LJ deleted EVERYTHING EXCEPT the two words below!!!!!   I will attempt to correct this when I can give a shit!!!

Sincerely,
Master

Probably not.  My writing something about environmental issues---and you have caught Me some thirty years after I became interested in such---would have little effect upon the world.  I have, of course, burnt out on the subject during those years. 

President Nixon actually had some intelligent actions on the subject.  Since then, the problems have worsened at an ever-increasing rate, while the solutions, and the technologies necessary for those solutions to be tried, let alone work, have not.
 
The cause of all important environmental problems in the United States of America is the fifty kiloton mentally deranged elephant jammed into the federal government, the state governments, and the airwaves.  Only when that revolting killer of America is removed will there be any progress in this country---in My country! 

Jeez!  Why would I want to do that?  They are "ex-", because I want them out of My life! 

Following them around is emotionally unhealthy, i.e. sick.  I vote for painful, amusing, and creepy as well!   


Note:  The space wasted in the box above is an LJ special presentation.  It is NOT something I added.

   WashPost has an article titled, "". 

Paste has quit working.  Bye bye!

Greetings All, 

   It's off to Folsom Street Fair, for Me, today!  The Fair is on Sunday, but My timmy arrives at the airport (SFO) at 1355 today!  

   I will be leaving here in less than three hours, to go to the commute bus to The City.  The commute bus is faster, quieter, smoother, and has comfy seats.  It costs the same as the regular bus. 
   The problem?  Leave early, or else!! 

   I and My timmy will be spending the weekend together, to determine whether We are correct for each other.  We were together for a few hours, last year, and We have been IMing about a year and a half, now. 

   We will be at the booth of The Frugal Domme (www.frugaldomme.com), during the actual Fair, on Sunday.  We will be two souls, lost, in the big city...  together!  (and not really lost, but...) 

   Come by, and check Us out.  There are MANY things to buy, as that seems the purpose of the Fair.  There are many cool products, for sale, though, and that is cool, too, in spite of My previous sentence's tone. 
 
   More to come!

Dave

1930 to 2230  Fetish Fair          Men and women 
2230 to 2430  play party          Men only (sorry)   

   I help with setup, and can say the Fair itself is very interesting.  I won't say what I saw, of course, but I met a man there who was very much into receiving needles.  A cool person, he was, too! 
   I doubt many---if any---women read My posts, but I stress "and women", above, because too many events are men- or women-only.  Bah! 

   Come see new---and commonly-done---activities done for real! 

The respective URLs:
  www.sfldg.org/                               NSFW 
  www.sfcitadelmen.org/IndexB.html  NSFW 

My So-Called Life. This show, and thirtysomething [Excepting the soap-opera episodes, of course!], show life's extreme weirdness.

Degrassi Junior High. This is a very little known program from Canada. Like MSCL, this program has real problems of real people. Maybe if it were about idiotic spoiled rich kids, then it would still be on the air.

  The Republicans---often referred to as Repuglicans or Republicicans---say there are death panels in the health-care plans.  The Democrats say there are no death panels.  Both are incorrect. 

Actually, there ARE "death panel"s! 
   There were a couple next door to Me, Jeff and Rita.  Jeff's father got sick from something, and had to go to the hospital.  After his initial work was done, the doctors said he needed to go to Hospital Bee, to get the kind of care he needed. 
   The insurance company sent him to Hospital Aye, instead.  The insurance company kept a lot of health-care money which should have been spent on their client, so Jeff's father died.  Hospital Bee cost more, so the choice was obvious---to the insurance company. 
   Hospital Aye cost less, and Jeff's father's death meant payments were made for less time.  This way, the death of Jeff's father is a profit center, rather than an expense. 
   The insurance company thinks this is a proper way of conducting business, and do so whenever they can.  These are the death panels to which the Republicans---aided by their hate-radio mouthpieces---are referring. 
   The death panels are not in the Democratic plan, so the Republicans are wrong.  The death panels do exist, so the Democrats are wrong. 
   The insurance companies are, of course, murderous profiteers.  They are the most wrong. 

   The hate mongers can say whatever venomous lies they like:  Jeff's father is still dead.  

