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OT: Hee! Hee!

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First post2017-12-28 12:34 -0700
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  OT: Hee! Hee! Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> - 2017-12-28 12:34 -0700
    Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-28 17:45 -0500
      Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-28 20:17 -0500
        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-28 21:41 -0500
          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-28 21:45 -0500
            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-28 22:02 -0500
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-28 22:11 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-28 22:24 -0500
                  Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-28 22:39 -0500
            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-29 11:47 -0600
          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-28 21:54 -0500
        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-12-28 19:53 -0800
          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-28 23:39 -0500
            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-28 23:43 -0500
            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 00:00 -0500
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-12-28 21:52 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 01:20 -0500
                  Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-29 11:57 -0600
                    Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 13:11 -0500
                      Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-29 14:22 -0600
                  Re: OT: Hee! Hee! John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-12-29 12:26 -0800
                    Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 16:10 -0500
                    Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 16:15 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 13:10 -0500
                  Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 13:33 -0500
                    Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 13:42 -0500
                      Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 13:48 -0500
                        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 14:16 -0500
                      Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com> - 2017-12-29 19:43 +0000
                        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 14:51 -0500
                          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com> - 2017-12-29 21:53 +0000
                            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 17:29 -0500
                        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 17:39 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com> - 2017-12-29 19:39 +0000
                  Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 14:59 -0500
                    Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com> - 2017-12-29 21:54 +0000
                      Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 18:32 -0500
                  Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 17:41 -0500
            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-12-28 21:51 -0800
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-28 22:18 -0800
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 02:18 -0500
          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 07:46 -0800
            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 11:05 -0500
            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 13:16 -0500
            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-12-29 13:01 -0800
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 15:13 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Lasse Langwadt Christensen <langwadt@fonz.dk> - 2017-12-29 15:25 -0800
                  Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 15:32 -0800
                    Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Lasse Langwadt Christensen <langwadt@fonz.dk> - 2017-12-29 16:44 -0800
                  Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 18:45 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 18:44 -0500
                  Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 15:56 -0800
                    Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 20:08 -0500
                    Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 22:28 -0500
                      Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-30 07:34 -0800
                        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 11:29 -0500
                          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-30 09:54 -0800
                            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 14:56 -0500
                              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-30 13:53 -0800
                                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 17:28 -0500
                                  Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-30 15:09 -0800
                                  Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-30 17:27 -0800
                          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-30 17:04 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-12-30 18:07 -0800
                  Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-30 19:14 -0800
                  Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-31 07:38 -0800
                    Re: OT: Hee! Hee! John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-12-31 10:40 -0800
                      Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-31 10:55 -0800
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-29 18:37 -0800
    Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-28 20:17 -0500
      Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-28 18:03 -0800
        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-28 21:28 -0500
          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 07:30 -0800
            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 13:18 -0500
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 10:46 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 13:50 -0500
                  Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 11:02 -0800
                    Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 17:45 -0500
                      Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 15:06 -0800
            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-29 14:53 -0600
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 16:02 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-29 15:20 -0600
                  Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 18:58 -0500
                    Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-30 08:41 -0600
                      Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 11:27 -0500
                        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-30 12:13 -0500
                          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 12:26 -0500
                      Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-30 12:15 -0500
                        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 12:28 -0500
        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com - 2017-12-29 09:36 -0800
          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 09:43 -0800
            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com - 2017-12-29 10:53 -0800
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 11:16 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com - 2017-12-29 11:58 -0800
                  Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 14:05 -0800
                    Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-31 07:04 -0600
                      Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-31 07:44 -0800
                        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-31 12:49 -0600
                  Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-29 19:05 -0800
                    Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-30 07:12 -0500
                      Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-31 07:13 -0600
                        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Michael A Terrell <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-31 23:43 -0500
                  Re: OT: Hee! Hee! John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-12-31 10:45 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-29 15:08 -0600
                  Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 14:07 -0800
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com> - 2017-12-29 20:07 +0000
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 15:52 -0500
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-29 19:10 -0800
            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 15:09 -0500
              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 14:09 -0800
                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 18:35 -0500
                  Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 16:03 -0800
                    Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 19:51 -0500
                      Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-30 07:43 -0800
                        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-30 11:20 -0500
                          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-30 11:25 -0500
                          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-30 09:37 -0800
                        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 11:32 -0500
                          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-30 11:42 -0500
                            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 12:29 -0500
                              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-31 08:24 -0500
                                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-31 09:32 -0500
                          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-30 17:13 -0800
                        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-30 16:52 -0800
                          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-31 11:00 -0800
                      Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-31 07:19 -0600
                        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-31 08:35 -0500
                        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-31 08:46 -0500
                          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-31 08:32 -0800
                        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-31 06:05 -0800
                          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-31 09:20 -0600
                            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-31 19:32 -0800
                              Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2018-01-01 06:44 -0600
                                Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2018-01-01 06:47 -0800
                                  Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2018-01-01 09:56 -0600
                                    Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2018-01-01 17:31 -0800
                        Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-31 09:39 -0500
                          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-31 09:00 -0600
                            Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-31 16:39 -0500
                          Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-31 19:11 -0800

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#489555

Frombitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net>
Date2017-12-29 02:18 -0500
Message-ID<e%l1C.61842$qV5.20092@fx37.iad>
In reply to#489547
On 12/29/2017 12:51 AM, John Larkin wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 23:39:36 -0500, bitrex
> <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/28/2017 10:53 PM, John Larkin wrote:
>>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 20:17:51 -0500, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 17:45:55 -0500, bitrex
>>>> <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 12/28/2017 02:34 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
>>>>>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/tax-bill-spawns-new-holiday-ritual-waiting-in-line-to-pay-taxes/2017/12/27/1e7ea59a-eb12-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_prepay921pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.fbd9b2130809>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You residents of the Tax & Spend States deserve it >:-}
>>>>>> 		
>>>>>>                                            ...Jim Thompson
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> They really know how to stick it to all their wealthy Republican-voting
>>>>> buddies in Massachusetts:
>>>>
>>>> Both of them?  They'll move if they're worried.
>>>>>
>>>>> <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election_results_by_municipality%2C_2014.svg>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Not my problem", why would I want to own overpriced property in this
>>>>> frozen tundra, anyway?
>>>>>
>>>>> But the chances that those folks will decide to all pack up and move to
>>>>> some "Real America" Midwestern hillbilly shithole so they can vote in
>>>>> solidarity for Trump 2020 are slim to none.
>>>
>>> Think about any big leftist coastal city. They are sinkholes with
>>> powerlines, gas and product pipelines, ships, thousands of trucks
>>> every day keeping those Whole Foods and Pottery Barns full and
>>> shipping in wine and kale and varietal coffee beans.  What those
>>> lawyers and insurance agents and stock brokers contribute to the
>>> "hillbillies" is zero or less. Without those deplorable redneck
>>> farmers and oil workers and truckers, they would be eating one another
>>> in a month.
>>>
>>> Most of those urban liberals have nothing but contempt for the people
>>> who keep them alive.
>>
>> I give them my money willingly. What more do they want, a fuckin' medal
>> or something? Is cash insufficient gratitude? Because someone drills
>> some oil I pay them for I have to also love them and their politics
>> which I don't agree with and often do find deplorable or _I'm_ the bad
>> person? They definitely don't have a single kind word to say about me
>> I'll reckon, that's for sure.
>>
>> Jeez, take the fillings outta my teeth, why dontcha.
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Contempt, especially of people who you don't know, is an ugly thing.
> 
> 

I pay them my money, for which they provide a valuable service. What 
would they care what I think of them?! They're the ones who have my 
money now! We engaged in a fair exchange of goods on the open market 
which is what at least I was under the impression American free-market 
capitalism was all about.

What does my internal emotional state have to do with anything? Has the 
Cato Institute written anything about this?

I can't imagine who would feel it was "ugly" or for what possible reason 
they'd give a shit what some snowflake leftist thought of them after 
banking his paper.

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#489566

FromJoerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
Date2017-12-29 07:46 -0800
Message-ID<fan69vFs0seU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#489535
On 2017-12-28 19:53, John Larkin wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 20:17:51 -0500, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 17:45:55 -0500, bitrex
>> <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/28/2017 02:34 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
>>>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/tax-bill-spawns-new-holiday-ritual-waiting-in-line-to-pay-taxes/2017/12/27/1e7ea59a-eb12-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_prepay921pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.fbd9b2130809>
>>>>
>>>> You residents of the Tax & Spend States deserve it >:-}
>>>> 		
>>>>                                           ...Jim Thompson
>>>>
>>>
>>> They really know how to stick it to all their wealthy Republican-voting
>>> buddies in Massachusetts:
>>
>> Both of them?  They'll move if they're worried.
>>>
>>> <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election_results_by_municipality%2C_2014.svg>
>>>
>>> "Not my problem", why would I want to own overpriced property in this
>>> frozen tundra, anyway?
>>>
>>> But the chances that those folks will decide to all pack up and move to
>>> some "Real America" Midwestern hillbilly shithole so they can vote in
>>> solidarity for Trump 2020 are slim to none.
>
> Think about any big leftist coastal city. They are sinkholes with
> powerlines, gas and product pipelines, ships, thousands of trucks
> every day keeping those Whole Foods and Pottery Barns full and
> shipping in wine and kale and varietal coffee beans.


Kale? Phtooei!


>                                               ... What those
> lawyers and insurance agents and stock brokers contribute to the
> "hillbillies" is zero or less. Without those deplorable redneck
> farmers and oil workers and truckers, they would be eating one another
> in a month.
>
> Most of those urban liberals have nothing but contempt for the people
> who keep them alive.
>

Until those people come out in droves to vote like they did in 2016.


> http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Redfin-s-Glenn-Kelman-predicts-a-mass-tech-12459845.php
>
> There are a lot of coastal urbanites moving to the South. They go for
> economic reasons and stay because they like it.
>
> https://www.huffingtonpost.com/margarita-hakobyan/main-reasons-millennials-_b_11274098.html
>
> http://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/San-Franciscans-moving-to-The-South-12300064.php
>

Many of my clients are now in ... Texas. No surprise there. To me that 
just means I have to get up early because their day starts 2h before 
ours. Many Texans are hardcore. A call during hurricane Harvey went 
something like this: "Could we also use a normal charge control here ... 
wait, there is water coming in here ... dang ... well, now, about that 
charge controller, let's talk about our options for that".

My former employer opted for a rather drastic change. They moved from 
Rancho Cordova (California) to Coyol (Costa Rica).

-- 
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

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#489569

Frombitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net>
Date2017-12-29 11:05 -0500
Message-ID<_It1C.33873$247.29020@fx40.iad>
In reply to#489566
On 12/29/2017 10:46 AM, Joerg wrote:
> On 2017-12-28 19:53, John Larkin wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 20:17:51 -0500, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 17:45:55 -0500, bitrex
>>> <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 12/28/2017 02:34 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
>>>>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/tax-bill-spawns-new-holiday-ritual-waiting-in-line-to-pay-taxes/2017/12/27/1e7ea59a-eb12-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_prepay921pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.fbd9b2130809> 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You residents of the Tax & Spend States deserve it >:-}
>>>>>
>>>>>                                           ...Jim Thompson
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> They really know how to stick it to all their wealthy Republican-voting
>>>> buddies in Massachusetts:
>>>
>>> Both of them?  They'll move if they're worried.
>>>>
>>>> <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election_results_by_municipality%2C_2014.svg> 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Not my problem", why would I want to own overpriced property in this
>>>> frozen tundra, anyway?
>>>>
>>>> But the chances that those folks will decide to all pack up and move to
>>>> some "Real America" Midwestern hillbilly shithole so they can vote in
>>>> solidarity for Trump 2020 are slim to none.
>>
>> Think about any big leftist coastal city. They are sinkholes with
>> powerlines, gas and product pipelines, ships, thousands of trucks
>> every day keeping those Whole Foods and Pottery Barns full and
>> shipping in wine and kale and varietal coffee beans.
> 
> 
> Kale? Phtooei!
> 
> 
>>                                               ... What those
>> lawyers and insurance agents and stock brokers contribute to the
>> "hillbillies" is zero or less. Without those deplorable redneck
>> farmers and oil workers and truckers, they would be eating one another
>> in a month.
>>
>> Most of those urban liberals have nothing but contempt for the people
>> who keep them alive.
>>
> 
> Until those people come out in droves to vote like they did in 2016.

Not so much that they came out in droves, it's just that the wingnuts 
all came out to vote the same way they always do, while 
non-wingnuts/anyone who votes their conscience rather than whatever dung 
the usual primary process serves up from time to time found themselves 
disgusted with the whole mess and either went third-party, or didn't 
bother to show. Not wanting to vote for Hillary is a perfectly 
understandable sentiment - hey, I didn't pick her and she'd not have 
been my choice if anyone had asked.

My impression from the primary process is that both parties are in 
serious doo-doo from a direction standpoint. A washed up ranting 
game-show host was literally the best option? I know true believers are 
very impressed with the tough-talkin' act and don't care much what the 
rest of the world thinks, but America does have enemies and they must've 
been chuckling their asses off on election night.







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#489588

Fromkrw@notreal.com
Date2017-12-29 13:16 -0500
Message-ID<ia1d4dtfc157bqj5lug474586s9ockv5tj@4ax.com>
In reply to#489566
On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 07:46:19 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
wrote:

>On 2017-12-28 19:53, John Larkin wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 20:17:51 -0500, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 17:45:55 -0500, bitrex
>>> <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 12/28/2017 02:34 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
>>>>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/tax-bill-spawns-new-holiday-ritual-waiting-in-line-to-pay-taxes/2017/12/27/1e7ea59a-eb12-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_prepay921pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.fbd9b2130809>
>>>>>
>>>>> You residents of the Tax & Spend States deserve it >:-}
>>>>> 		
>>>>>                                           ...Jim Thompson
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> They really know how to stick it to all their wealthy Republican-voting
>>>> buddies in Massachusetts:
>>>
>>> Both of them?  They'll move if they're worried.
>>>>
>>>> <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election_results_by_municipality%2C_2014.svg>
>>>>
>>>> "Not my problem", why would I want to own overpriced property in this
>>>> frozen tundra, anyway?
>>>>
>>>> But the chances that those folks will decide to all pack up and move to
>>>> some "Real America" Midwestern hillbilly shithole so they can vote in
>>>> solidarity for Trump 2020 are slim to none.
>>
>> Think about any big leftist coastal city. They are sinkholes with
>> powerlines, gas and product pipelines, ships, thousands of trucks
>> every day keeping those Whole Foods and Pottery Barns full and
>> shipping in wine and kale and varietal coffee beans.
>
>
>Kale? Phtooei!
>
>
>>                                               ... What those
>> lawyers and insurance agents and stock brokers contribute to the
>> "hillbillies" is zero or less. Without those deplorable redneck
>> farmers and oil workers and truckers, they would be eating one another
>> in a month.
>>
>> Most of those urban liberals have nothing but contempt for the people
>> who keep them alive.
>>
>
>Until those people come out in droves to vote like they did in 2016.

Urban liberals think better of the people in flyover country since
their Felonia Milhouse von-Pantsuit went down in flames?
>
>> http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Redfin-s-Glenn-Kelman-predicts-a-mass-tech-12459845.php
>>
>> There are a lot of coastal urbanites moving to the South. They go for
>> economic reasons and stay because they like it.
>>
>> https://www.huffingtonpost.com/margarita-hakobyan/main-reasons-millennials-_b_11274098.html
>>
>> http://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/San-Franciscans-moving-to-The-South-12300064.php
>>
>
>Many of my clients are now in ... Texas. No surprise there. To me that 
>just means I have to get up early because their day starts 2h before 
>ours. Many Texans are hardcore. A call during hurricane Harvey went 
>something like this: "Could we also use a normal charge control here ... 
>wait, there is water coming in here ... dang ... well, now, about that 
>charge controller, let's talk about our options for that".

Rather the typical Midwestern work ethic.  When it's harvest time,
it's harvest time and nothing gets in the way.
>
>My former employer opted for a rather drastic change. They moved from 
>Rancho Cordova (California) to Coyol (Costa Rica).

I certainly understand that change of venue.

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#489628

FromJohn Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com>
Date2017-12-29 13:01 -0800
Message-ID<099d4d9059cn4nela973ot7p260ihkpifi@4ax.com>
In reply to#489566
On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 07:46:19 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
wrote:

>On 2017-12-28 19:53, John Larkin wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 20:17:51 -0500, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 17:45:55 -0500, bitrex
>>> <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 12/28/2017 02:34 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
>>>>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/tax-bill-spawns-new-holiday-ritual-waiting-in-line-to-pay-taxes/2017/12/27/1e7ea59a-eb12-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_prepay921pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.fbd9b2130809>
>>>>>
>>>>> You residents of the Tax & Spend States deserve it >:-}
>>>>> 		
>>>>>                                           ...Jim Thompson
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> They really know how to stick it to all their wealthy Republican-voting
>>>> buddies in Massachusetts:
>>>
>>> Both of them?  They'll move if they're worried.
>>>>
>>>> <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election_results_by_municipality%2C_2014.svg>
>>>>
>>>> "Not my problem", why would I want to own overpriced property in this
>>>> frozen tundra, anyway?
>>>>
>>>> But the chances that those folks will decide to all pack up and move to
>>>> some "Real America" Midwestern hillbilly shithole so they can vote in
>>>> solidarity for Trump 2020 are slim to none.
>>
>> Think about any big leftist coastal city. They are sinkholes with
>> powerlines, gas and product pipelines, ships, thousands of trucks
>> every day keeping those Whole Foods and Pottery Barns full and
>> shipping in wine and kale and varietal coffee beans.
>
>
>Kale? Phtooei!

What do you have against green sandpaper?



>
>
>>                                               ... What those
>> lawyers and insurance agents and stock brokers contribute to the
>> "hillbillies" is zero or less. Without those deplorable redneck
>> farmers and oil workers and truckers, they would be eating one another
>> in a month.
>>
>> Most of those urban liberals have nothing but contempt for the people
>> who keep them alive.
>>
>
>Until those people come out in droves to vote like they did in 2016.
>
>
>> http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Redfin-s-Glenn-Kelman-predicts-a-mass-tech-12459845.php
>>
>> There are a lot of coastal urbanites moving to the South. They go for
>> economic reasons and stay because they like it.
>>
>> https://www.huffingtonpost.com/margarita-hakobyan/main-reasons-millennials-_b_11274098.html
>>
>> http://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/San-Franciscans-moving-to-The-South-12300064.php
>>
>
>Many of my clients are now in ... Texas. No surprise there. To me that 
>just means I have to get up early because their day starts 2h before 
>ours. Many Texans are hardcore. A call during hurricane Harvey went 
>something like this: "Could we also use a normal charge control here ... 
>wait, there is water coming in here ... dang ... well, now, about that 
>charge controller, let's talk about our options for that".

I generally like Texans. They tend to be real.

Given a choice between similar TI and ADI parts, we use the TI. 


-- 

John Larkin   Highland Technology, Inc   trk

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

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#489649

FromJoerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
Date2017-12-29 15:13 -0800
Message-ID<fao0gpF3k6eU2@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#489628
On 2017-12-29 13:01, John Larkin wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 07:46:19 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 2017-12-28 19:53, John Larkin wrote:
>>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 20:17:51 -0500, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 17:45:55 -0500, bitrex
>>>> <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 12/28/2017 02:34 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
>>>>>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/tax-bill-spawns-new-holiday-ritual-waiting-in-line-to-pay-taxes/2017/12/27/1e7ea59a-eb12-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_prepay921pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.fbd9b2130809>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You residents of the Tax & Spend States deserve it >:-}
>>>>>> 		
>>>>>>                                            ...Jim Thompson
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> They really know how to stick it to all their wealthy Republican-voting
>>>>> buddies in Massachusetts:
>>>>
>>>> Both of them?  They'll move if they're worried.
>>>>>
>>>>> <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election_results_by_municipality%2C_2014.svg>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Not my problem", why would I want to own overpriced property in this
>>>>> frozen tundra, anyway?
>>>>>
>>>>> But the chances that those folks will decide to all pack up and move to
>>>>> some "Real America" Midwestern hillbilly shithole so they can vote in
>>>>> solidarity for Trump 2020 are slim to none.
>>>
>>> Think about any big leftist coastal city. They are sinkholes with
>>> powerlines, gas and product pipelines, ships, thousands of trucks
>>> every day keeping those Whole Foods and Pottery Barns full and
>>> shipping in wine and kale and varietal coffee beans.
>>
>>
>> Kale? Phtooei!
>
> What do you have against green sandpaper?
>

It's euwww on the palate. I'll never touch kale again.

>
>
>>
>>
>>>                                                ... What those
>>> lawyers and insurance agents and stock brokers contribute to the
>>> "hillbillies" is zero or less. Without those deplorable redneck
>>> farmers and oil workers and truckers, they would be eating one another
>>> in a month.
>>>
>>> Most of those urban liberals have nothing but contempt for the people
>>> who keep them alive.
>>>
>>
>> Until those people come out in droves to vote like they did in 2016.
>>
>>
>>> http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Redfin-s-Glenn-Kelman-predicts-a-mass-tech-12459845.php
>>>
>>> There are a lot of coastal urbanites moving to the South. They go for
>>> economic reasons and stay because they like it.
>>>
>>> https://www.huffingtonpost.com/margarita-hakobyan/main-reasons-millennials-_b_11274098.html
>>>
>>> http://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/San-Franciscans-moving-to-The-South-12300064.php
>>>
>>
>> Many of my clients are now in ... Texas. No surprise there. To me that
>> just means I have to get up early because their day starts 2h before
>> ours. Many Texans are hardcore. A call during hurricane Harvey went
>> something like this: "Could we also use a normal charge control here ...
>> wait, there is water coming in here ... dang ... well, now, about that
>> charge controller, let's talk about our options for that".
>
> I generally like Texans. They tend to be real.
>
> Given a choice between similar TI and ADI parts, we use the TI.
>

Same here but meantime support had become paltry with both. EE work has 
become less fun since we had this massive consolidation. For most 
high-tech non-special-market chips there are only two suppliers left, TI 
and AD. And that shows. I am trying to get a support answer from AD for 
about a week -> nada, zip. They just don't seem to care anymore. TI was 
often worse, they just cast the question off to the "forums". Needless 
to say, there was no meaningful answer either.

-- 
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

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#489651

FromLasse Langwadt Christensen <langwadt@fonz.dk>
Date2017-12-29 15:25 -0800
Message-ID<f39a9e10-5906-4f4d-b132-2049c2895377@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#489649
Den lørdag den 30. december 2017 kl. 00.13.33 UTC+1 skrev Joerg:
> On 2017-12-29 13:01, John Larkin wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 07:46:19 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 2017-12-28 19:53, John Larkin wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 20:17:51 -0500, krw@notreal.com wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 17:45:55 -0500, bitrex
> >>>> <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 12/28/2017 02:34 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
> >>>>>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/tax-bill-spawns-new-holiday-ritual-waiting-in-line-to-pay-taxes/2017/12/27/1e7ea59a-eb12-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_prepay921pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.fbd9b2130809>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> You residents of the Tax & Spend States deserve it >:-}
> >>>>>> 		
> >>>>>>                                            ...Jim Thompson
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> They really know how to stick it to all their wealthy Republican-voting
> >>>>> buddies in Massachusetts:
> >>>>
> >>>> Both of them?  They'll move if they're worried.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election_results_by_municipality%2C_2014.svg>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "Not my problem", why would I want to own overpriced property in this
> >>>>> frozen tundra, anyway?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> But the chances that those folks will decide to all pack up and move to
> >>>>> some "Real America" Midwestern hillbilly shithole so they can vote in
> >>>>> solidarity for Trump 2020 are slim to none.
> >>>
> >>> Think about any big leftist coastal city. They are sinkholes with
> >>> powerlines, gas and product pipelines, ships, thousands of trucks
> >>> every day keeping those Whole Foods and Pottery Barns full and
> >>> shipping in wine and kale and varietal coffee beans.
> >>
> >>
> >> Kale? Phtooei!
> >
> > What do you have against green sandpaper?
> >
> 
> It's euwww on the palate. I'll never touch kale again.
> 

just gotta do it right, cooked up with lots of butter and cream

https://opskrifteradmin.coop.dk/media/recipeimages/567/8221/1920/medisterpoelse-med-groenlangkaal_original.jpeg

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#489654

FromJoerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
Date2017-12-29 15:32 -0800
Message-ID<fao1ktF3urcU2@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#489651
On 2017-12-29 15:25, Lasse Langwadt Christensen wrote:
> Den lørdag den 30. december 2017 kl. 00.13.33 UTC+1 skrev Joerg:
>> On 2017-12-29 13:01, John Larkin wrote:
>>> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 07:46:19 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2017-12-28 19:53, John Larkin wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 20:17:51 -0500, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 17:45:55 -0500, bitrex
>>>>>> <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 12/28/2017 02:34 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
>>>>>>>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/tax-bill-spawns-new-holiday-ritual-waiting-in-line-to-pay-taxes/2017/12/27/1e7ea59a-eb12-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_prepay921pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.fbd9b2130809>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You residents of the Tax & Spend States deserve it >:-}
>>>>>>>> 		
>>>>>>>>                                             ...Jim Thompson
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> They really know how to stick it to all their wealthy Republican-voting
>>>>>>> buddies in Massachusetts:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Both of them?  They'll move if they're worried.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election_results_by_municipality%2C_2014.svg>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Not my problem", why would I want to own overpriced property in this
>>>>>>> frozen tundra, anyway?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But the chances that those folks will decide to all pack up and move to
>>>>>>> some "Real America" Midwestern hillbilly shithole so they can vote in
>>>>>>> solidarity for Trump 2020 are slim to none.
>>>>>
>>>>> Think about any big leftist coastal city. They are sinkholes with
>>>>> powerlines, gas and product pipelines, ships, thousands of trucks
>>>>> every day keeping those Whole Foods and Pottery Barns full and
>>>>> shipping in wine and kale and varietal coffee beans.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kale? Phtooei!
>>>
>>> What do you have against green sandpaper?
>>>
>>
>> It's euwww on the palate. I'll never touch kale again.
>>
>
> just gotta do it right, cooked up with lots of butter and cream
>
> https://opskrifteradmin.coop.dk/media/recipeimages/567/8221/1920/medisterpoelse-med-groenlangkaal_original.jpeg
>

Let me have the sausage, you can have the kale :-)

-- 
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

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#489668

FromLasse Langwadt Christensen <langwadt@fonz.dk>
Date2017-12-29 16:44 -0800
Message-ID<83571f62-853e-4efd-869b-35321a44511a@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#489654
Den lørdag den 30. december 2017 kl. 00.32.49 UTC+1 skrev Joerg:
> On 2017-12-29 15:25, Lasse Langwadt Christensen wrote:
> > Den lørdag den 30. december 2017 kl. 00.13.33 UTC+1 skrev Joerg:
> >> On 2017-12-29 13:01, John Larkin wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 07:46:19 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 2017-12-28 19:53, John Larkin wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 20:17:51 -0500, krw@notreal.com wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 17:45:55 -0500, bitrex
> >>>>>> <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 12/28/2017 02:34 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
> >>>>>>>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/tax-bill-spawns-new-holiday-ritual-waiting-in-line-to-pay-taxes/2017/12/27/1e7ea59a-eb12-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_prepay921pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.fbd9b2130809>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> You residents of the Tax & Spend States deserve it >:-}
> >>>>>>>> 		
> >>>>>>>>                                             ...Jim Thompson
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> They really know how to stick it to all their wealthy Republican-voting
> >>>>>>> buddies in Massachusetts:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Both of them?  They'll move if they're worried.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election_results_by_municipality%2C_2014.svg>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> "Not my problem", why would I want to own overpriced property in this
> >>>>>>> frozen tundra, anyway?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> But the chances that those folks will decide to all pack up and move to
> >>>>>>> some "Real America" Midwestern hillbilly shithole so they can vote in
> >>>>>>> solidarity for Trump 2020 are slim to none.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Think about any big leftist coastal city. They are sinkholes with
> >>>>> powerlines, gas and product pipelines, ships, thousands of trucks
> >>>>> every day keeping those Whole Foods and Pottery Barns full and
> >>>>> shipping in wine and kale and varietal coffee beans.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Kale? Phtooei!
> >>>
> >>> What do you have against green sandpaper?
> >>>
> >>
> >> It's euwww on the palate. I'll never touch kale again.
> >>
> >
> > just gotta do it right, cooked up with lots of butter and cream
> >
> > https://opskrifteradmin.coop.dk/media/recipeimages/567/8221/1920/medisterpoelse-med-groenlangkaal_original.jpeg
> >
> 
> Let me have the sausage, you can have the kale :-)
> 

