Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[tggzzz]

The biggest joke of all is that bd139 and I are only about 35 miles away from each other but apparently that equates to 2 time zones 

Just be glad you aren't in the US, where timezones and DST are, um, convoluted. For example, consider that "Most of the US state of Arizona does not use Daylight Saving Time (DST)" https://www.timeanddate.com/time/us/arizona-no-dst.html

And the UK "forgot to implement" DST between (IIRC) 68 and 71.

But before you get too complacent, please answer a simple question: which country surrounds the centre of this map: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4487536,4.9419244,21z
Don't answer until after you have slowly and deliberately zoomed out

[mnementh]

Agreed. It’s just a number. If lunch time is at 7 or 11 who cares.

It’s a mess here. We had some stupid fucks backing imperial measures still to the point they changed road signs and refused to mark up goods in metric. They got owned pretty quickly though. Now if only we could sort out road signs.

Time is an illusion; lunchtime, doubly so. 

You mean 56km

My car speedo is in miles so are the route signs on the roads so for me its miles still  on the plus side however, my car also displays the speed in km's as a small digital readout so you can take your pick which you use.

Yes, but your miles are not the same as our miles... since most of your country has gone metric, your miles are soon-to-be-abandoned "legacy miles", which means  'merkin miles are the one true mile.

Hey... last measure standing, mother*******. 

The biggest joke of all is that bd139 and I are only about 35 miles away from each other but apparently that equates to 2 time zones 

Just be glad you aren't in the US, where timezones and DST are, um, convoluted. For example, consider that "Most of the US state of Arizona does not use Daylight Saving Time (DST)" https://www.timeanddate.com/time/us/arizona-no-dst.html

And the UK "forgot to implement" DST between (IIRC) 68 and 71.

Don't forget the Sunshine State (Florida) just passed laws abandoning DST altogether. I can't wait until somebody drives a stake through governor Nosferatu's dusty, dried up old dog turd of a heart.

But before you get too complacent, please answer a simple question: which country surrounds the centre of this map: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4487536,4.9419244,21z
Don't answer until after you have slowly and deliberately zoomed out

It's FuckWaldo-istan... 


mnem
Mmmm... that's some good Welsh rarebit...

[Neomys Sapiens]

I received an email from TEquipment.net.  Thought I would share it.  More TE.

https://www.tequipment.net/IWH/Quadcorder-3000/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Aprilfools%20Quadcorder&utm_content=Aprilfools%20Quadcorder+CID_be3e112d362818c3486a2e7ec488c8be&utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor&utm_term=LEARN%20MORE

Love the photon battery.  Is the Enterprise missing something from one of their torpedoes?

No. Not interested.
No Logic analysis and disassembly
No tracking generator for the SA
No Tekprobe-interface
No Function Generator/Calibrator
No Fibre Interface for the little plugs behind the ears

What sort of half-baked thing is this?

[GreyWoolfe]

Don't forget the Sunshine State (Florida) just passed laws abandoning DST altogether. I can't wait until somebody drives a stake through governor Nosferatu's dusty, dried up old dog turd of a heart.

Not quite yet.  The House of Representatives has passed it.  The State Senate still has to pass it.  Then Governor Scott must sign it.  Then he will petition Congress to stay on DST all year.  Personally, I will be happy to do away with springing ahead and falling back.  Always takes me a couple of days to adjust, especially the springing ahead BS.

[tggzzz]

Yes, but your miles are not the same as our miles... since most of your country has gone metric, your miles are soon-to-be-abandoned "legacy miles", which means  'merkin miles are the one true mile.

Miles are the same, but you lot short-change people w.r.t. gallons, hundredweights and tons

[Specmaster]

Yes, but your miles are not the same as our miles... since most of your country has gone metric, your miles are soon-to-be-abandoned "legacy miles", which means  'merkin miles are the one true mile.

Hey... last measure standing, mother*******. 

It's FuckWaldo-istan... 


mnem
Mmmm... that's some good Welsh rarebit...

Its not the Welch rarebit, its magic bleeding mushrooms that's clouding your head today I think 

IIRC there was never any question of the UK adopting metric measurements for road distances or speed or else we would have changed over years ago when we changed everything else over... Now there's a thought, with Brexit looming large soon, will we reverse back to imperial for everything, remain as we are with a half baked scheme or adopt full metrication, answers please on a post code ...

Now be a good gentlman and pass the Welsh rarebit around and stop hogging it all. 

[bd139]

The biggest joke of all is that bd139 and I are only about 35 miles away from each other but apparently that equates to 2 time zones 

Just be glad you aren't in the US, where timezones and DST are, um, convoluted. For example, consider that "Most of the US state of Arizona does not use Daylight Saving Time (DST)" https://www.timeanddate.com/time/us/arizona-no-dst.html

And the UK "forgot to implement" DST between (IIRC) 68 and 71.

But before you get too complacent, please answer a simple question: which country surrounds the centre of this map: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4487536,4.9419244,21z
Don't answer until after you have slowly and deliberately zoomed out

I’ve got a better one. I worked at a company which had a 2m by 2m piece of American soil in it. I sat down and had a sandwich with the Home Secretary at the time who had come to declare this. I suspect he was annoyed about it being a waste of time and the quality of the canteen sandwiches, which mainly consisted of chicken with crunchy bits which turned out to be bones.  This was all to avoid breaking US crypto export regulations yet maintaining US crypto regulations (FIPS140).  They installed a rack in that with a crypto in it and ran a cable to the rack in U.K. territory, a meter away.

[Mr. Scram]

I'm an idiot. Before ordering a dodgy RS232 cable to USB I checked whether my motherboard had such a port. I didn't, or so I thought. After receiving the cable today my dismay or the rattly plastic and dubious drivers drove me to double check and sure enough. The blighters just call it differently.

I should have a RS232 header to back plate thing and a cable somewhere around here, but where?

[tautech]

Yes, but your miles are not the same as our miles... since most of your country has gone metric, your miles are soon-to-be-abandoned "legacy miles", which means  'merkin miles are the one true mile.

Miles are the same, but you lot short-change people w.r.t. gallons, hundredweights and tons

There was a thread a while back examining some differences in US, Imperial and metric and I quote a post where it's shown how the US gallon came to be.

Most of the conversions become second nature pretty quick but the one I always had trouble with is the US gallon.
Where on earth did that originate from and what's it related to ? 
Weight ? Volume ?

It is based on one of the gallons used in England in the 1700's - the 1706 Queen Anne Wine gallon. (there were others e.g. Ale gallon, Corn gallon)
The UK 20-ounce gallon was not adopted until 1824 (based on the volume of 10 Avoirdupois pounds of water at 62°F) which was after US Independence.

[Specmaster]

The biggest joke of all is that bd139 and I are only about 35 miles away from each other but apparently that equates to 2 time zones 

Just be glad you aren't in the US, where timezones and DST are, um, convoluted. For example, consider that "Most of the US state of Arizona does not use Daylight Saving Time (DST)" https://www.timeanddate.com/time/us/arizona-no-dst.html

And the UK "forgot to implement" DST between (IIRC) 68 and 71.

But before you get too complacent, please answer a simple question: which country surrounds the centre of this map: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4487536,4.9419244,21z
Don't answer until after you have slowly and deliberately zoomed out

I’ve got a better one. I worked at a company which had a 2m by 2m piece of American soil in it. I sat down and had a sandwich with the Home Secretary at the time who had come to declare this. I suspect he was annoyed about it being a waste of time and the quality of the canteen sandwiches, which mainly consisted of chicken with crunchy bits which turned out to be bones.  This was all to avoid breaking US crypto export regulations yet maintaining US crypto regulations (FIPS140).  They installed a rack in that with a crypto in it and ran a cable to the rack in U.K. territory, a meter away.

Red tape strikes again.

[tggzzz]

I’ve got a better one. I worked at a company which had a 2m by 2m piece of American soil in it. I sat down and had a sandwich with the Home Secretary at the time who had come to declare this. I suspect he was annoyed about it being a waste of time and the quality of the canteen sandwiches, which mainly consisted of chicken with crunchy bits which turned out to be bones.  This was all to avoid breaking US crypto export regulations yet maintaining US crypto regulations (FIPS140).  They installed a rack in that with a crypto in it and ran a cable to the rack in U.K. territory, a meter away.

Would it have been easier to install it in, say "RAF" Lakenheath or the US Embassy?

Fortunately I didn't have your problem when I imported munitions made by HP (to get back to test equipment).

[tautech]

We did it guys.....#1 by replies on the forum !   

April 1 9am here too. 

[bd139]

I’ve got a better one. I worked at a company which had a 2m by 2m piece of American soil in it. I sat down and had a sandwich with the Home Secretary at the time who had come to declare this. I suspect he was annoyed about it being a waste of time and the quality of the canteen sandwiches, which mainly consisted of chicken with crunchy bits which turned out to be bones.  This was all to avoid breaking US crypto export regulations yet maintaining US crypto regulations (FIPS140).  They installed a rack in that with a crypto in it and ran a cable to the rack in U.K. territory, a meter away.

Would it have been easier to install it in, say "RAF" Lakenheath or the US Embassy?

Fortunately I didn't have your problem when I imported munitions made by HP (to get back to test equipment).

Well you think but it was a private company and they didn’t want data in the hands of US military or trust them.

The whole crypto as munitions thing was stupid. Stupider than Clipper

[mnementh]

Yes, but your miles are not the same as our miles... since most of your country has gone metric, your miles are soon-to-be-abandoned "legacy miles", which means  'merkin miles are the one true mile.

Miles are the same, but you lot short-change people w.r.t. gallons, hundredweights and tons

Ummm... not exactly. The US Statute Mile, which is what we use for surveying (therefore what property, the basis of all real wealth is measured in), is 1.000002000004 International miles. As a result, we lose approx 3 feet per state (29.57 feet / 9 states - so VERY approximately) on a coast-to-coast surveying drive as opposed to if we still used your mile.

Yes, but your miles are not the same as our miles... since most of your country has gone metric, your miles are soon-to-be-abandoned "legacy miles", which means  'merkin miles are the one true mile.

Hey... last measure standing, mother*******. 

It's FuckWaldo-istan... 


mnem
Mmmm... that's some good Welsh rarebit...

Its not the Welch rarebit, its magic bleeding mushrooms that's clouding your head today I think 

IIRC there was never any question of the UK adopting metric measurements for road distances or speed or else we would have changed over years ago when we changed everything else over... Now there's a thought, with Brexit looming large soon, will we reverse back to imperial for everything, remain as we are with a half baked scheme or adopt full metrication, answers please on a post code ...

Now be a good gentlman and pass the Welsh rarebit around and stop hogging it all. 

I'll have to defer to your greater knowledge of local politics and social progress... over here, at least from my generation, it has been taught that all of you are "well in the process of full Cyberman metric conversion", and it is only a matter of time before all localities are fully assimilated into the metric system.



As for the Welsh Rarebit... here, you can have all you want. it's a little overdone anyways; I sneezed.  But what do I do with all these boiled eggs he was carrying? 

I’ve got a better one. I worked at a company which had a 2m by 2m piece of American soil in it. I sat down and had a sandwich with the Home Secretary at the time who had come to declare this. I suspect he was annoyed about it being a waste of time and the quality of the canteen sandwiches, which mainly consisted of chicken with crunchy bits which turned out to be bones.  This was all to avoid breaking US crypto export regulations yet maintaining US crypto regulations (FIPS140).  They installed a rack in that with a crypto in it and ran a cable to the rack in U.K. territory, a meter away.

Would it have been easier to install it in, say "RAF" Lakenheath or the US Embassy?

Fortunately I didn't have your problem when I imported munitions made by HP (to get back to test equipment).

Well you think but it was a private company and they didn’t want data in the hands of US military or trust them.

The whole crypto as munitions thing was stupid. Stupider than Clipper

Just imagining the poor sod who got to fertilize and mow said patch of 'merkin soil...



As for crypto treated as munitions... I actually had this argument with a coworker about 10 years before this cartoon ever happened; the more I see of the insanity of the world around me, the more I'm convinced we're both right.

