OT: "We Got Him!"

Ja, zee twisting of zee facts is vhy all zee Reporterin must now versprechen einer oath of allegiance to zee Department of War herr Reichskommandantur!!

Ist why our Secretary zum War hast five Iron Cross tattoos on zee chest he vas awarded zee Iron Cross five times for his service von zee Deutschmaschine. Hup!

I think you may have misunderstood; the Telegraph of today would have been an enthusiastic Party supporter if it had been published in 1936 Germany.

My wife worked closely with a couple of Japanese collaborators, and they certainly didn't live in Dallas-style houses. Land in Japan is shockingly expensive.

There's an great deal of variation within every country. The "average" isn't a useful concept.

I live on the eight floor a twelve level apartment block. The area was a taxi maintenance lot until the 1980's, and then a bunch multi-level apartments blocks got built on the site. The older building in the area are two and three level terrace houses.

As you move further from central Sydney you get free standing houses on separate blocks. My younger brother lives out in Seaforth in a a large free-standing two level house, but he organised the Sydney Olympic games in 2000 and made a lot of money out of it, mainly because he did a pretty good job and subsequently got to tell other people how they should organise similar events.

Darlinghurst doesn't look much like the other places I've lived - West London, and Cambridge in the UK, and Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

Charlie Kirk is strikingly absent from his own memorial. The usual suspects can prance around comparing him to Christ and talking about how wonderful he was and how good friends they all were but it's not at all like the memorial of someone like Martin Luther King Jr. or JFK where there'd be hours of televised footage of the deceased speaking, and many erudite sayings posted everywhere "and the words of the prophets were written on the subway walls.."

Mainly because CK was a consistently spiteful bigot who rarely had much nice to say, and so there's very little footage of him speaking or quotes available that presents him as the Christ-like figure (lol) the Republicans want to present.

He was a good friend of Don Trump and would do anything for him, that's what can be said. But he ain't no good to him no more.

Gosh, what nasty people you are. There's a lot of that going on lately.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Donald Trump is a singularly unpleasant character. He appeals to his followers because they are heartily sick of people like Donald Trump ripping them off, and silly enough to believe his lying claims that he is going to reform the system.

His vengeful habits and his tendency to persecute people who don't give him the flattery he thinks he deserves do generate increasingly nasty - if perfectly justifiable - comment. Get used to it. It isn't going to stop until he is impeached. Assassinating him wouldn't help - he'd just be replaced by somebody even more unpleasant. He needs to be rejected in disgrace.

Gosh, what a nasty person you are.

Did you ever get an oscilloscope?

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Nowhere near as nasty as you are. You do share his enthusiasm for abusing people who don't give you the flattery you feel you deserve.

The last time I needed one a friend in Scotland (not John May) sent me a small Windows program that used the audio jack on my computer to digitise incoming signals, store them, and display them on the computer screen. It wasn't anywhere near as good as a Tek 2335, but it did what I needed at the time.

If I saw any prospect of making money out of electronics, I would buy something (I've got a fairly slow computer plugin around somewhere, but it is old, very slow and only 12-bit and probably not good enough for anything that might make money today).

I don't do electronics for money. I do it for fun.

Money is sometimes a side effect. That's OK.

Me too, though I'm more interested in collaborating with interesting people to put together stuff that is useful in the real world.

Doing good electronics means spending appreciable amounts of money. If the electronics that gets put together can do useful stuff it can earn quite a bit more than it costs to put together. Finding the applications that can earn useful amounts of money is crucial and I'm totally crap at that.

I do it for fun too - but the side effect is usually a loss of money. What am I doing wrong?

It's crazy how cheap parts and test equipment are now. A 15 MHz scope used to cost more than a Chevrolet; now a 100M scope costs lunch money.

If I didn't have a job, I'd be researching industries that need electronics, visit some, learn about them, and offer to design stuff for free. Then I'd have a base for expansion.

I'd expect that the combination of physical chemistry and electronic design could seem useful.

But you'd have to be friendly and helpful for that to work.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

One idea is to avoid competition. And it's fun to do stuff that not many people have done so far, or done badly.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

They don't show much footage of him or quote him at his own memorial. I think he was almost always too repulsive and barbaric to quote, e.g. there should be public executions and children should watch them:

Public executions for children to watch? Is this the "Western Civilization" I've heard about? It doesn't seem worth defending if so.

Why bother? Industries that need that kind of help advertise for electronic engineers, Sadly, most of them filter the responses they get through a personnel department or a hiring agencies which knows nothing about electronic engineering.

Visiting the industries would take more effort - you've got to get through the equivalent of a personnel department before you can talk to anybody who might be interested (who have better things to do with their time than talking to random strangers).

But being aged 82 devalues that.

I can manage that, except when dealing with people with inflated ideas of their own competence. They don't want to be helped because they are convinced that they know it all already, and expect the help to implement their brilliant ideas, rather than point that there may be a better way.

Done that - but the reason not many people have done it is usually because not many people want the result. Also, if it has been done badly in the past, there is a perception that that is the only way it can be done, so people just dismiss your claim to hace done it better.

OK, specialize in pickleball or bingo or something.

There is objective evidence that I used to be good at electronics. I don't even know what pickleball is, and I've never shown any talent for bingo or taken part in it.

Your own capacity for being friendly and helpful isn't impressive.

I prefer to hear what someone has to say for myself, rather than read some third-hand, third-rate 'report' from an obviously biased source such as Newsweek.