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From: jmfbahciv on 10 Nov 2006 09:42 In article <455368BB.5A9A6A6C(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > >> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >> > <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> >> >>And the first reason is going to become ubiquitous as industry is less and >> >>less willing to pay for the health care of its employees. >> > >> > Industry can't afford it. >> >> Yes, you are correct. It doesn't change the fact that the number of people >> actually having effective health insurance under the current system in this >> country is rapidly decreasing toward a limit of zero. > >Something similar is happening here wrt pensions too. > >I don't think private companies are up to the task of providing critical >services like this very well. Ours are, too. That's because the pensions are transforming from a collected pot of money by the employees into an insurance policy. It's no longer real money. The same thing happened to medical pots of money contributed by employees and their employers. The pool of monies got transformed to insurance companies. /BAH
From: Ken Smith on 10 Nov 2006 09:48 In article <ej22dk$8qk_011(a)s995.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: >In article <45536300.3576E4F4(a)hotmail.com>, > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: [....] >>> >How many dedicated DSP processors existed 22 yrs ago for example ? >>> >>> Your definition of DSP, please. >> >>Digital Signal Processor. >> >>Think especially of devices with hardwired fast very wide multiply accumulate >>function. > >[emoticon's eye go Xeyed] I don't know hardware terms. >Are you talking about fast ACs? Most DSP processors do operations like: Y = Y + X*Z in one instruction. Although this doesn't define a DSP it is so commonly part of one that it could be used as a rule to identify one. The "very wide" part means that it does numbers with a lot of bits in them. This is a little less true when you look into the past. There were some DSPs that only worked on 12 bit values. Today a lot of DSPs also fall into the "very long instruction word" class. The instructions have a large number of bits in them that can specify many operations to be carried out at the same time. Q[J++] = Y = Y + X[I++]*Z -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: jmfbahciv on 10 Nov 2006 09:47 In article <B8ednfD6YLnR5M7YnZ2dnUVZ8sidnZ2d(a)pipex.net>, "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >news:eivd0d$8qk_021(a)s839.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... >> In article <%Ul4h.9702$r12.8296(a)newssvr12.news.prodigy.com>, >> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >>> >>><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >>>news:eislgp$8qk_005(a)s995.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... >>>> In article <45509EF9.BE1B73C6(a)hotmail.com>, >>>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote >>>>>> ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message. >>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> My state is going to have an all Democrat political system with >>>>>> >> no checks nor balances. >>>>>> > >>>>>> >....and yet somehow you completely fail to see how unhealthy that has >>>>>> >been >>>>>> >for the entire country. >>>>>> >>>>>> You do need to learn about Consitution. There are checks and >>>>>> balances working. >>>>> >>>>>Bush has been busy removing some of them. >>>> >>>> He can't. His powers are checked by the legislature and judicial >>>> branches of our government. >>> >>>In an ideal world, yes. However, you'd better open your eyes, because >>>Bush >>>has been slowly dismantling a number of the checks-and-balances that the >>>Constitution sets up. Wiretaps without warrants issued by the Judicial >>>branch is one example. >> >> The last I heard that classification of wiretapping was checked >> by judiciary. >> >>> There are several others that I can't think of right >>>now because I'm tired and my memory is worthless before noon. >> >> Night owl. :-) I'm the opposite. Anti-Bushers like to trot >> this wire tapping thing out to prove that he is a bad person. >> It was part of the Patriot Act. > >The Patriot Act was not a "Good Thing(tm)." That's why Congress wrote in an expiration date. /BAH
From: Eeyore on 10 Nov 2006 09:59 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > > > >> Raising the minimum wage is stupid and insane. > > > >Why ? > > It causes all other prices to eventually go up, especially housing. > It eliminates wage competition. People's real productivity is > no longer measured nor rewarded with wage. > > > >I saw it can be a slow as $5 an hour. > > > >Can anyone actually live on that ? > > $10k/year? Yes. You wouldn't get far on ?5263 over here for sure. Graham
From: Eeyore on 10 Nov 2006 10:00
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > > > >> My folks, > >> who will not see 80 again, dug a dry well by hand in the > >> summer of 2005. > > > >Dare I ask why ? > > > They needed one Was there a problem with their water supply ? > and nobody in the business made them anymore. > For some strange reason, leach fields are the craze. I'm not familiar with this 'leach fields' thing. Graham |