Joule Thief

[electricme]

@Farrah Day,

When I went to school, I was taught at a young age to be respectful to those around you, if you had anything to say, say it but in a respectful manner.
You sir need a little bit of the old soap in the mouth bit.

I also see you seem to enjoy the notion to sink the boot into a chap when he is down, shame on you.

I see you have a heep of gold stars, maybe they should be changed to BLACK, it would reflect your personality much more accurately.

jim

[nievesoliveras]

@all

I still do not understand what is happening. But on this forum and others from him, the presence of @pirate is needed to keep the unity of the group.

Jesus

[WilbyInebriated]

it's not your madness that is offensive farrah, it is your method, which usually embodies itself in logical fallacies such as ad hominem, strawman, etc. like the one you just posited about IST. ist didn't offend you, YOU offended yourself. there comes a time when being polite doesn't cut it? you are mistaken. there is never a time being polite doesn't cut it unless you are juvenile or uncivilized.
furthermore, why are you even commenting on what IST says since as you so succinctly put it... "The fact that you seem happy to let him fill up threads with his illiterate nonsense and are too polite to say otherwise is your problem." you do see the contradiction between that statement and your continued posting of your opinion of IST don't you? we all do...

are you still struggling with that 15 component circuit of stifflers? do you need some help?

regarding the PRIVATE and NOT PUBLIC message gadget sent you, perhaps he also is respectful when respect is due... your language is foul, and we can also gather from your posts that you spent a good deal of time being educated, but didn't learn anything. you obviously missed the main points they teach in kindergarten... grow up farrah and learn some social skills.


ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN

(a guide for Global Leadership)

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.
These are the things I learned:

    * Share everything.
    * Play fair.
    * Don't hit people.
    * Put things back where you found them.
    * Clean up your own mess.
    * Don't take things that aren't yours.
    * Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
    * Wash your hands before you eat.
    * Flush.
    * Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
    * Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
    * Take a nap every afternoon.
    * When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
    * Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
    * Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
    * And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
[Source: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert Fulghum.  See his web site at http://www.robertfulghum.com/  ]



PS. as a side note i find it amusingly ironic that your namesake Michael Faraday was an autodidact (self educated) and knew little of higher mathematics such as calculus, he was one of the most influential scientists in history... Socrates, Descartes, Avicenna, Benjamin Franklin, George Bernard Shaw, Feodor Chaliapin, Abraham Lincoln, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Alva Edison, Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, Christopher Hughes, Kato Lomb, Buckminster Fuller and Eric Hoffer... all autodidacts.

mark twain is known to have said: "i have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

[Paul-R]

Moderators should not be allowed to simply delete any post that they so choose to at will

Yes, They should. That is why they are moderators. The value of this websitwe is
reduced by the inadequacy of its moderators.

[Farrah Day]

Agreed, the inadequacy of the moderators reduces the value of this forum - the very fact that IST has been allowed to post endless garbage emphasises this.