Indy,
I don't get your reference to jargon. Is there something I've said you don't understand? If so, tell me and I can explain it.

Designing ships is not considered part of civil engineering (despite IK Brunel having designed three). It's marine engineering, which is usually classified as a subset of mechanical engineering. There are some marine/civil overlaps, but they generally relate to things like the design of ports rather than the ships themselves.

The main purpose of studying engineering is so we can know what works and what doesn't, and why. Were ship design left to those who hadn't studied engineering, a lot more ships would sink!

I was already able to think, but seeing the wrong infrastructure getting built made me want to study civil engineering to change that. Why do you assume it not to be valuable to society?

The US method of electing Public Prosecutors, local town sheriffs and even coroners is a social disaster. Candidates are typical poorly qualified and depend on populism rather than ability.

Their legal system is therefore based on the number of successful prosecutions rather than administering justice and has resulted in a huge prison population (the highest in the world) and an abundance of false convictions with severe limitations for appeal.

Indy,

Are you still working on an answer to the question, why YOU didn't perform NATIONAL SERVICE yourself when you had the opportunity. Very simple question.

Now TOADS, when my SENIORS NATIONAL SERVICE comes into vogue, harvesting of TOADS will be a top priority, our old folk must be fed! Indy do you have any TOAD recipes? I have a couple of delicious ones for road kill, I'm sure TOADS can be substituted satisfactorily, "waste not, want not", I say!

My granddaughters plan (A) involves her finishing high school, and then studying sports medicine, something she is doing one day a week now at school. Then the girl wants to spend time in Japan working and learning in her chosen field. Her plan (B) is killing TOADS at Indy's place for two years. Indy, don't you think plan (B) is the far better option?

I don't get your reference to jargon.
Aidan,
i know you don't get it, we expect that from you ! Once you do get it you'll write differently !

Paul1405,
sadly, you're beyond any hope of ever seeing sense !

Time to ignore you again for a while.

Hey Paul1405,
I heard Kate Leadbetter's Dad was down at the Red Shop in Alex Hills today where that incident happened to oppose the 6 year jail term,
- apparently they've gotten 26000 signatures in just a few hours.

Hi AC,

I believe the Queensland Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman is reviewing the outcome, and an appeal is possible next week. No matter how bad the circumstance are, and in this case they are horrendously bad, the rule of law must prevail. I'm not sure in this case if it happened, but I believe in such cases the presiding magistrate should be required to give a detailed explanation as to the reasons for the sentence imposed.