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And don't head for the loo right after eating raw Jalapenos with your fingers. A friend of mine learned the hard way :-)

So do I, but that was more than a thousand miles away.

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Probably the same here. But I have my church :-)

That would definitely not fly with my wife. There is a TV and a DVD recorder, and that's it. One the other side a fairly compact stereo, and towards the open entrance a big Hammond organ. We really do not need more than that. The cell phones are powered off and tucked away. If someone wants to call us and doesn't bother to look up the land line number then it probably isn't that important.

That's because you guys believe in "unfettered access to soft drugs". That fosters crime, to be able to pay for the next fix. Addicts become pretty violent when the "urge" hits. A (very old) friend was brutally beaten up at Amsterdam main station and robbed. They didn't even spend the five seconds to ask him to hand over his money, which I am sure he would have done. No ten horses would ever get me to move to Amsterdam or anywhere close.

Good that you got out of there. I liked the Netherlands when I lived there but only small villages. Vaals had 5000 people, just right for me. Hengelo was a tad too big for my taste but not nearly the crime you saw in the Randstad area.

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soft being cannabis and the likes, probably no better or worse than alcohol and nicotine which is legal in most of the world thus providing income for the state and not criminals

that would be hard drugs like heroin which is still illegal, but that just means the price is higher and crime is the only way to scrape together enough cash which will then end in the pockets of criminals, I'm sure they are more than happy it is illegal, that is the only thing keeping the profit margin up.

all big cities have bad places and people, I'm sure the US has few places like that even with tougher drug laws

if drugs were the reason, most of the middle east should the safest place on earth with drugs including alcohol forbidden

-Lasse

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Where's "most of the world"?

The problem with liberalized "soft drug" policies is this: Some day a drug dealer, pissed about not being able to make enough profits or under the gun by his head honchos, will mix in some stuff. For "free", just to try something really cool. That's pretty much how the son of my landlord in the Netherland died.

Where such drug laws are not enforced, yes.

Actually, according to folks who have worked there, it is. One guy accidentally left a big envelope with cash on the dashboard of his car. An open top car, no less. He noticed while in the restaurant and almost panicked. The other guys said "Don't worry, it'll still be there. Nobody will even think about touching it, not in this country". That was in Saudi Arabia ...

On a sunny day (Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:47:48 -0800) it happened Joerg wrote in :

Oh I dunno, I grew up there, went to school there, all that, harddrugs (not soft drugs) drive some of those burglars.

Or these days it is pills I guess, no experience with that, Amsterdam is in a way OK, I prefer it to Rotterdam, that feels like a getto to me. Lived in The Hague too, many other places. A bit of multi cultural action is not bad,..

I have been up and down that 'berg' (hill for the US guys) with a car full of people to have a look. Been a while.

Then come to the US. After leaving NL I thought there couldn't possibly be more multi-culti anywhere else, but there is: Here. On the AM band it can take a while to find a station where they speak English. When I couldn't find a street in Oakland the other day I stopped and couldn't communicate with anyone there. Because I do not speak Vietnamese. Luckily the schoolbus just brought the son of a gas station owneer back who could translate. To my amazement this kid was what seemed to be natively fluent in Vietnamese and spoke accent-free English.

We were darn proud of that mountain ... 321.5 meter. Not 321 but 321.5 and that half meter more was important to us. Meaning we could actually look down on all you guys :-)

They must have increased it in height a little in the meantime:

But we had to share it with the Germans and the Belgians. I lived on the lowest slope of that hill and since NL is all flat it meant I could talk to folks on North Sea ships with only 2W on the 2m band. SSB, of course.

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So AlwaysWrong is a pedant. Who'd have guessed. And he's got it wrong

- not being in paid work didn't mean that I stopped doing electronics, merely that I did less of it.

Sloman A. W. =93Comment on =91A versatile thermoelectric temperature controller with 10 mK reproducibility and 100 mK absolute accuracy=92 [Rev. Sci. Instrum. 80, 126107 (2009)] =93, Review of Scientific Instruments 82, 27101 - 027101-2 (2011)

is a - minor - recent contribution to electronics.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

A comment?

You're a goddamned retard.

A contribution to the electronics industry would be if you decided to butt out.

On a sunny day (Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:05:40 -0800) it happened Joerg wrote in :

I have been to the US, many times, long long times too. Lived in many of your big cities,,, hitchhiked south north and travelled east west coast, worked on farms, did all sorts of things, one could write a book about it, been with the richest and with the poorest, camped out in the wild, been with the gangs, been arrested, thrown out, welcomed back in, in jail, out jail, you name it I've done it. Perhaps I know that country better than some who lived there and never left their home town. The Jan Panteltje story is, in itself, a fascinating one. But I do not like to dwell in the past or future, now is the time. And now I am playing with this interesting piece of Linux software.

World is a place with many cultures, and values changing from one place to an other, A world of predators, we, the dinosaurs of our time, attacking each other for food. Would be nice if you could jump a million years into the future (no not with one of those lightning powered cars as in Hollywood (and actually I have been there too)), and see the life forms that exist on earth then (assuming it still exists).

What was called 'magic' or 'witchcraft' some hundreds of years ago, and could get you burned as a witch, is normal high tech now. Communicating with other galaxies, maybe visiting those, we, in this time do the electromagnetic thing, there is however another medium that does not and is not limited by time and space as we fantasize rules everything. So from that POV what we see as impossible today, and 'magic' is real in that future,

The other question is if we, with our ability to make tools and so called 'understand' things, are the best sort of species for survival in this thing we see as the universe. Mosquitos have survived on the outside of the international spacejunk station for weeks.. Maybe they will inherit the earth. To them a cellphone is just a place where they can sit and watch you for a moment of non-attention so they can get you.

No language problems... I noticed the same problem you mentioned already many years ago in Miami (all Spanish) and LA.

I'm afraid that you are the retard. The comment high-lighted and made explicit a subtle problem with using NTC thermistors which has been bugging people for a long time now.

It's a minor contribution, because hardly anybody reads comments in "Rev. Sci. Instruments" - and nobody ever seems to cite them - but it sure would have helped me if I'd read it earlier in my career (when I read a lot of that kind of stuff).

Regular electronic engineers don't read the scientific instrument literature - and those that do are correctly disdainful of the quality of the electronics described - but quite a bit of useful stuff ends up there.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

And what have you done with your life that's of any use to anyone?. Working on your logic, nothing most likely...

I did more in the last month to make the world a better place than you will in your entire, pathetic life.

Yeah, I can tell that you're a real brain.

I just put together the fastest backbone in the nation.

I built an advanced gateway for 15 select cities and several in Canada.

All cutting edge 10Gb/s Juniper networking fabric.

As for today, my contribution is that I told some lame dumbfuck to f*ck off and die.

Fuck Off And Die, lame dumbfuck.

Nonsense!

Rubbish!

Why do you persist with these preposterous claims?

Until you produce some credible evidence that you are anything more than a loud-mouthed tosser you will remain sed's favourite object of derision.

If you really want to make the world a better place you know what to do.

They're just fascinated with all the grunting that engineers do when they meet women. They want to understand 'The Knack'. ;-)

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Speak for yourself. I can't stand that greasy crap, unless I need to vomit.

Just had my first pizza cooked on a grill last week, i ain't going back willingly.

?-))

So, do women who marry successful engineers have "Great Knackers"?

(I pronounce that like "Knackwurst")

Paul=20

You mean ain't going back to the old method using the kitchen oven? I ain't going back to that either, from here on it's always the barbecue. Same for turkey, BTW. We haven't made one in the kitchen oven in about a decade.

Not if they discover what 'The Knack' really is, before it's too late. ;-)