BANG- the season ends. Instead, our esteemed and historic and cherished system is getting corrupted and all of a sudden, AMERICAN shows are choosing these shorter runs. First it was HBO (which was almost okay), but then the Netflix & Hulus of the world decided may a half-dozen or eight episodes is fine for a season. ARGH. Tom

Those dark chocolate acai ones are like crack. I'm sure the blueberries ones are too. And they're health foods. Tom

Did he find a lady and have some puppies? Tom

I wear a Casio Pro Trek watch normally - to work, on rides, out-and-about. I do use my iPhone as the "official" timekeeper of the RE Household, but that is more likely the cell phone company providing the time, not Apple. Likewise, on bike rides, one of the Garmin screens is dedicated to "Sunrise", "Sunset", "Time", & "Temp". It is always nice to know those things on a ride - especially sunset. Tom

How about the valve cores? Do they stay at home or is that something that can also go bad on a ride? Tom

I wasn't allowed on this forum until my contract with the LF expired. Anything pre-Oct 2, 2017 is new to me. Tom

BTW, Casablanca was on TV yesterday, and Jaws has been in rotation for the past month or so. Tom