proper response?

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I especially like Penn & Tellers comments re. offending others - "no-one has the right to not be offended".

Cheers Terry

I used to live out near Ardmore airport, which is where lots of cyclists train. 100kph speed limit, narrow roads - one needed to pay close attention to avoid them, and yep, they often took up *more* than one side of the road. d******ds. no, wait, spandex-clad-pansies!

the worst example I saw was during a race meet. lots of signs, no problem there, happy to let them race etc. But as I drove down one road, all the *supporters* were standing in the middle of the road! and got all pissy when I tooted my horn at them.

Unfortunately its a real hassle if you run over someone - and getting the gore out of the grille can be a right PITA.

Cheers Terry

You need a better grille. Think 'Teflon Coated Industrial Cheese Grater' and a fire hose.

LOL!

A buddy of mine drove into a sheep at 100kph, in a triumph T2000 (a very solid car). It made a hell of a mess (although the car was relatively unscathed), and when he pulled into a gas station to clean it up, the JAFFA called the cops (which is actually a good thing). Luckliy there was plenty of bits of sheep still in the grill, so was easy to explain away.

Hows your teeth michael? better I hope.

Cheers Terry

On Aug 26, 8:48 pm, Terry Given wrote: > Michael A. Terrell wrote: > > Nico Coesel wrote: >

Manual transmission and front wheel drive works _much_ better than a horn. You don't toot at them, you wind it up a little and pop the clutch to peel a little rubber without moving very much. They jump like scared rabbits and stand on the side of the street flipping you off as you drive away. Worked great in Madison WI with a VW Dasher back in '79.

GG

Time to rethink your hiring strategy ?

Rene

Yeah, I wish I could find more guys like this one.

John

Some kids got into the dangerous habit of stepping out in front of stopped cars and refusing to move at a corner store a couple blocks from my house in the mid '70s. I just smiled when they did it, then put my

Too bad it wasn't a demented Donkey. :(

The oral surgeon cut one out, but refused to remove the other two. I ended up with a dry socket that took over three months to heal. I am just starting to regain some strength. I was actually able to walk around without my cane for a few minutes, last week.

Could be that he learned his social skills hanging around s.e.d. ;-)

{laughs} You use leg-al muscle, I use leg muscle. Are we really so different?

BTW, you can't tell me anything about cyclists (or drivers) I don't already know better than you. Attitude problems aren't so scarce among road users.

Hell, if they charge 9000%, I'll save even more money!

John

We must be something procedural around here, perhaps by accident, that keeps stuff like this from happening. We simply don't have schematics that are wrong, unless the engineer designs them wrong. I design with a pencil, on vellum, and my layout guy enters the schematics, and it just always works.

PC screens have pixels. That's a problem. If you zoom up on a region of a board, the actual dims are represented as well as your monitor allows.

Nope.

John

Your giving him the credit to have a thorough look is brilliant. But how much of the project is involved? Is the Serial / USB / Ethernet interface the optimal choice ? Is the knobs & switches / PC visual / capacitive buttons & LCD user interface the optimal soulution ? You're not after the right footprint and track/track coupling of the layout ? The mounting holes are at the right position ? You're rather after is the board likely to pass the tests, minimum self interference, does it meet the timing. Whatever he finds, there is always something to learn.

Rene

ROFL!

Well, I just don't like the use of such words and definitely not when they are meant for a particular person, a group of people or whole nations. IMHO it's not right.

That's just the way we talk around our place. After wasting days on a silly PLL problem, and finally coming up with the right, very simple solution, we say stuff like "wow, we've been *such* morons."

John

Ok, that's different when a whole group addresses itself that way. But I don't think it's right to hint that anyone in particular is a . It'll only be a matter of time until that person accidentally slips something like that in front of a client. That wouldn't be cool. When I was da boss and overheard someone saying that those in the so-and-so department just didn't know any better I'd have a one on one talk with this person and he or she would not do that anymore. At least not at work.

One of my clients has a Staples "That was easy!" humiliation button for when a nagging problem is finally solved.

There's usually an easy way to solve most problems, if only you're lazy enough to find it.

John