Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jeff Liebermann Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: OT: some electronics for a speed controlled electromagnetic gun Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 15:48:09 -0700 Lines: 50 Message-ID: References: <7nqt6j1uoakdnnqk37bvlj5vss03damatg@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net vkL+RLfa8mSfIV9fYtdIuAq50vq3X2cTFykW6wc9ilUuzjQUgO Cancel-Lock: sha1:fJn8e0b4bC4f16os7283y3Kgc7A= sha256:NFTZ9IYRn9Btkfg7EXKcVlqx2n6dMzfbIt8hf36xeo8= User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Bytes: 3000 On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 11:38:42 -0700, john larkin wrote: >1000 years ago 80% of the population was farmers who barely grew >enough to survive. Those farmers might have been starving, but they had resources. For example, they could grow a large family and sell off the kids if they have a bad harvest. They could organize a mob and pillage the neighbors crops. Every culture has a festival to mark the beginning of the harvest season, which oddly coincides with the beginning of the pillaging season. >Clothes were so valuable that people were killed >for theirs. That's a rather high price to pay for wearing the latest fashions. Unfortunately, little has changed over the last 1000 years: "BEWARE AND BE SAFE !!! SNEAKERS GETTING ROBBED / STOLEN" >Most people were illiterate Today, people are more literate but continue to do stupid things. Literacy is not a good substitute for intelligence or a cure for stupidity. >and lived in the dark when the sun went down. That would be the dark ages. They didn't last long to do much real damage. Also, we still have regular planned power outage holidays to remind us of those days. Here's a map of California showing past PSPS (Public Safety Power Shutoff) events. >Progress has made us so efficient that probably 80% of the >developed-world population now has zero net productivity. In FY 2023 the IRS processed 162 million individual tax returns. That's out of a total population of 333 million. Subtract 74.4 million children age 0 to 17, most of whom are not required to file a return: 162 / (333 - 74.4) = 63% of US adult population is productive or 100 - 63 = 37% are non-productive. -- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272 Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558