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[Fred Bloggs]

John Larkin wrote:

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 01:33:54 +0100, Paul Burridge
pb@notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk> wrote:


On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:18:20 GMT, "Clarence" <no@No.com> wrote:


I liked the P38.
Saw a lot of them at the training base.
Flew half a mile to one side of my house when landing.

The P38 was a double-action Walther 9mm semi-automatic pistol commonly
issued to German troops during WW2. They don't fly - unless you throw
them.



P38 Lightning, the Fork-Tailed Devil. It wasn't that useful over
Europe, but it wreaked hell against the Japanese. It was a flight of
seventeen P38's that ambushed Yamamoto near Bougainville on April 15,
1943.

John

The p38 was much like you- A PIECE OF SHIT!- the Jap zeroes tore them up
big time- no competition. Then the Grumman HELLCAT came along and
turned that picture around -big time- end of story for the Jap Zeroes.

 

[Fred Bloggs]

Tom Seim wrote:

Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message news:<41729900.9020000@nospam.com>...

Mike Page wrote:

Fred Bloggs wrote:


There are no such plans to increase the tax burden. If you think there
are then cite your resource. How damned dumb are you that you should
think anyone accepts your pronouncements without annotation?


Tony & his cronies said no tax rises. They still managed to load us with
60 of them in only 2 terms of government. If Kerry's anything like Tony,
you're in for some whoppers. And some tax rises too.



It's actually anyone's guess. The tough part about making any numerical
projections on revenues is this so-called changed taxpayer behavior and
incomplete statistics on the taxpayer base. This refers to those
entities under the new plan who reconfigure their incomes so as to
minimize their tax burden- usually the people at the income boundaries
where the tax cut will be rolled back. The US tax code is so complicated
that even the most sage experts find this impossible to predict, but the
historical record is not good, and that is the actual revenues are
usually 30% of projected. Then when you get into areas like the health
insurance plan and its consequent cost, the predictions become even more
nebulous. Kerry mentioned during the debates that one of their
considerations in projecting the cost of the new health insurance plan
was the savings realized by better plans which allow people to receive
early diagnosis and treatment of an illness before serious symptoms
appear which require a much more expensive medical treatment. This is a
convincing argument and has been used by the clinical medical research
establishment forever and continuously to obtain insurance treatment
coverage for more preventative medical intervention- everyone benefits
and the long history supports this. From what I know the Democratic
Party is historically much more in line with the scientific practice of
medicine than the Bush administration. One example of this would be the
Clinton administration funding of sex education and condom giveaways to
NGOs fighting the battle against AIDS. The Bush administration killed
all this and its place funded some kind of weak poster advocating
abstinence. This is just NOT realistic, and it's just another example of
a moral imperative overriding science, plain common sense, and good
judgment. I'm not even going to get into the stem cell research fiasco.
The record is clear on the new Republican party, these are the most
moralizing, ignorant, socially insulated , interfering, and judgmental
incompetents to ever get control of government- it will take years to
undo all of their damage. And when you think about all of their
well-known problems with substance abuse, sexual deviance, criminal
conduct, and corruption- it's just too much.


I can understand why you won't get into stem cell research because
Bush was the first president in history to fund embrionic stem cell
research. Currently it is $200M per year.

It is not *human* embryonic stem cells that are being developed- and
these are the ones of importance to most of us. But given the character
of most Bush supporters , it is understandable why the focus would be on
murine and porcine stem cell lines.

Furthermore, under Bush NIH funding has doubled from the Clinton
years, a very good record.

That is a total lie. Overall NIH funding has been reduced by nearly $1B
under Bush.

African AIDS funding has grown even more, many times the Clinton
level.

Ahh- another fraud- although budgeted, the Administration is not funding
the programs by more than 20%- this is another Bush fraud. The
priorities of the Bush administration are clear, it is more important to
overfund a failed missile defense to guard against non-existent threats
from rogue nations Bush is inciting to action by a factor of 20x the
effort to fight a pandemic affecting 50 million people and climbing- but
then none of those people contributes to Republican election campaigns.
Christian my ass!- they are Dollarians.

Bush got the very first funding of prescription drugs for seniors -
with the help of Democrats.

That fiasco has already been exposed as a major taxpayer ripoff and
payoff to the pharmaceutical industry with only minimal beneficial
impact for seniors in need. It will be repealed soon and replaced with a
more competitive plan.

Your lies don't even rise to the level of distortion.

Everything you say is a criminal misrepresentation from the Rove issues
sheet, and no more.

 

[Anders F]

"Andrey" <a8421@intergate.bc.ca> wrote in message
news:10n6lr9o1o80nac@corp.supernews.com...

Hello Group,

what would be wise recommendations for 100 ft long Serial cable.

30m shouldn't give you problems unless you're planning fast baudrates. But
I'll second Guy in converting to RS485 and using UTP5 or STP5 cable.
Probably I'd only use optical isolation in one end though (expecting the
other end to be cheap equipment ;-)...

/anders

 

[KimMui]

Mike can you let me know what you did to your pro-lite TL-1 as well? I have
one of these and don't know how to get it to display messages. Thanks


KimMui

 

[John Fields]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 02:35:36 GMT, "Clarence" <no@No.com> wrote:

"John Fields" <jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote in message
news:9jt5n0l09vkvunb8vja40ic1g21to2q2ti@4ax.com...
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 22:17:26 GMT, "Clarence" <no@No.com> wrote:


So if you came upon a couple pulled from their car and being beaten by three
thugs you would drive by and ignore them?

---
I'd have to make up my mind what to do if and when the situation
presented itself.

So if they were Republicans you would let them be beaten?

---
Why do you dislike Republicans?
---

Unlike you, with your obvious macho pervert
mentality and the mad desire to 'justifiably' use that gun on someone,
I don't pray for situations to arise which will allow me to kill
_anyone_.
---

You don't know anything about me.

---
On the contrary, unless you're deliberately misrepresenting facts, I
know that you were involved in a situation with a mob of some kind,
that a gun was involved, and that the police are now in possession of
that gun. In addition, I know that you're now in possession of
another gun, (the name of which you choose to spell in ALL CAPITALS to
emphasize its importance to you) and that you're rather slow and
pretty much a dullard. Not really what one would expect as proper
credentials for walking around carrying a loaded weapon.

As to what happened with the mob, from your attitude so far I'd guess
that because you were armed at the time you caused a situation to come
about which required you to use it in "self defense", thereby proving
to yourself and, (you thought) to others, that you're a dangerous man
who needs to be reckoned with.

In reality, you're an insecure oaf with a desperate need to feel
adequate but without the resources to get there.
---

And I have no intention of letting you learn
more, Your perverted thinking does leave me aware that there are terrorists all
over.

---
So, you think I'm a terrorist because I make you squirm? You're the
one with the gun, and with a name like 'Clarence' you can blame your
parents for that.
---

But given your tendency to anger easily, you must hope you never meet me!

---
There you go again! Pretty much the same shit, "I'm Clarence, and if
you fuck with me you're gonna get hurt!" Pretty big chip on your
shoulder, and you just _dare_ folks to knock it off. And, you don't
know why you do it, except that it makes you feel like you're in
control.
---

You lack much in the way of manners and civility.

I return manners and civility with manners and civility,
snip
In a pigs eye!

---
You're a cop?
---

The police kept my S&W. I have a GLOCK now. (My insurance replaced it)
So you do not understand law, morals, or common decency. What else are is
beyond your ken?

---
Well, _that's_ pretty interesting... you snipped the part where I
called you to task on the 'keen' VS 'ken' thing, and then you went
back and substituted 'ken' for 'keen' in that grammatically crippled
sentence in order to make it look as though it had always been there.
So, now you've tripped yourself up again and added the information
that you're a cheat and a liar. Keep it coming, dopey, the more we
know about you the better!
---

Sink or swim, asshole, it's up to you...

Well, you have convinced me that you are not a nice person, and are in all
likelihood unstable. I certainly do not want to have anything to do with you.

---
You keep saying that and yet you keep coming back for more? I guess
that makes you a lying masochistic moron, huh?

--
John Fields

 

[John Fields]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:54:47 GMT, "Clarence" <no@No.com> wrote:

Indicated his childish tenancy toward foul language yet again.
^^^^^^^

---
Look it up, bonehead.

--
John Fields

 

[Fred Bloggs]

John Fields wrote:

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 02:35:36 GMT, "Clarence" <no@No.com> wrote:


"John Fields" <jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote in message
news:9jt5n0l09vkvunb8vja40ic1g21to2q2ti@4ax.com...

