Re: lateral mosfets vs. bjts in audio amplifier design

[Rich the Philosophizer]

Well, somebody has to come up with a biochemical explanation of how random
amino acids could self-assemble into DNA-based life, in a "primal soup"
concentration that was essentially distilled water. Beyond fuzzy
hand-waving.

This is a bit pre-biochemical:
http://godchannel.com/bodyclass.html

Hope This Helps!
Rich

 

[Eeyore]

One of us, apparently, the British or the Irish.

The Irish Free State was not a consequence of WW1 other than had WW1 not
occurred and delayed matters, Home Rule (as it was then called i.e. a
form of independence but maintaining links to Britain) might already
have been given to ALL of Ireland before that time by the British.

Did you not know even before EU rulings on these matters, the citizens
of the Irish Republic maintained their right to vote in British
Elections btw ? They never lost it.

As for India, that's quite another matter overall. If *anyone* can make
that claim it would have been the Japanese and I doubt the Indians would
have liked them very much compared to us. Much as the Malyans didn't.
The post-war Malayan uprising was basically a Communist led revolt than
a widely popular uprising btw.

Your racist based history needs a LOT of serious amendment.

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

She also apparently wants to deny women's right to ownership of their
own bodies - evidently in her universe, women aren't human, but are
beasts of burden to be used to make new little minions for the pope, or
something.

Or Allah.

Religious fundamentalism makes curious bedfellows.

Vote None of the Above:
http://www.bobbarr2008.com/

There's no UK Party that represents my views either.

I think the 'Party System' has failed us all totally. 'Neer nerr' or would
the be 'neener neener' in the USA politics are just destructive.

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

Yah, you betcha! >;->

Except your and my idea of them is probably VERY different to Sarah palin !

BTW saw on BBC4 last night an excellent 1 hour gig with Jeff Beck at Ronnie
Scott's in London. Guest appearances from Joss Stone and Eric Clapton.

But the really amazing thing for me for me was the 22 yo. Australian female
bass guitarist. Rated most promising bass guitarist of 2008, WOW - she's
playing with GIANTS at such an early age. Keep your eye on her.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal_Wilkenfeld

If you go to her MySpace there's a couple of nice pics too.

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

Apparently, John's in good company:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/22/al-qaeda-supporters-endor_n_136779.html
(scroll down)

The beginning is bad enouh !

"WASHINGTON — Al-Qaida supporters suggested in a Web site message this week they
would welcome a pre-election terror attack on the U.S. as a way to usher in a McCain
presidency.

The message, posted Monday on the password-protected al-Hesbah Web site, said if
al-Qaida wants to exhaust the United States militarily and economically, "impetuous"
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain is the better choice because he
is more likely to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"This requires presence of an impetuous American leader such as McCain, who pledged
to continue the war till the last American soldier," the message said. "Then,
al-Qaida will have to support McCain in the coming elections so that he continues
the failing march of his predecessor, Bush."

SITE Intelligence Group, based in Bethesda, Md., monitors the Web site and
translated the message.

"If al-Qaida carries out a big operation against American interests," the message
said, "this act will be support of McCain because it will push the Americans
deliberately to vote for McCain so that he takes revenge for them against al-Qaida.
Al-Qaida then will succeed in exhausting America till its last year in it."
"

God help us <irony>


Graham

 

[Eeyore]

Are you suggesting that there was life on Earth before the dinos? I am
shocked, shocked.

I see nothing impossible about it. There could easily have been another far further previous mass
extinction. Look at some sea animals for example.

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

And the ET seeders planted all those million-year-old human fossils
just to fool us?

20,000 years??!! And you make fun of Christian fundamentalists!

When does recorded history begin ? Why does it go back no further ?

BTW 'Lucy' is FAR from human, although seemingly closest to us of all the fossils of that type.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopithecus_afarensis#Lucy

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

Not 10-20 thousand years!

So why is there no recorded history or sign of civilisation before then ?

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

Complete nonsense. The US has systematically overthrown, legitimate
democracies all around the world.

Have you never heard of Noam Chomsky?


Like, the 45 million kids in the US with no health cover.


Completely delusional.

You need learn a bit about your own country mate.

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/CIAtimeline.html

e.g.some snippets...

1953

Iran - CIA overthrows the democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh in a
military coup,

1954

Guatemala - CIA overthrows the democratically elected Jacob Arbenz in a
military coup.

1957-1973

Laos - The CIA carries out approximately one coup per year trying to nullify
Laos' democratic elections.

1959

Haiti - The U.S. military helps "Papa Doc" Duvalier become dictator of
Haiti.

etc..etc...

I don't know where Larkin got his history from, but compared to his admirable
technical skills he is a dunce of the first order in world history (and the
USA's involvement in it - not to mention the British involvement too). If anyone
spread democracy widely across the globe it was Great Britain. Of course Great
Britain does contain the world's oldest continuous Parliament without break,
Tynwald, in the Isle of Man, over 1000 years old now.

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

You are completely clueless on this John. I am stunned.

If DNA was generated by designer, where did this designer come from?

It's the 'Russian Doll' problem.

Graham

 

[krw]

Probably like a braying donkey (in his image).

 

[Eeyore]

"John Larkin" wrote


You're claiming that a God-like being can be evolved but a dung beetle can't?
Wow.

