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I didn't. I claimed that the US has failed every one of it's 'wars' such as those on poverty, drugs, terrorism, children left behind and many more, but the unannounced war on intelligence and knowledge is proceeding well as shown by the influence of the ID crackpots and by it's know-nothing-and-proud-of-it president.

At least 2% of Americans are very intelligent. However the other 98% are as dumb as rocks as you well know.

The list of Canadian Nobel laureates since the prize was first awarded includes:

1999 Economics Robert Mundell, a native of Kingston, Ont., earned the prize for his analysis of exchange rates and how they affect monetary policies. The theories of Mundell, a professor at Columbia University in New York, helped create a common currency for the European Union. Mundell did his most important work in the 1960s. 1997 Economics Myron Scholes, born in Timmins, Ont., was co-winner of the prize for devising a formula for pricing derivatives such as stock options. A U.S. citizen and professor emeritus at Stanford University in California, Scholes shared the prize with Harvard professor Robert Merton. Scholes received his undergraduate degree in economics from McMaster University in 1962 and an honorary Doctor of Laws in 1990. He earned a PhD in economics at the University of Chicago in 1969. 1996 Economics William S. Vickrey was born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1914. His elementary and secondary education were in Europe and the United States, with graduation from Phillips Andover Academy in 1931. He received a B.S. in mathematics from Yale in 1935, followed by graduate work in economics at Columbia University from 1935 to 1937, when he received the M.A. degree. He then worked for the National Resources Planning Board in Washington and the Division of Tax Research in the U.S. Treasury Department. 1994 Physics Bertram Brockhouse, of McMaster University in Hamilton shared the prize with Clifford Shull, 79, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of matter. The scientists made their contributions at the first nuclear reactors in Canada and the United States in the 1940s and '50s. Nobel Prize winning Canadian physicist Dr. Bertram Brockhouse has died at 85, on october 2003. 1993 Chemistry Michael Smith, a British-born Canadian citizen, and Kary Mullis of the United States. Smith, director of the Biotechnology Laboratory at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, won for his work on a method for altering DNA to determine its function. 1992 Chemistry Montreal-born Rudolph Marcus, a U.S. citizen, for his contributions to the theory of how sub-atomic particles known as electrons are transferred between molecules. Educated at McGill University, a professor at California Institute of Technology when he received prize. 1990 Physics Richard Taylor, a native of Medicine Hat, Alta., living in Palo Alto, Calif., with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall of the United States, for finding the first evidence of quarks, now believed to be basic building blocks of matter. 1989 Chemistry Yale University professor Sidney Altman, a U.S. citizen from Montreal, for the discovery of catalytic properties of the genetic material RNA. Shared the prize with Thomas Cech, University of Colorado. 1986 Chemistry German-born John Polanyi of the University of Toronto, for showing how basic chemical reactions take place. Shared prize with Americans Dudley Herschbach and Yuan Lee. 1983 Chemistry Saskatoon-born Henry Taub, for studies in the transfer of electrons in metals. Graduated from University of Saskatchewan, on staff of Stanford University in California when received prize. 1981 Physics University of Toronto PhD Arthur Schawlow for development of spectroscopes, basic tools for studying atomic structure. Shared with fellow U.S. citizen Nicolass Boembergen and Kai Siegbahn of Sweden. 1981 Medicine Dr. David Hubel, a native of Niagara Falls, Ont., for information processing in the visual system. Graduated from McGill University in Montreal before continuing his career in the United States. 1976 Literature Saul Bellow was born in Lachine, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, in 1915, and was raised in Chicago. He attended the University of Chicago, received his Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1937, with honors in sociology and anthropology, did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, and served in the Merchant Marine during World War II. 1971 Chemistry German-born Gerhard Herzberg for work with ''free radicals'' - molecular fragments which take part in chemical reactions. Taught at University of Saskatchewan 1935-45, went to United States, returned 1948 to National Research Council in Ottawa. 1966 Medicine Charles Brenton Huggins, a Halifax native, graduate of Acadia University, Wolfville, N.S., head of Ben May Cancer Research Laboratory of the University of Chicago, for research into role of hormones in the control of human cancer. Shared award with Peyton Rous of the Rockefeller University. 1957 Peace Lester B. Pearson, before becoming prime minister, for proposing a United Nations peacekeeping force as a means for easing the British and French out of Egypt. 1949 Chemistry William Giauque, a native of Niagara Falls, Ont., for investigating the properties of matter under extremely low temperatures. 1923 Medicine Sir Frederick Banting and J. R. Macleod, for the development of insulin, used in the treatment of diabetes, at the University of Toronto.

Source: Toronto Star, October 13, 1999.

Amazing how many Canadian Nobelists have left Canada for the US.

Of course the US is wild, raunchy, crude, and dangerous. It has always attracted the most intelligent, creative, rebelious, restless, and unmanagable people from the whole world. You deplore this, but I think of it as a public service to humanity.

Why do you think Westerns are so popular?

John

Are they?

Not true. Encouraging people to use 555's should be a misdemeanour, but there are (rare) situations where the the 555 could be the right solution. I've not run into one in thirty years of design work, but I suppose there must be a few applications where it is still the right choice.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

I'm just about to try syncing 3 little smps together. Of course the

555 was the first thing that came into my head as a master clock, say 80K, what would you suggest?

I'm certainly not going to use a PIC

martin

The 74121 and 74221 both produce more stable delays than the 555, with less jitter.

I'd be more likely to stick a crystal oscillator onto a PLD.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

I tried to use one once, but the electrical environment was very harsh; all my circuit did was eat 555s.

So, I started over and used an ordinary astable with some robust transistors, and it got the job done. Unfortunately, the project died due to poor mismanagement. )-;

Cheers! Rich

Thanks Bill, I'd actually forgotten about 74121s etc. but I think an crystal + PLD may be a bit overkill,

martin

In the "Who Really Cares" book, there's a pair of USA maps. One shows the states where people are most generous, in terms of charity, blood donations, volunteerism, that sort of thing. The other map is the states that voted for Kerry. They are almost exact complements.

John

Cripes!

You expect mismanagement as standard. Having poor mismanagement must really suck.

What sort of Mismanagers are schools turning out these days?

DNA

You persist in seeing things in the most simple minded terms. What does that tell us about you?

That I believe in causality?

That the most self-declared-liberal people I've known were also the meanest to real people around them?

OK, what's your, more nuanced, explanation for the mappings?

John

John Larkin wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Ah, aren't you confusing liberal with libertarian? I think there is a difference.

That neither right nor left wing voters are a single block of identical persons. What happened to the 'wide tent' the right keeps proclaiming?

What makes you think the methodology used in the survey accurately describes the claimed result?

Practical experience would suggest that those who do the bulk of the work in helping the afflicted are as different from the Hollywood elite you hate as the conservatives of the mid west are from the Cheneys and Rumsfelds of the world.

Actually, there is no claimed result; just two maps. But I am pretty good at pattern matching, as most engineers are.

Hate? Have I ever expressed hate for anyone?

You are projecting. I don't even hate you.

John

I think when he says "self-declared-liberal" he's excluding Libertarians by default. A "self-declared-liberal" is just a Socialist in a Democrat suit, just like a "neoconservative" is a Nazi in a Republican suit.

Find out how libertarian you are:

Cheers! Rich

Oh, this guy didn't need to go to any school, because he already knew everything. ;-)

Cheers! Rich