Driver to drive?

[Rich The Philosophizer]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:00:51 -0600, John Fields wrote:

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:26:28 GMT, Rich The Philosophizer
null@example.net> wrote:

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:03:53 -0600, 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?

Are you really constitutionally incapable of seeing the difference between
attack and defense? Are you incapable of grasping the concept of "invasion?"

It might not be too late for you to get medical help.

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So here's a lazy drunk telling me that _I_ need medical help? That's
rich!

So, would you be so kind as to explain what mental process it is that
translates "it might not be too late to get" to "you need"?

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Rich The Philosophizer]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:39:47 +0100, Frithiof Andreas Jensen wrote:
....

Anyone, who eats in a factory cafeteria og go to a Bodega and listens to
the talk might easily get the idea that herr Schickelgruber never really
left the building. But all the silly politicians see are the calm
waters, because they never go such places, instead they talk to the
people in the VIP lounges in the Airport, which are all affluent,
educated people like themselves with the same opinions!

I predict that there will be a very rude awakening for the "European
Elite" within this decade - as there was in the US.

Well, except for the minor annoyance that the US hasn't actually woken up

yet. Haven't you noticed? They just elected Duh-bya.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Rich The Philosophizer]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 07:44:01 -0600, John Fields wrote:

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:30:41 GMT, Rich The Philosophizer
null@example.net> wrote:

Yeah - and this in the country where two out of three commercials are for
hardon pills.

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Hmmm... "hardon" must mean something different to you than it does to
me.

It's what you call your penis when it's "erect."

Hope This Helps!
Rich

 

[Rich The Philosophizer]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:48:27 -0600, John Fields wrote:

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:11:23 GMT, Rich The Philosophizer
null@example.net> wrote:

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.

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THE JUDGE

I live in a haze
where grey must be black or white
and I draw the lines.

Yeah, I've noticed.

Boy, for somebody who has nothing to say to me other than bitching that
my posts are unwarranted, unwanted, off-topic, or simply inane, you
certainly do seem to invest a lot of time in following me around to
remind me how worthless I am.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Frithiof Andreas Jensen]

"Rich The Philosophizer" <null@example.net> wrote in message
newsan.2004.11.12.07.45.23.942440@neodruid.org...

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:39:47 +0100, Frithiof Andreas Jensen wrote:

Well, except for the minor annoyance that the US hasn't actually woken up
yet. Haven't you noticed? They just elected Duh-bya.

*Exactly the Point*

Bush was mainly - IMO - elected because the majority is getting fed up being
told all the time to respect people, cultures and values that they do not
sympathise with and never will!

Angry White People elected Bush - and you are even summarising *exactly* one
issue that people are fed up with: Namely the constant, sneering disdain for
the "incorrect" opinion by some overgrown, self-important nanny (personified
by the so-called "cultural elite" in this part of the world)!!

*If* the democrats manage to win back the presidency next time, it will be
with a candidate and a political program that will bring fond memories of
Ronald Reagan rather than Kennedy.

That's the change that already happened to Labour in the UK and that is what
is yet to come in the rest of EU too.

If democracy is allowed to work, the change in tides will come gradually and
pass in time - However, if the political elite in the EU have it their way,
they will ban dissent and have another Hitler on their hands in about 20
years time.

Besides there is this take on the demograhics:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FK09Aa02.html

 

[Frank Birbacher]

Hi!

Rich Grise wrote:

Are there alternatives to 74684/685?


http://www.google.com/search?q=8-bit+magnitude+comparator&btnG=Search

Well, I don't know exactly what a "magnitude comparator" is, but
the link above provides my with thousands of link suggesting
74688 or 74521. Both of them are comparators which test for
equality. But I need to test for "less".

Glad to help!

I'll tell you, when I'm done.

Frank

 

[Frank Birbacher]

Hi!

Andrew Holme wrote:

You could use two 4-bit comparators (e.g. 74HC85) combining the outputs with
an AND gate but that would mean even more chips!

The 7485 has inputs for cascading, so I would only need two
16-DIL instead of one 20-DIL package. But already with the 20-DIL
package I'm concerned about wiring.

How can I determine the needed values for the capacitor and
resistor here?


By experiment. Aim for R>10k for HCMOS. Less for LS. Time constant ~ RC.

Hmm, ok, I'll try.

For the chips: I know I can get the "LS" version of them at my
store, but I don't know what that means, nor which alternatives
there are, nor do I know whether it matters. Can someone please
explain this to me?


There are several 74 families. They differ in speed, power consumption,
input/output thresholds e.t.c. LS = Low power Schottky. I suggest you use
74HC if you can get them but 74LS is perfectly OK for this application.

Low power sounds good, as USB wants me not to consume more than
2mA in sleep mode.

Any n-channel MOSFET designed for logic level drive that can handle a drain
current of 350mA will do. You'll be spoilt for choice.

Ok.

Frank

 

[Bill Sloman]

John Fields <jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote in message news:<hob7p0hv0timjarjtaemgc2fp0iplsuc5g@4ax.com>...

On 11 Nov 2004 03:01:21 -0800, bill.sloman@ieee.org (Bill Sloman)
wrote:

John Fields <jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote in message news:<s5t4p0tonu5lbc9fbrd28qmfljmsr681on@4ax.com>...
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:23:00 +0100, "Frank Bemelman"
f.bemelmanx@xs4all.invalid.nl> wrote:

"John Fields" <jfields@austininstruments.com> schreef in bericht
news:vgo4p0teb3pn32f09v5467g6pm414l693b@4ax.com...
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In retrospect, you should probably thank us for being able to thank
us.
--

Oh, that old tune again eh? Can't you find something more
recent to be thankful for?

Credit doesn't last forever.

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It does as long as you pay your bills on time.

A nice line from a resident of the country with the biggest balance of
trade deficit around.

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We may be late; it happens from time to time, but at least you know
were good for it...
---

That used to be the assumption - you've been running a deficit since
Regan's first term, and for a long time it was covered by "capital
inflows" - in effect you were selling the farm - but these have pretty
much stopped, partly because you have sold pretty much everything that
looked attractive, and partly because - after Enron and a couple of
other book-keeping scandals - overseas customers have become a lot
more sceptical about the attractiveness of what's left.

The recent devaluations of the dollar reflect these changing
circumstances, which are now getting through to gas prices.

-------
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

 

[Andrew Holme]

Frank Birbacher wrote:

Andrew Holme wrote:
There are several 74 families. They differ in speed, power
consumption, input/output thresholds e.t.c. LS = Low power
Schottky. I suggest you use 74HC if you can get them but 74LS is
perfectly OK for this application.

Low power sounds good, as USB wants me not to consume more than
2mA in sleep mode.

Introduced in the 1970's, LS was lower power than the original 7400 series,
but LS uses _more_ power than modern HCMOS!

Good spot on the 7485 cascading. I forgot about that...

 

[Daniel Haude]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:23:38 -0600,
John Fields <jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote
in Msg. <0a97p0lcfahof4p79bjls30923618h2jlt@4ax.com>

It hasn't done
a thing to improve U.S. security

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I disagree. It's now, AIUI, _much_ harder to get into this country for
the purpose of doing mischief than it used to be, and visitors are
subject to greater scrutiny while they're here. In addition, things
which once weren't being watched very closely, like our borders and
our airports, are now also under greater scrutiny.
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....and that's a result of the Iraq invasion? What the hell are you
smoking?

--Daniel

 

[John Fields]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:43:01 GMT, Rich The Philosophist
<null@example.net> wrote:

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 07:44:01 -0600, John Fields wrote:

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:30:41 GMT, Rich The Philosophist
null@example.net> wrote:

Yeah - and this in the country where two out of three commercials are for
hardon pills.

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Hmmm... "hardon" must mean something different to you than it does to
me.

It's what you call your penis when it's "erect."

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I don't know where you got that information, but it's incorrect. When
it's at attention, I call mine "Sir John".

But that's not the point, which you seem to have missed as usual.

--
John Fields

 

[Paul Burridge]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:06:22 GMT, Rich The Philosophizer
<null@example.net> wrote:

Do you guys only have ten months in your year?

Slowman lives in the Euro-zone. It's probably an EU Directive.
--

"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.

 

[John Fields]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:46:45 GMT, Rich The Philosophizer
<null@example.net> wrote:

Oh, please, no awards. I've got awards coming out my ass. And if you've
ever had awards coming out your ass, you know how painful that can be.
rimshot

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Less painful, I suspect, than going in...

--
John Fields

 

[Paul Burridge]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:08:49 GMT, Rich The Philosophizer
<null@example.net> wrote:

D'ya think maybe I've damaged him?

Something certainly seems to have done so. More likely it's from
reading too many of Jim T's postings.
--

"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.

 

[John Fields]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:48:32 GMT, Rich The Philosophizer
<null@example.net> wrote:

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:48:27 -0600, John Fields wrote:

THE JUDGE

I live in a haze
where grey must be black or white
and I draw the lines.

Yeah, I've noticed.

Boy, for somebody who has nothing to say to me other than bitching that
my posts are unwarranted, unwanted, off-topic, or simply inane, you
certainly do seem to invest a lot of time in following me around to
remind me how worthless I am.

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Tit for tat.

--
John Fields

 

[Frithiof Andreas Jensen]

"Frithiof Andreas Jensen" <frithiof.jensen@die_spammer_die.ericsson.com>
wrote in message news:cn208r$p56$1@newstree.wise.edt.ericsson.se...

Ronald Reagan rather than Kennedy.

I just remember: Kennedy didn't blink when facing the Cuban Missil crisis
either - respect for that!

I wonder just how load the screaming and moaning would have been if that
same situation had happened today, with Kennedy at the wheel.

 

[John Fields]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:57:18 GMT, Rich The Philosophizer
<null@example.net> wrote:

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:16:19 -0600, John Fields wrote:

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:03:05 GMT, Rich The Philosophizer
null@example.net> wrote:

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:59:44 -0600, John Fields wrote:

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:57:40 +0100, "Frank Bemelman"
f.bemelmanx@xs4all.invalid.nl> wrote:

"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> schreef in
bericht news:mdh4p0hbs7ftl783e5vcaqt36ser6lloco@4ax.com...

After they clean out Fallujah, maybe some of them can help out in The
Hague.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3998347.stm

It's all quiet now. No help needed. No doubt we are going to
see more of these events, all being the result of that
brilliant stategy towards terrorism, led by Bush.

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As opposed to the Bemelman strategy, which is "Teach 'em to play nice
by appeasing 'em."?

I guess the idea of "don't go on a killing rampage in these folks'
home town" has never occurred to anybody.

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I guess the idea of keeping it from happening in yours has never
occurred to you.

Well, you guess wrong, you numbskull. I keep it from happening in my
home town by refraining from initiating killing rampages half-way
around the world. Or next door, for that matter.

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I don't know whether you'll be able to understand the parallel, but
let's say that there are a couple of gangs of thugs in your home town
who have been fighting amongst themselves for quite some time but, for
some reason, have now started to attack ordinary non-gang citizens.
At first the losses seem tragic but sadly acceptable for the sake of
maintaining the "peace", but as the virulence and number of attacks
increase, a threshold is crossed where physical retaliation becomes
warranted and the town takes up arms against the thugs.

World Trade Center, Marine barracks, American Embassies, night clubs,
shopping malls... are you blind?
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You evidently haven't noticed, but amongst sane people, it is fairly
well-known that when you attack someone, they have a tendency to want
to defend themselves.

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Yes, and when you don't [defend yourself] you're issuing an open
invitation to the insane to continue their lunacy with encouragement.
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In your fantasy world, they're supposed to roll over and beg for
more torture, while gushing their gratitude for your infinite
magnanimity in prolonging their agony, rather than going directly
to the death blow. And you can't understand why the benighted savages
don't gush with overwhelming gratitude for the huge sacrifice you're
making, deigning to Send The Marines to Make Them Safe For Democracy.

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In my world the Hatfields and McCoys would long ago have broken bread,
not bones, and would have talked out their differences instead of
shouting "My God's bigger than your God" at each other then gone at
each other with swords, trying to prove it in the name of All That's
Holy.
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They're _supposed_ to love you for _correcting_ them, right?

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That's a whole different thing, and has to do with the pain of having
to abandon old beliefs. I, for example, correct you all the time yet
your thanks don't smack of "love". <------+
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Fields, you're a tool. |
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We all are. |
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Which "all" is that? Whose turd are you? |
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See what I mean? ----------------------------+


--
John Fields

 

[John Fields]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 07:43:52 GMT, Rich The Philosophizer
<null@example.net> wrote:

On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 18:35:36 -0600, John Fields wrote:

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:24:10 GMT, "Clarence" <no@No.com> wrote:

PLONK! ! !

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When you plonk someone, why do you find it necessary to post that you
did?

That's how he punishes us.

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Your method of choice seems to be to pen a neverending stream of
banal, irrelevant, off-topic banter.

--
John Fields

 

[Dirk Bruere at Neopax]

Fred Bloggs wrote:

Squeezing jello in Iraq
By Scott Ritter

The much-anticipated US-led offensive to seize the Iraqi city of Falluja
from anti-American Iraqi fighters has begun. Meeting resistance that,
while stiff at times, was much less than had been anticipated, US
Marines and soldiers, accompanied by Iraqi forces loyal to the interim
government of Iyad Allawi, have moved into the heart of Falluja.

Fighting is expected to continue for a few more days, but US commanders
are confident that Falluja will soon be under US control, paving the way
for the establishment of order necessary for nation-wide elections
currently scheduled for January 2005.

But will it? American military planners expected to face thousands of
Iraqi resistance fighters in the streets of Falluja, not the hundreds
they are currently fighting. They expected to roll up the network of Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi and his foreign Islamic militants, and yet to date have
found no top-tier leaders from that organization. As American forces
surge into Falluja, Iraqi fighters are mounting extensive attacks
throughout the rest of Iraq.

Far from facing off in a decisive battle against the resistance
fighters, it seems the more Americans squeeze Falluja, the more the
violence explodes elsewhere. It is exercises in futility, akin to
squeezing jello. The more you try to get a grasp on the problem, the
more it slips through your fingers.

This kind of war, while frustrating for the American soldiers and
marines who wage it, is exactly the struggle envisioned by the Iraqi
resistance. They know they cannot stand toe-to-toe with the world's most
powerful military and expect to win.

The other problem that is going to face the US is *holding* Fallujah.
Are they going to intensively patrol it for the next few months, like ducks in a
shooting gallery? Or hand it over to those 'reliable' Iraqi troops?

Personally, I expect Fallujah to be back in resistance hands within weeks of the
battle being declared 'over'.

--
Dirk

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