Path: ...!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: US Election Year! Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 12:34:26 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 63 Message-ID: References: <9sevuilnv9n7k81gug9ah6b9ufs6bqt4tg@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="33646bea695aaebd62cc18a7aa885a7e"; logging-data="317576"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19JSbtnBQ/EYTpVG5QE3HNSHJTj/eXnCLU=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:0vfyX+NEtkr4GCwPyqqmPsRzjes= Bytes: 3640 On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:20:38 -0700, John Larkin wrote: >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. You find it boring. Others clearly don't! And I don't vote. >But you can design something that works. I'm just a hobbyist. Okay, I've had many decades of experience with electronics, but I'm no designer. I don't think that way.