dunno about you guys, but I’m staying hooked in to the news tomorrow to see if a bunch of flights get delayed due to a bomb threat. Maybe we’ll find out, indeed, VCO3 IS that dumb, and we’re stupid for thinking he was just a troll :eek:
[QUOTE=Guinastasia]
(And other Dopers-what is the point of this “breadboard”?)
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It’s kind of a toy used to screw around with circuit configurations.
The more I think about it, I kinda see VCO3’s point. It’s a cool thing to play around with when your bored. Pretty fun, actually. I want to say that it’s not that different form knitting, but then common sense kicks in and I remember that it’s a make your own electronic device on a plane! Common sense is something that guy doesn’t have.
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I just feel incredibly hurt and insulted at being told “stupid question” by a representative of the SDMB administration. I see such a wealth of brain-damaged questions here on a daily basis, betraying the OP’s complete lack of knowledge of basic, rudimentary, elementary physics, economics, mathematics, statistics, probability, geography, and REALITY, and those are never closed and dismissed as “stupid question.” I mean, in the past WEEK we’ve had such Nobel contenders as “Wait, is this “confidence in a bottle” real!? How did they fit all that confidence in there?”, “Is it somehow magically true that it’s bad luck to light three cigarettes off of one match?” , and my favorite, “Why is there somehow a magical monster voice coming out of my laptop?” [all my own paraphrases to highlight the complete stupidity of the questions at hand] - and NONE of those were dismissed with “stupid question” and locked.
Not to mention all of the inanity in IMHO, where mine was.
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I like Czarcasm. But I understand how you feel and IMO the onslaught of people saying that you’re stupid is pretty sad. Your question sounds valid to me.
I, for example, routinely travel with tons of electronic equipment in my carry-on such as camcorders, digital cameras, chargers, plugs, and their attendant wiring and little electronic parts that don’t look readily identifiable.
The bag always goes through the little machine, they take a look, and wave me on. I travel quite a bit. Sometimes, they’ll wave their little wand over it first after opening it up to eyeball everything. All of which seems reasonable to me and I’ve never had anyone say or suggest that there’s anything unreasonable about traveling with such equipment. I am, after all, traveling. I need my equipment for the assignment I’m traveling for.
As for something really small and easily shippable, I’d suggest mailing it to your destination instead (the way you probably received its parts when you ordered them). I can’t mail a whole bunch of my stuff as its cost prohibitive and time-intensive but it seems to me you might have that as an option.
I think the thread could have been closed without an insult, but oh well.
Don’t take it personally, there’s an alternate-universe type of way of relating on here that brings out the snippy.
Edit: Oh, and you know what I spoke too soon: it’s a toy you want to enjoy while on the plane. Yeah, I doubt they’d like that but I’m curious let us know.
In 1990, I was on a flight from Honolulu to Los Angeles, sitting next to a very nice older lady. Lacking for something interesting to keep us occupied, I saved five bits of the O’brien potatoes from my lunch, drew spots on them, and taught her how to play Yahtzee.
Kicked her ass at it, too, IIRC.
[QUOTE=Guinastasia]
Okay, VCO3, serious question:
If you truly believed it would be okay to bring this on the plane, and you were going to do it no matter what, seriously, why did you even ask the question in the first place? Couldn’t you just draft some other projects in a sketchbook instead, perhaps?
(And other Dopers-what is the point of this “breadboard”?)
BTW, does anyone else find THIS amusing? Especially the following quote?
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I thought it was an interesting subject.
[QUOTE=enigm4tic]
I feel bad for VCO3… especially since I try to take him at least somewhat seriously.
I simply can’t understand what it is about him that he can’t seem to see patterns and adjust accordingly.
We are obviously not accusing him of ACTUALLY building a hoax bomb, and repeatedly pointing out that, especially these days, the mere APPEARANCE of anything RESEMBLING a bomb is enough for a squad of cops to tackle you on sight, if not worse. It was NEVER ok, pre or post 9/11, to carry anything that resembled a bomb or even make joking threats about bombs in an airport. The more and more he continues to refuse obvious logic and easy to understand patterns, the more I’m inclined to stop viewing him as a misguided but potentially educatable (that’s not a word, is it…) poster and more as an intentional troll. shrug.
On that note, however, it does seem like a lot of people sit around specifically for an opportunity to jump VCO3, but then, if he’s a troll, I guess that’d be ok (except if you abide by DNFTT).
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Yeah, I agree. It’s weird, isn’t it? On a board, you find yourself trying to imagine if the post represents an odd thought from a pretty much normal person or a possibly normal thought from a pretty odd person. I guess given the pattern over time, the answer gets relatively clear. I’d love to see some of these guys and gals in person so I could apply my own stereotypes. LOL
[QUOTE=9thFloor]
I like Czarcasm. But I understand how you feel and IMO the onslaught of people saying that you’re stupid is pretty sad. Your question sounds valid to me.
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It was a valid question. It was his behavior after he was given answers he didn’t like. (Which were polite, at least until he threw a tantrum like a five-year-old.)
[QUOTE=A Monkey With a Gun]
Common sense is something that guy doesn’t have.
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Any kind of sense, or any other redeeming quality, is something that VCO3 doesn’t have.
[QUOTE=Giraffe]
… Apart from that, it’s photo-realistic. You got me exactly.
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Ahhh, so the prehensile tongue makes up for the lack of hands.
However, I never realized that you lacked knees, elbows and facial features!
