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From: Ken Smith on 5 Feb 2007 09:45 In article <eq78r8$8qk_002(a)s1004.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: >In article <J7udnR8smt-TQFjYRVnyhwA(a)pipex.net>, > "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: [......] >>It is odd that you have a lower opinion of your nation than the people who >>get accused of being "anti-US." > >I just know how people work. So it really is true that you have a low opinion of the people of the US. Have you considered that the logic that has led you to this conclusion may be a reductio ad absurdum argument against the assumptions that went into the argument. The american people are not stupid. They can deal with more than one issue at a time and they can handle shades of gray. A democracy involving a large number of people is usually wiser than the individual members in the long run. Mistakes get corrected and a stable path is taken. The public can get swept away by motion but so can one person. The masses do it less often and recover better. Authoritarians always assume that they or their chosen leader is special and better than the people. In a democracy, they tend to accept the "win at any cost" ideas. We saw this under Nixon. To them Watergate started off as just another part of the way to win an election. They would not trust the people to elect the right guy. The result was very bad for the US. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Ken Smith on 5 Feb 2007 09:49 In article <45C73695.7B7F4C59(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: [....] >I'm not 100% certain what your pigtails are. There may be no direct equivalent. What would you call: -------- / !==== ----------------------------- ! ----------------------------- !==== \ !==== --------- if it was molded onto the wires directly and you needed to get one from an electrician supply house. > >Graham > -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Ken Smith on 5 Feb 2007 09:52 In article <5957f$45c717a0$4fe75e8$6780(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >Ken Smith wrote: [....] >> When new stuff gets put in, these days, it gets plugged in. Even stuff >> that you normally think of as permanent will have a way to plug and unplug >> it. This reduces the skill level needed to do a safe installation. >> >> BTW: In California, nothing is permanently installed. It may tumble out >> the door any minute. > >We're consumer oriented here in the US rather than union >oriented, for the most part. The US is also very safety oriented. In China, I asked for an extension cord. The took a length of zip cord, stripped the ends, folded them over and pushed them into the wall outlet. It solved the problem of getting power to the bench but it didn't solve the problem that the voltage varied all over the place. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: ANDRE*** on 5 Feb 2007 09:54 Phil Carmody wrote: >The screen, > more like a text buffer, took up to 768 bytes. I think it is more like 793 bytes. 24 lines X (32 characters + 1 ENTER) + 792 bytes. Plus 1 ENTER at the beginning equals 793 bytes. "www.ts1000.us" has extended the contest for another year to mark the 25 years of the TS1000 in 2007. So here is your opportunity to write a program for the ZX81/TS1000. Nevertheless, great programs can still be created with only 1K or 2k or 16K of memory. Check out the following web sites: "http://www.zx- team.de/andre" and "http://zx81.ordi5.free.fr/andre/andre.htm" Goodby(t)e, ANDRE***
From: Ken Smith on 5 Feb 2007 09:55
In article <45C73828.399B1286(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > [....] >> >We're consumer oriented here in the US rather than union >> >oriented, for the most part. >> >> Well, THAT was a one hundred percent meaningless remark. > >No doubt it was meant to be profound in some pathetic PHB management way. Its a good thing I read this before I responded. I was about to say "Oh no I'm sure Eeyore will understand" over in the other split from here. I guess it proves that even I can be wrong. Who'd have thought! -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge |