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From: Jim Thompson on 14 Aug 2007 12:23 On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:14:34 -0700, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:45:09 -0700, Jim Thompson ><To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com> wrote: > [snip] >> >>I'm not at the endowment level, but I contribute to an MIT scholarship >>for a "married student in electrical engineering"... knowing full-well >>the economic struggles of such a student ;-) >> >> ...Jim Thompson > >The minimum endowed scholarship takes $20K. 5% of that goes to a >student, only $1K per year at first, and the rest is invested with any >excess return dumped back into the fund. One can of course add more >any time. The giver is allowed to make stipulations as to what sort of >student he's prefer to get the bucks, but that's usually just a >preference, not a hard rule. I might also wind up with summer interns >and even employees some day, which would be worth it from a pure >pragmatic view. > >John I'm certainly not a pure pragmatist either. Why do you think I was teaching a technician course in '63-'64... I couldn't find a good one to hire :-) ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | | | E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat | | http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | America: Land of the Free, Because of the Brave
From: James Arthur on 14 Aug 2007 12:23 On Aug 13, 11:41 pm, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terr...(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > James Arthur wrote: > > > I do notice that people in general have two and three of things we > > could barely afford one of 20 years ago (TVs, cars, music systems), > > are eating out, and see no evidence of bread lines, or people eating > > less meat because it's too dear (as we once did). > > Then you haven't been around any reasonably sized city. There are > food pantries, soup kitchen. and other non profit groups to help the > homeless, and others get enough food to stay alive. Most of these are > run by churches in that area. I know of at least three church run food > charities in my town, alone. There is another group called "Share" that > buys the basics in bulk, and if you are a member and in decent health, > you have to volunteer at their warehouse to break down the skids of food > into individual packages. Another group, "Veterans and family services" > is a non profit that helps Veterans and their families when they fall > through the cracks, and can't get help from the VA. I support that > group, being a disabled Veteran, myself. I sympathize, and applaud such groups. The question, though, was whether employed people are getting squeezed: lower wages, etc. From their consumption, from their material wealth, and the statistics, I don't see such signs, not in the "middle" or "working" classes. Best, James Arthur
From: John Larkin on 14 Aug 2007 12:49 On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:45:01 -0700, James Arthur <dagmargoodboat(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >On Aug 11, 7:46 pm, JosephKK <joseph_barr...(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> RichD r_delaney2...(a)yahoo.com posted to sci.electronics.design: >> >> > On Aug 8, Paul Cardinale <pcardin...(a)volcanomail.com> wrote: >> >> > Al Gore is going to look such an idiot in a couple of years. >> >> >> And in that time he'll make tons of money from his >> >> investments in carbon-credit brokerage firms. He's not >> >> stupid; he's evil. >> >> > He's a career pol, with limitless power lust, >> > as do they all. Does that necessarily equate >> > to evil? >> >> > -- >> > Rich >> >> I thought limitless power lust was part of the definition of evil. > >I don't understand limitless power lust. I'd rather make things. That's why we're engineers: we want to make things. > >Best, >James Arthur > >~~~~~~~~~ >P.S. OTOH, I spent today designing a switcher ... and I did double its >output just because I could (and it was useful) ... so, I guess I must >have some power lust, but not limitless--that could cause a fire. > >For now I'm happy with 1/2 kW, and it's strictly limited. --ja Topology? John
From: John Larkin on 14 Aug 2007 13:04 On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:41:52 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote: >James Arthur wrote: >> >> I do notice that people in general have two and three of things we >> could barely afford one of 20 years ago (TVs, cars, music systems), >> are eating out, and see no evidence of bread lines, or people eating >> less meat because it's too dear (as we once did). > > > Then you haven't been around any reasonably sized city. There are >food pantries, soup kitchen. and other non profit groups to help the >homeless, and others get enough food to stay alive. Most of these are >run by churches in that area. I know of at least three church run food >charities in my town, alone. There is another group called "Share" that >buys the basics in bulk, and if you are a member and in decent health, >you have to volunteer at their warehouse to break down the skids of food >into individual packages. Another group, "Veterans and family services" >is a non profit that helps Veterans and their families when they fall >through the cracks, and can't get help from the VA. I support that >group, being a disabled Veteran, myself. For every truly needy person, there are roughly four lazy bums who take advantage of the situation, not to mention the well-paid captains of the Poverty Industry. When they have food giveaways in Oakland, leather and fur-clad people pull up in BMWs to get their free blocks of cheese. Most of the "homeless" here are youngish white males. I've never seen a Chinese panhandler in a town that's 30% Chinese. John John
From: Joel Kolstad on 14 Aug 2007 13:14
"John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in message news:9an3c3tr9ehtofhr9jfn3l0da77dh1o25p(a)4ax.com... > When I was a kid in New Orleans, we had to eat shrimp because meat was > too expensive. Hmm... and here I would have thought that shrimp would actually be more expensive than, e.g., chicken. Not that I'm going to switch to be a vegetarian any time soon, but raising chickens does make it quite obvious just how much more energy it takes to put meat on the table rather than vegetables! Compared to, e.g., 50 years ago, I suspect that food is now a much lower percentage of peoples' incomes, whereas housing is *much* higher. Cars are also higher, whereas stuff like TVs and stereos is much less. |