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To: CobaltBlue
You misspelled "hamburger."

It is considered bad manners to criticize postings for spelling. You have a sense of greatness over your spelling ability. I suspect I know concepts you have yet to discover. Do you wish to challenge on my turf?

Yes, there is a great divide between the people who turn hamburgers for a living, and the people who manage restaurants, and the people who own them....

There is also a great divide between those who use cell phones and those who engineer them. Users of TVs, microwave ovens, and computers are also across a great divide from those who engineer them. I am not management material. You are probably not engineering material. I suspect your head would start smoking if I explained all that happened between your keyboard and my screen. That expertise was hard won and is not replaceable. It is, on the other hand, something that can be obtained elsewhere by cheating the US labor laws through outsourcing.

I will survive on my own.

You are, however, failing to consider what happens to the United States once folks stay clear of engineering professions. Innovations will then be imported, including second-rate defense systems. Young people are already avoiding engineering careers. Do you actually believe my sorrow is entirely for myself, or could I be legitimately concerned for the future of my Nation?

29 posted on 12/09/2003 11:54:28 AM PST by GingisK
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To: GingisK
Young people are already avoiding engineering careers.

They have little incentive to do otherwise. I imagine soon we'll be hearing how companies want more H1-B's because Americans are too lazy to get into engineering. There in no reason for kids in high school and college to take advanced classes in math, science and other challenging fields for 4 to 7 years when technical jobs are being sent to India and China. The jobs that do remain will pay a lot less. Take a look at what kids going into college are majoring in. It's not computer science and electrical engineering...it's law! Think we have too many lawyers now?...wait a few years.

35 posted on 12/09/2003 12:11:16 PM PST by Orangedog (difference between a hamster & a gerbil?..there's more dark-meat on a hamster!)
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To: GingisK
No, of course I don't wish to challenge you on your turf. Nor on mine.

I just know how people are. Most people master spelling by the time they are ten, and go on to other things. So when you have spelling problems, it makes you look like a dummy.

No matter how smart you are.
39 posted on 12/09/2003 12:23:54 PM PST by CobaltBlue
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