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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: US Election Year!
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 17:09:16 +1100
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On 12/03/2024 1:49 am, John Larkin wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 11:26:34 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
> 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.

Simple, but wrong. H.L. Menken got there first.

Being obsessive about circuit design to the exclusion of everything else 
isn't a recipe for being a good circuit designer.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney