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[Jan Panteltje]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Jim Thompson


Indeed: Japanese science made a major contribution to both of them.

It was invented by Philips (Eindhoven Netherlands).
They teamed up with Sony later.
Sony wanted the CD to be a bit bigger, so Beethovens largest (IIRC)
would fit on it.

Well, we do. What is your point?

We do not have to go and kill Iraqies to get some.

 

[Jan Panteltje]

Looks like there's some *serious* brain-washing going on in Euro-land.

Particularly got a kick out of "without Europe no CD no DVD" and "we
have our own oil / natural gass" ;-)

ROTFLMAO!

I think I can safely nominate Jan Panteltje as Best Village Idiot of
2004.

Well, you are obviously still drunk, or born that way, but anyways you
asked what I was arrested for... I will tell you:
Killing a drunken Usenet poster....
While I was standing there with the knife, blood dripping from it,
my suit all messed up of cause, the police came screeching in, sirens
and all, and told me to reach for the sky.
Decided to play along, and while the gallows were being put up, in that old
courthouse, judge Killdare was at it.
All 12 members of the jury had seen it happen too.
Now you may wonder how I got away with it, as I am now writing this.
Well, I did the Perry Mason voice thing... and did my own defense of cause.
It looked really bad and people were crying, and this guy came up to me
to get my size, for the coffin, you know.
But fortunately there was an Internet connection in that court, and my
request to use it was sustained.
I did a quick printout of some of that victims (Think his name was
Tom Jimpson or something), and handed it to the jury.
They took only a short time, and unanimously decided I was not guilty.
The judge looked a bit surprised: 'Ladies and gentlemen of the Jury, HOW
did you come to that conclusions?' he asked...
'Well, from these postings we can see that the victim was brain dead.
Since he was brain dead, he was already technically dead, and so was not
killed'.
The judge fumbled through his books for a long time, and then finally said:
'Justice has been done', and also had the relatives of that guy pay for
cleaning my suit, as I was merely doing a service to the community, when I
tried to dispose of the body of the braindead.

So there is a lesson here...

Copyright Jan Panteltje 2004 All Rights Reserved.

 

[Jim Yanik]

We do not have to go and kill Iraqies to get some.

Uh,I don't believe the US is getting ANY oil from Iraq.
IIRC,US oil sources are presently domestic,Venezuela,and Mexico.

 

[Paul Burridge]

'Well, from these postings we can see that the victim was brain dead.
Since he was brain dead, he was already technically dead, and so was not
killed'.

LOL! Jim may not be *quite* brain dead yet but he's headed that way,
judging by the content of his recent postings. ;->

 

[Frank Bemelman]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Jim Thompson


Indeed: Japanese science made a major contribution to both of them.

Who get's the largest part of the royalties?

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Terry Given <[email protected]>

kaching

The younger generations won't understand that. 'Pip-pip-pip' maybe. It's
beyond the range of my hearing now. -(

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 04:06:51 -0700, "Terry Given"

[snip]

CSIRO in Australia developed a real-time system that is (IIRC) used to
monitor long-haul truck drivers, reading license plates and measuring
present speed, average speed [if s/(t2-t1) > speed limit, kaching - $$] and
travel times to ensure rest break compliance etc.

The *real* way to do that utilizes GPS plus two-way pagers as
communication links. My oldest son wrote some software for such a
system that tracks truckers here in the US.

...Jim Thompson

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Jim Thompson

My oldest son wrote some software for such a
system that tracks truckers here in the US.

Is this a trick to track truckers in mid-trek?

 

[Jim Thompson]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Jim Thompson


Is this a trick to track truckers in mid-trek?

LOL ;-)

...Jim Thompson

 

[Jan Panteltje]

Uh,I don't believe the US is getting ANY oil from Iraq.
IIRC,US oil sources are presently domestic,Venezuela,and Mexico.

Then what the fuss about 'rebels' blowing up pipe lines as soon
as these carry oil?
Of cause the US wants the Iraq oil, but they cannot get it, or
have great trouble getting it.
JP

 

[Jim Yanik]

On a sunny day (Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:28:55 +0000 (UTC)) it happened Jim
Yanik

Then what the fuss about 'rebels' blowing up pipe lines as soon
as these carry oil?
Of cause the US wants the Iraq oil, but they cannot get it, or
have great trouble getting it.
JP

The oil revenue is for rebuilding IRAQ. Boy,you sure are uninformed.
(or prejudiced,which is more likely.It's blinding you.)

All those terrorists are doing is making life more difficult for their own
"people".

 

[KR Williams]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Terry Given <[email protected]>


The younger generations won't understand that. 'Pip-pip-pip' maybe. It's
beyond the range of my hearing now. -(

Well, my gray hair is enough so that I should have understood
(and I did from the original post), but your *close* snipping
made me think it was some mutilated form of Kaching (caching ;-).
Usually when I've seen the word it's ca-CHING! ...or some such
onomonopea.

 

[Dave VanHorn]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Jim Thompson


Is this a trick to track truckers in mid-trek?

www.findu.com is my particular system.

 

[Terry Given]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:00:10 -0700, Charles Edmondson

[snip]

My 91 express lanes system was qualified to 100+ MPH, though!

