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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: oscillator gain
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 02:46:12 +1100
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On 22/10/2024 2:31 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 22:43:40 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> "john larkin" <JL@gct.com> wrote in message news:mq6ahj5regralv83p9gmipv468j53qj4nr@4ax.com...
>>> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:52:28 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On a sunny day (Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:59:05 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Cursitor
>>>> Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote in <vf1a39$1su3$4@dont-email.me>:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 07:05:08 -0700, john larkin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> If the loop gain of an oscillator is slightly over 1.00, oscillations
>>>>>> gain amplitude. Just under 1.00, they die out.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Economies are like that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/10/19/record-633000-business-in-
>>>>> britain-on-brink-of-collapse-report/
>>>>>
>>>>> And the Communists have only been in government for around 2 months. It
>>>>> doesn't take long for them to wreck everything!
>>>>
>>>> Russia and China are doing just fine..
>>>
>>> Russia is falling apart. The real talent is leaving. I think Putin
>>> wants them out, so he can have a loyal, patriotic, poor, stupid
>>> population to rule over.
>>>
>>> Both Russia and China face a demographic disaster: people, especially
>>> the smartest people, aren't having babies.
>>>
>>>> unlike the you ash
>>>> still stuck with boat anchors
>>>> Pull up the anchors and start sailing!
>>>
>>> The US is doing pretty well, given the ways the world is changing.
>>> It's still the technology center of the world. Farm output is
>>> fantastic and still increasing. We have huge energy resources. The
>>> most talented people in the world emigrate here and get Nobel prizes
>>> or start industries.
>>>
>>> It could be that the USA is actually the pioneer case for how the
>>> world will be: super multicultural and super productive and lots of
>>> outdoor recreation.
>>>
>>> I read an essay by a half-asian half-anglo guy who moved to San
>>> Francisco. He loves it here because it's the only place he's lived
>>> where people didn't stare at him for looking different.
>>>
>>> Ultimately, the world will homogenize and everybody will speak a sort
>>> of English. Without racial and language-based tribalism, and everybody
>>> moving around, we won't need wars.
>>
>> And pigs will grow wings.
> 
> People don't fly pigs. They use airplanes.

Native speakers of English are aware that "pigs might fly" is an 
expression of scepticism about a statement being responded to, rather 
than any kind of literal statement.

I was more verbose in my deprecation of your claims (which were 
remarkably silly).

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney