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Cerebus:

--- Quote from: Circlotron on September 03, 2021, 10:56:57 pm ---It says something strange about human nature that people are getting worked up about a minor name change while there are so many other far more consequential things going on in the world right now. It’s like we make an issue of things we think we can handle and shut out things that are too big.

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Sorry we bothered you, your moral superiorness.
ataradov:

--- Quote from: Circlotron on September 03, 2021, 10:56:57 pm ---It says something strange about human nature that people are getting worked up about a minor name change while there are so many other far more consequential things going on in the world right now. It’s like we make an issue of things we think we can handle and shut out things that are too big.

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We can do two things at the same time. Learn to do the same and your life will be better for that.
schmitt trigger:
Speaking out of perhaps nostalgia, the sad thing about what onsemi has become, is that at one point of time Motorola was a semiconductor powerhouse, which had the largest portfolio.

From a lowly 1N914 diode all the way to the 68xx microprocessor family.
Transistors galore, with several excellent RF types. Thyristors. Optoelectronics.
Every logic family under the sun. Dozens of analog blocks. Power conversion.

You name it, the Big-M had them.
james_s:

--- Quote from: ataradov on September 03, 2021, 11:10:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: Circlotron on September 03, 2021, 10:56:57 pm ---It says something strange about human nature that people are getting worked up about a minor name change while there are so many other far more consequential things going on in the world right now. It’s like we make an issue of things we think we can handle and shut out things that are too big.

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We can do two things at the same time. Learn to do the same and your life will be better for that.

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That drives me absolutely nuts. Like I'm not allowed to be upset about something until all more serious problems in the world have been solved. People who pull that crap on me can piss off, I'm allowed to be annoyed by whatever I want. There's always going to be more serious problems going on somewhere, that doesn't make my problems invalid.
SparkyFX:

--- Quote from: james_s on September 04, 2021, 04:00:56 am ---I'm allowed to be annoyed by whatever I want. There's always going to be more serious problems going on somewhere, that doesn't make my problems invalid.
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Yeah, sure, and it is obviously an emotional statement. It's just that decision-making out of such a mood is more likely skewed and leads to unreasonable actions. Agreed, an opinion in and of itself has no consequences, otoh the majority of the stock market seems to work based on their relatively uninformed opinion.

But that game can of course also be played backwards... as in a company renaming itself tries to gain something attached to the change. Internally they probably try to make it the headline of a restructuring, communicated outward by a name change, risking said effects on public opinion.
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