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Jan and Klodi's Party Bus - part II **off topic discussion**

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  • #4502
    cjt156
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭cjt156


    It's mega, but it's always going back to Romford...


  • #4503
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    CramCycle wrote: »
    If they had their version of the Dr. Who theme tune blasting out I would be happy

    Will this do...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdTELokKfCk


  • #4504
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,244 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Hell and Back done... little cycle home, chilled corona in the fridge. Now to shower for two hours and relax


  • #4505
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Weepsie wrote: »
    The mic on my phone is being used for ad purposes. Was talking about some very specific type of power sockets with a colleague last week as we are in the early stages of tendering for a new premises and I started getting ads for them. Never searched for them, but dis speak about them. Not the first time it's happened.

    Yikes!


  • #4506
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,912 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Useful:
    http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/September-2016/bleep-bloop-machine-learning-bleep-bloop/?utm_campaign=bikesarefun+bikes+090916&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=Twitter


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  • #4507
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    Did you know, that Pat Hickey has temporarily stepped aside as President of the Olympic Council of Ireland?


  • #4508
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Saw the best ever recovery from a bike crash an hour or so ago. Young lad comes around the corner and there's a whap - sounded as if he'd gone over a tin, but I think he must have caught his foot in the wheel. He came straight down, and I thought I was going to see him smash his head off the road. No, he managed to step free of the bike and headed for the pavement kerb horizontally - missed that - he was going to smash head first into the wall - missed that and turned. By this stage I'd jumped out to rescue his bike, doing a London Policeman kind of gesture to stop the bus that was coming around the corner at it, and as I picked it up he retrieved it for me, turned and walked off, limping a bit. I had about enough time to pet his arm and say "Are you all right, little one?" Miracle in motion.

    He was tall and stringy, bike was matte black and very light and stripped-down, and I think maybe a fixie. What a cyclist!


  • #4509
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,008 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Eamonnator wrote: »
    Did you know, that Pat Hickey has temporarily stepped aside as President of the Olympic Council of Ireland?

    Happened a few days/weeks ago I thought. As someone with several family members who were involved in athletics, could not happen to a nicer man in regards his current situation.


  • #4510
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    CramCycle wrote: »
    Happened a few days/weeks ago I thought. As someone with several family members who were involved in athletics, could not happen to a nicer man in regards his current situation.

    Every report I read about Hickey seems to mention the fact, that he has temporarily stepped........
    I hope to read, sometime in the near future, that his stepping has become permanent.


  • #4511
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,244 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Eamonnator wrote: »
    Every report I read about Hickey seems to mention the fact, that he has temporarily stepped........
    I hope to read, sometime in the near future, that his stepping has become permanent.

    Be better again if the decision was taken out of his hands


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  • #4512
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,513 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i suppose the problem for the rest of the board is that they can't vote him out without it looking like him being hung out to dry. and some other board members may also have questions to answer, and don't want to risk his wrath.


  • #4513
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    CramCycle wrote: »
    Happened a few days/weeks ago I thought. As someone with several family members who were involved in athletics, could not happen to a nicer man in regards his current situation.

    I have yet to see one message of support from any athlete past or present
    A political relic from the days of Charlie Haughey..


  • #4514
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    RobFowl wrote: »
    I have yet to see one message of support from any athlete past or present
    A political relic from the days of Charlie Haughey..

    Incorrect, I'm afraid.
    "thousands of messages of support" apparently.

    http://www.independent.ie/world-news/latin-america/pat-hickey-this-has-been-a-lifechanging-experience-for-me-i-am-humbled-by-the-support-of-thousands-in-ireland-35040018.html

    He says it himself, so it must be true.


  • #4515
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,912 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Weepsie wrote: »
    The mic on my phone is being used for ad purposes. Was talking about some very specific type of power sockets with a colleague last week as we are in the early stages of tendering for a new premises and I started getting ads for them. Never searched for them, but dis speak about them. Not the first time it's happened.

    I don't have a smartphone (I must be the only person who's written iPhone apps professionally but never owned any sort of smartphone), but a friend of mine had been discussing a trip to Glendalough with his wife and then started getting weather reports about Glendalough on his iPhone.

    So he said anyway. He said he hadn't at that stage used the phone to look up anything about Glendalough.


  • #4516
    cdaly_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭cdaly_


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  • #4517
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,912 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    cdaly_ wrote: »
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  • #4518
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,912 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    https://privacysos.org/blog/is-my-iphone-listening-to-me/

    I don't know. Maybe it's a thing. Maybe it's just coincidences. How sophisticated is speech recognition software these days?


  • #4519
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    https://privacysos.org/blog/is-my-iphone-listening-to-me/

    I don't know. Maybe it's a thing. Maybe it's just coincidences. How sophisticated is speech recognition software these days?

    Obviously more so for Big Brother than for my attempts to use Dragon! I say "what?" it says "There."


  • #4520
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    I don't have a smartphone (I must be the only person who's written iPhone apps professionally but never owned any sort of smartphone), but a friend of mine had been discussing a trip to Glendalough with his wife and then started getting weather reports about Glendalough on his iPhone.

    So he said anyway. He said he hadn't at that stage used the phone to look up anything about Glendalough.

    A friend… it's a bit dúirt bean liom go ndúirt bean léi…


  • #4521
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,911 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    How sophisticated is speech recognition software these days?

    Ermm......

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avp9aUkM5g0


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  • #4522
    rollingscone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    The Rapha 50% sale explained:

    http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/racing/team-sky-rumoured-wearing-castelli-kit-2017-283957


  • #4523
    Unknown Soldier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭Unknown Soldier


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    I don't have a smartphone (I must be the only person who's written iPhone apps professionally but never owned any sort of smartphone), but a friend of mine had been discussing a trip to Glendalough with his wife and then started getting weather reports about Glendalough on his iPhone.

    So he said anyway. He said he hadn't at that stage used the phone to look up anything about Glendalough.

    I read about the whole mic/voice things a fair few months ago, so I picked something that I wouldn't normally talk about.

    I have yet to see any ads for Lorry driving lessons on any phone, PC etc.

    Unless... they knew what I was doing...:eek:


    I probably will now :P


  • #4524
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,912 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Weepsie wrote: »
    People go on about privacy and blindly give their details away.

    And when it's pointed out to them how much of their privacy has been compromised, most seem to think it's a price worth paying for free stuff.


  • #4525
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,186 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    In the Dashcam thread over in Motors this poster is irate that a cyclist pays no attention to his indicator and people seem to support him in subsequent posts but does the cyclist not have right of way here and its the motorists job not to proceed until the way is clear?

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=101022485&postcount=2693


  • #4526
    OldBean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭OldBean


    Thargor wrote: »
    In the Dashcam thread over in Motors this poster is irate that a cyclist pays no attention to his indicator and people seem to support him in subsequent posts but does the cyclist not have right of way here and its the motorists job not to proceed until the way is clear?

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=101022485&postcount=2693

    I'm only viewing on my phone, so may have missed something, but the motorist has right of way if indicating left and cyclist was filtering up behind. Open to correction though!


  • #4527
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,008 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Another wonderful cases of infrastructure causing injury.
    The cycle Lane curves around into Sandyford. She has no right of way and is technically wrong.
    The driver should have seen her and drove accordingly, also in the wrong.
    The cyclist was behind the car on approach and should have had sense enough to see it move with the green and give way.

    Legally the cyclist is in the wrong for the first reason. Morally they are both muppets.


  • #4528
    brianomc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 694 ✭✭✭brianomc


    If the cyclist was on the road could she safely clear the junction before the car, which we have to believe was indicating, turned left? Obviously not.

    If she was on the cycle lane and passed in front of the car at that speed it's a good example of how accidents happen and there's only going to be one winner. If the car wasn't indicating you'd still want to slow down to be sure.

    If she was on the road the smart thing is to just tuck in behind a car at some stage, it turns left, you go straight on, nobody suffers any real delays.


  • #4529
    OldBean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭OldBean


    I don't think the driver is wrong, technically, mentally, morally or in any other way. Motorist indicated and proceeded to turn left.

    Cyclist either wasn't paying attention or ...well, I don't know.

    IMO this is one of the biggest failings of off road bike lanes (along with turning right). It takes cyclists attention off of traffic until they're landed in it, and motorists attention off of the fact they might have to share junctions with cyclists.


  • #4530
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Cyclist looks wrong to me - cuts in between two cars turning left, as far as I can see?


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  • #4531
    Crocked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 543 ✭✭✭Crocked


    Car has right of way there, they are indicating for the turn and the cyclist shouldn't be undertaking/filtering like that. It's a recipe for disaster.

    Why anyone would undertake a moving vehicle who has indicated their intention to turn left on the approach to a left hand turn is beyond me.


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