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On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:46:48 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 25/09/2025 3:45 am, john larkin wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:25:39 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 24/09/2025 4:36 am, john larkin wrote:
On Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:52:32 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote: >>>>>
On 9/21/2025 7:56 AM, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
In article <09tackhdiqhbgebhfhm7k7vu0goakcg3t3@4ax.com>,
Cursitor Doom <cd6699@notformail.com> wrote:
<snip>
Charlie Kirk is strikingly absent from his own memorial. The usual >>>>>> suspects can prance around comparing him to Christ and talking about how >>>>>> wonderful he was and how good friends they all were but it's not at all >>>>>> like the memorial of someone like Martin Luther King Jr. or JFK where >>>>>> there'd be hours of televised footage of the deceased speaking, and many >>>>>> erudite sayings posted everywhere "and the words of the prophets were >>>>>> written on the subway walls.."
Mainly because CK was a consistently spiteful bigot who rarely had much >>>>>> nice to say, and so there's very little footage of him speaking or >>>>>> quotes available that presents him as the Christ-like figure (lol) the >>>>>> Republicans want to present.
He was a good friend of Don Trump and would do anything for him, that's >>>>>> what can be said. But he ain't no good to him no more.
Gosh, what nasty people you are. There's a lot of that going on
lately.
Donald Trump is a singularly unpleasant character. He appeals to his
followers because they are heartily sick of people like Donald Trump
ripping them off, and silly enough to believe his lying claims that he >>>> is going to reform the system.
His vengeful habits and his tendency to persecute people who don't give >>>> him the flattery he thinks he deserves do generate increasingly nasty - >>>> if perfectly justifiable - comment. Get used to it. It isn't going to
stop until he is impeached. Assassinating him wouldn't help - he'd just >>>> be replaced by somebody even more unpleasant. He needs to be rejected in >>>> disgrace.
Gosh, what a nasty person you are.
Nowhere near as nasty as you are. You do share his enthusiasm for
abusing people who don't give you the flattery you feel you deserve.
Did you ever get an oscilloscope?
The last time I needed one a friend in Scotland (not John May) sent me a
small Windows program that used the audio jack on my computer to
digitise incoming signals, store them, and display them on the computer
screen. It wasn't anywhere near as good as a Tek 2335, but it did what I
needed at the time.
If I saw any prospect of making money out of electronics, I would buy
something (I've got a fairly slow computer plugin around somewhere, but
it is old, very slow and only 12-bit and probably not good enough for
anything that might make money today).
I don't do electronics for money. I do it for fun.
Money is sometimes a side effect. That's OK.
I don't do electronics for money. I do it for fun.
Money is sometimes a side effect. That's OK.
On 26/09/2025 12:59 am, john larkin wrote:
On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:46:48 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 25/09/2025 3:45 am, john larkin wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:25:39 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> >>>> wrote:
On 24/09/2025 4:36 am, john larkin wrote:
On Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:52:32 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote: >>>>>>
On 9/21/2025 7:56 AM, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
In article <09tackhdiqhbgebhfhm7k7vu0goakcg3t3@4ax.com>,
Cursitor Doom <cd6699@notformail.com> wrote:
<snip>
Charlie Kirk is strikingly absent from his own memorial. The usual >>>>>>> suspects can prance around comparing him to Christ and talking about how
wonderful he was and how good friends they all were but it's not at all >>>>>>> like the memorial of someone like Martin Luther King Jr. or JFK where >>>>>>> there'd be hours of televised footage of the deceased speaking, and many
erudite sayings posted everywhere "and the words of the prophets were >>>>>>> written on the subway walls.."
Mainly because CK was a consistently spiteful bigot who rarely had much >>>>>>> nice to say, and so there's very little footage of him speaking or >>>>>>> quotes available that presents him as the Christ-like figure (lol) the >>>>>>> Republicans want to present.
He was a good friend of Don Trump and would do anything for him, that's >>>>>>> what can be said. But he ain't no good to him no more.
Gosh, what nasty people you are. There's a lot of that going on
lately.
Donald Trump is a singularly unpleasant character. He appeals to his >>>>> followers because they are heartily sick of people like Donald Trump >>>>> ripping them off, and silly enough to believe his lying claims that he >>>>> is going to reform the system.
His vengeful habits and his tendency to persecute people who don't give >>>>> him the flattery he thinks he deserves do generate increasingly nasty - >>>>> if perfectly justifiable - comment. Get used to it. It isn't going to >>>>> stop until he is impeached. Assassinating him wouldn't help - he'd just >>>>> be replaced by somebody even more unpleasant. He needs to be rejected in >>>>> disgrace.
Gosh, what a nasty person you are.
Nowhere near as nasty as you are. You do share his enthusiasm for
abusing people who don't give you the flattery you feel you deserve.
Did you ever get an oscilloscope?
The last time I needed one a friend in Scotland (not John May) sent me a >>> small Windows program that used the audio jack on my computer to
digitise incoming signals, store them, and display them on the computer
screen. It wasn't anywhere near as good as a Tek 2335, but it did what I >>> needed at the time.
If I saw any prospect of making money out of electronics, I would buy
something (I've got a fairly slow computer plugin around somewhere, but
it is old, very slow and only 12-bit and probably not good enough for
anything that might make money today).
I don't do electronics for money. I do it for fun.
Me too, though I'm more interested in collaborating with interesting
people to put together stuff that is useful in the real world.
Money is sometimes a side effect. That's OK.
Doing good electronics means spending appreciable amounts of money. If
the electronics that gets put together can do useful stuff it can earn
quite a bit more than it costs to put together. Finding the applications >that can earn useful amounts of money is crucial and I'm totally crap at >that.
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:
[...]
I don't do electronics for money. I do it for fun.
Money is sometimes a side effect. That's OK.
I do it for fun too - but the side effect is usually a loss of money.
What am I doing wrong?
On Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:52:32 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
On 9/21/2025 7:56 AM, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
In article <09tackhdiqhbgebhfhm7k7vu0goakcg3t3@4ax.com>,
Cursitor Doom <cd6699@notformail.com> wrote:
Okay, let's call them the 'Rabid Left' then. I'm talking of the
creatures who inhabit the Bluesky platform and were not only overcome
with unbridled joy at Charlie's murder, but were calling for it to be
the starting gun for a new murderous purge of anyone not sharing their >>>> bizarre and toxic delusions. The fact that they exist but you cannot
admit that undeniable fact speaks volumes about your fundamental
honesty (or lack thereof).
The killer of Charles Kirk is a very intelligent young lad, with
hardly an interest in politics. Apparently he was struck by the
absolute hateful and negative influence Kirk had and he decided
to do something about it.
Fortunately (?) his upbringing in a gun-loving family gave him the
means and training to take Kirk out.
The marxist view is that those type of killings mostly backfire,
it gives the opponent a claim they are right and escalate to
more violence.
In this case at least a positive effect is that everybody thinks that
Israel was to blame (and maybe it is after all).
Groetjes Albert
Charlie Kirk is strikingly absent from his own memorial. The usual
suspects can prance around comparing him to Christ and talking about how
wonderful he was and how good friends they all were but it's not at all
like the memorial of someone like Martin Luther King Jr. or JFK where
there'd be hours of televised footage of the deceased speaking, and many
erudite sayings posted everywhere "and the words of the prophets were
written on the subway walls.."
Mainly because CK was a consistently spiteful bigot who rarely had much
nice to say, and so there's very little footage of him speaking or
quotes available that presents him as the Christ-like figure (lol) the
Republicans want to present.
He was a good friend of Don Trump and would do anything for him, that's
what can be said. But he ain't no good to him no more.
Gosh, what nasty people you are. There's a lot of that going on
lately.
On Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:16:13 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 26/09/2025 12:59 am, john larkin wrote:
On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:46:48 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 25/09/2025 3:45 am, john larkin wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:25:39 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> >>>>> wrote:
On 24/09/2025 4:36 am, john larkin wrote:
On Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:52:32 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote: >>>>>>>
On 9/21/2025 7:56 AM, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
In article <09tackhdiqhbgebhfhm7k7vu0goakcg3t3@4ax.com>,
Cursitor Doom <cd6699@notformail.com> wrote:
<snip>
Charlie Kirk is strikingly absent from his own memorial. The usual >>>>>>>> suspects can prance around comparing him to Christ and talking about how
wonderful he was and how good friends they all were but it's not at all
like the memorial of someone like Martin Luther King Jr. or JFK where >>>>>>>> there'd be hours of televised footage of the deceased speaking, and many
erudite sayings posted everywhere "and the words of the prophets were >>>>>>>> written on the subway walls.."
Mainly because CK was a consistently spiteful bigot who rarely had much
nice to say, and so there's very little footage of him speaking or >>>>>>>> quotes available that presents him as the Christ-like figure (lol) the >>>>>>>> Republicans want to present.
He was a good friend of Don Trump and would do anything for him, that's
what can be said. But he ain't no good to him no more.
Gosh, what nasty people you are. There's a lot of that going on
lately.
Donald Trump is a singularly unpleasant character. He appeals to his >>>>>> followers because they are heartily sick of people like Donald Trump >>>>>> ripping them off, and silly enough to believe his lying claims that he >>>>>> is going to reform the system.
His vengeful habits and his tendency to persecute people who don't give >>>>>> him the flattery he thinks he deserves do generate increasingly nasty - >>>>>> if perfectly justifiable - comment. Get used to it. It isn't going to >>>>>> stop until he is impeached. Assassinating him wouldn't help - he'd just >>>>>> be replaced by somebody even more unpleasant. He needs to be rejected in >>>>>> disgrace.
Gosh, what a nasty person you are.
Nowhere near as nasty as you are. You do share his enthusiasm for
abusing people who don't give you the flattery you feel you deserve.
Did you ever get an oscilloscope?
The last time I needed one a friend in Scotland (not John May) sent me a >>>> small Windows program that used the audio jack on my computer to
digitise incoming signals, store them, and display them on the computer >>>> screen. It wasn't anywhere near as good as a Tek 2335, but it did what I >>>> needed at the time.
If I saw any prospect of making money out of electronics, I would buy
something (I've got a fairly slow computer plugin around somewhere, but >>>> it is old, very slow and only 12-bit and probably not good enough for
anything that might make money today).
I don't do electronics for money. I do it for fun.
Me too, though I'm more interested in collaborating with interesting
people to put together stuff that is useful in the real world.
Money is sometimes a side effect. That's OK.
Doing good electronics means spending appreciable amounts of money. If
the electronics that gets put together can do useful stuff it can earn
quite a bit more than it costs to put together. Finding the applications
that can earn useful amounts of money is crucial and I'm totally crap at
that.
It's crazy how cheap parts and test equipment are now. A 15 MHz scope
used to cost more than a Chevrolet; now a 100M scope costs lunch
money.
If I didn't have a job, I'd be researching industries that need
electronics, visit some, learn about them, and offer to design stuff
for free. Then I'd have a base for expansion.
I'd expect that the combination of physical chemistry and electronic
design could seem useful.
But you'd have to be friendly and helpful for that to work.
On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:00:27 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:
[...]
I don't do electronics for money. I do it for fun.
Money is sometimes a side effect. That's OK.
I do it for fun too - but the side effect is usually a loss of money.
What am I doing wrong?
One idea is to avoid competition. And it's fun to do stuff that not
many people have done so far, or done badly.
On 26/09/2025 3:09 am, john larkin wrote:
On Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:16:13 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 26/09/2025 12:59 am, john larkin wrote:
On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:46:48 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> >>>> wrote:
On 25/09/2025 3:45 am, john larkin wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:25:39 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> >>>>>> wrote:
On 24/09/2025 4:36 am, john larkin wrote:
On Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:52:32 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote: >>>>>>>>
On 9/21/2025 7:56 AM, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
In article <09tackhdiqhbgebhfhm7k7vu0goakcg3t3@4ax.com>,
Cursitor Doom <cd6699@notformail.com> wrote:
<snip>
Charlie Kirk is strikingly absent from his own memorial. The usual >>>>>>>>> suspects can prance around comparing him to Christ and talking about how
wonderful he was and how good friends they all were but it's not at all
like the memorial of someone like Martin Luther King Jr. or JFK where >>>>>>>>> there'd be hours of televised footage of the deceased speaking, and many
erudite sayings posted everywhere "and the words of the prophets were >>>>>>>>> written on the subway walls.."
Mainly because CK was a consistently spiteful bigot who rarely had much
nice to say, and so there's very little footage of him speaking or >>>>>>>>> quotes available that presents him as the Christ-like figure (lol) the
Republicans want to present.
He was a good friend of Don Trump and would do anything for him, that's
what can be said. But he ain't no good to him no more.
Gosh, what nasty people you are. There's a lot of that going on >>>>>>>> lately.
Donald Trump is a singularly unpleasant character. He appeals to his >>>>>>> followers because they are heartily sick of people like Donald Trump >>>>>>> ripping them off, and silly enough to believe his lying claims that he >>>>>>> is going to reform the system.
His vengeful habits and his tendency to persecute people who don't give >>>>>>> him the flattery he thinks he deserves do generate increasingly nasty - >>>>>>> if perfectly justifiable - comment. Get used to it. It isn't going to >>>>>>> stop until he is impeached. Assassinating him wouldn't help - he'd just >>>>>>> be replaced by somebody even more unpleasant. He needs to be rejected in
disgrace.
Gosh, what a nasty person you are.
Nowhere near as nasty as you are. You do share his enthusiasm for
abusing people who don't give you the flattery you feel you deserve. >>>>>
Did you ever get an oscilloscope?
The last time I needed one a friend in Scotland (not John May) sent me a >>>>> small Windows program that used the audio jack on my computer to
digitise incoming signals, store them, and display them on the computer >>>>> screen. It wasn't anywhere near as good as a Tek 2335, but it did what I >>>>> needed at the time.
If I saw any prospect of making money out of electronics, I would buy >>>>> something (I've got a fairly slow computer plugin around somewhere, but >>>>> it is old, very slow and only 12-bit and probably not good enough for >>>>> anything that might make money today).
I don't do electronics for money. I do it for fun.
Me too, though I'm more interested in collaborating with interesting
people to put together stuff that is useful in the real world.
Money is sometimes a side effect. That's OK.
Doing good electronics means spending appreciable amounts of money. If
the electronics that gets put together can do useful stuff it can earn
quite a bit more than it costs to put together. Finding the applications >>> that can earn useful amounts of money is crucial and I'm totally crap at >>> that.
It's crazy how cheap parts and test equipment are now. A 15 MHz scope
used to cost more than a Chevrolet; now a 100M scope costs lunch
money.
If I didn't have a job, I'd be researching industries that need
electronics, visit some, learn about them, and offer to design stuff
for free. Then I'd have a base for expansion.
Why bother? Industries that need that kind of help advertise for
electronic engineers, Sadly, most of them filter the responses they get >through a personnel department or a hiring agencies which knows nothing >about electronic engineering.
Visiting the industries would take more effort - you've got to get
through the equivalent of a personnel department before you can talk to >anybody who might be interested (who have better things to do with their >time than talking to random strangers).
I'd expect that the combination of physical chemistry and electronic
design could seem useful.
But being aged 82 devalues that.
But you'd have to be friendly and helpful for that to work.
I can manage that, except when dealing with people with inflated ideas
of their own competence. They don't want to be helped because they are >convinced that they know it all already, and expect the help to
implement their brilliant ideas, rather than point that there may be a >better way.
On Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:41:26 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 26/09/2025 3:09 am, john larkin wrote:
On Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:16:13 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 26/09/2025 12:59 am, john larkin wrote:
On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:46:48 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> >>>>> wrote:
On 25/09/2025 3:45 am, john larkin wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:25:39 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> >>>>>>> wrote:
On 24/09/2025 4:36 am, john larkin wrote:
On Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:52:32 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote: >>>>>>>>>
On 9/21/2025 7:56 AM, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
In article <09tackhdiqhbgebhfhm7k7vu0goakcg3t3@4ax.com>, >>>>>>>>>>> Cursitor Doom <cd6699@notformail.com> wrote:
<snip>
Charlie Kirk is strikingly absent from his own memorial. The usual >>>>>>>>>> suspects can prance around comparing him to Christ and talking about how
wonderful he was and how good friends they all were but it's not at all
like the memorial of someone like Martin Luther King Jr. or JFK where
there'd be hours of televised footage of the deceased speaking, and many
erudite sayings posted everywhere "and the words of the prophets were
written on the subway walls.."
Mainly because CK was a consistently spiteful bigot who rarely had much
nice to say, and so there's very little footage of him speaking or >>>>>>>>>> quotes available that presents him as the Christ-like figure (lol) the
Republicans want to present.
He was a good friend of Don Trump and would do anything for him, that's
what can be said. But he ain't no good to him no more.
Gosh, what nasty people you are. There's a lot of that going on >>>>>>>>> lately.
Donald Trump is a singularly unpleasant character. He appeals to his >>>>>>>> followers because they are heartily sick of people like Donald Trump >>>>>>>> ripping them off, and silly enough to believe his lying claims that he >>>>>>>> is going to reform the system.
His vengeful habits and his tendency to persecute people who don't give
him the flattery he thinks he deserves do generate increasingly nasty -
if perfectly justifiable - comment. Get used to it. It isn't going to >>>>>>>> stop until he is impeached. Assassinating him wouldn't help - he'd just
be replaced by somebody even more unpleasant. He needs to be rejected in
disgrace.
Gosh, what a nasty person you are.
Nowhere near as nasty as you are. You do share his enthusiasm for
abusing people who don't give you the flattery you feel you deserve. >>>>>>
Did you ever get an oscilloscope?
The last time I needed one a friend in Scotland (not John May) sent me a >>>>>> small Windows program that used the audio jack on my computer to
digitise incoming signals, store them, and display them on the computer >>>>>> screen. It wasn't anywhere near as good as a Tek 2335, but it did what I >>>>>> needed at the time.
If I saw any prospect of making money out of electronics, I would buy >>>>>> something (I've got a fairly slow computer plugin around somewhere, but >>>>>> it is old, very slow and only 12-bit and probably not good enough for >>>>>> anything that might make money today).
I don't do electronics for money. I do it for fun.
Me too, though I'm more interested in collaborating with interesting
people to put together stuff that is useful in the real world.
Money is sometimes a side effect. That's OK.
Doing good electronics means spending appreciable amounts of money. If >>>> the electronics that gets put together can do useful stuff it can earn >>>> quite a bit more than it costs to put together. Finding the applications >>>> that can earn useful amounts of money is crucial and I'm totally crap at >>>> that.
It's crazy how cheap parts and test equipment are now. A 15 MHz scope
used to cost more than a Chevrolet; now a 100M scope costs lunch
money.
If I didn't have a job, I'd be researching industries that need
electronics, visit some, learn about them, and offer to design stuff
for free. Then I'd have a base for expansion.
Why bother? Industries that need that kind of help advertise for
electronic engineers, Sadly, most of them filter the responses they get
through a personnel department or a hiring agencies which knows nothing
about electronic engineering.
Visiting the industries would take more effort - you've got to get
through the equivalent of a personnel department before you can talk to
anybody who might be interested (who have better things to do with their
time than talking to random strangers).
I'd expect that the combination of physical chemistry and electronic
design could seem useful.
But being aged 82 devalues that.
But you'd have to be friendly and helpful for that to work.
I can manage that, except when dealing with people with inflated ideas
of their own competence. They don't want to be helped because they are
convinced that they know it all already, and expect the help to
implement their brilliant ideas, rather than point that there may be a
better way.
OK, specialize in pickleball or bingo or something.
On 9/23/2025 2:36 PM, john larkin wrote:
On Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:52:32 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
On 9/21/2025 7:56 AM, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
In article <09tackhdiqhbgebhfhm7k7vu0goakcg3t3@4ax.com>,
Cursitor Doom <cd6699@notformail.com> wrote:
Okay, let's call them the 'Rabid Left' then. I'm talking of the
creatures who inhabit the Bluesky platform and were not only overcome >>>>> with unbridled joy at Charlie's murder, but were calling for it to be >>>>> the starting gun for a new murderous purge of anyone not sharing their >>>>> bizarre and toxic delusions. The fact that they exist but you cannot >>>>> admit that undeniable fact speaks volumes about your fundamental
honesty (or lack thereof).
The killer of Charles Kirk is a very intelligent young lad, with
hardly an interest in politics. Apparently he was struck by the
absolute hateful and negative influence Kirk had and he decided
to do something about it.
Fortunately (?) his upbringing in a gun-loving family gave him the
means and training to take Kirk out.
The marxist view is that those type of killings mostly backfire,
it gives the opponent a claim they are right and escalate to
more violence.
In this case at least a positive effect is that everybody thinks that
Israel was to blame (and maybe it is after all).
Groetjes Albert
Charlie Kirk is strikingly absent from his own memorial. The usual
suspects can prance around comparing him to Christ and talking about how >>> wonderful he was and how good friends they all were but it's not at all
like the memorial of someone like Martin Luther King Jr. or JFK where
there'd be hours of televised footage of the deceased speaking, and many >>> erudite sayings posted everywhere "and the words of the prophets were
written on the subway walls.."
Mainly because CK was a consistently spiteful bigot who rarely had much
nice to say, and so there's very little footage of him speaking or
quotes available that presents him as the Christ-like figure (lol) the
Republicans want to present.
He was a good friend of Don Trump and would do anything for him, that's
what can be said. But he ain't no good to him no more.
Gosh, what nasty people you are. There's a lot of that going on
lately.
They don't show much footage of him or quote him at his own memorial.
I think he was almost always too repulsive and barbaric to quote, e.g.
there should be public executions and children should watch them:
<https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-death-penalty-public-executions-1873073>
Public executions for children to watch? Is this the "Western
Civilization" I've heard about? It doesn't seem worth defending if so.
On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:02:42 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
On 9/23/2025 2:36 PM, john larkin wrote:
On Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:52:32 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
On 9/21/2025 7:56 AM, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
In article <09tackhdiqhbgebhfhm7k7vu0goakcg3t3@4ax.com>,
Cursitor Doom <cd6699@notformail.com> wrote:
Okay, let's call them the 'Rabid Left' then. I'm talking of the
creatures who inhabit the Bluesky platform and were not only overcome >>>>>> with unbridled joy at Charlie's murder, but were calling for it to be >>>>>> the starting gun for a new murderous purge of anyone not sharing their >>>>>> bizarre and toxic delusions. The fact that they exist but you cannot >>>>>> admit that undeniable fact speaks volumes about your fundamental
honesty (or lack thereof).
The killer of Charles Kirk is a very intelligent young lad, with
hardly an interest in politics. Apparently he was struck by the
absolute hateful and negative influence Kirk had and he decided
to do something about it.
Fortunately (?) his upbringing in a gun-loving family gave him the
means and training to take Kirk out.
The marxist view is that those type of killings mostly backfire,
it gives the opponent a claim they are right and escalate to
more violence.
In this case at least a positive effect is that everybody thinks that >>>>> Israel was to blame (and maybe it is after all).
Groetjes Albert
Charlie Kirk is strikingly absent from his own memorial. The usual
suspects can prance around comparing him to Christ and talking about how >>>> wonderful he was and how good friends they all were but it's not at all >>>> like the memorial of someone like Martin Luther King Jr. or JFK where
there'd be hours of televised footage of the deceased speaking, and many >>>> erudite sayings posted everywhere "and the words of the prophets were
written on the subway walls.."
Mainly because CK was a consistently spiteful bigot who rarely had much >>>> nice to say, and so there's very little footage of him speaking or
quotes available that presents him as the Christ-like figure (lol) the >>>> Republicans want to present.
He was a good friend of Don Trump and would do anything for him, that's >>>> what can be said. But he ain't no good to him no more.
Gosh, what nasty people you are. There's a lot of that going on
lately.
They don't show much footage of him or quote him at his own memorial.
I think he was almost always too repulsive and barbaric to quote, e.g.
there should be public executions and children should watch them:
<https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-death-penalty-public-executions-1873073>
Public executions for children to watch? Is this the "Western
Civilization" I've heard about? It doesn't seem worth defending if so.
I prefer to hear what someone has to say for myself, rather than read
some third-hand, third-rate 'report' from an obviously biased source
such as Newsweek.
On 17/09/2025 12:22 am, john larkin wrote:
On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:25:27 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 16/09/2025 3:38 pm, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 15 Sep 2025 22:18:05 -0700, John Robertson <jrr@flippers.com>
wrote:
On 2025-09-15 10:02 a.m., john larkin wrote:
On Sat, 13 Sep 2025 22:22:02 +1000, Bill Sloman
<bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 13/09/2025 8:29 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:05:08 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--
canyon.com>
wrote:
On Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:08:38 +0100, Cursitor Doom
<cd6699@notformail.com> wrote:
Firing squad in Utah, IIRC. How fitting - and fully deserved >>>>>>>>>> for this
hard Left, skinny, hate-filled punk.
Are people getting crazier lately?
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
For a bit of objectivity, I asked AI and it's no misperception. I >>>>>>>> don't know how old you are, but I remember there was a string of >>>>>>>> political assassinations in the US during the 60s. However, by the >>>>>>>> early 70s, we seemed to have left that all behind, thankfully, >>>>>>>> for the
next 40+ years (barring that one attempt on the Gipper in about >>>>>>>> '81).
But now it seems it's back. The atmosphere is febrile and it's not >>>>>>>> just in America.
We need to remember that open debate is the only way to move
forward
constructively. Have a civilized argument and don't get mad if you >>>>>>>> come off worse 'cos it's probable your ideas just don't stand up to >>>>>>>> scrutiny. Otherwise we risk becoming a banana republic like you >>>>>>>> see in
places like Africa and S. America.
And the USA. At least in Brazil they put Bolsonaro in prison for 27 >>>>>>> years for plotting a coup after he'd lost an election.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c147n38k800o
Trump hasn't been prosecuted for trying to pull much the same
stunt in
January 2020, and - now that he is back in power - he is going
after the
people who were putting together a case against him for the
damage he
did back in 2020.
Banana republics got that title because US fruit importers would use >>>>>>> their political influence to get the US to endorse military coups >>>>>>> that
put regimes in power that would discourage banana growers from
protesting about US exploitation.
When Cuba was being exploited by greedy american corporations is was >>>>>> the wealthist country in Latin America. Since Castro liberated it, >>>>>> it's about the poorest.
Now Cuba imports sugar.
The US blockaded Cuba...read your history.
The blockade lasted 13 days in 1962, to keep Soviet nukes out of Cuba. >>>>
Cuba is free to trade with the entire rest of the world, but they
still can't keep the lights on.
That wasn't the only kind of blockade imposed. Cuba isn't remotely free
to trade with the rest of the world.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68935247
My Cajun daddy-in-law was a sugar cane farmer in Louisiana and owned a
share in a local co-op sugar mill. That was interesting. We could fill
up buckets with turbinado sugar, the amber-colored first-press
unprocessed stuff. It was great. I still cook with turbo and it's
great in coffee.
He had a self-propelled cane cutter machine that was a fast as 50 guys
with machetes. The only time they would cut by hand was if a hurricane
had tangled the cane too much for the cutter to work right.
I suppose that Cubans can't set up co-op mills. The Party owns
everything, and that's all rotting.
The point of the BBC story was that 24 mills were still working, even if
29 weren't. The party and the workers can't conjure replacement parts
out of thin air. They could get enough replacement parts to keep 24
mills working, but the trade embargo was tight enough that that was all
that they could manage.
Speaking from England:
Firstly, if you believe everything you hear from the BBC, then I have
several bridges to sell you. Propaganda central, patronising,
gaslighting and suppressing dissent, is their stock in trade. You need
to get out a bit more.
Second, if they can't get spare parts, why don't they just copy and make
them themselves. Are they helpless, or what ?. Perhaps good old mother
Russia will help them.
Chris
On 9/17/25 08:35, Bill Sloman wrote:
On 17/09/2025 12:22 am, john larkin wrote:
On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:25:27 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 16/09/2025 3:38 pm, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 15 Sep 2025 22:18:05 -0700, John Robertson <jrr@flippers.com> >>>>> wrote:
On 2025-09-15 10:02 a.m., john larkin wrote:
On Sat, 13 Sep 2025 22:22:02 +1000, Bill Sloman
<bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 13/09/2025 8:29 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:05:08 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--
canyon.com>
wrote:
On Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:08:38 +0100, Cursitor Doom
<cd6699@notformail.com> wrote:
Firing squad in Utah, IIRC. How fitting - and fully deserved >>>>>>>>>>> for this
hard Left, skinny, hate-filled punk.
Are people getting crazier lately?
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
For a bit of objectivity, I asked AI and it's no misperception. I >>>>>>>>> don't know how old you are, but I remember there was a string of >>>>>>>>> political assassinations in the US during the 60s. However, by the >>>>>>>>> early 70s, we seemed to have left that all behind, thankfully, >>>>>>>>> for the
next 40+ years (barring that one attempt on the Gipper in about >>>>>>>>> '81).
But now it seems it's back. The atmosphere is febrile and it's not >>>>>>>>> just in America.
We need to remember that open debate is the only way to move >>>>>>>>> forward
constructively. Have a civilized argument and don't get mad if you >>>>>>>>> come off worse 'cos it's probable your ideas just don't stand up to >>>>>>>>> scrutiny. Otherwise we risk becoming a banana republic like you >>>>>>>>> see in
places like Africa and S. America.
And the USA. At least in Brazil they put Bolsonaro in prison for 27 >>>>>>>> years for plotting a coup after he'd lost an election.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c147n38k800o
Trump hasn't been prosecuted for trying to pull much the same >>>>>>>> stunt in
January 2020, and - now that he is back in power - he is going >>>>>>>> after the
people who were putting together a case against him for the
damage he
did back in 2020.
Banana republics got that title because US fruit importers would use >>>>>>>> their political influence to get the US to endorse military coups >>>>>>>> that
put regimes in power that would discourage banana growers from >>>>>>>> protesting about US exploitation.
When Cuba was being exploited by greedy american corporations is was >>>>>>> the wealthist country in Latin America. Since Castro liberated it, >>>>>>> it's about the poorest.
Now Cuba imports sugar.
The US blockaded Cuba...read your history.
The blockade lasted 13 days in 1962, to keep Soviet nukes out of Cuba. >>>>>
Cuba is free to trade with the entire rest of the world, but they
still can't keep the lights on.
That wasn't the only kind of blockade imposed. Cuba isn't remotely free >>>> to trade with the rest of the world.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68935247
My Cajun daddy-in-law was a sugar cane farmer in Louisiana and owned a
share in a local co-op sugar mill. That was interesting. We could fill
up buckets with turbinado sugar, the amber-colored first-press
unprocessed stuff. It was great. I still cook with turbo and it's
great in coffee.
He had a self-propelled cane cutter machine that was a fast as 50 guys
with machetes. The only time they would cut by hand was if a hurricane
had tangled the cane too much for the cutter to work right.
I suppose that Cubans can't set up co-op mills. The Party owns
everything, and that's all rotting.
The point of the BBC story was that 24 mills were still working, even if
29 weren't. The party and the workers can't conjure replacement parts
out of thin air. They could get enough replacement parts to keep 24
mills working, but the trade embargo was tight enough that that was all
that they could manage.
Speaking from England:
Firstly, if you believe everything you hear from the BBC, then I have
several bridges to sell you. Propaganda central, patronising,
gaslighting and suppressing dissent, is their stock in trade.
You need
to get out a bit more.
Second, if they can't get spare parts, why don't they just copy and make
them themselves. Are they helpless, or what ?. Perhaps good old mother
Russia will help them.
On 9/17/25 08:35, Bill Sloman wrote:
On 17/09/2025 12:22 am, john larkin wrote:
On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:25:27 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 16/09/2025 3:38 pm, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 15 Sep 2025 22:18:05 -0700, John Robertson <jrr@flippers.com> >>>>> wrote:
On 2025-09-15 10:02 a.m., john larkin wrote:
On Sat, 13 Sep 2025 22:22:02 +1000, Bill Sloman
<bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 13/09/2025 8:29 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:05:08 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--
canyon.com>
wrote:
On Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:08:38 +0100, Cursitor Doom
<cd6699@notformail.com> wrote:
Firing squad in Utah, IIRC. How fitting - and fully deserved >>>>>>>>>>> for this
hard Left, skinny, hate-filled punk.
Are people getting crazier lately?
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
For a bit of objectivity, I asked AI and it's no misperception. I >>>>>>>>> don't know how old you are, but I remember there was a string of >>>>>>>>> political assassinations in the US during the 60s. However, by the >>>>>>>>> early 70s, we seemed to have left that all behind, thankfully, >>>>>>>>> for the
next 40+ years (barring that one attempt on the Gipper in about >>>>>>>>> '81).
But now it seems it's back. The atmosphere is febrile and it's not >>>>>>>>> just in America.
We need to remember that open debate is the only way to move >>>>>>>>> forward
constructively. Have a civilized argument and don't get mad if you >>>>>>>>> come off worse 'cos it's probable your ideas just don't stand >>>>>>>>> up to
scrutiny. Otherwise we risk becoming a banana republic like you >>>>>>>>> see in
places like Africa and S. America.
And the USA. At least in Brazil they put Bolsonaro in prison for 27 >>>>>>>> years for plotting a coup after he'd lost an election.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c147n38k800o
Trump hasn't been prosecuted for trying to pull much the same >>>>>>>> stunt in
January 2020, and - now that he is back in power - he is going >>>>>>>> after the
people who were putting together a case against him for the
damage he
did back in 2020.
Banana republics got that title because US fruit importers would >>>>>>>> use
their political influence to get the US to endorse military
coups that
put regimes in power that would discourage banana growers from >>>>>>>> protesting about US exploitation.
When Cuba was being exploited by greedy american corporations is was >>>>>>> the wealthist country in Latin America. Since Castro liberated it, >>>>>>> it's about the poorest.
Now Cuba imports sugar.
The US blockaded Cuba...read your history.
The blockade lasted 13 days in 1962, to keep Soviet nukes out of Cuba. >>>>>
Cuba is free to trade with the entire rest of the world, but they
still can't keep the lights on.
That wasn't the only kind of blockade imposed. Cuba isn't remotely free >>>> to trade with the rest of the world.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68935247
My Cajun daddy-in-law was a sugar cane farmer in Louisiana and owned a
share in a local co-op sugar mill. That was interesting. We could fill
up buckets with turbinado sugar, the amber-colored first-press
unprocessed stuff. It was great. I still cook with turbo and it's
great in coffee.
He had a self-propelled cane cutter machine that was a fast as 50 guys
with machetes. The only time they would cut by hand was if a hurricane
had tangled the cane too much for the cutter to work right.
I suppose that Cubans can't set up co-op mills. The Party owns
everything, and that's all rotting.
The point of the BBC story was that 24 mills were still working, even
if 29 weren't. The party and the workers can't conjure replacement
parts out of thin air. They could get enough replacement parts to keep
24 mills working, but the trade embargo was tight enough that that was
all that they could manage.
Speaking from England:
Firstly, if you believe everything you hear from the BBC, then I have
several bridges to sell you. Propaganda central, patronising,
gaslighting and suppressing dissent, is their stock in trade. You need
to get out a bit more.
Second, if they can't get spare parts, why don't they just copy and make
them themselves. Are they helpless, or what ?. Perhaps good old mother
Russia will help them.
On 2025-10-06 01:36, chrisq wrote:
On 9/17/25 08:35, Bill Sloman wrote:
On 17/09/2025 12:22 am, john larkin wrote:
On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:25:27 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> >>>> wrote:
On 16/09/2025 3:38 pm, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 15 Sep 2025 22:18:05 -0700, John Robertson <jrr@flippers.com> >>>>>> wrote:
On 2025-09-15 10:02 a.m., john larkin wrote:
On Sat, 13 Sep 2025 22:22:02 +1000, Bill Sloman
<bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:
On 13/09/2025 8:29 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:05:08 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen-- >>>>>>>>>> canyon.com>
wrote:
On Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:08:38 +0100, Cursitor Doom
<cd6699@notformail.com> wrote:
Firing squad in Utah, IIRC. How fitting - and fully deserved >>>>>>>>>>>> for this
hard Left, skinny, hate-filled punk.
Are people getting crazier lately?
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
For a bit of objectivity, I asked AI and it's no misperception. I >>>>>>>>>> don't know how old you are, but I remember there was a string of >>>>>>>>>> political assassinations in the US during the 60s. However, by the >>>>>>>>>> early 70s, we seemed to have left that all behind, thankfully, >>>>>>>>>> for the
next 40+ years (barring that one attempt on the Gipper in about >>>>>>>>>> '81).
But now it seems it's back. The atmosphere is febrile and it's not >>>>>>>>>> just in America.
We need to remember that open debate is the only way to move >>>>>>>>>> forward
constructively. Have a civilized argument and don't get mad if you >>>>>>>>>> come off worse 'cos it's probable your ideas just don't stand >>>>>>>>>> up to
scrutiny. Otherwise we risk becoming a banana republic like you >>>>>>>>>> see in
places like Africa and S. America.
And the USA. At least in Brazil they put Bolsonaro in prison for 27 >>>>>>>>> years for plotting a coup after he'd lost an election.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c147n38k800o
Trump hasn't been prosecuted for trying to pull much the same >>>>>>>>> stunt in
January 2020, and - now that he is back in power - he is going >>>>>>>>> after the
people who were putting together a case against him for the >>>>>>>>> damage he
did back in 2020.
Banana republics got that title because US fruit importers would >>>>>>>>> use
their political influence to get the US to endorse military >>>>>>>>> coups that
put regimes in power that would discourage banana growers from >>>>>>>>> protesting about US exploitation.
When Cuba was being exploited by greedy american corporations is was >>>>>>>> the wealthist country in Latin America. Since Castro liberated it, >>>>>>>> it's about the poorest.
Now Cuba imports sugar.
The US blockaded Cuba...read your history.
The blockade lasted 13 days in 1962, to keep Soviet nukes out of Cuba. >>>>>>
Cuba is free to trade with the entire rest of the world, but they
still can't keep the lights on.
That wasn't the only kind of blockade imposed. Cuba isn't remotely free >>>>> to trade with the rest of the world.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68935247
My Cajun daddy-in-law was a sugar cane farmer in Louisiana and owned a >>>> share in a local co-op sugar mill. That was interesting. We could fill >>>> up buckets with turbinado sugar, the amber-colored first-press
unprocessed stuff. It was great. I still cook with turbo and it's
great in coffee.
He had a self-propelled cane cutter machine that was a fast as 50 guys >>>> with machetes. The only time they would cut by hand was if a hurricane >>>> had tangled the cane too much for the cutter to work right.
I suppose that Cubans can't set up co-op mills. The Party owns
everything, and that's all rotting.
The point of the BBC story was that 24 mills were still working, even
if 29 weren't. The party and the workers can't conjure replacement
parts out of thin air. They could get enough replacement parts to keep
24 mills working, but the trade embargo was tight enough that that was
all that they could manage.
Speaking from England:
Firstly, if you believe everything you hear from the BBC, then I have
several bridges to sell you. Propaganda central, patronising,
gaslighting and suppressing dissent, is their stock in trade. You need
to get out a bit more.
Second, if they can't get spare parts, why don't they just copy and make
them themselves. Are they helpless, or what ?. Perhaps good old mother
Russia will help them.
Cubans are very good at maintaining cars without having original spares.
The cars they run are very old and amazing. Any tourist visiting there
can see this. If they don't repair other machines it is because they
really can't.