Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr1.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: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 23:49:10 +0000 From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: US Election Year! Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:49:10 -0700 Message-ID: References: User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 43 X-Trace: sv3-E7fclqiPOx4hSs7+BUfiexOB/xlXxHZ0xcMuXmGJ6eVaIcwxkDbN1YgFKb5SDRqR1Us9A0A4TrUQxk0!gFphhHsObLKQY6XlhOKCTMaBIEmp9h0CpHhUjGGz/OLgHIdeHYFIZZyiidd4I6ILYu7PKrwgivI+!xJARHQ== 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: 3049 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.