"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 08:26:42 -0500, Karl Townsend
wrote:

I built a serial port temp. sensor years ago based on this fella's
work:
http://quozl.netrek.org/ts/

And just bought kit 145 from carl's electronics:
http://www.kitsrus.com/pdf/k145.pdf

The unit uses DS1820 temp sensors and connects to the pc serial port.
There is a fifty foot run from the computer to the sensor.

My better half made me quit using it because of AM radio interference.
There is a constant beep beep beep.

I'm once again in need of 24 X 7 temp. logging. Is there an easy way
to salvage this unit? Or am I better off to just start over with some
sort of analog unit?

Buy her a bloody FM radio! Better yet, a sat radio, with none of the
farkin' commercials playing all the time.

--
Threee days before Tucson, Howard Dean explained that the
tea party movement is "the last gasp of the generation that
has trouble with diversity." Rising to the challenge of
lowering his reputation and the tone of public discourse,
Dean smeared tea partiers as racists: They oppose Obama's
agenda, Obama is African-American, ergo...

Let us hope that Dean is the last gasp of the generation
of liberals whose default position in any argument is to
indict opponents as racists. This McCarthyism of the left
-- devoid of intellectual content, unsupported by data --
is a mental tic, not an idea but a tactic for avoiding
engagement with ideas. It expresses limitless contempt for
the American people, who have reciprocated by reducing
liberalism to its current characteristics of electoral
weakness and bad sociology. --George Will 14 JAN 2011
Article titled "Tragedies often spark plenty of analysis"

Professor Will appears to have jumped the gun. Here's the latest example:

" [R]espondents were asked whether they agreed with various
characterizations of different racial groups. Only 35 percent of those who
strongly approve of the tea party agreed that blacks are hardworking,
compared with 55 percent of those who strongly disapprove of the tea
party. On whether blacks were intelligent, 45 percent of the tea-party
supporters agreed, compared with 59 percent of the tea-party opponents.
And on the issue of whether blacks were trustworthy, 41 percent of the
tea-party supporters agreed, compared with 57 percent of the tea-party
opponents.

"The survey, which included about 1,000 respondents in six battleground
states (like Michigan and Nevada) and California, found similar margins on
questions regarding Latinos."

http://depts.washington.edu/uwiser/mssrp_table.pdf

George tends to fall in love with his own rhetorical skills and to go off
half-cocked when he thinks he has a great insight. His "insight" this time
appears to be that the Tea Party is the second coming of his beloved
Burkean conservatives, with a strong libertarian bent. The evidence is
that not everyone in the Tea Party is a racist, but that racists seem to
gravitate toward the Tea Party -- something like Muslims and terrorists.


So those who support the tea party are significantly more likely to hold
racist views as compared to those who don't ?

--Wow I never would have guessed !