I won’t be surprised because that’s the point. The corruption required being beholden to interests in the states. Being buddy with state legislators. State government. With direct election senators are simply purchased on the national level. They are essentially unaccountable to anyone but the corporations and others…

But oil and gas has little need for anything beyond ChemE’s

Obama has been the third and fourth terms of GWB in every meaningful way. It’s just feels different when a democrat does it.

The story of idiocracy’s use of brands for parody as I read it somewhere was they were originally only going to do one but the lawyers were scared they would get sued. The solution the lawyers came up with was if they did many they would have a solid defense under parody.

How do we define slavery? Slavery is actually just one word of many that describes a spectrum of one man owning another and what he produces. There are many different ways a person can be owned. In the modern world the predominate system is one of financial bondage rather than physical. Monetary systems, tax codes,…

IMO The direct election of senators is one of the biggest reasons things are such a mess today. When senators were appointed by state governments it made corruption fight itself. The senators were beholden to the corruption back home and couldn’t become creatures of the federal government else they wouldn’t be senator…

yes, china is close to the one-world-company-town model.

“Soft eugenics to fix the entire mess”? The soft eugenics being used now are causing the mess, at least in part. Stop doing it. That’s all, just stop doing it.

Oh I got that it was sarcasm in the presentation, but it’s also rather true.

Of course, I get that, but there are other careers and sectors of the economy where companies recognize bottom line contributions and are willing to pay. Engineering just isn’t one of them as a rule.

There’s manufacturing engineering jobs in the auto industry in Illinois. Design? Not so much. Just supplier level jobs really.

H1B visa program. They’ve been doing it for decades.

Who’s paying though?

Most people don’t know that engineering in the auto industry, at least mechanical, often means getting stuck doing door handles or sunvisors or water pumps for years if not a career. It’s great for getting cars done quickly but it’s not exactly the exciting engineering career people imagine working for automaker or…

Lots of ME jobs out there. It’s called generically “electronics packaging”. I used to do that sort work. Housings, displays, keypads, switches, buttons, contacts, latches, tons of stuff and its far more involved than anyone outside of it gives it credit for. A thin plastic housing that allows a gizmo to be dropped on…

Exactly. looks normal to me. The mouse is just proof it was an actual barn find.

Your reading comprehension continues to fail you. If you can’t tell the difference between being “part of” and “serving” I can’t help you. Government funding is dependent upon being politically acceptable to one’s patrons, same as it always has.

It’s amazing how you’ve decided what I should be arguing. Sorry you don’t have that privilege. I could go down the tangents of data handling, financing, the corporate-state system, and such. I have done so in the past. You can sift through my gawker history if you’re interested in that. Today I am staying with the…

What I would prefer is irrelevant. What is, is what is. Human society has been this way for at least six thousand years and shows no sign of changing any time soon.

Reading comprehension failure or do you think you’re being clever? What the ruling class has desired to control over the last 6000 years remains the same. Back then people obeyed and sacrificed because the priests told them that if they didn’t the spring rains wouldn’t come and the crops would fail and they would die…