five-point political agenda
 

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:39:36 -0400, Dave LaCourse
wrote:

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:18:28 -0400, daytripper
wrote:

As has already been amply demonstrated, counting how much money they have is
all the math ability some folks require - or even care to think about...

Yeah, and braggin' about how your screwin' your present employer and
moving to another when you return to work, and how much more money
you'll be makin' in your new job doesn't require a helluva lot of math
knowledge. CC + CC= CC

Pray tell, what delusions are you going on about now?

/daytripper (who senses a stunning conclusion in the offing ;-)

five-point political agenda
 

"MajorOz" wrote in message
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BJ Conner wrote:
That would be the NSPE but they don't typically represent engineers.
Their membership is mostly owners of small firms. Been there done
that. I quit because their agenda is not really engineering but
business and more pointedly makeing the owners more money. I don't
have a problem with that but they didn't seem to have many scruples
about it. They talked a good talk , lots about professionalism etc.
but not much action. I am not supprised they would go for bush,
probably smelling the crumbs that fall off the Haliburton plate.

That wasn't my experience. Although a disproportinate number were
CE's, I found their first priority was education and its improvement.
I served as state educational committee chair and MathCounts
coordinator and received tremendous support.

Aside: in one of his non-fiction pieces, Robert A. Heinlein wrote
(mistakes are from wetware inconsistency):
"Voting booths should require some test before a vote could be
recorded. For instance: the prospective voter is presented with a
quadratic equation. If he can solve it, the ballot is offered. If he
cannot, the booth opens and is empty."
He then went on to speculate that knowing the consequences, the dummies
would probably stay home.

cheers

oz, feeling sympathy for your experience

Sometimes, in idle moments, I try to think of things that are intrinsically
more amusing than an adult taking Robert Heinlein seriously as anything more
than a journeyman writer of hackneyed cowboy stories for barely
post-pubescent boys with more hope than they have any right to. So far, the
only thing I've come up with is serious discussions in Usenet.

Wolfgang

five-point political agenda
 

"Dave LaCourse" wrote in message
...
You're a sad sack piece of ****, Snedeker, if you can hate someone bad
enough to wish them dead. Man, that is a hate I have never faced or
hope to.

Well, there's your problem. You SHOULD face it.

Wolfgang