Hi all. Can someone tell me where to find a document covering the "rules of the road" for sci.electronics.design? I hope to make contacts here that could lead to paying design jobs, but I want to make sure that I behave in an "acceptable fashion."
This group is for the right wing political discussions. You should express the hatred to the leftist weenies, warmingists, europeons and muslems at least once a week. Democratic views are not acceptable, libertarians are barely tolerated.
Vladimir Vassilevsky DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant
Since you're using Pan and aren't posting through GoogleGroups (the gmail address notwithstanding) you're presumably knowledgeable about general usenet behavior. Such as, endless meta-threads on whether or not "behavior" is the correct spelling...
Reading/lurking for a couple of weeks should allow you to identify the local trolls/sock-puppets/guys-who-need-better-meds, etc.
AFAIK, there isn't a formal charter for the group. Speaking only for myself, posting of resumes, situations wanted/available isn't encouraged (but, hey! it's usenet). If you think you're a fit somewhere, based on what you infer from postings, an off-line contact may be in order. If you become a reg (more signal than noise) there may be more general interest in lending a hand.
A topic that isn't specifically covered in the charter is the *call for papers* meme. If those idiots had something of general interest to the group they could post *that* and **in their sigs** put a note about how to sign up for their own mailing lists to be kept abreast of developments on that particular topic. ...but those lameoids never actually PARTICIPATE in the group, so that won't happen.
You forgot (or maybe you're too young to remember ;-) Emily Postnews.
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It's kind of dated (example: "Give independent addresses for Internet, UUCP, and BITNET, even if they're all the same.") but classic snark, nonetheless.
Holy crap! Although "Discussions relevant to the design of electronics circuits" *is* a rather thin reed.
But papers are important! If there were no papers, there'd be no presentations. Without presentations, there'd be no conferences. Without conferences, there's no excuse to party/golf/slack/get out of town for two or three days on an expense account. ;-)
This group is a technical group that has a history of culturally tolerating political discussions in addition to the technical on-topic ones.
Many of the longtime regulars are electrical engineers, who on average tend to be somewhat disproportionately somewhere or somewhere else in the right hand side of the political spectrum. It appears to me that a least a couple of the longtime regular EEs participating in the political discussions own their own businesses - and EEs owning their own businesses tend to be hit with enough frustration with taxes and tax law and regularatory requirements to support their political leanings being anywhere from conservative to "wingnut".
The one I see being the most noted libertarian here is also one of these rightwingers. Modern libertarianism surely appears to me somewhere on the right hand side of the political spectrum.
A couple recent AGW-skeptical posters in global warming threads appear to me to have come here from global warming threads being crossposted to other newsgroups where discussion on global warming is "more on-topic". However, s.e.d. has for a long time included political threads on AGW.
The sanest tamest most-on-topic newsgroup I have seen? Largely lacking political threads? And impressively free of the likes of the one who uses the word "retard" as a noun and "retarded" to describe ideas and points of view, Phil Allison and the (thankfully not infecting s.e.d.) Rod Speed?
This is almost exclusively an American response, overlooking the undoubtedly libertarian tradition of European anarcho-syndicalism. It was, after all, the important French anarchist thinker Proudhon who declared that property is theft.
Of course this site has no authority at all. Apparantly I'm a left of centre social libertarian, -1.4, -1.8. I'm clearly in denial of my true self.
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