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From: Joerg on 6 Jul 2010 18:25 Jim Thompson wrote: > On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:39:55 -0700, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> > wrote: > >> John Larkin wrote: > [snip] >>> The best-quality cars in the world are Japanese, but aren't as fun to >>> drive as German cars. > > Neeerp! I had two JPN sport cars a 280Z and a 280ZX... quite fun. > >> Yup, got tow JPN cars. Reliable but more run-of-the-mills. The Nissan >> ZX'es or a Mitsubishi 3000GT ought to be fun though. Or a Kawasaki :-) > > Yep, But now I'm into comfort and luxury _and_ speed :-) > > I'm hearing rumors of a 450ZX... that could ring my chime ;-) > Now I really don't like Chrysler because I got burned by their products but when I see the new Dodge Challenger, oh man, all I'd have to do is work up a good full-blown midlife crisis and I just might ... >> >>> And >>>> why are engineers over there complaining that many get kicked out around >>>> age 45 because they are "too old"? >>> That "creates jobs." >>> >> Yeah, it does. Over here (seriously). > > Virtually all of my customers are in the same age range as my > children... 38 to 48 :-) > Here it's more like 25 to 70 and I'm not as old as you are :-) Actually the upper range used to be well above 80 but pancreas cancer ended that client relationship, he's not here anymore :-( -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
From: Jim Thompson on 6 Jul 2010 18:31 On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:25:53 -0700, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >Jim Thompson wrote: >> On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:39:55 -0700, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> >> wrote: >> >>> John Larkin wrote: >> [snip] >>>> The best-quality cars in the world are Japanese, but aren't as fun to >>>> drive as German cars. >> >> Neeerp! I had two JPN sport cars a 280Z and a 280ZX... quite fun. >> >>> Yup, got tow JPN cars. Reliable but more run-of-the-mills. The Nissan >>> ZX'es or a Mitsubishi 3000GT ought to be fun though. Or a Kawasaki :-) >> >> Yep, But now I'm into comfort and luxury _and_ speed :-) >> >> I'm hearing rumors of a 450ZX... that could ring my chime ;-) >> > >Now I really don't like Chrysler because I got burned by their products >but when I see the new Dodge Challenger, oh man, all I'd have to do is >work up a good full-blown midlife crisis and I just might ... I won't even rent Chrysler products when I travel. > > [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 | Obama: A reincarnation of Nixon, narcissistically posing in politically-correct black-face, but with fewer scruples.
From: Jim Thompson on 6 Jul 2010 18:54 On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:31:09 -0700, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote: >On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:25:53 -0700, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> >wrote: > >>Jim Thompson wrote: >>> On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:39:55 -0700, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> John Larkin wrote: >>> [snip] >>>>> The best-quality cars in the world are Japanese, but aren't as fun to >>>>> drive as German cars. >>> >>> Neeerp! I had two JPN sport cars a 280Z and a 280ZX... quite fun. >>> >>>> Yup, got tow JPN cars. Reliable but more run-of-the-mills. The Nissan >>>> ZX'es or a Mitsubishi 3000GT ought to be fun though. Or a Kawasaki :-) >>> >>> Yep, But now I'm into comfort and luxury _and_ speed :-) >>> >>> I'm hearing rumors of a 450ZX... that could ring my chime ;-) >>> >> >>Now I really don't like Chrysler because I got burned by their products >>but when I see the new Dodge Challenger, oh man, all I'd have to do is >>work up a good full-blown midlife crisis and I just might ... > >I won't even rent Chrysler products when I travel. > [snip] I forgot to mention, in 1977 I grew a beard and bought a 1977 280Z (new) to salve my impending approach to 40 :-) Then, in 1983, I got a new 280ZX, thanks to a dumb broad who ran a red light at 18th St and Highland and T-boned me :-( I kept the beard, but bought our first Q45 in 1996, then another in 2006. ...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 | Obama: A reincarnation of Nixon, narcissistically posing in politically-correct black-face, but with fewer scruples.
From: Bill Sloman on 6 Jul 2010 19:08 On Jul 6, 4:54 pm, John Larkin <jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 07:25:39 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com > wrote: > > > > >On Jul 6, 7:37 am, Bill Sloman <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > >> On Jul 6, 6:53 am, dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com wrote: > >> > Bill Sloman <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > > >> > So, implicitly, as of 1937 Roosevelt's first and second stimulus > >> > packages (aka The New Deal) still hadn't worked, right? > > >> They had worked, and had gotten unemployment down from 25% to 9%. In > >> 1937 - in a premature fit of "fiscal responsiblity" the residual > >> stimulus was stopped - too early - and unemployment went back up to > >> 17%. > > >Nope, but here's a nice picture for you: > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal#Origins > > >> > The fact is > >> > that government has no ability to create jobs. Not then, not now. > > >> Palpable nonsense. Since you acknowledge that it has the ability to > >> destroy them you should be able to understand that it also has the > >> capabliity to create them, > > >"Ability to destroy" does not imply ability to create. That a > >teenager can wreck you car proves he can make them? That's dumb. > > There's the time factor, too: things take a long time to build, but > they can be destroyed essentially instantly. Jobs, businesses, > productive infrastructures, even if set free, will take a generation > to grow back. The US electorate hasn't that sort of patience, so we > get idiotic macroeconomic things like "stimulus", the equivalent of > shooting speed into your arm instead of exercizing and eating your > broccoli. Since businesses were destroyed in large numbers by the Great Depression, when the banks were left free to practice "fiscal responsiblity" by not lending any money to anybody, you should be able to understand that the stimulus wasn't quite as idiotic as no stimulus would have been. The current situation isn't great, but it certainly isn't a replay of the Great Depression, despite the best efforts of your banking system to recreate that disaster. -- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen > John
From: Bill Sloman on 6 Jul 2010 19:24
On Jul 6, 6:12 pm, dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com wrote: > On Jul 6, 10:54 am, John Larkin > > <jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 07:25:39 -0700 (PDT), dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com > > wrote: > > > >On Jul 6, 7:37 am, Bill Sloman <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > > >> On Jul 6, 6:53 am, dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com wrote: > > >> > Bill Sloman <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > > > >> > So, implicitly, as of 1937 Roosevelt's first and second stimulus > > >> > packages (aka The New Deal) still hadn't worked, right? > > > >> They had worked, and had gotten unemployment down from 25% to 9%. In > > >> 1937 - in a premature fit of "fiscal responsiblity" the residual > > >> stimulus was stopped - too early - and unemployment went back up to > > >> 17%. > > > >Nope, but here's a nice picture for you: > > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal#Origins > > > >> > The fact is > > >> > that government has no ability to create jobs. Not then, not now. > > > >> Palpable nonsense. Since you acknowledge that it has the ability to > > >> destroy them you should be able to understand that it also has the > > >> capabliity to create them, > > > >"Ability to destroy" does not imply ability to create. That a > > >teenager can wreck your car proves he can make them? That's dumb. > > > There's the time factor, too: things take a long time to build, but > > they can be destroyed essentially instantly. Jobs, businesses, > > productive infrastructures, even if set free, will take a generation > > to grow back. The US electorate hasn't that sort of patience, so we > > get idiotic macroeconomic things like "stimulus", the equivalent of > > shooting speed into your arm instead of exercizing and eating your > > broccoli. > > I've been thinking about this for decades, and six ways from Sunday > for the past year and a half. "Thinking"? > We *can* fix this, and in less than a > generation. Less than a decade, if we have the will. > > Just as long as Obama's assault on our institutions don't stand. > Those cured, the patient will heal herself. It's part of the synergy, > the miracle of our system, of entrepreneurship. We just have to stop > him killing it. You want to use Hoover's technique to cripple your system instead. The Great Dpression didn't actually kill your economy, but it made a much bigger mess than you are facing at the moment. > If we don't do that, America's lost, the Founder's experiment in > freedom over. Your founding fathers' experiment in "freedom" isn't all that impressive. Your constitution is a venerable antique, your voting system elects only candidates that are supported by people with lots of money, and your legislature seems to spend most of its time doing favours for commercial interests. There are quite a few better constitutions floating around - two hundred-odd years of development has allowed for some improvements to evolve, albeit outside God's only country - and it would seem to be high time that you started another experiment > But even then, after Rome came ... Italy. Lovely > ladies & good wine. That ain't *all* bad. Pity about the political system. Berlusconi could be a US politician. -- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen |