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MassiveDrongo wrote:
> Thus spake light.angel:
>> MassiveDrongo wrote:
>>> Thus spake The Demon Prince of Absurdity:
>>>> Lionel wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:21:28 +0545, "Kadaitcha Man" 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 wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:07:43 +1000, Lionel wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:47:48 -0500, John Fields 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".
>>>> Talking to yerself again. Loonel==KY-MAN=="Rhonda and Massive Prong
>>>> Stalker".
>>> Oh, my Goddess. Every time I think you've reached the nadir of
>>> intelligence, you surprise me with whole new vistas of stupid.
>> GaytonMcFagg0t yer so stoopid that yer off the stoopidty index chart.
>> Inbreddedness is a fact of life in yer dysfunctional family.
> 
> Keep on making new standards for irony, there, Monkey.
Keep on making new standards stoopidity there, Gayton.
> 
>> Were you gaybashed today, mcfagg0t?
> 
> Not in over seven years, no. And four months.
Still fresh in yer mind, eh?