OT: Storm in a Teacup

The power-hungry tend to say stuff like that as a rationalization for their own pathology. Meanwhile I've slept with a number of women in my life none of whom I recall asking what car I drove or how much money I made or who I ordered around that day prior to sleeping with me. Maybe they just thought I looked wealthy and powerful or somethin'. Jokes on them I guess LOL

Jean Harlow was my favorite of that era, she probably could've matured to rival Hayworth or Garbo or Bette Davis in popularity probably but sadly she died much too young.

Yes, I'm sure the EU agrees that we should keep Trump here and not let him come to the EU.

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Also women can be pretty good at telling men what they want to hear sometimes similar to the way politicians and the press are.

Reason being kinda like the old saying "Nobody ever got fired/murdered for buying IBM." Men don't listen too good a lot of the time anyway let 'em think whatever they want I guess.

Actually, they aren't but John Larkin can't tell the difference between an emotional reaction and a reasoned argument - probably because he can't follow the logic in a reasoned argument

John Larkin has never demonstrated any capacity to think, which is even sadder.

They had opinions. Some - like John Larkin - will claim to have thought out their opinions, but most of them - like John Larkin - will have failed to notice that the starting points of their reasoning were false premises.

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ith an emotional reaction. He can't do rational thinking, so that fact that he can't recgonise it when he stumbles over it isn't altogether surprisng.

ff he slings together he'd probably be able realise that it makes more sens e to design a transformer for a specific job (and get it wound) than it doe s to try to shoehorn in some arbitrary transformer (designed for some other job) tha he can buy from a dstributor.

The think about custom-wound transformers is that you can always get your l ocal transformer shop to wind another one. You aren't dependent on a huge p roduction line that won't make less than 100,000 of any given part.

I don't enjoy winding them, and am happy to pass the job on to people who m ake a business of it.

Designing them can be interesting. There are lots of variable to play with, and even more to keep in mind.

John Larkin's idea of "design" looks more like everybody else's idea of ran dom improvisation. I've probably designed about dozen very different transf ormers for a dozen very different jobs, and I only did it when the transfor mer offered a real advantage in the specific applications.

If Digikey stocks the transformer you need.

That looks like a power transformer.

So does that - 300Hz, 32VA.

The top one is clearly a choke, not a transformer, and the other two parts also have only two visible connections

That's presumably a transformer but the two halves of the ferrite pot core aren't properly aligned, and it looks as if they are held together with glu e, which isn't good practice.

Four chokes, no transformer.

As the title says, an inductor, not a transformer. I remember the thread, a nd John Larkin couldn't be bothered to find out if a nickel-zinc ferrite co re might have helped.

s a designer, John Larkin doesn't seem to be able to tell the difference be tween a transformer and an choke.

A nickel-zinc ferrite might have let him get enough inductance out of a sho rter (and less resistive) chunk of wire, but John choses to follow the path of minimal incremental change because he can't actually do reasoned design .

It typically costs at least $100 just to get their attention, and the hour or so they have to fiddle around to make even the simplest one-off is going to cost more. Small batches tend to be quite a lot cheaper, since the set up costs are spread over the whole batch.

"If it had been off-the-shelf" is where the problem comes from. The input v oltage has to be right, the output voltage has to be right, the frequency h as to be close to 35kHz, the inter-winding capacitance and leakage inductan ce has to match the job. If you want low leakage inductance you want a bifi lar winding, but this pushes up with inter-winding capacitance

Twaddle. Small signal transformers on standard ferrite cores wound onto the standard coil-formers sold for those cores, can be designed quickly and wo und overnight in any small winding shop.

John Larkin hasn't bothered to find a local coil winding shop, and imagines that it would be difficult.

He acts as if he owns the golf resorts. Trump's financial arrangements are mysterious. He's the first President not to release his tax returns.

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Granting Trump's veracity deficit, he may well owe more than he owns.

Clearly John Larkin needs a lot more exercise than he gets.

nto deficit take their toll.

, and it didn't deliver back them.

Some are more obvious than others. Giving rich Americans even more tax brea ks than they had already is just going to make the USA even more unequal.

At some point or other the bottom 99% of the US income distribution is goin g to get peevish about all the benefits of economic growth ending up with t he top 1% of the income distribution, and rearrange the furniture.

