Driver to drive?

[bitrex]

On 03/17/2017 08:46 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 22:22:33 -0400, krw wrote:

Nothing like that. I knew the surgery would be bad but it wasn't nearly
as bad as they said.

I find coming round after the op is the worst part. It's not like normal
waking up. I panic like hell! "Where am I? What the fuck happened? What
are all these fucking tubes for?" That kind of thing. Nasty!

The weird thing about full anesthesia is that it seems sometimes you
lose your sense of temporal awareness/cause and effect.

I had it once for a complex third molar extraction - I remember being
hooked up to the IV and they gave me some oxygen and then just sitting
there awake waiting and waiting.

Dentist walks in and asks me how I'm doing.

"Fine I guess, is anything wrong? Are we going to do the surgery?"

She laughs - it's already all done, you're in recovery, silly.

Oh, okay! Alright then.

 

On Saturday, 18 March 2017 17:11:50 UTC, bitrex wrote:

On 03/18/2017 01:04 PM, tabbypurr wrote:
On Saturday, 18 March 2017 16:58:37 UTC, Taxed and Spent wrote:
On 3/18/2017 9:54 AM, bitrex wrote:
On 03/18/2017 12:04 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 10:50:10 -0400, krw wrote:

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/7814

In your case, I'd pay gladly for the electricity.

Always struck me as a bit OTT and perhaps unnecessarily so. It only takes
a fraction of the energy 'Old Sparky' dished out to kill someone. Atrial
Fibrillation can be induced with just a few tens of milliamps. OK, I'll
grant you it's far less spectacular than this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCJUEvFYaGc

But there you go. That's entertainment!


I'm a liberal and yet, in some circumstances I do support the death penalty.

But IMO the goal should be to show the condemned the mercy they did not
show their victim(s) in life.

As civilized people it's the least we could do.


I believe it is more merciful to put someone deserving to death, than to
lock them up for the rest of their life.

the problem of course is wrong convictions.

Well, the qualifications for the kind of crimes that I feel are
"death-penalty worthy" leave little room for doubt.

Human nature will inevitably shift its use from cases beyond doubt to cases that are simply horse hockey. It's how the world works.


NT

 

On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 07:35:18 -0700 (PDT),
bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com wrote:

On Friday, March 17, 2017 at 10:47:17 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 00:46:33 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
curd@notformail.com> wrote:

On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 22:22:33 -0400, krw wrote:

Nothing like that. I knew the surgery would be bad but it wasn't nearly
as bad as they said.

I find coming round after the op is the worst part. It's not like normal
waking up. I panic like hell! "Where am I? What the fuck happened? What
are all these fucking tubes for?" That kind of thing. Nasty!

I don't recall anything like that, either. Perhaps because I came out
of it more slowly? I've also had a few quicky anasthesias for
cardioversions (basically a defib with the paddles glued to the chest
and back) and woke uf form those not even realizing that I'd been out
and it was already done, though the burns on my chest did let me know
that something happened (300J does that).

What a waste of electricity!

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/7814

In your case, I'd pay gladly for the electricity.

 

[Cursitor Doom]

On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 12:54:27 -0400, bitrex wrote:

I'm a liberal and yet, in some circumstances I do support the death
penalty.

But IMO the goal should be to show the condemned the mercy they did not
show their victim(s) in life.

And you imagine they'd a) appreciate that gesture and b) learn from it?

> As civilized people it's the least we could do.

Each case on its merits, dear boy; each case on its merits.

 

[Cursitor Doom]

On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 10:04:38 -0700, tabbypurr wrote:

> the problem of course is wrong convictions.

Indeed. So introduce a higher standard of proof in capital cases: 'beyond
doubt' instead of 'beyond reasonable doubt.'

 

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 10:49:25 +0200, upsidedown@downunder.com wrote:

On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 10:32:58 +1100, Clifford Heath
no.spam@please.net> wrote:

On 18/03/17 06:21, John Larkin wrote:
Resonating an AM antenna needs a giant variable cap, or a varicap and
some sort of tracking voltage source for that.

They don't make big enough varicaps for that, but those Superjunction
FETs discussed here recently would work.

A friend designed a specialised hand-held pickup head that had
to tune 1-5MHz, and used 480(!) small varicaps. It was measuring
micro-ohms of dynamic impedance using transformer coupling
(about 8mm square) across a small air gap. The DUT had dozens
of resonances with Q of 1000-5000 across the band.

The 1-5 MHz tuning range with a single inductor would need a 25:1
_total_ capacitive range. Since there are stray capacitances, the
actual tuning range for the varactor itself would be even greater.

Thus, you might have to switch the inductance even once in that 1-5
MHz range.

One problem with varactors is that the maximum capacitance occurs at
very low reverse voltages, in some cases in the same order of
magnitude as the RF, causing detuning.

And second harmonic distortion. I'm seeing the same issue in a
photodiode now. The customer wants my amp to have -80 dB THD, but his
photodiode has -40 from varicap effect.


--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

lunatic fringe electronics

 

So the next topic is to compare and contrast the merits
of an H field sensing loop antenna vs an E Field sensing
whip antenna for use on the AM broadcast band.
In practice, most car radios use an E Field whip
and most other radios use an H field loop.
How do they compare?
M

 

[kevin93]

On Saturday, March 18, 2017 at 12:49:51 PM UTC-7, mkol...@gmail.com wrote:

So the next topic is to compare and contrast the merits
of an H field sensing loop antenna vs an E Field sensing
whip antenna for use on the AM broadcast band.
In practice, most car radios use an E Field whip
and most other radios use an H field loop.
How do they compare?
M

An H field antenna is directional - the signal would fade whenever you went round a corner. The H field antenna has to be horizontal to pickup the field.

kevin

 

On Saturday, 18 March 2017 19:12:10 UTC, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 10:04:38 -0700, tabbypurr wrote:

the problem of course is wrong convictions.

Indeed. So introduce a higher standard of proof in capital cases: 'beyond
doubt' instead of 'beyond reasonable doubt.'

You can introduce all the requirements you like, it doesn't stop people being stupid.


NT

 

[bitrex]

On 03/18/2017 12:04 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 10:50:10 -0400, krw wrote:

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/7814

In your case, I'd pay gladly for the electricity.

Always struck me as a bit OTT and perhaps unnecessarily so. It only takes
a fraction of the energy 'Old Sparky' dished out to kill someone. Atrial
Fibrillation can be induced with just a few tens of milliamps. OK, I'll
grant you it's far less spectacular than this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCJUEvFYaGc

But there you go. That's entertainment!

I'm a liberal and yet, in some circumstances I do support the death penalty.

But IMO the goal should be to show the condemned the mercy they did not
show their victim(s) in life.

As civilized people it's the least we could do.

 

[bitrex]

On 03/18/2017 09:53 AM, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 09:49:00 -0400, bitrex wrote:

I had it once for a complex third molar extraction - I remember being
hooked up to the IV and they gave me some oxygen and then just sitting
there awake waiting and waiting.

Dentist walks in and asks me how I'm doing.

"Fine I guess, is anything wrong? Are we going to do the surgery?"

She laughs - it's already all done, you're in recovery, silly.

Oh, okay! Alright then.

Now *that's* the way to go! :-D
Wonder how Jim got on?

I'm sure he's fine. You knew he was gonna make you sweat, though...;-)

 

[Taxed and Spent]

On 3/18/2017 9:54 AM, bitrex wrote:

On 03/18/2017 12:04 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 10:50:10 -0400, krw wrote:

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/7814

In your case, I'd pay gladly for the electricity.

Always struck me as a bit OTT and perhaps unnecessarily so. It only takes
a fraction of the energy 'Old Sparky' dished out to kill someone. Atrial
Fibrillation can be induced with just a few tens of milliamps. OK, I'll
grant you it's far less spectacular than this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCJUEvFYaGc

But there you go. That's entertainment!


I'm a liberal and yet, in some circumstances I do support the death penalty.

But IMO the goal should be to show the condemned the mercy they did not
show their victim(s) in life.

As civilized people it's the least we could do.

I believe it is more merciful to put someone deserving to death, than to
lock them up for the rest of their life.

 

[Jeff Liebermann]

On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 09:22:18 -0400, "Carl Ijames"
<Xcarl.ijamesY@Zverizon.net> wrote:

"rickman" wrote in message newsai9hq$ifc$2@dont-email.me...

I wonder how a balloon is supposed to decimate stones? For kidney
stones they use shocks of high intensity ultrasound.
Rick C

My guess(tm) is that the balloon dilates the bile duct sufficiently to
all the stone(s) to pass normally.

Mine were shadowed so twice now they have gone in with an endoscope through
the bladder and up to the kidney, put the end against the stone, and blasted
away with a pulsed laser to break up the stone.

I had laser lithotripsy for kidney stones. Plenty of problems.
Looking through an endoscope at the end of a catheter, the kidney is a
large volume with many places for a stone to hide. Just finding the
stone was a problem. Once located, they were shattered by the laser,
and were suppose to make a graceful exit through the ureter. Nope.
The edges of the broken kidney stones were rather jagged, causing the
debris to get stuck in the ureter. The official term is
"steinstrasse" or "stone street" which is what it resembles on an
x-ray. It took 9 painful days to finally break loose the log jam.
Most such procedures are not this ugly.

Some of the debris:
<http://802.11junk.com/jeffl/pics/drivel/slides/stones.html>

Gall stones are rather larger and often fill the gall bladder. For
example:
<http://greaterorlandogi.com/wp-content/uploads/Gallstones.jpg>

Hopefully, Jim will not need to go through that ordeal.

--
Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

 

[bitrex]

On 03/18/2017 01:04 PM, tabbypurr@gmail.com wrote:

On Saturday, 18 March 2017 16:58:37 UTC, Taxed and Spent wrote:
On 3/18/2017 9:54 AM, bitrex wrote:
On 03/18/2017 12:04 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 10:50:10 -0400, krw wrote:

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/7814

In your case, I'd pay gladly for the electricity.

Always struck me as a bit OTT and perhaps unnecessarily so. It only takes
a fraction of the energy 'Old Sparky' dished out to kill someone. Atrial
Fibrillation can be induced with just a few tens of milliamps. OK, I'll
grant you it's far less spectacular than this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCJUEvFYaGc

But there you go. That's entertainment!


I'm a liberal and yet, in some circumstances I do support the death penalty.

But IMO the goal should be to show the condemned the mercy they did not
show their victim(s) in life.

As civilized people it's the least we could do.


I believe it is more merciful to put someone deserving to death, than to
lock them up for the rest of their life.

the problem of course is wrong convictions.


NT

Well, the qualifications for the kind of crimes that I feel are
"death-penalty worthy" leave little room for doubt.

I don't think bin Laden would've needed to have been put in a police
lineup, or would've rested his case on some uncertainty of DNA evidence.

 

[bitrex]

On 03/18/2017 01:11 PM, bitrex wrote:

On 03/18/2017 01:04 PM, tabbypurr@gmail.com wrote:
On Saturday, 18 March 2017 16:58:37 UTC, Taxed and Spent wrote:
On 3/18/2017 9:54 AM, bitrex wrote:
On 03/18/2017 12:04 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 10:50:10 -0400, krw wrote:

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/7814

In your case, I'd pay gladly for the electricity.

Always struck me as a bit OTT and perhaps unnecessarily so. It only
takes
a fraction of the energy 'Old Sparky' dished out to kill someone.
Atrial
Fibrillation can be induced with just a few tens of milliamps. OK,
I'll
grant you it's far less spectacular than this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCJUEvFYaGc

But there you go. That's entertainment!


I'm a liberal and yet, in some circumstances I do support the death
penalty.

But IMO the goal should be to show the condemned the mercy they did not
show their victim(s) in life.

As civilized people it's the least we could do.


I believe it is more merciful to put someone deserving to death, than to
lock them up for the rest of their life.

the problem of course is wrong convictions.


NT


Well, the qualifications for the kind of crimes that I feel are
"death-penalty worthy" leave little room for doubt.

I don't think bin Laden would've needed to have been put in a police
lineup, or would've rested his case on some uncertainty of DNA evidence.

That is to say the death penalty is best reserved for those few
abominables who are actively proud of their "endeavors." Unfortunately,
that type seems to turn up with some regularity.

 

On the other hand, one could just use a Mini Circuits mixer with a +17
dBm LO, or a nice analogue mux with square wave drive.  It takes a lot
to screw one of those up.

The SA612 gives you oscillator and 14dB gain mixer in an 8-pin package,
for a buck. Good to 200MHz LO.

I've used them in instruments but never in receivers. Gilbert cells are _not_ strong mixers--they have many fine qualities, but good IMD performance is not one of them.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

 

Try 500+ pF.  They make varactors specifically to tune AM radios.  I
just ordered a few.

Current production? Who makes them?

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

 

[Carl Ijames]

"Jeff Liebermann" wrote in message
news:06pqcct5j8venarjsb8i6i0ldis5ot0hep@4ax.com...

On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 09:22:18 -0400, "Carl Ijames"
<Xcarl.ijamesY@Zverizon.net> wrote:

"rickman" wrote in message newsai9hq$ifc$2@dont-email.me...

I wonder how a balloon is supposed to decimate stones? For kidney
stones they use shocks of high intensity ultrasound.
Rick C

My guess(tm) is that the balloon dilates the bile duct sufficiently to
all the stone(s) to pass normally.

Mine were shadowed so twice now they have gone in with an endoscope through
the bladder and up to the kidney, put the end against the stone, and
blasted
away with a pulsed laser to break up the stone.

I had laser lithotripsy for kidney stones. Plenty of problems.
Looking through an endoscope at the end of a catheter, the kidney is a
large volume with many places for a stone to hide. Just finding the
stone was a problem. Once located, they were shattered by the laser,
and were suppose to make a graceful exit through the ureter. Nope.
The edges of the broken kidney stones were rather jagged, causing the
debris to get stuck in the ureter. The official term is
"steinstrasse" or "stone street" which is what it resembles on an
x-ray. It took 9 painful days to finally break loose the log jam.
Most such procedures are not this ugly.

Some of the debris:
<http://802.11junk.com/jeffl/pics/drivel/slides/stones.html>

Gall stones are rather larger and often fill the gall bladder. For
example:
<http://greaterorlandogi.com/wp-content/uploads/Gallstones.jpg>

Hopefully, Jim will not need to go through that ordeal.

--
Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558
========================================================

I wondered about trying to "lead" them out with a balloon, but that just
didn't sound promising and he did say "decimate". Maybe he will tell us
more when he posts again?

After the laser, did your surgeon use a basket to fish out the big pieces?
My stones were 9x10x11 mm and about 5x5x7 mm, neither of which were ever
going to pass without surgery, and I never noticed anything passing
afterwards so I assumed that whatever the surgeon didn't fish out with the
basket was some pretty fine sand. Certainly nothing as large as what's in
your picture. I had a CAT scan before each procedure to precisely locate
the stone, and luckily neither moved in the few days between scan and
removal. For me the worst part was the stent they put in the ureter
(between kidney and bladder) so it doesn't collapse from inflammation.
Think of a coffee stirrer about 10" long, pushed all the up to the kidney
and with the excess length coiled up in the bladder so it can't some out.
It stays in 7-10 days then they go up you-know-where, grab it, and pull it
out, all with no anesthetic. The first time it felt like they went in with
a hot poker. When he went in I clenched so bad I was only touching the
table with my shoulders and my heels, my butt was about 6" up in the air.
He kept telling me to relax and lay back down, but I convinced him that I
was now rigid and not going to move and JUST PULL IT OUT NOW!!!!!! The
second time they agreed to knock me out with a quick hit of anesthesia,
which cost the insurance company and I more but made life so much better. I
had maybe one or two days of discomfort after each stone from inflammation
but every time I've had a tube in there I get an infection - one Foley
catheter and two endoscopic lithotripsies, 3 for 3 now. I keep telling my
urologist he needs to wash his hands before starting, but ... First two
infections required two courses of oral antibiotics each, and one emergency
room visit when I waited a day too long to see if the second oral antibiotic
was going to work. The last time I did a week of cipro before hand to
prevent an infection, and it didn't matter. This time it was a resistant
strain so I had the choice of staying in the hospital 10 days just to get IV
antibiotics, or get a PICC line put in and give myself IV's at home. It was
cool getting the PICC line put in. It goes into an artery in the bicep,
across into the aorta, and down to just above the heart. The tip has
something which they can track with a coil they rest on your chest, with the
position displayed on a computer monitor like a video game. They can steer
the tip to get it into the right place, then they pull the locator tip out
of the tube leaving it ready for use. I was expecting the usual peristaltic
pump but they had a much simpler, more reliable arrangement. Each dose was
inside a tubular balloon about 1/2" diameter and 3" long, inside another
balloon about 4" diameter inflated with some gas, air or nitrogen probably.
Connect up the tubing, release the valve, and over 20-40 minutes the
balloons deflate as the dose is delivered. Disconnect when done, cap the
tube and tie it back down to the bicep for safety, and throw away the dead
balloon. A home nurse came by a few times to train me, sterilize and check
the PICC where it entered the skin, and to remove it at the end, but overall
it was no problem.

Hopefully you and I will never have another kidney stone or move up to
gallstones .

-----
Regards,
Carl Ijames

 

On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 09:58:37 -0700, Taxed and Spent
<nospamplease@nonospam.com> wrote:

On 3/18/2017 9:54 AM, bitrex wrote:
On 03/18/2017 12:04 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 10:50:10 -0400, krw wrote:

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/7814

In your case, I'd pay gladly for the electricity.

Always struck me as a bit OTT and perhaps unnecessarily so. It only takes
a fraction of the energy 'Old Sparky' dished out to kill someone. Atrial
Fibrillation can be induced with just a few tens of milliamps. OK, I'll
grant you it's far less spectacular than this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCJUEvFYaGc

But there you go. That's entertainment!


I'm a liberal and yet, in some circumstances I do support the death penalty.

But IMO the goal should be to show the condemned the mercy they did not
show their victim(s) in life.

As civilized people it's the least we could do.


I believe it is more merciful to put someone deserving to death, than to
lock them up for the rest of their life.

Hogwash. That's why so many on death row spend twenty years in
appeals?

 

On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 10:05:14 -0700 (PDT),
bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com wrote:

On Saturday, March 18, 2017 at 10:50:15 AM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 07:35:18 -0700 (PDT),
bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com wrote:

On Friday, March 17, 2017 at 10:47:17 PM UTC-4, k...@notreal.com wrote:
On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 00:46:33 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
curd@notformail.com> wrote:

On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 22:22:33 -0400, krw wrote:

Nothing like that. I knew the surgery would be bad but it wasn't nearly
as bad as they said.

I find coming round after the op is the worst part. It's not like normal
waking up. I panic like hell! "Where am I? What the fuck happened? What
are all these fucking tubes for?" That kind of thing. Nasty!

I don't recall anything like that, either. Perhaps because I came out
of it more slowly? I've also had a few quicky anasthesias for
cardioversions (basically a defib with the paddles glued to the chest
and back) and woke uf form those not even realizing that I'd been out
and it was already done, though the burns on my chest did let me know
that something happened (300J does that).

What a waste of electricity!

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/7814

In your case, I'd pay gladly for the electricity.

In your case, a reusable rope is best.

You have such a sunny disposition, Blobby.