When you are reduced to dragging out your degrees, licences, results of your
last "IQ Examination", results from your three-day observation, etc...

.... at that time, you have already lost the argument... you are in denial
and just haven't accepted that fact yet...

Warmest regards,
John
--
Marbles can be used in models with excellent results! However, if forced
to keep using all of mine up... I may end up at a disadvantage... I seem
to have misplaced some!!!


"Jack Painter" wrote in message
news:BCche.4839$It1.518@lakeread02...
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| "Leonard Martin" resurrecting an old thread
| In article WZs4e.286004$FM3.125440@fed1read02,
| "Ed Price" wrote:
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|
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| I hold a ham to a slightly higher standard of understanding...
|
| Oh for Christ's sake, who are you to "hold anyone" to anything? Most of
| us have to put up with teachers, bosses, wives, etc., who are in the
| routine habit of "holding us" to one standard or another. When we
| interact as equals we expect to escape such stuff.
|
| Unless you get elected head of this newsgroup, I suggest you confine
| your standard setting to your kids, your dog, or, if there are any such
| truly unlucky persons, your employees.
|
| Leonard
|
| --
| "Everything that rises must converge"
| --Flannery O'Connor
|
| Way back when this thread was living, Ed apologized if anyone
misunderstood
| his tongue in cheek comments. If this was a group that was limited to
PhD's
| of EE who had all been Chief Broadcast Engineers at major facilities, then
| the members could all pretend to be equal (which of course they still
| wouldn't be). But this newsgroup is not that, and neither does its name
| imply the lowest level of competence in the field. If you have such a
| problem with standards, perhaps your moniker Flannery O'Conner has not
been
| a good teacher, as you have missed one of the defining marks of a man; to
| have high standards. Without them, whatever happens is fine, and a wicked
| place that will be, besides the dumbing down that results from whining
about
| achievement being more highly valued than mere existence.
|
| Jack Painter
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|