TIL there is a musician with the moniker of Trash80… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trash80

Sorry to disappoint, but I picked my username because of the TRS-80.

https://techland.time.com/2012/08/03/trs-80/

Please Don’t Call It Trash-80: A 35th Anniversary Salute to Radio Shack’s TRS-80

The article is about a survey of 38 business economists. They don’t control inflation either.

NEW YORK (AP) — Most business economists think the U.S. economy could avoid a recession next year, even if the job market ends up weakening under the weight of high interest rates, according to a survey released Monday.

Only 24% of economists surveyed by the National Association for Business Economics said they see a recession in 2024 as more likely than not. The 38 surveyed economists come from such organizations as Morgan Stanley, the University of Arkansas and Nationwide.

The survey contains such rosy news as:

Panelists anticipate further slowing in core inflation—excluding food and energy costs—but doubt it will reach the Federal Reserve Board’s 2% target before year-end 2024

and

Fewer respondents than in the October 2023 Outlook survey expect a recession within the next 12 months, with more than three in four assigning a probability of 50% or less.

Neglecting to mention they surveyed 52 persons in October and 40 persons in December.

https://nabe.com/NABE/Surveys/Business_Conditions_Surveys/October-2023-Business-Conditions-Survey-Summary.aspx

https://nabe.com/NABE/Surveys/Outlook_Surveys/December_2023_Outlook_Survey_Summary.aspx

I was thinking about the state the house of representatives has been in.

Just in time for the election year.

There’s no way around it unless the engine moves with the suspension

Yes, there is.

Take a conventional front engine, rear wheel drive drivetrain. Rotate the drive train 90 degrees about the rear axle, as if the automobile has its nose in the air, with the driveshaft oriented vertically.

You can steer the vehicle by rotating the entire axle around the axis of the driveshaft, though it isn’t perfect or space efficient, it would require no universal or CV joints. It would behave sort of like a vehicle with an articulated frame.

The axle could be fixed vertically with uni wheels at the ends of the halfshafts allowing the wheels to travel vertically independent from the axle.

Do you understand so far?

Now imagine there is a handle sticking out of the crankshaft that needs to rotate around the shaft with the hand crank as it gets turned. That is the motor.

What are you referring to as the crankshaft?

Driving the streering wheels exerts a force on the driving surface. That causes the steering wheels to have a tendency to toe in.

Looking from the top, you could run the motor clockwise on the right side and anti-clockwise on the left to cancel some of that, but the motor has very little leverage compared to the wheels.

What for? The axis of the driveshaft would always be parallel to the axis of the wheel and perpendicular to the axis of the motor.

Look at this hand drill:

The hand crank is the electric motor. If you rotate the drill about the hand crank axis, you don’t change any angles between the drivetrain components and don’t need CV or universal joints

How can you steer?

This is a Z-drive:

You can rotate the propeller about the vertical axis of the driveshaft running from B to C.

Now, imagine the propeller is your wheel.

Please elaborate.

This mechanism does not allow angular deflection between the motor and hub, as it’s shown, without a CV joint. Lateral displacement, yes, but not angular - as in it can’t steer.

The axis of the motor doesn’t need to be parallel to the axis of the wheel.

If the axis of the motor is vertical, you could use a ring and pinion gear to transfer the torque to the driveshaft running out to the wheel, and have the steering wheels pivot around the axis of the motor.

The axis of the motor doesn’t need to be parallel to the axis of the wheel.

If the axis of the motor is vertical, you could use a ring and pinion gear to transfer the torque to the driveshaft running out to the wheel, and have the steering wheels pivot around the axis of the motor.

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David Allen is the editor of the BBC Computer Literacy Project. He was using a Tandy TRS Model 100 portable computer with a Sendata Series 700 acoustic computer.

Heh.

join the club

Republicans don’t want a revolution and the Democrats don’t want people to own guns.

I’m sure it won’t be long.

I think some have been charged with crimes related to the Flint crisis, but it hasn’t been very fruitful:

only one minor conviction has been obtained, and all other charges have been dismissed or dropped

Nine Michigan Leaders Face Charges in Water Crisis That Roiled Flint
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/us/rick-snyder-flint-water-charges.html

2 ex-health officials charged with manslaughter in Flint
https://fox40.com/news/national-and-world-news/2-ex-health-officials-charged-with-manslaughter-in-flint/

Two former Flint emergency managers charged with water crisis crimes https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2016/12/former_state_emergency_manager.html

Ben Nimmo, chief of global threat intelligence for Meta, said government officials stopped communicating foreign election interference threats to the company in July.

That month, a federal judge limited the Biden administration’s communications with tech platforms in response to a lawsuit alleging such coordination ran afoul of the First Amendment by encouraging companies to remove falsehoods about covid-19 and the 2020 election. The decision included a specific exemption to allow the government to continue to communicate with the companies about national security threats, specifically foreign interference in elections. The case, Missouri v. Biden, is now before the U.S. Supreme Court, which has paused lower court restrictions while it reviews the matter.
…
The federal judge’s July 4 ruling prohibited key agencies — including the State Department, the FBI and DHS — from urging companies to remove “protected free speech” from the platforms. However, Trump-appointed Judge Terry A. Doughty appeared to acknowledge concerns the decision could dismantle election integrity initiatives, specifying the restrictions did not apply to warning companies of national security threats or foreign attempts to influence elections. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling removed some of the restrictions, including communication with the State Department.

I can appreciate the administration is “treading cautiously,” but the rulings specify that the restrictions don’t apply to foreign attempts to influence elections.

Thanks for the clarification. Title is word salad.