On 29 Sep 2008 04:55:54 GMT, the infamous (Curt Welch)
scrawled the following:

None of that is anything but obvious engineering work

To _you_, _now_, sure. If it was so obvious, Curt, why didn't _you_
invent it back then?

How obvious was it back then? In the _automotive_ industry, not the
electronics industry?

Hindsight is 20/20. 'nuf said.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw