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  3. 19 minutes ago, normiss said:

    Good to hear you're having successful treatments Ron, I wish you continued luck with that.

    Some of us Veterans are looking forward to the end of MAGA and the return of what America actually IS.

    Hi Mark,

    This veteran sure is.

    Jerry Baumchen

    PS)  You getting any services  back on where you live?

     

  4. 1 hour ago, GeorgiaDon said:

    A long time ago I read about a guy in England during WWII who was branded a coward and ostracized by the townspeople where he lived because he wasn't obviously in the military (didn't wear a uniform/wasn't deployed).  It turned out he was a scientist involved in developing radar.  Hard to argue that developing radar wasn't a useful contribution to the war effort.  Also hard to work on developing radar (or any new technology) while at the same time fighting on the front lines.

    Perhaps you can explain to the rest of us why nothing any of us could possibly be doing, no matter how essential, is as important as military service?  

    Hi Don,

    I come from a large family of farmers.  They were also exempt from the draft in WW II.

    My mother was a welder in the shipyards in WW II.

    They all served in a manner that they could.

    All of their service counted towards the war effort.

    Jerry Baumchen

  6. 51 minutes ago, Phil1111 said:

    The electoral college may give trump victory. Polling is indicating a dead heat for president. Polling also indicates GOP control of the senate. trump's current promises add $15 billion to the debt over a decade.

    Time to head to the liquor store.spacer.png

    Hi Phil,

    Much better:

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    Jerry Baumchen

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    9 minutes ago, billvon said:

    Keep in mind this is the same guy who said, in this very thread, that "what you guys are all missing, is there has been NO TREND in Atlantic cyclones due to higher levels of CO2. For that matter NOAA and the IPCC have observed no statistically significant increase in any meteorological phenomenon. It would seem that the much ballyhooed “climate catastrophe” is just a big nothing burger."

    Let's hope that Brent explains to the residents of Florida and North Carolina what a big nothingburger this all is.

    Hi Bill,

    It is ALL a nothingburger until it is your ox getting gored.

    I'm starting to think that short-sightedness is a human trait.

    I hope not,

    Jerry Baumchen

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  9. 25 minutes ago, billvon said:

    Well, there's more to it than that.  Many of the people writing those articles made some of their money supporting GSM communications, and thus had a vested interest in CDMA failing.  (The smarter ones, of course, jumped ship to the CDMA outfits, or did something else, or kept going with GSM.)  And of course it was just what they were used to.

    We see a similar issue in people objecting to DEI today.  It's not the way they did it.  It's different and unneccesary.  It can change a system they understand and benefit from.  And some people may actually lose work to (say) a trans engineer who years ago wouldn't have been hired because she's a freak, and some nonsense about bathrooms.

    Hi Bill,

    Make them all unisex and this goes away; eventually.

    Jerry Baumchen

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  11. 1 hour ago, billvon said:

    Yep.  And I would add that diversity includes diversity of people, diversity of backgrounds, diversity of methods and diversity of ideas.  One example:

    Up until about 1995 or so, all communications were frequency division (like FM radio) or time division (early GSM cellphones.)  That was the way to do it.  Everyone knew that.  Qualcomm was founded with the idea of trying a third method - code division spread spectrum.  It made no sense to many engineers - "you can't separate signals with a CODE!" - but two people made the seemingly impossible possible.  And they were about as diverse as you can get.

    The first was Hedy Lamarr, an actress from the 1940's.  She had a messy background - an immigrant from Austria who had been duped into making a pornographic movie when she was 18.  She was also brilliant, and had been thinking about the problem of making military remote control signals for torpedoes resistant to jamming.  She didn't get anywhere with her approach until she met George Antheil, a musician who was doing some bizarre musical compositions with player pianos.  He had a lot of trouble getting all the pianos to start at the same time - and stay synchronized - but when Lamarr saw this, she realized she could use a similar approach to "spread" a radio spectrum out and use more of it.  Two player pianos might initially select middle A (440Hz) before moving up to C (523Hz.)  Similarly, two radios could exchange information at, say, 800KHz before moving on to 1000KHz, then on to another frequency, as long as their hops were synchonized.  And if an enemy tried to jam any one of those frequencies, the system would still largely work, because the other frequencies would be clear.  She even mentioned you could use this method to send _more_ information on the multiple frequencies as long as the system was coordinated.

    The Winsors of her time (and even as late as 2000 or so) claimed that she was a "DEI hire" (or the period-appropriate equivalent term,) that obviously George Antheil was the brains behind it and was just trying to get into her pants, that a movie star didn't have the brainpower to figure something like that out.  George was just using her to get more attention for his patent!  Lamarr was ignored for decades, consigned by misogynists to the only roles she could play in their minds.