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 22:17:26 GMT, "Clarence" <no@No.com> wrote:



So if you came upon a couple pulled from their car and being beaten by three
thugs you would drive by and ignore them?

---
I'd have to make up my mind what to do if and when the situation
presented itself.

So if they were Republicans you would let them be beaten?


---
Why do you dislike Republicans?
---


Unlike you, with your obvious macho pervert
mentality and the mad desire to 'justifiably' use that gun on someone,
I don't pray for situations to arise which will allow me to kill
_anyone_.
---

You don't know anything about me.


---
On the contrary, unless you're deliberately misrepresenting facts, I
know that you were involved in a situation with a mob of some kind,
that a gun was involved, and that the police are now in possession of
that gun. In addition, I know that you're now in possession of
another gun, (the name of which you choose to spell in ALL CAPITALS to
emphasize its importance to you) and that you're rather slow and
pretty much a dullard. Not really what one would expect as proper
credentials for walking around carrying a loaded weapon.

As to what happened with the mob, from your attitude so far I'd guess
that because you were armed at the time you caused a situation to come
about which required you to use it in "self defense", thereby proving
to yourself and, (you thought) to others, that you're a dangerous man
who needs to be reckoned with.

In reality, you're an insecure oaf with a desperate need to feel
adequate but without the resources to get there.
---


And I have no intention of letting you learn
more, Your perverted thinking does leave me aware that there are terrorists all
over.


---
So, you think I'm a terrorist because I make you squirm? You're the
one with the gun, and with a name like 'Clarence' you can blame your
parents for that.
---


But given your tendency to anger easily, you must hope you never meet me!


---
There you go again! Pretty much the same shit, "I'm Clarence, and if
you fuck with me you're gonna get hurt!" Pretty big chip on your
shoulder, and you just _dare_ folks to knock it off. And, you don't
know why you do it, except that it makes you feel like you're in
control.
---


You lack much in the way of manners and civility.

I return manners and civility with manners and civility,

snip
In a pigs eye!


---
You're a cop?
---


The police kept my S&W. I have a GLOCK now. (My insurance replaced it)
So you do not understand law, morals, or common decency. What else are is
beyond your ken?


---
Well, _that's_ pretty interesting... you snipped the part where I
called you to task on the 'keen' VS 'ken' thing, and then you went
back and substituted 'ken' for 'keen' in that grammatically crippled
sentence in order to make it look as though it had always been there.
So, now you've tripped yourself up again and added the information
that you're a cheat and a liar. Keep it coming, dopey, the more we
know about you the better!
---


Sink or swim, asshole, it's up to you...

Well, you have convinced me that you are not a nice person, and are in all
likelihood unstable. I certainly do not want to have anything to do with you.


---
You keep saying that and yet you keep coming back for more? I guess
that makes you a lying masochistic moron, huh?

Here is a letter his brother wrote:
http://www.crpa.org/gathright0904.html
Insanity runs in the family.

 

[John Popelish]

Andrey wrote:

Hello Group,

what would be wise recommendations for 100 ft long Serial cable.

should it be shielded or not? (from interference point of view it should.
But capacitance per length will go up. ??)

Is there any reason not to use heavier gauge wires?

What would be good cable for extended temperature range (-40C to +70C) and
outsides (Sun, rain included)

Appreciate your advices.

Sincerely,

Andrey

RS 232v serial signals use a common ground at both ends and for all
signals. This is a limitation for long cables, since the ground
potential at widely separated points can vary by a lot during a ground
current event, like a lightning strike anywhere nearby. So isolating
one end from ground is a big help. The next problem is cable
capacitance, since RS232 specifies a 3k source impedance. Shielding
works against you, here. I have gotten pretty good results with long
lines by clipping the swing to +-3 volts or so by connecting a pair of
back ot back green leds across the signal lines. This reduces the
capacitive delay variations that are pattern dependent.

Of course, you could build your own DC modem by using a separate pair
(ground and signal) for each line, instead of a common ground, and
using a pair of opto couplers to form a push pull isolator at the
receiving end of each line. The two infrared LEDs (one each way
across the line) limit the line signals to about 1.5 volt swings in
each direction (to reduce capacitive effects) and the two transistors
in series across a +-12 or +-5 volt supply grounded to the receiving
equipment reconstruct a pretty good copy of the transmitted signal. I
have made this work for a line almost a mile long at something like
2400 baud over phone lines. It doesn't protect the source end from
static damage, though.

--
John Popelish

 

[Fred Bloggs]

Tom Seim wrote:

Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message news:<4173A0D9.2060704@nospam.com>...

John Larkin wrote:

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 01:33:54 +0100, Paul Burridge
pb@notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk> wrote:



On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:18:20 GMT, "Clarence" <no@No.com> wrote:



I liked the P38.
Saw a lot of them at the training base.
Flew half a mile to one side of my house when landing.

The P38 was a double-action Walther 9mm semi-automatic pistol commonly
issued to German troops during WW2. They don't fly - unless you throw
them.



P38 Lightning, the Fork-Tailed Devil. It wasn't that useful over
Europe, but it wreaked hell against the Japanese. It was a flight of
seventeen P38's that ambushed Yamamoto near Bougainville on April 15,
1943.

John


The p38 was much like you- A PIECE OF SHIT!- the Jap zeroes tore them up
big time- no competition. Then the Grumman HELLCAT came along and
turned that picture around -big time- end of story for the Jap Zeroes.


You are amazingly misinformed for a veteran. The label "Fork-Tailed
Devil" was the Japanese term. The superior altitude, speed, armament
and armor of the P38 rendered the Zero defenseless
(http://p-38online.com/):

"On my first confrontation with the P-38, I was astonished to find an
American aircraft that could outrun, outclimb, and outdive our Zero
which we thought was the most superior fighter plane in the world. The
Lightning's great speed, its sensational high altitude performance,
and especially its ability to dive and climb much faster than the Zero
presented insuperable problems for our fliers. The P-38 pilots, flying
at great height, chose when and where they wanted to fight with
disastrous results for our own men. The P-38 boded ill for the future
and destroyed the morale of the Zero fighter Pilot."...Saburo Sakai,
Japanese Ace

The HELLCAT was developed specifically to counter the superiority of the
Zero which it did well. I don't know where you're getting this P38 crap
from.

 

[Dave VanHorn]

They also leave silences where bad packets were received.
The ear dosen't hear them, but the modem sure does.

--
KC6ETE Dave's Engineering Page, www.dvanhorn.org
Microcontroller Consultant, specializing in Atmel AVR

 

[Ken Smith]

In article <6a91ce9e.0410171646.39ed2d96@posting.google.com>,
Terry <t2hst@yahoo.com> wrote:
[...]

Want a sensor to activate the trigger on a 555, and then the sensor
won't reactivate the trigger on the first 555 until the delay period
set by the second 555.

A portion of the circuit:


------
! !
---/\/\/\-+--!TR Q!-----+---- To load
! ! ! !
--- ------ ---
^ ---
! ------ !
! ! ! !
---!Q TR!-----+
! ! !
------ /
\
/
!
Vcc

--
--
kensmith@rahul.net forging knowledge

 

[Rich Grise]

On Sunday 10 October 2004 11:23 pm, Robert Monsen did deign to grace us with
the following:

Rich Grise wrote:

A couple of elections ago, I went down to the county hall to register.
They asked me if I'd like to vote electronically. I said, "sure!" Get
it out of the way on the spot, and stay home and drink on election
day, sounds like a deal!

Two words: absentee ballot.

But I had to go down there to register anyway. Or maybe it was to change
my address. So I was already there.

I've been using them for years. Its nice to
have all your voter information around while you are voting. No rush, no
fear of electronic shenanagans. Since I'm a software guy, I would never
trust software for this kind of thing. That would be about as safe as
trusing national security to an anti-missle defense system written by
government contractors...

Or sitting on top of a 350' rocket designed by the lowest bidder. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Joel Kolstad]

More information on the Yorktown:

"The Yorktown lost control of its propulsion system because its computers
were unable to divide by the number zero, the memo said. The Yorktown's
Standard Monitoring Control System administrator entered zero into the data
field for the Remote Data Base Manager program. That caused the database to
overflow and crash all LAN consoles and miniature remote terminal units, the
memo said."
This appears to have absolutely nothing to do with the choice of Windows as
the operating system and everything to do with the application, or perhaps
the database itself (seems unlikely though -- more likely the database threw
an exception of some sort and the application program simply ignored it and
then starting calculating with garbage values and died).

