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Can I mod this as strangely insightful but hopelessly naive?
Seriously, though, I'm sure there's something buried in the fine print that says you can't resell iTunes songs. Remember, the product comes from the same recording industry that wanted to ban the sale of previously owned CDs so that you had to pay full price for a new one (which, if they'd been successful in banning sales of used CDs, would have suffered 100% depreciation the instant you bought it).
None of the diodes have to be bad for you to have alternator whine because alternators don't put out flat line DC, it's got lots of ripple, the frequency of which varies with alternator speed.
Doesn't it just give you the most secure feeling all over knowing that the country is being run by an administration selected by the same people who entrusted their retirements and life savings to Jim and Tammy Faye?
Not claiming that good grounding isn't essential, but back in the day car radios grounded through their chassis which were connected at several points to the metal dash which was welded to the car's chassis so the ground path was pretty low impedence and the only inputs were the sheilded cable from the antenna and the +12 Volt power line, so not a lot of potential for ground loops. However inside the radio there was a choke coil for the power line to block the alternator whine that would have traveled in on the power line if not hindered by the high impedence of the choke at the frequency of the alternator whine.
Although I suppose the high side of the car's electrical system could be considered a ground loop if you stretched the definition enough.
The average electric guitar has a high-impedance unbalanced (one "hot" one ground) output and the average guitar amp the same kind of input, and the cord in between has a center conductor for the "hot" side and the shield around that is the ground.
If the OP would care to email me at coastalnet.com I'll explain to him how his guitar can be fairly easily modified to greatly reduce the interference which it picks up, which may or may not be due to his lighting.
Light dimmers, incandescent or flourescent, are notorious sources of RF unless you get very special expensive ones.
Hey, if the King James Version was good enough for Moses it ought to be good enough for you:-)*
One wonders, though, if the KJV is version 1.0 or not.
*About 30 years ago I overheard a member of our choir telling another that a choir member from a church of the same denomination in another city about an hour away actually said "If the King James Version was good enough for Moses it's good enough for me.".
"And what idiot decided that play/pause in media player should be Control-P instead of space."
Do you mean instead of "spacebar" or instead of "Control-spacebar"? I've got an old All-in-Wonder that terminates recording with just the spacebar and that strikes me as not very well thought out, accident waiting to happen, etc. It's a lot harder to accidentally hit a key conbination than to accidentally hit any one particular key.
Of course what I really hate is that the composite video out isn't just the TV part, it's the whole desktop, for which I already have a monitor, only that's restricted to 800 x 600 in order to use the composite video out.
"The DC potential needed would be equivalent to the peak-to-peak of the minimum recommended AC operating voltage of the unit. For 120vac, 60Hz, this would be 120*sqrt(2)=170v."
AC "peaks" at 170 Volts twice in each cycle. It also "bottoms out" at 0 Volts twice per cycle. It averages out to 120. If you feed a purely resistive load with it, the load will heat up to a certain point, depending on the resistance of the load. In order to heat up that load to the same temperature with DC you would use 120 Volts.
Ignoring the fact that it actually is a CRT type television, if it weren't it would still most likely have a switched-mode power supply, a rich source of harmonics.
"I wonder if exercising the Constitutional right to secede is a violation of homeland security?"
There really isn't a Constitutional right to secede, that is, one specifically enumerated in the Constitution. If there is a right to secede it exists because the Constitution doesn't specifically prohibit it, which is, of course, a constitutionally valid argument.
Of course any discussion of rights where the fatherland, I mean homeland, security department is concerned is probably pointless. Any rights they think you don't have you don't have (at least not until you spend years dragging your case through the courts, and, to paraphase, rights delayed are rights denied.)
If SC had been smart they would have seceded and *not* fired on Fort Sumpter, thus forcing the US to have to play the heavy.
Speaking of statehood, the Constitution says that Congress can vote to make an area a State, but it doesn't say anything about having to get the people who live there to agree. What if we just up and told the people of Cuba that we had just made them the 51st State? I bet Fidel's life would get very interesting very quickly.
"...at least in the Metro Washington (DC) area. It is WFDC (Telefutura), which is a Spanish language station."
As best I can tell with some quick googling, WFDC is an over the air station broadcasting on UHF channel 14 (470-476 MHz). The channel 14 under discussion is cable channel 14 (120-126 MHz).
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I wonder if the second moderator agreed that I was a troll but thought that I was an underrated one? Does that mean that I was very good at being a troll or very bad?
Seriously, though, I'm sure there's something buried in the fine print that says you can't resell iTunes songs. Remember, the product comes from the same recording industry that wanted to ban the sale of previously owned CDs so that you had to pay full price for a new one (which, if they'd been successful in banning sales of used CDs, would have suffered 100% depreciation the instant you bought it).
None of the diodes have to be bad for you to have alternator whine because alternators don't put out flat line DC, it's got lots of ripple, the frequency of which varies with alternator speed.
Neo-cons (as in neo-conservatives) are liberals? Right wing liberals?
"egregarious": conspicuously bad in friendly, outgoing manner :-)
Doesn't it just give you the most secure feeling all over knowing that the country is being run by an administration selected by the same people who entrusted their retirements and life savings to Jim and Tammy Faye?
Although I suppose the high side of the car's electrical system could be considered a ground loop if you stretched the definition enough.
Well, no, but it might be substantially different from...
Almost certainly caused by electrical noise from your alternator rather than a ground loop.
If the OP would care to email me at coastalnet.com I'll explain to him how his guitar can be fairly easily modified to greatly reduce the interference which it picks up, which may or may not be due to his lighting.
Light dimmers, incandescent or flourescent, are notorious sources of RF unless you get very special expensive ones.
That's 'cause they didn't have an already-in-place sig off of which to play. That's why I said "Which also explains...".
Which also explains a lot about Microsoft.
One wonders, though, if the KJV is version 1.0 or not.
*About 30 years ago I overheard a member of our choir telling another that a choir member from a church of the same denomination in another city about an hour away actually said "If the King James Version was good enough for Moses it's good enough for me.".
Nope, just have a tuffet fetish.
Of course there would also be fewer punch lines.
After which we slaughtered numerous whey.
And if Clinton were as clever as he thinks himself he would have replied in his best Winston Churchill voice, "No madam, I *get* sucked.".
Oh, so that's what it is. I always thought it was "fairly unbalanced".
Do you mean instead of "spacebar" or instead of "Control-spacebar"? I've got an old All-in-Wonder that terminates recording with just the spacebar and that strikes me as not very well thought out, accident waiting to happen, etc. It's a lot harder to accidentally hit a key conbination than to accidentally hit any one particular key.
Of course what I really hate is that the composite video out isn't just the TV part, it's the whole desktop, for which I already have a monitor, only that's restricted to 800 x 600 in order to use the composite video out.
Jar-Jar and you Jar-Jar alone.
Simple, really. Politics threatens your rights online, not to mention your rights everywhere else as well.
AC "peaks" at 170 Volts twice in each cycle. It also "bottoms out" at 0 Volts twice per cycle. It averages out to 120. If you feed a purely resistive load with it, the load will heat up to a certain point, depending on the resistance of the load. In order to heat up that load to the same temperature with DC you would use 120 Volts.
Ignoring the fact that it actually is a CRT type television, if it weren't it would still most likely have a switched-mode power supply, a rich source of harmonics.
There really isn't a Constitutional right to secede, that is, one specifically enumerated in the Constitution. If there is a right to secede it exists because the Constitution doesn't specifically prohibit it, which is, of course, a constitutionally valid argument.
Of course any discussion of rights where the fatherland, I mean homeland, security department is concerned is probably pointless. Any rights they think you don't have you don't have (at least not until you spend years dragging your case through the courts, and, to paraphase, rights delayed are rights denied.)
If SC had been smart they would have seceded and *not* fired on Fort Sumpter, thus forcing the US to have to play the heavy.
Speaking of statehood, the Constitution says that Congress can vote to make an area a State, but it doesn't say anything about having to get the people who live there to agree. What if we just up and told the people of Cuba that we had just made them the 51st State? I bet Fidel's life would get very interesting very quickly.
It is WFDC (Telefutura), which is a Spanish
language station."
As best I can tell with some quick googling, WFDC is an over the air station broadcasting on UHF channel 14 (470-476 MHz). The channel 14 under discussion is cable channel 14 (120-126 MHz).