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From: Cliff on 22 Apr 2010 06:20 On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:29:04 -0400, "Existential Angst" <UNfitcat(a)UNoptonline.net> wrote: > >BUT, he *did* keep that sweetheart Qualcomm gift for a number of years, so >there has to be at least some minimal functionality/socialization. Not much needed to push a broom off-shift. -- Cliff
From: Cliff on 22 Apr 2010 06:22 On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:29:04 -0400, "Existential Angst" <UNfitcat(a)UNoptonline.net> wrote: >I think jb needs to formally studied. If he plays his cards right, he could >get paid while being a lab rat. "Formal Study of Stupidity" http://ruleofdum.com/ See 180. STUPIDITY at http://departments.oxy.edu/registrar/catalog/ctsj.html -- Cliff
From: Cliff on 22 Apr 2010 07:01 On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:23:40 +0000 (UTC), Black Dragon <bd(a)nomail.invalid> wrote: >John R. Carroll wrote: > >> Black Dragon wrote: >>> John R. Carroll wrote: > >>>> Black Dragon wrote: >>>>> Existential Angst wrote: > >>>>>> This is all, of course, waaaay of jb's head, but then so are >>>>>> spreadsheets and manual contouring, and, or course, mastercam. > >>>>> You gotta' admire Jon's thorough ownership of a small group of >>>>> people. > >>>>> The man is indeed a True Master of his Craft. :) > >>>> Whatever. > >>> It's true. Joe788 and James Meyette were admiring Jon's madd skills on >>> the eMastercam forum recently, and Jon hasn't (that I'm aware of >>> anyway) been around there for several months now. > >>>> Let me know how the low temp. stuff works out. > >>> I passed the information uphill and it's mostly out of my hands now. >>> Our metrology guy has some wax like substance he says will do the job. >>> I seriously doubt it'll do it accurately and have made my opinion >>> known. > >> LOL >> It's likely that they didn't want to spend the $100.00 per pound this sort >> of material costs. > >I've been to that rodeo more than once with those people. > >I'm not a business person so I'm quite ignorant in these matters. Can >someone explain to me how it's better to spend days doing something that >can be done in hours if a few hundred bucks were spent up front on the >proper materials to do the job? Perhaps zero-expansion plaster? -- Cliff
From: Cliff on 22 Apr 2010 07:11 On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:18:01 -0500, jim <"sjedgingN0Sp"@m(a)mwt,net> wrote: >> The real truth is more accurately described as a wino constantly >> wanders into a restaurant and pisses into the salad bar. >> After a while the patrons will rise up and try to drive the idiot out >> of the restaurant. > >That is pretty much correct - except that there is no restaurant, no >wino, no salad bar, no pissing. What really exists is just a small >number of fools hallucinating that their salad is getting pissed on. How was your salad? Did it come with Pizza? -- Cliff
From: Existential Angst on 22 Apr 2010 08:33
"jim" <"sjedgingN0Sp"@m(a)mwt,net> wrote in message news:NcmdnWaYBos3GlLWnZ2dnUVZ_tCdnZ2d(a)bright.net... > > > Cross-Slide wrote: >> >> On Apr 21, 12:34 pm, "Existential Angst" <UNfit...(a)UNoptonline.net> >> wrote: >> > "Black Dragon" <b...(a)nomail.invalid> wrote in message >> > >> > news:hqnbm1$2aic$1(a)bdhi.local... >> > >> > > Existential Angst wrote: >> > >> > >> This is all, of course, waaaay of jb's head, but then so are >> > >> spreadsheets >> > >> and manual contouring, and, or course, mastercam. >> > >> > > You gotta' admire Jon's thorough ownership of a small group of >> > > people. >> > >> > > The man is indeed a True Master of his Craft. :) >> > >> > Partial truth there -- We all DO seem willing to dance, on command!! >> > >> > But, the other truth remains, that jb fancies himself a puppeteer, and >> > that >> > in itself is deranged. >> > He puppeteers because he can't really contribute. >> > >> > That we respond to tugs on our strings is another issue. >> > Mebbe a bunch of us miss JHS as well, eh?? >> > -- >> > EA >> > >> > >> > >> > > -- >> > > Black Dragon >> > >> > > I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair. >> > > -- Bette Davis, "Cabin in the Cotton" >> >> The real truth is more accurately described as a wino constantly >> wanders into a restaurant and pisses into the salad bar. >> After a while the patrons will rise up and try to drive the idiot out >> of the restaurant. > > That is pretty much correct - except that there is no restaurant, no > wino, no salad bar, no pissing. What really exists is just a small > number of fools hallucinating that their salad is getting pissed on. Criticizing someone for reacting to jb is like criticizing a parent for slapping their brat. jb is simply an aesthetic violation, and ergo offensive. People react. Some over-react. No biggie. Think of it, tho: Someone who can't manually contour or use a spreadsheet proclaims themselves to be an industry sage in cadcam.... beyond a hoot. -- EA |