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Remember that thread I had up where I asked "What would you look past?" I have a funny feeling in the sausage fest that is the skydiving world...even traumatic penile injury is easily looked past. Two dudes on the packing mat talking; Dude A "So how is the love life going brother?" Dude B "Well, I picked up some new scars, I have a life time supply first aid equipment on standby every evening and a few units of my blood on standby just in case. Yeah it's going good" Dude A "Yeah you are kind of lucky to have met such a nice chick?" Dude B "Yeah the sky gods have blessed me, I mean in this sausage fest it is really hard to find a down to earth girl who just wants to tie you to a wall and throw flaming sausages at you." Dude A "Word!" Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Both my mother and father are Persians. My mom remarried to my step father. Though i consider myself an American there are some basic facts that force to view myself as an immigrant. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Freaking A man! Mosquitoes and Shah are not good friends. I look like some sort of Russian cancer patient now with these dark black and blue bumps on my head! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Yes but you have to admit current regulations are a bit lax compared to what they once were. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

The issue at hand is such; 1) There is a strong appearance of impropriety. Sometimes it's not about if you were innocent or guilty rather the appearance that you were. 2) The system as it stands now is broken. No system can regulate itself. The checks and balances are always external. Be it in legal terms or biology. Those checks and balances were removed in the name of higher profits via greater efficiency and greater accessibility to lending power for the lower class. 3) John Q Public is in a catch 22. They currently have little love nor respect for those that work for or are in high power positions at large lending and investment institutions. But there isn't much that can be cone since a vast majority of the nations retirement plans "ride the markets". 4) The lending and investment institutions are in a very serious bind. They as noted in #3 are the main source of a vast majority of the nations soon to be retired citizens with little to no real income coming in from those who are working due to ever increasing inflation and reduced savings rates. As such the institutions have a large outstanding obligation which they have to meet and a finite method to do so. As such they are more prone to taking huge financial risks. 5) The elected officials receive a good bit of their backing from the larger banks. But they also have to answer to the public. The sad truth is a vast number of our citizens do not vote but almost all large institutions "invest" in political figures. So where does that leave us? We are nothing more than a collection of parts, remains of an explosion that took place decades ago when the middle class died, the poor became destitute and the top 1% procured a vast portion of the nation's wealth. The days of a JFK calling all the heads of the big manufactures into his office to scream at them for price fixing and to get their asses in gear are long gone. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

champu Do the STEM fields look very unaccessible? Look for me as a new guy in the country there was no real choice. Want a good life? OK then study, work hard and maybe you will be OK. I had no real family network here. So my choices were very limited. But I see what you mean, maybe more local outreach will go much further than a global one? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Prestige, money....basic biological drive? To be in a position of greater income to be able to mate and reproduce? But that aside, how many moms what their kids to be doctors, lawyers or.....professionals? And well why not scientists and engineers? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

It's the age old question regarding coherent energy vs incoherent energy. That is to say, is there an echo after an event? Odds are nothing. But I for one was kind of hoping for hell. I mean after all name one "cool" person in heaven! You know the Stones aren't going up. Elvis? Sex Pistols? Iggy Pop, Lou Reed? Think of the nonstop partying! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

OH Judas will you relax! We as Americans, are lucky to have a vibrant immigrant population who bring their culture regarding higher education with respect to the sciences and engineering and as such supplement our current national culture which does not put as much emphasis on the sciences and thus we as a nation still have just enough engineers and scientists within our ranks to meet current demand. Better

I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. That is one way of looking at it. On the other, we are electrical machines, and the question as to where the "spark" goes is interesting. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

My youngest brother is at university. He started off in engineering, seeing his two older brothers as engineer he thought it was what he wanted to do. But after experiencing the university level problem set he was not too excited so he is now studying to be a high school physics teacher. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

oh yeah!

