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On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:02:59 -0400, wrote:
636.1 I have been watching the 7 and a half hour hearings about the Coast Guard 110-123 conversion debacle (originally 4/18/07) that C-Span was running last night. I have it on tape now. deeply disappointing. things really spun out of control and the mission of the CG is now compromised... |
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... On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:02:59 -0400, wrote: 636.1 I have been watching the 7 and a half hour hearings about the Coast Guard 110-123 conversion debacle (originally 4/18/07) that C-Span was running last night. I have it on tape now. deeply disappointing. things really spun out of control and the mission of the CG is now compromised... In a recent NY Times editorial, some guy said he'd attended the graduation ceremonies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and many of those who'd earned their phd degrees were clearly foreigners, mostly Asian. He suggested it might be a good idea if someone from INS was at these ceremonies to offer green cards, before these people take their talents to their home countries. Considering the number of engineering errors in this CG debacle..... |
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On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:40:35 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote: wrote in message .. . On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:02:59 -0400, wrote: 636.1 I have been watching the 7 and a half hour hearings about the Coast Guard 110-123 conversion debacle (originally 4/18/07) that C-Span was running last night. I have it on tape now. deeply disappointing. things really spun out of control and the mission of the CG is now compromised... In a recent NY Times editorial, some guy said he'd attended the graduation ceremonies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and many of those who'd earned their phd degrees were clearly foreigners, mostly Asian. He suggested it might be a good idea if someone from INS was at these ceremonies to offer green cards, before these people take their talents to their home countries. Considering the number of engineering errors in this CG debacle..... yes..i'm an engineer and it's my belief engineering in the US is not a future oriented career. young engineers will find themselves more and more in dying industries, forced out of jobs and seeking fewer jobs over the next 20 years. no one should go into engineering. it's a dead end in the US. |
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wrote in message ... On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:40:35 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote: wrote in message . .. On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:02:59 -0400, wrote: 636.1 I have been watching the 7 and a half hour hearings about the Coast Guard 110-123 conversion debacle (originally 4/18/07) that C-Span was running last night. I have it on tape now. deeply disappointing. things really spun out of control and the mission of the CG is now compromised... In a recent NY Times editorial, some guy said he'd attended the graduation ceremonies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and many of those who'd earned their phd degrees were clearly foreigners, mostly Asian. He suggested it might be a good idea if someone from INS was at these ceremonies to offer green cards, before these people take their talents to their home countries. Considering the number of engineering errors in this CG debacle..... yes..i'm an engineer and it's my belief engineering in the US is not a future oriented career. young engineers will find themselves more and more in dying industries, forced out of jobs and seeking fewer jobs over the next 20 years. no one should go into engineering. it's a dead end in the US. It's sad but true. I saw the writing on the wall when I graduated from Purdue in 1993 with a BSME. So I decided to go into dentistry instead. |
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"NOYB" wrote in message link.net... no one should go into engineering. it's a dead end in the US. It's sad but true. I saw the writing on the wall when I graduated from Purdue in 1993 with a BSME. So I decided to go into dentistry instead. It all depends on where you are heading with your degree. A ball bearing engineer is probably a dead end job. A guy designing containment vessels for plasma energy generation systems has a very bright future. Eisboch |
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"RCE" wrote in message news:t9CdnVeo0YHp- A guy designing containment vessels for plasma energy generation systems has a very bright future. Only if his last name is Patel and he lives in New Delhi. |
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On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 21:14:22 -0400, "RCE" wrote:
"NOYB" wrote in message hlink.net... no one should go into engineering. it's a dead end in the US. It's sad but true. I saw the writing on the wall when I graduated from Purdue in 1993 with a BSME. So I decided to go into dentistry instead. It all depends on where you are heading with your degree. A ball bearing engineer is probably a dead end job. A guy designing containment vessels for plasma energy generation systems has a very bright future. Eisboch actually i find that the faster growing, future oriented technologies are in the most danger. as foreign countries develop they target these industries, just like they did the semiconductor industry. they have a short learning curve and they're aggressive. i'm not sure what to tell a young engineer...become a lawyer? |
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On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 21:14:22 -0400, "RCE" wrote: "NOYB" wrote in message hlink.net... no one should go into engineering. it's a dead end in the US. It's sad but true. I saw the writing on the wall when I graduated from Purdue in 1993 with a BSME. So I decided to go into dentistry instead. It all depends on where you are heading with your degree. A ball bearing engineer is probably a dead end job. A guy designing containment vessels for plasma energy generation systems has a very bright future. Eisboch actually i find that the faster growing, future oriented technologies are in the most danger. as foreign countries develop they target these industries, just like they did the semiconductor industry. they have a short learning curve and they're aggressive. i'm not sure what to tell a young engineer...become a lawyer?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - We're a generation away from having almost no math based employment in the US. My wife is a CPA, within several years of retirement, and has done very well in her career rising to CFO of a bank. If she were at the beginning of her career instead of nearing the end, she would choose something else. She says that clerk level accounting is being moved overseas, primarily to India, at an astonishing pace by the largest players. With computerization, it's possible to pay a college-educated worker in India $500 US per month to sit and crunch numbers, run spread sheets, and send the results back to the home office the very same day. Fringe benefits, such as medical insurance, social security, etc, for a US employee will cost more per month, before any hourly wages or salary is considered, than the entire cost of employing a number- cruncher in India. I've been following the development of a new 40-foot boat pretty closely. The real secret to building this vessel has been a high powered CAD program. Yes, the naval architect had to define the shapes, dimensions, etc associated with the project, but the CAD program resolved a lot of the problems that would have been handled on the lofting floor back in the day. Pretty soon nobody will bother "splashing" a boat they want to copy if they can find a way to surreptitiously acquire the computer data. I'm sure that the people running the CAD programs for many boat manufacturers know a heck of a lot more about computers than they do about boats |
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On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:27:23 -0700, Chuck Gould
wrote: Pretty soon nobody will bother "splashing" a boat they want to copy if they can find a way to surreptitiously acquire the computer data. Take a few 3D pictures and a computer will generate the lines for you. |
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