Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 15:17:22 -0500, L.D. Best wrote: > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! > Peter, > Peter Lawrence wrote: >> They should have given it a wind up feature to beat logistical >> dependencies, like those torches they gave the French resistance that >> ran off an integral hand pumped flywheel/dynamo. > No stem-wound wrist watch small enough to wear in public could ever be > truly water proof even at only 30' depth (2 atmosphere's pressure at > that level). My non-battery analog dive watch was self-winding; that > allowed the works to be properly sealed; the watch also cost a BUNDLE, > more than a week's salary. But without a reliable watch one doesn't go > diving more than once or twice. Actually, it is technically practical to have a winder sealed off from the interior of an electric watch, because the magnetic fields can penetrate a physical barrier. It's just that it hasn't been done, no doubt for economic reasons. PML. GST+NPT=JOBS I.e., a Goods and Services Tax (or almost any other broad based production tax), with a Negative Payroll Tax, promotes employme t. See http://member.netlink.com.au/~peterl/publicns.html#AFRLET2 and the other items on that page for some reasons why. -- Arachne V1.77+/B~5 Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --