History of bulk electronic components suppliers

Eat some whale blubber. It has a calming effect.

Greed. The rent and property taxes got so high they couldn't afford to stay where they were, and many of the owners were close to retirement age, so they just closed the business. Another thing that hurts surplus is JIT manufacturing, and lower quantities of military equipment being built, to generate more surplus.

That's the prototype of the one they built to change Homer's diapers. When they say 500 pounds, they mean it. They won't hold an extra ounce.

One can criticise ordinary people when they believe claims for which there is absolutely no objective evidence. The usual criticism is to call them gullible, and point ot that they are being deluded by religious leaders who make a nice income out of peddling this kind of rubbish.

What are they believing in that is bigger than themselves? You've measured a god recently?

Cartoon animations do exist. Their relation to reality isn't all that direct, but then again, nobody is being asked to worship them, or to support missionaries who go out and try to persuade other suckers to worship them.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Read the history of the discovery of insulin. Compare with US 'drug research'.

This thread belongs on sci.electronics.design and I wasn't the one who 'drifted' it.

Bill Sloman thinks it should be.

-- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell Central Florida

I don't think the SAT is more than some rough indicator. I went to school with a few true math geniuses, way better than me, and none of them nailed the math part, after several tries. Taking the SAT mainly demonstrates one's skill at taking the SAT.

John

Like I said, mean people suck.

John

I agree. What sort of sick, twisted scum sucking bastards lie to thousands of people so they can steal from them and live a life of luxury while their 'believers' live in misery? Apart from Republicans that is?

Right. But the verbal part is even worse. In effect it's a measure of your socioeconomic status. It's a vocabulary test. I grew up in a roomy middle-class home with lots of books and college- educated parents, but some kid raised in an inner-city apartment that contains few or no books (but has of course a television) would hardly be likely to score as well on that test, no matter how great his native intelligence.

Read this

That author discovered, somewhat to his own dismay, that self-described conservatives, Republicans, and Christians are far more charitable, and generous to the community at large, than self-described liberals and atheists. More likely to help others; more likely to donate time and money to both religious and non-religious causes; more likely to help strangers and foreigners. The least generous people are young liberals.

I heard him on a local PBS interview. He's a sincere and committed statistician who reported what he found.

As usual, your prejudices are at odds with reality.

John

No, they aren't. From Halliburton to Henry Hinn I see no liberals.

Read the book.

John

List all of the liberals running Halliburton.

Republicans fall into two camps. Those who are rich and want to keep it all.

Those who aren't rich and think being a Republican will help.

Which group is larger? Which is more generous?

Dare I ask how it's possible to score over 100% ? It's not by any change an attempt to massage the average figure is it ?

Talking of which the average figure someone posted is equivalent to 56% which is pretty damn lame.

Graham

The trouble is that nowhere I can think of is reading books presented as worthwhile 'entertainment' any more.

Graham

A "perfect" score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (the common college-admissions test here) is 800.

That depends on how hard the questions are.

John

Where does the /720 bit come from then ?

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Call me a sceptic but I can't imagine them being too hard these days !

Graham