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Science Attacks The Mystery Of Tylenol
nm1m writes "For decades, millions of physicians have advised their patients to take acetaminophen - the drug behind "aspirin-free" pain relievers like Tylenol - without understanding how or why the popular medicine works. Now, a professor at Brigham Young University has discovered what could be the enzyme the drug attacks to relieve pain."
Hm, you're good at blaming something on ME, though. What's your problem? I've never set foot in a university. I just see what it's worth in our society. Not too much.
Everything people 'learn' at those churches hits the garbage can when the graduation is over and the real world comes knocing at the door. Suddenly, it's the people who play golf/sleep with their bosses, suck cock like a gay Olympics village or who master time-honored techniques of intimidation that succeed.
It looks like the only reason you need a degree to get a decent job these days is because the person hiring has a degree and doesn't want to admit that you don't need a degree for the job and that it was a waste of time and money.
If you decide to stay in university to work, the back stabbing among academics makes the job market look like a bunch of fuzzy pink bunnies surrounded by candy canes and lollypops. If you're not gay at the beginning, you will be after the ass reamings and cock suckings you'll endure to get that job and keeping it.
"Research"? Clever ways of sucking money out of the institution so you can avoid the real world. Dubious value in most cases.
Job market? It's workfare for university graduates. If we had a society where only the things that needed to be done were done, you'd have 90% unemployment overnight. I'm all for that, but most people are so brainwashed by the "study-get in debt-get a job to pay that debt-must have a career-must study more to climb" cycle that they wouldn't know what to do with their time.
How many young graduates of electrical engineering do you know, kind sir? Have you spoken to them? When they start, they honestly believe they'll make a difference, design amazing stuff, work with the latest tools.
When the real world hits, I've SEEN THEM *CRY* like babies because their jobs are so mindless it's insulting. Example, "Integration", basically a department that makes sure the boxes from the other department fit inside the cabinets. If you tape bananas to the wires, a monkey can do that. But you *need* a Bachelor's for that! Imagine if only the actual qualifications for the job were all that's required. Who would need all the univerisities, who would employ those teachers, how would the textbook companies survive, how can employers get docile employees if they aren't in debt and 'hooked' on the career/university cult?
Universities and overblown job descriptions are the key to keeping an antiquated capitalist system going in a technological society.
PS: I only have a high school degree but I've kicked so many engineer's asses I need new shoes. This is why I have such antipathy towards universities. Why do people who've never had an interest in electronics flip a coin after college and become 'engineers' in 4 years, when people like me who haven't been lucky in life but started at 12 in electronics, and I know tubes to FPGAs from ACTUAL *GASP* experience, get limited?
Why am I wasting my time? Go polish your degree or something. Don't forget to pay that student loan!
Oh, and when your boss looks down at you when he drops his pants, just smile and wiggle your ass. You'll get that parking spot near the employee's entrance.
Fag.