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not even close (Score:5, Insightful)
by sewagemaster (466124) <sewagemaster@gmaiWELTYl.com minus author> on Friday August 05, @01:41PM (#13251536)
(http://sewagemaster.blogspot.com/)

if you see what’s on tv, you’ll find so many shows dedicated to doctors (ER, grey’s acadamy, chicago hope) lawyers (law and order: special victims unit, criminal intent, trial by jury) and cops (CSI miami, ny).

you never hear anyone even mention engineers in movies or tv series. it’s got to do with the social culture of the states. 100% of the political leaders in China have an engineering or science degree. In the states? none! (source: IEEE spectrum magazine June 2005).

Re:not even close (Score:5, Funny)
by CosmeticLobotamy (155360) on Friday August 05, @01:59PM (#13251777)

you’ll find so many shows dedicated to doctors (ER, grey’s acadamy, chicago hope) lawyers (law and order: special victims unit, criminal intent, trial by jury) and cops (CSI miami, ny). you never hear anyone even mention engineers in movies or tv series.

You’re right. And it would be so easy. The three-episode arc on tracking down an elusive double-free()d pointer practically writes itself.

I don’t know… (Score:4, Funny)
by Locke2005 (849178) on Friday August 05, @02:10PM (#13251893)
(http://whitehouse.com/)

How many impressionable young children have been inspired to become semiconductor designers by the Britney Spears Guide to Semiconductor Physics [britneyspears.ac]?

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