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Ok so Bell worked tirelessly in the lab on a problem he was immersed in of his own free will. He was a genius and no doubt about it humans can survive perfectly well without technology, but his work may have happened completely because of his neural biology and environment, not because his brain created some executive power that let him decide what to do.
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all animals have problem solving skills - I can't see why human primates should be able to control their own destiny. I'm not saying inventors havent done something I admire, just seems to me that they did it because they had to, not just because they could. there was a study somewhere of learning via telepathy -something about monkeys learning to fish adrift bananas from the sea with a stick and another group of monkeys elsewhere were observed to learn the same trick instantaneously almost, of course this doesnt prove telepathy or disprove, but it was a possible example. Telepathy if it exists may be explainable by physics - electromagnetic waves like radio waves acting to depolarize and fire neurons via exciting the ion channels in nerve membranes - if so a telepathic connection could be severed by hiding inside a lead room
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looks like theres plenty of free firewood on the floor
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an all wheel drive transit tipper - over budget, but goes to show the parts are out there to make a transit tipper that can at least get in and out of a muddy yard https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2014-Ford-Transit-T350-TDCi-AWD-TIPPER-ALL-WHEEL-DRIVE-125-BHP-4x4-4WD/321783404047?hash=item4aebc9160f:g:eEEAAOSw~e5ZUQPx
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Bucket Trucks / MEWPs etc - safer than climbing?
tree-fancier123 replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Climbers talk
I agree - if its not safe as an anchor point its not safe to stand in - the only time, and not really relevant on quite a low hedge as above, would be in the event of a fall. If the climber falls through a certain distance then the rope goes tight the increased load could topple the mewp - a bit like snatching when negative rigging can break the rope if the bit is already near SWL and there is some slack - a doubling in weight for every metre fall or something. In this case though a fall is unlikely - he is not branch walking and his wrist thickness branch top tie in wont break on him coz its steel instead of wood. I agree very enterprising. Fortune favors the brave. Its not like he's doing mine clearance for a living. I want a mewp now, if theres room to drive along the hedge better than ply -
It doesn't have to be right or wrong - it is just a fact that the financial markets attract people looking to make money from asset re-pricing. The same as a buy to let. I can't say I'm not jealous of those people who are intelligent enough to become high rollers. If people want to take monumental risks its up to them, personally I don't want to lose my home.
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ah that sounds better, much more hard core sciency, better than saying Matelot can help it, no one can help it, it is all written in the stars, re the criminal justice system - my dad was a prison officer - he had one con who had cut someones head off with a penknife. I say save the taxpayer and use the killers as fertilizer. And the current wisdom is of course if we kill the killers we are no better than them
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so if there is no free will how can you decide to open your mind, or close it? fatalism isnt all doom and gloom, people still focus and enjoy their lives, even if every neurobiological event is an emergent property of a complex physical system (the universe) much like gravity and electricity are also properties of that system. If you believe the scientists, once upon a time there wasnt even gravity or electricty, could have been less exciting back in those times
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For me, this is easy to answer - it matters so much more when British people are killed because of genetics and probability - some here will have lost daughters and nieces at the Manchester concert for example, probably hardly any UK citizens lose close relatives when a bomb goes off in Moscow or Libya. The slims are not the best thing to arrive. I'm glad to have been born in a secular age, but you can't educate pork
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wicked, it doesnt make life any less remarkable, but I do believe all of that
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big trees look much nicer than little trees, they show an impressive part of nature, you shouldnt have to travel to a stately home or public woodland to see the big trees, these protesters know it takes decades to get a nice leafy avenue, all the crap the council spends money on, all the healthy big trees could have been trimmed regularly. Re the violence, if people feel they are helpless and being crushed by a big state machine they dont like - anyone can choose to use violence to achieve an end. In the old days the various kings of England, some of them only got into power by a lot of murdering
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Calculating load on a speedline.
