So, "Insider trading," with a side of "securities fraud," and "market manipulation" thrown in? Unpossible.

As an actual athlete, and not some wanna-be basement dwelling video game "athlete," I appreciate the effort it takes to not only reach that level, but win things.

I can tell you're not an actual athlete, because he *wasn't* over training.

Do you even know what that is?

It's not pushing hard when your competition has died 1/3rd of the way up the hill. That's a strategic exhibition of strength.

Overtraining is pushing too hard, too frequently, when you're not even racing. ie: practicing.

And as fanatical as Lance was about even the mundane aspects of his training, like the height of his seat - he was called Mr. Millimeter because he knew when his seat height was off by that much - he would *never* allow himself to overtrain.

Because real athletes - not hot-pocket scarfing fat boys who get carpal tunnel from playing video games too much - understand that overtraining is as bad as under training: you cause damage, which requires healing, which slows down your training, meaning you don't hit your peak when you need to.

And, obviously, Lance hit his peak when he needed to.

If you were an athlete, you'd know this.

Maybe you should simp a Cycling for Idiots and learn a few things.

And get off your pathetic moral high horse:

every one of the top ten riders in those races,

and probably still today, took something.

Teams are looking for biological edges

as much as they're looking for technological edges.

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You're jealous, resentful, and not a little full of shit. Armstrong competed in a field of drug cheats, and won the most prestigious race in the world 7 times. It was an even field, and he dominated. Sure, he was an asshole to people, and he deserves the scorn he got, but to say he wasn't something special is just galactic-level copium. The man trained like a beast possessed; if it was all drugs, he wouldn't need to. When others cracked - again, they were all on drugs, as witnessed by the number of racers who were also erased from the books - he pushed harder. If that's not inspirational, you're probably mad because it wasn't you. Lance, the person, was a piece of shit; but Lance the rider was indomitable.

No one's offended by "what other people are doing"; we're fkn embarrassed by them being called "people" along with the rest of us. Don't tag us with that stain. These cave trolls can do whatever the heck they want, but there's no way these mouth breathing brain-bashers-for-profit, and their fans, are on the same level as engineers and scientists. If aliens showed up, I'd tell them they can experiment all they want on the punchy, violent hominids, because they're not homo sapiens.

My wife works as a librarian at a small town library in rural NY, and she says - informally because they're really strict about not tracking customer selections; but even then, you can get a sense of what's going out and coming back just by checking in returned books - that "Amish porn," in their words, is popular, here. I never even knew it was a literary category. But I'm far more disappointed that you can't get Horowitz & Hill's Art of Electronics, or Practical Electronics for Inventors, in any edition, let alone the latest. Forget math and physics books; we need shelf space for tawdry romances among hairy farmers.

Which could've coalesced into TON 618 or Pheonix A, perhaps?

He'll gladly give contractors our money - the more the merrier - because he expects a percentage of it kicked back to him. That's why a $1.5 million contract goes to $7 million, then $13 million, etc.

Given the level of lawlessness and blatant anti-Constitutionalism we've seen from Trump, the end of his term, or the 22nd Amendment, is no guarantee that he'll leave in three years.

If you follow American doctrine as practiced by the current regime, might makes right. If America can blast fishing boats in the Caribbean, and abduct foreign leaders, Iran can claim administrative rights over the Strait. At least until someone challenges them militarily.

I could make the same claim about Trump's regime, too.

Have you been in a classroom, lately? Best case scenario is you get a class of smart kids who actually want to learn. Class moves smoothly; you spend less time on behavioral issues, and class management, and more time on actual teaching. That's best case. Lots of classes ain't best case. All it takes is one kid with "issues" who has to be integrated into a mainstream class, and it's a shit show that no one wins. The teacher focuses most of her efforts on getting that one kid to behave, and the other kids just sit back and waste their time watching. Heck, it was like that 50 years ago when I was a kid. But teachers, then, could use physical "persuasion" to get the malcontents to behave, somewhat. Now? Oh, teachers are fkd.

You mean "lazy" and "indulgent." Today's parents think parenting is complete after orgasm - if they're a guy - and birth, if they're a woman. Heck, even when I was a young parent, decades ago, I saw too many parents who fobbed off their parental duties to the group so they, the parents, could socialize. Little Johnny and Susie would run amok while the parents were yammering away. And god forbid someone actually try to discipline someone's kid. Now, you're casting aspersions on me, as a parent, and I won't have that! "How dare you question my parental abilities!" I question that you have any.

Parents need to focus more on their kids, and less on their social lives. Parents brought these children into society, and need to be responsible for their successful integration into this society.

I use Octave, occasionally, mostly for graphing, and the MATLAB examples have never really given me a problem running in Octave.

LLMs are a multi-faceted tool, so students using such a tool is hardly surprising. Housing framers use hammers, too; it's kind of expected in the field. The difference is: the hammers aren't going to put the framers out of a job. People like Mr. Schmidt are intentionally gunning to take jobs from these graduates to save costs, and increase profits. As much as a job foreman would like to replace all workers with a staff of mindless tools - probably a joke there - it's not likely. It *is* likely with LLMs. So the students aren't so much protesting the LLMs as they are the tools in management who - to pad their bonuses - want to take away opportunities for humans.

How do I know if my hybrid - 2016 Toyota Rav4 - is one of the "simpler" models?

I had ISDN BRI for a while, before I upgraded to DSL. It was all I could get faster than 56k in Podunk until DSL eventually rolled out. I think I still have the router around, somewhere.