Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!69.80.99.27.MISMATCH!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 02:22:04 +0000 From: John Larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: US Election Year! Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:20:38 -0700 Organization: Highland Tech Reply-To: xx@yy.com Message-ID: <9sevuilnv9n7k81gug9ah6b9ufs6bqt4tg@4ax.com> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.1/32.783 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 56 X-Trace: sv3-vFCczyYx9ylBKUNDW7Km/iyfK4+9yLtoPWpXU5AYmlR3l11fDi+BSA100SkCAtPwgZAzPH114RZqA/J!IqenS7If9FFqUTxDqRbtj82GTrViaQwQifKil8E4guvApb607LWAHhJUYBJvhM+roVBwaCEMCUAF!Wythpg== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3714 On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:10:11 +0000, Cursitor Doom wrote: >On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:49:10 -0700, john larkin wrote: > >>On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:50:18 +0000, Cursitor Doom >>wrote: >> >>>On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:44:10 -0700, john larkin wrote: >>> >>>>On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:09:09 +0000, Cursitor Doom >>>>wrote: >>>> >>>>>On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:49:42 -0700, John Larkin >>>>>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 11:26:34 +0000, Cursitor Doom >>>>>>wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>Every four years, this group becomes a discussion forum exclusively >>>>>>>for US politics, where heated opinions and insults are freely >>>>>>>exchanged. And this year it should be an absolute hum-dinger! May I >>>>>>>suggest we all get plenty of popcorn in before it's all sold out? >>>>>> >>>>>>There's a simple explanation for why people who care about politics >>>>>>are bad electronic designers. >>>>>> >>>>>>Think about it. >>>>> >>>>>Okay. I've thought about it and I'm none the wiser. What's the reason? >>>> >>>>They are tribal and social, so are hostile to new, unauthorized ideas. >>>> >>>>Academic training can have the same effect, making people shy away >>>>from anything original. >>> >>>I don't follow. Everything in electronic design has already been done >>>- and much of it more than 60 years ago. What are these new ideas of >>>which you speak. Can you provide an example or two? >> >>So we have no need of electrical engineers any more? >> >>I know people who think that anything they need can be found in a book >>or an appnote or on an eval board. No tiresome thinking or inventing >>required. Nobody needs to design electronics any more. >> >>Fine with me. Less competition. > >OK., that's settled then. Anyway, we should not be talking about >electronic design in a thread about US politics. It's off-topic! Politics is boring, and your tiny little vote will have on effect on anything. But you can design something that works.