We did it guys.....#1 by replies on the forum !   

April 1 9am here too. 

All we had to do was keep talkin'. Seemed a lock to me. 


mnem
"All Fools' Day" ?!? I thought that was the first Tuesday in November...

[tggzzz]

"My" HP munition wasn't crypto; it was a glorified AWG. Think about it

[beanflying]

Having a Coffee to celebrate the TEA thread while watching dodgy videos on April 1st after an extra hours sleep.... Think thats all 

[Mr. Scram]

300 Hz is a good idea. I like that. Not sure how to choose between 16 and 18 kHz.

While ordering I had a change of heart and went for the full 20 kHz, mainly because 10 kHz is an ESR frequency you can't quite get to when opting for 16 or 18 kHz. There doesn't seem to be much difference between those frequencies otherwise, other than 16 kHz being flip-floppable to 1000 Hz easily.

[Specmaster]

Having a Coffee to celebrate the TEA thread while watching dodgy videos on April 1st after an extra hours sleep.... Think thats all 

Watching those porn videos can be addictive, you'd best be careful 

[beanflying]

mnem
"All Fools' Day" ?!? I thought that was the first Tuesday in November...

That's Melbourne Cup day where fools lose there $$ 

[beanflying]

mnem
"All Fools' Day" ?!? I thought that was the first Tuesday in November...

That's Melbourne Cup day where fools lose there $$ 


Was having a Heck of a time not watching porn too 

[bitseeker]

Agreed. It’s just a number. If lunch time is at 7 or 11 who cares.

It’s a mess here. We had some stupid fucks backing imperial measures still to the point they changed road signs and refused to mark up goods in metric. They got owned pretty quickly though. Now if only we could sort out road signs.

Time is an illusion; lunchtime, doubly so. 

Fortunately, TEA time is real.

The biggest joke of all is that bd139 and I are only about 35 miles away from each other but apparently that equates to 2 time zones 

Just be glad you aren't in the US, where timezones and DST are, um, convoluted. For example, consider that "Most of the US state of Arizona does not use Daylight Saving Time (DST)" https://www.timeanddate.com/time/us/arizona-no-dst.html

Oof! Don't even get me started on DST. Nowadays, we're on standard time for such a small fraction of the year, it's almost pointless to be making the switch.

[bitseeker]

We did it guys.....#1 by replies on the forum !   

Profound and amazing! Now what? Does the thread get upgraded to a subforum or something?

[mnementh]

"My" HP munition wasn't crypto; it was a glorified AWG. Think about it

You need to be careful tossing that acronym around; over here in the colonies it has other common meanings that are even more disturbing:

Angry White Guy (The guy on every forum who actually tries to justify "reverse discrimination" bullsh**, etc) and

Asymmetric Warfare Group (US Army Special Forces group devoted to developing tactical application of, among other things, more efficiently killing with flamethrowers, using projected microwaves on people, and scrambling your brains inside the shell with ULF Audio waves) and

Administrative Wage Garnishment ; the evil thereof which should be abundantly self-evident.

Having a Coffee to celebrate the TEA thread while watching dodgy videos on April 1st after an extra hours sleep.... Think thats all 

Watching those porn videos can be addictive, you'd best be careful 

More fun makin 'em... 

Agreed. It’s just a number. If lunch time is at 7 or 11 who cares.

It’s a mess here. We had some stupid fucks backing imperial measures still to the point they changed road signs and refused to mark up goods in metric. They got owned pretty quickly though. Now if only we could sort out road signs.

Time is an illusion; lunchtime, doubly so. 

Fortunately, TEA time is real.

And everything stops for TEA... 


mnem



Happy Co-Ed Nekkid Computing Day!!!

[xrunner]

Profound and amazing! Now what? Does the thread get upgraded to a subforum or something?

Congratulations bitseeker on the creation of a forum virus that will eventually eat the entire server's capabilities! 

[tautech]

We did it guys.....#1 by replies on the forum !   

Profound and amazing! Now what? Does the thread get upgraded to a subforum or something?

Thank the OP more so instead of #8 thanked we can also be #1 ! ......or at least further up the ranking.