From: Jim Hampton on Jul 17, 7:37 pm


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From: Jim Hampton on Jul 17, 3:32 pm
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Hello, Len

"where the dits and the dahs play" .... LOL. Cute.

Ought to be changed to "where the dits and the dahs all play"
in order to fit the music better. :-)

As to storing pi to 10 places, I don't need it. I have pi stored in the
gray matter to 100 places although I doubt I'd ever need that many places.
It took some effort, but I managed to forget some places beyond 100.

Holy transcendentals, Batman! A "hundred places?!?"

Geez, beyond "3.14159" I never bothered...learned that back in
slide-rule days in prehistory of early 1960s...:-)

Two Pi gets the "radian frequency" which is a common calculation
in resonance, reactance, L and C values, etc. I store 10 places
(could store 12) because it doesn't take any more energy than
storing 6 places or even 3 in this little HP-32S II.

Yes, there are some folks that wish to learn; my point is that as more and
more folks opt out of learning it is only a matter of time before we become
a 3rd world country.

That, sir, will be a lonnnnnng time from now as I see it.

Wife and I picked up a new Chebby Malibu MAXX a bit over two
weeks ago. Designed and built in Detroit, MI, USA, and is a
fine, fine vehicle with all kinds of nice bells and whistles
and an excellent ride and handling characteristics. The
imports don't quite have as good a one at the same price range,
in our estimation...even if the imports were "outselling" the
USA-made brands. Chevrolet's ten-percent discount (labeled
"employee" pricing) certainly helps boost sales. We went to
Ventura for lunch the other day, driving distance about 155
miles total. Ventura has a fine marina with hundreds and
hundreds of private boats docked there, most of them a lot
heavier displacement than the "sabot" size. :-) Food was
good (thanks to regular state and federal inspections) and
the highway system was two lanes plus in either direction.
Outside air peaked at about 96 F that day but the interior
was kept comfortable through air conditioning. That wasn't
ox-cart transport...not even if we passed through Oxnard,
CA, on the return leg. "Third world?" Not yet. Not even
close.

We are about 8th in the world for broadband penetration.

Oh? Really? The Comcast cable TV to the house is digital
with over 200 video channels available...the free ones, that
is, haven't counted the pay-per-view channels which are at
least a couple dozen more. Fairly "broadband" to me. :-)
[not a speck of TVI or RFI over that digital cable TV]

We can add high-speed Internet access via Comcast but
haven't bothered yet. Same with other cable TV monopolies
in the general area. If I want a really big file download
like 10 or 20 MB, I just let it run and do something else.

We are about 12th in the world for life expectancy.

Well, that's probably true enough, but it worries me not.
We are what we got in our genes from our parents and
general ancestors. Besides, some folks appear to be
dead brain-wise anyway, so let THEM worry...! :-)

We'd best raise the terrorist level to red for a while to distract everyone
from what is happening.

Er, not quite. There's other problems (besides the geographic
bigotry and ethnic bigotry and "other" bigotry seen in here)
due to the rest of the world. Besides terrorism, that is.

One thing I've been involved with is RoHS, Reduction of
Hazardous Substances, something Yurp has been plugging for
and apparently got. NO lead in solder. Wanna see
"emergency comms" from the QC department when the stored
production boards show up with lots and lots of SHORTS?
Dendrites from tin want to grow with time if not damped,
something that USED to be damped by the lead in solder.
QC at one local company went nuts when RoHS was put into
production. More shorts than the men's department at
Target. But...everything is "lead free" and toddlers
(or 9-year-old amateur extras) won't have to worry about
sucking in evil old LEAD from today's parts. Lots and lots
of other electronics companies have been experiencing the
same problems with RoHS.

In order to compete on the world market NOW, the USA has
to comply. It's bad enough that workers here want to get
paid actual money, but add the cost of RoHS dendrite
prevention, and the USA is having a terrible problem with
being competitive. The cures for RoHS are several but an
NDA keeps me from revealing what was found.

I'm not too sure, but I find a lot of what you say does make sense.

Careful! Careful! Even HINTING that will get you in trouble
in this newsgrope full of brainwashed "traditional" hams. :-)

Some of these denizens in this din of inequity have forgotten
that electrons, fields, and waves obey their natural laws,
NOT the myths and emotionalisms of humans operating under
the "traditionalist conservative league-ist" notions.

I'm
sure I'll take a few shots for saying this, but I really am not too worried.

Way to go! Life is tough and then ya die, despite all the
titles and awards and certificates (suitable for framing) on
the walls.

What is it you say? "temper fry"? LOL

Only to those that yell out the "halls of Montezuma" thing
too much! :-)

Do have a good one, Len. I may not always agree with you, but you do have
some good points and if it takes some stirring of the pot to keep the group
thinking, so be it.

"Stir the pot?" Tsk. I am Bonded. "Shaken, not stirred!"

Excuse me, "M" just called a meeting...see ya...


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