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From: Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: EV Charging Stations Stripped of Copper Cables
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2024 07:56:39 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 14:13:37 +1000, Bill Sloman wrote:

> On 7/07/2024 12:39 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>> On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 21:07:57 +1000, Bill Sloman wrote:
>>>> On 4/07/2024 7:55 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>> On 04/07/2024 09:25, Bill Sloman wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>>> Not at today's renewable electricity prices. And disastrous [
>>>> depreciation on EVs
>>>
>>> Evidence?
>> 
>> Just you try trading one in!
> 
> That's an assertion, not evidence. You should have realised by now that
> you aren't any kind of reliable witness, and can inf act be relied on to
> pick the most fatuous lying propaganda around.
> 
> <snip>
>> 
>> Excuse me, Bill? ISTR *you're* the one who loves to boast and bask in
>> the glory of having worked for some Cambridge based outfit at some time
>> in the dim and distant past!
> 
> Boast? It was an eventful period, but there wasn't a lot of glory
> around.
> 
>> And you got your degree at Sydney University which is hardly an Ivy
>> League joint! :-D
> 
> Melbourne University. The "Ivy League" is a collection of eight American
> private universities
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League
> 
> So neither Sydney nor Melbourne is an Ivy League joint.

At least that's something we *do* agree on! :-D

> https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/university-of-
melbourne-501796
> 
> puts Melbourne at 27th on the international pecking order, which doesn't
> say a thing about the education I got there from 1960 to 1969. The
> chemistry department where I got my Ph.D. didn't hire anybody who hadn't
> graduated from there for the next thirty years, which doesn't suggest
> that they were up to much. The first hire from outside that stayed was a
> guy I'd written a paper with, and the new professor of Inorganic
> Chemistry, hired a year or so later, was a guy who had been in my
> primary school class at Burnie, Tasmania, who used to swap "top of the
> boys" with me on a pretty regular basis all the way through.
> 
> You do like to see the world in terms of pecking orders - anything more
> informative overloads your tiny brain.

I'm afraid much as you egalitarian types would prefer otherwise, the fauna 
of the world evolved and continues to evolve according to a pecking order 
and to suggest otherwise flies in the face of both nature and reason. The 
world is a very unequal place. You 'Communitarian' types constantly deny 
this and dogmatically insist that all are equal, but that's far more 
compelling evidence for having a tiny brain than anything I've ever said!