Obviously. Sarcasm is one of the mechanisms that the witty use to make particular points.
includes "a mode of satirical wit" as one of the definitions.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
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That's the kind of insight that krw does have, rather more often than he sh ould. Anything more interesting seems to be rare to non-existent.
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Not in my book. krw is least interesting of the regular posters on this use group, to the point where he never says anything that is intrinsically inte resting. He does serve as an extreme example of the brainless right-wing ni twit, and provokes responses pointing this up.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
You are a leech. You're completely unemployable.
Sincere? YOu really are a moron.
Unlike you lefties, there is something there to watch. ...if you're really that hard up, that is.
Must be. You counted to five.
After all those lines added the Google groupie adds four words. What a dumbshit.
I once received a phone solicitation collecting for a charity, I ask, what percentage goes to the charity? she said just a minute, I have that here, "15% of the money we collect goes to the charity". I was a little taken back, but I clarified, just to make sure she said 15% and not 50%.
That is a breathtaking amount of hypocrisy there Keith.
-- John Devereux
You're *surprised* by that? Have a read through:
And none of this exposes the "creative accounting" that can find its way into those (ahem) "good" (?) numbers!
She's not a PhD, nor does she have the electronics skills Slowman claims to have.
I'm surprised they answered. I wouldn't trust any number they give, either. There are too many ways to play hide the weenie.
Of course I'd been employable for the previous thirty-odd years - ever since I'd finally got my Ph.D., but krw is happy with the idea that turning 60 in the Netherlands makes you completely unemployable.
Probably not. but krw has a short waywith evidence that doesn't support his point of view.
The test pattern isn't exactly fascinating viewing.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
nemployment insurance, I was a leach.
Which will save her from the irritation of being told that she's over-quali fied for jobs that she has applied for.
Having specialised skills does make it possible to apply for the limited nu mber of jobs that call for these skills, but it doesn't guarantee that you are going to get them, particularly when the employer wants somebody younge r who may take longer to get to a position where they can usefully apply th ose skills in the employers particular environment, but can be expected to keep on employing them for an even longer period.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Non Profits and 503c charitable organizations can pay managers and execs VERY well. Too many people think of them as volunteer organizations but they are not. The largest employer of "social workers" on planet Earth was Lutheran Social Services huring subcontractors to state Social Services agencies decade ago. They restructured and changed their name to Lutheran Services in America but I suspect they are still the largest and still subcontracting for Social Services on a gigantic scale. They can be a huge enterprise yet be non-profit. I don't know what the limitations are on non-profits or charitable organizations that bank large amounts or have large holdings. If they take what would otherwise be "profit" and place it into their bank for working capital, how does that get taxed?
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Yup! Many of these folks draw 6 figure paychecks (and the leftmost digit isn't a '1'!)
Think of churches, Red Cross, etc. (ah, but without the high pays, they wouldn't be able to attract the BEST PEOPLE, right? :-/ )
It seems (IME) that most of the hurdles involved are "up front" -- getting the 501(c)(3) qualification in the first place. I've not heard of any *existing* organization's status being challenged/revoked. Even those that have efficiencies in the single digits!
Folks will piss and moan that someone got a "free ride" by abusing some particular charity. But, see nothing wrong with 30+% of the donations to that charity being siphoned "off the top" (for executives, operating costs, findraising, etc.). This would be the equivalent of 30% of the charity's clientele "abusing the system"!
(and, even worse for charities with higher overheads!)
Of course, overhead varies based on The Mission. Trying to drum up support for some particularly rare disease will probably involve a lot more work than something like juvenile diabetes research, etc.
And, to be truly informed, you also have to consider the other activities of the organization. How much of your donation funds pedophile priests? Or goes to promoting some particular world view? (of course, where you sit on those issues is up to you and *your* conscience -- it's *your* money/time, after all!)
Likewise, the level of honesty/respectability of the principles involved. E.g., a large non-profit, here, was today interviewed for a TV news broadcast. They are being "forced out" of their facility (ohmigosh!) -- by faulty plumbing! (they currently pay $1/yr for the rental of this 30-50K sq ft facility)
Apparently, "it will cost $10,000 to fix the plumbing" and "that's not how we want to use our donor's money". In the next breath, they are asking folks to donate $250,000! (perhaps they want to repair the plumbing 25 times??) What are you NOT wanting to tell people -- the people you are asking for money???
As I said, folks who blindly write checks for that "smug" feeling (as Lasse put it -- apologies for misquoting this in a previous message!) are just duping themselves if they don't truly understand how the organization operates (reading an "annual statement" is like reading a sales brochure for a department store and trying to decide how they run their retail business. Or, gauging the gas mileage of a car based on its color!)
Oh, you poor little PhD. Work for yourself, then, bum!
