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OK, so the company paid an amazing %20 more than the market rate. OK that's cool. Now I don't want to offend you but you do know that a company any company can just about move 100% of its engineering off shore to SEA and save all that R&D money? #1 rule of doing business...reduce your operating expenses and the cost of your capital investments. Sell off or mothball it's R&D open up shop in SEA pay the engineers and scientists who graduated from US universities 1/4th what the average going rate is and live the high life. Financial engineering trumps actual engineering when it comes to squeezing blood from a stone. Nothing new has been invented in well over 50 years. Things have gotten faster smaller and more efficient. You want to make a product improvement? Slap a screen on it have it go on line and sell it in different colors. I'm sorry....the investment is just not worth the return. 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!

What the public sector has is great benefits YOU ARE FREAKING KIDDING ME RIGHT! NO REALLY! YOU ARE KIDDING ME! Have you read what I as a federal employee get as my "benefits"? Pension....nope! 401k...and not a good one. Health...only if you are broken but not if you just aren't feeling well. Eyes? Dental? HA! Discount plan! I know guys who's wives work for the larger lending institutions and who forgo the Govt healthcare for what their wife gets is leaps and bounds higher than what we get. There is no reason why any one of their sound mind nor body, as in one who wishes to have the greatest return on their investment, enroll in a higher institution of learning for the sciences. It just does not pay. When you account the time and capital invested...it just does not pay! And in the end, right before HR, what part of a company do you think is killed off so as to improve the bottom line? I'll give you a hint...it's not those with MBA's or those that practice financial engineering. If you absolutely and truly love the field than great. If not...why? Why go though the hazing just to end up with no prestige, finite pay ceiling and....and all that fun stuff? What kid wants to hear, OK you are going to work your ass off, have angry teachers who do not speak your language and think that you are the scum of the earth, and dating with in your field....ha! Oh and most of your friends who enter won't stick around past week 5. 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!

Why should any company pay any engineer or scientist more than what the feds pay? You pay your people the "going market rate". In the sciences...that is set by the DOD the largest employer of scientists and engineers in the US? The same can't be said about those with an advanced education in business. The going market rate of pay is set by the open market. I went to a state school and graduaed with a little over a 3.0 Best thing I did was take as many psych and humanities clases I could. Why? Prespective. And unlike the crazy ass girls in engineering...these girls were nice, and well dressed and my god...they had friends who were 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!

Why? No really why? Why study engineering, math or science? I know I know Per Mr. Duncan the Education Secretary "We have over two million unfilled HIGH WAGE, high skilled jobs...." Ah hu! Sir, what do you call HIGH WAGE? Let's start from the top shall we? Here is what you get if you decide to go into the file of science or engineering. 1) 100 dudes - 5 chicks As a young man this is a serious issue! As a young lady...it's a serious issue! 2) LESS THAN 10% of your professors will speak English. As a first second or a third language. 3) Your classes will be taught by TA's who only speak the professors language and not yours. 4) You will pay very good money for books you will never read and lab fees for which you will never understand. Basically you will be paying well over $30k a year to have the Dell Help Desk out of India attempting to teach you thermo dynamics. 5) The classes are designed not to educate you or to inform you rather to haze the living shit out of you. Semester #1 50% of the class is failed. Semester #2 another 50% this will go on until the day of graduation. 6) You work your ass off studying trying not to fail...remember those 5 chicks....yeah you think you have a sex life? A love life? Hell any kind of life? HA FUCK NO! 7) You graduate! And let's say you are really ambitious and you got a MS in Engineering...you just invested well over $100k in your education...how much do you think you will get paid? In the DOD in NY/NJ? $60k a year. And you will most likely only make 2% more per year if congress likes you. And as such why should any company pay you anymore? And if they do it will be just a tad bit more than what the base line is which is set by the largest employer of engineers and scientists. So to recap, you basically join the toughest frat house on campus. Survive 4 years of brutal hazing and harsh living standards only to get out and find out that your frat matches up with the Omega Moos and that well the benefits are shit... So why should any guy study science or math or engineering? Any woman who doesn't wish to shave her legs or buy new clothes or ever watch what she eats...lots of reasons to study the sciences. 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!

Snookie just make what...$60k giving a speech at a local university! WTF! No the X wife would be laughing her ass off. If not in my face than after I walked away. I know that woman too well to know that if I were to be seen with little miss tubby it would only validate her. So perhaps the Secret to dating happiness is to carry as little baggage as possible. Be it past relationships, expectations and in Nats friends case, kids. 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 I wish...no way no how brother. If she were to have seen me with my date last friday, size large and short....she, the x wife, would have felt great! Why? Well there I am with a woman shorter and fatter...as such....a downgrade. X wife 1 Shah 0 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!

