Politics Survey: Majority of Conservatives Think College is Bad for America

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TorturedBlazerFan said:
Most Robotics is written in C/C++, I was under the impression Boston dynamics had the first walking robot, but it doesn't surprise me that OSU did, they have a bunch of very gifted people doing Ph.D. work there. Were you with Bill Smart? He's a great dude. I've interacted with him a few times, my boss is usually the contact when I have questions though.
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This must have been six or seven years ago. I don't even remember the dean's name, let alone the head of the mechanical engineering and certainly no one from the robotics lab. I remember that they touted their lab and I was impressed and I'm not easily impressed. Yeah, I think the guy who gave us the technical details was a PhD candidate and obviously knew his stuff.
By the way, the headless robot was interfaced to the controller by a wiring harness.
I believe by the time of our tour the OSU robot was joined by about two or three other robots that could also walk but ours was the first.
 
Lanny said:
Of course, except for a few courses in the social sciences and liberal arts all of my classes have either been technical or PE
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And that's why you didn't see very much of it.

Also, how long ago was this?
 
Lanny said:
This must have been six or seven years ago. I don't even remember the dean's name, let alone the head of the mechanical engineering and certainly no one from the robotics lab. I remember that they touted their lab and I was impressed and I'm not easily impressed. Yeah, I think the guy who gave us the technical details was a PhD candidate and obviously knew his stuff.
By the way, the headless robot was interfaced to the controller by a wiring harness.
I believe by the time of our tour the OSU robot was joined by about two or three other robots that could also walk but ours was the first.
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Yeah, I believe that the entire robotics lab is Ph.D's or those working on their Ph.D's. It's an amazing program, if you were there six or seven years ago, that is near when it started, its a great program. They do awesome things w/ robotics in Oregon and are using it to serve industries in the state.
 
Natebishop3 said:
And that's why you didn't see very much of it.

Also, how long ago was this?
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Got my second degree in 2000. Until I got seriously disabled I was taking a college course of some kind pretty much all of my life.
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
Ok whats the sensitivity button do...?
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Smooth out the input from the actual tracking device, the Gun director which you see on top of the bridge. It sends range, bearing and elevation to the computer which in turn
returns a smooth tracking signal back to the director to keep it on track.
 
Yet they will bitch and moan about the homeless and people using public services when it takes a college degree to make the money necessary to not be the people they bitch and moan about.

I do understand some people can make money without a college degree... But thats the exception not the norm.
 
Strenuus said:
I do understand some people can make money without a college degree... But thats the exception not the norm.
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I have a feeling we're not going to see eye-to-eye on this one, but there are tons of solid-paying occupations out there that don't require degrees. Many being blue-collar occupations that are unfortunately and unreasonably looked down upon, but there are plenty of them. Next time you talk to a truck driver, or a mechanic, or a plumber, or an electrician, or a construction worker, etc...find out what degree requirement their job has.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
I have a feeling we're not going to see eye-to-eye on this one, but there are tons of solid-paying occupations out there that don't require degrees. Many being blue-collar occupations that are unfortunately and unreasonably looked down upon, but there are plenty of them. Next time you talk to a truck driver, or a mechanic, or a plumber, or an electrician, or a construction worker, etc...find out what degree requirement their job has.
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Couldn't agree more. I no many people that stared their own companies and did well over time. I now those that as you bring to light that went to work young at some company where the learned a trade and prospered. My oldest son with out a college degree was an electricians helper for a some electrical contractor for 4 years got to know some others in the industry and was sponsored to be an apprentice of which he work and went to Electricians school for 4 years and became a journeyman last year making well over 100K a year. He almost quit several times and would ask me for advise, and I mentioned he luck to being paid a nice wage while attending a paid, take school to become a journeymen. I reminded him of his goal when he went looking to be a helper that someday he could possible become a journeyman, that always helped him hang in their. He the self disciplined type but it was tough while raising a family at the same time.
I have a daughter that went to Western, where her mother went, she got degree in Psychology and work in social service for a while then decided she didn't like that and now is making modest money working in a warehouse. She likes it.
 
On a different note, I kinda like the concept some cities have in their high schools: 9th & 10th grades are general education. Following your sophomore year, you choose the road of academics or technical and go to that particular school to complete your education. As I understand, there's a corresponding diploma.
 
If you look at the number of graduates the overwhelming majority are business majors, hardly liberal leaning people.
Social sciences (which include Law, Economics, and Linguistics) is a distant 3rd.

I think you see a majority of conservatives are against higher education is because a lot of money has been spent on messaging campaigns. It paid dividends in the last elections so I don’t see their efforts diminishing.

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https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cta.asp
 
bluefrog said:
If you look at the number of graduates the overwhelming majority are business majors, hardly liberal leaning people.
Social sciences (which include Law, Economics, and Linguistics) is a distant 3rd.

I think you see a majority of conservatives are against higher education is because a lot of money has been spent on messaging campaigns. It paid dividends in the last elections so I don’t see their efforts diminishing.

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https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cta.asp
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Looks like the toughest discipline to get a degree in is engineering. That's right, engineers rule. And our pocket protectors and slide rules are way more cool than those ugly brown leather briefcases business men tote around.
 
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