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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: CO2 Funny
Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 15:22:41 +1000
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On 25/05/2024 6:20 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Fri, 24 May 2024 19:49:13 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard
> <pommyB@aol.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 24 May 2024 10:42:36 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 24 May 2024 11:43:42 -0400, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 24 May 2024 07:17:55 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 24 May 2024 11:29:37 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard
>>>>> <pommyb@aol.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, 23 May 2024 07:08:05 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, 23 May 2024 09:33:11 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard
>>>>>>> <pommyb@aol.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 22 May 2024 10:52:40 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 22 May 2024 18:10:58 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard
>>>>>>>>> <pommyB@aol.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 22 May 2024 07:54:30 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 22 May 2024 13:58:13 -0000 (UTC), jim whitby
>>>>>>>>>>> <news@spockmail.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 22 May 2024 14:36:00 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>> So what? Who cares?
> 
> What oscilloscopes do you have now?
> 
> Maybe you don't care about scopes. It's amazing what you can get from
> Amazon now. A nice 100 MHz color scope with probes starting at $99.

So what? It's what you use it to look at that counts.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney