The sci.electronics.design pledge

[Guy Macon]

Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> says...

I hope this (right honourable) Hoon fellow loses his seat in
(tap-tap-tap) Ashfield Nottinghamshire. Nothing personal, I just don't
like the sound of his name. There's a distinction of the parliamentary
system- cabinet-level people have to have been elected- somewhere.

Must you fill every post with Hoon-bashing?

 

[John Larkin]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:21:56 +0100, Paul Burke <paul@scazon.com>
wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

If somebody could just explain to me how your parliamentary system
really works, I might be able to work up some enthusiasm. Ditto for
cricket.

The Rules of Cricket
--------------------

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.

Each man that's in the side that's in, goes out, and when he's out, he
comes in and the next man goes in until he's out.

When they are all out the side that's out comes in and the side that's
been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out.

Sometimes you get men still in and not out.

When both sides have been in and out including the not-outs, that's the
end of the game.

Howzat?

Great. But how do you decide who to bet on?

John

 

[Paul Burridge]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 07:50:22 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote:

Can we go back to dessert recipes? I have a great new one for
Kozyshack Bruille.

You need to find some new recipes that don't give rise to clogged
arteries and a massive heart attack after two servings..
--

"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.

 

[Paul Burridge]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:25:40 +0000, Guy Macon
<http://www.guymacon.com> wrote:

Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> says...

I hope this (right honourable) Hoon fellow loses his seat in
(tap-tap-tap) Ashfield Nottinghamshire. Nothing personal, I just don't
like the sound of his name. There's a distinction of the parliamentary
system- cabinet-level people have to have been elected- somewhere.

Must you fill every post with Hoon-bashing?

Yeah, give the guy a break. There are worse war criminals out there.

--

"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.

 

[Rich Grise]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 07:56:50 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

On 18 Oct 2004 13:21:29 GMT, cfoley1064@aol.com (CFoley1064) wrote:

Subject: Re: The sci.electronics.design pledge
From: Guy Macon http://www.guymacon.com
Date: 10/18/2004 7:33 AM Central Daylight Time
Message-id: <10n7e1o5p78sbf0@news.supernews.com


CFoley1064 <cfoley1064@aol.com> says...

Guys like you are in the "reality-based community". You believe that
solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernable reality.
That's called empiricism -- the basis for science.

That's the nicest compliment I have had all week. Thanks!

Hmmm. I wonder if there are any killfiled comments. (Checks log)
Yup. One post from Charles.Elliot@nospam.ca killed. Just as well,
I suppose; I have never seen any actual content come from that source.


Sorry, Guy -- I wasn't dumping on you at all.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html

Without a Doubt
By RON SUSKIND
Published: October 17, 2004

There's a reason why this "political" stuff is everywhere. Unfortunately, it's
probably just going to get worse. If you've got a minute, read the article.

Chris


''But you can't run the world on faith.''

What a bleak, appalling thing to say. What else could you run the
world on? Why else would you have and love your children?

Actually, faith is the problem. If you need some external authority to
get you to act with compassion, then you are very very ill and need
help.

Good Luck,
Rich

 

[Rich Grise]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:04:26 +0000, Fred Bloggs wrote:

Guy Macon wrote:
Who here will take the following pledge?

I [insert name here] do solemnly pledge that once the election
is over, my man has won or lost, and the opponent has dropped
all lawsuits challenging the result and accepted it, I will
GIVE IT A FSCKING BREAK in sci.electronics.design and will
talk about SOMETHING ELSE for a change.

Who is with me?

Unfortunately the elections may not be the end of it. If a certain
criminal is declared winner then the battle to cripple the p.o.s. to no
end will have begun. Apparently you have no concept of determination.

What scares me is what's he going to do in the two months after he loses
the election until Kerry's inauguration in January?

Might he realize he has to destroy the world to save it?

Shudder!
Rich

 

[Guy Macon]

john jardine <john@jjdesigns.fsnet.co.uk> says...

Don't know about the rest of the guys here but I find it *very* difficult to
sustain a heavy political argument with an intelligent person.

Isn't Kevin Aylward still around to meet all your village-idiot needs?
(I can't tell; my killfile made him disapear a long time ago).

 

[Clarence]

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Isn't Kevin Aylward still around to meet all your village-idiot needs?
(I can't tell; my killfile made him disapear a long time ago).

The other week I followed the thread up to where you blanked Kevin.
This 'blanking' seems to happen a lot here and forms one of life's
interesting little mysteries, when trying to keep track of who may happen to
be seeing who's posts.
Can never understand why folk can't simply agree to disagree. It's easy. The
group is just a talking shop. Life's much too short.
Clear out whoever's in that killfile!.
Anyways, as an engineer, the curiosity should be killing you .
regards > john

Why do you care?

curiosity is about the unknown.
You killfile irritable KNOWN pests.

 

[Guy Macon]

john jardine <john@jjdesigns.fsnet.co.uk> says...

The other week I followed the thread up to where you blanked Kevin.
This 'blanking' seems to happen a lot here and forms one of life's
interesting little mysteries, when trying to keep track of who may happen to
be seeing who's posts.
Can never understand why folk can't simply agree to disagree. It's easy. The
group is just a talking shop. Life's much too short.
Clear out whoever's in that killfile!.
Anyways, as an engineer, the curiosity should be killing you .

Curiosity is a function of novelty. If something just repeats over
and over without any new content, there is no point in wasting time
looking at one more copy.

 

[Paul Burridge]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 23:04:28 -0700, "john jardine"
<john@jjdesigns.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

The other week I followed the thread up to where you blanked Kevin.
This 'blanking' seems to happen a lot here and forms one of life's
interesting little mysteries, when trying to keep track of who may happen to
be seeing who's posts.
Can never understand why folk can't simply agree to disagree. It's easy. The
group is just a talking shop. Life's much too short.
Clear out whoever's in that killfile!.

Sorry, John, but Kev and his acolytes had to go. The guy is completely
impervious to reason, totally blind to his own inability to string two
meaningful sentences together and rude and arrogant to boot! No loss
behind this monitor! YMMV, of course.
--

"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.

 

[Paul Burke]

John Larkin wrote:

But how do you decide who to bet on?

Bet?? On cricket?? Certainly not gentlemanly conduct. A few years ago, a
highly regarded international cricketer was banished from the game for
accepting bribes to fix matches. But HE WASN'T BRITISH and those
offering bribes were very definitely Lesser Breeds Without The Law.
(takes off solar topee, dusts it down, replaces it. Quick pull at the
chota peg to settle the nerves, it's those drums Carruthers, those
damned drums...).

Paul Burke

 

[Rene Tschaggelar]

Guy Macon wrote:

Who here will take the following pledge?

I [insert name here] do solemnly pledge that once the election
is over, my man has won or lost, and the opponent has dropped
all lawsuits challenging the result and accepted it, I will
GIVE IT A FSCKING BREAK in sci.electronics.design and will
talk about SOMETHING ELSE for a change.

Who is with me?

Unlikely.
Whoever is going to be elected, it is the wrong one.
And as american president, he won't keep quiet,
thus involving the whole world.

Rene
--
Ing.Buero R.Tschaggelar - http://www.ibrtses.com
& commercial newsgroups - http://www.talkto.net

 

[Guy Macon]

Rene Tschaggelar <none@none.net> says...

Whoever is going to be elected, it is the wrong one.
And as american president, he won't keep quiet,
thus involving the whole world.

There are thousands of political newsgroups. Why insist on
filling the electronics newsgroups with politics too?

 

[Terry Given]

Guy Macon wrote:

Rene Tschaggelar <none@none.net> says...


Whoever is going to be elected, it is the wrong one.
And as american president, he won't keep quiet,
thus involving the whole world.


There are thousands of political newsgroups. Why insist on
filling the electronics newsgroups with politics too?

Likewise there are probably many, many newsgroups for complaining about
people posting politics, so why post your complaint to SED?

perhaps you might like to do a word count of all the
complaining-about-political-posts posts you have made, and think about
the engineering text(s) you could have written instead.....

cheers
Terry

 

[Rene Tschaggelar]

Guy Macon wrote:

Rene Tschaggelar <none@none.net> says...


Whoever is going to be elected, it is the wrong one.
And as american president, he won't keep quiet,
thus involving the whole world.

There are thousands of political newsgroups. Why insist on
filling the electronics newsgroups with politics too?

