Apparently engineers gravitate towards terrorism...

[Nitemare]

http://www.eetimes.com/news/la...ml?articleID=205920319

Crap, and I wanted to live for along time...

 

[LordMorpheus]

I can see engineering leading to conservatism. All the really great contracts come in the form of defense spending. The Cold War was awesome for engineers.

The religious thing I don't completely buy, though.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Mechanical engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets.

 

[BigJ]

Everybody's a comedian.

that "engineers have a 'mindset' that makes them a particularly good match for Islamism," which becomes explosive when fused by the repression and vigorous radicalization triggered by the social conditions they endured in Islamic countries.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
Mechanical engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets.

Oooh, I like that one!

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
Mechanical engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets.

:thumbsup:

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
Mechanical engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets.

Nuclear engineers set up teh bombz?

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
Mechanical engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets.

What about software engineers?

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
Mechanical engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets.

What about software engineers?

BSOD

PS, the engineering society frowns upon the use of word engineer by anyone else.

 

[Modelworks]

I'm a former Electrical Engineer, guess I design timers and such.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
Mechanical engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets.

What about software engineers?

They write the code that puts everything together

 

[BrownTown]

Electrical Engineers set us up the guidance systems

 

[Throckmorton]

This forum probably has a lot of engineers, and is full of right wing creationist zealots. It suddenly makes sense.

 

[0roo0roo]

bobby fischer, the unabomber...

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
Mechanical engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets.

materials engineers > all

 

[JohnCU]

electrical engineers = EMP w00t

 

[RESmonkey]

I'm going to be an engineer and I don't follow any religion. Study fails.

 

[soydios]

so I'm an EE student, moderately conservative, not very religious, and not a fan of terrorism

 

[HannibalX]

Yeah, well sociologists tend to be limp dicked, cock gobbling, self-indulged shit pumpers.

 

[Cold Steel]

Or maybe people who want to be, or already are, terrorists, gravitate to the engineering diciplines knowing that it will help them blow sh*t up.

That's the answer to the study, imo. But then I guess being a semiconductor process engineer doesn't lend itself to blowing sh*t up.

 

[miketheidiot]

Originally posted by: Pale Rider
Yeah, well sociologists tend to be limp dicked, cock gobbling, self-indulged shit pumpers.

at least they aren't engineers.

 

[HannibalX]

Originally posted by: miketheidiot

Originally posted by: Pale Rider
Yeah, well sociologists tend to be limp dicked, cock gobbling, self-indulged shit pumpers.

at least they aren't engineers.

They don't get paid as well as engineers either. Maybe that's where the hate is coming from.

Or maybe that it's the fact they weren't smart enough to grasp the technical aspects of engineering.

 

[Beller0ph1]

Chemical engineers can do anything.