Rotten Chinese Cheapskates

Ah, and I assumed they were SMT LEDs. That's why I thought you needed a pad for each LED to meet its resistor.

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ys. China has made huge strides in tackling poverty.

do. But the only other option is for the US as a whole to remain poorer, t o not economically advance.

Government doesn't "punish" employers for creating jobs. They just make dem ands on employers that employers don't much like, but - in aggregate - make society work better.

The Chinese power structure isn't wonderful, but Chinese workers are lot be tter off in crappy factories than when working as under-capitalised farmers .

The process of investing in making workers more productive - and thus more valuable - has been going since the start of the industrial revolution. Chi na hasn't matched the longer established advanced industrial countries yet, but it's a lot closer than it was a few decades ago.

The US lost the plot on this a while back, and is dropping back - too much investing in factories in countries with cheaper wage rates, and not enough in the US. The UK made the same mistake.

Germany is investing more in maintaining a skilled and healthy work force, and export about as much as the US with a quarter of the population and abo ut half as much as China which has about 15 times the population. Bernie Sa nders has noticed this ...

eir jobs and must retrain or otherwise find new work. It's ever so.

Sydney is crawling with baristas. It's not hard to get a really good cup of coffee. One of the better local coffee bars has a branch on Hawaii, but th e coffee they sell there is rotten - Americans don't like good coffee.

One of the after-effects of the Global Financial Crisis, as engineered by l unatic US fringe banks. Dubbya should have acted to deflate the US house pr ice bubble, but he was too busy invading Irak.

No, as they all need to be aimed inward in a cone to meet at the focus of the microscope. That would be a lot harder with SMT. But, If you could mount all the LEDs on globs of solder and aim them, it would make the alignment permanent. As it is, with the leaded LEDs, they get knocked out of alignment every once in a while and need to be re-adjusted.

Jon

no, it runs fine on a 1.5V AA cell. but you can use lithum batteries if you want.

Ah yes, I see it says either, my mistake.

Cheers