I do use sunscreen. And well I do get some of it in my eyes as I sweat. But is DEET safe for one's eyes? I don't think so. Right? But yeah, gots me a case of the Klingon Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Yeah that not 100% those bloos suckers get in via the holes on top. Is it safe to put Off on your head? I thougth those things were best when used away from ones face for it will get in your eyes. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Shaved head + Mosquitoes = :-( OK so the home DZ had a small party this past Saturday. And we have had a good month of rain thus far so the little blood suckers were out in force! All taking aim at my freaking head! And now my freaking head feels like the brail issue of Playboy! For those of us who are follicley challenged, AKA aero dynamic, how do you keep this from happening? Thank you! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

In Finland I stuck out like a sore thumb. Here was a guy with an odd name, a tan and for some odd reason keeps giving the bartender a few Euros after he orders his beer. Nice place to visit, but sure would not live there. Too cold and well the food...though quite good was a bit bland. And then there was the X wife from Finland thing. But never the less we digress. I know that countries such as Belgium and Holland are running seriously low on engineering, but they are well enough to do that they can simply outsource such activities to their neighbors. Yet I don't think, though very financially and physically viable, the US is in the same position. We are lucky enough to have enough immigrants such as myself and my brother who entered into the engineering field. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

One word, YES!

Wall Street is self regulated by our greed. If you have a 401k or any form of modern retirement that invests then you are in a very sad way regulating the greed. These guys are doing what they think they can get away with. And get away not from the law but from you and I the shareholders. We pay these guys, we give them their jobs and in effect they work for us. As such we in theory could if we so wanted to fire these guys if we felt that they were not working with our best intentions. Now that's theory. Fact, you as a small time investor really have no power over these guys. They are in fact above the laws of which you and I are held beholden to. And why is that? Simple, remember that 401k? If the government starts taking these guys out how bad do you think your retirement would do? And who do you think would be called upon to step in and save it? Sad to say that the system is broken, but there is currently and most likely never will be a fix or a replacement. But you do have a choice. You can either be the one being screwed or you could go and work for one of these large lending institutions. I hear that they very well. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Hum... I think jim carrey did a skit about this where Jesus was up there screaming, "My dad is really going to be pissed off at you all and when he comes down he is going to kick asses and take names later!" No clue? What if he didn't die? Well he sounded like a cool enough dude. I hope he lived a long and peaceful life. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/living/2011/05/13/dean.kamen.changing.culture.cnn Thoughts? Please don't get me wrong, I really do enjoy being an engineer. And I greatly enjoy creating new technology and developing solutions. And growing up I was never a straight A student in math or science but in the end I became an engineer partially due to my enjoyment in being creative also due to family pressure of working in a technical field. As an immigrant I live in both sides of the fence. And have a good view on both sides. Case in point, prestige. When my Persian mother is talking with her Persian friends regarding her three sons two of which are engineers, she boasts about how two of her sons are practicing engineers for where she is from an Engineer has as much prestige as a doctor. However when she speaks with her American friends she boasts about how well my brother and I are doing financially. What are your thoughts? What have been your experiences? Do you think we will ever see someone who invents and designs in the same light as someone who can throw a football or dribble a ball? Or...are we like the Roman Empire. We will be grateful of the engineering that makes our lives popular but those doing the designing will never be privy to any of the prestige for our culture values athletics and financial engineering? ps while working in Finland, it was rather funny, bus drivers were the "hot ticket" with the ladies. And engineers....not at all. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

For the record, Ladies, if I'm ever walking, driving, crawling, sitting, sleeping, practicing Yoga, rock climbing, putting on my gear or moon walking like some sort of nut. Please by all means feel free to 1) Whistle 2) Call me all kinds of great names such as but not limited to "hot stuff", "sexy" and "you hunky guy you.." 3) Feel free to walk over and slap or pinch my ass 4) Hit on me with very bad pick up lines. 5) Also extra points will be given if you offer to buy me a drink when I'm at the bar with friends. That will be all. And yes a great idea, the walk. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

You know...the boy had what 4 wives? And he still needed porn? Really! 4 wives and he still needed porn? You would think one of the girls was a former stripper or maybe bi? Or something kinky! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Just thinking here....that body matched to a 2L TDI would be kind of sexy! And would be 1/4th the cost? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Well I learned while living in Eureope to prevent this while swimming is to ware boy short Speedos. Want pictures

Not that they're anything wrong with that.... I actually look rather good in pink! I really miss having gay hall mates in university. Those two gay guys were friends with the HOTTEST girls who on average would never talk to engineering students. But thanks to my gay friends, not only was I well dressed but they would introduce me to these very nice girls!