No they don't. They come out with basic skills, just like CS majors (or doctors, lawyers, and so on), and need to work with experienced practitioners in order to become proficient. The best graduates are usually the ones who spent some time as an intern and got an idea of what actually goes on in their field.

More likely the prosecutor is now going after Tufte.

Once it's going away, how would we catch it? It'll be going 25 km/sec relative to us.

Thanks, Teal'c.

Alcoburger - get fed and drunk at the same time! I'm trademarking that name.

I think you can take any job where you have to deal with the public and toss it into the "stressful" heap. I worked at a refreshment stand one summer and hated people by the end of it. But I think a job where you sentence people with fines or jail time will get more than it's share of stress.

Maybe engineers should be in the non-stress category. What's the Douglas Adams quote? "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

Whew. Made my day. Especially given the display of prejudice in the rest of your post.

In the 19th century, surprisingly few people had iPads, flat screen TVs, two cars, and, heck, indoor plumbing.

They could also look forward to yellow fever, polio, dying before the age of 50, no warning on hurricanes, and nobody caring about your civil rights if you were female, colored or non-Christian.

Other than that, it was heaven.

Except that once in a while someone is screaming that they want to kill you.

If they charged the customer twice then they should pay the commission twice. Not sure why the customer agreed to this deal, but it looks to me like the salesperson is getting shafted by HP.

Yes. It hit the Earth. Oh wait, it was landing on Mars so it hit Mars! That's it!

And your point is?

Haven't you seen NASA's TV channel? I can hardly wait for each episode of "ISS Update".

Hence why it will be in orbit around the moon instead of the Earth.

Ad-supported content sites can start blocking requests from free.fr pretty easily. Not sure how long this will last.

Good point. I'm not converting as long as a 2 x 4 is exactly 2 inches by 4 inches.