Gound plane resistance calculator

Can you really do that anymore? How do you get past TSA? I used to go on a day trip to San Jose and bring back _pounds_ of pastrami and several bottles of wine from a Los Altos deli... smelling to high heaven ;-) ...Jim Thompson

Old (or new?) drill: I take 1-2 empty water bottles through TSA, then fill at a fountain on the way to the gate. Sandwiches, burgers and other goodies are in aluminum foil and/or ziplock, then in a small plastic bag. This gets placed opened on one of those trays. One flight last year was hilarious. Big dude from TSA picked it up and I thought "oh-oh". He walked up to the rather lengthy line in front of the checkpoint, held up the bag as high as he could and hollered with a drill sergeant's voice "Listen up, folks, _THIS_ is how it's done correctly".

One no-frills airline I took recently (Malaysia-based Air Asia) has a rule prohibiting all outside food and beverages. Conveniently, they sell food on board (actually not too bad stuff at quite reasonable prices). Since Chinese tend to travel with enough food for an army (some ancient racial memory of famine, no doubt) I don't think they can really enforce it, but I imagine a rack of pork ribs might not be appreciated.

What really costs the big $$ are military flights for leaders. Commercial flights in any class are practically free by comparison (at least for the main figures).

Ah, essentially nothing- about $1.50 a year per citizen, which includes the Governor General (0.003% of the economy). The current GG took a 90% pay cut to serve (he was president of the University of Waterloo). The Queen is sort of a time-share deal, when she's doing something for us, the costs of that are supposed to be covered. There are also benefits to being a member in good standing of the Commonwealth of Nations. A very good deal, if you ask me.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

We just placed two small loaves of bread into the Weber. I guess those wouldn't be appreciated either because they spread a meaty smell throughout the room, depending on what else cooks in there.

Well, except that this whole royal business is something that lots of other countries perfectly do without. Meaning less military flights. But if the population likes it, why not.

$1.50 is ok. But what are those benefits? The prime days of the big Commonwealth are gone, I thought.

I'd avoid pork on a Malaysian flight because the seat mates are likely to be Muslim.

A lot of the things they do are just done by other people. So long as they don't have real power, it's not a big deal. The US president has powers more like a king than anyone in a parliamentary democracy, probably because that was the state of the art hundreds of years ago.

There are a number of benefits to being 'less foreign' than others to a group of 2bn+ people, especially for a middle power. One example is the right to vote in elections (and even run for office) in a number of other member countries (including the UK) if resident.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

I walked down a wrong aisle at Frankfurt airport one time, and there were people waiting in line with a couple of goats... "N" was aghast ;-) ...Jim Thompson

I never had ambitions to become the mayor of Manchester :-)

When I lived in the Netherlands as a foreigner I received a notice one day that I was eligible to vote in the local elections. I thought that was kind of nice but never got to exercise that new right on account of getting my degree and moving away.

Quote "The status of "Member in Arrears" is used to denote those that are in arrears in paying subscription dues to the Commonwealth"

Hmm ... I guess they get more than that $1.50? That's why we kicked them out a long time ago, because they wanted a whole lot more :-)

She was expecting Eurosheep?

She had never seen livestock transported on an airline before. IIRC, destination was a Slovakia derivative. ...Jim Thompson

There's nothing worse than a flight with a bunch of old goats.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Yes there is an extremely simple tool. I'm sending you a copy of results on a3 by 5 inch PCB containing a microcontroller and 24 bit data acquisition. I wanted the GND noise to be less than 1/4 LSB so this tool QUANTIFIED the effects of parts palacement *and* cuts, even includes via holes if you want. But it was nice to finally be able to quantify 'improving' a PCB layout.

Regards, Robert

And the NAME of the tool? ...Jim Thompson

Thank you, Robert. Got your files, and the plot look very nice. This time we just winged it but out of curiosity, what is that software? Did you write it yourself?

She never watched 'The Beverly Hillbillies'?