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[Mxsmanic]

Richard the Dreaded Libertarian writes:

If I have ten bucks in my pocket, and I give a street bum a buck,
am I more generous than Bill Gates, since that's 10% of my entire
wealth?

It depends on many things.

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[Gordon reeder]

"Never Mind" <null@hotmail.com> wrote in
newsan.2005.12.09.22.18.48.530975@hotmail.com:

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:46:23 -0700, do_not_spam_me wrote:

I'm looking for a techical explanation.

Somewhere in the Far East there is a big factory making shitloads of
crystals. These crystals have a nominal spec, but are subject to
tolerances.

Somewhere in that factory these crystals are measured. Those closest to
the designated frequency are shipped to Seiko, the farthest to Dell.

Watches tend to spend a lot of time strapped to a temperature-regulated
heat source (a human). PCs usually are not.

As mentioned in previous (non-technical) replies, PCs are not often
used
as timepieces, so lower tolerance (cheaper) components will be used.

I'll add that frequency of opperation will depend on supply
voltage. So the difference between running on battery 2.5V
and running on AC 5.0 to 3.3V (depending on chipset) will cause
the clock to gain or loose time.

Parasitic capacitance also affects opperational frequency.
These are tightly controled in a watch, but are of little
concern in a PC.

Solution: Get a program called Dimension 4. It runs on startup,
syncs your PC clock to an internet time server, then exits. It
can work in other modes too.

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

Mxsmanic wrote:

Michael A. Terrell writes:

Its easy to give away $100,000 when its just pocket change. I have
given away my last $5 to a friend who needed money to eat when I had no
job, and not enough food to feed myself the next day.

How noble of you. I'm sure nobody else ever does that.

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I don't claim to be "noble", and I know that others have done it, but
not enough have done it. I just did what I thought was right, at that
time. I've been homeless twice in my life and I know what its like to go
days at a time without food.

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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

 

[Mxsmanic]

Gordon reeder writes:

Solution: Get a program called Dimension 4. It runs on startup,
syncs your PC clock to an internet time server, then exits. It
can work in other modes too.

Note that XP already has provisions for automatic synchronization over
the Net.

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[depesz]

Hi I do have Panasonic PTAE700-Service Manual.pdf Can email you that.But
if you already got Panasonic PT-L500U service manual would you share it
wiyh me?


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[Rich Grise]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 05:57:39 +0000, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Mxsmanic wrote:
Michael A. Terrell writes:

Its easy to give away $100,000 when its just pocket change. I have
given away my last $5 to a friend who needed money to eat when I had no
job, and not enough food to feed myself the next day.

How noble of you. I'm sure nobody else ever does that.

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I don't claim to be "noble", and I know that others have done it, but
not enough have done it. I just did what I thought was right, at that
time. I've been homeless twice in my life and I know what its like to go
days at a time without food.

I've been "homeless" too, and if you go "days without food" you're not
begging properly.

Did you know that it's possible to make $10.00-$20.00/hour begging in the
streets? It's true, it takes a little bit of experience to get past that
false pride, but hey, it's cash! And expecially[SIC] if you're
demonstrably a crip, you could probably make better money than I am, who
is only an ordinary ugly hairy guy.

And sometimes people give me stuff like a whole baked chicken in a deli
box, or 5/8 of a pizza, and more than once, someone has donated some pot.
Guess I'm glad I'm not some kind of arrogant republican who's all stuck
on keeping up appearances. One time, some guy asked, "What's the money
for?" I said, "Drugs and alcohol." He gave me a $20.00 bill.

Life is an adventure. I'm a mad metascientist, and my life is my
laboratory. Why the fuck would I want to try to do the same thing billions
and billions of people have done before me, and wind up dead anyway?

Guess I lucked out on the medical side - I'm a Veteran, so I can just
trundle on down to Long Beach if I need medical attention. Which I don't
need very often, probably because I love myself the way I am.

Good Luck!
Rich

 

[Gary H]

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

<snip>

BTW, Mr. Gates gives more money to charity each year than most of you will
earn in a lifetime... I suppose some of you will consider that to be tax
evasion....

I'm still not sure why my freaking clock runs slow...... lol....

Good day...

He should give a goddam sight more than he does. S.O.B. got
rich by stealing CP/M and rewriting it slightly and calling it
MS-DOS. Daddy was a big time lawyer and mommy was a big shit in
government so, true to the American way, Billy got his own way
and became very very rich. If some other poor S.O.B. off the
street tried it, they would probably throw him so deep in the
slammer they'd have to pump sunshine to him.

I guess *you'll* call that *free* enterprise.

 

[JAD]

your begging the old fashioned way and you have internet access? Get with it
man, I'm a Technobum. I don't need to deal with the elements. I sit in blogs
and virtual street corners, I make twice that.

 

[JAD]

"Gary H" <g.h@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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Michael A. Terrell wrote:

snip

BTW, Mr. Gates gives more money to charity each year than most of you
will
earn in a lifetime... I suppose some of you will consider that to be
tax
evasion....

I'm still not sure why my freaking clock runs slow...... lol....

Good day...

He should give a goddam sight more than he does. S.O.B. got
rich by stealing CP/M and rewriting it slightly and calling it
MS-DOS. Daddy was a big time lawyer and mommy was a big shit in
government so, true to the American way, Billy got his own way
and became very very rich. If some other poor S.O.B. off the
street tried it, they would probably throw him so deep in the
slammer they'd have to pump sunshine to him.

whishing it was you don't you? Don't lie. You wish he was your best friend,
nieghbor, your clone.....

> I guess *you'll* call that *free* enterprise.

 

[Gary H]

JAD wrote:

"Gary H" <g.h@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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Michael A. Terrell wrote:

snip

BTW, Mr. Gates gives more money to charity each year than most of you

will

earn in a lifetime... I suppose some of you will consider that to be

tax

evasion....

I'm still not sure why my freaking clock runs slow...... lol....

Good day...

He should give a goddam sight more than he does. S.O.B. got
rich by stealing CP/M and rewriting it slightly and calling it
MS-DOS. Daddy was a big time lawyer and mommy was a big shit in
government so, true to the American way, Billy got his own way
and became very very rich. If some other poor S.O.B. off the
street tried it, they would probably throw him so deep in the
slammer they'd have to pump sunshine to him.



whishing it was you don't you? Don't lie. You wish he was your best friend,
nieghbor, your clone.....


I guess *you'll* call that *free* enterprise.



No, no no it's not true.

 

[Mxsmanic]

Gary H writes:

He should give a goddam sight more than he does. S.O.B. got
rich by stealing CP/M and rewriting it slightly and calling it
MS-DOS. Daddy was a big time lawyer and mommy was a big shit in
government so, true to the American way, Billy got his own way
and became very very rich. If some other poor S.O.B. off the
street tried it, they would probably throw him so deep in the
slammer they'd have to pump sunshine to him.

I guess *you'll* call that *free* enterprise.

I'll call it envy, thinly disguised.

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[David Maynard]

Gary H wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

snip

BTW, Mr. Gates gives more money to charity each year than most of
you will
earn in a lifetime... I suppose some of you will consider that to be
tax
evasion....

I'm still not sure why my freaking clock runs slow...... lol....

Good day...


He should give a goddam sight more than he does.

None of your business what he gives nor does it matter what you think he
'should'.

S.O.B. got rich by
stealing CP/M and rewriting it slightly and calling it MS-DOS.

And CPM was 'stolen' from Digital Equipment Corp RT-11 right down to pip
but if you think MS-DOS looks like CPM then you never used CPM.

On the other hand one wonders how he ran the 'stolen' 8 bit 8080 CMP code
on 16 bit processors.

Daddy
was a big time lawyer and mommy was a big shit in government so, true to
the American way, Billy got his own way and became very very rich. If
some other poor S.O.B. off the street tried it, they would probably
throw him so deep in the slammer they'd have to pump sunshine to him.

He got rich because instead of bitching about it he went ahead and did it.

I guess *you'll* call that *free* enterprise.

Yep.

 

[Gary H]

David Maynard wrote:

Gary H wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

snip

BTW, Mr. Gates gives more money to charity each year than most of
you will
earn in a lifetime... I suppose some of you will consider that to
be tax
evasion....

I'm still not sure why my freaking clock runs slow...... lol....

Good day...



He should give a goddam sight more than he does.


None of your business what he gives nor does it matter what you think he
'should'.

S.O.B. got rich by stealing CP/M and rewriting it slightly and
calling it MS-DOS.


And CPM was 'stolen' from Digital Equipment Corp RT-11 right down to pip
but if you think MS-DOS looks like CPM then you never used CPM.

On the other hand one wonders how he ran the 'stolen' 8 bit 8080 CMP
code on 16 bit processors.

Daddy was a big time lawyer and mommy was a big shit in government
so, true to the American way, Billy got his own way and became very
very rich. If some other poor S.O.B. off the street tried it, they
would probably throw him so deep in the slammer they'd have to pump
sunshine to him.


He got rich because instead of bitching about it he went ahead and did it.

I guess *you'll* call that *free* enterprise.


Yep.

Well, opinions *are* allowed and no, he got rich because mom and
pop made sure things were fast-tracked and I'm not bitching I've
got plenty to keep me warm and happy. How about you.

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

Rich Grise wrote:

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 05:57:39 +0000, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

I don't claim to be "noble", and I know that others have done it, but
not enough have done it. I just did what I thought was right, at that
time. I've been homeless twice in my life and I know what its like to go
days at a time without food.

I've been "homeless" too, and if you go "days without food" you're not
begging properly.

I never begged. I found odd jobs and paid for my own food. I may have
slept in my truck and taken showers at a relatives house, but I was
never a bum. They were paid for their kindness by doing repair work on
their homes, cars or whatever needed worked on.

Did you know that it's possible to make $10.00-$20.00/hour begging in the
streets? It's true, it takes a little bit of experience to get past that
false pride, but hey, it's cash! And expecially[SIC] if you're
demonstrably a crip, you could probably make better money than I am, who
is only an ordinary ugly hairy guy.

Around here that will get you arrested. The homeless live in the
Ocala national forest and are treated like trash. A lot of them a re
veterans we are trying to help find jobs and get back on their feet but
most want nothing to do with anyone outside of their camouflaged camps.

Yes, I have to use a cane, but the only thing I want from that is for
people to leave me enough room to walk with it and not for them to blow
their horn and scream obscenities when I walk across a marked crossing
from the parking lot into a store.

And sometimes people give me stuff like a whole baked chicken in a deli
box, or 5/8 of a pizza, and more than once, someone has donated some pot.
Guess I'm glad I'm not some kind of arrogant republican who's all stuck
on keeping up appearances. One time, some guy asked, "What's the money
for?" I said, "Drugs and alcohol." He gave me a $20.00 bill.

Life is an adventure. I'm a mad metascientist, and my life is my
laboratory. Why the fuck would I want to try to do the same thing billions
and billions of people have done before me, and wind up dead anyway?

yeah, life is an adventure. With my health i would have never made it
into the space program, but I built a lot of communications gear for
NASA, including equipment that is in orbit.

Guess I lucked out on the medical side - I'm a Veteran, so I can just
trundle on down to Long Beach if I need medical attention. Which I don't
need very often, probably because I love myself the way I am.

Good Luck!
Rich

I'm a veteran, too. US Army, 26T20 MOS. In fact, I'm on a 100% VA
disability now but back in the mid '70s the VA refused to help me, but
the "Soldiers and Sailor's Relief Fund" gave me a whole $25 to help pay
my bills and told that was all I would ever get from them.

I am on medication for high blood pressure, Diabetes, and severe
swelling in my legs. The medication for the Diabetes was doubled six
months ago, and a new drug was added last week. The consulting surgeon
from Shands Hospital in Gainsville (A large teaching and research
hospital across the street from the VA hospital) told me last month that
they have decided not to operate on my carpal tunnel because they don't
think it will help me. They also recommended against severing the nerves
along the outside of my left arm because I would loose almost all
feeling in my left arm. The nerve damage causes a constant tingle like
a mild electric shock from my little finger up past my elbow. Then
there is something wrong with my left leg. It will buckle without
warning, so I use a cane most of the time. When I don't, I have to lock
my knee and walk that way to keep from falling.

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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

 

[Mxsmanic]

Michael A. Terrell writes:

I never begged. I found odd jobs and paid for my own food. I may have
slept in my truck and taken showers at a relatives house, but I was
never a bum.

Beggars and bums are not synonymous. There are situations and times
in which some people may be temporarily reduced to begging without
this necessarily reflecting upon their habitual industry. It is true
that someone who chooses voluntarily to make a career of begging over
the long term may be somewhat of a bum, particularly in developed
countries where so many other options exist.

Around here that will get you arrested. The homeless live in the
Ocala national forest and are treated like trash. A lot of them are
veterans we are trying to help find jobs and get back on their feet but
most want nothing to do with anyone outside of their camouflaged camps.

Yours must be a very cruel society.

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[Mxsmanic]

Gary H writes:

Well, opinions *are* allowed and no, he got rich because mom and
pop made sure things were fast-tracked and I'm not bitching I've
got plenty to keep me warm and happy.

Many people refuse to believe that anyone could become more successful
than themselves through purely legitimate means because it implies
that these such a person might be smarter than they are, and they
cannot accept this possibility.

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[Gary H]

Mxsmanic wrote:

Many people refuse to believe that anyone could become more successful
than themselves through purely legitimate means because it implies
that these such a person might be smarter than they are, and they
cannot accept this possibility.

Awwww, please don't practice your dime store psychology on me?
I know Bill Gates is much much smarter than I am, no question
about it. I didn't say he wasn't. I merely said he was a thief
with accomplices before and after the fact. Why do you have to
make it complicated?

 

[Mxsmanic]

Gary H writes:

Awwww, please don't practice your dime store psychology on me?

I don't recall mentioning you. Hmm.

I know Bill Gates is much much smarter than I am, no question
about it. I didn't say he wasn't. I merely said he was a thief
with accomplices before and after the fact. Why do you have to
make it complicated?

Do you find "dime-store" psychology to be complicated?

Bill Gates is no more a thief than any other corporate CEO. He
happens to be the founder of a very successful company, and the
founders of successful companies are routinely demonized, typically
without any rational basis for doing so.

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[Gary H]

David Maynard wrote:

Well, opinions *are* allowed


Opinions are like rear ends: everybody's got one. But I didn't say you
couldn't have an 'opinion'. I said it was none of your business.

Never said it was my business, just stated an opinion.

and no, he got rich because mom and pop made sure things were
fast-tracked


Sure. Go ahead and tell me how "mom and pop" coerced mega-giant IBM into
contracting Microsoft for Basic and DOS.

It's available everywhere. Find it yourself and post if you desire.

and I'm not bitching


It's precisely what you're doing.

Did, didn't, did, didn't. There's a stupid argument that could
go on all day.

I've got plenty to keep me warm and happy. How about you.


None of your business.

True statement that.

Damn, snotty little soul aren't you?

 

[David Maynard]

Gary H wrote:

David Maynard wrote:

Gary H wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

snip

BTW, Mr. Gates gives more money to charity each year than most of
you will
earn in a lifetime... I suppose some of you will consider that to
be tax
evasion....

I'm still not sure why my freaking clock runs slow...... lol....

Good day...




He should give a goddam sight more than he does.



None of your business what he gives nor does it matter what you think
he 'should'.

S.O.B. got rich by stealing CP/M and rewriting it slightly and
calling it MS-DOS.



And CPM was 'stolen' from Digital Equipment Corp RT-11 right down to
pip but if you think MS-DOS looks like CPM then you never used CPM.

On the other hand one wonders how he ran the 'stolen' 8 bit 8080 CMP
code on 16 bit processors.

Daddy was a big time lawyer and mommy was a big shit in government
so, true to the American way, Billy got his own way and became very
very rich. If some other poor S.O.B. off the street tried it, they
would probably throw him so deep in the slammer they'd have to pump
sunshine to him.



He got rich because instead of bitching about it he went ahead and did
it.

I guess *you'll* call that *free* enterprise.



Yep.


Well, opinions *are* allowed

Opinions are like rear ends: everybody's got one. But I didn't say you
couldn't have an 'opinion'. I said it was none of your business.

and no, he got rich because mom and pop
made sure things were fast-tracked

Sure. Go ahead and tell me how "mom and pop" coerced mega-giant IBM into
contracting Microsoft for Basic and DOS.

and I'm not bitching

It's precisely what you're doing.

I've got plenty
to keep me warm and happy. How about you.

None of your business.