   I already, this year, splurged on something to improve My future!  I bought issues of the Institute of Radio Engineers's Proceedings! 

   I bought 1955, (part of) 1956, and 1959, as bound books.  MUCH better, though, is that I was able (strikeout=NOT) to get 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, and 1960, 1961, 1962, as original magazine issues!  These are easier to photocopy/scan than the book versions, and the ads are significantly more useful than I had expected them to be, too! 
   I bought Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (A combination of the IRE and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers) Proceedings for 1964 (Nov, Dec missing), 1965, 1966, and 1967, original magazine issues, too.  These are much thinner, and less useful than the IRE Proceedings.  Fewer papers, and MUCH fewer ads.  More correspondence, though! 
  I also got the AIEE Transactions for 1958, and the Institute of Radio and Electronic Engineers (London) for 1974.  

Books!:
Digital Computer Components and Circuits   R. K. Richards  *
Electrical Engineer' Handbook--Communication, Electronics--4th ed.    Pender, McIlwain 
Electron Tube Circuits    Samuel Sealy 
Electronic Designers' Handbook    Landee, Davis, Albrecht 
Electronics' Engineering Manual--Vol. 08    Articles from Electronics Magazine 
Industrial Electronic Control   W. D. Cockrell  *
Industrial Electronic Engineering   Davis,  Weed  *
Laplace Transforms for Electrical Engineers   Starkey  *
Linear Network Analysis    Seshu, Balabanian 
some of the MIT Radiation Laboratory series:
    01  RADAR System Engineering    Ridenour 
    16  Microwave Mixers    Pound 
    18  Vacuum Tube Amplifiers    Valley, Wallman 
    21  Electronic Instruments   Greenwood, Holdam, MacRae 
    22  Cathode Ray Tube Displays    Soller, Starr, Valley
    25  Theory of Servomechanisms    James, Nichols, Phillips
Network Analysis and Synthesis    Kuo 
Principles of RADAR    M. I. T. RADAR School Staff 
Principles of Television Engineering    Donald G. Fink 
Radio Engineer's Handbook, F. E. Terman   
RCA Transmitting Tubes    Radio Corporation of America 
Reference Data for Radio Engineers    International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. 
Television Engineering Handbook    Donald G. Fink 


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   So, yes, all this did cost about a 'kay', but almost all is useful.  I bought the 1940s IRE Proceedings out of curiosity, but there are interesting papers---and advertisements!---in them, just fewer than in the newer volumes.  
   Electronics is a very large field to cover.  The materials listed above are much more than most people have, but there are about ten years' worth of Proceedings, twenty-plus years of Transactions, and about twice as many books, yet to be obtained. 
   There are company-made publications, such as Hewlett-Packard Journal (which is online, at http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs/IssuePDFs/hpjindex.html), RCA Review, General Electric Review, and yet others.  

   Getting these things is difficult, because I have to compete with collectors.  Collectors run the prices of things so high that I simply cannot afford them!  The 1953 Proceedings was over four hundred dollars.  At that, there were two collectors, one of which lost!  [$406.91 vs. $401.91!]  


   Then all I need is a set of test instruments, and...   oh, yes---parts!  I already have the [not so] basic skills needed, and the ideas! 

   I have been studying electronics since I was twelve.  I am not stopping now! 



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* Books I forgot; added 2009 Sep 22, 1342

   Yes....Welch's products....The Welch's [juice] company worked to kill Air America. 
 
   Also:  Levi-Strauss, Kohl's Department Store, and Coke and Pepsi



  The problem here is Air America was the one---count it, one---centrist radio network, adrift in the sea of rightist networks in radio-land.  All these big companies were working to kill only that one network. 
   These companies DO support the vast number of rightist networks.  The reason is, of course, to prevent any speech but that which is favorable to Corporate America.  In other words---"Death to free speech!"  [Emphasis added]

2006 Oct 31  www.fair.org/index.php 
An internal memo from ABC Radio Networks to its affiliates reveals scores of powerful sponsors have a standing order that their commercials never be placed on syndicated Air America programming that airs on ABC affiliates.

The October 25 memo was provided to FAIR by the Peter B. Collins Show, a syndicated radio show originating on the West Coast.

Peter B. Collins has been on the San Francisco radio scene since I was little.  He owns CLOSETS full of T-shirts, and used to help out at KQED's pledge drives.        I have placed the list at the end of this post.    

2006 Oct 31  mediamatters.org/research/200610310008
2006 Nov 02  www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-silver/air-americas-abc-blacklis_b_33123.html
2006 Nov 03  www.reclaimthemedia.org/corporate_power_consolidation/air_americas_abc_blacklist 
2006 Nov 11  www.nytimes.com/2006/11/06/business/media/06air.html 
   When the liberal talk radio network Air America filed for bankruptcy protection last month, some analysts blamed a lack of listener interest in progressive talk radio. Now, it seems that a lack of major advertising dollars are responsible.
   In a memo dated Oct. 25, ABC Radio Networks instructed affiliated stations that broadcast syndicated programs from Air America to black out all ads from Hewlett-Packard, which had purchased advertising time on ABC but did “not wish to air on any Air America affiliates.” The memo listed almost 90 advertisers that it said were taking part in blackouts of Air America, including Microsoft, Wal-Mart, Visa, Exxon Mobil, Cingular, McDonald’s, the United States Postal Service and the Navy.


   While writing this post, I re-researched the subject.  My memory is not perfect (You thought I remembered all this?), and in any case, I usually remember the conclusions and forget the no-longer-needed data.  Well, that and the fact that the links I provide must be working! 




   This subject has apparently resurfaced.  [Just what We all need:  MORE bigotry!]  

2009 Aug 12  mediamatters.org/research/200908120010 
   Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Lou Dobbs have used their radio and television shows to incite hatred and push wild conspiracy theories, leading several of Beck's advertisers to reportedly pull out of his broadcasts. Many advertisers have nonetheless sponsored these hosts' hate speech in recent weeks, including major corporations and organizations that, in 2006, reportedly requested that ABC Radio Networks not air their advertisements during any Air America programs. 



   Given the reach of Corporate America's power, it is no surprise the actual list is not to be found in Google.  There are some almost unreadable images, but even those are very few. 

   I found the list in an old, 2007 Mar 12, download.  Here it is:
america listens to abc
October 25, 2006
***FOR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION ***
AIR AMERICA BLACKOUT
HEWLETT PACKARD
Dear Traffic Director:
Please be advised that Hewlett Packard has purchased schedules with ABC Radio Networks between October
30th and December 24 TH. 2006. Please make sure you blackout this advertiser on your station, as they do not
wish to air on any Air America affiliates.
Please see below for a complete list of all advertisers requesting that NONE of their commercials air within AIR
AMERICA programming.
Allstate
American Heart Association
Aventis
Avon (all brands)
Bank of America
Bayer (All Products)
BMW Motorcycles
Carrier
Chattam - Capzasin
Chattam - Gold Bond 1st Aid
Chattam - Gold Bond Foot Spray
Chattam - Phisoderm
Cl1attam - Selsun Salon
Cl1attam - Ultimate Healing Lotion
Cigna
Cingular
Clorox
Coke
Coty
Dean's Morningstar Foods
Dell
Denny's
Discovery Channel
Eharmony.com
Epson
Expedia.com
Exxon Mobil
Farmers Insurance
FedEx
Foot Action
Frito-Lay
GE
Gillete Venus Goodyear
Heinekin/Amstel Light
Hershey's
Hewlett Packard
Home Depot
Hormel
Hyatt
Interstate Batteries
J.C. Penney
Johnson & Johnson (all brands)
Kohl's
Kraft Foods (all brands)
Levi's
Masterfoods USA (all brands)
McDonald's
Merial Frontline
MGM
Michelin
Microsoft
Morningstar
National Cattleman's Beef
Nestle
Nissan
NYSE
Office Depot
Outdoor Life Network P
P & G - Bounty
P & G - Charmin
P & G - Febreeze
P & G - lams Dog/Cat Foods
P & G - Pepto Bismol
Paramount (all)
Pepsi
Philip Morris
Pier 1 Imports
Red Lobster
Re/Max
REI Sporting Goods
Rent-way
Robert Half
Schering Plough ESPYs
Schering Plough Tinactin
Sherwin Williams
Sony
State Farm
Toys R Us
Travelocity.com
True Value
United Healthcare
US Navy
USPS
Visa
Walgreens
Wal-Mart
Welch's
Wrigley
Wyeth
Placement of these spots may be found on your weekly ABC Radio Network commercial schedule.
We appreciate your assistance in communicating this request to everyone at your station involved in scheduling ABC
Radio Network inventory.
Thank you for your cooperation.

I'm the fortune cookie making machine: 

Gotta love me!! 

...but I went to this site, and did not understand the jokes!  community.livejournal.com/political_macro/ 

Disk drives, disk drives, and more disk drives! 

I have 2044GB on My G4, now.  Another two or three thousand GB will keep Me busy for a year or two. 

   So far, no one has commented on the crackpot accosting Barney Frank, on this: 

   Why---can anyone explain this?---would anyone attempt to tell a Jew what Nazis are about?  The very concept is so irrational that it might as well be a black hole! 
   Note to Frank:  That black hole is, of course, the planet where she spends most of her time. 

Greetings All/all,

   What good is a kitty?  Everyone believes He/she/it knows.   Let's check this out...

A cat will not tell you when you say something egregiously stupid.
Kitty will not remind you to brush and floss more often.
your kitty will not keep on about how your beard is truly shabby, and nowhere near as good as His!  
The Cat will never discuss your execrable taste in television shows! 
A cat will---somehow---forget to remind you that your baldness is worsening.
A kitty will not tell you your waist is spreading:  More room for ME! 

All a kitty will do is sit on your lap, purr, and let you know you are the most wonderful person ever. 
   And... What is the good in that?

   The "dumb"est thing I ever did, truly was Me being dumb:  I did not tell My grade-school principal, with whom I was on very good terms, about My step-father molesting Me.  

   Rather than be dumb, I should have been loud!  Sometimes, being dumb truly is "dumb"! 

   My first job was to open the computer center on Saturdays.  I also worked during the week as a "consultant" helping other students with their programming problems.

   If you understand the old saying, "Timesharing is a son of a batch.", then you probably know with what I was helping people!  It was fun, but I was in My early twenties, and there was much happening, then.

Thanks to technology...:

   I will avoid belaboring the observation that almost everything We use, indoor plumbing, stoves, refrigeration, the telephone, radio and television (normal and digital), cellphones, computers, automobiles, hospitals, videotape, CD-Rs, sanitation, pollution mitigation, disease control, traffic forecasting, weather satellites, the postal service, the rail road, and even teaching, is a part of "technology".  "Technology" encompasses electronics, chemicals, civil projects, building, railroad, mechanical, architecture, and a variety of other activities, occupations, or studies. 

   Thanks to relatively recent technology, in the forms of computers, the internet, and the postal service, I can purchase Electronics Engineering books and periodicals without telephoning or visiting every bookshop in the state---or the country!  When some madwoman yells at a Jew her idea that heath care is a Nazi plot, I get to see them on YouTube. 
   I can send My personal photographs to other people by e-mail.  Governments, corporations, and other criminals use electronic spying to see My---and everyone else's---messages and photos. 

   Every year, there is a new material which is stronger and lighter than what has come before.  Or the new material has the same characteristics, but now one can actually afford to buy the new one. 
   I am a student of Electronics (You had no idea, right?).  The first electron tube, a triode then called "The Audion", was invented in nineteen seven, and could amplify wavelengths as short (at the time!) as six hundred meters.  This frequency, one-half megahertz, is even lower than the Broadcast Band ("AM", 0.54 to 1.6 megahertz).  Over time the electron tube has been developed into more than a hundred special kinds, with innumerable versions of each.  Nowadays, there are electron tubes which produce frequencies of trillions of cycles per second. 
   Transistor/semi-conductor technology has only about twenty special kinds, but they can be combined in more ways than electron tubes can be combined.  Then, of course, one can use both technologies---and yet others, in addition---to achieve almost any desired product. 

   Technology---either the amorphous 'subject', or a specific technology, is a very rich and deep subject.  After studying Electronics more than forty years, now, I still have much to learn! 

Master David Goodmen