more EE Times nonsense
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From: John Larkin on 16 Apr 2010 12:03 On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:58:33 -0700, "Joel Koltner" <zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >Say Bill, > >"Bill Sloman" <bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote in message >news:51ffeeff-9365-47dc-b8a5-38d006781bed(a)j17g2000yqa.googlegroups.com... >> I've been trying to get another job for the past six years. > >Didn't you move to the Netherlands based on your wife getting a good job >there? Perhaps after six years she might like to take a break and you two >could move to somewhere you think you could get a job -- assuming you'd really >like to have one? (I mean, if your wife has sufficient income and doesn't >mind your being largely retired, it would seem you're already pretty well >set...) > >If John Larkin doesn't know what you look like, perhaps you could apply to >Highland Technology under a different name. :-) > That would be an interesting interview. John
From: Jim Thompson on 16 Apr 2010 12:07 On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:58:33 -0700, "Joel Koltner" <zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >Say Bill, > >"Bill Sloman" <bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote in message >news:51ffeeff-9365-47dc-b8a5-38d006781bed(a)j17g2000yqa.googlegroups.com... >> I've been trying to get another job for the past six years. > >Didn't you move to the Netherlands based on your wife getting a good job >there? Perhaps after six years she might like to take a break and you two >could move to somewhere you think you could get a job -- assuming you'd really >like to have one? (I mean, if your wife has sufficient income and doesn't >mind your being largely retired, it would seem you're already pretty well >set...) > >If John Larkin doesn't know what you look like, perhaps you could apply to >Highland Technology under a different name. :-) > >---Joel Larkin would probably hire Slowman... you know, birds of a feather :-) ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | The only thing bipartisan in this country is hypocrisy
From: John Fields on 16 Apr 2010 12:35 On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:43:03 -0700 (PDT), Bill Sloman <bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote: >On Apr 16, 5:07�pm, John Fields <jfie...(a)austininstruments.com> wrote: >> On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:30:56 -0700 (PDT),Bill Sloman >> >> >> >> <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: >> >On Apr 16, 2:14�am, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terr...(a)earthlink.net> >> >wrote: >> >> "k...(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" wrote: >> >> >> > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:42:38 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell" >> >> > <mike.terr...(a)earthlink.net> wrote: >> >> >> > >John Fields wrote: >> >> >> > >> Ask anyone here and I'm sure they'll agree that you're a mean old man >> >> > >> with a 200 pond chip on his shoulder. >> >> >> > > � 200 pond? �Is he in 'The Land O'lakes'? ;-) >> >> >> > No, I the Land O'Lakes is in him. >> >> >> � �If we're lucky, Nijmegen will become a modern day Pompeii. >> >> >Pity about that. Iceland - in the middle of the Atlantic - has >> >volcanoes. >> >> >The Netherlands - well inside the European continental plate - >> >doesn't. >> >> >The idiot from Florida nees to learn some geophysics. >> >> --- >> The slow man from Nijmegen needs to learn to read between the lines. >> >> Terrell wasn't talking about volcanoes as much as he was about your >> demise being our good fortune. > >Perhaps, but he was postulating a rather improbable event - a couple >of orders of magnitude more improbable than the original Pompeii, >which is still talked about, more than 2000 years later. He'd need a >monumental amount of "luck", which is to say it was pig-ignorant wish- >fulfillment. > >You seem to be dim enough to have missed the point, as usual. --- The _point_ of his post was to state that your demise would be our good fortune, and regardless of whether he couched his metaphor in the trappings of a fortuitous volcanic eruption or, say, a lucky hit by a benevolent meteorite, it was the end which was important, not the odds of the means. JF
