In article <slrnk711mn.97e.gsm@cable.mendelson.com>, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <gsm@mendelson.com> wrote:> It depends upon wat you consider a fair price and what you want people > to do. If you want people from the US to NOT export cheap items then you > keep your postal rates high.That was the point I was trying to make. And it applies to not so cheap items too. -- *i souport publik edekashun. Dave Plowman dave@davenoise.co.uk London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound.
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On 2012-10-05, George Herold <gherold@teachspin.com> wrote:> > I've no problem with your marquee story. Sometimes folk-tales about > rocks falling from the sky are correct. > The data point I offer to Phil is that bulbs fail when you turn them > on. I see no reason why that can't be 'played backwards'. There most > be some GE, Philips, (other) report that documents turn on failure.I recall a few yeas back someone had long-life bulbs with an NTC series resistor built into the base. Old toob tellys always had an NTC in series with the filament supply. -- ⚂⚃ 100% natural --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net ---
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On 2012-10-05, Roderick Stewart <rjfs@escapetime.removethisbit.myzen.co.uk> wrote:> In article <de99517e-e5e1-4f9d-91e0- > 412ab3171a05@o8g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, George Herold wrote: >> And that’s it. Repeated on and off means that the thin region has a >> higher average temperature than the thick part of the filament. It >> evaporates faster and fails sooner. > > Won't a thin region of a lamp filament have a higher temperature than > the rest of it all the time, not just when the lamp is turning on?It will, but due to the thermal coefficient of resistance of tungsten (most other metals are similar) the heating will be even greater when the filament heats from cold. The hot spot gains resistance faster, so it drops a greater voltage while the rest of the filament is still cold. disclaimer: figures made up to illustrate the point assume a constant-voltage supply compute the power disipated by he thin spot (middle resistor) in each case cold ----[100]---[1]---[100]--- hot ----[1000]-[12]-[1000]---- during warm-up thin spot warms up fastest. start ---[200]---[3]---[200]--- yeah, it would be a good project for the mythbusters, I'd love to see a slow motion film of an incandescent lamp failing at turn-on. but could they affor do dedicate their fast camera for long enough. -- ⚂⚃ 100% natural --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net ---
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On 2012-10-06, MB <MB@nospam.nospam> wrote:> > The Americans do seem generally to be used to sending a lot by courier > when we would just put in the post. Tending to happen in the UK also > even though the Royal Mail / Parcelforce often give a better service and > of course do not charge extra to send further. There has been a big > campaign in the North of Scotland about companies charging extra for > many postcode areas.Digi-Key sent me (in NZ) a postcard by royal mail (from UK) the other day. if it's still in the waste bassket on monday it'll check to see if it's a preferred spelling thing (eg: "catalog" vs "catalogue") or perhaps it was just cheaper to do it that way. -- ⚂⚃ 100% natural --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net ---
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Jasen Betts wrote:> > Old toob tellys always had an NTC in series with the filament supply.Not in the US.
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On 2012-10-06, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <gsm@mendelson.com> wrote:> Phil Hobbs wrote: > > Several years ago the USPS restructured their rates for mail outside of the > US. They dropped surface mail, replacing it with an air mail system that > takes almost as long. I have had packages take 6 weeks to arrive here airmail > from the US. > > They did a survey of prices of the courier services, and simply charge 1/2 > of what the courier services do. If you want registered mail, they charge > another $12 or so for it. > > Compare that to China which charges a few dollars to send a package, and > another dollar or so for registered mail. Or the UK (and the rest of the > EU) that charge about $5 for postage and registered mail.Chinas international mail is heavily subsided. <hearsay> I've heard that it's so heavilty subsidised that in some cases they pay the sender </hearsay>. while doing the same in the USA would probably help small exporters (and therefore the balance of payments) I can't see the republican party getting behind subsidising a "state run monopoly". -- ⚂⚃ 100% natural
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John Fields wrote:> On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 13:29:23 -0600, ���hw��f <snuhwolf@netscape.net> > wrote: > >> Phil Hobbs wrote: >>> On 10/06/2012 12:51 PM, ���hw��f wrote: >>>> Phil Hobbs wrote: >>>>> [......] >>>>> >>>>> Stew Leonard's Espresso Roast, roasted fresh daily in sunny Yonkers. >>>>> Best beans I've ever come across, and worth the trip. Always a crowd >>>>> pleaser. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers >>>>> >>>>> Phil Hobbs >>>>> >>>> Sorry to hijack this thread but I have an actual electronics repair >>>> question: how do I go about getting my old AIWA CX-NA10 stereo system to >>>> read CD's again? Is the lazer bad? It detects the cd and spins up but >>>> wont play it. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> You're no fun anymore. >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Phil Hobbs >>> >> Uh huh. I fixed it somewhat by fiddling with the screw behind the back >> cover. G00gle told me how. You lot are obviously quite useless. >> >> <nods> > > --- > Hardly surprising, since your query would have more appropriately been > directed to sci.electronics.repair. > >Gee, good thing this thread was never x-posted there, huh? <aside> Are all the regs of s.e.b this fucking retarded? 0_o -- http://howlingforjustice.wordpress.com www.snuhwolf.9f.com|www.savewolves.org _____ ____ ____ __ /\_/\ __ _ ______ _____ / __/ |/ / / / / // // . . \\ \ |\ | / __ \ \ \ __\ _\ \/ / /_/ / _ / \ / \ \| \| \ \_\ \ \__\ _\ /___/_/|_/\____/_//_/ \_@_/ \__|\__|\____/\____\_\
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Jasen Betts wrote:> Chinas international mail is heavily subsided. <hearsay> I've heard that > it's so heavilty subsidised that in some cases they pay the sender ></hearsay>. while doing the same in the USA would probably help small > exporters (and therefore the balance of payments) I can't see the > republican party getting behind subsidising a "state run monopoly".Isn't the USPS already a state run monopoly which is subsidised? <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Postal_Service> Note that it says that the USPS has not DIRECTLY received taxpayer funds since the 1980's. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 "Owning a smartphone: Technology's equivalent to learning to play chopsticks on the piano as a child and thinking you're a musician." (sent to me by a friend)
Reply by ●October 7, 20122012-10-07
On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 18:36:06 -0600, ���hw��f <snuhwolf@netscape.net> wrote:>John Fields wrote: >> On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 13:29:23 -0600, ���hw��f <snuhwolf@netscape.net> >> wrote: >> >>> Phil Hobbs wrote: >>>> On 10/06/2012 12:51 PM, ���hw��f wrote: >>>>> Phil Hobbs wrote: >>>>>> [......] >>>>>> >>>>>> Stew Leonard's Espresso Roast, roasted fresh daily in sunny Yonkers. >>>>>> Best beans I've ever come across, and worth the trip. Always a crowd >>>>>> pleaser. >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers >>>>>> >>>>>> Phil Hobbs >>>>>> >>>>> Sorry to hijack this thread but I have an actual electronics repair >>>>> question: how do I go about getting my old AIWA CX-NA10 stereo system to >>>>> read CD's again? Is the lazer bad? It detects the cd and spins up but >>>>> wont play it. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> You're no fun anymore. >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> >>>> Phil Hobbs >>>> >>> Uh huh. I fixed it somewhat by fiddling with the screw behind the back >>> cover. G00gle told me how. You lot are obviously quite useless. >>> >>> <nods> >> >> --- >> Hardly surprising, since your query would have more appropriately been >> directed to sci.electronics.repair. >> >> >Gee, good thing this thread was never x-posted there, huh? > ><aside> > >Are all the regs of s.e.b this fucking retarded?--- Since you chose to use 'this' instead of 'that', you've demonstrated that you _are_ grammatically challenged, but not yet knowing the exact level of your retardation, it's impossible to answer your question. http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/this_that.htm -- JF
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John Fields wrote:> On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 18:36:06 -0600, ���hw��f <snuhwolf@netscape.net> > wrote: > >> John Fields wrote: >>> On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 13:29:23 -0600, ���hw��f <snuhwolf@netscape.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Phil Hobbs wrote: >>>>> On 10/06/2012 12:51 PM, ���hw��f wrote: >>>>>> Phil Hobbs wrote: >>>>>>> [......] >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Stew Leonard's Espresso Roast, roasted fresh daily in sunny Yonkers. >>>>>>> Best beans I've ever come across, and worth the trip. Always a crowd >>>>>>> pleaser. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Cheers >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Phil Hobbs >>>>>>> >>>>>> Sorry to hijack this thread but I have an actual electronics repair >>>>>> question: how do I go about getting my old AIWA CX-NA10 stereo system to >>>>>> read CD's again? Is the lazer bad? It detects the cd and spins up but >>>>>> wont play it. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> You're no fun anymore. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers >>>>> >>>>> Phil Hobbs >>>>> >>>> Uh huh. I fixed it somewhat by fiddling with the screw behind the back >>>> cover. G00gle told me how. You lot are obviously quite useless. >>>> >>>> <nods> >>> --- >>> Hardly surprising, since your query would have more appropriately been >>> directed to sci.electronics.repair. >>> >>> >> Gee, good thing this thread was never x-posted there, huh? >> >> <aside> >> >> Are all the regs of s.e.b this fucking retarded? > > --- > Since you chose to use 'this' instead of 'that', you've demonstrated > that you _are_ grammatically challenged, but not yet knowing the exact > level of your retardation, it's impossible to answer your question. > > http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/this_that.htm >Yeah, we're not doing a thing. You can find somebody else's leg to hump. -- http://howlingforjustice.wordpress.com www.snuhwolf.9f.com|www.savewolves.org _____ ____ ____ __ /\_/\ __ _ ______ _____ / __/ |/ / / / / // // . . \\ \ |\ | / __ \ \ \ __\ _\ \/ / /_/ / _ / \ / \ \| \| \ \_\ \ \__\ _\ /___/_/|_/\____/_//_/ \_@_/ \__|\__|\____/\____\_\
