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From: Michael A. Terrell on 20 Apr 2010 21:20 Joel Koltner wrote: > > "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message > news:4BCE4E3B.D388FBBA(a)earthlink.net... > > Actually, it was 38911 bytes, without using slivers of unused memory. > > Good point... "64K of RAM in the machine, of which you can use... mmm... a > skosh more than half before things become challenging..." > > > Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to > > have a DD214, and a honorable discharge. > > Going for a Heinlein "Starship Troopers"-style policy there? :-) (And I mean > the book version, not the movie version where they largely ripped out any of > the social/political commentary Heinlein was exploring in favor of making an > "action" movie.) Think about it. How many lawyers would be willing to go through basic training, and active duty for a chance to run for office? -- Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.
From: ehsjr on 21 Apr 2010 00:40 Joel Koltner wrote: <snip> > > P.S. -- There's some well-heeled amateur radio club where, when a kid > passes his novice license exam, they'll buy him or her whichever > handheld radio they'd like. Whaddaya think -- too much reward for the > amount of effort required? Or no? Terrible. FAR better would be a soldering iron. And even that would be too much reward, but at least there's the hope it would help the kid learn. Ed
From: Jim Thompson on 22 Apr 2010 10:36 On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:44:10 +0200, "PovTruffe" <PovTache(a)gaga.invalid> wrote: [snip] >For example declaring war for stupid reasons in order to sell arms (as George >Bush II The Dumb did), changing laws for the benefit of some corporations... > Of course you (*) have no proof of that, just a leftist rumor, but that doesn't stop you from promulgating it as if it were fact. Do you notice something interesting now... NO US casualty losses on the lapdog news? (*) Are you a parrot or a watermelon ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | The only thing bipartisan in this country is hypocrisy
From: PovTruffe on 22 Apr 2010 04:44 > My point is, most politicans don't serve their country. They never > have, and never will. They have no idea what it takes to do what's > right, and they don't care as long as they can be elected over and over. Sounds obvious. Politicians have an obsession for power. Only this obsession can give them the force to act in such a way to allow them to reach the highest levels in the politics arena. Obsession is a very strong thing, much stronger than anything else (ethics, etc.). This means that politicians goals are rarely in sync with citizens goals although they sometimes are. Then there is the money issue. In order to be elected politicians need money (a lot of...). Someone will give them money but later this money will have to be paid back in a way that is not always compatible with country/citizens best interests. For example declaring war for stupid reasons in order to sell arms (as George Bush II The Dumb did), changing laws for the benefit of some corporations...
From: JosephKK on 23 Apr 2010 01:16
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:11:23 -0700 (PDT), brent <bulegoge(a)columbus.rr.com> wrote: >On Apr 19, 7:08 pm, "k...(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" ><k...(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:06:17 -0700, "Joel Koltner" >> >> >> >> <zapwireDASHgro...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> >"mpm" <mpmill...(a)aol.com> wrote in message >> >news:11c6a47c-5162-49bf-8fc0-5fc1ebe50b40(a)z11g2000yqz.googlegroups.com.... >> >On Apr 18, 5:32 pm, chris w <ch...(a)smartjack.com> wrote: >> >> Well, maybe if you specialize in the right niche, or perhaps, venture >> >> out with your own consulting firm. >> >> >Yes, analog and RF are your friends here. >> >> >And there's actually plenty of demand for *good* digital/embedded software >> >guys, it's just that there are so darned many out there, and the *average* >> >quality is so low, that many companies just start outsourcing, contracting, >> >etc. >> >> >> Put simply: Electrical Engineering has become project based. >> >> Companies bring on a team of engineers, and dump the whole lot of them >> >> when the project is over. >> >> >Not universally true, by any means, although it'd be interesting to find some >> >statistics on what percentage of U.S. EEs are "serial contractors" vs. regular >> >employees. >> >> >I suspect that it's the large companies that go for serial employment more >> >than the little ones. >> >> I think you'll find it's the other way around. >> >> >I used to live in Corvallis, Oregon where the largest >> >private employer is HP, and a very large chunk of the employees were temps... >> >they did this dance where they could only work for something like 10 months >> >and then had to be off for 2 months or somesuch to maintain their "temporary" >> >status. Some of the temps (especially the younger ones) actually liked this >> >arrangement, but the older ones/those with kids/etc. were constantly vying for >> >the limited number of permanent positions that would come up each cycle. >> >> A lot of large companies don't hire contractors for this reason. If they do, >> they hire the hiring out to a meat market to make *sure* they aren't tagged >> with the contractors being regular employees. I know the few times we hired a >> contractor we had to pay another 20%, or so, on top of all the taxes, just so >> we would never pay the contractor directly. We even put the contractor and >> "employer" together and only funneled money through one to the other. >> >> >HP also had some interesting ideas about "continuing education" -- in school >> >(Oregon State University), there were a lot of HP employees who were taking >> >classes to "advance" their careers, yet seemingly HP sometimes only cared >> >about people getting a degree and not what they were actually learning -- I >> >had a project partner in an antennas class (we built a classic Kraus-style >> >helical antenna) who was a marketing manager for ink, and I'm pretty sure she >> >would have been just as happy learning about the mating cycles of honey bees >> >with their exploding testicles and all as she was about array factors and >> >elemental dipoles... but she was motivated by the promise of a raise when she >> >finished the degree. >> >> IBM paid for advanced degrees and usually gave time off for engineers to take >> classes but there was no promise of a raise or promotion upon completion of a >> degree. There rarely was either for engineers. Tecnicians would often be >> promoted to engineer upon receiving a BSEE, though. > >I would hope so Some should be, some should not. I have seen both cases. More of the former though. |