Tommy Silva posted for all of us...



On 12/26/2016 12:01 PM, trader_4 wrote:
On Monday, December 26, 2016 at 10:41:22 AM UTC-5, FromTheRafters wrote:

Understanding Ohm's Law and/or Maxwell's equations may be a
prerequisite for your chosen profession, but that doesn't mean everyone
who knows them must also know how to wire household switches.
If you know them and really understand them, then there has to be
something wrong with you or how you were taught that you can have
a degree in EE and not be able to apply Ohms Law and the most
elementary of circuit principles to solve the problem of how a
switched outlet works. Good grief, has all of America gone dumb?
Some of you seem to think that the purpose of college and an EE degree
is to teach you how to do specific tasks. It's not. It's to teach
science, physics and engineering that you can then apply to all the
new things you encounter. That is what engineering is, the application
of science to actual, real world problems. What you are suggesting is
that colleges are there to train essentially robots, that can only deal
with that which they've explicitly been shown.

My neighbor is a EE. EEs are a special kind of stupid.

For example, two years ago a county snow plow knocked over about a dozen neighborhood mailboxes.
I replaced mine by pulling my old 4x4 post out with a bumper jack and dropping a new $5 post into the existing hole. Complete job took less than 30 minutes.

OTOH, EE neighbor bought a splint-style post repair kit from a big box store. The repaired post lasted about 6 months until a summer storm blew it over.
Next repair attempt was another post repair kit but this time he added some guy wires fastened to tent stakes.
As you might imagine, the tent stakes pulled out of the ground and the whole mess fell over again.

EE currently has added 3 concrete blocks to the tent stakes to keep them from pulling out of the ground. It seems to be holding at the moment. ;-)

I called the township roadmaster and they fixed it in two days with a new
mailbox and posts. I could choose any mailbox I wanted. Since I knew him, I
was a taxpayer and it was begging for replacement I got a like replacement.

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Tekkie