I'm not insisting. Just watching.
From an other viewpoint, there is no signal channel
with an infinite signal to noise. Agrred, somtimes
the noise is high.

Rene
--
Ing.Buero R.Tschaggelar - http://www.ibrtses.com
& commercial newsgroups - http://www.talkto.net

 

[Guy Macon]

Terry Given <my_name@ieee.org> says...

perhaps you might like to do a word count of all the
complaining-about-political-posts posts you have made, and think about
the engineering text(s) you could have written instead.....

Do I get to count posts complaingning about my complaining about
political posts too? We might have enough volume to justify
creating a nmew newsgroup! Oh. Wait. That won't work. It
would get filled with political posts, because the political
posters think *every* newgroup should be full of political posts.

 

[John Larkin]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:08:23 +0100, Paul Burke <paul@scazon.com>
wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

But how do you decide who to bet on?


Bet?? On cricket?? Certainly not gentlemanly conduct. A few years ago, a
highly regarded international cricketer was banished from the game for
accepting bribes to fix matches. But HE WASN'T BRITISH and those
offering bribes were very definitely Lesser Breeds Without The Law.
(takes off solar topee, dusts it down, replaces it. Quick pull at the
chota peg to settle the nerves, it's those drums Carruthers, those
damned drums...).

Paul Burke

Hee hee.

John

 

[Rene Tschaggelar]

Guy Macon wrote:

Terry Given <my_name@ieee.org> says...

perhaps you might like to do a word count of all the
complaining-about-political-posts posts you have made, and think about
the engineering text(s) you could have written instead.....

Do I get to count posts complaingning about my complaining about
political posts too? We might have enough volume to justify
creating a nmew newsgroup! Oh. Wait. That won't work. It
would get filled with political posts, because the political
posters think *every* newgroup should be full of political posts.

Guy,
you should have a look at advanced newsreaders. Eg
Xananews or such that are able to filter each message with
a trainable set of keywords.
Over the time your list becomes longer and filters every
political message.

Rene

 

[Frank Bemelman]

"Guy Macon" <http://www.guymacon.com> schreef in bericht
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Terry Given <my_name@ieee.org> says...

perhaps you might like to do a word count of all the
complaining-about-political-posts posts you have made, and think about
the engineering text(s) you could have written instead.....

Do I get to count posts complaingning about my complaining about
political posts too? We might have enough volume to justify
creating a nmew newsgroup! Oh. Wait. That won't work. It
would get filled with political posts, because the political
posters think *every* newgroup should be full of political posts.

Pull yourself together. I suggested it earler, run a messageboard
yourself and play moderator. But you are too lazy to do that, because
it takes an afternoon to get it up and running, and much longer to
attract the ideal audience.

Accept that your suggestions for a better(?) SED will have little
or no effect. While you may dream of SED being an bunch of puppets
and you happily pulling the strings, I can assure you that it is not
going to happen.

--
Thanks, Frank.
(remove 'x' and 'invalid' when replying by email)

 

[Clarence]

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On 18 Oct 2004 13:21:29 GMT, cfoley1064@aol.com (CFoley1064) wrote:
Subject: Re: The sci.electronics.design pledge
From: Guy Macon http://www.guymacon.com
Date: 10/18/2004 7:33 AM Central Daylight Time
Message-id: <10n7e1o5p78sbf0@news.supernews.com
CFoley1064 <cfoley1064@aol.com> says...

<snip>

''But you can't run the world on faith.''

What a bleak, appalling thing to say. What else could you run the
world on? Why else would you have and love your children?

Wow! A left turn!

Another smoke curtain John? Pick one line out of context
and turn into some sort of important thing here?

You are truly a master of smoke curtains, except that is
it bloody obvious everytime you present one.

Do you have kids, Frank? What kind of world do you want them to live
in? What do you want them to *be*?

That's not my point. Love, affection, trust, emotions, all very
nice indeed. But you pick one line out of context, and turn it
into a great discovery, as if the whole article is a load of
rubbish. You have a habit of doing so. Evading the crux. Generating
smoke. So, once again, you came up with a smoke curtain. You're
blind or pretending blindness.

You don't have to read it,
you don't have to respond.

So who is responsible?
You are!