Digi-Key

[Rich The Newsgroup Wacko]

On Mon, 30 May 2005 15:59:48 +0000, PaulCsouls wrote:

On Sun, 29 May 2005 19:36:36 +0000, Guy Macon
_see.web.page_@_www.guymacon.com_> wrote:




Luhan Monat wrote:

Many, many, years ago, I had to buy some plumbing supplies. As it
turned out, these included a 1 foot section of 1-1/2 inch pipe and two
screw-on end caps.

Because I didnt have a basket, I just screwed the parts together as I
shopped. I layed the thing down on the check out counter and the
person there just scanned the three bar codes without a second look.

Just wouldn't recommend anyone doing that today.

They look at you funny if you buy a hundred apples and ten packs of
double-edge razor blades on October 31st too.

People are suspicious these days. Recently I saw a sign saying "FOUND
CAT", a Phone Number and "MUST DESCRIBE". Like there are people going
around claiming cats that aren't theirs. I was tempted to call them up and
say it tastes like chicken.

Paul C.

I don't think they're edible. A few years ago, I was living in a trailer
park, and the super/manager/handyman had a couple of pet snakes. Really
beautiful snakes, like pythons and anacondas and so on. He'd let the
neighbor kids play with his snakes. He kept a cage of rats for snake food.
This trailer park was also infested with cats. I had borrowed a live-trap,
and almost every night I'd trap a cat, and I'd take it to the pound, and
the next day some idiot from the trailer park would go bail the damned cat
out from the pound, and turn it loose to piss on people's cars and shit in
their front yard and caterwaul and make more cats and what-not.

So, one day while just chatting with the snake guy, I remarked, "Y'know
what I'd like to do? I'd like to take a video of some kitten playing
with a ball of string or whatever, and have a snake come up and eat the
kitten. Bwahahaha!"

Mr. Snake Guy said, "A snake won't eat a cat."
--
Cheers!
Rich
------
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mule in the ass all you want, and he's still not gonna be a racehorse."
-- Billy Martin, "Esquire", May, 1984"

 

[Rich The Newsgroup Wacko]

On Sun, 29 May 2005 22:52:30 +0200, Frank Bemelman wrote:

"RST Engineering (jw)" <jim@rstengineering.com> schreef in bericht
news:119k3jcdif3h9e9@corp.supernews.com...
I would never ever find a friend in the USA who will buy the parts for
me, send me the parts as a gift, and I repay the friend for the gift
with Paypal. No sir, not me. That would be illegal.

Of course there are hundreds+ of ways to get the parts. Which proves it is
all silly behaviour. But most Americans have no brains and joyfully dance
to whatever their government serves them. And it only takes half a brain
to realize that.

So, naturally, ... Oh, never mind.
--
Cheers!
Rich
------
"Q: What do you call couples that use that rhythm method?
A: Parents."

 

[Rich The Newsgroup Wacko]

On Mon, 30 May 2005 13:35:54 +0000, Al wrote:

In article <429a0492$0$14183$e4fe514c@dreader6.news.xs4all.nl>,
"Frank Bemelman" <f.bemelmanq@xs4all.invalid.nl> wrote:

"Fernando" <fjpc60@hotmail.com> schreef in bericht
news:1117369556.679954@gorgo.centroin.com.br...

big snip


Digi-key are a bunch of bastards worse than the Spanish Enquisition.
^^^^^^^^^^^
Digi-key are a bunch of bastards worse than the Spanish Inquisition


Sigh!

All together now:
"You NEVER expect ...
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Cheers!
Rich
------
"A beat schizophrenic said, "Me?
I am not I, I'm a tree."
But another, more sane,
Shouted, "I'm a Great Dane!"
And covered his pants leg with pee."

 

[Pooh Bear]

YD wrote:

Bureaucrats are
unlikely to know the difference between Brazil and Albania anyway, so
anyone wanting a pack of resistors will probably be suspected of being
an international terrorist and have his life history thoroughly
checked over before recieving a single ohm of it.

Lol !

Good to know that US bureacrats are as hopeless as the European ones !

Graham

 

[Pooh Bear]

Robert Baer wrote:

A 'Krytons' is a gas triode designed for dast triggering of
relatively high currents.
Can be used with other items to set off explosives...

Not a 'Kryten' them..... ?

http://www.reddwarf.nildram.co.uk/rdpic/kryb.jpg

Graham

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

On Tue, 31 May 2005 01:44:35 GMT, the renowned PaulCsouls
<paulcsouls@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

Personnally, I don't believe in eating meat that eats meat. I only eat
vegetarian animals.

Paul C

How do you know your otherwise veggie animals were not fed fish meal,
blood meal, tallow or other animal protein by their keepers?


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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"it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward"
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Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com

 

[Mac]

On Tue, 31 May 2005 01:44:35 +0000, PaulCsouls wrote:

On Mon, 30 May 2005 09:19:05 -0700, Luhan Monat <x@y.z> wrote:

PaulCsouls wrote:
On Sun, 29 May 2005 19:36:36 +0000, Guy Macon
_see.web.page_@_www.guymacon.com_> wrote:




Luhan Monat wrote:


Many, many, years ago, I had to buy some plumbing supplies. As it
turned out, these included a 1 foot section of 1-1/2 inch pipe and two
screw-on end caps.

Because I didnt have a basket, I just screwed the parts together as I
shopped. I layed the thing down on the check out counter and the
person there just scanned the three bar codes without a second look.

Just wouldn't recommend anyone doing that today.

They look at you funny if you buy a hundred apples and ten packs
of double-edge razor blades on October 31st too.


People are suspicious these days. Recently I saw a sign saying "FOUND
CAT", a Phone Number and "MUST DESCRIBE". Like there are people going
around claiming cats that aren't theirs. I was tempted to call them up
and say it tastes like chicken.

Paul C.

Not so far fetched. In some areas of the far east, cats and dogs are
thought of like we think of pigs and cows: as food rather than pets.

Once while serving in South Korea, I was served something called
'Yakamandu' - good thing I was most of the way thru a bottle of Johny
Walker Red when they told me what I had just eaten!

Personnally, I don't believe in eating meat that eats meat. I only eat
vegetarian animals.

This seems silly. For example, free-range chickens eat grubs. And as
Spehro says, typical commercial (factory) farmed meat is fed all manner of
disgusting things. See, for example, mad cow disease!

Also, most or perhaps all edible fish eat other sea-animals. I wouldn't
let this stop me from eating them. Especially wild salmon, which is
nutritious and delicious, and as humane as any meat.

Paul C

Just wondering. Personally, I used to be a vegetarian, but now I eat
meat. I try to stick to grass-fed buffalo, organic free-range chicken, and
wild fish. Especially salmon, which is also very low in mercury.

But at restaurants, I eat whatever kind of beef or chicken they serve.

--Mac

 

[Rich Grise]

On Mon, 30 May 2005 11:51:48 +0000, Robert Latest wrote:

On Sun, 29 May 2005 21:39:51 +0100,
Pooh Bear <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote in Msg.
429A2897.18575639@hotmail.com

Does anyone remember the fuss many years ago when a shipment of
*capacitors* bound for Iraq was intercepted - thereby 'proving' they
were making an atom bomb

A colleague of mine some years ago had to have some scientific gear fixed
in Switzerland. By the time it was finished he was in Switzerland himself
and so decided to just take the thing back with him. Of course at the
airport he had to unpack his case, and when he innocently told the
security people that they were looking at an "ion gun", there was some
commotion. I forgot if he missed his flight or not, but for the story,
let's assume he did.

Now that you mention it, I have a similar story. I had designed a little
piece of logic for a product some guy had come up with the brainstorm
for, an "SOS light". It was quite simple, really - just a flasher, like
on those warning signs, except instead of just on-off, it flashed "S O S"
in Morse code:
_ _ _ ___ ___ ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___ ___ ___ _ _ _
___ _ _ ___ _ _ ___ _ _ ________ _ _ ___ _ _ ___ _ _ ____ etc.

The point was, if your car is disabled, you just pull over and turn on
your flashers. But! If a person in the car needs mecical attention _STAT_,
you put the SOS Light in your back window, so they know to bring
paramedics.

I had built the guy a prototype, which had 4 "C" cells, my little
circuit board, the light bulb, and a switch lash-up.

They stopped him at the airport X-ray machine, because it looked like a
bomb. Luckily, this was only in about 1992 or so, so they didn't lock
down the whole friggin' airport. And when they looked at my lash-up,
which was, I swear, literally held together with rubber bands, it turned
into an amusing anecdote for all.

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Winfield Hill]

R Adsett wrote...

rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com says...
R Adsett wrote:

However, I don't remember if Brazil is a member of one of the
free trade agreements.

I was under the impression that most N and S American countries
( if not all ) were involved.

Nope. There are a whole set of agreements and I won't pretend
I know them all, or even more than a small subset.

The biggest is probably NAFTA which is Canada, US and Mexico. There
is a Canada/Chile agreement and a US/Carribean agreement. There are
almost certainly others.

Whereas NAFTA is established law, CAFTA (Central America) is just
now being considered. SAFTA must still be on the drawing boards.


--
Thanks,
- Win

 

[Winfield Hill]

martin griffith wrote...

Bear <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote:

Does anyone remember the fuss many years ago when a shipment of
*capacitors* bound for Iraq was intercepted - thereby 'proving'
they were making an atom bomb

I think they were Flux Capacitors, 1.21 GWatts needed, IIRC

There's the problem, they ordered a non-standard value.


--
Thanks,
- Win

 

[Winfield Hill]

Guy Macon wrote...

Fernando wrote:

I would like to obtain information on the firm Digi-Key, because I have
been suffering a lot with my requests of purchases. Digi-Key sends me
many e-mails (after I make the purchase request with all the information
that Digi-Key asks) with several request of information on what do, with
it will be used the components, etc. after all this, that It upsets me
plenty,

http://dkc1.digikey.com/us/mkt/CompanyInfo.html

As suspected, "The following information is required by DigiKey, so
that we may comply with US Export Laws." The stupid thing is, DigiKey
knows very well these simple parts are *not* export-controlled items.


--
Thanks,
- Win

 

[PaulCsouls]

On Tue, 31 May 2005 17:42:08 GMT, Mac <foo@bar.net> wrote:

On Tue, 31 May 2005 01:44:35 +0000, PaulCsouls wrote:

On Mon, 30 May 2005 09:19:05 -0700, Luhan Monat <x@y.z> wrote:

PaulCsouls wrote:
On Sun, 29 May 2005 19:36:36 +0000, Guy Macon
_see.web.page_@_www.guymacon.com_> wrote:




Luhan Monat wrote:


Many, many, years ago, I had to buy some plumbing supplies. As it
turned out, these included a 1 foot section of 1-1/2 inch pipe and two
screw-on end caps.

Because I didnt have a basket, I just screwed the parts together as I
shopped. I layed the thing down on the check out counter and the
person there just scanned the three bar codes without a second look.

Just wouldn't recommend anyone doing that today.

They look at you funny if you buy a hundred apples and ten packs
of double-edge razor blades on October 31st too.


People are suspicious these days. Recently I saw a sign saying "FOUND
CAT", a Phone Number and "MUST DESCRIBE". Like there are people going
around claiming cats that aren't theirs. I was tempted to call them up
and say it tastes like chicken.

Paul C.

Not so far fetched. In some areas of the far east, cats and dogs are
thought of like we think of pigs and cows: as food rather than pets.

Once while serving in South Korea, I was served something called
'Yakamandu' - good thing I was most of the way thru a bottle of Johny
Walker Red when they told me what I had just eaten!

Personnally, I don't believe in eating meat that eats meat. I only eat
vegetarian animals.


This seems silly. For example, free-range chickens eat grubs. And as
Spehro says, typical commercial (factory) farmed meat is fed all manner of
disgusting things. See, for example, mad cow disease!

Exactly, mad cow disease is caused by meat eating meat. And animal

cannibalism should definitely be banned. It's a vector for taking a
one diseased animal and spreading the disease to the entire
population.

Also, most or perhaps all edible fish eat other sea-animals. I wouldn't
let this stop me from eating them. Especially wild salmon, which is
nutritious and delicious, and as humane as any meat.

It's okay for fish to eat fish.

Paul C

Just wondering. Personally, I used to be a vegetarian, but now I eat
meat. I try to stick to grass-fed buffalo, organic free-range chicken, and
wild fish. Especially salmon, which is also very low in mercury.

But at restaurants, I eat whatever kind of beef or chicken they serve.


--Mac

You guys are right. I can't really enforce anything. But no dogs,cats,
tigers or rats.

Paul C

 

[PaulCsouls]

On Mon, 30 May 2005 22:08:27 -0400, Spehro Pefhany
<speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:

On Tue, 31 May 2005 01:44:35 GMT, the renowned PaulCsouls
paulcsouls@worldnet.att.net> wrote:


Personnally, I don't believe in eating meat that eats meat. I only eat
vegetarian animals.

Paul C

How do you know your otherwise veggie animals were not fed fish meal,
blood meal, tallow or other animal protein by their keepers?


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

I don't know, and there isn't much I can do about it. I still think
it's a vector for disease.

Paul C.

 

[Luhan Monat]

PaulCsouls wrote:

Exactly, mad cow disease is caused by meat eating meat. And animal
cannibalism should definitely be banned. It's a vector for taking a
one diseased animal and spreading the disease to the entire
population.

Game, Set, and Match!

--
Luhan Monat: luhanis(at)yahoo(dot)com
http://members.cox.net/berniekm
"Any sufficiently advanced magick is
indistinguishable from technology."

 

[keith]

On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 02:54:55 -0700, Winfield Hill wrote:

martin griffith wrote...

Bear <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote:

Does anyone remember the fuss many years ago when a shipment of
*capacitors* bound for Iraq was intercepted - thereby 'proving'
they were making an atom bomb

I think they were Flux Capacitors, 1.21 GWatts needed, IIRC

There's the problem, they ordered a non-standard value.

Nope, 1.21GW is the bog-standard size for flux-capacitors.

--
Keith

 

[PaulCsouls]

On Mon, 30 May 2005 09:19:05 -0700, Luhan Monat <x@y.z> wrote:

PaulCsouls wrote:
On Sun, 29 May 2005 19:36:36 +0000, Guy Macon
_see.web.page_@_www.guymacon.com_> wrote:




Luhan Monat wrote:


Many, many, years ago, I had to buy some plumbing supplies. As it
turned out, these included a 1 foot section of 1-1/2 inch pipe and two
screw-on end caps.

Because I didnt have a basket, I just screwed the parts together as I
shopped. I layed the thing down on the check out counter and the
person there just scanned the three bar codes without a second look.

Just wouldn't recommend anyone doing that today.

They look at you funny if you buy a hundred apples and ten packs
of double-edge razor blades on October 31st too.


People are suspicious these days. Recently I saw a sign saying "FOUND
CAT", a Phone Number and "MUST DESCRIBE". Like there are people going
around claiming cats that aren't theirs. I was tempted to call them up
and say it tastes like chicken.

Paul C.

Not so far fetched. In some areas of the far east, cats and dogs are
thought of like we think of pigs and cows: as food rather than pets.

Once while serving in South Korea, I was served something called
'Yakamandu' - good thing I was most of the way thru a bottle of Johny
Walker Red when they told me what I had just eaten!

Personnally, I don't believe in eating meat that eats meat. I only eat
vegetarian animals.

Paul C