Recent content by pnho

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    Lurker Call-Out Thread!

    hmm
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    Job Interview Homework Assignment

    I agree. Took me less then 2 minutes to give him the key points and he still is clueless.
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    Job Interview Homework Assignment

    you make people with MBAs look bad. marketing basics: identify your target demographics, and your competitors. you have to develop short term and long term marketing strategy. most importantly how to position your product. long term = building relationships and customer network short...
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    Job Interview Homework Assignment

    sounds like you didn't get the job. If you can't even figure out the basics.
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    Get bit by a coral snake and die

    With the current regulatory environment with the FDA and consolidation of the pharmaceutical industry. Lots of drugs will face this situation.
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    we hire some pretty fail people at our company

    maybe your company should give out a chemistry test before they hire these "scientists" Just basic stuff like how to make 2 molar sodium hydroxide solution. How to identify nomenclature, the pure basics. That way they are measuring basic competencies instead of relying on degree.
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    we hire some pretty fail people at our company

    i think ppl need to find a better way of determining smarts besides looking at a degree on paper. I work with tons of phds, and half of them don't have common sense. The other bunch have tons of theoretical knowledge, but are clueless when it comes to technique and applying the theories. The...
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    Processing new offer - Closer to home (9/10/10)

    Engineer, I've been in that situation, so I totally know what it feels like to see a plant shutdown. I worked as a process engineer for "thin film" manufacturing facility that was formerly owned by Du Pont. The workers there had over 30 years experience, and new management came in and laid...
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    Mortgage Questions

    FHA loans are government backed loans that allows new home buyers (never owned a home within the last 3 years) to buy a house with a down payment as low as 3.5%. The PMI is paid up front if I remember correctly. The major difference is that in a FHA loan the home has to be habitable and all...
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    Anyone here an expert on CA unemployment?

    i think its because they use the previous 6 months to 1 year information for the unemployment.
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    500-5 Vicodin Acetaminophen-hydrocodone

    Acetaminophen doesn't provide much of a clinical benefit in terms of the hydrocodone potency, however it does reduce the addictiveness. Mainlly, its a way for drug companies to get around DEA drug control laws. If a pharma company sells the drug at pure 5 mg of hydrocodone, then they fall...
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    Have any of the ATOT ladies (or men, for that matter) ever gotten eyelash extensions?

    instead of extensions you could try a product from the makers of Botox..... lumilash (once it comes to market) or some alternatives like Revitalash. drug analog that make eyelashes grow long and thick within a month of use. just be sure to read up on the side affects before using, not that...
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    Why aren't there cures for diseases such as cancer, aids, rheumatoid arthritis, etc?

    curing a particular disease means being able to interupt the mechanism of the disease and being specific enough to avoid killing healthy cells or reducing the collateral damage. In cases of chemotherapy (cancer treatments), the drug targets the dna replication process of cancer cells, but is...
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    Engineers, Quality Control, and thinking people - a dilemma

    Based on the customer spec it will pass due to significant figures and would be ok to ship out to them. Although it fails based on your internal spec, the main issue would be cost consideration because if the product spec is very critical then the customer should have requested a tighter spec...
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    A master samurai VS A wild full-grown lion

    ownage 73 yr old man can kill leopard with bare hands........so i say samurai can surely kill the lion.