BTW Canada has introduced limited sharia law this past year. It is "voluntraily" at the moment (ie if you are a woman and live in a muslim area in canada, you are screwed) . So no, everyone will not resist Sharia.
this articlemakes it look like the sharia in Canada thing got shot down. And you greatly exadjerated the scope in which sharia would have been used in the first place (there was never anything regional about it, you would only comply if you yourself were a muslum, and it was only for family disputes).
Now as for the South Park thing, that was Comedy Central's decision, and I think they are a bunch of cowards, but they own the station... What is to stop you from getting a public access show, and making a skit about mohammad getting T-bagged by jesus?
A good idea, but... A tow truck might attract attention, while sitting an a car parked next to the target car tapping away at your laptop doesn't (yet) attract much attention...
I maintain that Americans are not actually more sick than residents of other countries, but that routine conditions that are regular and normal (colds in the winter, allergies in the spring, headaches, etc) are paperworked into being 'sick' and treated medically, because there is more profit in doing so.
Some of the people who did the study thought the same thing, so they switched from self-reporting to biological things that could be measured and found that americans are actually more sick... At least that is what they said on NPR this morning...
Is it a bad 'hood or something, crossing busy roads? I live a mile and a half from work, and my car usually doesn't even get started unless it's the weekend... It is a great, relaxing way to get to work, unless it is in the dead of winter, then I usually take a nice warm bus...
The average person walks 2-4 mph, so 1/4 mile at 3mph is 5 minutes, or the time you are currently taking to commute...
You got just about all of it correct, but CO2 is not the only emmision product of biodiesel combustion. NOx is perhaps the most important difference between biodiesel and unleaded. And this has nothing to do (directly) with the fuel itself. The major source of the NOx problem is the higher opperating temperatures in diesel engines (which you will recall from thermo class is also the reason they are more efficient), so there is little that can be done currently to solve the NOx problem..
People need to know their own limits...mine happen to be pretty high.
The problem is that almost everyone I know thinks that about themself, and this ain't lake wobegon, so we know some of them are full of it, and have just been lucky so far. If we are going to depend on personal limits, you should atleast have a test which measures someones change in reaction time as a function of BAC to determine a personaly BAC limit, and print this limit on the licence of the driver in question. Of course you should be able to bypass this test, and accept.08...
a grown woman, starting on empty stomach with 2-3 glasses of wine with a meal, can be in or over the.08 range. It is WAY too low.
My wife... a grown woman, is puking by the 3rd glass of wine with dinner... It obviosly isn't too low for everyone:)
Is that only in Louisiana? I thought most states had laws on the book which stated that refusing to take the test was legally equivilant to blowing above the limit, and would get you a DWI.
I lived in Louisiana when I was young, it is a strange state... There was a drive through bar less than a mile from my family's house in suburban Shreveport. One of the 'things to do' was to get a 'go cup' and cruise the streets. I heard they have an open container law now though...
iraq was not unrelated. stop reading moveon.org's propagandist ignorant ramblings.
It's not just moveon.org... It is just about every fact out there. No significant amounts of WMD, not significant connection to al queda, or any other terrorist organization. The fact is Saddam was neutered, he was powerless outside of Iraq, and even in large swaths of Iraq.
Even if many of the allegations I heard leading up to the invasion of Iraq were true, I don't think that introducing widespread chaos (the inevitable result of war) to the situation was a good idea.
i'd vote for a democrat in a heartbeat if i felt confident they would prosecute the war aggressively. but who among them who is not beholden to the dean/moveon/pacifist crowd has a chance?
Dean was a strong supporter of the war in Afghanistan, you know, the war on Al Queda. Dean is quite far from being a pacifist, he just thought that the war in Iraq was a really bad idea. And now, most americans agree with him. It's a real shame that the word of a politician is all it takes to convince most of this country to go to war.
I have voted in every national election I have been elegeble to vote in. Only once in my life have I voted for a republican.
It was in the Illinois rebublican primary, for McCain (really against Bush). In Illinois the primaries were open, and I didn't really care wether it was Bradley or Gore, so I figured my best choice was to try to prevent the canidate I found the least pleasant from running...
I no longer live in Illinois, so this option is no longer available to me.
Since the mid 1950s, it is obvious to *any* engineering student that someone with 3-5 years experience makes LESS money than the fresh graduate.
That is FIFTY years of data from the National Science Foundation.
Unless you are a hypocrite who thinks it is fine for your first year of work, but bad in the following years... there are no surprises.
Be good technically, but be ready to become a manager if you want $$.
Quit putting words in my mouth.
The complaint is not the realtivly static salary after entering the workforce. The complaint is the drop in pay relative to other mentally demanding fields. Or did you make as much as an MD when you got out of college?
The point is that if growth in engineering salaries (starting or otherwise) is not keeping pace with the competeing fields, when a BS in engineering is worth 6 figures with minimal experience, you will see a lot more engineers (where the salary goes from there is another issue).
"To work in any modern corporation, one must interact with many differant langauge backgrounds."
you know what though? there is a HUGE difference between being able to work with people of different "backgrounds" and trying to learn some complex concept/idea (read:cs, math, engineering) from someone who cannot communicate in a way you comprehend. Once you get past the initial learning curve in a given subject, life is all gravy... but when you're trying to learn something new that is already difficult enough, you NEED to avoid every hinderance you can.
I don't know about where you have worked, but I have repeatedly had to learn completly new concepts on the job. An engineering education shouldn't make you a robot who can solve problems within the parameters of what you have been taught about. If that is what you get, you will be useless in 20 years, or less... One of the things you should be learning is how to learn. You should be mastering problem solving thought processes, not thermodynamics solving, or circuits solving.
If you come out of school with a BS in engineering and you can't pick up completly new concepts from foreigners, your shcool has failed you.
I spent 3 years doing development and validation of computational fluid dynamics software at a major jet engine manufacturer. While I was there one of the guys who had beein in aerospace for 40+ years befriended me.
The real reason is that there aren't more people becoming engineers is that we just aren't treated like he was when he was my age. His salary when he was 30 was comparable to a medical doctors. It used to be that people who had the brains and passion to suceed in any field would often choose engineering, now, if they want money, they avoid engineering. Engineering is left to folks like me who really love solving problems, and would probably do engineering even if it paid less.
Companies that scream bloody murder everytime a government regulation interfiers with the free market in any way that hurts their bottom line (complaining that capatalism is te american way) want permission to hire engineers differently from all other professions because engineers are scarce. Well you're the ones demanding a free market.
Pay us more, there will be more of us!
My older friend I mentioned before forbid his children from studying engineering... I will advise my kids that a career in engineering is a bad finacial decision, but if they think it will make them happy...
This is the problem.
How many of you would tell your kids to become engineers?
I am not trying to bait flame here, I just want to provoke thought.
IIRC, Bush hasn't actually asked for the disarming of all these countries. He has asked that we take them out of the hands of nutcases who will use them as a first line of attack rather than a last resort; people who find ethnic cleansing an acceptable thing (he clouded the issue a bit by labeling them terrorists, but the reason they are terrorists seems clear enough to me).
Ya know, many rational world leaders think George Bush is a nutcase. Do you think that they should have the right to demand that we disarm?
Not only that, but calling that equation "simple" is ludicrous to the point of stupidity.
I could be wrong, but I am guessing you don't spend much time around mechanical designers. I used to be an analyst at a company that makes jet engines. I was in computaional anaysis, but the old school empierical guys used equations that make that one look like 8th grade math. In my professional opinion as a mechanical engineer, that equation is simple.
I wasn't the person who proposed it, I just defended it...
The only thing I have to add is about the lack of testing. There have been (sort of) extensive tests. Huricanes hit areas of extensive wetlands during the development of surrounding areas (these wetlands have since been developed as well). We could know from experience if the rule of thumb is in the right niegbhorhood from compairing similar storms during and after development.
I wouldn't bet my family's lives on such a rule of thumb.
Your residence was most likely built based on a large chain of rules of thumb. Contractors who build almost all residential structure don't do finite element analysis of planned buildings; they simply build to code, which is a conservative set of rules of thumb.
I am familiar with the complexities of modeling fluid flow... especially mixtures of mud, sand, air, water, and seasonal vegitation. I seriously doubt that anyone can accurately model this.
I know a thing or too about modeling of fluids myself, but mostly air. I worked as a computational fluid dynamics engineer for over 3 years at a major jet engine manufacturer, now I am an applied super computing consultant at a major academic institution. One thing I have learned is that although you can get a better answer from really high fidelity analysis, you can usually get on that is right enough with low fidelity analysis. There are times to use the best modeling, and times to use less. When you can get 80% of the answer in 5 minutes or 99% of the answer in 1 year, it is often better to take 80%, and apply a safty factor.
I don't doubt that nobody could do acurate first principles based modeling of the wetlands problem, but as much as I hate it, first principles models are not alway the best tools to use... There are several assumptions you could make for this problem to get good enough answers, I suspect that is where these rules of thumb came from.
Insurance/govt. relief funds should be provided to displaced people, who can then settle at a place of their choosing.
Those who had little in New Orleans (low wage jobs/no property) are already trying to set up shop in the places they have been evacuated to. Apparantly the Burger King across the street from the Astrodome is being flooded wiht applicants.
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Thank you for your time. You may go back to whacking it in your neighbors RV.
Were you going for a Beavis and Butthead referance, or just trying to insult him?
Isn't that the guy whose camper off in they were wacking?
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BTW Canada has introduced limited sharia law this past year. It is "voluntraily" at the moment (ie if you are a woman and live in a muslim area in canada, you are screwed) . So no, everyone will not resist Sharia.
this articlemakes it look like the sharia in Canada thing got shot down. And you greatly exadjerated the scope in which sharia would have been used in the first place (there was never anything regional about it, you would only comply if you yourself were a muslum, and it was only for family disputes).
Now as for the South Park thing, that was Comedy Central's decision, and I think they are a bunch of cowards, but they own the station... What is to stop you from getting a public access show, and making a skit about mohammad getting T-bagged by jesus?
He realized mid-order that the Guinness was not on tap, and the Coors Light was...
I would just use my tow truck...
A car getting towed often gets noticed, but a guy with a laptop parked in the next space doesn't...
A good idea, but... A tow truck might attract attention, while sitting an a car parked next to the target car tapping away at your laptop doesn't (yet) attract much attention...
I maintain that Americans are not actually more sick than residents of other countries, but that routine conditions that are regular and normal (colds in the winter, allergies in the spring, headaches, etc) are paperworked into being 'sick' and treated medically, because there is more profit in doing so.
Some of the people who did the study thought the same thing, so they switched from self-reporting to biological things that could be measured and found that americans are actually more sick... At least that is what they said on NPR this morning...
Is it a bad 'hood or something, crossing busy roads? I live a mile and a half from work, and my car usually doesn't even get started unless it's the weekend... It is a great, relaxing way to get to work, unless it is in the dead of winter, then I usually take a nice warm bus...
The average person walks 2-4 mph, so 1/4 mile at 3mph is 5 minutes, or the time you are currently taking to commute...
Refusal is legally equivalent to blowing above the limit...
I eat pie
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Please...
Blueberry Pie...
Yum!
It's my favorite.
You got just about all of it correct, but CO2 is not the only emmision product of biodiesel combustion. NOx is perhaps the most important difference between biodiesel and unleaded. And this has nothing to do (directly) with the fuel itself. The major source of the NOx problem is the higher opperating temperatures in diesel engines (which you will recall from thermo class is also the reason they are more efficient), so there is little that can be done currently to solve the NOx problem..
People need to know their own limits...mine happen to be pretty high.
.08...
.08 range. It is WAY too low.
:)
The problem is that almost everyone I know thinks that about themself, and this ain't lake wobegon, so we know some of them are full of it, and have just been lucky so far. If we are going to depend on personal limits, you should atleast have a test which measures someones change in reaction time as a function of BAC to determine a personaly BAC limit, and print this limit on the licence of the driver in question. Of course you should be able to bypass this test, and accept
a grown woman, starting on empty stomach with 2-3 glasses of wine with a meal, can be in or over the
My wife... a grown woman, is puking by the 3rd glass of wine with dinner... It obviosly isn't too low for everyone
Is that only in Louisiana? I thought most states had laws on the book which stated that refusing to take the test was legally equivilant to blowing above the limit, and would get you a DWI.
I lived in Louisiana when I was young, it is a strange state... There was a drive through bar less than a mile from my family's house in suburban Shreveport. One of the 'things to do' was to get a 'go cup' and cruise the streets. I heard they have an open container law now though...
iraq was not unrelated. stop reading moveon.org's propagandist ignorant ramblings.
It's not just moveon.org... It is just about every fact out there. No significant amounts of WMD, not significant connection to al queda, or any other terrorist organization. The fact is Saddam was neutered, he was powerless outside of Iraq, and even in large swaths of Iraq.
Even if many of the allegations I heard leading up to the invasion of Iraq were true, I don't think that introducing widespread chaos (the inevitable result of war) to the situation was a good idea.
i'd vote for a democrat in a heartbeat if i felt confident they would prosecute the war aggressively. but who among them who is not beholden to the dean/moveon/pacifist crowd has a chance?
Dean was a strong supporter of the war in Afghanistan, you know, the war on Al Queda. Dean is quite far from being a pacifist, he just thought that the war in Iraq was a really bad idea. And now, most americans agree with him. It's a real shame that the word of a politician is all it takes to convince most of this country to go to war.
I have voted in every national election I have been elegeble to vote in. Only once in my life have I voted for a republican.
It was in the Illinois rebublican primary, for McCain (really against Bush). In Illinois the primaries were open, and I didn't really care wether it was Bradley or Gore, so I figured my best choice was to try to prevent the canidate I found the least pleasant from running...
I no longer live in Illinois, so this option is no longer available to me.
BULL!
... there are no surprises.
Since the mid 1950s, it is obvious to *any* engineering
student that someone with 3-5 years experience makes LESS
money than the fresh graduate.
That is FIFTY years of data from the National Science Foundation.
Unless you are a hypocrite who thinks it is fine for your first year
of work, but bad in the following years
Be good technically, but be ready to become a manager if you want $$.
Quit putting words in my mouth.
The complaint is not the realtivly static salary after entering the workforce. The complaint is the drop in pay relative to other mentally demanding fields. Or did you make as much as an MD when you got out of college?
The point is that if growth in engineering salaries (starting or otherwise) is not keeping pace with the competeing fields, when a BS in engineering is worth 6 figures with minimal experience, you will see a lot more engineers (where the salary goes from there is another issue).
"To work in any modern corporation, one must interact with many differant langauge backgrounds."
you know what though? there is a HUGE difference between being able to work with people of different "backgrounds" and trying to learn some complex concept/idea (read:cs, math, engineering) from someone who cannot communicate in a way you comprehend. Once you get past the initial learning curve in a given subject, life is all gravy... but when you're trying to learn something new that is already difficult enough, you NEED to avoid every hinderance you can.
I don't know about where you have worked, but I have repeatedly had to learn completly new concepts on the job. An engineering education shouldn't make you a robot who can solve problems within the parameters of what you have been taught about. If that is what you get, you will be useless in 20 years, or less... One of the things you should be learning is how to learn. You should be mastering problem solving thought processes, not thermodynamics solving, or circuits solving.
If you come out of school with a BS in engineering and you can't pick up completly new concepts from foreigners, your shcool has failed you.
Well, a second hand story from an elder...
I spent 3 years doing development and validation of computational fluid dynamics software at a major jet engine manufacturer. While I was there one of the guys who had beein in aerospace for 40+ years befriended me.
The real reason is that there aren't more people becoming engineers is that we just aren't treated like he was when he was my age. His salary when he was 30 was comparable to a medical doctors. It used to be that people who had the brains and passion to suceed in any field would often choose engineering, now, if they want money, they avoid engineering. Engineering is left to folks like me who really love solving problems, and would probably do engineering even if it paid less.
Companies that scream bloody murder everytime a government regulation interfiers with the free market in any way that hurts their bottom line (complaining that capatalism is te american way) want permission to hire engineers differently from all other professions because engineers are scarce. Well you're the ones demanding a free market.
Pay us more, there will be more of us!
My older friend I mentioned before forbid his children from studying engineering... I will advise my kids that a career in engineering is a bad finacial decision, but if they think it will make them happy...
This is the problem.
How many of you would tell your kids to become engineers?
Or at least the reason he claims is that he didn't realize, until midorder, that the guiness was not on tap...
I am not trying to bait flame here, I just want to provoke thought.
IIRC, Bush hasn't actually asked for the disarming of all these countries. He has asked that we take them out of the hands of nutcases who will use them as a first line of attack rather than a last resort; people who find ethnic cleansing an acceptable thing (he clouded the issue a bit by labeling them terrorists, but the reason they are terrorists seems clear enough to me).
Ya know, many rational world leaders think George Bush is a nutcase. Do you think that they should have the right to demand that we disarm?
Not only that, but calling that equation "simple" is ludicrous to the point of stupidity.
I could be wrong, but I am guessing you don't spend much time around mechanical designers. I used to be an analyst at a company that makes jet engines. I was in computaional anaysis, but the old school empierical guys used equations that make that one look like 8th grade math. In my professional opinion as a mechanical engineer, that equation is simple.
This comment would get an underrated...
They should only allow over for 5,4 (and maybe 3) and under for -1,0 (and maybe 1).
I wasn't the person who proposed it, I just defended it...
The only thing I have to add is about the lack of testing. There have been (sort of) extensive tests. Huricanes hit areas of extensive wetlands during the development of surrounding areas (these wetlands have since been developed as well). We could know from experience if the rule of thumb is in the right niegbhorhood from compairing similar storms during and after development.
I wouldn't bet my family's lives on such a rule of thumb.
Your residence was most likely built based on a large chain of rules of thumb. Contractors who build almost all residential structure don't do finite element analysis of planned buildings; they simply build to code, which is a conservative set of rules of thumb.
I am familiar with the complexities of modeling fluid flow... especially mixtures of mud, sand, air, water, and seasonal vegitation. I seriously doubt that anyone can accurately model this.
I know a thing or too about modeling of fluids myself, but mostly air. I worked as a computational fluid dynamics engineer for over 3 years at a major jet engine manufacturer, now I am an applied super computing consultant at a major academic institution. One thing I have learned is that although you can get a better answer from really high fidelity analysis, you can usually get on that is right enough with low fidelity analysis. There are times to use the best modeling, and times to use less. When you can get 80% of the answer in 5 minutes or 99% of the answer in 1 year, it is often better to take 80%, and apply a safty factor.
I don't doubt that nobody could do acurate first principles based modeling of the wetlands problem, but as much as I hate it, first principles models are not alway the best tools to use... There are several assumptions you could make for this problem to get good enough answers, I suspect that is where these rules of thumb came from.
Skrew rebuilding.
Insurance/govt. relief funds should be provided to displaced people, who can then settle at a place of their choosing.
Those who had little in New Orleans (low wage jobs/no property) are already trying to set up shop in the places they have been evacuated to. Apparantly the Burger King across the street from the Astrodome is being flooded wiht applicants.
Thank you for your time. You may go back to whacking it in your neighbors RV.
Were you going for a Beavis and Butthead referance, or just trying to insult him?
Isn't that the guy whose camper off in they were wacking?
Real engineer. My first 2 years there I was a Computational Fluid Dynamics analyst, after that I was a turbine/afterburner aerodynamicist.