From: Joel Koltner on 16 Apr 2010 12:36 "John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in message news:kh2hs5t9706jngsup98n4v6bq1doiokm88(a)4ax.com... > That would be an interesting interview. Indeed... I'm guessing you're the oldest person at Highland, John? How much younger is the next-youngest employee? (I'm getting at the idea here that people over 40? 50? 60? perhaps aren't hired based on their becoming rather "gelled" in their mindsets about how to design things, even if they do have a history of successful products, as Bill claims to and Jim certainly does, yet clearly you have a different approach to design than either of them... but of course also design highly-successful widgets... :-) )
From: John Larkin on 16 Apr 2010 12:38
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:47:34 -0700 (PDT), Bill Sloman <bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote: >On Apr 14, 2:01�am, John Larkin ><jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:00:49 -0700 (PDT),Bill Sloman >> >> >> >> <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: >> >On Apr 13, 9:58�pm, John Larkin >> ><jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:49:50 -0700 (PDT),Bill Sloman >> >> >> <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: >> >> >On Apr 13, 6:39 pm, dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com wrote: >> >> >> On Apr 13, 11:14 am,Bill Sloman<bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> > On Apr 13, 6:00 pm, dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com wrote: >> >> >> > > On Apr 13, 2:31 am, Martin Brown <|||newspam...(a)nezumi.demon.co.uk> >> >> >> > > wrote: >> >> >> > > > It is EE Times that has bastardised the original article. >> >> >> >> > > >http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/belcher-water-0412.html >> >> >> >> > > Hey, just what we needed--a virus to get loose and bust all Earth's >> >> >> > > water to oxygen and hydrogen. >> >> >> >> > Do read the article. The virus just provides the scaffold for the >> >> >> > active nanoscale components, and MIT was merely boasting about having >> >> >> > developed the bit that would split off oxygen; the part that would >> >> >> > split off hydrogen is still under development. >> >> >> >> Humor. It's a higher function. >> >> >> >Looks more like inept plagarism to me - science-fiction writers have >> >> >been putting together duff end-of-the-world nanotechnology stories for >> >> >at least a decade now, and you've just copied the neglect-of- >> >> >conservation-of-energy aspect to try and make a feeble, unoriginal and >> >> >irrelevant joke. >> >> >> >As humour, it certainly high - dead and decaying - but scarcely >> >> >functional. >> >> >> Humor is fundamentally associated with design ability. Both require >> >> welcoming ambiguity and seeing things from numerous different >> >> perspectives. >> >> >Then James Arthur must be defectve in design ability, if that was his >> >idea of humour. >> >> I know that he's not, and I know that you are. > >Since your information about my design ability is defective, I don't >see any reason to trust your opinion about his. Both are likely >invented to make you feel better. > >> And he has a great singing voice. > >According to Edmund Crispin, the resonant space inside the head >requried for a great singing voice uses up skull volume that could >otherwise have been occupied by brains, and James Arthur's mindless >endorsement of right-wing idiocies does imply that his skull is >largely empy. > >> And he's a pretty good cook. > >Who isn't? > >> Do you sing or cook? We know you don't design. > >I don't sing - not enough resonat spaces inside the skull - though I >do play the piano (without much experise). I do cook. And I do design >electronic circuits from time to time, despite your inability to >process information to the contrary. > >> >> You wouldn't understand. >> >> >John Larkin once again reinvents reality to suit his perverse point of >> >view. He doesn't recognise a real joke when he sees one in the >> >mirror ... >> >> Get a job, bozo. Design some electronics. > >I've been trying to get another job for the past six years. It hasn't >worked, but not for want of effort. You've needed to learn a bit more >about the world outside electronics for a whole lot longer, and >there's absolutely no evidence that you've realised this yet, let >alone done something about it - the books you do claim to read are all >neatly packaged misinformation designed to make Republicans feel happy >about their favourite delusions - anytime now you will be quoting from >Sarah Palin's text-book on international politics (which someone is >probably ghosting for her even now). Wow, I never knew that Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope and P G Wodehouse and William Shekespeare were Republicans. That's actually comforting, and makes sense. They all understood how the world works. John |