I'll admit it doesn't look that appetizing but done right it is very good
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnkohlessen

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#489659

Fromkrw@notreal.com
Date2017-12-29 18:45 -0500
Message-ID<orkd4dpqjlmf3ke3ai247pk6fiqr4c7591@4ax.com>
In reply to#489651
On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:25:06 -0800 (PST), Lasse Langwadt Christensen
<langwadt@fonz.dk> wrote:

>Den lørdag den 30. december 2017 kl. 00.13.33 UTC+1 skrev Joerg:
>> On 2017-12-29 13:01, John Larkin wrote:
>> > On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 07:46:19 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 2017-12-28 19:53, John Larkin wrote:
>> >>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 20:17:51 -0500, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 17:45:55 -0500, bitrex
>> >>>> <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> On 12/28/2017 02:34 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
>> >>>>>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/tax-bill-spawns-new-holiday-ritual-waiting-in-line-to-pay-taxes/2017/12/27/1e7ea59a-eb12-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_prepay921pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.fbd9b2130809>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> You residents of the Tax & Spend States deserve it >:-}
>> >>>>>> 		
>> >>>>>>                                            ...Jim Thompson
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> They really know how to stick it to all their wealthy Republican-voting
>> >>>>> buddies in Massachusetts:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Both of them?  They'll move if they're worried.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election_results_by_municipality%2C_2014.svg>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> "Not my problem", why would I want to own overpriced property in this
>> >>>>> frozen tundra, anyway?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> But the chances that those folks will decide to all pack up and move to
>> >>>>> some "Real America" Midwestern hillbilly shithole so they can vote in
>> >>>>> solidarity for Trump 2020 are slim to none.
>> >>>
>> >>> Think about any big leftist coastal city. They are sinkholes with
>> >>> powerlines, gas and product pipelines, ships, thousands of trucks
>> >>> every day keeping those Whole Foods and Pottery Barns full and
>> >>> shipping in wine and kale and varietal coffee beans.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Kale? Phtooei!
>> >
>> > What do you have against green sandpaper?
>> >
>> 
>> It's euwww on the palate. I'll never touch kale again.
>> 
>
>just gotta do it right, cooked up with lots of butter and cream

I prefer it with gasoline and a match.
>
>https://opskrifteradmin.coop.dk/media/recipeimages/567/8221/1920/medisterpoelse-med-groenlangkaal_original.jpeg

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#489658

Fromkrw@notreal.com
Date2017-12-29 18:44 -0500
Message-ID<fhkd4dhi63ajvnum9b8ar6vvo89egfc3qj@4ax.com>
In reply to#489649
On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:13:42 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
wrote:

>On 2017-12-29 13:01, John Larkin wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 07:46:19 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2017-12-28 19:53, John Larkin wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 20:17:51 -0500, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 17:45:55 -0500, bitrex
>>>>> <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 12/28/2017 02:34 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
>>>>>>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/tax-bill-spawns-new-holiday-ritual-waiting-in-line-to-pay-taxes/2017/12/27/1e7ea59a-eb12-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_prepay921pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.fbd9b2130809>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You residents of the Tax & Spend States deserve it >:-}
>>>>>>> 		
>>>>>>>                                            ...Jim Thompson
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> They really know how to stick it to all their wealthy Republican-voting
>>>>>> buddies in Massachusetts:
>>>>>
>>>>> Both of them?  They'll move if they're worried.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Massachusetts_gubernatorial_election_results_by_municipality%2C_2014.svg>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Not my problem", why would I want to own overpriced property in this
>>>>>> frozen tundra, anyway?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But the chances that those folks will decide to all pack up and move to
>>>>>> some "Real America" Midwestern hillbilly shithole so they can vote in
>>>>>> solidarity for Trump 2020 are slim to none.
>>>>
>>>> Think about any big leftist coastal city. They are sinkholes with
>>>> powerlines, gas and product pipelines, ships, thousands of trucks
>>>> every day keeping those Whole Foods and Pottery Barns full and
>>>> shipping in wine and kale and varietal coffee beans.
>>>
>>>
>>> Kale? Phtooei!
>>
>> What do you have against green sandpaper?
>>
>
>It's euwww on the palate. I'll never touch kale again.
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>                                                ... What those
>>>> lawyers and insurance agents and stock brokers contribute to the
>>>> "hillbillies" is zero or less. Without those deplorable redneck
>>>> farmers and oil workers and truckers, they would be eating one another
>>>> in a month.
>>>>
>>>> Most of those urban liberals have nothing but contempt for the people
>>>> who keep them alive.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Until those people come out in droves to vote like they did in 2016.
>>>
>>>
>>>> http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Redfin-s-Glenn-Kelman-predicts-a-mass-tech-12459845.php
>>>>
>>>> There are a lot of coastal urbanites moving to the South. They go for
>>>> economic reasons and stay because they like it.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.huffingtonpost.com/margarita-hakobyan/main-reasons-millennials-_b_11274098.html
>>>>
>>>> http://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/San-Franciscans-moving-to-The-South-12300064.php
>>>>
>>>
>>> Many of my clients are now in ... Texas. No surprise there. To me that
>>> just means I have to get up early because their day starts 2h before
>>> ours. Many Texans are hardcore. A call during hurricane Harvey went
>>> something like this: "Could we also use a normal charge control here ...
>>> wait, there is water coming in here ... dang ... well, now, about that
>>> charge controller, let's talk about our options for that".
>>
>> I generally like Texans. They tend to be real.
>>
>> Given a choice between similar TI and ADI parts, we use the TI.
>>
>
>Same here but meantime support had become paltry with both. EE work has 
>become less fun since we had this massive consolidation. For most 
>high-tech non-special-market chips there are only two suppliers left, TI 
>and AD. And that shows. I am trying to get a support answer from AD for 
>about a week -> nada, zip. They just don't seem to care anymore. TI was 
>often worse, they just cast the question off to the "forums". Needless 
>to say, there was no meaningful answer either.

What sort of "non-special-market" chips are you talking about.  Opamps
aren't very "special" and there seems to be a few makers of them.
Likewise logic.  Processors? DSPs?  DACs?  ADCs?  

We get great support from TI, ADI, particularly.  There are a half
dozen people at TI who will jump at the first phone call (one
analog/power FAE dedicated to our site).  ADI has an FAE who has
worked several Christmas vacations with us to get shows ready.  Others
are just a phone call away.  It's all about ROI.

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#489662

FromJoerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
Date2017-12-29 15:56 -0800
Message-ID<fao31tF48gjU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#489658
On 2017-12-29 15:44, krw@notreal.com wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:13:42 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 2017-12-29 13:01, John Larkin wrote:

[...]


>>> Given a choice between similar TI and ADI parts, we use the TI.
>>>
>>
>> Same here but meantime support had become paltry with both. EE work has
>> become less fun since we had this massive consolidation. For most
>> high-tech non-special-market chips there are only two suppliers left, TI
>> and AD. And that shows. I am trying to get a support answer from AD for
>> about a week -> nada, zip. They just don't seem to care anymore. TI was
>> often worse, they just cast the question off to the "forums". Needless
>> to say, there was no meaningful answer either.
>
> What sort of "non-special-market" chips are you talking about.  Opamps
> aren't very "special" and there seems to be a few makers of them.
> Likewise logic.  Processors? DSPs?  DACs?  ADCs?
>

Current examples: AD8138 and ADA4950 diff amps, need some ironclad 
distortion specs for 5Vpp diff output at 100ohms load. High volume 
project. Filed request well before Christmas, no answer. In the 90's I'd 
have had a call from my AD guy the next day. He even supported me while 
I was designing something way outside his turf, in South Korea.


> We get great support from TI, ADI, particularly.  There are a half
> dozen people at TI who will jump at the first phone call (one
> analog/power FAE dedicated to our site).  ADI has an FAE who has
> worked several Christmas vacations with us to get shows ready.  Others
> are just a phone call away.  It's all about ROI.
>

If you are with a huge company that always works. In the old days they 
understood that consultants can bring in lots of design-ins as well. I 
have designs where 4k units/month roll off the belt in Shenzhen. They no 
longer seem to understand that.

-- 
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

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#489673

Frombitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net>
Date2017-12-29 20:08 -0500
Message-ID<DGB1C.19336$b_.2239@fx23.iad>
In reply to#489662
On 12/29/2017 06:56 PM, Joerg wrote:
> On 2017-12-29 15:44, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:13:42 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2017-12-29 13:01, John Larkin wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
>>>> Given a choice between similar TI and ADI parts, we use the TI.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Same here but meantime support had become paltry with both. EE work has
>>> become less fun since we had this massive consolidation. For most
>>> high-tech non-special-market chips there are only two suppliers left, TI
>>> and AD. And that shows. I am trying to get a support answer from AD for
>>> about a week -> nada, zip. They just don't seem to care anymore. TI was
>>> often worse, they just cast the question off to the "forums". Needless
>>> to say, there was no meaningful answer either.
>>
>> What sort of "non-special-market" chips are you talking about.  Opamps
>> aren't very "special" and there seems to be a few makers of them.
>> Likewise logic.  Processors? DSPs?  DACs?  ADCs?
>>
> 
> Current examples: AD8138 and ADA4950 diff amps, need some ironclad 
> distortion specs for 5Vpp diff output at 100ohms load. High volume 
> project. Filed request well before Christmas, no answer. In the 90's I'd 
> have had a call from my AD guy the next day. He even supported me while 
> I was designing something way outside his turf, in South Korea.
> 
> 
>> We get great support from TI, ADI, particularly.  There are a half
>> dozen people at TI who will jump at the first phone call (one
>> analog/power FAE dedicated to our site).  ADI has an FAE who has
>> worked several Christmas vacations with us to get shows ready.  Others
>> are just a phone call away.  It's all about ROI.
>>
> 
> If you are with a huge company that always works. In the old days they 
> understood that consultants can bring in lots of design-ins as well. I 
> have designs where 4k units/month roll off the belt in Shenzhen. They no 
> longer seem to understand that.
> 

Have you tried some old-fashioned "dread game"?

They don't "understand" that anymore because they probably feel you're a 
loyal quantity and they don't have any competition. Introduce some 
competition.

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#489691

Fromkrw@notreal.com
Date2017-12-29 22:28 -0500
Message-ID<nt1e4d9tfab65s3ktosghqagccvfvmaq1b@4ax.com>
In reply to#489662
On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:56:56 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
wrote:

>On 2017-12-29 15:44, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:13:42 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2017-12-29 13:01, John Larkin wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>
>>>> Given a choice between similar TI and ADI parts, we use the TI.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Same here but meantime support had become paltry with both. EE work has
>>> become less fun since we had this massive consolidation. For most
>>> high-tech non-special-market chips there are only two suppliers left, TI
>>> and AD. And that shows. I am trying to get a support answer from AD for
>>> about a week -> nada, zip. They just don't seem to care anymore. TI was
>>> often worse, they just cast the question off to the "forums". Needless
>>> to say, there was no meaningful answer either.
>>
>> What sort of "non-special-market" chips are you talking about.  Opamps
>> aren't very "special" and there seems to be a few makers of them.
>> Likewise logic.  Processors? DSPs?  DACs?  ADCs?
>>
>
>Current examples: AD8138 and ADA4950 diff amps, need some ironclad 
>distortion specs for 5Vpp diff output at 100ohms load. High volume 
>project. Filed request well before Christmas, no answer. In the 90's I'd 
>have had a call from my AD guy the next day. He even supported me while 
>I was designing something way outside his turf, in South Korea.

That sounds pretty specialized.
>
>> We get great support from TI, ADI, particularly.  There are a half
>> dozen people at TI who will jump at the first phone call (one
>> analog/power FAE dedicated to our site).  ADI has an FAE who has
>> worked several Christmas vacations with us to get shows ready.  Others
>> are just a phone call away.  It's all about ROI.
>>
>
>If you are with a huge company that always works. In the old days they 
>understood that consultants can bring in lots of design-ins as well. I 
>have designs where 4k units/month roll off the belt in Shenzhen. They no 
>longer seem to understand that.

I thought you understood the concept of ROI.

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#489741

FromJoerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
Date2017-12-30 07:34 -0800
Message-ID<fappvoFg437U1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#489691
On 2017-12-29 19:28, krw@notreal.com wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:56:56 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 2017-12-29 15:44, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>>> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:13:42 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2017-12-29 13:01, John Larkin wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>
>>>>> Given a choice between similar TI and ADI parts, we use the TI.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Same here but meantime support had become paltry with both. EE work has
>>>> become less fun since we had this massive consolidation. For most
>>>> high-tech non-special-market chips there are only two suppliers left, TI
>>>> and AD. And that shows. I am trying to get a support answer from AD for
>>>> about a week -> nada, zip. They just don't seem to care anymore. TI was
>>>> often worse, they just cast the question off to the "forums". Needless
>>>> to say, there was no meaningful answer either.
>>>
>>> What sort of "non-special-market" chips are you talking about.  Opamps
>>> aren't very "special" and there seems to be a few makers of them.
>>> Likewise logic.  Processors? DSPs?  DACs?  ADCs?
>>>
>>
>> Current examples: AD8138 and ADA4950 diff amps, need some ironclad
>> distortion specs for 5Vpp diff output at 100ohms load. High volume
>> project. Filed request well before Christmas, no answer. In the 90's I'd
>> have had a call from my AD guy the next day. He even supported me while
>> I was designing something way outside his turf, in South Korea.
>
> That sounds pretty specialized.
>>
>>> We get great support from TI, ADI, particularly.  There are a half
>>> dozen people at TI who will jump at the first phone call (one
>>> analog/power FAE dedicated to our site).  ADI has an FAE who has
>>> worked several Christmas vacations with us to get shows ready.  Others
>>> are just a phone call away.  It's all about ROI.
>>>
>>
>> If you are with a huge company that always works. In the old days they
>> understood that consultants can bring in lots of design-ins as well. I
>> have designs where 4k units/month roll off the belt in Shenzhen. They no
>> longer seem to understand that.
>
> I thought you understood the concept of ROI.
>

Look like you don't.

