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On myself? Sounds like you need the strap-on department. And that purveyor you like so much, the one who looks like Beatrice Arthur, works there now so after you make your selection, she can take you for a ride.   

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Is the Blue Ox engine compression brake still available? I seem to remember that they were supposed to be a LOT more quiet than the Jake Brake . . .

So, I've gotta wonder . . . if "the Law" is "of the People" and "by the People" and "for the People" why do we have to make it incomprehensible to "the People"? And if it's "by the People" where are all those "People" that speak Latin on a daily basis? This post was edited by Salt and Red Pepper at September 29, 2017 4:15 PM MDT

The governing is by and for the people.  The law, other than for Louisiana, was borrowed from England in the beginning.  Much of that English common law is still the law here in both federal and state law.  Much of it has been replaced by American congressional bodies as well as case law.  

They speak Latin in England? Who knew? (Doctors also used Latin very heavily at one time but it's no longer a required course of study in Med school, by the way.) 

Yes, I'm quite familiar with the USA's legal system having roots in English common law, one of its continuing weaknesses. One might even conclude that might have something to do with the fact that the USA was born out of the original 12 British colonies?

We used to be a nation of Laws, not a nation of lawyers. Given that, it's not possible to separate the Laws from the self-governance "by the People" irrespective of what legal circumvention skills are being taught in what passes for law schools these days. So the quaint tradition of intermixing Latin into our system of jurisprudence only serves to take that governance away from the People and to generate "billable hours" for those with those circumvention skills. 

A more intelligent reply would have been a simple thank you.

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I know what it is, but I didn't know there was a word for it.

I rode with a guy that had been riding for years and he had never heard of it.  He told me I was wrong and didn't know what I was talking about.  I hope he's still alive.  :))

My mother once broke her Ischial tuberosity when her boss pulled a chair out for her to sit in!  

Oh you.

If you're gong to talk klystrons then ad "perveance" to the word list.

But no, typically klystrons don't, or shouldn't be creating microwave energy. If a klystron is creating the signal then it's in self-oscillation and doesn't have very long to live, like minutes, or less. (OK, there's a few self-oscillating klystron designs out there but they're not widely used outside of the laboratory and very specialized applications . . .)

Klystrons typically only amplify the RF signal that's created by the "exciter" and fed to their input. And they have "cavities" that have to be tuned to the frequency on which they're operating. If you want broad-band operation from a microwave tube then you need to go with a TWAT (traveling-wave amplifier tube).

Very high power klystrons used to be used in UHF television transmitters too, at frequencies well below the microwave bands. (Like the Varian VA-955, 55-kW PEP from a single tube, 6-feet tall. VERY inefficient with about -25,000-volts on the cathode end and 6-amperes of "beam" current, to get an average power output of around 30-kW in "visual" service. LOTS of water being turned into steam to keep it cooled). They were replaced with IOT's (inductive-output tubes) and depressed-collector klystrons, then depressed-collector inductive output tubes and now . . . LDMOS transistors. (Those three-toed devices have even worked their way up to C-band satellite uplink amplifiers, formerly the domain of klystrons and TWAT's .)  Although TV transmitters using klystrons went the way of the dodo bird when analog TV went away there's still a lot of depressed-collector IOT tubes out there in that realm. 

Microwave ovens typically use a high-powered self-oscillating/self-excited tube called a magnetron. (I've had to put 3 of those in my own microwave oven over the years . . .) I'm betting that if someone did use a klystron in a microwave oven it would end up costing somewhere north of $20,000.

I was going to say that.