Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cursitor Doom Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Students go after the hypocrites Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2024 17:05:00 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 54 Message-ID: References: <35ab3jdrch3u0ph0u996vc0l0advdc07m1@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2024 19:05:01 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="40a1d383888994c45f6bff6cd4b36ba9"; logging-data="3615124"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Zy/eChWSEtbedZrTT+ScC5lxWAZqSSH0=" User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fmm7ExupE/VXexApqh0Ab2hLKYk= Bytes: 3288 On Sun, 02 Jun 2024 09:01:41 -0700, john larkin wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jun 2024 12:27:52 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom > wrote: > >>On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 19:54:06 -0500, John S wrote: >> >>> On 5/31/2024 5:46 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote: >>>> On Fri, 31 May 2024 14:59:03 -0500, John S wrote: >>>> >>>>> Welcome to s.e.design.politics. Go to some other group for >>>>> electronics design discussions. >>>> >>>> Just you wait for the run-up to November 5th! >>>> >>>> >>> I don't do politics. So...what is your point in terms of electronics >>> designs? >> >>My point is that every time there's been a presidential election, this >>group becomes us.talk.politics and any discussion of electronic design >>becomes off-topic and deprecated. > > It was declining anyhow. I don't believe so. Like you, I've been here for the best part of 30 years and the s/n ratio's about the same now as it was then. > I think that people who can actually do component-level electronic > design are becoming rare. Kids in college type more than they solder. > I've had interns who are afraid of electricity and panic when I ask them > to analyze a 2-resistor voltage divider. > > 10 volt battery feeding series 9K and 1K resistors. What's the voltage > across the 1K? They stutter and it's hilarious. You're not telling me these people have an EE degree FFS?? > I took a tour of the Cornell EE school, and I counted screens. I saw 23 > computer screens and one oscilloscope. Oh dear. > If EE grads are any good, the semiconductor outfits scoop up the best. > > It takes no skill to rant endlessly about politics. The thing I like > about circuit design is that it has to work and it doesn't take long to > find out if it does. My dear fellow, you're just going to have to become accustomed to this group moving over to politics increasingly over the next 5 months. AISI, this forthcoming election will be absolutely *critical* to world peace and I do wish more people would wake up to the peril we're in if Trump doesn't win come November.