Getting this NG back on-topic

One might ask you the same question? Since you have this delusion that a mastery of the 555 represents a skill in modern electronics, rather than in the history of electronics, the answer is unlikely to be particularly useful, but rhetorical questions aren't posed in the expectation of a useful anwer.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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Or so you keep on telling us, without adducing a shred of persuasive evidence. You do post some implausible hypotheses, based on things that you think that I ought to have said (but merely implied).

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Not exactly a convincing claim. You don't want to believe the "facade" I'm presenting, so you hypothesise some intricate stucture of deceit to explain it in terms that suit you. This is just a small and localisaed example of right-wing fantasy, as silly in its way as Jim Yanik's claims that Obama is a) a moslim and b) a communist.

The evidence is that you didn't grow up at all. One has to wonder where you were raised that was so bad that migration to Texas was an attractive option.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

And to think that I am the one you guys filter.

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It is a strategy that you have made very much your own, despite the fact that you haven't had much success with it. You can tell me that I don't understand transformers until you are blue in the face, and it won't make it true, or even faintly plausible. I persist in pointing out that your claims to the contrary are ill-founded and implausible merely to keep you frothing at the mouth - it shows you up as the irrational nitwit that you are, despite your repeated claims to sweet reasonableness.

Jim's not in a positon to commit intellectual suicide again. He did that when he reported me to the FBI as "dangerously anti-American" which has to be one of the sillier propositions ever put forward on this user group - though your advocacy of the 555 has to come close.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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The confusion is all yours. You do seem to be endorsing his claim, which is foolish enough.

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Yes, yours was an inappropriate response to my comment - you ignored that fact that I was in fact pointing to quantitative data, rather than making a statement in isolation.

The symptoms that you claim to perceive in my posts? Since you use the texts you respond to as a starting point for very free association, rather than responding to the content (which, admmittedly, you don't seem to be equipped to understand) your perceptions are merely evidence of your own mental deficiencies, nothing more.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Correct - from you own bile ducts.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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The laws of physics have priority. A lardass like Jim has zero chance of getting close enough to the people he wants to assault to get into a position to grab them around the neck, and his lard ass provides a large target for faster-moving feet.

Which gets us almost back on topic ...

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

--- One might, but since my skill set obviously includes both the question would be moot. In any case, unless you had some definite purpose in mind like, say, "implying" something or sneakily trying to slip in some covert "tripping ground" on which the unwary might lose his footing, I'd say that using an interrogative, instead of a declarative sentence as your lead-in was a typical example of a knuckle dragging buffoon pretending to intellectuality which not only doesn't exist for him, but can't.

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--- In which case your "rhetorical question" would have been fared better had it been unasked. Mastery of the 555, which you obviously haven't achieved since you don't appreciate the nuances possible with its use, represents a skill in understanding and applying electronic circuitry, which isn't temporally limited, and the uses for a 555 today are still legion, much to your chagrin.

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There are a million more uses for the 555 than for Sloman. :(

Try to restrict your bragging to vaguely plausible claims.

Loads of lovely long words. Your intellectual pretensions fall flat on the point that I've got a Ph.D. and you haven't. We both know that a Ph.D. isn't of much practical significance, but it is an internationally recognised level of intellectual performace that I've met, and you haven't.

Sure. You can use it, if you don't mind advertising the fact that you've missed out on the numerous ways of doing the 555's job better which have become available since Hans Camenzind designed it back in

Back in the days when the 555 was merely obsolescent I did consider it for a number of applications, but it never proved to be a competitive choice.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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Which is where you went wrong. Joel Koltner's joke was intended to be obvious to the most casual observer, but you had to go and build some fantasy around what you would have liked him to have said, and have been trying to brow-beat the world into accepting your daft interpretation ever since.

So you also lack a sense of proportion.

My stance is not "that any other solution would be preferable", it's just that in every case that I looked at some other solution was preferable, which does suggest to me that you don't have a particularly extensive electronic tool-kit from which you draw your solutions.

For you, your preference for the 555 reflects a deep appreciation of its enormous flexibility. To me, it reflects a remarkable ignorance of all the other possibilities.

Since I've had to tidy up the work of Johnny One-Note designers from time to time, it's not an approach I admire.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen