[aaron313]

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Originally Posted by roadtonowhere08 /img/forum/go_quote.gif I can understand the strong feelings regarding the subject, but you really cannot compare voluntary cremation to the Holocaust. It would be like if I were say that I saw a mass grave in Iraq, and the thought of burial made me sick. Finding a proper process for dealing with the deceased is a very touchy subject, and I believe there are good reasons to do either.

I agree with you (cremation is cheaper, which works well for many people), but on a personal level, I could not imagine burning any of my family members. I don't think any Jews (secular or otherwise) can separate cremation from the Holocaust, but I would say it is often the only reasonable method for many other people. Can you imagine all of those people who get saddled with $10k of funeral costs for a relative?

 

[roadtonowhere08]

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Originally Posted by aaron313 /img/forum/go_quote.gif I agree with you (cremation is cheaper, which works well for many people), but on a personal level, I could not imagine burning any of my family members. I don't think any Jews (secular or otherwise) can separate cremation from the Holocaust, but I would say it is often the only reasonable method for many other people. Can you imagine all of those people who get saddled with $10k of funeral costs for a relative?

Now I see where you are coming from, and I can definitely understand the aversion to that route.

I personally believe that it is very cruel to stick the children or relatives with the bill if the deceased wished to be buried. Obviously things occur unexpectedly, but it should be a given (at least to me) that the service costs should be taken into account before death.

 

[billybob_jcv]

When I was much younger, I wanted my ashes to be shot into the Sun. I figured such a service would be cheap and easy by the time I needed it. I am no longer this optimistic...

 

[Zuerst]

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Originally Posted by blackbird /img/forum/go_quote.gif ... 3. *With a question of my own*, Does it really matter whether you go to a "Brand Name" college or not? I mean, is an employer more likely to hire someone who graduated from engineering from Harvard, than from Polytechnic, for example?

ahhahahahahahahhahaha harvard engineering hahahahahahahahhaha

 

[billybob_jcv]

I once worked with a newly minted engineering grad from Princeton, one from UCLA and one from Caltech. It wasn't even close which one was the brightest (Caltech!). I had the guy from Princeton plotting data while the rest of us actually did the work. He was a really nice guy, and it's not that he wasn't bright - but he was completely unprepared for our real world engineering tasks. He wanted to turn everything into a research project with a large flowery report, and he had a hard time with the idea that we just wanted the answers from his subtask so we could move on to the bigger problem - we didn't care about his theory on why the answer came out to be what it was.

 

[aaron313]

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Originally Posted by Zuerst /img/forum/go_quote.gif ahhahahahahahahhahaha harvard engineering hahahahahahahahhaha

That's roughly how I responded internally.

 

[chesebert]

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Originally Posted by billybob_jcv /img/forum/go_quote.gif I once worked with a newly minted engineering grad from Princeton, one from UCLA and one from Caltech. It wasn't even close which one was the brightest (Caltech!). I had the guy from Princeton plotting data while the rest of us actually did the work. He was a really nice guy, and it's not that he wasn't bright - but he was completely unprepared for our real world engineering tasks. He wanted to turn everything into a research project with a large flowery report, and he had a hard time with the idea that we just wanted the answers from his subtask so we could move on to the bigger problem - we didn't care about his theory on why the answer came out to be what it was.

Princeton engineering...haha

Seriously, why isn't the person doing economics? Isn't a Princeton economics degree an automatic shoe-in for IB (back in pre "economic meltdown")?

I say between Columbia engineering and Princeton engineering, I would pick neither! The thousands of MIT/Stanford/Caltech/Michigan/Berkley engineering students/laid-off alums are more than enough to pick from in this economy

 

[billybob_jcv]

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Originally Posted by chesebert /img/forum/go_quote.gif Princeton engineering...haha Seriously, why isn't the person doing economics? Isn't a Princeton economics degree an automatic shoe-in for IB (back in pre "economic meltdown")? I say between Columbia engineering and Princeton engineering, I would pick neither! The thousands of MIT/Stanford/Caltech/Michigan/Berkley engineering students/laid-off alums are more than enough to pick from in this economy

Actually, he quit to go back to school and get an MBA. Where did he go? Kellogg @ Northwestern...

 

[linuxworks]

when asked, I do not recommend engineering or computers anymore.

it will all be (is now) done in india, eastern europe, china; ALL places but the US. take my word, as someone who has seen outsourcing and offshoring kill a very good engineering base of talent here in the US.

go for a trade school! college is a waste of time for MANY people. the assumption of the american dream and college died about 10 yrs ago when outsourcing became 'the way' for corporations to increase profits and enjoy abusing their workers.

what is safe? physical things that can't be outsourced. fix cars, unplug drains, run wires on phone poles, build cabinets out of wood. physical things are safe. intellectual arts are going the way of the dodo bird, for the western world ;(

4 years in engineering school is a waste of money and time if you're a young american. you WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COMPETE with world wages. don't even try ;( ;(

sorry. life is not a disney movie. the american dream is sold out.

 

[linuxworks]

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Originally Posted by billybob_jcv /img/forum/go_quote.gif There can be a difference between what it takes to *get* a job versus what it takes to do well in a job.

<joe vs volcano movie>
"I know he can get the job, but can he do the job? I'm not arguing that with you. (...) I'm not arguing that with you! I know he can get the job but can he do the job?"
</movie>

one of the funniest scenes in that movie

 

[pdupiano]

princeton engineering. For what its worth, they atleast have small class sizes. But I guess that doesn't help much. I'm still a horrible engineer. I don't write down anything, I do my design work and calculations on bathroom sheets (not toilet paper, you know that long continuous roll of paper that they have for washing hands -I normally ask the janitor if I can have the remaining rolls and every once in a while he's nice and does an "early" replacement on a roll). But yeah I'm no where near the grads from higher end schools who use their computers all day.

 

[ericj]

Lobbiest.

 

[billybob_jcv]

Did you date any celebrities?

 

[LeftyGorilla]

cab driver or hitman

 

[Sherwood]

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Originally Posted by linuxworks /img/forum/go_quote.gif the american dream is sold out.

Or, conversely, the American dream of unencumbered movement of goods and talent has become international.

That's what I do, and business is booming.