John is normally very rational, but I am totally perplexed by his current posts.

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

I don't know where Larkin got his history from, but compared to his admirable
technical skills he is a dunce of the first order in world history (and the
USA's involvement in it - not to mention the British involvement too). If anyone
spread democracy widely across the globe it was Great Britain. Of course Great
Britain does contain the world's oldest continuous Parliament without break,
Tynwald, in the Isle of Man, over 1000 years old now.

Graham

I have, and have read, hundreds of history books, predominantly
European history. Not to mention tons of literature from Chaucer to
current stuff [1]. And a ton of military and maritime history.

But you didn't know that the Isle of Man has the oldest parliament. Bicameral too.

I've also traveled and worked a good deal in the UK, Ireland, France,
Russia, and Japan.

That's where I get my history from. Where do you get yours?

I found school to be pretty effective plus whatever reading I choose to do. Since
when was Chaucer history btw ?

John

[1] the attitudes of the Brits towards the Irish have been interesting
over the last few centuries.

Care to elaborate ? There was an Act of Union between Ireland and Great Britain you
know around or during 1800, just as between England and Scotland a little earlier.

Graham

 

[Eeyore]

[1] the attitudes of the Brits towards the Irish have been interesting
over the last few centuries.

BTW, how would you like to live in a religious state with Catholic influenced laws ?

It's called the Irish Republic or Eire if you hadn't guessed. In recent times it
notably tried to prevent a young girl who had been raped travelling to the UK (or
elsewhere in the EU despite EU - of which Eire is a member- laws guaranteeing freedom
of movement) for an abortion (it's illegal in Eire). I forget the final outcome. They
wanted to force her to give birth for Papist reasoning.

I suppose you'll say "she shouldn't have got raped" ?

Graham

 

[MooseFET]

Returning to the matter of the grand sister Sarrra: The religious
obsession was also among the reasons of failure of Hindu, Chinese,
Turkish, Spanish, Aztec civilizations.

Lets not forget Easter Island where they cut down all the trees to
move the big rocks.

 

[MooseFET]

On Oct 26, 12:47 pm, John Larkin
[....]

So, where did the universe come from?

The universe is just the sort of thing that happens now and then.
With quantum physics, no cause or source is needed just very long
odds.

Does consciousness exist, and if it does, has it any special place in
creation?

Since there is no "creation", it just *is*.

 

[MooseFET]

I can find no arrangements of mass in 3D where the cancellation would
form a line. I admit it is late at night so perhaps my brain isn't
working so well but it appears to me that no such arrangement is
possible without infinite masses at infinite distances.

I don't see any way that gravity could cause this sort of action. A
uniformly distributed mass would have no effect. Something else would
have to be the cause.

 

[JosephKK]

Nonsense. Faith is a belief without evidence, the *evidence* that life
evolved on earth is beyond reasonable scientific doubt. where or not there
was any prior evolution, as in stuff arriving from space, is not relevant.

You appear to confuse "faith", "belief without evidence" and "belief
without proof.". Proof is never possible, for anything, in principle,
although disproof may be.


No where. Why do you propose the universe had to come from somewhere?


Of course it exists. If you have any doubt, let me come over tio your place
and let me kick you in the balls. However, its existance, does not imply
that consciousness can do anything.

It irrelevant whether or not consciousness can be "proven". Consciousness is
a new axiom of physics, just like the speed of light axiom.. It can not be
reduced.to anything further.


Oh dear....I just don't have time for correcting all this nonsense. *NO*
reputable physicists take the view that consciousness plays any part in QM.
Period. You are reading the wrong books mate.

http://www.kevinaylward.co.uk/qm/index.html

" It makes no difference whatsoever, whether the physicist observes a double
slit experiment or not. If he is outside smoking a cigarette, rather than
watching his equipment dials, it makes not the slightest difference to the
result, and never has such observer created reality ever occurred. The
"observer" is the physical setup of the equipment, not the conscious
observer."

Kevin Aylward

www.kevinaylward.co.uk

Not the approach i usually hear. Moreover, it has consequences. With
most quantum mechanics experiments we get statistical results; but the
experiments are designed that way due to measurement problems. Perhaps
if we looked at different experimental designs we would get different
results.

 

[JosephKK]

---
"Beyond reasonable scientific doubt?"

LOL, the fact that it _evolved_ here into what it is now is as plain as
the nose on your face, for goodness' sake!

What isn't as glaringly obvious is whether it (life, not your nose)
sprang into being on its own, here, whether extraterrestrial organic
molecules capable of assembling themselves into living structures
arrived here solely by chance, or whether the Earth was intentionally
seeded by sentient carriers of the seeds.
---


---
The point is, life had to originate somehow and if it didn't spring up
spontaneously, then it had to be designed.

You say it must have come into being on its own because you can't bear
to think that since you think you're the crown of creation and can't
create life it must have happened accidentally.

There is an interesting oxymoron here. How could someone be the crown
of "Creation" yet not believe in creation?

 

[JosephKK]

The Pilgrims weren't being forced to worship a religion they didn't agree
with. They were merely a sect.

Graham

Horribly misinformed is the best that i call that. Read up on the
Reformation please. Religious persecution in Europe has over 1000
years history.