Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 17:42:37 +0000 From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: CO2 Funny Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 10:42:36 -0700 Message-ID: References:

<2k9s4j94256k6gbapd5snscqosn3b53ici@4ax.com> <4dju4jhjb5en96pfflaq64pqbjhv68cbut@4ax.com> <7dp05j1nullro5nq4uqsbtc6s162pd97pt@4ax.com> <3cd15jdqo4mhb730352qcqaqiieij54ggm@4ax.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 87 X-Trace: sv3-BD9lSDCiu5gxcqNW1iqNLgSxDm/22DxB4mS/WnW3Q/ntHAz95AGNKPGHtkK2yrtoW1qe4U4UB6hnE94!vMRlN/0tdgrOTa1lV3Z4AzfTd2Nyu9dVzm4aTsPYnfgfkqaClxwY5fx4bZTeH02ed8fcdrXuzgUe!JJiVMg== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 4604 On Fri, 24 May 2024 11:43:42 -0400, Joe Gwinn wrote: >On Fri, 24 May 2024 07:17:55 -0700, john larkin wrote: > >>On Fri, 24 May 2024 11:29:37 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard >> wrote: >> >>>On Thu, 23 May 2024 07:08:05 -0700, john larkin wrote: >>> >>>>On Thu, 23 May 2024 09:33:11 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>>On Wed, 22 May 2024 10:52:40 -0700, john larkin wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On Wed, 22 May 2024 18:10:58 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>On Wed, 22 May 2024 07:54:30 -0700, john larkin wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>On Wed, 22 May 2024 13:58:13 -0000 (UTC), jim whitby >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>On Wed, 22 May 2024 14:36:00 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Who says I don't? Unlike you, an odious little narcissist, I don't feel >>>>>>>>>> the need to show everyone here how clever I am. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>Spoken like a true liberal. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>When things don't go your way... start name calling. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>Exactly. Cheap insults are, well, cheap. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Indeed. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>9djf3jlovr2bmpkn03e18237njtcorg9rj@4ax.com >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>That was, in my opinion, a reasonable observation. Nasty humorless >>>>>>people DO usually design nasty electronics. Or no electronics. >>>>> >>>>>Your hypocrisy is breathtaking! >>>>> >>>>>You started this off topic thread in which you posed a question >>>>>completely unrelated to the subject. I answered your question >>>>>honestly but your narcissism prompted you to take it as an insult >>>>>presumably because I hadn't massaged your ego. You leapt in feet first >>>>>with your stock insult and when I retaliated you and your fan club >>>>>rounded on me for having the audacity to call out one of the worst >>>>>offenders for insults. >>>>> >>>>>If you want to see SED cleaned up you should take a leaf out of your >>>>>own book and stop indulging in off topic rubbish. >>>> >>>>Like active filters? >>> >>>Do try not to be so stupid. As you well know I was referring to the >>>subject of the current thread being off-topic. >>> >>>Of course active filters are a suitable topic for discussion in SED, >>>but when you include a stupid question in your own off topic thread >>>you should not throw around insults when you get an answer you don't >>>expect. Were you hoping for a "yes please" type of response? >> >>Obviously. But nobody is interested. >> >>Are you here to discuss electronics, or to cackle and insult? Lately >>SED is full of clucking old hens who probably haven't owned an >>oscilloscope in decades. > >If ever. > >Joe Gwinn I got my first scope, a Heathkit, when I was in junior high school. It was I think 5 MHz, all ac-coupled, repetitive sweep, uncalibrated, pretty primitive. I later got a summer job in a university physics department and got to use a Tektronix. I was amazed. That 535 cost as much as a Chevrolet at the time.