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From: Bill Sloman on 16 Apr 2010 05:47 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). -- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
From: Bill Sloman on 16 Apr 2010 05:50 On Apr 14, 5:06 pm, John Larkin <jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:41:02 -0700 (PDT),Bill Sloman > > > > <bill.slo...(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. And he has a great > >> singing voice. And he's a pretty good cook. > > >> Do you sing or cook? We know you don't design. > > >> >> 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. > > >"Get a job" is easier said than done, particularly for a 67-year-old > >in the Netherlands. I'm still applying for the occasional job, but the > >statistical expectation that I'll ever get one around here has gotten > >to be vanishingly small. > > Well, as we say, duh. At our age, people don't give you jobs: you have > to invent one. So you are revising your advice to "invent a job, bozo". In much the same way as you invent your "facts"? -- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
From: Bill Sloman on 16 Apr 2010 06:02 On Apr 16, 8:41 am, dagmargoodb...(a)yahoo.com wrote: > On Apr 14, 3:41 am,Bill Sloman<bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > > > On Apr 14, 2:01 am, John Larkin > > > Get a job, bozo. Design some electronics. > > > "Get a job" is easier said than done, particularly for a 67-year-old > > in the Netherlands. I'm still applying for the occasional job, but the > > statistical expectation that I'll ever get one around here has gotten > > to be vanishingly small. > > Obama and Pelosi have told us their new healthscare[tm] mandatory > insurance thing will put jobs here in overdrive, spur innovation. > (They're trying to copy you guys, sort of.) (Or maybe Venezuela.) > > Since you already have that, it ought to be easy for you to start up a > company, and probably a lot of fun. Just chunk out your life > savings, hire a few employees, and off you go. James Arthur doesn't seem to have noticed Obama's "new" mandatory insurance thing was iveted by Bismark in Germany over a century ago. It might conceiveably spur innovation in the USA - though the 64% of the US population who already have medical insurance would seem to be a perfectly adequate market to drive whatever innovation is necessary - but it isn't going to make a blind bit of difference to my environment, where the nearest I've got to a job in recent years was when Philips Medical Systems was contemplating developing a phased array of ultrasound transducers for cooking tumours in situ - an old idea that is still waiting on a method for measuring the temperature rise inside the tumour being cooked. I asked about temperature monitoring during the interview, and didn't get an answer ... -- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
From: Bill Sloman on 16 Apr 2010 06:05 On Apr 15, 4:32 pm, John Fields <jfie...(a)austininstruments.com> wrote: > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:09:24 -0700 (PDT),Bill Sloman > > <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > >The problem with your argument lies in your implicit claim to be able > >to recognise humour when you see it. > > --- > If that's what you're basing your argument on, then you don't have an > argument since I have a keen eye for humor. > --- If this were true you would have long since died laughing at yourself. <snipped the rest of the self-serving delusions> -- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
From: John Fields on 16 Apr 2010 11:07
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:30:56 -0700 (PDT), Bill Sloman <bill.sloman(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. JF |