Trail of Havoc asked:
I recently purchased a trolley on wheels and am putting my waste paper in it and also plastic and metal bottles and cans. I am amazed how quickly it is filled up. The amount of waste we can recycle is phenonomyl. Are you taking it seriously?
The Fixer asked:
I have a 1/2 HP Craftsman ***** drive garage door opener model 139.53991.
When it gets cold the garage door comes down half way, stops, and then goes back up.
If I release the door from the track and try the opener, the track rattles when the trolley gets to the center of the track.
This is the same spot where the garage door stops before going back up.
The manual says not to lubricate the screw/rail.
What is my problem and how do I fix it?
DBL88888 asked:
Where can i buy or where can i have a trolley for zip line custom made that can take 5/8″(16mm) inch of cable.i have seen some in the market like CMI but it can only take 1/2″ max.
Luke asked:
A: Cricket, two sides, no ball, everybody has a bat, and bats the c*** out of each other. Six and your out…
B: Free-for-all. All players in seperate trolleys with one director of the trolley, smash into each other until the person inside the trolley falls out, in which case, you batter them repeatedly until they baby-crawl to the side of the field until they get back in their trolley
C: Jousting
A, B or C?
-.- asked:
“A trolley is running out of control down a track. In its path are 5 people who have been tied to the track by a mad philosopher. Fortunately, you can flip a switch which will lead the trolley down a different track. Unfortunately, there is a single person tied to that track. Should you flip the switch?”
This is the classic case, taken from the wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
My question is: if the trolley operator decides to kill the five to save the one, how are the passengers not responsible? Suppose there is a protocol, in such cases, where the trolley operator may not act, to avoid lawsuits or the like.
Say also, in one case, the passengers are not aware what may transpire– the train is hurdling towards the five, and the operator alone sees it. And another case where everyone on the train has a viewing monitor of what’s ahead– sees the 5, knows there is ample time to move the train, but the operator is mad.
Nice answer agentdenim. You reminded me of the Everest climbers who all managed to prioritize reaching the summit instead of helping a freezing climber down.
I think the trolley case is designed to be ambiguous to the features of the people on the tracks. Which purposely moves away from the many slippery slopes– like the one I asked. To answer, it’s not clear.. but SOME action should still take place, or the non-action still be recognized AS action.
It doesn’t matter whether I’m a utilitarian. The intuition is obvious from the operator’s perspective. If you kill the 5 to save the 1, because doing such ‘utilitarian calculus’ is never right, then you have just killed 4 extra people for a principle. It gets even more absurd the more people you add, just to preserve the one life you will be arguably culpable for.
I didn’t fill in the gaps to force all those questions. I don’t know what the right recourse is. I just think that if everyone saw what’s ahead and knew the operator was not going to change course– the “neutrality” of sitting back in a chair and waiting is questionable. But if they don’t know anything, then it SEEMS they are innocent. But are they?
If there’s no forseeable way to make the train operator stop, is that the answer? To defer to procedure– when the procedure is kill the 5 to save from lawsuit, seems quite unethical.
I don’t care if they fail or what chaos ensues, I want to know if they’re responsible.