Please please keep politics and conspiracy theory rhetoric away from this group.
If I want rants and abusive postings, I can find gobs of them on sci.electronics.design, surrounding a few technical gems. At least one of the (other) contributors to this thread can be found "over there".
Although it isn't directly relevant to this group, one of the good things
about working at HP was that any such statements would have been quickly
and effectively stamped on. That contributed to a pleasant working atmosphere.
