Herd instincts?

Don't forget that, unless you reproduce by cloning (not known to have been successfully done yet) you do not pass on your genes; only a subset of them, along with a subset of your partner's genes. So a close relative's genes may well be sufficiently close to your own for these purposes. My two kids have different subsets of mine, and seem to be wearing them far better than ever I did.

Yes, often (both occupations).

...and the rest of the US. $100K isn't an outstanding salary anymore. One can live quite well on it, but it's hardly the top-o- the-heap.

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  Keith

The existence theorem makes you a liar.

It's a rare enough skill that anyone with the skill and a proven record that wants a job, has one.

They wanted to get rid of you.

Well the flicker fusion frequency is a lot closer to 60Hz (give or take 10Hz, depending on the user and conditions), so the fact that you're wrong about the basics isn't a good start.

You keep saying "there was". Are they *yours*? You're a "there was" too, apparently.

You were "there"? What did *YOU* do, is a better question.

If I needed an electron microscope control system fixed, maybe I'd call you, or not. You're bragging (whining) to the wrong person, Sloman.

More whining.

Has been. What have you done today?

Why didn't you claim prior art? You had the evidence, right?

Dunno how rare it is. I know several people that would latch onto something similar. A few have in the neighborhood of 100 issued patents.

First, get off your lazy ass. Someone as "good" as you should have

*no* problem finding a good job. If they're calling me, only passively looking for work, someone as good as you claim you are, would have them banging on the door.

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  Keith

live

If you're that specialized, you're useless.

I thought you were specialized? You're better than everyone else, right?

Perhaps you should look at where the work is. It *IS* needed and jobs *are* open.

Evidently not. It's encouraging you be a bum.

Blackface is seriously non-PC, Sloman.

Bums so like others to work. Otherwise there is no one to bum off of.

You even whine about your silly garden. No wonder no one will hire you.

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  Keith

Sorry, Sloman. I'm too busy working to read any book you suggest (my book inbox is overflowing already). However, the problem with our education system has nothing to do with what we "invest". In fact we "invest" *far* too much in it and demand far too little from it for that investment.

Don't be stupid. We already spend *FAR* too much. The problem isn't on the expense side. Anyone who tells you it is, is in the NEA's pocket.

You're not unemployed, Sloman. You're a bum. You're comfortable not working so have no interest in seriously looking for work. That's one of the evils of your vaunted Europeon socialism; you're allowed to be a bum.

Useless as you are, eh?

So much for your much praised Dutch system.

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  Keith

Just high enough to get you into AMT, which the Demoncrats will use to milk you...

...Jim Thompson

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You may well be too busy working to read any book I recommend, but you aren't too busy to tell me that I'm a bum and that I'm not seriously interested in finding myself a job.

Reading Will Hutton would certainly be a better use of your precious free time.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

I don't wish to get too involved here, but......... Why do you respond to these insulting turkeys? They are just killing time being school-yard bullies at your expense.

You don't need to answer; just think about it.

I'm waiting for that fit to hit the shan! The middle class is going to go ape over it, just as Queen Hillary is anointed.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ No chance of that.

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  Keith

Right. Anything you recommend is a waste of my time. It's quite easy to see that you're a bum and very little time to tell you.

Unlikely, if you're recommending it. I learned how to read reviews long ago.

--
  Keith

No, Dimbulb. "Employment compensation" is something you get when your're employed, not when you're unemployed.

An idiot sees himself in all of his superiors.

Try English next time, Dimmie.

--
  Keith

So you are a poor judge of character, and prone to wasting your precious free time telling the world that you are a poor judge of character.

"Is this book going to tell me what I already think I know? No? Then I won't read it because I might learn something."

Anything to avoid getting educated. Not thinking about the rubbish you spout must save a great deal of your precious free time, not to mention a great deal of embarrassment.

-- Bill Sloman, Nimegen

That doesn't follow. The Dutch employment market is being frustratingly slow in matching me with an employer who could use my skills, but there are employers out there who could use me - a year or so ago Philips Medical were seriously contemplating building a theraputic ultasonic phased array system, and if that had gone through I would have been working on it.

Better than most, but Dutch personnel officers can't tell the difference between an electronic engineer and an electrical engineer, so finer disctinctions tend to escape them.

I'd love to.

The Netherlands is not usually regarded as a bum's country. Right-wing nit-wits do seem to regard a functional social security system as nothing more than an underhand scheme for undermining the power of employers to control their employees, but it turns out that supporting the unemployed between jobs makes the system run more efficiently - the unemployed can hang on a bit longer to waiting for a job where they can exercise most of their skills. Will Hutton spells it out, but you don't want to disturb your simple view of the world with any inconveninet facts.

Crcular logic. The bum you are disappearing up is your own.

I presume she was born with it.

I'd quite like to work myself, but the system - though better than yours - isn't yet perfect.

I'm inclined to agree that the garden is silly, but garden-loving guests have advised us to keep it in some kind of shape, as it will add some 5% to the value of the house when we come to sell it.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Clearly, you don't understand the existence theorem.

The existence theorem makes you a liar.

Actually, they hired me. It was some time ago.

The flicker fusion frequency does depend on light level. Early cinema got by with 16Hz, current cinema uses 24Hz. European television runs at 50Hz, and today's office displays run at 70Hz. The real problem with flicker is that it can provoke epilleptic fits in vulnerable people - over a range of 4 to 59Hz. 20Hz is the worst.

Failing to give the full range of frequencies when it is irrelevant to the point I'm trying to make scarcely makes me wrong about basics, Your 60Hz give or take 10Hz is equally rough, so I can point out that you are the one who is wrong about basics.

Bragging.

What I do most days. Few people get themselves into a postion where they can produce a stream of patentable discoveries. Alan Dower Blumlein of EMI produced 128 over 18 years

or about seven a year, which puts him ahead of my father who never did better than one a year in his best years, but behind Edison who produced 1093 and must hoave come close to twenty a year. I did apply for an Australian provisional patent a couple of years ago, but let it lapse - the Sawyer motor I wanted to use wasn't fast enough for the application.

He'd submitted his patent application before I'd sent my memo to the boss - and in any event "prior art" is irrelevant in U.K. patent applications. We might have argued that his patent was invalid, since it was obvious to those skilled in the craft - as exemplified by me - but since we would probably have got an exclusive license on the patent if it had been any good, this would have been shooting ourselves in the foot.

So do I. They all worked for companes that kept a stable of patent lawyers.

That's not an idea, it's a preconception, based on self-satisfied ignorance. It also makes it clear that you don't actually know anybody with around 100 issued patents - the ones I knew didn't report any constant stream of job offers. The one in London - ex-EMI - whom I'll be seeing on Friday, doesn't seem to be doing much better than I am.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Clearly, you have to try harder at your lies.

Nope. You're 1) not looking for a job, happy to be a leach off government and your wife or 2) not the super-engineer you claim to be. Hmm, could both be correct?

...and then let you go after discovering their mistake...

Which was well below the FFF. Remember, they flickered (Duh!).

Wrong again. "Current" cinema, anything in the last 50 years, uses either 48Hz or 72Hz. Current cinema is digital; not sure of the technical details.

Only if your boss is cheap or your IT department doesn't know what they're doing. I've not had anything less than 85Hz (or LCD) for at least a decade.

Nonsense.

You cant get any of it right, not even the basics of cinema. You then try to bury the reader in bullshit. Typical over-educated idiot.

Where are the rest?

Distinction without a difference.

Why are you deflecting? Afraid to say you watched soap operas all day?

More deflection.

Hardly "irrelevant", eh?

So, you came up with something obvious *after* someone else. Whoopie!

We were talking about your lazy ass.

Hardly "pre". You've made the fact that you're a lazy bum obvious.

I'm satisfied with myself, sure. I'm not the one watching "I Love Lucy" all day. "Ignorance", hardly. Got you pegged.

You're being stupid now (still).

*ALL* the ones I know get constant calls from head-hunters. One is self-employed doing patent searches and as an expert witness in patent cases. The others are still employed, churning out a dozen patents a year.

Has he a rich wife too?

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  Keith

Spoken like a true socialist; wait for the government to solve your problem. Don't *you* have any responsibility for *you*?

So you wait for the government to find you work? Is Europe so busted that there is no engineering work. There sure is a bunch to do on this side of the pond. I understand that you'd have to leave the womb and it's cold out here.

Then *DO* it. It didn't take me more than three weeks of passive "looking" to hook a big fish. I'm a contractor now, but that's fine, after >30 years with one employer.

It's "functional", yet there are no jobs. Neat trick!

No wonder you can't get a job, You're stupid, as well as being an arrogant asshole.

Transexual, too!

Hardly better, then. You're happy being a bum in a bum's system. I guess that works, you can't.

As long as you're not busy making a living, you might as well do

*something* useful, even though it does nothing to contribute to society.

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  Keith

Nope. Got you *nailed*. I'm just siting here "watching" the TeeVee with my wife. We've lived apart for three months while I was

*working* (while she stayed behind, *working*, until we sold the house). Leaving her in the living room while I put you in your place wasn't "nice". Well, the office isn't put back together either, so...

If by that you mean, "Sloman has nothing worthwhile to teach me", yes.

Nope. One has to prioritize one's time, particularly when it's limited by *work*. Give it a try, sometime.

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  Keith

Enjoy your feeling of confidence. It's misplaced, but you think know better ...

And you think your judgement of "worthwhile" is going to win prizes?

I spent about 22 years - from the time I finished my Ph.D. in August

1969, to November 1991, in continuous employment. I know as much as there is to be known about prioritising my time. I've had more trouble finding work since November 1991 - since then I've worked five years full time and six years part time - so the skills aren't being exercised as regularly as they once were, but it's fairly clear that you won't have anything worthwhile to teach me on that subject.

Your own skills in that area can be deduced from the time that you are wasting trying to teach your grandmother to suck eggs (in the strictly metaphorical sense).

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen.

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Yes, of course, since during that time I'm sure your opinions about
where your time would be better spent were often overridden by your
superiors and what you're left with is the record of how they
decided to use you by prioritizing your time for their advantage.