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From: Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
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Subject: Re: US Election Year!
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 12:34:26 +0000
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On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:20:38 -0700, John Larkin <jl@997PotHill.com>
wrote:

>On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:10:11 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:49:10 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:50:18 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:44:10 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:09:09 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:49:42 -0700, John Larkin <jl@997PotHill.com>
>>>>>>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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>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!
>
>Politics is boring, and your tiny little vote will have on effect on
>anything.

You find it boring. Others clearly don't! And I don't vote.

>But you can design something that works.

I'm just a hobbyist. Okay, I've had many decades of experience with
electronics, but I'm no designer. I don't think that way.