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    • Sat Nov 8th 11:24 AM
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      The Shallowest Generation
      Thank you for saying what needed to be said. I have always found the generation that came just before mine to be incredibly shallow, mindless, clever, greedy, thoughtless beyond their own selfish goals and needs, and completely unwilling to face the truth about anything. A nation of childish narcissists. They seem to believe that any criticism comes from jealousy, because we'd be just the same if we had the chance. Wrong. I am glad they will be dead when my kids are grown. I just regret the mess they will leave them.
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    • Sat Nov 8th 11:12 AM
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      The One-Word Topic of the Day, and Week: Obama
      We already have a huge shortage of engineers.....duh. And, raising their taxes is not going to bring any more into the workforce. You really mean construction workers, not engineers. 90% of engineers are very conservative.


      On Nov 07 05:32 PM User 118015 wrote:

      > Obama will make the nessasary changes to get this country going again...the
      > economic news is obscene and unamerican and unworthy of a great nation.
      > Building the intrastructure which has fallen into decay could be
      > a priority and provide jobs for engineers and construction workers.
      > Building a new green source of energy and a new source of green transportation
      > will provide jobs for everyone.
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      > If the FDA would let loose with new management, drug products that
      > have been canned because of political reasons can get a chance to
      > get on the market along with new stem cell therapies and drugs given
      > half a chance by a rational administration. MarvinMBA
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    • Sun Jul 20th 12:35 PM
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      Does Al Gore Finally Get It?
      Well, I will stop reading your blogs. Man made global warming is a hoax to promote global governance, plain and simple. For goodness sake, look at the main source of information - the UN! IPCC is a political organization, not a scientific one. Listen to the many opponents. And most of all, look at all the data and put it in perspective.
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    • Sun Jul 20th 10:27 AM
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      The End of Broadcast TV Nears
      Good article. I like to call the medium "a vapid wasteland of unwatchable programs". In a world that is demanding higher and higher intelligence from its inhabitants, the last thing kids (or adults) should be doing is watching TV. I say, let it die.
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    • Mon Jul 7th 11:21 AM
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      The World's Revenge
      Right. Let's tax our way into prosperity! Eat the rich! This is emotional drivel. I think we all know the govt is retarded. And , any thinking person knew the oil party would end. Should we now blame the government for the fact that no one is driving Natural Gas cars? Despite it costing 1/3 to 1/5 of what gas costs? Solar energy is easy to do 31% efficiency...where is the consumer demand? Stirling engines work great in hybrids. Where is the demand? Most of our problems are engineering problems. Are there any engineers in Congress? Can the average individual name 2 engineers? Stop whining about government and running for the illusory safety of socialism. make your own damn decisions.
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    • Sun Jul 6th 11:27 AM
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      And You Think Today's Gas Prices Are High?
      Yes well, isn't the general idea that things should be getting better and not worse? Why sit around saying -well, could be worse! Energy really should be free and widely available. It already is abundant nearly free for solar using stirling engines. Look at the 500MW station going up near San Diego. We could have plenty available from Nuclear energy too, Fission now and fusion if we ever get there. Sadly, we have stupidly and stubbornly based our economy on cheap oil and inefficient use of it. Dumbest of all, we buy most of it from badly run countries and now are in competition with other developing countries for it. AND WORST OF ALL, we have no one in Congress or in any influential position who even has an engineering degree. People think engineering is done by elves who show up at night. Anyway, I bought an NGV Honda. I now pay 90 cents a gallon, change my oil every 30K miles, consume CNG pumped right here in OK, and create virtually no pollution. Happily, the rest of you won't do the same because you'd rather argue about politics. Drill here and get off the stuff - move forward, not back. Get more cheap energy. AND GET MORE ENGINEERS IN CONGRESS!!!!!
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    • Sat Jun 28th 08:49 AM
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      Too Late to the Oil Party? Consider the Alternative
      Hear Hear
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    • Sat Jun 28th 08:48 AM
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      Too Late to the Oil Party? Consider the Alternative
      Hear Hear!
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    • Tue May 20th 07:50 AM
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      Why Investors Worship Old King Coal
      The reference to global warming should be offset with a comment that we are now cooling and will continue to cool. As global warming comes off the table (provided those devoted to this religion can actually acknowledge facts) coal will be even more attractive.
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    • Fri May 9th 20:31 PM
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      An Energy Policy That Makes Sense, Revisited
      Amazing how there are no engineers in politics or really at the top anywhere in this country. We are rapidly approaching a time when our fundamental problems are engineering problems and yet there are nearly no engineers in leadership. This can be seen in many plcaes, I am in werospace and we are failing because leadership just does not understand or respect engineering. What percentage of congressmen are practicing engineers? What percentage of CEO's?
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    • Mon Mar 31st 17:57 PM
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      Boeing Cleared for Takeoff
      I am frankly glad that Boeing lost for this reason: the corporate welfare mentality so very evident in the tanker deal is destroying aircraft engineering. Managers equipped with the the 'iron rice bowl' mentality stifle all innovation, promote dunderheads, and turn out overpriced crap calling it engineering. It has slowly destroyed the profession.
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    • Sun Mar 30th 19:00 PM
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      Boeing Cleared for Takeoff
      Boeing is currently suffering from disorganisation in engineering. Boeing's engineering has never been its strong suit- marketing has. Now, tasked with playing technology catch-up in designing a largely composite plane, they find the new grads and retirees brought back from the dead working in a badly managed engineering environment are not up to the job. Its not that its a hard job, its just that Boeing has never cared much about engineering and its at an all time low when they need it. But they persist in old ways treating engineering like a commodity. So, the -8 is very late, the -3 is shelved, the -9 will be delayed and the -10 could never happen. The 787 will be VERY expensive, not meet performance promised, and likely suffer from unforseen problems when it is in service.
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    • Thu Oct 25th 18:09 PM
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      LDK's Business Remains Strong Despite Potentially Debilitating Allegations
      yes, he was kidding. And don't pick on Fox. No serious person gets their information from TV, radio or newspapers. They are all tainted by sensationalism, political bias, and the almighty ratings.
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    • Thu Oct 25th 16:23 PM
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      MSC.Software's Friday the 13th Nightmare
      Msc has survived by assuming that once locked in, its customers will always accept increasingly out of date software and very poor customer service. Their products Patran and nastran are now hopelessly out of date in compariosn to other simulation products. Their entire product line is very poorly integrated and very expensive. Now, they claim they will more than catch up very rapidly with competitors Simulia (formerly ABAQUS now owned by Dassualt) and ANSYS at the same time they are laying people off. Meanwhile, ANSYS continues to grow and its stock soars. And SIMULIA has an entrance through Dassault to all many of MSC's customers. As far as I am concerned, MSC products will be used only in completely stagnant engineering depts. And, if reliable data file translators were on the market; companies would completely abandon MSC for their competitor's products.
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