Posted on 03/04/2009 1:04:33 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Welcome to Texas then. Buy some weapons, DON'T vote democrat, get a hat, and enjoy ... but be prepared to study BBQ for about 10 years before offering any critiques.
Again, the future technology isn’t coming out of A&M etc.
I like Texas and was there with the YAF in 1984 for the Republican Convention. I had a wonderful time, the gentleman were extremely well mannered but the heat did me in: I had a heat stroke attack and thought that was the end for me. The Texas heat is brutal. I will vote for the party that best preserves Western Civilization. As for the part on firearms, this New Yorker, only went to a firing range once and I tried but when I fired a handgun, the sound almost gave me a heart-attack. Please no laughter, it is just that I did not grow up in a hunting or firearms culture. Other than the one time experience on the firing range, the only exposure to hunting and firearms were shows on television./Just Asking - seoul62.......
May not between MIT and UT, but I know several people that opted for Rice over MIT.
All great schools, but I have some insight to this.
The problem with the elite schools is that they often train the young engineer or scientist to be an academic. We recently hired a new engineer from an “elite” school, one with great grades, and it has been very interesting. After six months she admitted that her whole schooling was focused on going grad school, as opposed to real engineering.
I have seen that many times. In fact, one company I have worked with specifically avoids said schools because of that. Not that the grads aren’t very well educated, but they are more tooled to doing things other than working with actual everyday engineering problems.
Here is a bit of reality. IF Russia made a real effort to take Alaska, they could. We simply could not move the men, supplies, or equipment up there to hold it.
Of course, the flip side is that the supply chain for any Russian invader would be worse, and while they could very easily over run the state, they would have the very devil of a time holding it.
What the great schools produce are those 50 or 75 guys/gals out of a thousand with original ideas. Most will go on to teach or blossom at a later date. For work-a-day-engineers, I’d go with the second-string schools.
If you're inclined to believe Igor Panarin, and the Kremlin wouldn't mind if you did, then President Barack Obama will order martial law this year, the U.S. will split into six rump-states before 2011, and Russia and China will become the backbones of a new world order.None just kicked slim's ass right down an elevator shaft. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet. Perdogg -- for your predictions thread?
Bump for the Binghamton, Whitney Point crowd ...
Liberty, I think the Binghamton, Whitney Point crowd is up to their butts in snow. LOL!
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