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: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:10:11 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 47 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="01fb6ea6aee680bcc896e42b91550ede"; logging-data="4101949"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+/gOjs9fyN/q0FUHcQpthXgMFTCXTL4Y4=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:+Tn5BCZbivtZDMcV8pK+MYvSIWQ= Bytes: 2991 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!