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| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 17, 2022, 04:43:57 pm --- --- Quote from: factory on July 17, 2022, 01:04:01 pm --- --- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 17, 2022, 10:53:41 am --- --- Quote from: bd139 on July 17, 2022, 10:15:32 am --- --- Quote from: Robert763 on July 17, 2022, 09:29:13 am --- --- Quote from: bd139 on July 17, 2022, 09:10:09 am ---Ok on way back from hamfest now. That absolute turd arrived at 08:30 and emptied it again >:( Did manage to grab a manky tek 465, a solartron 7150, some 10 turn pots, TO18 heat sinks and a book to sell. And I still have change from £25 :-DD --- End quote --- Is the turd a dealer? --- End quote --- Yes. Same one I mentioned to you last time. He waltzed off with a pile of kit and left the trash for everyone else. Turns up as a seller but doesn't set up, goes round and empties everything off and that's it. --- End quote --- There are no rules around this? In any case, if he's a known quantity and you can learn what vehicle he uses, it should be possible to run interference and stop him from getting there early, if you can organise a few people for joint action. --- End quote --- Do they just leave straight after, or do they eventually set up their stall? I guess the organisers shouldn't let them in early if they arrive with nothing to sell. :-- David --- End quote --- Or of course, they could just make a rule that nobody buys/sells anything until the fest is officially open to the members and public, but that would scupper BD's plans as well :-DD --- End quote --- Having rules and enforcing rules are orthogonal.:( But you knew that. |
| mnementh:
Having done the flea market trade myself, I know from experience that most flea markets who are serious about the trade (like they are in Flori-duh, for example) have such rules in place. Enforcement... ehhh... that seems to depend on the specific venue and how well or poorly they're doing ATM. ;) They do this to keep the "market-divers" from doing exactly that and the resultant "dry up and blow away at lunchtime" phenomenon as vendors leave in droves from lack of foot traffic that kills a flea market, as the "anchor business" food vendors will quickly leave for better venues. All it takes is one bad spring season to kill a flea market's rep. mnem :blah: |
| mnementh:
--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 17, 2022, 04:32:44 pm --- --- Quote from: mnementh on July 17, 2022, 03:23:26 pm ---<snip> Mmmmhmmm... so inconveniencing someone wealthy enough to own a car is criminal and prosecutable... but destroying lives and making it impossible for whole segments of the population to house or feed themselves, much less own a car, is okay because it's monopoly corporations and politicians doing it, so is just business as usual. Does cast a stark contrast on the concepts of High Crimes and Misdemeanors vs The Golden Rule, doesn't it? :-\ EDIT: That actually is even more perverse than I originally thought. Consider this all-too-possible scenario: Entitled dickbag parks in a handicapped spot repeatedly; often enough that someone who actually has the permit notices. Said victim calls the cops and lets the air out of his tires so he can't get away before they arrive. At worst dickbag receives a ticket he can probably get out of if he hires a lawyer; handicapped victim actually faces criminal prosecution and jail time. mnem we are fucking doomed. --- End quote --- That's about it, it's like, at least in the UK, it is not illegal for someone to park their car on your driveway, but it is illegal for you to remove it or damage it in any way :wtf: --- End quote --- Huh... While the law does vary by locality, over here it is generally illegal to park on a private homeowner's property in any way without express permission or invitation. In the street in front of your house is okay, unless it blocks your driveway; they're really anal about that in most municipalities. Oh, and in some municipalities, you can get a ticket for parking in your own driveway if done so it blocks access to adjoining neighborhood sidewalks; handicapped accessibility laws and all that. mnem :-// |
| Specmaster:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 17, 2022, 04:47:31 pm --- --- Quote from: Specmaster on July 17, 2022, 04:43:57 pm --- --- Quote from: factory on July 17, 2022, 01:04:01 pm --- --- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 17, 2022, 10:53:41 am --- --- Quote from: bd139 on July 17, 2022, 10:15:32 am --- --- Quote from: Robert763 on July 17, 2022, 09:29:13 am --- --- Quote from: bd139 on July 17, 2022, 09:10:09 am ---Ok on way back from hamfest now. That absolute turd arrived at 08:30 and emptied it again >:( Did manage to grab a manky tek 465, a solartron 7150, some 10 turn pots, TO18 heat sinks and a book to sell. And I still have change from £25 :-DD --- End quote --- Is the turd a dealer? --- End quote --- Yes. Same one I mentioned to you last time. He waltzed off with a pile of kit and left the trash for everyone else. Turns up as a seller but doesn't set up, goes round and empties everything off and that's it. --- End quote --- There are no rules around this? In any case, if he's a known quantity and you can learn what vehicle he uses, it should be possible to run interference and stop him from getting there early, if you can organise a few people for joint action. --- End quote --- Do they just leave straight after, or do they eventually set up their stall? I guess the organisers shouldn't let them in early if they arrive with nothing to sell. :-- David --- End quote --- Or of course, they could just make a rule that nobody buys/sells anything until the fest is officially open to the members and public, but that would scupper BD's plans as well :-DD --- End quote --- Having rules and enforcing rules are orthogonal.:( But you knew that. --- End quote --- Well, what I thought I knew was, BD getting there early, convincing the organizers to let him in early so that he can beat the turd, perhaps his hyper miling style of driving cost him precious moments today :-// |
| mnementh:
--- Quote from: Vince on July 17, 2022, 04:46:10 pm ---COMPONENT SORTING ...Found the datasheet for the CPU core of the 84XX , as well as the datasheet for the MAB8441 which apparently is the same as my 8440 but just with an 8 bit LED driver added to it. So could use that datasheet and just ignore the LED bits, I guess. I wonder if there is a way to read the contents of the internal mask ROM.... can't be bothered to read all the details of the datasheets for now, too hot for that, and I prefer paper, hate reading on screens. At the very least, I guess one can affirm that there must be SOMETHING in that ROM... or else they would not have packaged the die in that DIP package to begin with... Maybe at the least, I could try to power it up, give it a clock signal with my sig gen, a reset pulse.... and see if comes back to life ? Maybe it will do something.... --- End quote --- You have entirely too much "free" time on your hands. I think you should drag out one or two of your scopes and revisit them... maybe post some hollow-state pr0n in the thread. ;) mnem :popcorn: |
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