Super duper hype fast FET driver?

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What happened to the "Just Say NO" campaign?

It was too Republican.

 

[Les Cargill]

It would probably have to be pretty invasive to be particularly
effective, but self-consistency is always to be recommended, even if
it doesn't actually minimise damage.

That's just... no, self-consistency is only useful in the service of a
well established set of principles. Even then, the result
may well be Mandarinism.

You cannot impute proper behavior from first or even second order
principles. Life is not a theorem. A theorem is arguably
the least ... interesting form of knowledge. Don't get me wrong,
I like theorems in the proper context, but people are far too
complex to be tractable in that manner.

I could not have provided a better example of purist mandarin
technocracy if asked. You *just don't know enough*, Bill. Not
"you" you - nobody does. What's it like in there? Nobody knows.

And it's not like the people who do work with things like
nutrition standards can really be reliable - they don't know
what your system works like.

Getting excited about the damage drug addicts do to themselves while
ignoring the way food addicts wreck their health is distinctly silly.

So howzabout we ignore both of those unless we have a personal
stake in it? Is that so hard?

My personal experience was a doctor ready to put me on statins when
I have never had high cholesterol in my life. *Low* cholesterol. I made
her get a different test at a different lab, and sonofagun, the first
test was off a lot.

The only thing that really does seem to help with obesity is surgical
adjustments of the stomach

No! I actually have a friend who has beaten morbid obesity, and that
was not the right thing to do at all. He's taken a *specific* dietary
regime ( which doesn't include carbs, interestingly enough - so his
glucose and insulin levels are amazing ) and very specific
exercise.

That's like "gee, kinda looks like plumbing in there, don't it Bob?
Lets put a flow restrictor in."

No! It's a control/feedback problem and that's how it has been managed
in his case. it works. it was terrifyingly difficult, and may
fail at any moment.

You and I are among the first or second generation that *has never
really been hungry*. It's all outta calibration in there. Doesn't
that make more sense?

and the top of the digestive system and
that is seriously invasive. If we get a better grip on the way
appetite control works in people who don't get fat - and fails to work
in people who do - we may come up with less invasive treatments that
do work, but it may take a while.

I can't disagree there. But when people mare some sort of Social
Darwinist... or even moderately Dickensian approach, it's just
plain wrong.

Again: we know *very little* about either of these problems. If
you use the right angle on it, they may not really even *be* problems,
At least not problems for which there is a general public
goods solution.

 

[Les Cargill]

So?

So yeah. Until the feds get involved...

My wife gave up cigarettes many years ago, but she remains addicted to
coffee. Tobacco clearly does more harm than coffee, so people get
less upset about the dealers who make money from selling coffee, but
they are equally guilty of "professional predation' in the sense of
exploiting a human weakness for their own profit.

Cigarettes didn't do that much harm either. That was
never the point. The people who put the Surgeon's
General report more or less admitted that - they could
quantify it only at a level of rough order of magnitude.
If you died of something they'd kill you with, you
had at most a 50% chance of the smokes having
actually caused it. This against specific pathologies
with mortality rates in the 20% range.

Chemotherapy has much higher mortality rates.

*Of course* people who could quit should, but it's not
like the epidemiology of it all really ever made sense.
That didn't matter; there was a narrative and that
replaced facts.

People lived in houses painted with lead paint, with
asbestos fireproofing, coal heating, in cities with massive
quantities of lead from ethyl gasoline. They worked in machine
shops with particulates at ... many times the "safe" level, or
with chemicals like methylene chloride.

Prior to say, what, 1950, nobody even *thought* about
this stuff. Probably later.

Most of them have - however - noticed that modern advertising
techniques can increase demand.

Or not. Modern advertising is largely playing to an empty room.

Nobody seems to have seriously tried
to use the same techniques to reduce demand. The "Just Say No"
campaing may have been conceived as a step in that direction but the
campaign money doesn't seem to have been spent on buying even
minimally competent advertising talent.

Gee, I ran into some druggies when young and they were the best "Just
Say No" thing I ever ran into. Worked like a champ.

Lenny Bruce was full of it.

 

[Les Cargill]

On Aug 25, 7:00 am, John Larkin

In fact you seem to think that denialist propaganda miniminising the
dangers of persisting anhtropogenic global warming is some kind of
useful public service, rather than a cynical exercise by the fossil-
carbon extraction industry designed to let them keep on digging up and
selling fossil-carbon until the damage it causes is blatant enough to
be undeniable.

All one must really do is note that fossil fuels replaced
*slavery* in our civilization. One can admit all manner of
horrible things caused by them, but that's the basis of a pretty
compelling reductio ad absurbum.

Whether it's true or not is almost beside the point.

 

[Joerg]

And your example countries are?

Germany had a much lower drug problems in the 80's and I happened to
live smack at the border, on the Dutch side. Crossed it daily. So I had
years of daily comparison.

The only countries that I've adduced - France versus the Netherlands,
has the less permisive Frence regime stuck with a slightly worse drug
problem than the more permissive Netherlands.

The US has a bigger drug problem than either, and its the world leader
in the - misconceived - "war on drugs".

I live in a rural setting quite similar to where I lived in NL. I don't
even see anything remotely similar to the grief that I saw back there in
the 80's. But again, as Nico hinted, that was the 80's, I do not know NL
recently except as a visitor and those visits were too brief.

 

[Nico Coesel]

Economists know that demand largely exists independent of supply...

Demand is created by marketeers, but economists clearly don't need to
know about marketing.

 

[josephkk]

Have you tried any pfets?

I haven't played much with pfets as really fast switches. Right, a
complement to the 2N7002, push-pull against a 7002, with the same
12-cent gate drivers, would be interesting, and might solve your
problem. Just ignore the shoot-through maybe.

I'll put that on my slow-day experiment list. All I need now is a slow
day.

Why doesn't somebody make p-channel gaasfets? The world wonders.

John

I don't suppose you have considered the carrier velocities in the
material? Also as compared with Silicon?

?-)

 

[Martin Brown]

You could fairly easily do something to stop the junk food industry
targeting young children with adverts for extremely unhealthy foods for
instance. The UK government is running scared of doing this at present.
The industry wouldn't like it...
Self consistency is a good indicator of a reasonable policy.
How else do you hope to maximise health amongst a population of couch
potatoes so determined to eat themselve to death or illness? Obesity and
morbid obesity are far too high and still rising.

But spending loads of money on measures that don't do much to maximise
health while ignoring cheaper - more effective - measures is the way
the US has got itself a health care system that costs half as much
again per head as the French and German systems while failing to
deliver any better health care to the fully insured and rather poorer
health care to the less well-off.


It can make an effort, but it doesn't seem to have made it difficult
to get hold of.

Though it does help to keep the street prices high and quality low which
causes additional problems. It is curious and ironic that there is
actually a *shortage* of medicinal opiate based drugs at the moment.

In principle it could, but Prohibition demonstrated that banning stuff
that people want doesn't stop them getting it. The War on Drugs has
repeated the lesson, but US politicians seem to be very slow on the up-
take.

No they are pretty good on the uptake of brown paper envelopes stuffed
with used notes from the various lobbyists working for oil, coal, prison
warehousing of offenders and junk food. BTW Whatever happened to that
one caught red handed who was going to spill the beans?

Nowhere else on the planet has such an addiction to overdosing on high
fructose corn syrup and dodgy modified trans fats. Industrial scale
unhealthy diets designed to shorten life span sold to a gullible public.

Regards,
Martin Brown

 

[Joerg]

In other words, you put your faith in anecdotal evidence, and want to
determine national policy on the basis of a few isolated local
situations with which you happen to be familiar.

Six years is not anecdotal. If I see people dying and become permanently
brain-damaged all around me I know full well what that means. Of course,
you can chose the head-in-the-sand strategy, maybe it makes those
problems go away. Not.

 

[josephkk]

Infant mortality usually is factored in in these kind of numbers. IIRC
they start counting if a child is older than 4 or 5.

That depends a lot on the country where the counting is done. In the US
from the moment the child is born. Within very few days in much of
Europe. The long time delay (years) seems to occur in third world nations
primarily. Try the CIA fact book, it may be recorded there.

?-)

 

[josephkk]

Not to mention that it is currently providing the bullets and
explosives that are being used to blow up Americans and others
in Afghanistan. You're bleeding money out the front door paying
to send soldiers to the war, and out the back door paying the
Taliban to fight against you. No wonder the country's bankrupt...

Moral or ethical bankruptcy normally proceeds monetary (fiscal)
bankruptcy.

?-/

 

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Moral or ethical bankruptcy normally proceeds monetary (fiscal) ^^^^^^^^ pre?
bankruptcy.

 

[Joerg]

^^^^^^^^ pre?

^^^^^ per?


At least that's how a guy from your (new) neck of the woods was
pernouncin' it

 

[Jamie]

Jim-out-of-touch-with-reality-Thompson hasn't noticed that Clifford
Heath is Australian.

He was pointing out that one of the consequences of the "US war on
drugs" is that some of the money Americans spend on using opiates to
adjust their mood ends up paying the people who grow the opiates in
Afghanistan, who in turn have to pay a lot of it over to the Taliban
for "protection".

If the US had a more rational system of government, they might have
worked out that they could cut off this source of support to the
Taliban by legalising opiates, growing them in the US and selling them
directly to the US addicts through the medical system. Not only would
they ensure that American addicts got better quality opiates, but
they'd also improve the US balance of trade, which needs all the help
that it can get.

That the US hasn't worked this out for itself does seem to be evidence
of some kind of intellectual bankruptcy.

Don't worry about Jim Thompson, the hurricane should be cleaning out his
hotel very soon. It's ripping up stream of N.Y.

I am not wishing harm on any one but, being the smart guy that he
seems to be, I hope some of that gray matter was used to relocate!


Jamie

 

[Rich Grise]

^^^^^^^^ pre?
^^^^^ cedes

 

[Joerg]

That's exactly what it is.

Nope.



How many?

Dozens. Versus none across the border from there.

Well, the war on drugs hasn't made the problem go away. Harm
minimisation doesn't make it go away either, but pure drugs available
with clean needles from a medically run source do eliminate some of
the more unfortunate side-effedts of drug addiction.

Yeah, right. Just like handing out clean and sterile switchblades would
fix the problem with stabbings in downtown. It amazes me how people can
believe in such programs.

I'd say that "just say no" was more of a head-in-the-sand strategy
than "harm minimisation" but tastes differ.

No, it's the right thing but it has to start with the parents, not with
a nanny-state. And that's where one of the problems is and also was back
then in NL.

 

[Jamie]

It may make you wonder, because you are both stupid and malicious. For
the record, I didn't use any.

No, you're most likely correct, you didn't use any illegal drugs in
your country, at least they aren't illegal there, just given to people
like you to keep them subservient. How do you like that socialism ?

Jamie

 

[josephkk]

Yep. Spell checkers can led to other errors.

?-/

 

[Clifford Heath]

Moral or ethical bankruptcy normally proceeds monetary (fiscal)
bankruptcy.

I wasn't making a moral comment, just a rational economic one.

Jim T disregards the very high regard I have for your country
(and indeed for his own career achievements) because he's made
so much of his living from military projects, and because I
detest the self-destructive bully-boy thinking by which he
justifies that. Bullying is a sign of weakness and cowardice,
Jim, not strength. You're old enough to know that.