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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: US Election Year!
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 17:36:45 +1100
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On 12/03/2024 1:20 pm, John Larkin wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:10:11 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com> wrote: 
>> On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:49:10 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote
>>> On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:50:18 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:44:10 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:09:09 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:49:42 -0700, John Larkin <jl@997PotHill.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 11:26:34 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com> wrote:

<snip>

>>>> 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?

Sixty years ago I couldn't even buy a uA709, which became commercially 
available in 1965 - I bought one for $30 the following year.

>>> 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.

He must have a bizarrely limited social circle. I've never met anybody 
with that particular delusion.

>>> 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.


Politics get much less boring when it affect you personally. Your tiny 
vote can have an effect from time to time.

> But you can design something that works.

Frequently not all that well, but some customers are less demanding than 
others.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney