From: Al Klein on Thurs, Aug 17 2006 6:46 pm

On 17 Aug 2006 15:26:18 -0700, "
wrote:

Let's reprise. First you state that capacitors were never
color coded.

No, first YOU misunderstood "didn't escape being color coded" as
meaning "didn't get color coded".

What is to "misunderstand?" Brian Burke wrote in that fashion,
perhaps too colloquially for your absolutely-literal standards
of English, but it was perfectly clear to most readers here.

Then you tried to weasel out of
looking like the ass you are by looking even more stupid.

Trying to insult those who challenge your "knowledge" of
electronic components isn't going to win you any points.

The FACT is that capacitors and axial-lead inductors have
been color-coded for decades. That can be verified by looking
at component manufacturers' catalogs and several textbooks
(even going back to the ITT "Green Bible" of the 50s) as well
as the ARRL Handbooks (several years worth).

You call that "stupid?"

I wouldn't. Any self-respecting worker who has been in
electronics for years wouldn't.

Had you wanted to be "civil" about it, you could have simply
acknowledged your mistake, stopped trying to build a Mt. Everest
out of a teaspoon of sand, and gone on with life. You did not.
You have MANUFACTURED a dispute, insulted your challengers, and
implied a number of things, all without any referencible data.

Your definition of "stupidity" seems to be that of ANYONE WHO
DISAGREES WITH YOU or one who DOES NOT HONOR AND BOW-DOWN TO
YOUR SUPPOSED MAJESTY AS AN AMATEUR.

Unfortunately, those "definitions" seem endemic to pro-coders,
those who insist on keeping a morse code test for amateur radio
into the far future. That viewpoint is entirely EMOTIONAL
based on your own experiences, has no validity in the supposed
"necessity" of keeping that morse code test in USA amateur
radio licensing.

"You did it so everyone else has to..."

That's a selfish, self-righteous viewpoint in my opinion.

It confuses the actual necessities of a government regulating
agency trying to mitigate many, many users of the civil radio
spectrum with some fraternal-organization in-house "rules" of
just one radio service out of many, "rules" that were
established decades ago.

You cannot support your "cause" with anything but throwing
personal insults at your challengers. You have already LOST
your arguments concerning the morse code test issue. You
win NOTHING except in your imagination.

It is even worse, perhaps sociopathic in that over-the-top
self-righteousness, to claim you are a "better human being"
just for having taken a morse code test...as an AMATEUR.
You seem to look down your royal nose at all who wish to
remove the code test from amateur radio licensing. Especially
so when you cannot establish your bona fides of "long-term
experience" supposedly in radio beyond amateur activities.

You're not worth my time.

Obviously not, "your majesty." :-)

Here's a suggestion: Drop the "outraged" act and start
thinking about the SUBJECT, not your own emotionalism.
One good way to make you feel better to yourself is to find
a morsemanship-support group. Such a group can sit around
and praise one another. Makes all in the group warm and
fuzzy holding the same opinion. Its also a way to hold off
the future and any changes in regulations, but only within
your own fantasies.

An alternative is to just LEAVE rec.radio.amateur.policy.
Few in here see you as the Final Arbiter of what is "good"
and what is "bad" in amateurism.

Leave or stay. Your choice. Matters not to me. Government
will continue - in a democratic-process fashion - to serve
ALL citizens, not just one group of radio spectrum users. A
group, I might add, that is a distinct MINORITY of all radio
users.

Think on that. [few pro-coders do]