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To: Rarebird who wrote (15619)	5/17/2018 5:19:55 PM
From: Kirk ©	6 Recommendations Recommended By Blasher Fintas longz mary-ally-smith Rarebird and 1 more member Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15903

Well, you axed the wrong person: Did we know 40 years ago that the Internet would become so useful? My first summer intern job was 40 yrs ago and I designed an opto isolator for telecom at HP that was early steps to go faster with fiber optics... I was ALREADY using the internet to design the electronics with SPICE. We started wiring our terminals to the mainframe with a 10 MB/s fiber optic router. When I got back for my senior year at HP, I told a TA a bit about what I was working on and the new invention I came up with that gave me my own project where they had me work over Christmas vacation to not waste any time... and the TA said he could have used that product to save equipment that got fried by a lightning strike between his building with his terminal and the building where UC had our mainframe computer. So yeah, I had a hunch there was a huge need. ;) BTW, AVGO still has my product for sale exactly as I designed it... the guts were redesigned several times with cheaper and better IC processes but it is still used. I sure wish I got a penny a part for it!

To: Rarebird who wrote (15619)	5/17/2018 5:34:12 PM
From: Kirk ©	1 Recommendation Recommended By toccodolce Respond to of 15903

Who says you need to go to a far left indoctrination camp to learn to think? The way my old school, UC Berkeley, has become a haven for lefties like Robert Reich and slush fund administrators like Janet Napolitano as rewards for their service to presidents Clinton and Obama, I'd argue you learn to think better on the job. Some well respected Libertarian CEOs who started their own companies are big proponents of this. I was pushed hard to get my masters at Stanford while at HP as it would allow more power, higher positions, etc... but I just took the classes I needed to get my products designed better and was very well paid since they paid for performance. I was leading teams of PhDs when I left and had no complaints about pay. That was until the company started falling apart when politics mattered more than skills.... and I left. Shortly after leaving they hired Carly Fiorina with the top qualification was she lacked a penis... and she destroyed the company and it was broken up into many parts.