lol

I don't need to know how to do YOUR job, I need to know how to do mine, which I do. I mean, do you walk into crowds of non-engineers and call everyone who doesn't know how to do YOUR job uneducated? Be less self-centered.

No, I go into crowds on non-engineers bitching about the oil industry and call them uneducated because they are trying to prohibit the university researching those topics. You're entirely correct in that you don't need to know how I do my job, however it becomes a problem when ignorant mobs like you shut down the government which consequently make my job and other engineers impossible (not all engineers). We know how to calculate the values NIST provides, but calculating them isn't practical, especially for businesses. They don't have the equipment to accurately measure them, and they shouldn't because NIST has provided all of the values in a centralized public database. I wonder how republican southern Utah will remain if the government is still shutdown during fall break

This post was edited by nobrow on Oct 8 2013 02:22pm

Seriously though, engineers of today have way more difficult calculations to do in less time. Yeah, 40 years ago engineers drew their designs and calculated on paper (unless you were the lucky guy with computer time), but times have changed. When you use a service that is essential to your job, losing it means you lose efficiency and productivity. A lot of it. Yeah, you probably can do the calculations he wants to do by hand. No, he won't make his deadline. Yeah, that sucks really damn hard.

Plus, it's not like it's possible to privatize it. Standards in technology are pretty damn important (mostly due to health & safety), but rest assured that if the NIST was in private hands, your house and tech would be way way shittier than it is now.

If you want to get into who shut down the government and where blame can be laid, by all means take it to an appropriate thread, where we can continue to bicker.



Not possible? http://www.astm.org/

ASTM publishes standardized testing procedures not physical constants derp. Your problem is that you are entirely clueless but are too stupid to realize it. For example ASTM has a octane rating test, I can characterize a fuel by octane number if I do this test. I won't know any of the physical properties of gasoline though.

Take it to an appropriate thread fuckhead.

grats on going full retard

When is orientation, and did you graduate with honors?

I don't know when orientation is or what you mean by that, and yes I did graduate with honors.