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bemildred

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22. Calm down. We're on the same side.

Reply to Baobab (Reply #20)

Sun Mar 27, 2016, 07:22 AM

Mar 2016

You can talk until you are blue in the face and nobody will listen. People only listen when they want to.

I expect everything will be completely different in twenty or thirty years. Remember 1985? I do. It's changing even faster now

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Does Engineering Education Breed Terrorists? [View all] struggle4progress Mar 2016 OP

No, but it does provide sociopaths useful information jberryhill Mar 2016 #1

Hey! I bet we could rig this microwave generator to this reflector and cook somebody's kidneys struggle4progress Mar 2016 #2

No, engineers don't think like that. Baobab Mar 2016 #4

It depends on the engineer, I think. There have been, for example, struggle4progress Mar 2016 #10

Thorstein Veblen in his book "The Theory of the Leisure Class" explains Baobab Mar 2016 #5

People with character disorders are much more likely to enter politics or some other Baobab Mar 2016 #6

This is the most preposterous thing I have ever read. Baobab Mar 2016 #3

The article is actually a thoughtful piece with many points of view struggle4progress Mar 2016 #7

What would that have to do with correctness? Baobab Mar 2016 #9

I have arrived at a point in life where I find statements, that I agree with, much less productive struggle4progress Mar 2016 #11

But that is exactly how it will be read by others who are desperate to cut education spending Baobab Mar 2016 #12

Engineers kill hundreds of people. Business and poly sci politicians kill hundreds of thousands. Festivito Mar 2016 #8

I don't see the US as having more of a demand for non-pragmatic ields of expertise in particular. Baobab Mar 2016 #13

My point being that it is more pragmatic to choose engineering, thereby, perhaps more common. Festivito Mar 2016 #15

No. Next question. bvf Mar 2016 #14

I'd say that's putting the cart before the horse. malthaussen Mar 2016 #16

Does Liberal Arts Education breed terrorists? Baobab Mar 2016 #17

You are right to site ignorance cprise Mar 2016 #24

Terrorists, to be effective, have to learn some engineering. bemildred Mar 2016 #18

bemildred, technology is LIFE Baobab Mar 2016 #21

Look up "cornucopianism" cprise Mar 2016 #23

Wasn't there a study showing that religious fundamentalists cprise Mar 2016 #19

Let me ask you guys something, where do you think jobs are going to come from in 20 or 30 years? Baobab Mar 2016 #20

Calm down. We're on the same side. bemildred Mar 2016 #22