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    From Richard (Rick) Lyons@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 23 01:13:44 2019
    Here's wishin' all of you guys a very Merry Christmas and
    a Happy New Year!

    Of course, these good wishes are also directed at those
    of you who do not celebrate Christmas such as: Muslims,
    Hindus, atheists, Buddhists, software engineers, Sikhs, Jews,
    filthy IIR filter designers, Shinto, Bolsheviks, Democrats,
    U.S. senator Mitch McConnell, Neo-Pagans, transsexual lesbians,
    Government Employees, Devil worshippers, Scientologists,
    Control System engineers, people from the U.S. state of Ohio,
    Australians, and Rastafarians.

    [-Rick-]

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  • From Areligious Republican@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 23 11:16:09 2019
    On 23/12/2019 09:13, Richard (Rick) Lyons wrote:
    Here's wishin' all of you guys a very Merry Christmas and
    a Happy New Year!

    Of course, these good wishes are also directed at those
    of you who do not celebrate Christmas such as: Muslims,
    Hindus, atheists, Buddhists, software engineers, Sikhs, Jews,
    filthy IIR filter designers, Shinto, Bolsheviks, Democrats,
    U.S. senator Mitch McConnell, Neo-Pagans, transsexual lesbians,
    Government Employees, Devil worshippers, Scientologists,
    Control System engineers, people from the U.S. state of Ohio,
    Australians, and Rastafarians.

    We Areligionists (AKA Atheists by the Religionists) do celebrate
    Christmas and the Christian churches are entirely to blame for this
    because for centuries, millenia even, our ancestors were subject
    to very cruel deaths if we did not conform (and in Brit the
    Recusancy Acts were not repealed until 1888) so it is in our
    traditions to celebrate at Christmas even when we knew all
    religion to be infantile make-believe, a veritable bucket of
    cowshit.

    Richard Dawkins coined the word, "meme" for mental traditions
    that perpetuate through the generations.

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  • From Fred Smith@21:1/5 to Lyons on Mon Dec 23 11:28:51 2019
    On 2019-12-23, Richard (Rick) Lyons <r.lyons@ieee.org> wrote:
    Here's wishin' all of you guys a very Merry Christmas and
    a Happy New Year!

    Of course, these good wishes are also directed at those
    of you who do not celebrate Christmas such as: Muslims,
    Hindus, atheists, Buddhists, software engineers, Sikhs, Jews,
    filthy IIR filter designers, Shinto, Bolsheviks, Democrats,
    U.S. senator Mitch McConnell, Neo-Pagans, transsexual lesbians,
    Government Employees, Devil worshippers, Scientologists,
    Control System engineers, people from the U.S. state of Ohio,
    Australians, and Rastafarians.

    [-Rick-]


    Hey, we Australians celebrate Christmas, even if singing about snow and white Christmas doesn't make a lot of sense here right now. Many are too busy trying to put out bushfires this year instead of celebrating.

    Have a Good One. And don't get caught!

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  • From Phil Martel@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 23 10:59:31 2019
    On 12/23/2019 04:13, Richard (Rick) Lyons wrote:
    Here's wishin' all of you guys a very Merry Christmas and
    a Happy New Year!

    Of course, these good wishes are also directed at those
    of you who do not celebrate Christmas such as: Muslims,
    Hindus, atheists, Buddhists, software engineers, Sikhs, Jews,
    filthy IIR filter designers, Shinto, Bolsheviks, Democrats,
    U.S. senator Mitch McConnell, Neo-Pagans, transsexual lesbians,
    Government Employees, Devil worshippers, Scientologists,
    Control System engineers, people from the U.S. state of Ohio,
    Australians, and Rastafarians.

    [-Rick-]

    Merry Christmas,
    And for those who don't celebrate Christmas, enjoy whatever Solstice
    holiday you do celebrate.

    --
    Best wishes,
    --Phil
    pomartel At Comcast(ignore_this) dot net

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  • From Eric Jacobsen@21:1/5 to r.lyons@ieee.org on Mon Dec 23 18:38:39 2019
    On Mon, 23 Dec 2019 01:13:44 -0800 (PST), "Richard (Rick) Lyons" <r.lyons@ieee.org> wrote:

    Here's wishin' all of you guys a very Merry Christmas and
    a Happy New Year!

    Of course, these good wishes are also directed at those
    of you who do not celebrate Christmas such as: Muslims,
    Hindus, atheists, Buddhists, software engineers, Sikhs, Jews,
    filthy IIR filter designers, Shinto, Bolsheviks, Democrats,
    U.S. senator Mitch McConnell, Neo-Pagans, transsexual lesbians,
    Government Employees, Devil worshippers, Scientologists,
    Control System engineers, people from the U.S. state of Ohio,
    Australians, and Rastafarians.

    [-Rick-]


    Warmest seasonal salutations to everyone!

    ;)

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  • From Richard (Rick) Lyons@21:1/5 to Fred Smith on Mon Dec 23 10:41:07 2019
    On Monday, December 23, 2019 at 3:28:55 AM UTC-8, Fred Smith wrote:


    Hey, we Australians celebrate Christmas, even if singing about snow and white Christmas doesn't make a lot of sense here right now. Many are too busy trying to put out bushfires this year instead of celebrating.

    Have a Good One. And don't get caught!

    Hi Fred. I added Australians to my list just to poke fun at my Australian DSP pal Peter Kootsookos (who used to frequent comp.dsp regularly). Good luck fightin' the bushfires. (Your bushfires have been reported on in the television news here in the
    States recently.)

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  • From Areligious Republican@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 23 19:03:37 2019
    On 23/12/2019 18:37, Richard (Rick) Lyons wrote:
    Hi Areligious Republican.
    OK. When it comes to religion I'll mark you down as "Undecided."


