Re: strategies for high voltage on PCB, wire terminals

"Spehro Pefhany" <speffSNIP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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> On Fri, 13 May 2005 15:44:38 GMT, the renowned Rich Grise
> <richgrise@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >The other day it occurred to me - when my Granddad built a house,
> >everybody built their own house - it cost mainly labor, maybe about
> >a month's wages worth. Around the time my folks were buying a house,
> >a house could be had for about a year's wages. When I bought a house,
> >they were going for about three years' wages. Nowadays, they're about
> >ten years' wages.
> >
> >I wonder if that's merely exponential, or asymptotic, like taxes/
> >inflation?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Rich
>
> So, you're saying wages have dropped from 0.3H to 0.1H from when you
> bought a house to now. If you could sell it now, you wouldn't have to
> work for the next decade or so. ;-)

True, but you need a house to live in. If I sold my house, I could
live in my car (or a tent on the beach, brrr) and smoke cigars and
drink Jack Daniels for the rest of my life. Scary ;)

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Thanks, Frank.
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