driving an LED with a 7406 question

It was certainly ignorant since he is equating a pristine simulation to the vagaries of the real world. It was rude because of the way he tossed simulation input data into the discussion rather than an explanation of the idea. It was obnoxious because he felt the need to use profanity (even in an abbreviation it is still a profanity).

I understand that some may not have been offended by his initial post, but I feel the subsequent posts have vindicated my opinion. I especially find his physical threats to be very amusing. It would seem he expects the relative anonymity of newsgroups to protect him from an unknown aversary. He would be pretty stupid to actually challenge someone that he knows nothing about. But then we all know how empty a threat is that consists of words typed on an electronic page.

Hmmmmmm OK...

Chill out dude. There is no need to display your ignorance or be rude about things. Life's too short for that. I know this from experience.

There you go, how does that sit with you?

Are you now going to type a 247 line answer in your own defense?

How long before you start accusing people of Ad Hominem attacks?

BTW, Rich made a suggestion.... John gave him an answer. There was nothing implied in the answer that suggested that the netlist was anything more than a picture to demonstrate the answer. A picture paints a thousand words you know....

You might notice his other posts in this thread where he spent a great deal of time explaining things along with lots of nice ascii art.

The response to Rich was niether ignorant or rude. You just decided to take hold of the wrong end of the wrong stick and call John Ignorant and Rude. Why are you surprised he responded in the manner he did.

John typed BFD....... good grief Big Deal.

Anonimity? I don't think so.

John Fields AKA Il Presidente. Austin Instruments, Texas

And you would also know that whilst they are not close friends John and Rich know each other through SED so Johns answer to Rich would not have offended him in the least.

What is that part about lurking in a newsgroup before you open your mouth and put your foot in it?

DNA

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What profanity? "BFD"?

BFD.

Thanks, Rich

You make my point for me...

And how does that make you feel?

Erm..... Don't know really. I'm not too good at this touchy feely stuff. I suppose I must feel good. Mr Rickman must have me on PLONK since he has replied to Rich but ignored my post.

Strange that.... insult one person you perceive to have insulted someone else and then chew on the other person because they were not insulted.

That Rich Grise is an ungrateful bandicoot and no mistaking! He's probably really Canadian and therefore French and we know all about those types.

DNA

......or am I missing something here?

.........

Pretty good, actually. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

LOL! ;-D

In fact, I'm Minnesotan. :-)

;-)

Cheers! Rich

--- Oops... I missed that one earlier.

Go back and read the post again and you might find that I wasn't making physical threats, but rather making allusions to the background you must have had in order to be speaking from "experience".

And, a correction: "Adversary" isn't for the birds, "aversary" is.

-- JF

Yes, I think we are all missing something here.

I can tell from your posts that you don't offend easily. I hope you did not think any of my posts were criticizing you.

Nah - I just consider it "banter". :-)

Just for the sake of keeping in the spirit of things:

"A wise man is never insulted, for the Truth will increase his wisdom, and an Untruth is not worthy of note."

I have no idea who said it first, but I like it. It gives me the opportunity to pretend I'm wise. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Well, if I were going to bed with someone, I think I'd prefer a "pussy" to a "prick"! ;-P

Cheers! Rich

It is said:

"Don't argue with idiots. It only makes more difficult for the others to see the difference between you and them".

I am not sure if I can see any difference between you guys...

VLV