-- 
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

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#489752

Fromkrw@notreal.com
Date2017-12-30 11:29 -0500
Message-ID<kkff4dle1s7ihu9fisgb0qge72goo2b8hc@4ax.com>
In reply to#489741
On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 07:34:30 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
wrote:

>On 2017-12-29 19:28, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:56:56 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2017-12-29 15:44, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:13:42 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2017-12-29 13:01, John Larkin wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>
>>>>>> Given a choice between similar TI and ADI parts, we use the TI.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Same here but meantime support had become paltry with both. EE work has
>>>>> become less fun since we had this massive consolidation. For most
>>>>> high-tech non-special-market chips there are only two suppliers left, TI
>>>>> and AD. And that shows. I am trying to get a support answer from AD for
>>>>> about a week -> nada, zip. They just don't seem to care anymore. TI was
>>>>> often worse, they just cast the question off to the "forums". Needless
>>>>> to say, there was no meaningful answer either.
>>>>
>>>> What sort of "non-special-market" chips are you talking about.  Opamps
>>>> aren't very "special" and there seems to be a few makers of them.
>>>> Likewise logic.  Processors? DSPs?  DACs?  ADCs?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Current examples: AD8138 and ADA4950 diff amps, need some ironclad
>>> distortion specs for 5Vpp diff output at 100ohms load. High volume
>>> project. Filed request well before Christmas, no answer. In the 90's I'd
>>> have had a call from my AD guy the next day. He even supported me while
>>> I was designing something way outside his turf, in South Korea.
>>
>> That sounds pretty specialized.
>>>
>>>> We get great support from TI, ADI, particularly.  There are a half
>>>> dozen people at TI who will jump at the first phone call (one
>>>> analog/power FAE dedicated to our site).  ADI has an FAE who has
>>>> worked several Christmas vacations with us to get shows ready.  Others
>>>> are just a phone call away.  It's all about ROI.
>>>>
>>>
>>> If you are with a huge company that always works. In the old days they
>>> understood that consultants can bring in lots of design-ins as well. I
>>> have designs where 4k units/month roll off the belt in Shenzhen. They no
>>> longer seem to understand that.
>>
>> I thought you understood the concept of ROI.
>>
>
>Look like you don't.

Clearly, you believe support is free.  I thought you were in business,
but obviously not.

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#489771

FromJoerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
Date2017-12-30 09:54 -0800
Message-ID<faq25uFhvhkU2@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#489752
On 2017-12-30 08:29, krw@notreal.com wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 07:34:30 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 2017-12-29 19:28, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>>> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:56:56 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2017-12-29 15:44, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:13:42 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2017-12-29 13:01, John Larkin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>> Given a choice between similar TI and ADI parts, we use the TI.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Same here but meantime support had become paltry with both. EE work has
>>>>>> become less fun since we had this massive consolidation. For most
>>>>>> high-tech non-special-market chips there are only two suppliers left, TI
>>>>>> and AD. And that shows. I am trying to get a support answer from AD for
>>>>>> about a week -> nada, zip. They just don't seem to care anymore. TI was
>>>>>> often worse, they just cast the question off to the "forums". Needless
>>>>>> to say, there was no meaningful answer either.
>>>>>
>>>>> What sort of "non-special-market" chips are you talking about.  Opamps
>>>>> aren't very "special" and there seems to be a few makers of them.
>>>>> Likewise logic.  Processors? DSPs?  DACs?  ADCs?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Current examples: AD8138 and ADA4950 diff amps, need some ironclad
>>>> distortion specs for 5Vpp diff output at 100ohms load. High volume
>>>> project. Filed request well before Christmas, no answer. In the 90's I'd
>>>> have had a call from my AD guy the next day. He even supported me while
>>>> I was designing something way outside his turf, in South Korea.
>>>
>>> That sounds pretty specialized.
>>>>
>>>>> We get great support from TI, ADI, particularly.  There are a half
>>>>> dozen people at TI who will jump at the first phone call (one
>>>>> analog/power FAE dedicated to our site).  ADI has an FAE who has
>>>>> worked several Christmas vacations with us to get shows ready.  Others
>>>>> are just a phone call away.  It's all about ROI.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you are with a huge company that always works. In the old days they
>>>> understood that consultants can bring in lots of design-ins as well. I
>>>> have designs where 4k units/month roll off the belt in Shenzhen. They no
>>>> longer seem to understand that.
>>>
>>> I thought you understood the concept of ROI.
>>>
>>
>> Look like you don't.
>
> Clearly, you believe support is free.  I thought you were in business,
> but obviously not.
>

I wrote high volume project. Can't you read?

-- 
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

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#489791

Fromkrw@notreal.com
Date2017-12-30 14:56 -0500
Message-ID<inrf4d1l99otrei3d11brtdl4drubvdb6a@4ax.com>
In reply to#489771
On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 09:54:20 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
wrote:

>On 2017-12-30 08:29, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>> On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 07:34:30 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2017-12-29 19:28, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:56:56 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2017-12-29 15:44, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:13:42 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 2017-12-29 13:01, John Larkin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Given a choice between similar TI and ADI parts, we use the TI.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Same here but meantime support had become paltry with both. EE work has
>>>>>>> become less fun since we had this massive consolidation. For most
>>>>>>> high-tech non-special-market chips there are only two suppliers left, TI
>>>>>>> and AD. And that shows. I am trying to get a support answer from AD for
>>>>>>> about a week -> nada, zip. They just don't seem to care anymore. TI was
>>>>>>> often worse, they just cast the question off to the "forums". Needless
>>>>>>> to say, there was no meaningful answer either.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What sort of "non-special-market" chips are you talking about.  Opamps
>>>>>> aren't very "special" and there seems to be a few makers of them.
>>>>>> Likewise logic.  Processors? DSPs?  DACs?  ADCs?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Current examples: AD8138 and ADA4950 diff amps, need some ironclad
>>>>> distortion specs for 5Vpp diff output at 100ohms load. High volume
>>>>> project. Filed request well before Christmas, no answer. In the 90's I'd
>>>>> have had a call from my AD guy the next day. He even supported me while
>>>>> I was designing something way outside his turf, in South Korea.
>>>>
>>>> That sounds pretty specialized.
>>>>>
>>>>>> We get great support from TI, ADI, particularly.  There are a half
>>>>>> dozen people at TI who will jump at the first phone call (one
>>>>>> analog/power FAE dedicated to our site).  ADI has an FAE who has
>>>>>> worked several Christmas vacations with us to get shows ready.  Others
>>>>>> are just a phone call away.  It's all about ROI.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If you are with a huge company that always works. In the old days they
>>>>> understood that consultants can bring in lots of design-ins as well. I
>>>>> have designs where 4k units/month roll off the belt in Shenzhen. They no
>>>>> longer seem to understand that.
>>>>
>>>> I thought you understood the concept of ROI.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Look like you don't.
>>
>> Clearly, you believe support is free.  I thought you were in business,
>> but obviously not.
>>
>
>I wrote high volume project. Can't you read?