If the top 1% of the income distribution had enough sense to see this comin g, they might be able to negotiate a peaceful transition, but at the moment they seem to be set on maximum greed and minimum foresight.

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England. They have nothing on those who settled the US.

Georgia was a prison colony, and the earliest settlers were either religiou s nutcases or speculators who destroyed everything they got their hands on. The European settlement of North America was the greatest ecological disas ter in the history of mankind bar none. They even out did the Romans who we re pretty bad too.

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The Scots-Irish were a different crowd the English brought over to murder t he Indians in the frontier states North Carolina and Virginia mainly, which they soon regretted, they were a bunch of shiftless, murderous, alcoholics . They were Tories during the revolution and armed by the British to fight the rebellious English in the lowlands. All they did was rampage throughout the countryside murdering farm families living in isolation in such a barb aric manner even the English stopped arming them.

If he tamed his public image, he could be way more popular.

Nice idea. It helps if the sponsors can speak the immigrant's native langua ge. People-importing countries do go to quite a lot of trouble to provide langu age courses to get the immigrants fluent in the local language - I learned Dutch with an immigrant from Afghanistan (who was repeating his medical cou rse so he could go back to being a doctor) and a bunch of people from forme r Yugoslavia.

Any kind of unassimilated group can be bad news. Motorcycle gangs come to m ind.

The American program to make their culture progressively more inegalitarian would seem to be a prime example. Making the rich 1% even richer and the r est of the population progressively poorer isn't a recipe for a stable soci ety.

Just pointing out the irony of the times one of those Fox News bleach blondes, forget which one there are like forty, rambles on about immigrants vs. Real Americans when she's of Irish-German ancestry who arrived on these shores after electric lighting was invented.

A bit galling as my ancestors settled in New England in the mid 1600s, they were the ones who fought the Revolution. Not these Johnny-come-Lately families who seem to think they run the place now. "Real Americans." feh.

Trump hasn't actually done anything. Why would anybody feel the need to cha nge their opinion of him?

If he were sufficiently capable of self-reflection to realise that he could change his public image by behaving differently, he might be able to becom e more popular, but if he'd had that capacity he'd have realised that he sh ouldn't have run for President in the first place.

As Obama pointed out, he's the most poorly qualified candidate for the job who ever ran for it, and his performance in office has been just as poor as one would expect.

They prefer to keep some vestiges of their own culture. America doesn't intrinsically have much culture other than McMansions in sprawling suburbs, Starbucks and McDonalds, buying shit you don't need, eating greasy food and getting fat, and popping anti-depressants.

America has been pretty great at destroying traditional cultures worldwide for a long time, I suppose once everywhere in the world has a Starbucks and everyone from sub-Saharan Africa to Siberia wears baggy ripped jeans and Addidas t-shirts there's nothing left to do but turn on oneself.

China seems determined to beat us at our own game, how do you "beat" China at their game when their game is our game and they're proving to be better at it than we are.

You sound unhappy to me. You should work on that.

Starbucks didn't do well in Australia - Australians take coffee seriously, and Starbucks couldn't compete.

It shut down 61 locations in 2008 - after accumulating $105 million in losses over the previous seven years - and now has only 23.

That certainly *is* one aspect of it, yes. But a lot of the pressure to accept "refugees" is coming from the hard Left, who want to destroy the existing order and replace it with their own particular vision of Global Communism. Communism *never* ends well. Will these people never learn?

One has to wonder how the charitable ideal of accepting refugees - and looking after them until the disorders that they are taking refuge from have been sorted out - becomes a device to "destroy the existing order".

It's even less obvious how having a bunch of refugees around could support some kind of transition to some alternative social order.

They aren't exactly a organised group.

Cursitor Doom is a remarkably gullible dimwit, but that particular line of idiocy is even more demented than his usual output.

One concept is that Putin has "weaponised" the Syrian refugee situation in the knowledge that it can foment unrest in his adversaries' countries.

While I doubt that is his principal intention, I believe he welcomes it and hasn't taken any action that might reduce such unrest.

Others will be more inclined to believe that unrest is a principal objective. It is difficult to provide convincing arguments to the contrary.

And I'm sure Putin is delighted that Trump is driving a wedge between NATO countries, weakening that alliance. While Erdogan is not somebody I would invite into my house(!), Trump appears to be acting in a way that benefits Putin.