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To: elmatador who wrote (1785)	1/30/2019 12:05:25 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13800

By trying to ram down my throat history and other things that were of no interest to me with threat of beating, I learned valuable lessons. Such as the existence of dumb authoritarian collectivist thugs, the evils of socialism. After I had escaped in young adulthood I then found plenty of interest in non STEM fields. I chose what to read. A list of English kings and dates and stupid stuff they did was not part of that. I could attend any lecture I liked and the university libraries were loaded with books. In this particular case, eating the family cow and the goose that lays the golden eggs are like breaking windows to increase GDP, or worse, the hideous but common idea that wars are good for the economy. I prefer digging holes and filling them in again, which is at least good exercize and does no harm. So I understand the point. But the Loony Liberal Left goes full scale deflection crazy because they are too dumb to understand STEM but think they are saving the world. They end up eating the family cow, golden goose, everything else, breaking all the windows, digging holes but not filling them in again, robbing everyone and going military MAD in mass murder. Mqurice

To: elmatador who wrote (1785)	2/3/2019 4:47:39 PM
From: GPS Info	1 Recommendation Recommended By togrok Respond to of 13800

Whenever, in my profession, I have dealt with people, the most intelligent and easy to do business with were people from the legal and finance professions. You just use words with them. Yes, this is different than doing science or engineering. In the legal profession there aren't a lot of diagrams or equations to deal with - you just express your opinion based on what you have seen work in the past. That's a much simpler wold. I'm not sure about finance, but I suspect there is a lot of BS to get money for startups, etc. Now, you have people posting here who are nothing more than a tangled agglomeration of opinions, delusions and outright ignorance. It's just fun and bliss for them. On the other hand it's really tough to bullshit your way through the equations that are required in the physical world. You have marketing people selling vapor-ware to investors and a gullible public with no real critical thinking skills. My strong view is that somewhere in our educational system, we need to stress critical thinking skills. If it's in STEM, great, but it could be done in the humanities as well. From a personality standpoint, most engineers don't like BS and opinions; they want rock-solid facts and, yes, diagrams if the other party is not being clear. Bullshitters like Mq think they are so much smarter than liberals with their soft-belly opinion and theories. <g> OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet