Re: Students go after the hypocrites

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 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.

I took a tour of the Cornell EE school, and I counted screens. I saw

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.

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.

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

Oh dear.

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.

Interns are usually 3rd or 4th year EE students. "Uhh, I don't remember that equation."

A fun thing to do is to ask them about their senior EE project.

I have another quick test, to whiteboard a simple NPN emitter follower. Intel is welcome to the ones that can't pass that!

There seems to be a trend for people to move from the left/right fringes, towards the independent center. In other words, to show less tribalism and a little common sense.

That's definitely *not* the vibe I'm sensing from my present perspective outside of the country.

Newspapers and web sites and political parties make money off taking extreme positions. The dynamics pushes them away from center. The New York Times doesn't report any more, they preach and screech.

In real life, the people I meet here are friendly and thoughtful and not very concerned with politics.

Well, time will tell in the end. There is an undeniable perception on the part of a very large proportion of Republicans that Trump is being persecuted through the courts in a desperate attempt to de-rail his election chances and that's certainly how it appears from here. These are the sort of tactics that would not be out of place in some African banana republic. I never thought I'd ever see it in America.