Driver to drive?

[John Fields]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:24:15 +0000, Dirk Bruere at Neopax
<dirk@neopax.com> wrote:

John Fields wrote:

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:44:39 +0000, Dirk Bruere at Neopax
dirk@neopax.com> wrote:



The US has not got much of a record for staying the course in guerilla wars.


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Shirley, you jest!

How do you think we won the Revolutionary War? Standing in one place?

That's the spirit - go back 200 years to find a counter example.
LOL!

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It's still an example, and a good one.

--
John Fields

 

[Steve Taylor]

John Fields wrote:
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It's still an example, and a good one.

....when your enemy's supply lines are 16 weeks long and you have French
help....

Steve

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:24:15 +0000, the renowned Dirk Bruere at Neopax
<dirk@neopax.com> wrote:

John Fields wrote:

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:44:39 +0000, Dirk Bruere at Neopax
dirk@neopax.com> wrote:



The US has not got much of a record for staying the course in guerilla wars.


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Shirley, you jest!

How do you think we won the Revolutionary War? Standing in one place?

That's the spirit - go back 200 years to find a counter example.
LOL!

Note that in that case the USians *were* the
guerillas/terrorists/insurgents.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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[John Fields]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:06:12 +0000, Steve Taylor <smtaylor@iee.org>
wrote:

John Fields wrote:
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It's still an example, and a good one.



...when your enemy's supply lines are 16 weeks long and you have French
help....

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Neither seems to be true any more... )-:

--
John Fields

 

[Ian Stirling]

ChrisGibboGibson <chrisgibbogibson@aol.com> wrote:

20 years ago I used to spend hours tuning through the HF bands picking up weak
signals.

I very recently acquired another HF receiver and aerial tuner, put up a long
wire and had a quick play.

20 years ago, not nearly so much ran on switchers, and stuff that
did tended to be in metal boxes.

 

[John Larkin]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:24:38 -0500, Spehro Pefhany
<speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:24:15 +0000, the renowned Dirk Bruere at Neopax
dirk@neopax.com> wrote:

John Fields wrote:

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:44:39 +0000, Dirk Bruere at Neopax
dirk@neopax.com> wrote:



The US has not got much of a record for staying the course in guerilla wars.


---
Shirley, you jest!

How do you think we won the Revolutionary War? Standing in one place?

That's the spirit - go back 200 years to find a counter example.
LOL!

Note that in that case the USians *were* the
guerillas/terrorists/insurgents.

Surely not terrorists. I understand that no-one was murdered or
executed in the Revolution.

John

 

[Fred Bloggs]

ChrisGibboGibson wrote:

Fred Bloggs wrote:

[snip]


and a
forearm and hand the British left behind.



A brit soldier would have eaten that.

Gibbo

Yes- definitely possible in some situations- should be quite tasty after
roasting over an open fire.

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:58:48 -0800, the renowned John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:24:38 -0500, Spehro Pefhany
speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:24:15 +0000, the renowned Dirk Bruere at Neopax
dirk@neopax.com> wrote:

John Fields wrote:

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:44:39 +0000, Dirk Bruere at Neopax
dirk@neopax.com> wrote:



The US has not got much of a record for staying the course in guerilla wars.


---
Shirley, you jest!

How do you think we won the Revolutionary War? Standing in one place?

That's the spirit - go back 200 years to find a counter example.
LOL!

Note that in that case the USians *were* the
guerillas/terrorists/insurgents.



Surely not terrorists. I understand that no-one was murdered or
executed in the Revolution.

John

http://www.crusader.net/texts/bt/bt05.html

"The Sons of Liberty" was clearly a terrorist organization.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
--
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[Fred Bloggs]

John Fields wrote:

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:11:07 GMT, Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com
wrote:



Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote:

John Fields wrote:


On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:24:57 GMT, Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com
wrote:



Squeezing jello in Iraq
By Scott Ritter



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Scott Ritter is a traitorous son of a bitch who should be shot.


On the grounds that he was right and Bush was wrong...


If you ever have to go into battle, I guarantee that Ritter is the kind
of man you want in charge- not those political bullshitters in the
administration- who have been wrong about every damned projection they
have made so far- proven total idiots and incompetents. Remember, Bush
is a dangerous idiot and liar.


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If I ever went into battle I'd want someone in charge who was as
willing to get behind his commander in chief and follow his orders as
he would expect me to get behind him and follow his.

He is not telling us anything new. You might search out some of
Duelfer's recent comments to Congress about findings in the Iraq Survey
Group report that they *confirmed* Saddam made a last dash scramble to
organize and establish the framework for a post-invasion guerilla
campaign against the US occupation- making a detailed study of textbooks
and manuals written by the North Vietnamese.

I would _certainly_ not want some opinionated son of a bitch up there
telling me that there's no way that I'm going to win the fight that
I'm being sent to risk my life on.

The US military will win every fight they engage in, but the prospects
for installing a self-sufficient democracy are dim.

But you seem to be well versed in military matters, and you must know
that we're at war right now, so why are you supporting that traitor
and his seditious behavior?

Realizing that the ultimate objective is doomed to failure has nothing
to do with winning the battles, we had no problem dealing with that before.
It's interesting that same mindless obstinance among US voters
responsible for Bush's re-election is now at play in Iraq. Those people
are now at the point where they hate Americans and will not listen to
anything we say or do. All they want to hear from us is the departure date.

 

[Terry Given]

Joerg wrote:

Hi Chris,

I did design for the European market 20 years ago as well as today. From
an EMC point of view not much has changed, except that it is now less
bureaucratic because they harmonized the rules within the EC. What used
to be a VDE or FTZ reg in Germany is now an IEC reg. Same for other
countries. From what I can see there isn't much that has changed for the
usual Class A and B limits.

In general though I see a deterioration of design quality in a lot of
gear. Plastic everywhere and grounding philosophies do not seem to be
understood well by younger engineers. Oh, and another legal trick:
Dithering. The advent of cheap synthesizer chips allows the modulation
of clocks in order to spread the noise around in the frequency domain so
that the total energy blasted out can be much higher. That would also
have been possible under the 'old regs' but it was to expensive to do.

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com

Snap. Its a dreadful trick, but it works really well. Interestingly
enough I first saw the technique used with modulating switching
frequencies in AC motor drives, to reduce acoustical noise - it turns
out people are really good at hearing (and being annoyed by) single
tones, but the hashy sound when Fsw is sloshed around is a lot less
irritating, even though the amount of energy remains the same.

I played around with modulating a flybacks Fsw, and of course the only
reason this works is because of those nice quasi-peak or (even better)
averaging filter thingummies inside spectrum/EMC analysers. Its just
cheating really. Oh, and although I got quite good measured results, I
never implemented it because the 50W flyback sat atop 25kW of power
electronics.

A lot of EMC tests are bollocks like that too - with a drive the output
cable capacitance plays a HUGE role in conducted and radiated emissions
(unless you put really big dV/dt filters on the output) but the tests
only require a short length of cable, and for big drives the motor
doesnt have to be loaded - partly because not many EMC test sites can
load up a 600kW machine, let alone supply enough juuice . Net result:
our CE marked drive that passes all of the relevant EMC standards will
fail by 40dB when you connect 100m of cable to the output, which is what
usually happens (unless they connect 2.8km of cable - very common in
remote pumping stations, where the drive tends to be somewhere
accessible, rather than beside the motor)

Cheers
Terry

 

[Rich The Philosophizer]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:46:17 +0000, Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote:

Terry Given wrote:

Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote:

Paul Burridge wrote:

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 04:49:20 GMT, Rich The Philosophizer
null@example.net> wrote:


On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 20:42:03 +0100, Frithiof Andreas Jensen wrote:


"Fred Bloggs" <nospam@nospam.com> skrev i en meddelelse
news:418D5DA1.1010609@nospam.com...

Apparently this is still practiced:

"However, a small number of Orthodox rabbis advocate an ancient
practice in which the circumciser sucks



And I thought the Catholic Church had problems ;-))



Nah, they only drink the blood and eat the flesh of some dead guy, who
also happens to be their main icon.

God Forbid they should ever accidentally get their mouth near the
mutilated penis of a helpless baby!




They're not *still* engaging in this odious 'practice' are they? I
thought we'd agreed to ban it. Why hasn't our edict outlawing this
Satanic abuse been observed?



Makes the term 'cocksucking Jew' quite accurate in some cases eh?
Stands right besides 'Xian bugger'.


ROTFLMAO!

The Catholic church might be a better place if one of the commandments
had read "Thou shalt not rape little boys"

Well, Islam seems to have got it partially correct.
They can officially screw 10yr old girls.

