Re: "Once We Squeeze All We Can Out of the United States, It Can Dry Up and Blow Away."
- From: roadburner <roadburner^at^comcast^dot^net>
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:03:04 -0400
On 22 Sep 2005 00:38:28 GMT, "nemo_outis" <abc@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>roadburner <roadburner^at^comcast^dot^net> wrote in
>news:6vq3j11prf3hoabuhlnrlfbu8ujvfc2t14@xxxxxxx:
>
>> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:23:57 -0400, roadburner
>> <roadburner^at^comcast^dot^net> wrote:
>>
>> All snipped.
>>
>> I can also assume that neither nemo_outis or Ari have ever used (or
>> know what it means) a hex editor. Do you have a book on assembly
>> language for an Intel Processor? Do either of you have a PhD with a
>> minor in math? Know what a Stack is? Pop? Accumulator, Shift? Prime
>> Number?
>
>
>Begin shameless, self-serving paean of boasting and braggadocio:
>
>My background is in fluid dynamics, including computational fluid
>mechanics, in which I hold both baccalaureate and advanced degrees.
>(Tantalizing hint: My PhD thesis director was offed by Mossad.)
>
>Sadly, in the late 60s/early 70s when the arse fell out of the field
>(NASA scaled back to the bone, the Boeing SST died, etc.) the job
>prospects for a young fluid mechanics engineering specialist were about
>as rosy as those for a buffalo hunter. I switched fields: oil & gas. It
>paid, and pays, very, very well but was, and is, pedestrian to the bone.
>
>But my real love was computers. While she was never became my wife, she
>was always my mistress. For instance, in the early 80s I was a
>codeveloper of a special-purpose bit-slice math coprocessor for the PC.
>Wrote everything right down to the microcode (and what a tedious business
>that was).
>
>My library - on both engineering and computers - fills my basement.
>
>
>> You can both become Famous. Go down in history. Easy, show us the
>> flaws.
>>
>> No BS about polymorphing DLLs. No fantasy allowed. Prove it.
>
>
>M'boy, I don't owe you the sweat off my balls, let alone any proof of my
>credentials. Attach as much or as little weight to my words as you wish
>- it is all the same to me.
>
>
>> I may not be a computer expert, but I can read and understand assembly
>> language. My minor is math. Do either of you have something new the
>> rest of us have not heard of? Ahhhhhhh, I'll stop here.
>>
>> I would appreciate your answers otherwise, end the thread.
>
>
>Stripling, it is not for you to command others! (Or, at least, not yet -
>come back when you've earned your spurs.) Whether I or others end the
>thread is our affair. However, in my magnaminity, I will graciously
>remind you that you are free to stop following this thread or even to
>killfile me if you wish.
>
>Regards,
>
>
>PS Gawd, even for me that was impressively pompous - fascinating how
>character flaws become more pronounced after a few glasses of a good
>claret.
Let me make 2 guesses. You use QS and know what an LRL is.
.
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