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  • Originally posted by Clark Addison View Post
    Your family knows you post here?
    Um, yes?

    They have seen me on the website and know I post here. Any sensitive or personal information about members that I may or may not know about has not been compromised, I can assure you (and anyone else in an executive position!).
    "...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
    "You are an intemperate, unscientific poster who makes light of very serious matters.”
    - SeattleUte

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    • Originally posted by Northwestcoug View Post
      Um, yes?

      They have seen me on the website and know I post here. Any sensitive or personal information about members have not been compromised, I can assure you (and anyone else in an executive position!).
      Well I surely hope they haven't seen some of the disgusting language that is on here. I mean those that don't use proper grammar and have bad speling.

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      • Originally posted by byu71 View Post
        Well I surely hope they haven't seen some of the disgusting language that is on here. I mean those that don't use proper grammar and have bad speling.
        As they have mocked me many times in the past for my 'online CS friends', I doubt they have spent much time on here to notice Creekster's people's spelling mistakes.
        "...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
        "You are an intemperate, unscientific poster who makes light of very serious matters.”
        - SeattleUte

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        • Originally posted by Northwestcoug View Post
          As they have mocked me many times in the past for my 'online CS friends', I doubt they have spent much time on here to notice Creekster's people's spelling mistakes.
          They are typing errors. I know how to spell.
          PLesa excuse the tpyos.

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          • Originally posted by creekster View Post
            The Navy's new ZUmwault Class Destroyer begins sea trials. This ship looks like something from a sci fi movie. Any guess as to the name of its captain?

            James Kirk.


            http://finance.yahoo.com/news/larges...144549669.html
            So this is where I suppose I'll mention that my daughter enlisted in the US Navy Nuclear Program yesterday...
            Last edited by lambdacoug; 03-01-2016, 03:27 PM.
            Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
            - Howard Aiken

            Any sufficiently complicated platform contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a functional programming language.
            - Variation on Greenspun's Tenth Rule

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            • Originally posted by lambdacoug View Post
              So this is where I suppose I'll mention that my daughter enlisted in the US Navy Nuclear Program yesterday...
              Congratulations?
              "Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
              The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --Solon

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              • Most definitely! Now she just has to, you know, make it through the program...which is no cake walk. The only real problem is her ship out date isn't for another 10 months...
                Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
                - Howard Aiken

                Any sufficiently complicated platform contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a functional programming language.
                - Variation on Greenspun's Tenth Rule

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                • Congrats. I'm working with a Navy Corpsman and a couple of Marines right now. Each service has its pros and cons. Yeah, we'll not talk about the Airman we're working with.

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                  • Originally posted by lambdacoug View Post
                    Most definitely! Now she just has to, you know, make it through the program...which is no cake walk. The only real problem is her ship out date isn't for another 10 months...
                    Is the future of nuclear reactors going to be limited to military projects?
                    "Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
                    The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --Solon

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                    • Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post
                      Is the future of nuclear reactors going to be limited to military projects?
                      No idea, but there will certainly be a lot of nuclear reactors involved in future military projects.
                      Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
                      - Howard Aiken

                      Any sufficiently complicated platform contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a functional programming language.
                      - Variation on Greenspun's Tenth Rule

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                      • Originally posted by lambdacoug View Post
                        No idea, but there will certainly be a lot of nuclear reactors involved in future military projects.
                        So, do people going into this plan on being lifers? I ask because I knew some guys at GaTech who were studying nuclear engineering, and they were all either in the military, planned on joining the military, or were planning on working in Europe. We were going to go to Argentina, but they had to get FBI clearance to leave the country, and one couldn't because a project he was involved in rejected his request.
                        "Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
                        The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --Solon

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                        • Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post
                          So, do people going into this plan on being lifers? I ask because I knew some guys at GaTech who were studying nuclear engineering, and they were all either in the military, planned on joining the military, or were planning on working in Europe. We were going to go to Argentina, but they had to get FBI clearance to leave the country, and one couldn't because a project he was involved in rejected his request.
                          My graduating HS senior will be studying nuclear engineering next Fall at Texas A&M. I have the same concerns that the only applications will be in the military which he could not qualify for being a Type I diabetic. He has explored the field and thinks there will be numerous commercial opportunities; he's also considering academia. Maybe he will end up being a contractor for the military...I tried, and failed, to get him to study accounting.
                          “Not the victory but the action. Not the goal but the game. In the deed the glory.”
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                          • Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post
                            So, do people going into this plan on being lifers? I ask because I knew some guys at GaTech who were studying nuclear engineering, and they were all either in the military, planned on joining the military, or were planning on working in Europe. We were going to go to Argentina, but they had to get FBI clearance to leave the country, and one couldn't because a project he was involved in rejected his request.
                            I don't know. To be honest, I don't think she has thought that far ahead. She is very interested in robotics, so I could see her completing her obligation, going to school for some sort of engineering degree and work on robotics at NASA. That's probably just day dreaming, though if she survives Nuclear Power School it will certainly not be out of the question.
                            Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
                            - Howard Aiken

                            Any sufficiently complicated platform contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a functional programming language.
                            - Variation on Greenspun's Tenth Rule

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                            • Originally posted by lambdacoug View Post
                              I don't know. To be honest, I don't think she has thought that far ahead. She is very interested in robotics, so I could see her completing her obligation, going to school for some sort of engineering degree and work on robotics at NASA. That's probably just day dreaming, though if she survives Nuclear Power School it will certainly not be out of the question.
                              My son got a mechanical engineering degree and he builds robots for the aerospace industry. NASA is one of their customers. He loves it.

                              Congrats to your daughter.
                              "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
                              "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
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                              • Originally posted by Paperback Writer View Post
                                My graduating HS senior will be studying nuclear engineering next Fall at Texas A&M. I have the same concerns that the only applications will be in the military which he could not qualify for being a Type I diabetic. He has explored the field and thinks there will be numerous commercial opportunities; he's also considering academia. Maybe he will end up being a contractor for the military...I tried, and failed, to get him to study accounting.
                                A kid that grew up in my ward got a nuclear engineering degree from MIT about 5 years. After about 3 years of unsuccessfully looking for work in the private sector he went back to school and is just graduating this spring with a degree in civil engineering.

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