[LINK] Hold up your hands if you Like HT Transmission Lines - Was - solar plants
David Boxall
david.boxall at hunterlink.net.au
Fri Jun 24 11:27:16 AEST 2011
My apologies to the list. I tried to respond offlist, but got:
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<cas at taz.net.au>: Recipient address rejected
On 21/06/2011 5:33 PM, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:00:46AM +1000, David Boxall wrote:
>> On 21/06/2011 8:25 AM, Craig Sanders wrote:
>>> ...
>>> "ultracapacitor"[1] technology looks promising. still dangerous, of
>>> course (anything storing that much energy is inherently dangerous) ...
>>
>> It would probably not be wise to encourage storage of energies of
>> those magnitudes by home-owners.
>
> TOIAEIA
Totally meaningless, even Google didn't recognise it. I've been to
conferences where I noticed juvenile techies fabricating abbreviations
to impress each other. It doesn't work on adults.
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>> PS. Craig, again with the no capitals. Doesn't show much respect for
>> your readers.
>
> ps: david, again with the bitching about caps. doesn't show much respect
> for native writers of the unix-geek dialect of english.
> ...
Onanistic nonsense.
> i.e. the way i use capital letters is neither accidental nor random nor
> based in ignorance. it follows consistent grammatical rules which are
> known and shared by many other members of one of the sub-cultures i
> belong to. the fact that those rules are different to those preferred
> by you does not make them 'wrong' or even 'inferior'.
> ...
Puerile fabrication.
> if you don't like it, then tough. i'm not changing to suit to suit
> your preferences.
>
When an adult sees a child behaving in a self-defeating manner, it's the
adult's responsibility to give counsel. In this case, I'm pointing out
that the lack of capitals makes your writing more difficult to read.
The least mature of children will ignore such counsel, but I've done my
duty.
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