50K/yr is "high volume"?  OK, here's your bone.  pat-pat-pat

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#489798

FromJoerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
Date2017-12-30 13:53 -0800
Message-ID<faqg6aFl8dcU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#489791
On 2017-12-30 11:56, krw@notreal.com wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 09:54:20 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 2017-12-30 08:29, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>>> On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 07:34:30 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2017-12-29 19:28, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:56:56 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2017-12-29 15:44, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>>>>>>> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:13:42 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 2017-12-29 13:01, John Larkin wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Given a choice between similar TI and ADI parts, we use the TI.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Same here but meantime support had become paltry with both. EE work has
>>>>>>>> become less fun since we had this massive consolidation. For most
>>>>>>>> high-tech non-special-market chips there are only two suppliers left, TI
>>>>>>>> and AD. And that shows. I am trying to get a support answer from AD for
>>>>>>>> about a week -> nada, zip. They just don't seem to care anymore. TI was
>>>>>>>> often worse, they just cast the question off to the "forums". Needless
>>>>>>>> to say, there was no meaningful answer either.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What sort of "non-special-market" chips are you talking about.  Opamps
>>>>>>> aren't very "special" and there seems to be a few makers of them.
>>>>>>> Likewise logic.  Processors? DSPs?  DACs?  ADCs?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Current examples: AD8138 and ADA4950 diff amps, need some ironclad
>>>>>> distortion specs for 5Vpp diff output at 100ohms load. High volume
>>>>>> project. Filed request well before Christmas, no answer. In the 90's I'd
>>>>>> have had a call from my AD guy the next day. He even supported me while
>>>>>> I was designing something way outside his turf, in South Korea.
>>>>>
>>>>> That sounds pretty specialized.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We get great support from TI, ADI, particularly.  There are a half
>>>>>>> dozen people at TI who will jump at the first phone call (one
>>>>>>> analog/power FAE dedicated to our site).  ADI has an FAE who has
>>>>>>> worked several Christmas vacations with us to get shows ready.  Others
>>>>>>> are just a phone call away.  It's all about ROI.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you are with a huge company that always works. In the old days they
>>>>>> understood that consultants can bring in lots of design-ins as well. I
>>>>>> have designs where 4k units/month roll off the belt in Shenzhen. They no
>>>>>> longer seem to understand that.
>>>>>
>>>>> I thought you understood the concept of ROI.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Look like you don't.
>>>
>>> Clearly, you believe support is free.  I thought you were in business,
>>> but obviously not.
>>>
>>
>> I wrote high volume project. Can't you read?
>
> 50K/yr is "high volume"?  OK, here's your bone.  pat-pat-pat
>

You really are a sloppy reader. That was _another_ project and you do 
not know anything about how many of those chips will be in each of the 
new units but, as usual, blurt out an opinion.

Besides, even if it were only 50k/year on a $3 product, not being 
willing to invest 10 minutes in pre-sales support and leaving $150k/year 
in sales times 20 years on the table is not smart. If you are able to 
calculate the ROI for those 10mins now. Which I sometimes doubt.

-- 
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

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#489801

Fromkrw@notreal.com
Date2017-12-30 17:28 -0500
Message-ID<dk4g4d502fn6conr4c5jv9g20ropic0vim@4ax.com>
In reply to#489798
On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:53:29 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
wrote:

>On 2017-12-30 11:56, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>> On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 09:54:20 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2017-12-30 08:29, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 07:34:30 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2017-12-29 19:28, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:56:56 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 2017-12-29 15:44, krw@notreal.com wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:13:42 -0800, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 2017-12-29 13:01, John Larkin wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Given a choice between similar TI and ADI parts, we use the TI.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Same here but meantime support had become paltry with both. EE work has
>>>>>>>>> become less fun since we had this massive consolidation. For most
>>>>>>>>> high-tech non-special-market chips there are only two suppliers left, TI
>>>>>>>>> and AD. And that shows. I am trying to get a support answer from AD for
>>>>>>>>> about a week -> nada, zip. They just don't seem to care anymore. TI was
>>>>>>>>> often worse, they just cast the question off to the "forums". Needless
>>>>>>>>> to say, there was no meaningful answer either.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What sort of "non-special-market" chips are you talking about.  Opamps
>>>>>>>> aren't very "special" and there seems to be a few makers of them.
>>>>>>>> Likewise logic.  Processors? DSPs?  DACs?  ADCs?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Current examples: AD8138 and ADA4950 diff amps, need some ironclad
>>>>>>> distortion specs for 5Vpp diff output at 100ohms load. High volume
>>>>>>> project. Filed request well before Christmas, no answer. In the 90's I'd
>>>>>>> have had a call from my AD guy the next day. He even supported me while
>>>>>>> I was designing something way outside his turf, in South Korea.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That sounds pretty specialized.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We get great support from TI, ADI, particularly.  There are a half
>>>>>>>> dozen people at TI who will jump at the first phone call (one
>>>>>>>> analog/power FAE dedicated to our site).  ADI has an FAE who has
>>>>>>>> worked several Christmas vacations with us to get shows ready.  Others
>>>>>>>> are just a phone call away.  It's all about ROI.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you are with a huge company that always works. In the old days they
>>>>>>> understood that consultants can bring in lots of design-ins as well. I
>>>>>>> have designs where 4k units/month roll off the belt in Shenzhen. They no
>>>>>>> longer seem to understand that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I thought you understood the concept of ROI.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Look like you don't.
>>>>
>>>> Clearly, you believe support is free.  I thought you were in business,
>>>> but obviously not.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I wrote high volume project. Can't you read?
>>
>> 50K/yr is "high volume"?  OK, here's your bone.  pat-pat-pat
>>
>
>You really are a sloppy reader. That was _another_ project and you do 
>not know anything about how many of those chips will be in each of the 
>new units but, as usual, blurt out an opinion.
>
>Besides, even if it were only 50k/year on a $3 product, not being 
>willing to invest 10 minutes in pre-sales support and leaving $150k/year 
>in sales times 20 years on the table is not smart. If you are able to 
>calculate the ROI for those 10mins now. Which I sometimes doubt.

You really are a simpleton.  It's never 10 minutes on one question
that guarantees $150K and no, $150K/year isn't a lot of money from one
customer. Obviously they don't think it's worthwhile, either.  And
they're doing the counting.

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