SV: [sdiy] Can your *really* teach "Engineering"?

John Alex Hvidlykke john at hvidlykke.dk
Fri Aug 21 08:16:49 CEST 2009


> Yes, and what a brilliant population control scheme it was, too!  Now that
> we've suffered through several decades of relative peace in the western
> world, we have all these damn kids to park in schools, mostly to keep them
> away from the workplace, which mostly exists to give people
> something to do
> who would otherwise just hang around and get themselves into trouble.

Obesity and too much sugar and alcohol might solve that "problem". As far as
I am aware, the life expentancy of young are actually lower now than a few
decades ago...


> "The factory of the future will have only two employees: a man and a dog.
> The man's job will be to feed the dog, and the dog's job will be
> to prevent
> the man from getting anywhere near the equipment."

A funny a classical joke, but probably one beloning to the industrial age.
Actually, both the man and the dog lost their jobs when the factory moved
production to China ;-)

John

(Always a geek, but not an engineer, although I once wanted to become one.
Instead I took up writing and user interface design)




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