Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.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: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:50:18 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c23dce1702cfc3cfac4298911da29eb3"; logging-data="4021067"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+BRbqN87UAszJWXCRUyiYyKrh5Sv0CXVc=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:vPfouE0U4XEc2Hbd1vR9ndbWhHg= Bytes: 2247 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?