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		By: Jane Doe		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane Doe]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-kool-aid-circus-is-in-town/#comment-24865&quot;&gt;Ralph Hilton&lt;/a&gt;.

Wow, so &quot;Ms Perfect, aka Jo JO Zawawi&quot; was grossly out tech as the examiner.  Doesn&#039;t surprise me.  She is the Facebook Police who goes on everyone&#039;s FB to tell them to disconnect from so and so, even after she never read or saw any goldenrod on them and just took some verbal character assassination from the church on that person as gospel.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-kool-aid-circus-is-in-town/#comment-24865">Ralph Hilton</a>.</p>
<p>Wow, so &#8220;Ms Perfect, aka Jo JO Zawawi&#8221; was grossly out tech as the examiner.  Doesn&#8217;t surprise me.  She is the Facebook Police who goes on everyone&#8217;s FB to tell them to disconnect from so and so, even after she never read or saw any goldenrod on them and just took some verbal character assassination from the church on that person as gospel.</p>
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		By: Ralph Hilton		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-kool-aid-circus-is-in-town/#comment-24260&quot;&gt;indie8million&lt;/a&gt;.

Joseph Goebbels? The resemblance is uncanny.]]></description>
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<p>Joseph Goebbels? The resemblance is uncanny.</p>
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		By: Ralph Hilton		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-kool-aid-circus-is-in-town/#comment-24370&quot;&gt;Mooser42001&lt;/a&gt;.

Mary Sue was someone who would have TOLD LRH that she was taking the fall.]]></description>
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<p>Mary Sue was someone who would have TOLD LRH that she was taking the fall.</p>
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		By: Ralph Hilton		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-kool-aid-circus-is-in-town/#comment-24314&quot;&gt;Odd Thomas&lt;/a&gt;.

I remember Jojo - she was rather skinny when I knew her. I remember on the Apollo she was the PC examiner for a while. I went along to her after session and she had put her meter on to charge. The deck plates were metal so there was 220 volts across the PC if their shoes were a bit moist. I picked and the cans and kabam. She said whoops and unplugged the charger then said &quot;Thank you very much your needle is floating&quot;.]]></description>
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<p>I remember Jojo &#8211; she was rather skinny when I knew her. I remember on the Apollo she was the PC examiner for a while. I went along to her after session and she had put her meter on to charge. The deck plates were metal so there was 220 volts across the PC if their shoes were a bit moist. I picked and the cans and kabam. She said whoops and unplugged the charger then said &#8220;Thank you very much your needle is floating&#8221;.</p>
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		By: Ralph Hilton		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-kool-aid-circus-is-in-town/#comment-24526&quot;&gt;gatchild&lt;/a&gt;.

There is no mention in the patent of a SIM card nor of an SD card in the patent http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8121676.pdf . I think this meter is a revised version.]]></description>
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<p>There is no mention in the patent of a SIM card nor of an SD card in the patent <a href="http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8121676.pdf" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8121676.pdf</a> . I think this meter is a revised version.</p>
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		By: Ralph Hilton		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-kool-aid-circus-is-in-town/#comment-24488&quot;&gt;Tom M&lt;/a&gt;.

Tom - PCs do not attest to having no ser facs on grade 4. Anyone who thinks that grade 4 handles all a person&#039;s ser facs has not studied even grad 5 properly. Furthermore the procedure was released originally in HCOB 6 September 1978 issue 3 when LRH was definitely on the lines.]]></description>
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<p>Tom &#8211; PCs do not attest to having no ser facs on grade 4. Anyone who thinks that grade 4 handles all a person&#8217;s ser facs has not studied even grad 5 properly. Furthermore the procedure was released originally in HCOB 6 September 1978 issue 3 when LRH was definitely on the lines.</p>
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		By: Ralph Hilton		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is some contrary data here about the meter. The one shown above doesn&#039;t quite match the picture at http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?31871-Mike-Mark-VIII-Ultra-E-Meter-%96-9-Years-In-Storage-Patent-Diagrams-%282012%29 .
Nor does the picture match that at http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8121676.pdf
The design circuitry has many similarities to my own earlier designs using a 24 bit delta sigma AD converter. I would therefore say that the patent is worthless.
The design does look like a considerable advance upon the Quantum and if they used a decent meter movement it might even be as good as most Independent meters.
I would estimate a production cost of $300 to $400 in quantity. I suspect that the earlier warehoused meters are not the same meters but that a new similar version has been created with updated circuitry and ROHS compliance.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is some contrary data here about the meter. The one shown above doesn&#8217;t quite match the picture at <a href="http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?31871-Mike-Mark-VIII-Ultra-E-Meter-%96-9-Years-In-Storage-Patent-Diagrams-%282012%29" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?31871-Mike-Mark-VIII-Ultra-E-Meter-%96-9-Years-In-Storage-Patent-Diagrams-%282012%29</a> .<br />
Nor does the picture match that at <a href="http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8121676.pdf" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.freepatentsonline.com/8121676.pdf</a><br />
The design circuitry has many similarities to my own earlier designs using a 24 bit delta sigma AD converter. I would therefore say that the patent is worthless.<br />
The design does look like a considerable advance upon the Quantum and if they used a decent meter movement it might even be as good as most Independent meters.<br />
I would estimate a production cost of $300 to $400 in quantity. I suspect that the earlier warehoused meters are not the same meters but that a new similar version has been created with updated circuitry and ROHS compliance.</p>
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		By: Gus Cox		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-kool-aid-circus-is-in-town/#comment-24232&quot;&gt;indie8million&lt;/a&gt;.

Ah.  Thank you for that.  I thought I was the only one who thought JoJo was a whack job.  In my case, my distaste for her originated not from her Facebook antics (the bitch can&#039;t see my friends list anyway, and she&#039;s certainly no friend of mine), but her gawd-awful blatherings (&quot;art&quot;) and her own self-importance about it.  As an artist, I find bad art and a big head an unpleasant combination.  Of course, I find her need to police others reprehensible, but even long before that I didn&#039;t like her.

It&#039;s one thing to make bad art, but quite another to make bad art and think you&#039;re hot shit with a cherry on top.  And by bad art, I don&#039;t mean something I don&#039;t like - I don&#039;t care for Bartok&#039;s music but I think it&#039;s goddamned good art.  Bad art is not children at a recital who haven&#039;t quite got their instruments learned yet or who write halting poetry in their journals.  

No, bad art says nothing.  It steals attention from those who experience it and offers nothing in return.  That&#039;s fucking JoJo.  

Gus]]></description>
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<p>Ah.  Thank you for that.  I thought I was the only one who thought JoJo was a whack job.  In my case, my distaste for her originated not from her Facebook antics (the bitch can&#8217;t see my friends list anyway, and she&#8217;s certainly no friend of mine), but her gawd-awful blatherings (&#8220;art&#8221;) and her own self-importance about it.  As an artist, I find bad art and a big head an unpleasant combination.  Of course, I find her need to police others reprehensible, but even long before that I didn&#8217;t like her.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s one thing to make bad art, but quite another to make bad art and think you&#8217;re hot shit with a cherry on top.  And by bad art, I don&#8217;t mean something I don&#8217;t like &#8211; I don&#8217;t care for Bartok&#8217;s music but I think it&#8217;s goddamned good art.  Bad art is not children at a recital who haven&#8217;t quite got their instruments learned yet or who write halting poetry in their journals.  </p>
<p>No, bad art says nothing.  It steals attention from those who experience it and offers nothing in return.  That&#8217;s fucking JoJo.  </p>
<p>Gus</p>
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		By: Jane Doe		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane Doe]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2013 05:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-kool-aid-circus-is-in-town/#comment-24321&quot;&gt;ME&lt;/a&gt;.

I can confirm what Sheldon is saying.  It was that way when I did the course too.  But we called it &quot;bringing in the ringer&quot; instead of reader. It was &quot;ringer.&quot;]]></description>
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<p>I can confirm what Sheldon is saying.  It was that way when I did the course too.  But we called it &#8220;bringing in the ringer&#8221; instead of reader. It was &#8220;ringer.&#8221;</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane Doe]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2013 05:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-kool-aid-circus-is-in-town/#comment-24305&quot;&gt;Cooper kessel&lt;/a&gt;.

Coop don&#039;t give Der Leader any ideas.  He may take you up on your ideas and indeed try to go into hiding.  Let&#039;s try to coax him instead onto the witness stand by telling him that the teleprompter will be there and we&#039;ll fill the courtroom with adoring sheeple who will give him tons of admiration and clapping and shouting.  He&#039;s ready for his closeup, Mr, DeMille.]]></description>
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<p>Coop don&#8217;t give Der Leader any ideas.  He may take you up on your ideas and indeed try to go into hiding.  Let&#8217;s try to coax him instead onto the witness stand by telling him that the teleprompter will be there and we&#8217;ll fill the courtroom with adoring sheeple who will give him tons of admiration and clapping and shouting.  He&#8217;s ready for his closeup, Mr, DeMille.</p>
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