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"This" is?
I couldn't agree more, in that you don't even seem to be able to
distinguish between 'this' and 'that'.
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Is English your first language?
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That why I stated: "As I see it..." IOW: "In my opinion"
And how could there be any evidence to support the allegation?
You go through the motions and do whatever you need to make sure the
checks keep rolling in, no?
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Of course, but I do rather more than than that. In fact I could buy
off the obligation to apply for at least one job a week by taking on
some kind of volunteer work, but I've got no contacts with anybody
involved in that kind of stuff, and I really would like to find myself
another job.
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If you really wanted one of those jobs you would have gone back and
found out why you weren't even given a chance of an interview.
Well, at least _I_ would have.
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I've certainly done it when I can get through to somebody who knows
something about the work involved. Personnel departments just tell you
that you didn't fit their profile or that your CV didn't include
enough coupling points (whatever they are) which is something of a
waste of time. The guy at the Dutch Space Research Institute told me
that because I'd published papers about my work I wasn't the kind of
hands-on engineer he was looking for - which meant that he hadn't read
the paper I'd sent him.
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Well, look at it like this: You got paid for it and you obviously
had nothing else to do, so it got you out of the house for a little
while.
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It didn't get me out of the house at all, and I certainly didn't get
paid for it.
They are, and they still won't give me an interview.
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Really?
You must be qualified for _something_, one would think.
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This is one delusion that we happen to share.
Tektronix 465. Though I guess these days I'd have to buy something
that I could link to my computer.
When I was working in Venlo we had a Picoscope ADC42, which was nice
but slow - 12-bits at up to 7kHz.
And I've bought stuff on E-bay from time to time.
Yes. And it didn't take you anywhere worth visiting.
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How long have you believed that?
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Now apply this brilliant insight to religion, which is pure delusion.
Religious leaders do warp many peoples' perceptions of reality without
having the capacity to manipulate anything that any objective observer
could describe as real, except in the trivial sense of creating real
delusions in real people's heads.
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They manipulate symbols, which are certainly real enough in some
people's minds that their realities become the movie the leader
wants them to see.
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Rather like Dubbya linking 9/11 to the invasion of Irak. That illusion
didn't last, any more than the illusory weapons of mass destruction.
Your ignorance is noted. In fact eight nieces and nephews pass on
exactly as much genetic material as four biological kids. Check out
the literature on the evolution of altruism.
See above.
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That's not the answer to the question I asked, which was:
"How would you, of all people, know?"
For example, you certainly don't know as much about chip design as
Jim does and, by your own admission, you certainly know less about
designing with 555's than I do, so your seemingly all-encompassing
inference that you know more than we do is flawed.
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Well, I obviously know more about biology than you do, and this is a
rather larger subject than the care and feeding of the 555.
You aren't up to doing what I do, so that's not an option.
Thanks a lot, but I prefer to sticking with what works, which
certainly isn't you.
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Or the 555. If your taste in cars matched your taste in integrated
circuits and your taste in political systems, you'd get around in a
horse and cart.
You may have 20-20 hearing, but your problem comes when you have to
process what you hear and read.
You're the one who's myopic.
And astigmatic, but with my glasses on I've got 20-20 vision, and I
can also _understand_ what I'm seeing and hearing.
