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From: Eeyore on 15 Aug 2006 04:27 John Woodgate wrote: > In message <fmq1e2p9ebnaom33fem5r8i1khilt2coma(a)4ax.com>, dated Mon, 14 > Aug 2006, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> > writes > > >Might have something to do with the unpopularity of Europe over here > >btw. > > You think it's popular over here? Depends what you mean by Europe of course ! The Czech girls alone may be worth it. ;~) Graham
From: bill.sloman on 15 Aug 2006 04:48 Jim Yanik wrote: > John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in > news:chqpd2d8gsgii8aepddv78r9oc4v4n06rd(a)4ax.com: > > > On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:09:47 +0100, John Woodgate > ><jmw(a)jmwa.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > >>>I think the US has been, to a great extent, a victim of history, albeit > >>>a muscular and dangerous one. Some day all the world will be able to > >>>afford the luxuries that Europe now enjoys without guilt. > >> > >>Americans enjoy even more luxuries; do you feel guilty? > > > > I do. I should do more to help the sick and miserable of the world. 1% > > of my income would feed a village in Africa. > > IMO,their own "governmental" systems are the cause of their problems. > Without correcting those,donating is just pissing into the wind,and may > even be more harmful to them.Just feeding villages does nothing to make > them self-sufficient,especially when the gov't controls who gets what,or > confiscates part(much)of it. > Zimbabwe was far better off as the former Rhodesia,for example. Zimbabwe did fine under Robert Mugabe - crooked and corupt though he may be - until 1999 when he introduced the lunatic land reform program that wrecked agricultural production. > Now they are a disaster. > > Look at what the Islamics are doing in Somalia. Fundamentalist Islamic militants - and look what your fundamentalist Christian militants are doing in Irak and Afghanstan ... > Many "Third World" governments are their peoples own worst enemy. Look at what Dubya - and his enthusiastic supporters in ENRON - have done to the U.S. before you restrict that problem to Third World governments. Were you aware that the U.S. health care system delivers roughly the same pulbic health indices as the Cuban system, while costing 20 times as much? > And the West has been pouring billions into Africa for many years without > effect. Mostly by lending it to pro-western dictators, so that they can buy arms from the lenders (pork barrel) and deposit it in Swiss bank accounts (bribes). After the dictators have retired and gone to Switzerland, the countries are still stuck with paying interest on these loans. The interest being paid out by Africa as a whole turns out to be more than the incoming foreign aid. For Africa, "free trade" turns out to be a euphemism for US/EU dumping of subsidised agricultural over-production on the world market at much less than the cost of production. The "third world" governments you sneer at are committed to making bricks without straw. http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3157 http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/USAid.asp -- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
From: John Woodgate on 15 Aug 2006 04:47 In message <44E18508.E2558F08(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com>, dated Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> writes >LOL ! I can't do cube roots but I can do most dB calculations in my >head to a useful degree of accuracy. dBs are easy once you learn a few key facts, just like you need for adding and subtracting (like 'eight and five are thirteen'). For voltage or current: 1 dB = factor of 1.25 3 dB = factor of 1.4 5 dB = factor of root 10 = 3.2 6 dB = factor of 2 10 dB = factor of 3 You can get the rest from combinations: 7 dB = 0.5 x (20-6) dB = root 5 = factor of 2.236.. (you need to remember root 5 - it's useful elsewhere. 12 dB = (6+6) dB = factor of 4 14 dB = (20-6)dB = factor of 5 16 dB = (10+6) dB = factor of 6 etc. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk 2006 is YMMVI- Your mileage may vary immensely. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK
From: joseph2k on 15 Aug 2006 05:53 Mike Monett wrote: > John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 15:16:17 +0000 (UTC), kensmith(a)green.rahul.net > > (Ken Smith) wrote: > > >>> Like all other ground-penetrating radars used for mine > >>> detection, it didn't work very well. > > >> You could have left out "used for mine detection". GPR works on > >> CSI and little else. > > >> The dirt starts eating up your signal before you get to a GHz. > > > Plus, there's just too much junk down there. At cm resolution, you > > can't tell a mine from a potato from a rock from a beer can. > > > John > > GPR seems to work well for the US Army and Marines. They just > bought $338 million worth: > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > $300M = Over 17,000 Portable Mine-Detectors for US Troops > > Posted 11-Aug-2006 09:52 > > In late December 2005, DID noted that the USA has spent $1 billion > on humanitarian land-mine removal over the last 10 years. A year > ago, on August 16, 2005, we noted a $38 million contract to CyTerra > for its AN/PSS-14 (formerly HSTAMIDS) Mine Detection Sets. > <SNIP> > http://ccsweb.pica.army.mil/2counter/anpss14.htm > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Regards, > > Mike Monett > > Antiviral, Antibacterial Silver Solution: > http://silversol.freewebpage.org/index.htm > SPICE Analysis of Crystal Oscillators: > http://silversol.freewebpage.org/spice/xtal/clapp.htm > Noise-Rejecting Wideband Sampler: > http://www3.sympatico.ca/add.automation/sampler/intro.htm The US military has a long track record of buying stuff that performs well in demonstration and trials that barely work when fielded. -- JosephKK Gegen dummheit kampfen die Gotter Selbst, vergebens. --Schiller
From: Keith on 15 Aug 2006 09:34
In article <44E0E488.D9503D8D(a)earthlink.net>, mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net says... > Reg Edwards wrote: <snip> > > > > Let's keep things in proportion about who liberated who! > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Any clues on who "Liberated" your brain? > So _that's_ why they're called "liberals". -- Keith |