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Heard something profoundly disturbing today (Vanity)
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Posted on 05/03/2016 4:23:41 PM PDT by DuncanWaring
Was talking to a recently-retired computer-science professor today; he said in the last few years he's been seeing students showing up in college who have literally
Never.
Used.
A.
Screwdriver.
He has been teaching a higher-level class in automating control of a train setup.
Part of the project is to assemble a train car from a kit.
These kids have no idea how to do it.
TOPICS: Education; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: fees; government; millennials; nimbys; regulators
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To: DuncanWaring
My son built his own computer before graduating HS. I taught him some basic car maintenance and woodworking skills but he wasn’t much interested in those things.
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posted on
05/03/2016 5:32:00 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: steve86
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posted on
05/03/2016 5:32:33 PM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(The GOPe.....are actually worse than the Dim's)
To: thoughtomator
Back when, we learned how to write a check and balance our accounts in 4th grade. We’d bring our pennies to school one day a week and the teacher would stamp our bank passbooks. The bank was Ben Franklin Savings and Loan and gave us heavy metal Ben Franklin piggy banks. I had one for years and may still have it somewhere.
But kids today think they’re so smart.
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posted on
05/03/2016 5:32:50 PM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: DuncanWaring
The elite don’t need to learn to use screwdrivers. Their duty is to fabricate and pass regulations against private property rights in order to drive technically inclined people into homelessness. They are paid to produce trouble, may they take us through the remainder of the default process quickly.
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posted on
05/03/2016 5:35:31 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: LaRueLaDue
It never occurred to me that not all men knew their way around engines and such...Some of us women do, too.
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posted on
05/03/2016 5:38:27 PM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: sparklite2
We got the special extra credit class about how to temper that soft steel. Priceless.
To: discostu
feh...
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posted on
05/03/2016 5:39:56 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
To: DuncanWaring
Those students will be great NIMBYs, following in their parents’ footsteps.
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posted on
05/03/2016 5:40:11 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: VerySadAmerican
Yes, and yes. Hate to disappoint you.
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posted on
05/03/2016 5:47:32 PM PDT
by
gop4lyf
(Gay marriage is neither.)
To: gop4lyf
Not disappointed at all. Good for you! Are you teaching in the inner city?
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posted on
05/03/2016 5:49:32 PM PDT
by
VerySadAmerican
(Never held a job in the private sector;never met a payroll,never created a job - CRUZ! Conservative!)
To: centurion316
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posted on
05/03/2016 5:54:23 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: tacticalogic
So that’s what I’ve been doing wrong all this time. Lol.
I’m revamping my old Willys jeep dash and making several modifications and modernizing some. I do not want to pull the dash off again.
Some of what will be wired will be soldered. There is the usual crimping and heat shrinking too. I plan for my connections to hold.
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posted on
05/03/2016 5:54:26 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: sparklite2
My eighth grade shop class was print shop. I got to use the big copy camera. It literally changed the direction of my life.
I also helped build my parents log cabin. 3,000 square feet of cabin. And I planed three sides of every log. Twice.
My wife is still a little surprised when I know how to fix stuff. I like to keep her guessing.
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posted on
05/03/2016 5:55:05 PM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(Ask Bernie supporters two questions: Who is rich. Who decides. In the past, that meant who died.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Bet he didnt know the difference between acid and rosin core solderI sit back and scratch my head over that one every time I need to solder electrics but they always seem to work.
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posted on
05/03/2016 5:55:55 PM PDT
by
norton
To: eyeamok
"Millennials, Dumber than Dirt, but some of the Proudest Morons you will ever meet."
The progeny of local government and connected service business bosses, yes.
Their are some very technically inclined other ones, though, much more so than their parents and grandparents dumped out of the trades long ago. Those younger folks live increasingly more austere, learn to repair many useful things and learn to build many things in order to survive. They use old computers and free software for gathering knowledge.
Let the elite, however, smoke and eat their stylish, legalized drug. Let them spend their time staring at social interactions on their screens. Let them be ever more "socialized" and intent on being the political/regulator class leaders of tomorrow.
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posted on
05/03/2016 5:58:25 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: DuncanWaring
Heat to red and quench?I posted that exact same answer on StackOverflow once, when somebody asked about how to "harden a server".
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posted on
05/03/2016 6:00:15 PM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: tacticalogic
Next question - how to “wipe a server?”.
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posted on
05/03/2016 6:05:53 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: DuncanWaring
Mom always chided me as a young boy for taking things apart and putting them together again. I spent most of my life as an engineering designer, helping dad work on 1970’s cars was very instructional and formed the basis of my critical thinking skills. Why couldn’t that have been done differently. I learned to think out of the box.
I once turned an aircraft blast gate off an aircraft carrier
into a hypersonic test chamber. My bosses often caught me with a wrench in my hand and a sheepish look on my face, lol.
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posted on
05/03/2016 6:08:04 PM PDT
by
OftheOhio
(never could dance but always could kata - Romeo company)
To: DuncanWaring
Next question - how to wipe a server?.I use an arc welder. Put it on AC, crank the amps all the way up, ground the hard drive case and drop a stick of 6011 through it a few times.
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posted on
05/03/2016 6:08:04 PM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: Radix
It’s a matter of having opportunity- and necessity.
My career was in factory maintenance and the best technicians, by a large margin, had a naval or farming background.
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posted on
05/03/2016 6:09:54 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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