Now, wait a minute. I can't believe that there's _any_ religion
that allows sex with underage children. There must have been something
missing in the translation.

Could you shed some light on this matter? Or is it just another
boogeyman thing?

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Rich The Philosophizer]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:29:30 +0000, Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote:

Fred Bloggs wrote:

Frontline troops are 'unfit and illiterate'
By Paul Waugh Deputy Political Editor, Evening Standard
10 November 2004
Unfit, near-illiterate recruits are being given frontline roles in
Britain's armed forces because of a desperate lack of manpower, a
damning report has found.

Soldiers are not traditionally noted for their literacy and intellectual skills.
Traditionally, in peacetime, they are the dregs of society.

If I recall accurately, it seems that there was a time here in the

good ol' USA where when people got rousted for this-n-that, they'd
offer them a hitch in the Army in lieu of prison.

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Rich The Philosophizer]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 02:21:22 +0000, Fred Bloggs wrote:

ChrisGibboGibson wrote:
Fred Bloggs wrote:

[snip]


and a
forearm and hand the British left behind.



A brit soldier would have eaten that.

Gibbo

Yes- definitely possible in some situations- should be quite tasty after
roasting over an open fire.

Sounds more like a dig on soldiers who would leave behind parts of their
fallen comrades.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Rich The Philosophizer]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:40:37 +0000, Steve Taylor wrote:

For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the
brute!" But it's "Saviour of 'is country," when the guns begin to
shoot; An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you
please; But Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees!

Rudyard Kipling

I always wondered if Dudley Do-Right had made that up. Actually,
it was a Dudley robot, pretending to be Dudley.

Hello, Nell! <bzzt! click!>

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Rich The Philosophizer]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:49:45 -0600, John Fields wrote:

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:24:57 GMT, Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com
wrote:

Squeezing jello in Iraq
By Scott Ritter

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Scott Ritter is a traitorous son of a bitch who should be shot.

Yup. Anybody who disagrees with der fuehrer is a disloyal traitor
and should be shot.

Zeig Heil!

 

[Rich The Philosophizer]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:46:04 +0000, Reg Edwards wrote:

At war?

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Correction. It's not a War. It's a one-sided massacre.

Nah. It's not a massacre yet, just an ordinary invasion. Ho hum.

And imagine the generals' surprise - the citizens are actually
defending their homes from invaders! How rude!

Feh.

 

[Rich The Philosophizer]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:16:02 -0600, John Fields wrote:

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:49:51 +0000, Dirk Bruere at Neopax
dirk@neopax.com> wrote:

I'm afraid that is *not* a declaration of war.

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Oh, well, nobody's perfect...

Be sure and explain that to your victims. I'm sure they'll
understand.

 

[Rich The Philosophizer]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:36:09 -0600, John Fields wrote:

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:27:13 +0100, "Frank Bemelman"
"John Fields" <jfields@austininstruments.com> schreef in bericht
If I ever went into battle I'd want someone in charge who was as
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willing to get behind his commander in chief and follow his orders as
he would expect me to get behind him and follow his.
Ah, you want a puppet on a string in charge, and be a puppet on a string
yourself too.

That's what being in the military is all about, Frank. You don't get to
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vote on whether you'll do what you're told to or not, you just do it, or
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else you don't and you accept the consequences.

Can you say doublethink, boys and girls?

Thank you very much.
Rich

 

[Rich The Philosophizer]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:01:00 -0600, John Fields wrote:

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What drives them is the love they have for their leaders, but what
drives their leaders is just plain old greed and lust for power and
hatred for anyone who opposes their getting what they want. Kind of
like liberals; spoiled children run amuck.

Except for the fact that you have just now precisely described the
fascisti.

Thank you very much.
Rich

 

[Rich The Philosophizer]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:39:16 +0000, Steve Taylor wrote:

John Fields wrote:

If it was obvious to _anyone_ then I'm sure it was also obvious to our
military planners who, I daresay, have access to better intelligence
than you or I or Ritter.

All in all, are you sure you can trust military or any other kind of
"intelligence" gathering that was so "successful" and "accurate" pre-war ?

Your military planners have this idea that superior firepower can win
hearts and minds. Scientific observation of the results suggests this is
wrong. So what next ?

Education: The process of inserting abstract thoughts into concrete

heads.

Cheers!
Rich