I think we are talking about Nats friend. The way she talked about him, i assumed he was "average". But I could be wrong. 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!

looks? Look we can sit and talk about how civilized we are and how evolved we are. But in the end, looks turn us on. So if your friend is turned on by a type of girl who is based on their looks can be a bit more.....picky...then there will be some issues. Add to it the demographics associated with online dating and life gets harder for your average guy who has some baggage. I for one am secure in knowing what I find attractive and not. 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!

I will take too crazy for $200. The guy is bat shit crazy! 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!

BrokenR1 This is a rather nice list. 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!

what is a Desert Princess or Queen? Well, You take a girl back in the states and rate her between 1 and 10. When she goes forward such as Iraq or Afghanistan she suddenly gets an extra 10 points or so. Ah yeah....I know what you mean. Understood. 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!

what is a Desert Princess or Queen? 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!

FIFY Target fixation. Happens to all of us to an extent. Maybe that's what Nats friend is doing? I know I'm doing this but I'm ok with it. Though not happy. 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!

So why dont you have "at least as intelligent as me" in your list of things you can't look past? Ha ha...yeah and kick up more shit! And open my self up for more shin kicking? 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!

Divorce is harsh. Even if both parties are not fighting it's harsh. If you can stay away untill it's over that would be your best bet. Limit your exposure. Tell them you are going skydiving. Good luck to you and your friends. It's not fun. 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 is a thought in the back of my head. I'm very competative. 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!

Cool. So who did you find were the most compatible? I had a few dates with some very nice girls. But let's be honest when it's 30 guys to 1 girl...the girl can be very pickey and more or less hold out untill she finder her "perfect" match. As for us guys, well we have to be more flexible. But such is life right? 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!

There is no one answer. Unlike say hybrid cars where you have to "carry" parasitic weight with respect to an electric engine that is not spinning or a internal combustion engine which is just sitting while the electric engine is on, a diversified energy stream is the best possible solution to our current energy crisis. Much as in investing you really don't want to have all of your investments in one stock. Each of our potential energy supplies have strengths and weaknesses. Yes we may not be independent of hydrocarbons any time soon but the investment in wind, solar and hydro in limited and studied systems is a great step forward towards further diversification of our energy needs. And as with most initial investments there is a period of great hype, we are not past that, a slump in stock price, we are there now, and slowly a stabilization of the asset and a state of continued growth and steady dividends. Our only problem? We are human and as such are prone to inserting our own "gut feelings" into such decisions. My suggestion? Sit down relax, and innovate new methods of harvesting and storing energy. 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 can't speak for most guys since I am not them. But for me looks carry equal weight as intelligence. I have met many very smart women who were attracted to me but I not to them. So, maybe like me your friend has a finite "look" he is seeking in a partner. And women of that "look" just so happen to not be into him or him and his little one. And maybe he is not willing to change his mind about what he finds attractive or not. I know I for one will never date a larger girl for my x wife was a petite woman. And I don't want her to ever think that she was the best I could have ever had. I can't speak for your friend but it may also be something similar. And I'm not sure about other guys, but for me....it's serious. After all...don't you feel a little better when you see an x boy friend with a woman who doesn't take as good care of herself as you do? Or conversely do you feel a little hurt when you see an x boy friend with a woman who is maybe a little more athletic or a little taller or just all around more "attractive". Yes dating can be easy if we bring no baggage to the table. But who is without baggage? And for the recrod, online dating is not a good place for your average guy. When I was on match.com last year only with minium deduction I was able to note that for every single girl with in 25 miles of me there were about 30 guys. Those are just not good odds. Match and online dating is a great place for your average girl if you can get past the pushy guys who have no clue how to compose an email. 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!

Sorry...no coffee....30 mile ride to work...brain...aaaahhh...not there at the moment. But yes my math was off. Oh...never thought of that! Sub terminal speeds....dooh! I only did a 10 second trak so yes that could be. And thank you, I have had very good instruction at my home DZ. Not very scarry on a light wing but I'm sure on a more loaded wing it would have been a nice spin. 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!

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Case in point, if she farts and picks her nose I am ok with it!

I weigh 180 and was on a student rig. A 260 Navigator (0.769 WL) Nothing major, just did a hop and pop and noticed my right one or two end cells were closed. Caused me to do a very soft precession. I recalled my education, looked up and noticed the end cells, noted that the lines were clean but that the slide had not come down all the way. I reached up grabbled the toggles and gave two pumps and by the end of the first the cell was inflated and by the second the slider was down. Nothing scary due to training but just wondering what caused it and when watching videos I see a people who seem to have floppy end cells for a second or two. 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!

That instant when my feel no longer touch anything and all I see around me is the big blue. 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!

Very odd question. What causes end cells to open slowly? I've seen various videos and numerous ones where of such that the end cells opened only after the pilot pulled down his or her slider or grabbed the brakes? On my last jump I had an end cell on one side that was slow in opening, two quick pumps and she was good to go. Is there a defined reason or is it just one of those things. 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!