Not only does the engineer get a great idea of how the world works, but,the engineer's BS detector becomes super sharp!
Phoney social science studies are easily de-bunked by the engineer's superior mathematical ability. The downside is that you have to "suspend disbelief" at most adventure and action movies because they were made by ignorant arts majors.
Here's a link to an interesting read about college educations and college students, most of whom, the author claims, are in worthless endeavors studing worthless subjects and wind up being worthless in the general economy.
"conspiracy theory -noun the idea that many important political events or economic and social trends are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public. "
Here are some recent examples for you.
1. The Jews control the world's money supply. 2. The Bushies started the Iraq war to make themselves richer. 3. Cheney started the Iraq war to give $billions in business to Haliburton. 4. Hillary Clinton and Phyllis Diller are the same person because they have the same laugh, and you never see them together.
All these are popular conspiracy theories. Basing your opinion on conspiracy junk doesn't contribute to the discussion.
Some of the more salient facts in relation to the situation follow.
1. Investigation of law breaking is the job of the Justice Department. The FCC is just a regulatory agency.
2. Government eavesdropping on telephone calls has been going on since Alexander Graham Bell invented the device. The Feds can listen to you all they want, impound your cars, and freeze your bank accounts if they are suspicious of drug activity.
It happens all the time, and hardly any judge questions the Feds when granting authority for this infringement of your privacy. Now that the Feds want to give terrorists the same treatment, it is fair to ask the question, "Where were our elected representatives when our rights to privacy and due process were surrendered in the war on drugs?"
3. All telephone call records are the property of the telephone company, just like your VISA purchase records are the property of your VISA affilate bank. They have always had their data-mining and market research projects using info about you to sell you more stuff. Breaches of our privacy in relation to who we have been talking to or what we have been buying have been going on forever.
4. The Congressional proposal for the FCC to investigate the telephone companies is a smoke screen to conceal the inability of a feckless, visionless Congressional Majority to get ANYTHING done.
The real damage to our civil rights was done in the last century.
Your point of Congress not being good for anything was, I think, correct. The rest of your post was stuff you can get from any conspiracy theory blog.
Linux may never be ready for your desktop, or many other Windows users. I am migrating from XP to Linux because I am getting ready to retire, and have to plan on diminishing monetary resources. I am not planning to keep the MS upgrade tracks greased.
Open source is good for me, and I don't have to worry about being 100% compatible with anything.
Life is good without worrying about viruses, spyware, and all the garbage attendant with market dominant Microsoft Products.
Even my wife likes Linux on the desktop. After all, it's not magic.
Stir yourself from your slumber, and smell the coffee. Linux is coming along.
"Further consolidation of power and money into their own families and friends."
Oh, wow! Another repeater of conspiracy theories. The Kool Aid at MoveOn must be pretty good to keep ill informed people repeating stupid things.
Get a life, hoss!
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Not only does the engineer get a great idea of how the world works, but,the engineer's BS detector becomes super sharp!
Phoney social science studies are easily de-bunked by the engineer's superior mathematical ability. The downside is that you have to "suspend disbelief" at most adventure and action movies because they were made by ignorant arts majors.
Here's a link to an interesting read about college educations and college students, most of whom, the author claims, are in worthless endeavors studing worthless subjects and wind up being worthless in the general economy.
http://spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12935
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"conspiracy theory
-noun
the idea that many important political events or economic and social trends are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public. "
Here are some recent examples for you.
1. The Jews control the world's money supply.
2. The Bushies started the Iraq war to make themselves richer.
3. Cheney started the Iraq war to give $billions in business to Haliburton.
4. Hillary Clinton and Phyllis Diller are the same person because they have the same laugh, and you never see them together.
All these are popular conspiracy theories. Basing your opinion on conspiracy junk doesn't contribute to the discussion.
Some of the more salient facts in relation to the situation follow.
1. Investigation of law breaking is the job of the Justice Department. The FCC is just a regulatory agency.
2. Government eavesdropping on telephone calls has been going on since Alexander Graham Bell invented the device. The Feds can listen to you all they want, impound your cars, and freeze your bank accounts if they are suspicious of drug activity.
It happens all the time, and hardly any judge questions the Feds when granting authority for this infringement of your privacy. Now that the Feds want to give terrorists the same treatment, it is fair to ask the question, "Where were our elected representatives when our rights to privacy and due process were surrendered in the war on drugs?"
3. All telephone call records are the property of the telephone company, just like your VISA purchase records are the property of your VISA affilate bank. They have always had their data-mining and market research projects using info about you to sell you more stuff. Breaches of our privacy in relation to who we have been talking to or what we have been buying have been going on forever.
4. The Congressional proposal for the FCC to investigate the telephone companies is a smoke screen to conceal the inability of a feckless, visionless Congressional Majority to get ANYTHING done.
The real damage to our civil rights was done in the last century.
Your point of Congress not being good for anything was, I think, correct. The rest of your post was stuff you can get from any conspiracy theory blog.
Linux may never be ready for your desktop, or many other Windows users. I am migrating from XP to Linux because I am getting ready to retire, and have to plan on diminishing monetary resources. I am not planning to keep the MS upgrade tracks greased. Open source is good for me, and I don't have to worry about being 100% compatible with anything. Life is good without worrying about viruses, spyware, and all the garbage attendant with market dominant Microsoft Products. Even my wife likes Linux on the desktop. After all, it's not magic. Stir yourself from your slumber, and smell the coffee. Linux is coming along.
"Further consolidation of power and money into their own families and friends." Oh, wow! Another repeater of conspiracy theories. The Kool Aid at MoveOn must be pretty good to keep ill informed people repeating stupid things. Get a life, hoss!