How's your oscillator coming, Slowman? You've been "designing" it now for what, ten years? How's the prototype? You should almost ready for production by now, right?
krw > Oh, you poor little PhD. Work for yourself, then, bum! Capitalism? Entrepeneurship? Slowman to Socialist? ROFL krw > How's your oscillator coming, Slowman? krw > You've been "designing" it now for krw > what, ten years? How's the prototype? krw > You should almost ready for production krw > by now, right? Is it an intellectual property? ROFL
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Same problem. I can't find enough customers. Joerg can and John Larkin can, so I'm sure that it's possible, but it depends on a skill set that I don't seem to have.
number of jobs that call for these skills, but it doesn't guarantee that y ou are going to get them, particularly when the employer wants somebody you nger who may take longer to get to a position where they can usefully apply those skills in the employers particular environment, but can be expected to keep on employing them for an even longer period.
The prototype is still a collection of components in a variety of boxes spr ead around the Sydney flat. It's unlikely to ever go into production - ther e may be applications where a variant of the circuit might be useful, but t aking the design to a printed circuit layout without the prospect of a payi ng customers would be a bit silly. Building a hand-wired prototype is going to be tedious, but I've done it from time to time.
The circuit that I'm trying to build dates back to the 14th February 2012 - I've got a bunch of e-mails that I swapped with my electronically sophisti cated friend in London about trying to get the first version to simulate. T he circuit evolved a bit over the next month of so, but by April had reache d pretty much it's final form, and I'd started ordering transformer wire an d ferrite cores...
I'd got a bunch of transformers and inductors wound in the Netherlands befo re we packed up an moved to Australia. Since then I've had other stuff on m y mind.
As usual, you have posted factually incorrect information, but you are not lying because you are too silly to get your head around anything complicate d.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Greegor's grammar needs attention. My wife thinks I ought to have done it y ears ago. I've got the old-fashioned idea that you find customers before yo u set up to build product. There's nothing un-socialist about building stuf f and selling it, or even in paying people to help you do it.
krw couldn't get a fact right if he tried - and he doesn't.
I'd be very surprised it if were patentable, but since I can't see any pote ntial customers, there'd be no point in applying for a provisional patent e ven if it were patentable. I'd like to publish the design if I can ever get it to work, so I'm not publishing it here.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
tential customers, there'd be no point in applying for a provisional patent even if it were patentable. I'd like to publish the design if I can ever g et it to work, so I'm not publishing it here.
I have several patents, and one more in the final throes of Office Actions. The ones that have had paying customers early, first, and nearly concurrent with the patent filings are the ones that end up making money. I also mad e some pretty good $$ on the sale of a provisional app earlier this year. It would have (and will still) make good money with its new owners -- I jus t didn't have the bandwidth to chase the venture. Too much on the plate al ready, and would have required more capital to get it rolling than I was wi lling to invest.
Lesson: Never patent anything for which you don't have customers. (Or at least the very STRONG likelihood of customers lining up in droves.)
Of course you can't find enough customers. You haven't looked. It's easier to sit back and whine about the US.
In other words, zero progress. It's easier to make excuses. Figures.
More excuses.
No, the central fact is that you're a lazy freeloader.
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krw tells that I could find enough customers if I'd looked. He's also told us that I've been working on my low-distortion oscillator for ten years - w hen it isn't even two yet. He may not be lying, but he does post stuff that doesn't have much relationship to reality.
ted number of jobs that call for these skills, but it doesn't guarantee tha t you are going to get them, particularly when the employer wants somebody younger who may take longer to get to a position where they can usefully ap ply those skills in the employers particular environment, but can be expect ed to keep on employing them for an even longer period.
spread around the Sydney flat. It's unlikely to ever go into production - t here may be applications where a variant of the circuit might be useful, bu t taking the design to a printed circuit layout without the prospect of a p aying customers would be a bit silly. Building a hand-wired prototype is go ing to be tedious, but I've done it from time to time.
2 - I've got a bunch of e-mails that I swapped with my electronically sophi sticated friend in London about trying to get the first version to simulate . The circuit evolved a bit over the next month of so, but by April had rea ched pretty much it's final form, and I'd started ordering transformer wire and ferrite cores...efore we packed up an moved to Australia. Since then I've had other stuff o n my mind.
Actually - some progress. And I'm not excusing myself for my lack of progre ss, just explaining it. I don't need to "make excuses" to the likes of krw.
ot lying because you are too silly to get your head around anything complic ated.
Interesting. I work continuously in electronics for about thirty years, and have accumulated enough pension income in the process to pay our day to da y living expenses, but krw thinks that I'm a lazy freeloader. Not the first factual inaccuracy he's posted, and almost certainly not the last. He won' t care - he's utterly confident of his delusions.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
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