pointers to transistor (semiconductor) curve tracer circuits/projects

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 01:34:41 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

>On 10/28/2018 11:00 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 18:33:48 -0700 (PDT), jurb6006@gmail.com wrote:
>> 
>>>> ""youth", in quotes I'm just shy of 40"
>>>
>>> Wow, that explains why you're not conservative. You will be
>>> in about ten years, and don't worry, it doesn't hurt.
>> 
>> Y're right.  I'm just short of 71.  I started out as a radical
>> leftist, commie pinko, anti-everything, chronically protesting, hippie
>> freak:
>> <http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/jeffl/slides/jeffl-06.html>
>> Fast forward about 40 years, and today I'm an arch conservative,
>> somewhat reactionary, right leaning, registered Republican, member of
>> the establishment:
>
>Woah, how unusual.
>
>> <http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/jeffl/slides/jeffl-08.html>
>> It can and probably will happen to you.  Resistance is futile.
>> 
>> 
>
>You don't have to explain to us that the "baby boomer" generation were 
>sellouts with no real values who'd gladly hawk their souls for ten 
>bucks. We know, already ;-)

The real problem is that young people tend to think they understand
everything, and that everything is simple. Experience usually teaches
us that many important things are not predictable; otherwise we'd all
still be wearing bell-bottom jeans. The realization that we don't
always understand causalities tempers our enthusiasm for controlling
everything. 

"Capitalism" make progress by random mutation and selection, just like
evolution (theoretically) works. Socialism is top-down management,
which is inevitably both corrupt and wrecked by unexpected
consequences.


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John Larkin         Highland Technology, Inc

lunatic fringe electronics 

On 10/30/2018 11:22 AM, John Larkin wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 22:16:53 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>> I'm probably too long-time New Englander for that I'm afraid, why in the
>> world would I join a party so beloved by these whackjob "Real America"
>> holy-roller evangelicals? scumbag scam-artists the lot of 'em and anyone
>> who panders to them
> 
> Tribalism in action. That's a lot easier than thinking.
> 
> 

Yeah, a "tribe" of zealots who believe they have some 
spiritual/metaphysical connection to Israel and enjoy attempting to 
remake America into congruence with Old Testament Israelite biblical 
laws for whatever purpose. which IMO has little to do with the 
principles America was founded on, or any interpretation of Christianity 
which either myself or my own ancestors would have been familiar with.

It is who the Right panders to, because without their habitual support 
the GOP is nothing.

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:33:09 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

>On 10/30/2018 08:54 AM, jurb6006@gmail.com wrote:
>>> "why in the world would I join a party so beloved by these whackjob "Real America" holy-roller evangelicals? scumbag scam-artists the lot of 'em and anyone who panders to them"
>> 
>> I don't fucking "pander" to anyone. And why support them ? Because as bad as they are they are a hell of alot better for the country than the filthy despicable democrats who are acting like spoiled children.
>> 
>> You disagree fine, see you at the polls. If any of your kind tries to bother me at the polls I will gut them with a fucking brick.
>> 
>> We are tired of leftists killing business and brainwashing people that it is how it is. We are sick of arguing gun control with a bunch of people who eat soap and don't know what bathroom to use. We are not having your homosexual sex in kindergarten nor tearing down every fucking statue in this country.
>
>lol ya, homosexual sex in kindergarten that's the plan. Hillary Clinton 
>runs a child sex dungeon in a DC pizza parlor, too.


That's just a goofy rumor of a few loonies. On the other hand, she did
kill Muammar Gaddafi and laugh about it, and precipitate astounding
levels of misery and death in Africa and Europe.

Bill admitted that he ignored the genicide in Rwanda, killing about
another million.

What a couple.


-- 

John Larkin         Highland Technology, Inc

lunatic fringe electronics 

On 10/30/2018 11:40 AM, bitrex wrote:
> On 10/30/2018 11:22 AM, John Larkin wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 22:16:53 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I'm probably too long-time New Englander for that I'm afraid, why in the
>>> world would I join a party so beloved by these whackjob "Real America"
>>> holy-roller evangelicals? scumbag scam-artists the lot of 'em and anyone
>>> who panders to them
>>
>> Tribalism in action. That's a lot easier than thinking.
>>
>>
> 
> Yeah, a "tribe" of zealots who believe they have some 
> spiritual/metaphysical connection to Israel and enjoy attempting to 
> remake America into congruence with Old Testament Israelite biblical 
> laws for whatever purpose. which IMO has little to do with the 
> principles America was founded on, or any interpretation of Christianity 
> which either myself or my own ancestors would have been familiar with.
> 
> It is who the Right panders to, because without their habitual support 
> the GOP is nothing.

They're welcome to their has-been game show host three-time-divorcee 
pussy-grabbin' President. But good grief please don't try preaching to 
anyone about their soul at this point or some Kingdom of God-Moral 
Majority nonsense. It's a bit much.

On 10/30/2018 11:43 AM, John Larkin wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:33:09 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/30/2018 08:54 AM, jurb6006@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> "why in the world would I join a party so beloved by these whackjob "Real America" holy-roller evangelicals? scumbag scam-artists the lot of 'em and anyone who panders to them"
>>>
>>> I don't fucking "pander" to anyone. And why support them ? Because as bad as they are they are a hell of alot better for the country than the filthy despicable democrats who are acting like spoiled children.
>>>
>>> You disagree fine, see you at the polls. If any of your kind tries to bother me at the polls I will gut them with a fucking brick.
>>>
>>> We are tired of leftists killing business and brainwashing people that it is how it is. We are sick of arguing gun control with a bunch of people who eat soap and don't know what bathroom to use. We are not having your homosexual sex in kindergarten nor tearing down every fucking statue in this country.
>>
>> lol ya, homosexual sex in kindergarten that's the plan. Hillary Clinton
>> runs a child sex dungeon in a DC pizza parlor, too.
> 
> 
> That's just a goofy rumor of a few loonies. On the other hand, she did
> kill Muammar Gaddafi and laugh about it, and precipitate astounding
> levels of misery and death in Africa and Europe.
> 
> Bill admitted that he ignored the genicide in Rwanda, killing about
> another million.
> 
> What a couple.
> 
> 

Was not old enough to vote in 1996 by a smidge so Bill Clinton not of my 
time. As I recall from the history books seeing dead US troops dragged 
thru the streets of Mogadishu had a pretty negative effect on morale for 
foreign adventures in Africa back home at the time.

Mr. Clinton probably figured there was little public will to send troops 
into harms way again to save the lives of n**** over in what I guess is 
popularly called a "shithole country" now. And I also recall few in the 
US cared about the Rwandan genocide at the time, and fewer still 
probably remember it presently.

I think he just "knew his audience." If Americans had all demanded it in 
a great uproar of anti-genocide social justice sentiment it would have 
happened.

On 10/30/2018 11:43 AM, John Larkin wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:33:09 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/30/2018 08:54 AM, jurb6006@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> "why in the world would I join a party so beloved by these whackjob "Real America" holy-roller evangelicals? scumbag scam-artists the lot of 'em and anyone who panders to them"
>>>
>>> I don't fucking "pander" to anyone. And why support them ? Because as bad as they are they are a hell of alot better for the country than the filthy despicable democrats who are acting like spoiled children.
>>>
>>> You disagree fine, see you at the polls. If any of your kind tries to bother me at the polls I will gut them with a fucking brick.
>>>
>>> We are tired of leftists killing business and brainwashing people that it is how it is. We are sick of arguing gun control with a bunch of people who eat soap and don't know what bathroom to use. We are not having your homosexual sex in kindergarten nor tearing down every fucking statue in this country.
>>
>> lol ya, homosexual sex in kindergarten that's the plan. Hillary Clinton
>> runs a child sex dungeon in a DC pizza parlor, too.
> 
> 
> That's just a goofy rumor of a few loonies. On the other hand, she did
> kill Muammar Gaddafi and laugh about it, and precipitate astounding
> levels of misery and death in Africa and Europe.
> 
> Bill admitted that he ignored the genicide in Rwanda, killing about
> another million.
> 
> What a couple.
> 
> 

Clinton also in his second term started appropriating more Reagan-esque 
rhetoric vis a vis "big government spending" and hacking away at Social 
Security and welfare programs. Even Democratic presidents have to "know 
their audience" from time to time and can't be Mother Theresa all day 
because Americans, on average, do not like that.

Even though the fact is that if you actually wanted to significantly 
reduce government spending and cut the fat there are many more 
productive areas to look than the ones both parties (because it plays 
well from a PR-perspective) tend to look on the balance sheet.

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:45:39 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

>On 10/30/2018 11:40 AM, bitrex wrote:
>> On 10/30/2018 11:22 AM, John Larkin wrote:
>>> On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 22:16:53 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I'm probably too long-time New Englander for that I'm afraid, why in the
>>>> world would I join a party so beloved by these whackjob "Real America"
>>>> holy-roller evangelicals? scumbag scam-artists the lot of 'em and anyone
>>>> who panders to them
>>>
>>> Tribalism in action. That's a lot easier than thinking.
>>>
>>>
>> 
>> Yeah, a "tribe" of zealots who believe they have some 
>> spiritual/metaphysical connection to Israel and enjoy attempting to 
>> remake America into congruence with Old Testament Israelite biblical 
>> laws for whatever purpose. which IMO has little to do with the 
>> principles America was founded on, or any interpretation of Christianity 
>> which either myself or my own ancestors would have been familiar with.
>> 
>> It is who the Right panders to, because without their habitual support 
>> the GOP is nothing.
>
>They're welcome to their has-been game show host three-time-divorcee 
>pussy-grabbin' President. But good grief please don't try preaching to 
>anyone about their soul at this point or some Kingdom of God-Moral 
>Majority nonsense. It's a bit much.

You, and a lot of other people, have drawn a left/right line down the
middle of America and defined the entire population of one side to be
stupid and evil. That's tribalism. No thinking necessary.

If I were alone and freezing on some seldom-traveled road, I'd sure
prefer the only vehicle that shows up to be a pickup driven by a
farmer than a Volvo driven by a laywer.


-- 

John Larkin         Highland Technology, Inc

lunatic fringe electronics 

On 10/30/2018 11:27 AM, John Larkin wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 22:38:58 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/28/2018 10:34 PM, Clifford Heath wrote:
>>> On 29/10/18 12:33 pm, jurb6006@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> ""youth", in quotes I'm just shy of 40"
>>>>
>>>> Wow, that explains why you're not conservative. You will be in about
>>>> ten years, and don't worry, it doesn't hurt.
>>>
>>> As the saying goes...
>>>
>>> If you're not a socialist when you're young, you have no heart;
>>> If you're not a capitalist when you're old, you have no brain.
>>>
>>> :)
>>
>> "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white
>> children, because the beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish
>>from the Earth."
> 
> There are some dynamite white aryan women; I'd hate to lose them.
> 
> There are gorgeous african and asian women too; let's protect and
> preserve them all.
> 
>>
>> The "beauty of the White Aryan woman" could stand to lose about 35
>> pounds on average in this country, it's way more likely to perish from
>> heart disease than Mexicans
> 
> I like skinny women, but I know guys who prefer "more to grab." Nature
> provides.
> 
> 

America can best help the third world by going on a diet, IMO. Maybe 
Dear Leader can initiate a mandatory morning exercise program. Side 
effects include feeling good and living longer so it's a win-win

On 10/30/2018 12:17 PM, John Larkin wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:45:39 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/30/2018 11:40 AM, bitrex wrote:
>>> On 10/30/2018 11:22 AM, John Larkin wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 22:16:53 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I'm probably too long-time New Englander for that I'm afraid, why in the
>>>>> world would I join a party so beloved by these whackjob "Real America"
>>>>> holy-roller evangelicals? scumbag scam-artists the lot of 'em and anyone
>>>>> who panders to them
>>>>
>>>> Tribalism in action. That's a lot easier than thinking.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, a "tribe" of zealots who believe they have some
>>> spiritual/metaphysical connection to Israel and enjoy attempting to
>>> remake America into congruence with Old Testament Israelite biblical
>>> laws for whatever purpose. which IMO has little to do with the
>>> principles America was founded on, or any interpretation of Christianity
>>> which either myself or my own ancestors would have been familiar with.
>>>
>>> It is who the Right panders to, because without their habitual support
>>> the GOP is nothing.
>>
>> They're welcome to their has-been game show host three-time-divorcee
>> pussy-grabbin' President. But good grief please don't try preaching to
>> anyone about their soul at this point or some Kingdom of God-Moral
>> Majority nonsense. It's a bit much.
> 
> You, and a lot of other people, have drawn a left/right line down the
> middle of America and defined the entire population of one side to be
> stupid and evil. That's tribalism. No thinking necessary.
> 
> If I were alone and freezing on some seldom-traveled road, I'd sure
> prefer the only vehicle that shows up to be a pickup driven by a
> farmer than a Volvo driven by a laywer.
> 
> 

and I think you have an idealized idea of what good ol' boy "Real 
America" is. No not everyone who lives in "the country" is stupid or 
evil. Maybe it's changed from what you recall but I grew up in a 
different time, I've spent time in West Virginia and Ohio when I was 
younger and in the late 80s and 90s if you're poor the places I was are 
not at all fun places to be, drug use, crime, violence, places where 
both my college girlfriend _and_ her high school boyfriend had been 
sexually assaulted as children by family or family friends.

And these places were white as white can be, few Hispanics or blacks to 
speak of. probably a good idea on the latter part not to move there.

It's not all bad by any means but this holy-roller Kingdom of God stuff 
is from my perspective well known to be a bit of a facade. Peek behind 
it and I tell ya you may not at all like what you see.

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:18:10 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

>On 10/30/2018 11:27 AM, John Larkin wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 22:38:58 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 10/28/2018 10:34 PM, Clifford Heath wrote:
>>>> On 29/10/18 12:33 pm, jurb6006@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>> ""youth", in quotes I'm just shy of 40"
>>>>>
>>>>> Wow, that explains why you're not conservative. You will be in about
>>>>> ten years, and don't worry, it doesn't hurt.
>>>>
>>>> As the saying goes...
>>>>
>>>> If you're not a socialist when you're young, you have no heart;
>>>> If you're not a capitalist when you're old, you have no brain.
>>>>
>>>> :)
>>>
>>> "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white
>>> children, because the beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish
>>>from the Earth."
>> 
>> There are some dynamite white aryan women; I'd hate to lose them.
>> 
>> There are gorgeous african and asian women too; let's protect and
>> preserve them all.
>> 
>>>
>>> The "beauty of the White Aryan woman" could stand to lose about 35
>>> pounds on average in this country, it's way more likely to perish from
>>> heart disease than Mexicans
>> 
>> I like skinny women, but I know guys who prefer "more to grab." Nature
>> provides.
>> 
>> 
>
>America can best help the third world by going on a diet, IMO.

How so? The third world needs to stop killing one another and grow
more food and get more energy and medicine and education. My eating a
salad for lunch, instead of a bagel dog, isn't going to eliminate
famine in North Korea.


> Maybe 
>Dear Leader can initiate a mandatory morning exercise program. Side 
>effects include feeling good and living longer so it's a win-win

Why do so many people think they are right and should therefore force
other people to follow their rules?


-- 

John Larkin         Highland Technology, Inc

lunatic fringe electronics