    Then you'd be mistaken.

    Children are sometimes thought to have imaginary friends but
    it is not mentally normal for adults to have them.

    Really, with all the advances in knowledge made over the
    past 200 years, anybody who still believes in gods is
    in my opinion a certifiable loony.

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  • From Richard (Rick) Lyons@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 23 10:37:52 2019
    Hi Areligious Republican.
    OK. When it comes to religion I'll mark you down as "Undecided."

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  • From makolber@yahoo.com@21:1/5 to Areligious Republican on Tue Dec 24 07:00:13 2019
    On Monday, December 23, 2019 at 2:03:47 PM UTC-5, Areligious Republican wrote:
    On 23/12/2019 18:37, Richard (Rick) Lyons wrote:
    Hi Areligious Republican.
    OK. When it comes to religion I'll mark you down as "Undecided."


    Then you'd be mistaken.

    Children are sometimes thought to have imaginary friends but
    it is not mentally normal for adults to have them.

    Really, with all the advances in knowledge made over the
    past 200 years, anybody who still believes in gods is
    in my opinion a certifiable loony.

    https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9627737-the-first-gulp-from-the-glass-of-natural-sciences-will

    Have a happy

    Mark

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  • From allegroaudio2@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 24 06:29:35 2019
    https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9627737-the-first-gulp-from-the-glass-of-natural-sciences-will

    Have a happy
    Mark

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  • From Richard (Rick) Lyons@21:1/5 to mako...@yahoo.com on Tue Dec 24 09:00:47 2019
    On Tuesday, December 24, 2019 at 7:00:16 AM UTC-8, mako...@yahoo.com wrote:

    https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9627737-the-first-gulp-from-the-glass-of-natural-sciences-will

    Have a happy

    Mark

    Hi Mark. That's a interesting quote that 've never seen before. Thanks.

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  • From Richard (Rick) Lyons@21:1/5 to Areligious Republican on Tue Dec 24 08:58:38 2019
    On Monday, December 23, 2019 at 11:03:47 AM UTC-8, Areligious Republican wrote:
    On 23/12/2019 18:37, Richard (Rick) Lyons wrote:

    Then you'd be mistaken.
    Children are sometimes thought to have imaginary friends but
    it is not mentally normal for adults to have them.
    Really, with all the advances in knowledge made over the
    past 200 years, anybody who still believes in gods is
    in my opinion a certifiable loony.

    Hi Areligious Republican.
    My words "When it comes to religion I'll mark you down as Undecided." were a feeble attempt to add a bit of humor to this thread.

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  • From Greg Berchin@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 24 09:15:21 2019
    As a filthy IIR filter designer, I resent being called an "IIR filter designer". :)

    - Greg

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  • From Richard (Rick) Lyons@21:1/5 to Greg Berchin on Wed Dec 25 00:29:31 2019
    On Tuesday, December 24, 2019 at 9:15:24 AM UTC-8, Greg Berchin wrote:
    As a filthy IIR filter designer, I resent being called an "IIR filter designer". :)

    - Greg

    Hi Greg. Ha ha.
    Your comment reminds me of the wisecrack; "Don't tell my Mother I'm an engineer. She thinks I'm a piano player in a bordello."

    [-Rick-]

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  • From Greg Berchin@21:1/5 to All on Wed Dec 25 08:31:58 2019
    On Wednesday, December 25, 2019 at 2:29:34 AM UTC-6, Richard (Rick) Lyons wrote:

    "Don't tell my Mother I'm an engineer. She thinks I'm a piano player in a bordello."

    Ha! Engineering used to be a honorable professions. But the railroads aren't what they used to be. :-)

    Glad to see a little bit of activity here on comp.dsp. I don't know where everybody went, but it's been awfully quiet here lately.

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  • From Randy Yates@21:1/5 to Lyons" on Wed Dec 25 13:45:12 2019
    "Richard (Rick) Lyons" <r.lyons@ieee.org> writes:

    On Tuesday, December 24, 2019 at 9:15:24 AM UTC-8, Greg Berchin wrote:
    As a filthy IIR filter designer, I resent being called an "IIR
    filter designer". :)

    - Greg

    Hi Greg. Ha ha.
    Your comment reminds me of the wisecrack; "Don't tell my Mother I'm an engineer. She thinks I'm a piano player in a bordello."

    What's wrong with piano players?
    --
    Randy Yates, DSP/Embedded Firmware Developer
    Digital Signal Labs
    http://www.digitalsignallabs.com

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  • From Eric Jacobsen@21:1/5 to yates@digitalsignallabs.com on Wed Dec 25 19:22:35 2019
    On Wed, 25 Dec 2019 13:45:12 -0500, Randy Yates
    <yates@digitalsignallabs.com> wrote:

    "Richard (Rick) Lyons" <r.lyons@ieee.org> writes:

    On Tuesday, December 24, 2019 at 9:15:24 AM UTC-8, Greg Berchin wrote:
    As a filthy IIR filter designer, I resent being called an "IIR
    filter designer". :)

    - Greg

    Hi Greg. Ha ha.
    Your comment reminds me of the wisecrack; "Don't tell my Mother I'm an
    engineer. She thinks I'm a piano player in a bordello."

    What's wrong with piano players?
    --

    That's an awfully long list.



    - also a piano player. ;)

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  • From Steve Pope@21:1/5 to Lyons on Wed Dec 25 21:01:12 2019
    Richard (Rick) Lyons <r.lyons@ieee.org> wrote:

    Hi Greg. Ha ha.
    Your comment reminds me of the wisecrack; "Don't tell my Mother I'm an >engineer. She thinks I'm a piano player in a bordello."

    Excellent.

    Happy Christmas all, and/or winter greetings, or the equatorial/southern Hemispher equivalents.

    Steve

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