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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In addition to a civil lawsuit, criminal actions should be explored.  How this horrific looking contraption could have been open for public use is beyond me.  [/quote]

[b]The guy who designed it is a high school dropout[/b]. He dropped out of school at age 24 and he's the 'inventor', the 'creative mind'.
Great idea.
http://grantland.com/features/the-wet-stuff-verruckt-waterslide-schlitterbahn/[/quote]

So what. He is an engineer.[b] Other pretty impressive people never finished high school[/b] or college. What a dumb thing to point out. [/quote]

who?[/quote]

For starters....

Richard Branson

Louis Armstrong

Tom Anderson - myspace co founder

Mario Andretti

Julie Andrews

Irving Berlin

John D. Rockefeller

Henry Ford

Francois Pinault

Roseanne Barr

Drew Barrymore

There are thousands - want me to keep going?

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None of them are engineers.[/quote]

Yeah. I mean, I love Julie Andrews as much as anyone, but I wouldn't ride a water slide she designed either. [/quote]

Where did you say to specify "engineers" - and there are PLENTY who did not finish college. You can be an engineer without being a PE and having a license - someone else signs off on your work.

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You can't be an engineer without a college degree though.[/quote]

What would you call Steve Jobs? Was he a computer engineer? He had no college degree....

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Steve Jobs was a designer and a marketing genius. Woz was his engineer.[/quote]

Jobs was not a programmer or a computer engineer. He didn't create anything. Woz created the first Apple.  Woz was going to give it away, and Jobs convinced him to sell it instead. As the company grew, other programmers and engineers created things at Apple.  Jobs was responsible for product design and imagination.  He told the technical people what he wanted  made sure their products simple, elegant and dummy proof.

Jobs was a really great business guy. [/quote]

Jobs was a visionary and he had a team that made his visions into reality.  Even so, his team was not responsible for the physical safety of other people.  [/quote]

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