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Lionel wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:21:28 +0545, "Kadaitcha Man"
> <nntp.news@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Lionel <usenet@imagenoir.com> Thou nit. Though you bite so sharp at
>> reasons, you are so empty of them. Ye leaked:  
>>
>>> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:00:37 -0500, John Fields
>>> <jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:07:43 +1000, Lionel <usenet@imagenoir.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:47:48 -0500, John Fields
>>>>> <jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>> You'd better behave or we will confiscate your multimeter.
>>>>>>>>> Ha! I have TWO!
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>> One for volts and the other one for amps?
>>>>>>> Quite often, actually. And nearly as often for monitoring
>>>>>>> voltages on different parts of a breadboard circuit.
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> Just one for volts should work well with just an incandescent lamp
>>>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>>> and a battery in the circuit.
>>>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>> Well then, that'll save you a little cash & bench space, won't it?
>>>>> ;^)
>>>> Why would I worry about that?
>>> <sigh> Because you were just pointing out that you were only working
>>> with simple lamp & battery circuits, so you only needed one meter,
>>> instead of the two that I often require. So I politely observed that
>>> /one/ meter will generally cost you less than /two/ meters, & that
>>> /one/ meter would also likely take up less bench space than /two/
>>> meters, you see? I trust that was a little easier for you to grasp the
>>> second time around.
>>>
>>>> I've got plenty of both, plus some test equipment and parts
>>> For your lamp & battery circuits? What on earth for? You've already
>>> admitted that you only need one meter to get the job done.
>>> Really, rather than wasting good test gear, etc, you should sell it or
>>> give it to someone who actually /needs/ lots of gear.
>> How much effort do you think it will take me to convince him he needs at 
>> least a dual trace oscilloscope for his lamp and battery circuits? Plus a 
>> pulse generator, a frequency generator, spectrum analyser, vector signal 
>> analyser, function generator, logic analyser and perhaps a time-domain 
>> reflectometer as well?
> 
> Bugger-all, most likely. It's amazing what lame excuses a genuine
> gearhead can come up with to justify buying the shiny new gizmo they
> saw on the front cover of the latest issue of "Whatsit World".
> 
>>>> you'd
>>>> drool over if you ever made it past Ohm's law and LEDs. I think the
>>>> likelihood of the front of your shirt staying dry is prettty high,
>>>> however.
>>> Oh dear, that's terribly lame, especially coming from someone who is,
>>> theoretically, an adult. You'd be in your forties or fifties, would
>>> you not? And yet you still revert to silly playground insults when
>>> you're feeling stressed? How sad.
>>>
>>> I can't help but wonder what happened to you at age 10 or so that
>>> blocked your social development so severely. Whatever it was, it
>>> must've driven your parents crazy to see their teenaged son continuing
>>> to come home with report cards in which your social skills were
>>> described as "Doesn't play well with others".
>>>
>>> Oh, & I while I really shouldn't dignify your sad little attempt to
>>> start a pissing match with any kind of response, I'll do it this one
>>> time, just for the record: In fact, I built my first real (ie;
>>> soldered PCB, wiring loom, mounted in a case, etc) electronic kit (a
>>> toy) at age 10, which, IIRC, contained a dozen LEDs, which wasn't a
>>> bad effort for a self-taught 10 year old, IMO. And yes, other than a
>>> couple of miswired LEDs in the muxed display, it worked first time.
>>>
>>> And as for your quite pathetic "I've got better tools than you, so
>>> you suck!" dick-waving, I already have more electronics tools &
>>> instruments in my home workshop than I really have room for, & when
>>> I'm employed to design electronic systems, my own equipment stays at
>>> home where it belongs, because it's been my experience that any
>>> employer who's unwilling or unable to provide me with the tools I need
>>> to do the job they hired me for, is an employer who'll inevitably try
>>> to rip me off in other ways as well. 
> 
Talking to yerself again. Loonel==KY-MAN=="Rhonda and Massive Prong 
Stalker".