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To: the longhorn who wrote (11372)	6/4/2021 2:34:27 PM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 26526

I've mentioned it several times but I went to UC in 1975 to "solve the energy crisis" with nuclear fusion with a double major in EECS and Nuclear Engineering. Been reading about water shortages out your way. Looks like the ag sector is getting hit pretty hard. Almond groves being torn down as there's no water for them and so forth. You need to put your engineer hat back on, Kirk, and figure out fusion for us. We need cheap energy to desal water and pump it around. My advisor told me the NE degree would get me a job at remote sites where they MIGHT be able to build some new fission reactors or duty on a nuclear sub or ship if I wanted to government to pay for my education via ROTC. The program I'd need for Fusion was EE and only a PhD program would give me what I needed and even then I'd be low on the totem pole where they run maybe one experiment a decade in the World... so I switched to Semiconductors since I could not even afford a Master's degree and a BSEE paid well. 46 years later, none of that has changed except maybe if I had the schooling and ideas, someone like Bezos might fund it... Right now, my "idea hat" is working on how to get my solution for all sorts of social issues from Homelessness to way too expensive medical care and cost of dying... I went to HS with our Lt Gov's husband and we've exchanged a few ideas on FB (about what to do to improve his articles in a constructive way that he appreciated) so I'm hoping to get my thoughts organized enough that maybe I could persuade him and his wife to use them to perhaps get higher office with a very good (if you are a Libertarian) solution. ltg.ca.gov Water is such a ripoff here in CA where they've made many great movies (Chinatown) about how corrupt it all is... for now, I'll bitch like hell about how they raised the fixed cost of my connection by 4x in 20 years to cover extravagant pensions for political reward jobs... but continue to conserve to save a few bucks but I won't take out my front lawn that is only 50% of the open space in front AND I have no lawn or pool in the back like so many do to hide their water use...

To: the longhorn who wrote (11372)	6/5/2021 11:41:35 AM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26526

I stopped paying for HBO when they cut out DISH. Sometimes I'll get a month on Amazon Prime to stream a full season of a show if I want, but have only done it once. What I miss is Bill Maher... he's somewhat of a Libertarian who drank too much Liberal Kool-Aid... Bill Maher Slams Higher Education As A “Grift”, Likens It To Scientology Maher’s New Rules rant was prompted by President Joe Biden’s American Families Plan, which the host said would spend “hundreds of billions” of dollars “so everyone can go to college.” The Right, Maher said, calls the plan “social engineering,” while Liberals “see more schools as the answer to everything.” Higher eduction(sic), Maher said, “is a racket that sells you a very expensive ticket to the upper middle class.” He asked, “Is it really liberal for someone who doesn’t go to college and makes less money to pay for people who do go and make more?” I agree and "only" got a BS degree and took some Master's classes at Stanford to get what I needed for the job with the job paying the full tuition and the microwave feed for when we moved from Palo Alto to San Jose for some classes. But... those water parks down your way sure sound fun... along with only 5 hrs a week of homework! I think I did double that every day in engineering school...