tree-fancier123 replied to Mark Wileman's topic in Rigging and roping
It did put me off the book when i read that in the back, nothing wrong with the content, very informative, but knowing that the author didnt know enough to keep himself alive, sod hazard trees, cordon off the area and let them fall down -
thanks for reply, sorry I should have put a full stop and new para before the comment about shaping trimmed trees. I was referring to your last photo where you shaped the canopies of a stand, it was a bit of a jokey comment really as I am still not good at getting a proper shape when trimming trees, you seem to have got the knack though, obviously people like to see continuous curves when looking at a trimmed tree, not bits sticking out, which is what natural trees sometimes have, and what my efforts often end up with, re pollard my favourite
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so what gloves do you wear climbing in the cold? Pretty big fir tree, when you look at a tree before its trimmed there are bits sticking out everywhere, you ought to be able to get away with wonky lines after trimming to leave a natural look
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fault codes from led https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kBZeBbb9PM
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I often ask on the Ford transit owners forum - lots of working mechanics and other clued up bods http://fordtransit.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=5 I havn't had the immobiliser play up, but went through a couple of starter motors when the original factory dual mass flywheel was on 130k (dust from flywheel break up going into starter, apparently common), had the bell housing flushed out new DMF, clutch and starter motor, been good since. Another thing if you're not careful jumping them there is a fuse in a silly place integral to the battery earth strap, I managed to blow it and some cash as the whole lead has to be changed, supposed to be fused to protect the ECU.
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whats happening in Sheffield pales into insignificance compared to all the chainsaw business in the Amazon basin, everyones got to earn a living, bit like when some Irish got violent with English squadies over there, the poor old squadies were only following orders, going about their lawful business. The Sheffield protesters are like a tree hugger version of the IRA - maybe some of them will end up on hunger strike in prison. Why can't they just go to an arboretum like everyone one else.
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One of Reg Coates vids from a while back had a good tip similar to the two slings and a crab, but he had a light rigging line tied off near his climbing anchor and a prussik on it that he slid along the rigging line taking it to the ends of branches he was trimming, a small sling on the piece to be cut crab onto the prussik then take out the slack and cut, he quickly did some quite cumbersome looking douglas fir trimming that couldnt just be dropped, he could attach any size cut to the prussik providing it wasnt to heavy to lug with the rope, maybe he was short staffed but he cleared the targets quick enough
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wrote a rambling post about the driver not accelerating hard to keep up with the tree falling, on looking back this aspect was discussed already in some detail in the 34 page thread
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reading your story on here I'm not surprised you're exited - gifted some bitcoins and have so far resisted the urge to sell - Im sure I'd have failed to stay the course and got overexcited and exited at $1000 or less, I mean considering the historical chart says they started at cents not dollars. Could you not sell one third or half your position at this point? It seems to me when bitcoin starts trading on the futures market it wont be long before someone tries to short it in size. I recently had an email from Cityindex - a firm I signed up with in my darkest days dabbling in financial spreadbetting, to say they have added bitcoin to their trading list - so you can bet against the price using borrowed money. If institutional investors bet against it the price must move, as the market still doesnt look that big, compared to oil for example. well done for holding an 'investment' so long, wish i had your patience
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I have to admit you do have a point with the grinder - if it was only enough money for a spare chipper, or a grinder, not both. However your suggestion of just fix it quick and get on, some repairs surely will mean a wait for parts, and also round here even an ST6 is 100 a day. Lots of people do own second back up chippers, when they could have just ebayed them off, they cant all be idiots
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botcoin - electronic money made by robots for robots
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with big kit and a limited budget this must be a winner - a 9" chipper at 25k new, or two used ones on 1000 hours each at 11k each, - if its just one new one, then sooner or later it will need something taking it out of service, but alternating two used ones, theres no reason for downtime - two good used machines instead of one new, sounds a no brainer if youve got the space
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they could have put 5k on it, but seeing as matey walked out the front gate and almost got some gravity abuse from it and a good set of additional solutions for when there is no room at 90 to the road to pull
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maybe some variant will endure, but your right about the fluctuations not being compatible with serious money. If you started a new worker on 0.05 bitcoin a week, youd have to give them a paycut each month, or go bankrupt
