Getting a good job

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Sat Jul 1 08:56:26 2000

> That's funny; I got my PhD out of showing other engineers
> and economists that the "simplifying assumptions" that they
> make when designing deregulated electric power markets _in the
> real world_ are, well, too simplistic. Electrons cannot be
> bribed to obey economics rather than Kirchhoff, period.
> Yet, that seems to be a hard point to sell to politicians
> and economists.

Hoosier politicians have particular trouble understanding
that some things are simply beyond their control; at some
time (during the 1840s IIRC), a Hoosier legislator proposed
a bill to change the value of Pi to 3.0 since that would
make all calcultations involving Pi more easy to perform.

I'm really surprised it that it failed to pass...

-dq
Received on Sat Jul 01 2000 - 08:56:26 BST