--
Charlie


Question for you Charlie: Wouldn't a bar-code sticker in the window
be a more economic way to assign tolls? Sometimes I think we get so
enamored of technology that we forget the easy ways to do things.

...Jim Thompson

Hi Jim,
Not really. Remember, you have to take into account weather, road dirt,
and of course, customer obstinance! It is too easy to obscure a bar
code and make it unreadable. (of course, someone once thought of having
a bar coded license plate...)

Bar codes don't really buy you much in the way of target acquisition.
Once you have found the bar code or a license plate and manage to read
either, the computational problem of character recognition isn't much
more difficult than reading the bar codes.

Cars already have license plates, so money doesn't need to be spend
deploying additional identification devices to vehicles.

CSIRO in Australia developed a real-time system that is (IIRC) used to
monitor long-haul truck drivers, reading license plates and measuring
present speed, average speed [if s/(t2-t1) > speed limit, kaching - $$] and
travel times to ensure rest break compliance etc.

 

[Paul Burridge]

The oil revenue is for rebuilding IRAQ. Boy,you sure are uninformed.
(or prejudiced,which is more likely.It's blinding you.)

I don't wish to get side-tracked into an OT discussion on this
subject, but I think the principle objection is that the contracts are
being awarded to American and British companies for all the
reconstruction work and that the Americans as the occupying power hold
the nation's resources as Trustees and have no right to dispose of
them in such a way as to directly benefit from them. It's a breach of
a Trustee's common law duty in any jurisdiction I can think of.

All those terrorists are doing is making life more difficult for their own
"people".

In case you haven't noticed, they're doing rather more than that, as
the ever increasing tally of allied dead attests.

 

[Jan Panteltje]

The oil revenue is for rebuilding IRAQ. Boy,you sure are uninformed.
(or prejudiced,which is more likely.It's blinding you.)

All those terrorists are doing is making life more difficult for their own
"people".

hehe, you seem to have some problems with observing...
Iraq was a mayor oil exporter before the first golf (or gulf) war.
THEN the money went to the Iraqies, later it went into the pockets of some
UN people it seems (according to the news was taken from the food for oil
or whatever it was called program), and now it is used to buy
US weapons to help kill the Iraqies.
JP

 

[Jim Yanik]

On a sunny day (Sat, 24 Apr 2004 01:19:39 +0000 (UTC)) it happened Jim
Yanik

hehe, you seem to have some problems with observing...
Iraq was a mayor oil exporter before the first golf (or gulf) war.
THEN the money went to the Iraqies, later it went into the pockets of
some UN people it seems (according to the news was taken from the food
for oil or whatever it was called program),

*Saddam* received the food-for-oil money,and used it to buy off UN
nations,and for renovating his palaces,and buying WMD materials.

and now it is used to buy
US weapons to help kill the Iraqies.
JP

what's your evidence for this?

 

[Jan Panteltje]

what's your evidence for this?

Iraq body count.
If there is no oil export from Iraq, then WHY did they bomb the
ships in Basra yesterday?
It is the US exporting Iraq oil, the profits go into Cheneys pockets,
he pays tax, and that tax is used to buy weapons, bombs, to drop
on Iraqi civilians.
If you are in the US your tax money is used too.
Do I need to get more specific?
JP

 

[Winfield Hill]

Jan Panteltje wrote...

If there is no oil export from Iraq, then WHY did they bomb the
ships in Basra yesterday?
It is the US exporting Iraq oil, the profits go into Cheneys
pockets, he pays tax, and that tax is used to buy weapons, bombs,
to drop on Iraqi civilians. [snip]

The current Iraq oil export rate is 1.6M barrels a day (most of
which leaves by ship from Basra). At $20 per barrel on-the-ship,
assuming 300 days/year, that's 9.6B per year. A short time ago
congress approved $87B to pay for added costs and reconstruction
in Iraq, and that was the 2nd large budget outlay. So clearly
oil $$, even assuming we kept any of it, wouldn't pay the bill.

When the $87B was argued, some in congress said we should keep
the oil money in partial repayment, but the administration said
this would send a wrong signal and that idea was dropped. After
all, at only about 10%, why make an ugly issue?

Thanks,
- Win

whill_at_picovolt-dot-com (use hill_at_rowland-dot-org for now)

 

[Klaus Vestergaard Kragelund]

Jan Panteltje wrote...

If there is no oil export from Iraq, then WHY did they bomb the
ships in Basra yesterday?
It is the US exporting Iraq oil, the profits go into Cheneys
pockets, he pays tax, and that tax is used to buy weapons, bombs,
to drop on Iraqi civilians. [snip]

The current Iraq oil export rate is 1.6M barrels a day (most of
which leaves by ship from Basra). At $20 per barrel on-the-ship,
assuming 300 days/year, that's 9.6B per year. A short time ago
congress approved $87B to pay for added costs and reconstruction
in Iraq, and that was the 2nd large budget outlay. So clearly
oil $$, even assuming we kept any of it, wouldn't pay the bill.

Its not all black and white. Where's the weapons produced?

Well, in USA, the majority of them anyway - so even if it did not match up
exactly, there's still a cash-flow going on.........

Cheers

Klaus