He did that--I don't remember your ever starting one of those fights. But you are a bit of a lightning rod at times, you must admit. ;)
Dunno---he was 78 when he dropped off the grid, which isn't an out-of-the-way number. My MIL died of the same thing at 68.
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Phil Hobbs
I have ideas, and a lot of people here are instantly hostile to unapproved ideas.
Psychology is important, key to design. It is interesting to see how people react to ideas, and even to suggestions of possibility.
It's not important. It's just a newsgroup.
Actually they are hostile to bad and silly ideas, and that does cover most of the "ideas" you post here.
"Unapproved" isn't a a categorisation you can apply to novel ideas - if they really are new (and most of yours aren't) there's no way that they could have got approved in advance.
And if you are hungry for flattery, you are frequently disappointed.
As opposed to a group assembled to flatter John Larkin, but he keeps on hoping.
That's all John Doe is equipped to perceive. And he deserves every last one he gets.
I'm not worried by bad or silly ideas, and I've encouraged my daughter to come up with them.
I am irritated/annoyed/dismayed if they are repeated after their inadequacies have been demonstrated/discussed.
"Let's make /new/ mistakes"
This one:
I meant, "which list?"
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Phil Hobbs
The discussion/demonstration usually reverts to "you are stupid."
And the people who "demonstrate inadequacies" rarely have any expertise in the subject, which is why they respond to concepts with insults.
These serial insulters are invariantly bad with electronics. Interesting correlation.
You do seem to get a lot of that. Your habit of re-posting climate change denial propaganda and treating it as it were real information is demonstrably stupid.
Your idea of what constitutes "expertise" is a little strange, and decidedly self-serving.
And John Larkin thinks that he is "good" with electronics. He does seem to be able to fool his customers, and the more expert people he gets to deal with have learned to respect his delusions on this subject (otherwise he won't keep on dealing with them). More objective observers credit him with rather more persistence than skill.
And it tells us quite a bit about the guy making the correlation, and how he lets his emotional reactions over-ride what judgment he might have.
Ah ok, he definitely goes on the good list.
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