Comment Re:Technofeudalism (Score 2) 48
That's not how you spell serfs.
That's not how you spell serfs.
You're correct. TIL that Bill Clinton, Dubya and Trump were born in the same year.
Sometimes they're so aggressive that I couldn't reply if I wanted to. "Are you satisfied with the product?" when the delivery tracking shows that it's not even in-country yet.
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Back when my secondary school replaced its network of Acorn Archimedes with Pentiums running Win 95, all of the pupils started with the same password: lightly anonymised, it was xypupil. It didn't take long for some of us to guess that the teachers had all started with password xystaff, and not all of them had changed it... Curiously that didn't work for the headmaster's account. I don't know whether I was the only person to guess that his password was xyhead. One hopes that nowadays school IT staff are a bit more clueful, but seeing the summary talk about guessing teachers' passwords brought back memories of sending winpopup messages from the head's account to try to scare my friends.
Regulations may have changed, but in 2019 I was able to rent an e-bike in France with no licensing requirements. It wasn't as restricted as in the UK either: with the electric assist the highest speed I reached was just over 40 kph. (It was, however, assist, unlike some of the bikes under discussion).
What I gathered from a different article I read this week is that they attract gig delivery workers, who may have experience on bicycles but want more speed and don't have the stamina for eight or more hours of riding.
"All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific." -- Jane Wagner