different, yet beautifully magnificent specimens of braun and brains…

So while I was golfing this weekend, we ended up with a Medtronics rep who was obviously very important to their Pacemaker sales, “installs” et al (he had money,…and 8 hospitals in the area). So, as all things do in golf, the healthcare debate came up. His comment was, “Well you know the bill wants to tack on a 10% tax on all medical technology equipment companies? It’s as if Obama said, ’there’s an industry making a shit-ton of money, why don’t we re-distribute some of that!’”

Hey now, they issued EE students Visors too. I still have mine…..care to make a trade???

meat log….mmmmmmm

Wow, this is a raging debate!

It seems like there are a ton of anons, Tracy, and every now and then Brandon versus some “non-believers” (Occams, scottb, wyldeling, jackson, et al). The non-believers gang up to give nerd-its for comments that aren’t really all that nerdy if you ask me. Seems pretty lame. What’s wrong with someone believing in something? You crazy “scientists” could be termed bigots for all your slandering of a belief.

How do you know it was those 2 nerds in particular?
no problem, btw!

You do make a great point anon….in fact this MAAF site that someone linked to is a 501©3 project (see bottom of the page). I award you a nerd-it for pointing that out…..

This would lead to an interesting poll of ON users.

I’m sure many people think that to be targeted by a hacker is a 1 in a googleplex chance (pun intended) and therefore don’t feel the need to use “safe” passwords. It is amazing what you can learn from online handles that people use for email addy’s, log on, etc by just doing a google search…. and how many people use the same login/password combo for everything they do on the internet……

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but my opinion of your “shock-jock” mentality is that you are trying to equate apples and oranges. If someone doesn’t offer something new and doesn’t cite their work, you’re damn right in my class they’d get a C at best. I may have opinions which in the military leadership sense I would call convictions, but I’m not so closed minded like you have suggested to take it out on future Army Officers…but again, that’s your opinion. As an aside, I won’t be teaching Social Sciences, I’ll be teaching Electrical and Computer Engineering. And again, I do agree with the anon that the “Sosh” department has it’s liberal leanings but not as much as your everyday college; I know many in the department. But alas, I’m not a “real academic” so I guess to you it doesn’t matter where I teach.

No need to re-read the thread, I’ve seen it and I agree with the anon on this one, sorry.

I prefer primary sources and General Frank’s “American Soldier” and the “Looming Tower” actually happen to sit in my library, although I’m not aware of any works by Shinseki. Perhaps when I am teaching at West Point next year I’ll get to question Gen (Ret) Clark; I see he is an assistant in the Social Sciences department from time to time…and maybe I’ll get to pick Gen. Shinseki’s brain too when he visits!

The top ranked graduate school in Industrial and Systems Engineering, according to the U.S. News and World Report 2009 rankings, has even more reason to gloat as three professors have developed a program that accurately picked Kansas to win the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, last Monday night.

Why has our American political agenda put so much time in trying to limit steroid use in professional sports and so little time (from the political agenda perspective) on everyday drug use in America?

To me the Drug War is a far greater war, and that is after playing baseball through college. Do I feel "snubbed" in that players at all levels above high school enhanced their ability? Sure I do. Would it have made a difference in my ability to "go pro" or anyone else’s ability to do the same? Probably not.

There is nothing that I enjoy more than examining my golf game using the basic principals of physics. With the Masters set to begin on Thursday, pro golfers are putting their education and knowledge of physics on the line by performing trick shots. I am reminded of the movie "Tin Cup" where the great Roy McEvoy knocks a pelican off its perch using a hooded 7-iron through the gallery bar!