OT: So goes Californica, so goes the nation...

I guess if you don't have any electronics to design, you can spend all your time getting worked up about this sort of thing.

Well, people aren't actually designing anything while they are posting. I drop by 2 or 3 times a week and to me it seems that all the rest of you live here. Free speech is rather universally important anyway.

Larkin is our Chief Resident Asshole... otherwise totally useless. ...Jim Thompson

You seem to have joined the Sloman-Fields crowd of people who post off-topic drivel, no longer design electronics, and resent people who do design electronics. Condolences.

The verb would be crowned, if the US were a monarchy. It's got an essential ly regal president - of the kind Charles de Gaulle aspired to be, and wrote a constitution for France almost as daft as the one the Founding Tax Evade rs stuck the US with - but Hillary Clinton (unlike Donald Trump) has quite enough political sensitivity not to upset the voters by looking too regal.

Whereas John Larkin posts links to denialist web-sites, and dignifies his t inkering as "electronic design".

He does resent people who can do trickier stuff - like design purpose built transformers - and is a full bottle on the economic advantages of chickeni ng out.

The debate doesn't seem remotely rational from an external perspective.

Well, that's BS for you. Quite what he's doing on an electronics group when all he talks about is politics is a mystery.

Cursitor Doom doesn't notice the electronic stuff I do post from time to time. Presumably he can't process it, and confuses it with politics.

Message IDs?

Slowman posts about electronics when his design works.

SLow-Man does that as a diversion because he has come to the realization that most of the audience has concluded him as a SE (shoulder Educated), A mockingbird, Data collector.

SO he pollutes the network with his useless politics, wild imagination of how the US works, which he is just as bad at.

I think he's in bed with Hilliary, no wonder her head is all screwed up!

Jamie

You can't possibly know that, so you are simply publishing your own demented opinion.

PKB.

Obviously, English is not your first language. Is there any language that you master? Do you have a spell checker? If so, do you use it?

That's your problem. Rather than thinking, you should go back to sucking your thumb. A fetal position is advised. And her name is spelled Hillary, Mr. Thinker.

Who would have guessed?

I don't watch much TV

ught to respect authority.

I don't respect the media. They have no authority at all.

Bizarre idea. I've got letters after my own name, and know how much they ar e worth, and how little they can be worth.

In reality I read books - lots of books - and compare and contrast what the y have to say. Some of the more persuasive quotes end up here, with the nam e and the ISBN number of the book.

bout the same. Same old we need to be more socialistic, all the same under the skin, chicken in every pot, tax the rich and feed the poor until there are no rich no more.

The US does need to be more socialist, but that doesn't involve a chicken i n every pot, nor taxing the rich out of existence. The Gini Index for Scand inavia is 0.25, not zero. The idea is to keep the working class healthy eno ugh and educated enough to be productive - the US system seems to be to sho rt change them when young and clap them into prison when they get older.

If Jurb found out a bit more about what modern socialism is actually about, rather than relying on the US media's habit of equating socialism with com munism (which was never remotely true, but a popular anti-trade-union trope none-the-less) he might be able to make better choices. Fat chance.

This is one of the things about Socialism that pisses me off more than most concerns foreign aid. Foreign aid is charity. Why am I obliged to give to a charity that some useless bum in government has decided, for God knows what reasons, is a worthy cause? Why are they redirecting my charitable contributions to causes I don't believe in? Who anointed

Foreign aid isn't actually charity. Done right, it promotes impoverished countries to profitable trading partners.

Most of us lack the economic information to push the aid into the right channels, and the connections to make sure that it doesn't get syphoned off by the local fat cats.

Cursitor Doom is a simple-minded twit, so he thinks that it is just the same as dropping coins into a beggar's cup.

afaict foreign aid is mostly government aid to your own companies. i.e. when country A gives aid to country B, most if not all of the money goes to a company from country A to do the work in country B

-Lasse

The big problem with socialists is that they think they understand economics and human dynamics, and want to control things according to their understanding. But they don't understand this stuff. In many cases, nobody understands these things, so the best thing to do is step back and let evolution work.

It still exports valuable goods and services, and uses A's resources with no overall benefit to the citizens of A.

The best foreign aid is education and business development for B, and maybe nutritional and health supplement as a bootstrap. Serve lunch at school. Lots of foreign aid is long-term counter-productive.