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Earl Brown's avatar

Kamala is SO the opposite of a girl I met in a bar. I told her a story that included - in, on, at, by, to,

She said: "Are you trying to preposition me?"

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Tom Fitzgerald's avatar

Well done.

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LT's avatar
Apr 15Edited

https://youtu.be/it0djJdDkXo

China continues to be a major threat to our country. Those in denial are the same voices which argue China does not flood our markets with stolen IP, doesn’t manipulate their currency, isn’t involved in espionage and isn’t responsible for the Fentanyl crisis.

Best to deal with the Chinese Tiger now, rather than when they occupy Taipei.

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Howard Walther's avatar

LT CHINA is Already here and has bought up and good slice of AMERICA.

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LT's avatar
Apr 15Edited

Yes, and are embedded in our academic institutions to include UCSB. Often involved in critical technology and research, which goes where?…you guessed it!

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Howard Walther's avatar

Oh now LT you ARE-GOING-IN-THE-CORRECT DIRECTION.

Who just got a BIG PAY RAISE as UCSB? Did that Person Do Something Wrong?

https://www.hcamag.com/us/specialization/employment-law/uc-santa-barbara-chancellor-accused-of-hitting-student-with-car/413007

Was Henry T. Yang also Head of the USCB Engineering Dept where HIGH TECH

Research is Done. Any Problems Uncovered at UCSB ENG. DEPT???

Did Henry T. Yang Just Retire with a BIG PAY RAISE AKA GOLDEN PARACHUTE WITH JUST MAYBE A NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT?????

https://www.independent.com/2024/09/27/uc-santa-barbara-chancellor-henry-yang-getting-240k-pay-raise-before-retiring/

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Peter Scott's avatar

Sounds like Trump already dealt with China with his “Very, very, good friend, President Xi” at the end of his first administration.

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-signing-u-s-china-phase-one-trade-agreement-2/

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J. Livingston's avatar

Keep holding those retro grudges, Peter. Your signature contribution here. But it is a lot easier to just keep saying OrangemanBad, like the rest of the mocking bird democrats out on their current wedgie narrative tours. America is not buying because this is no longer a mere political game that is getting played. This is what change actually looks like. It is tough and there are a lot of howls right now. Hang in there.

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Peter Scott's avatar

My “comment” was to direct readers to a “Trump White House Archive” verbatim speech from Trump. Grudge?

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J. Livingston's avatar

.......Archive..... retro.......?

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Bill Russell's avatar

That's a lot of information tickling my brain, Robert. You're a very smart dude. Where would one start with your observations? I thought the stealth radar was a lunch bag for King Kong. Regardless, I think I'll just spend the day consuming while I'm working on my twenty-five-year-old Sub-Zero ice making and ice/water dispensing problems; one problem leads to another. Coming soon from Home Depot is probably one of the last refrigerators existing in America. We will have a dual laundry area, redundancy is good.

TikTok has eliminated any chance of assembling an unbiased jury pool if I plan to sue someone or I'm being sued. An AI lawyer and I have planned on being "free" attorneys. I figure an engineer is smarter than a lawyer after watching and listening to Kamala Harris, and no doubt she couldn't keep up with the new laws. Doctors see the same old bodies over and over again ... doesn't take a lot of brains for that. But an engineer's world is continuously changing. As an electronic engineer, I've worked with vacuum tubes, transistors, integrated circuits, computer processors, etc. I plan to "smoke" the legal opposition with my three-dimensional brain <g>.

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Thomas John's avatar

Q. How can you tell the engineers in a room - or substack thread?

A. They'll tell you they're an engineer in less than 30 seconds.....

Meant with a light touch and a bunch of humor.

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Bill Russell's avatar

It's a tough world now when an engineer has to compete with Elon Musk for attention. But I'm happy to say I've been booted off of X now for over two weeks. I'm assuming the reason is because Elon doesn't want any other engineer talking about himself. On the government DOGE work application, I stated I was smarter than Elon ... that must've ticked him off <g>!

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Jeff barton's avatar

Elon has a physics education which is far more general than any engineering education.

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Tom Fitzgerald's avatar

Ummmm. Physics? Fine, but not really 'far more general' in any sense. Look at the basis of a mechanical engineering degree. Far 'more general' indeed.

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Jeff barton's avatar

More general in every sense.

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Bill Russell's avatar

When I worked at VEECO (now Bruker) on Robin Hill Rd, there were a lot of UCSB graduate "engineers" with a physics education doing engineering design work. My philosophy is that technical colleges teach one how to think. And as far as a technical graduate designing anything in the future, their ability to design goes back to their childhood as to whether or not they fixed or tinkered with things, preferably both electrical and mechanical devices. I had tests I used to determine a graduate's future design capabilities ... even if they had a master's degree, proving my point about the importance of the ability to fix stuff from the past. Most troubling is an engineer not capable of fixing their own designs ... they don't see their own faults and they tend to keep silent about faults created. I've fixed six-month-old problems in one afternoon. You can be very smart, but that doesn't make someone a good designer.

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Jeff barton's avatar

Do you agree that tube audio amplifiers sound better than solid-state as some maintain? Some go as far as to claim that they can hear the difference between amplifiers using 6L6 vs EL34 output tubes. Do you believe this is possible? I own both solid state and tube amplifiers and for hi-fi I can honestly say that in a blind comparison I would be hard pressed to tell the difference. In guitar amplifiers I believe the tube reigns supreme but this might be illusion as well.

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Bill Russell's avatar

Myself, I believe comparing different type audio circuits is an illusion. I tinker with both tube and solid-state amplifiers. The biggest problem with solid-state amps is related to power amplifiers with thermal design issues which cause a break in the feedback path, resulting in a catastrophic failure and many blown parts. Thermal design oversight leads to early solid-state amp failures. As an example, a stressed solder joint between a circuit board and a heatsink transistor connection is common ... causing an open loop feedback condition. Under overload conditions, a solid-state amp needs good protection to prevent self-damage and speaker protection (direct-coupled configurations). A tube amplifier can easily take overloads and not destroy itself catastrophically. I grew up with my dad's model 10C2 Brook 2A3 triode push-pull amp that I liked a lot and created a PC board version (without power supply) which worked better than the original. Magnetics, output and interstage transformers, are better (less losses, improved magnetic materials) today than back in the late 1940's. Of course, in my mind the triode amps sound better than the pentode amps ... but no doubt that's imaginary. A tube guitar amp I believe is likely to be more reliable than a solid-state guitar amp ... especially with making hookup mistakes and loud sound blasts. Solid state hardware is not very forgiving to misuse. I liked the appearance of the EL34 tubes more so than the 6L6 tubes in a Bogen Kit amp. To tell the difference in these two tube types for sound criteria I would think is a very difficult call. When I was working at Raytheon on power supplies for a few weeks in Waltham, MA ... the wide hallways surrounding the brick building was lined with old tube manufacturing equipment. Those must have been the days when the nimble fingers of women were assembling tubes ... for some of those more difficult processes.

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Gene's avatar

It fascinates me how much talk of the past is on this forum. No one talks about how well the US economy is doing under our brilliant leader in April 2025. No one is bragging about how low prices are, how wonderful our farmers and auto industry are doing, or how amazing real estate in Arizona and Florida is under the Trump economic agenda.

But then again, if you watch the right media, you would never know that the dollar is tanking against the euro, you would not know about Japan's massive sell-off of bonds. You may have missed out on the collapse of foreign travel. But who cares when you can brag about sending a man with a young family to a brutal foreign prison without due process or manipulating the stock market for personal gain? So much winning going on in the land of the free and home of the brave.

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Jeff barton's avatar

Suck it up Bozo, we have till the end of 2028 for you to bitch.

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Gene's avatar

Thanks, Jeff. I'm not bithching. I am an American who doesn't understand why all the Trump supporters aren't bragging about the winning going on. I've read most of the Republican platform (AKA Project 2025) and you guys are on target. The economic collapse of America, the alliance with Russia, the attack on the courts, putting government employees under the thumb of the Executive branch, and lots more.

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Jeff barton's avatar

I am celebrating all the winning. The deportation of illegal aliens cannot proceed fast enough following 4 years of unvetted immigration. Cant get them out fast enough for me. Getting men out of women's sports, big win. Tariffs will be a big win but it will take time to renegotiate better more equitable trade agreements, big win. Cutting waste out of government, big win. The government payroll could be cut by at least 50% with no loss of services. Defund Marxist universities, big win. Not having to look at Biden stumble around, big win. You know to heal the economy from the Democrat wrecking ball of spending will take time. Did you buy an electric car and expect climare chang to be solved in a day? That is looking for a fraud to solve a fraud on a specified time scale. Gene, you people slay me.

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Gene's avatar

Thanks Jeff... and I won't even call you a bozo for expressing your opinions.

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Howard Walther's avatar

I read this Article by Intellgence Person Robert Eringer titled "China's Feeble Bite! A Base Commander Gripe! Kamala's Vacant Hype! AI 'for the defense' is Ripe!"

I have another Title "Lawfare in SB by Predator Attorneys Destroys Our Community"

I quote from the Key Lawfare portions by Mr. Eringer as follows>

"The judicial system has become a business. A BIG business for lawyers.

Judges know, but do not care, that wealthy folk have a huge advantage over the little guy who cannot afford today’s exorbitant cost of legal services. Motion after motion plus depositions and hearings equate to tens of thousands—if not hundreds of thousands—of dollars in legal fees."

AND "A solution for the little guy?" AND "Utilize a generative AI platform to be your lawyer."

No Mr. Eringer FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE and Take it to the Predator Attorneys and their "Abuse of the Legal Process" Head On. Carefully Review the Weblinks below>

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/abuse_of_process

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdgjwrcOIMw&ab_channel=TheBureauInvestigates

Has Anyone In Santa Barbara Courts Placed the Attorneys and the Judges of their "Abuse of Process" ON LEGAL NOTICE MAYBE? HAS ANYONE PLACED THE SB COUNTY ON LEGAL NOTICE

ON MAY 2, 2019 OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES? SO WHAT WAS THE SB COUNTY'S RESPONSE?

Howard Walther, Member of a Military Family

PS1 - Per SB County's Weblink>https://www.countyofsb.org/2062/County-Counsel

"By statute, County Counsel is the legal adviser to the Board of Supervisors. We advance and defend the County's civil policies and actions by: looking ahead; advising and providing options; and litigating. We work closely with the Board of Supervisors and other County officers to maintain the civil legal integrity of the County of Santa Barbara."

PS2 - How many SB County Attorneys are involved to "defend the County's Civil Policies and Actions by: ....? How much of Our Money Have they, SB County Attorneys expended in

these "Actions"? Any NDA's Concerning Same?

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LT's avatar

Can anyone imagine this ignoramus as our next Governor? Think it’s bad now, just wait! She would be the final nail in the coffin of California. Sure, Kamala and Karen Bass…what a diversity team!

https://youtu.be/yDBRhKBLfqQ?si=ILMAAHkoD5U8Na4E

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Julia Gonzales's avatar

Colonel Susanna Myers wasn’t let go because of her letter subverting trumps agenda. It was just her turn. trump and hegseth are true misogynist. If you’ve noticed and been paying attention the female officers of all branches of the military are methodically being fired for any reason these two morons come up with. They don’t believe that women have the intelligence to lead. Which is a really big joke, considering the intelligence these two clowns have been showing lately. The fact is that both trump and hegseth lack the intelligence to lead themselves.

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Tom Fitzgerald's avatar

What do you mean 'bill three hours'? Nope. A good lawyer is a creative writer: Research issue for client 1.75 hours. Travel time to and from law library .75 hours. Parking $14.00. Draft trial brief for court per judge's protocols 2.5 hours. Final review and meeting with client prior to trial hearing 1.5 hours. Appearance at court hearing, preparation of final order and entry of judgment 2.75 hours. Travel time to and from court .75 hours. Parking $21.00. Final communication with client gratis.

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