[Andre Jute]

In the worst days of the Magnequest Scum, at least RAT was not so
completely wrecked by the need of Michael LaFevre to bully and dominate
someone as RAT is wrecked today by the sick urge of Peter Wieck to
prove he is "a someone", better than a jumped-up janitor scrubbing
toilets in a building owned by that sandshagger Osama bin Laden. Even
in the worst days of the Magnequest Scum, a few on RAT managed to do a
little good electronics work; now it is very little indeed, shading
into nothing much.

It seems to me significant that every time the worst scum we see on RAT
arises in Philadelphia, first Creepy Mike, now Worthless Wiecky. And I
can't say Bob Morein is innocent either: if he had any sense he would
long since have concentrated his fire on the evil Brian McCarthy
instead of arguing with Worthless Wiecky about whether he has a right
to defend himself against McCarty's forgeries: of course he has the
right, and it is so preeminent that he has no need to justify it.

Worthless Wiecky doesn't speak for anyone except the garage vermin Jon
(John? Jono? -- he goes by all three) Yaeger; Worthless Wiecky doesn't
have a tube amp and knows so little about electronics that he believes
a resistor must of necessity dissipate its entire rating regardless of
the amount of current passing through it; Worthless Wiecky doesn't
belong on RAT.

Maybe there's something in the water in Philly, maybe there's something
wrong with the educational system there (Creepy Mike has a master's in
*political science* but thought Sweden was part of Austria!). One has
to wonder.

RAT was once the premier DIY tube advocacy group for people who
actually designed and built tube amps. Now you can count the number of
people on RAT who know anything at all, never mind being capable of
designing anything at all, on the fingers of one hand and still have a
couple over to pick your nose.

Sad, really.

Andre Jute
Impedance is futile, you will be simulated into the triode. -- Robert
Casey