    The next was Andy Viterbi, an Italian immigrant who fled to the US during World War II.  As a professor at UCSD he developed the Viterbi algorithm to decode convolutional-code encoded data. From there, he developed the first CDMA standard for cellphones, a spread-spectrum, code division communications method.  The "experts" laughed at him.  "Errant nonsense" said one scientist I remember.

    One of the benefits of this - convolutional code spread spectrum communication - is that you could take a given "chunk" of spectrum, and since dozens to hundreds of code-division devices could use the same spectrum, you got a much larger number of conversations per band of spectrum.  And because in the US spectrum is what costs money, cellphone companies could make more money per Hertz of frequency allocated.

    I learned about the Viterbi decoder in college.  And when I heard that Andy Viterbi and Irwin Jacobs had started a cellphone company in San Diego, I moved out there.  The Viterbi decoder was such a revolutionary and elegant piece of work that I thought Qualcomm's future would be bright.

    So I moved out and started working there.  Early tests showed that instead of the 20x improvement they could get in frequency use, in practice it was closer to 6x - still a big improvement.  So Qualcomm started building cellphones and base stations.  And they worked.

    In the early days of this, the Winsors of the world would publish letters in EE Times, EDN and the other trade publications of the day, claiming that power control (important for code division) could never work, the 6x improvement was a lie just like the 20x improvement was, code division could simply never work, Qualcomm would never unseat telecom giant Ericsson and their TDMA system.

    But over time it did.  And today everything from cellphone communication to wifi to satellite communications use code division spread spectrum communications, albeit at a far higher level of complexity and intricacy than our first simple 64-code "flat" CDMA schemes used.

    And this revolution was brought about by a 1940's movie star - "porn star" according to her detractors - and immigrant, and an Italian immigrant who fled World War II to work in the US in the 1970's.  Woke madness, I know.

    Hi Bill,

    Re:  could simply never work

    This type of thinking is what really gets under my skin.

    If this type of thinking were the way things are, then why go to college & get an engineering degree?

    Neanderthals.

    Jerry Baumchen

    PS)  The quote above is right up there with:  This is how we have always done it.

  12. 2 minutes ago, billvon said:

    It is notable that Trump has backed out on several interviews and is now refusing debates, since his handlers have realized that the more people hear from him in a non-rally setting, the less they are likely to vote for him.

    FOX News just pointed out that Harris has the opposite issue.  "If you’re a woman listening to that podcast and you don’t know how progressive she is, you might vote for her."

    O the horror.  An informed electorate is, appparently, the GOPs greatest enemy.

    Hi Bill,

    It's been that way for a long time.

    Jerry Baumchen

  13. 3 hours ago, Ginked said:

    Jumping at 500-800ft did I just read that?

     

    I’m cool with HALO jumps but who did the first LALO JUMP ?that person is crazier than me!! pass  Never trust who packs your chute I saw to many cartoons as a kid I’m paranoid I’ll rip the cord and camping gear will fly out lol but I’m a jack ass.

    and where was wing suiting 40 years ago?? That looks dope

    db out

     

    i hope they pushed a cake eater out first hahahaha

     

    ps what a pain is the ass signing up just to say one thing !

    it use to be called tandem? Or lame 

    how many jumps ? classified

    how long ?too long

    favorite cereal fruit Loops

    Hi Ginked

    Re:  I’m cool with HALO jumps but who did the first LALO JUMP ?

    In 1965, at a demo/competition near Las Vegas, three members of the US Army teamed opened their ParaCommanders at 300 ft, at terminal.

    How about them apples?

    Jerry Baumchen

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  15. 21 hours ago, nigel99 said:

    I’m stunned at the insanity of Trump supporters. In the states earlier this year I met a few new people and after Fitz became FB friends. At the boogie we didn’t talk politics so I had no idea. 

    The disinformation and nonsense flying around is unbelievable. Today’s news is that the cocaine in the White House was Harriss’s. The post full of outrage at it - the irony is… I know full well the poster isn’t anti drugs. 

    Hi Nigel,

    See my recent post in Scumbag Politicians.

    Jerry Baumchen

  16. Hi folks,

    From the Oct 2024 issue of The Atlantic:

    Lindsey Graham

    2015 – You know how to make America great again; tell Donald Trump to go to hell; he is a race-baiting xenophobic religious bigot.

    2016 – If we nominate Trump, we will be destroyed . . . and we will deserve it.

    2024 – [ To Trump ] I love you.

    Tim Scott

    2016 – If Donald Trump cannot take a stand against the KKK, we cannot trust him to stand up for Americans against Putin, Iran, or ISIS.

    2024 –[ To Trump ] I just love you.

    Marco Rubio

    2016 – Donald Trump is a con artist.  He is the most vulgar person to ever aspire to the presidency.

    2024 – The only way to make America wealthy and safe is to make Donald J. Trump our president again.

    Ted Cruz

    2026 – Calls Trump a ‘pathological liar’ and ‘a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country has ever seen.’  Also says, ‘Donald, you are a sniveling coward.’

    2024 – God Bless Donald J. Trump

    Kevin McCarthy

    2026 – Likens Trump to Mussolini.

    2024 – When asked if the Republicans should nominate a convicted felon, he says, ‘The answer is 100% yes.’

    Vivek Ramaswamy

    2021 – Calls Trump a sore loser and his election denialism abhorrent.  Describes Jan 6 an inside job.

    2024 – Donald Trump was the greatest president of the 21st century.

    Elise Stefanik

    2025 – I think he has been insulting to women.

    2026 – [ talking about Trump’s policies ] I don’t think that’s who we are.  That’s not according to our constitutional principles.

     

    Tom Cotton

    2021 – It’s past time for the president to accept the results of the election, quit misleading the American people, and repudiate mod violence.

    2024 – When Donald Trump was president, America was safe, strong, and prosperous.

    Mike Johnson

    2025 – The thing about Donald Trump is that he lacks the character and the moral center we desperately need again in the White House . . . He is a hot head by nature, and that is a dangerous trait to have in a Commander in Chief. . . I just don’t think he has the demeanor to be president.

    2024 – I’m all in for President Trump.

    J. D. Vance

    2016-17 – Trump is a cultural heroin . . . Never liked him . . . I’m a Never Trump guy . . . Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office . . . a moral disaster . . . America’s Hitler

    2024 – Named Donald Trump’s running mate.

     Jerry Baumchen

     

     

  17. 1 hour ago, gowlerk said:

    Clearly it is horrific that bringing these kind of charges is a thing. But there is something I noticed in reading the story linked. There is no mention whatsoever of any of them leading to convictions. Are they all still pending?

    Hi Ken,

    You know what I know.

    Jerry Baumchen

  21. 56 minutes ago, billvon said:

    Trump on disaster funding for hurricane Helene victims:

    "The Harris-Biden administration says they don’t have any money [for hurricane relief]. … They spent it all on illegal migrants. … They stole the FEMA money just like they stole it from a bank, so they could give it to their illegal immigrants that they want to have vote for them."

    Reality:

    DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: “We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting. FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season. . . .We are meeting the moment.  We have the immediate needs right now, on a continuing resolution."

    So why did he make that claim?  Because there's _another_ FEMA program called the Shelter and Services program that give funds to nonprofits to house immigrants.  DHS again: "FEMA has the necessary resources to meet the immediate needs associated with Hurricane Helene and other disasters. The Shelter and Services Program (SSP) is a completely separate, appropriated grant program that was authorized and funded by Congress and is not associated in any way with FEMA’s disaster-related authorities or funding streams.”

    Did any president actually do this?  Why yes - Trump did.   In 2019, Trump informed Congress that he was taking $155 million from the disaster fund to pay for temporary US hearing locations for asylum seekers who have been forced to wait in Mexico. “The U.S. is facing a security and humanitarian crisis on the Southern border,” a Trump spokesperson said in its notice that it was redirecting the funds.  This left them shorthanded, as there were 18 storms that affected the US that year, killing 121 people.

    As always, with republicans, accusation is confession.

    Hi Bill,

    And, more of the same:  Fact check: New Trump attack ad deceptively edits out key words from Harris and The New York Times | CNN Politics

    We live in the Information Age.  Only a fool would try this crap when it is so easy to find out what they have done.

    Oopsy, Trump is a fool.  And, so are his minions.

    Jerry Baumchen

     

     

     

  22. 40 minutes ago, billvon said:

    You read that right.

    In Hanover, PA, schools are installing windows into children's bathrooms - but only the gender-inclusive bathrooms.  The windows look in over the sinks in the bathroom.  School officials claim this is to "monitor for a multitude of prohibited activities such as any possible vaping, drug use, bullying or absenteeism" - which apparently only LGBT folks engage in?

    So who convinced them to do this, and to target only the inclusive bathrooms?  They did it to "comply with guidance from the Independence Law Center."  That's a conservative religious organization known for pushing pro-Christian, anti-LGBTQ school district policies.

    https://www.eveningsun.com/story/news/local/2024/10/02/south-western-parents-blast-window-cut-into-gender-inclusive-middle-school-bathrooms-matt-gelazela/75482557007/

    Hi Bill,

    Next step:  Call an attorney or two.

    Jerry Baumchen