Meh, I did get one, but the fucking motor did not work, and I really wanted to build the elevator. Turned me off to erector sets. Had more fun blowing up capacitors and melting wire with a battery charger.
Sounds similar to my kids. They like to build stuff with dad, but don't have the initiative to explore and screw around that I had at that age. I think one issue is that it take a lot to duplicate, for example, a simple iPad game. Whereas I grew up playing Zork, and wrote my own text adventures (convoluted GOTO and GOSUB) in basic, which to me seemed like an achievement since it looked similar. Or, getting a robot to shoot a laser across the screen on my C64 as a tried to make a robotron type game. It was cool to a 10 year old. That can't b done these days without a lot more effort.
I'd up mod you if I had points. I have been an EE for 20 years, and don't think I will steer my kids into it. Same for my wife who is also an engineer. We like our work (the technology), the people we work with, but hate our employer. The keep hammering for more billable hours, cutting benefits, etc. I have about had it. If I didn't have young kids I'd quit tomorrow and try working for myself. Those who clamor for more STEM are not STEM workers.
I know it's anecdotal, but I have never had an issue carrying custom made hardware through checked or carry on. RF brass boards, PCBs, test equipment, etc. I've had baggage scanners wipe EPROM's, and TSA dump an $80k VNA out of it's Pelican case, and another TSA who said those micro-hook probes looked "painful", but never a security hassle. Go figure.
I graduated 22 years ago and have been doing RF/Microwave/Antenna hardware since, but I suppose that is a niche. I don't foresee the need going away in the next 25 years.
No it's NOT within their right to lobby ($$$) the government; unless you believe that absurd notion that corporations are individuals with rights. A government for the people and by the people? Or a government for the corporations and by the corporations?
A lot of boomer EEs are retiring soon. So don't think there are no jobs.
Hate to bust your bubble, but there is no glut of baby boomer engineers waiting to retire. They were run out a long time ago due to age discrimination or just being fed up with corporate America.
If they only want to keep nut jobs from getting guns, why did the democrats submit an assault weapon ban the other day? Give them an inch and they take a mile; at least that's what I see as a gun owner.
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I could care less if the federal government wants to use them, but will they try to mandate them like NJ?
Only after he died recently, my mother told me, that he helped create the DEW line . . . if anyone is old enough to know what that was.
Distant Early Warning, a line of radars above the arctic circle to look for Soviet bombers.
Cleaning it would only destroy the taste of the food. It's well seasoned, like Al Bundy's BBQ.
Ah, but I did take that motor apart, and the armature unwound. I was 6.
It was, you can buy it: http://hms-beagle.com/heirloom...
Meh, I did get one, but the fucking motor did not work, and I really wanted to build the elevator. Turned me off to erector sets. Had more fun blowing up capacitors and melting wire with a battery charger.
Damn.
Well my son does like making the propeller launch into the air.
Sounds similar to my kids. They like to build stuff with dad, but don't have the initiative to explore and screw around that I had at that age. I think one issue is that it take a lot to duplicate, for example, a simple iPad game. Whereas I grew up playing Zork, and wrote my own text adventures (convoluted GOTO and GOSUB) in basic, which to me seemed like an achievement since it looked similar. Or, getting a robot to shoot a laser across the screen on my C64 as a tried to make a robotron type game. It was cool to a 10 year old. That can't b done these days without a lot more effort.
I'd up mod you if I had points. I have been an EE for 20 years, and don't think I will steer my kids into it. Same for my wife who is also an engineer. We like our work (the technology), the people we work with, but hate our employer. The keep hammering for more billable hours, cutting benefits, etc. I have about had it. If I didn't have young kids I'd quit tomorrow and try working for myself. Those who clamor for more STEM are not STEM workers.
I know it's anecdotal, but I have never had an issue carrying custom made hardware through checked or carry on. RF brass boards, PCBs, test equipment, etc. I've had baggage scanners wipe EPROM's, and TSA dump an $80k VNA out of it's Pelican case, and another TSA who said those micro-hook probes looked "painful", but never a security hassle. Go figure.
Why would you nescesarily trust the accuracy of a refernce book over the internet? I have found mistakes in both.
I graduated 22 years ago and have been doing RF/Microwave/Antenna hardware since, but I suppose that is a niche. I don't foresee the need going away in the next 25 years.
Stolen? Why don't the Chinese and Indians deserve jobs? Can't you compete?
No, they DON'T deserve jobs in the USA over US citizens.
No it's NOT within their right to lobby ($$$) the government; unless you believe that absurd notion that corporations are individuals with rights. A government for the people and by the people? Or a government for the corporations and by the corporations?
A lot of boomer EEs are retiring soon. So don't think there are no jobs.
Hate to bust your bubble, but there is no glut of baby boomer engineers waiting to retire. They were run out a long time ago due to age discrimination or just being fed up with corporate America.
China has a thieving industry of original design manufacturers (ODMs)
Fixed that for you.
Jobs are for employers to give out, not for employees to own.
I agree, but the point is the employers are colluding with government to skew it in their favor.
Well, once you aim well and press that trigger - death happens.
More BS, as only 15% of handgun shootings are fatal.
Yes, I would take your gun. I hope to do so someday.
Wow the Bruce Perens I watch on TAPR videos, etc? What a fucking dick. Come and take it!
You'll be speaking Mandarin soon enough. I'll keep my guns.
I hate that "I am the NRA" phrase, but fuck you too!
Why would the Jesus freaks tout Ayn Rand, a stout atheist. Maybe you shouldn't stereotype.
If they only want to keep nut jobs from getting guns, why did the democrats submit an assault weapon ban the other day? Give them an inch and they take a mile; at least that's what I see as a gun owner.
BS http://controversialtimes.com/... Although, my carrying a gun is not about stopping mass shootings, it's about personal defense.