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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (33428)	4/19/2008 6:35:25 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217750

<<how many engineering university graduates are in prisons ... My guess is 0%>> yeup, my guess as well, if we are talking degree-ed, certified, and so inclined. <<Why would somebody eat something different from previously? ... best to stick with the tried and true>> it is troubling that i am in simultaneous and 100% full-on agreement with cb ilaine and maurice mq. must make appointment with a profession this week to examine the processor ;0) should some one say they will serve me cold cuts, bread, olives, cheese, and bit of wine for every meal forever, i would say, 'great'. hmmmn ... i think i will point erita towards the engineering inclined boys from now on ... the 'bob the builder' types. coconut reported that 42 months young paul had asked her to take off her pants, and paul is a bob the builder sort. i advised erita to get paul to take off first, and should he do so, then grab pants and throw them in the wet garbage. i am trying to think what my biggest phuck up was when 'doing engineering' - well, one time at a electrical lab session, the professor was talking about some sort of accident that had happened during the summer, and i was zoned out, hearing but not listening. then my attention was focused laser sharp, all of a sudden, as i realized i was holding two ends of circuit's cable, one end in each hand, the ends spaced about 3 feet from each other. within the circuit arrangement, under the test bench, was a very large inductor coil and an extraordinarily enormous capacitor thing. i interrupted the prof mid sentence, and shouted, 'sir, you mean like THIS?!' he told me to hold very still. i am still here, because i held very still :0)

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (33428)	4/20/2008 7:11:36 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217750

Refer to my discussion on technocracy. It is related to the 'engineering mentality. siliconinvestor.com History The technocracy movement has some of its intellectual origins back in the progressive engineers of the late 19th century including the works of Thorsten Veblen, such as "Engineers and the price system" as well as, to a lesser extent, Scientific management.[2] Josiah Willard Gibbs, a mathematician, engineer and chemist, has been described as the "intellectual forefather of technocracy" for his work on energy determinants. Early proto-technocratic organisations formed after the First World War; these included Henry Gantt’s "The New Machine" and Veblen’s "Soviet of Technicians". These organisations folded after a short time. However, the "Soviet of Technicians" resulted in a series of lectures, which Howard Scott attended;[2] he started the Technical Alliance in the winter of 1918-1919. William H. Smyth first used the word "technocracy" to describe a government made up of scientists and engineers in 1919,[3] and in the 1920s, it was used to to describe to works of Thorsten Veblen[2]. The Technical Alliance, composed of mostly scientists and engineers, started an energy survey of the North American continent near the beginning of the 20th century. Many of their conclusions gave a scientific background upon which they based their ideas for a new social structure. Thorstein Veblen, who wrote Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)[4], was a member of the Technical Alliance. After the dissolution of the Technical Alliance, Howard Scott became the founder and leader of a new organization called Technocracy Incorporated, which sought to implement the findings of the Alliance and create a new kind of society. The group was incorporated in the state of New York in 1933 as a non-profit, non-political, non-sectarian organization. Led by Scott, then director-in-chief or "Chief Engineer", the organization promoted its goals of educating people about the Alliance's ideas via a North American lecture tour in 1934, gaining support throughout the depression years.[citation needed] The precedent document of the Technocracy movement is the Technocracy Study Course. The organization has published several magazines throughout its history, including the The Technocrat, The Northwest Technocrat and Technocracy Digest, it currently publishes the North American Technocrat[5] and the movement still continues after more than 70 years of history (for a more complete list of past publications see here [1]). One of many notable members of the movement was M. King Hubbert, a geophysicist who proposed the theory which has become known as the Hubbert Peak Theory or Peak oil. The standard unit for the organization is the chartered Section, consisting of at least fifty members. At Technocracy's height in popularity, many cities contained more than one Section, sometimes as many as a dozen or more.[citation needed] These sections undertook the majority of Technocracy's work, including the research that continued after the Technical Alliance. The organization receives its funds entirely from dues and donations from its members. Because of the goal of abolishing political controls, membership is open to any citizen of North America except politicians. Technocracy's Continental Headquarters ("CHQ") was originally situated in New York. It has moved several times through its history, and is currently located in Ferndale, Washington.