 

[John Larkin]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 15:23:39 GMT, Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:

Can't you answer a direct question? Will the planes be 80 years
old in 2044 or not? Replacing some parts doesn't change the age of
the planes, does it? I suppose if they replaced the whole plane
maybe, but that's not what you're talking about, is it?

I keep telling you , there is no such thing as "the" plane.

Excellent point. They will be 90 years old in 2044, because they flew
as virtual planes for eight years before they were built.

I guess I was wrong again.

John

 

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 16:43:17 -0700, Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 16:34:59 -0700, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote:

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 16:13:36 -0700, Jim Thompson
thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 23:07:12 GMT, Robert Monsen
rcsurname@comcast.net> wrote:

[snip]

That whole AMT argument is specious. Both campaigns have pledged to
prevent AMT from affecting the tax rates of the middle class. The only
problem is that AMT is not indexed to inflation, which is an easy fix.

I'm beginning to think it would be good if Kerry is elected... a
super-carbon-copy of Carter's presidency... prevent the Bitch from
running and put the Democrat party right where it belongs... dead !-)

...Jim Thompson


But at least think about the Supreme Court first.

John

I'm a hawk, but on personal items I'm a Libertarian. I think a super
right wing "supremey" would be terrible.

...Jim Thompson

OK, but be prepared for hoards of hungry trial lawyers circling your
house, just outboard from the union pickets.

John

 

[Joerg]

Hi Sinatra,

... I saw that most of insulators have a voltage standing of 30v/mil, but that needs
an insulator with a thickness of 3.3 inch in hich voltage side!


That number isn't quite right. Anyway, I suggest to contact a few

manufacturers of specialty cables, especially those that cater to the
power industry.

There are several ways to design such transformers. One is a complete
encapsulation (i.e. potting) of one winding, the other is the use of
wire where the insulation features extreme dielectric strength. Also,
look at a TV set, how they build the flyback transformer secondary side.
These are often rated in excess of 30kV. If you do that be very careful
and make sure there is no charge left. Remnant charges can give you a
dangerous electrical shock even if the TV was off for days.

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com

 

[Rich Grise]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 03:20:11 -0700, Winfield Hill wrote:

Clarence wrote...

Some see it as an opportunity to personal gain.

Speaking of personal gain, what about our taxpayer billions
that went missing immediately after being depostited in an
Iraqi bank? I mean, gone but no trail, or so we were told.

Ya think maybe the corruption is getting so unbelievably bad that
even the republicans might notice?

It's pretty obvious, the situation is coming to a head. I hope
everybody's in a safe place when it pops.

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Clarence]

"John Fields" <jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote in message
newsig7n0halmnjqt32ajnfos6jsasmn481pg@4ax.com...

John Fields wrote:
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 02:35:36 GMT, "Clarence" <no@No.com> wrote:

Apology accepted.

I see that you don't know anything!

I don't know who the web site referred to, and I don't care what you think.
I have two sisters. No brothers.

So you do object to saving someone from a beating (by family members) and would
not help them?

(NOTE, no one was seriously hurt when I held them for the Police.)

You jump to some really nutty conclusions. Are there many like you in Austin?

 

[John Larkin]

On 18 Oct 2004 12:14:39 -0700, hasan5012@yahoo.com (Hassan) wrote:

Hello;
I want to design a switching power supply with:
Vin=24 Vdc and Vo=15V @ 7A
I am looking for a switcher IC something like LM2678 with integrated
controller and Power Mosfet. But LM2678 has a maximum current
limitation of 5A.
Does any body know an IC which I can use for this project? I mean
something with a controller and power Mosfet just in a package.

Thank you in advance
Hassan

Check out the LTC polyphase switchers. Some of them put out a lot of
current.

John

 

[BobGardner]

I have a circuit that acquires audio via a PC mount electret mic. It
is not sensitive enough, so I want to feed in line audio directly.
===============

This is not logical. The mic level is 10s of uvolts, the line level is 10s of
mv.... several hundred times hotter... like 40 or 50 db LESS sensitive than the
mic input.... Some pc mic mixers have a 20db gain button in the advanced
button... look for that....