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From: Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com>
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Subject: Re: Students go after the hypocrites
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2024 17:05:00 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 02 Jun 2024 09:01:41 -0700, john larkin wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Jun 2024 12:27:52 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
> <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 19:54:06 -0500, John S wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/31/2024 5:46 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 31 May 2024 14:59:03 -0500, John S wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Welcome to s.e.design.politics. Go to some other group for
>>>>> electronics design discussions.
>>>> 
>>>> Just you wait for the run-up to November 5th!
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> I don't do politics. So...what is your point in terms of electronics
>>> designs?
>>
>>My point is that every time there's been a presidential election, this
>>group becomes us.talk.politics and any discussion of electronic design
>>becomes off-topic and deprecated.
> 
> It was declining anyhow.

I don't believe so. Like you, I've been here for the best part of 30 years 
and the s/n ratio's about the same now as it was then.

> I think that people who can actually do component-level electronic
> design are becoming rare. Kids in college type more than they solder.
> I've had interns who are afraid of electricity and panic when I ask them
> to analyze a 2-resistor voltage divider.
> 
> 10 volt battery feeding series 9K and 1K resistors. What's the voltage
> across the 1K? They stutter and it's hilarious.

You're not telling me these people have an EE degree FFS??

> I took a tour of the Cornell EE school, and I counted screens. I saw 23
> computer screens and one oscilloscope.

Oh dear.

> If EE grads are any good, the semiconductor outfits scoop up the best.
> 
> It takes no skill to rant endlessly about politics. The thing I like
> about circuit design is that it has to work and it doesn't take long to
> find out if it does.

My dear fellow, you're just going to have to become accustomed to this 
group moving over to politics increasingly over the next 5 months. AISI, 
this forthcoming election will be absolutely *critical* to world peace and 
I do wish more people would wake up to the peril we're in if Trump doesn't 
win come November.