CMC +fnord!
As impressive as all that is, it pales in comparison to VC03’s ability to post without a brain.
[QUOTE=Guinastasia]
It was a valid question. It was his behavior after he was given answers he didn’t like. (Which were polite, at least until he threw a tantrum like a five-year-old.)
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Okay. I was just speaking to the validity of the question when I said it was valid.
As for throwing a tantrum, it certainly seems to be as you say from looking at his posts overall and elsewhere. However, I’m a bit reticent to jump on that bandwagon myself because I’ve seen that accusation (of throwing a tantrum) used against someone when they are insulted, which then makes the insulted into the guilty party for complaining that they’ve been insulted. It’s an insidious process for which I have nothing but disdain. That may not at all apply here, I’ve haven’t studied it close enough to be certain but I was myself recently attacked for saying I was insulted which I think is pretty rich.
The standard pastime on Australian flights is to play Five Finger Fillet with the people sitting next to you. Of course you have to explain that before boarding, you can’t just pull the switchblade out in mid flight.
[QUOTE=Monty]
Any kind of sense, or any other redeeming quality, is something that VCO3 doesn’t have.
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I dunno, I prefer to be generous and assume he just has no sense of comedic timing. He’s trying to troll us a joke, but he lacks the ability to determine when the joke’s over.
I’m inclined to think the homosexuality/incest guest in GQ is very likely in the same boat.
VCO3, you are amazing. Like others, I can’t quite decide if your schtick is sincere or a put-on, but either way, you are a master at the persecution-complex gig.
[QUOTE=VCO3]
You continue to hurt and insult at every opportunity. The conversation evolved and mutated…
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Hilarious. No, the conversation didn’t “evolve and mutate.” Go read it again. You posted a question, about which you could not possibly have been serious. (You intend to do delicate electronics work in a dimly-lit, bouncy, cramped environment? Hogwash.) After your OP, the response was 100% unanimous: “No, you can’t do that, and you’re either lying or an idiot for saying you intend to.” This is not what most people consider a conversation “evolving and mutating.”
This, though, is true comedy gold:
[QUOTE=VCO3]
I am in no way joking about carrying a “hoax bomb” on an airliner. I’m doing the complete opposite, and I reject this claim of yours. It’s an outright fabrication, and I demand that you rescind your comment.
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I love it, man. Seriously. I can only assume that you either (a) don’t quite understand what the word “demand” means (hint: it typically involves the demander holding some kind of bargaining power), or (b) you’re in such high dudgeon that you’re imagining that this conversation actually has meaning and relevance to your life. Or (c), of course: You’re a troll.
I prefer (b). I like the visual image of you sitting at your computer, trembling with rage and typing by hitting the keys really hard because you’re so furious at your own impotence.
[QUOTE=VCO3]
I an deeply offended that you’re insinuating that I’m somehow “violating the letter and spirit of the board” by asking a legitimate and non-controversial question in GQ.
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Well played, sir. You’re correct: The question is “non-controversial,” but not in the way you intend. There’s no controversy because every single person who used a few minutes of their life to answer you agreed that your question was totally idiotic.
Finally, just in case you really are serious: I’m flying on Saturday. Nowhere near Chicago, but nonetheless, don’t do this. You will be arrested. The plane will be grounded, at least briefly. You will be fucking up the holiday plans of a couple hundred people, all because you’re too precious and special to read a goddamned SkyMall catalog on the airplane like everyone else. Don’t be a selfish asshole in real life, the way you are on the SDMB, OK? Thanks.
[QUOTE=jackelope]
You intend to do delicate electronics work in a dimly-lit, bouncy, cramped environment? Hogwash.
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To be fair, a breadboard ain’t exactly delicate. It truly doesn’t take any more dexterity than knitting. It’s a plastic block and some wires with pre-made jacks designed to fit into the block. Plus maybe an ancillary piece or two, if you want to make a radio or something. Those little magnetic travel chess sets are probably harder to keep a handle on.
But the travel chess sets have the advantage of everybody knowing what they are. Most people have never seen a bread board, so it looks like a block of plastic with wires coming out of it. That ain’t so good on a plane.
[QUOTE=A Monkey With a Gun]
To be fair, a breadboard ain’t exactly delicate. It truly doesn’t take any more dexterity than knitting. It’s a plastic block and some wires with pre-made jacks designed to fit into the block. Plus maybe an ancillary piece or two, if you want to make a radio or something. Those little magnetic travel chess sets are probably harder to keep a handle on.
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Fair enough. I’ve never seen a breadboard, and have only a dim idea of what they are; I was imagining a computer’s motherboard with solder and filaments and such.
[QUOTE=A Monkey With a Gun]
But the travel chess sets have the advantage of everybody knowing what they are. Most people have never seen a bread board, so it looks like a block of plastic with wires coming out of it. That ain’t so good on a plane.
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Indeed. My head explodes trying to imagine the mindset that could think this might be OK on a plane.
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers]
He’s trying to troll us a joke,
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Best Freudian slip I’ve seen in ages!
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers]
He’s trying to troll us a joke, .
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If I gave him the yarn, do you think he’d troll me one, too?
<off topic if there is one>I’ve never had a Coke Zero. What’s in it? Nothing?</end of otitio>
[QUOTE=RedFury]
<off topic if there is one>I’ve never had a Coke Zero. What’s in it? Nothing?</end of otitio>
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It’s full of everything that’s good for you. 
So, how’d the flight go?