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From: Jim Thompson on 20 Apr 2010 20:33 On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:12:13 -0700, "Joel Koltner" <zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote in >message news:r8ess5lr638obqls98on4hhm1thle6dlhb(a)4ax.com... >> I actually had an uncle... >> >> 20 years in the Navy, retired >> 20 years in the Army, retired >> Then became Sheriff of Killeen, TX. > >That's some real service to the country, certainly; sounds like a fine guy. Yep. Certainly made an impression on me. We all (the family) were on the Godwin farm (north of Philippi, WV), celebrating Christmas, with Darl on leave, when Pearl Harbor came over the radio. Darl cuss'd like the sailor he was... I'll _never_ forget Pearl Harbor :-( My father tried to join the Navy, but was drafted into the Army first... ended up as the group that restored Tokyo. > >I've heard in the news that the leftist liberal weenies are whining about the >proposed crackdown on illegal immigrants in your state there... hope they're >not causing too much commotion. :-) > >Ah, here we go: >http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/04/arizona-illegal-immigrant-crackdown-akin-to-nazi-tactics-cardinal-mahony-says.html >"Arizona's proposed illegal immigration crackdown akin to Nazi tactics, >Cardinal Roger Mahony says." Yeah, sure... Yep. Next we're going to offer bounty's... on liberals ;-) ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | The only thing bipartisan in this country is hypocrisy
From: brent on 20 Apr 2010 20:57 On Apr 20, 8:33 pm, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...(a)On-My- Web-Site.com> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:12:13 -0700, "Joel Koltner" > > <zapwireDASHgro...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote in > >messagenews:r8ess5lr638obqls98on4hhm1thle6dlhb(a)4ax.com... > >> I actually had an uncle... > > >> 20 years in the Navy, retired > >> 20 years in the Army, retired > >> Then became Sheriff of Killeen, TX. > > >That's some real service to the country, certainly; sounds like a fine guy. > > Yep. Certainly made an impression on me. We all (the family) were on > the Godwin farm (north of Philippi, WV), celebrating Christmas, with > Darl on leave, when Pearl Harbor came over the radio. Darl cuss'd > like the sailor he was... I'll _never_ forget Pearl Harbor :-( > You were two years old and still remember? > My father tried to join the Navy, but was drafted into the Army > first... ended up as the group that restored Tokyo. > > > > >I've heard in the news that the leftist liberal weenies are whining about the > >proposed crackdown on illegal immigrants in your state there... hope they're > >not causing too much commotion. :-) > > >Ah, here we go: > >http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/04/arizona-illegal-immigra... > >"Arizona's proposed illegal immigration crackdown akin to Nazi tactics, > >Cardinal Roger Mahony says." Yeah, sure... > > Yep. Next we're going to offer bounty's... on liberals ;-) > > ...Jim Thompson > -- > | James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | > | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | > | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | > | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | > | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | > | E-mail Icon athttp://www.analog-innovations.com| 1962 | > > The only thing bipartisan in this country is hypocrisy
From: Michael A. Terrell on 20 Apr 2010 21:00 Joel Koltner wrote: > > "Joerg" <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message > news:834fliFo3bU1(a)mid.individual.net... > > Much more dangerous: Entitlements and pampering to the hilt. When I needed > > anything fancy in electronics I had to work my butt off to be able to buy > > it. Meat factory and similar pleasant jobs. Today's kids get cell phones, > > TVs, gadgets, even whole cars with doing anything. So often they just don't > > do anything. > > You certainly have a point there (and I agree with and like Phil's quote), but > to an extent as technology progresses everyone is going to have more just > "handed" to them. Didn't your bicycle come from your parents rather than your > having to walk everywhere? Didn't you have more time to experiment with > electronics because you weren't chopping wood for a fireplaces for an hour > every night after school? Didn't you have electric lights rather than > candles? Hence, while I wouldn't go around just buying a kid today a fancy > ham radio or a car, I think you're doing a kid more harm than good if you > don't at least hand them an old computer to play with (and I mean one running > Windows, not a Commodore 64! :-) -- Although that'd be cool to hand them that > too: "See what you could do in 64K? Today 'Hello world!' takes over a > megabyte!") Actually, it was 38911 bytes, without using slivers of unused memory. -- Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.
From: Jim Thompson on 20 Apr 2010 21:12 On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:57:55 -0700 (PDT), brent <bulegoge(a)columbus.rr.com> wrote: >On Apr 20, 8:33�pm, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...(a)On-My- >Web-Site.com> wrote: >> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:12:13 -0700, "Joel Koltner" >> >> <zapwireDASHgro...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> >"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote in >> >messagenews:r8ess5lr638obqls98on4hhm1thle6dlhb(a)4ax.com... >> >> I actually had an uncle... >> >> >> 20 years in the Navy, retired >> >> 20 years in the Army, retired >> >> Then became Sheriff of Killeen, TX. >> >> >That's some real service to the country, certainly; sounds like a fine guy. >> >> Yep. �Certainly made an impression on me. �We all (the family) were on >> the Godwin farm (north of Philippi, WV), celebrating Christmas, with >> Darl on leave, when Pearl Harbor came over the radio. �Darl cuss'd >> like the sailor he was... I'll _never_ forget Pearl Harbor :-( >> > >You were two years old and still remember? Yep, A sailor cussing makes quite an impression :-) > > >> My father tried to join the Navy, but was drafted into the Army >> first... ended up as the group that restored Tokyo. >> [snip] ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | The only thing bipartisan in this country is hypocrisy
From: Joel Koltner on 20 Apr 2010 21:17
"Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message news:4BCE4E3B.D388FBBA(a)earthlink.net... > Actually, it was 38911 bytes, without using slivers of unused memory. Good point... "64K of RAM in the machine, of which you can use... mmm... a skosh more than half before things become challenging..." > Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to > have a DD214, and a honorable discharge. Going for a Heinlein "Starship Troopers"-style policy there? :-) (And I mean the book version, not the movie version where they largely ripped out any of the social/political commentary Heinlein was exploring in favor of making an "action" movie.) |