pointers to transistor (semiconductor) curve tracer circuits/projects

You would switch gods if you had one of these pork chops I made last night. Just about the right time. It was done at about 2:00 AM so over there that is what, 3 hours behind ? Would have been nice and hot. I would have to pu t on a bag of rice though. I can cook but I can't make rice. I use the boil in a bag stuff.

I guess I could make it that way with beef...

Does anybody want my custard bread pudding recipe?

Tribalism in action. That's a lot easier than thinking.

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.

I like skinny women, but I know guys who prefer "more to grab." Nature provides.

That's just accumulated wisdom.

I expect you like that as much as I like my (brussel) sprouts sarnies. (And infer what I'm /not/ saying :) )

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

And it is by and large their own fault. Not Obama's or Clinton's or nobody else's. Their own. It could be different.

If Real America doesn't wish to subsidize my decadent coastal elite lifestyle that's fine, but I shouldn't have to subsidize obesity either it raises my health insurance costs. The Northeast has some of the lowest obesity rates in the country so fair's fair.

Let Jim Thompson provide the staircase to test at different levels.

Thanks also to Phil's mirror of the site.

sounds like a rather facile notion of how economies work. "Capitalism" (in quotes) in the US is heavily top-down already, to the point the interests of industry vs. government are often indistinguishable. See also: crony capitalism.

It's also hard to get good data points on how well-managed socialist economies work in third-world countries; in the 20th century at least the US shows up and bumps off the leadership and sets up puppet dictatorships before anyone who seems like they might be good at the job gets much of a chance.

Saudi Arabia is a de-facto socialist state just about everyone who lives there is on the government's payroll in some form or another don't hear too much complaint about them, they're one of our best friends apparently.