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  1. maxiep

    maxiep RIP Dr. Jack

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    Engineers create. You don't think they would start companies to sell their inventions? Fuck, this is sad. There appears to be an entire segment of society that can't figure out how to just do something themselves.
     
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    maxiep RIP Dr. Jack

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    When looking at unemployment statistics, one should look at the U6, not the U3.
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Some do, some don't. Not all engineers are inventors. Not all engineers are entrepreneurial. And for some types of engineers, entrepreneurship is not so feasible (aerospace engineers, nuclear engineers, chemical engineers, for example).

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    Looking at the word engineer repeated several times in my post, I started wondering about the word. Looked it up and discovered that a civil engineer was originally an engineer who wasn't a military engineer (the original engineers were military). Never knew that before. I always thought they were just more polite than the other engineers.

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    julius Living on the air in Cincinnati... Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Civil Engineer makes me think of a football game between Oregon State and Oregon.

    This year it was 4 score and 7 points to Oregon, and....
     
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    Wendys for me. :)
     
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    I have felt a slight change in the economic environment. I have heard many people echo the same thoughts.

    It has been slow and slight, but definitely a change towards the positive again with some cautious optimism that it will slowly continue in this direction.
     

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