Re: Taking the USA to 100% RE State by State
Posted: Wed 24 Jun 2015, 17:37:24
That takes the low score for me as the stupidest thing I ever heard anybody say. Not only have electronic devices transformed the world, they have had more impact than virtually anything else mankind has done, with the possible exceptions of Agriculture and powering a technological civilization with FF's.
That both of those larger inventions of mankind are also the prime reasons that the human race has destroyed the ecosystem, is beside the point.
Now note that you were able to make that incredibly stupid comment because of the efforts of me and many other EE's. In the not so recent past, you would have labored mightily to write or type a letter to a newspaper, and the editor would have shaken his head in wonder as he wadded up and then consigned your ignorant comment to the circular file.
I encourage you to keep going, under every username on every forum you frequent. The scale of intelligence must have a point of origin, after all.
There were a couple of things I want to point out to you as well. California was and is a good place to find a good paying job, and Silicon Valley is the best part of the state. I earned a good (not even unusual) white collar income that eventually reached the low six figures the last few years of my career, and my small house is worth 8X what I paid for it in 1986. How do those figures compare to wherever you call home?
That many people here in California are batsh!t crazy I will not dispute. That is why I am moving away after retiring. I mostly like the place - there are no equals to the Sierra Nevada Mountains when it comes to camping - but this place has two huge infestations of Democrats in the SF Bay Area and the LA Basin, and those folks are simply incapable of rational thoughts, or of keeping their thieving hands off of other people's money.
That both of those larger inventions of mankind are also the prime reasons that the human race has destroyed the ecosystem, is beside the point.
Now note that you were able to make that incredibly stupid comment because of the efforts of me and many other EE's. In the not so recent past, you would have labored mightily to write or type a letter to a newspaper, and the editor would have shaken his head in wonder as he wadded up and then consigned your ignorant comment to the circular file.
I encourage you to keep going, under every username on every forum you frequent. The scale of intelligence must have a point of origin, after all.
There were a couple of things I want to point out to you as well. California was and is a good place to find a good paying job, and Silicon Valley is the best part of the state. I earned a good (not even unusual) white collar income that eventually reached the low six figures the last few years of my career, and my small house is worth 8X what I paid for it in 1986. How do those figures compare to wherever you call home?
That many people here in California are batsh!t crazy I will not dispute. That is why I am moving away after retiring. I mostly like the place - there are no equals to the Sierra Nevada Mountains when it comes to camping - but this place has two huge infestations of Democrats in the SF Bay Area and the LA Basin, and those folks are simply incapable of rational thoughts, or of keeping their thieving hands off of other people's money.