fangtooth snake-eel

http://www.newsweek.com/mystery-fanged-sea-creature-washes-texas-beach-after-hurricane-harvey-664663

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people".

Isn't that what British alcoholics are called, when they're not being called old sods?

don't watch TV

I worked on some dynamic motion simulators used to test avionics packages for missiles and spacecraft. We built these giant 3-axis simulators with 12-foot arms cast from magnesium, powered by 2000psi hydraulics... they moved unreal, 90 degrees with zero overshoot (critically damped) in a fraction of a second.

My first solo project out of college, I designed a 3-axis mirror-system for the military that would sit inside a 100-foot dome tent and draw pictures on the inside with a laser simulating the flight of an aircraft. A tank would be inside the tent and see if it could track the laser image of the aircraft. The final axis had to have 2 arc-second accuracy and unreal dynamic response to draw the aircraft in real time.

That was my first job, lasted 18 months until I took a leave of absence to travel around the world and contemplate designing shit used to kill people.

My second job was for a very small start-up that was recycling fluorescent lighting and turning it into double-walled greenhouse glass. I made all the semi-automated equipment to process the fluorescent bulbs into glass panels.

funny thing is that Sanders would beat Trump if the election were held July 18th, 2017 (date of the article) ...even funnier, so would Biden!

https://www.good.is/articles/democrats-who-would-defeat-trump

According to a new survey from Public Policy Polling (PDF), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and former Vice President Joe Biden are currently the strongest candidates in a hypothetical matchup with Trump.

Voters in the poll chose Biden over Trump 54% to 39% and Sanders over Trump 52% to 39%.

here's the poll in case you want to get more specific...

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2017/PPP_Release_National_71817.pdf

always on the lookout for fresh corpses...

I made my share of horrible mistakes that live with me to this day... 4 actually, and I've had my moments of brilliance mixed in. I often was the all-in-one guy but like you mentioned, I was very much more successful when we had built a strong team... engineering/documentation/procurement/manufacturing. Looking back on it, we did build some miraculous shit...

not that I would recommend the profession to any sane person.

hey... nobody has mentioned that Trump lowered unemployment from 40% to 4.2%!!!!

The truth is, only the people there know what actually happened, and some of them are lying. You don't know and I don't know. And as you know, if there's no proof, there's no story.

nevermind

there's engineers and engineers... so many are full of bs, particularly the sales engineers. I worked for many years as a prototype design engineer. The stuff I designed had to work to specifications, fit within budget, be easy to assemble and maintain and look just like it had been mass produced.

Believing even one single bit of engineering BS in that entire design chain would result in failure of the project, or at least a substantial re-design.

In this particular case, hondo812 has an actual life, so he can't be bothered with this thread... no matter how many times he revisits it.

read the link I posted or try google.

funny you use the word "real" when talking about the stock market... it's actually driven by "hope" and "fear".

Here's an incisive article explaining the economy in a bit more sophisticated way than simply reducing it to a number of the DOW.

https://fee.org/articles/a-rising-stock-market-does-not-signal-economic-health/

She accused Trump and Jeffrey Epstein... Epstein served time on related charges.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-rape-lawsuit-dropped-230770

About a decade ago, Epstein came under investigation by local and federal authorities near his Palm Beach, Florida, home over allegations that he solicited underage girls to have sex with him at that residence and another on an island he owned in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Epstein pleaded guilty in June 2008 to two state felony charges relating to prostitution and was sentenced to 18 months in jail. He served only 13 months before being released but was required to register as a sex offender.