If you read the comments, you'll find that they're finding someone who speaks Klingon to be put on a list in case they find someone who only speaks Klingon. Is there any evidence that more science fiction fans go into mental wards then other comparable sections of society?
I'm not just talking of those Klingon-speaking mental ward goers. I'm talking of all mental ward goers. Illness is a sign of inferiority. It's not a pity thing, it's not anything else. It's inferiority. Darwin had it down.
That assertion was never clearly made, and I'm not sure it's worth challenging without evidence backing it up. (The fact that a very small percentage of the watchers of the shows have taken it to a point of obsession shows nothing unless you can show that these people wouldn't have focused their obsessions elsewhere.)
I'm not saying they aren't, but what I am saying is that they manifested their obsessive and unhealthy tendancies towards a fictional show that is being catered to. Allowing them to get by speaking Klingon is like allowing them to speak like a baby. It just isn't healthy. If people were able to make a clean distinction between the real world and the sci-fi world, than I wouldn't have an issue with it. These are the same people that think Wil Weaton should be killed because of his role on Star Trek...
Can you verify that it's his address, and not someone else's now? Bad karma to mailbomb the wrong person..
I'm not opposed to knocking on his door and asking if it's him, I can tell him I'm interested in DefibWorld and how to promote it aggressively in the market, just click here! er.. I mean, sign here!
No, but people *were* hired to act as translators between Einstein, his peers, and the non-scientific government officials that funded the research.
Which research are you talking about? Most of his work that made Einstein famous happened without any government research grants. In fact, he was shunned from the government (Roosevelt) after he informed them (4 times) that they Germans would be working on an atomic bomb.
Most of the talks about people saying Einstein needed a translator, or he was autistic are those who have never studied his work. Einstein managed to promote his ideas in very concise and clear manners, which is what made him famous. He truly understood the ideas, and also how to convey the ideas.
If you can provide any evidence that he required translators, please present it.
And I suppose, given your extensive knowledge of treatment for the mentally ill, you would recommend we simply yell at sick people and tell them to get better. I think not. Let professionals do their jobs, until you can come up with a demonstrably better method.
I minored in Abnormal and Criminal Psychology. It's pretty easy to say that catering to ones belief they are a chocolate bunny isn't healthy. Neither is enforcing their view that they are a fucking Klingon.
I never said yelling at them will help. What I did say is that helping their fantasies manifest themselves stronger is the opposite direction than you want to go.
A quick websearch reveals the phrase "mentally divergent" to come from 12 Monkeys. If you meant to say "insane", perhaps that's the word you should have used.
Insane is a legal term, not a medical one. Psychologically Divergent is the most "correct" term, but it too long to type.
Profanity can be used to great effect, when used sparingly for emotional impact. But the problem with your language is that you use vague slurs - "fucking", "retarded" (when used as an insult), "dumbass", "dipshit" - that express the fact that you don't approve of the subject, but don't explain why you disapprove, nor (consider how obvious your disapproval is otherwise) do they add anything to your message.
Well, considering I said, "shitty funding problems" indicating that the reasoning behind those funding problems are due to lots of really stupid problems, I'm not sure what basis you have with this. Then, dumbass Sci-Fi show, this is easy to explain. You see, they come up with words. They make up shit. The people I'm talking about are people who aren't content living a real life and fantasize about a better life in an exciting time. Same thing that western movies did. The problem is is that most people grow out of playing cowboy and indians when they turn 14.
Also, I'm saying that people who are obsessed with Sci-Fi shows are of a lower order. It presents plenty of information to be discussed, you just choose not to challenge my assertions that Sci-Fi shows promote psychological issues. They are going into mental wards, of course I'm superior to them.
There is currently a popular belief that Einstein was mildly autistic. This would indicate his reality, even if he had a good grasp on it, was quite different from our own.
No, it isn't a popular belief. It's a popular belief amongst the people who think that Einstein didn't know how to tie his own shoes and never read anything that Einstein wrote. How many books and papers by Einstein have you read?
His method of saying he understood something was being able to explain it so that anybody could understand it. One of his practices was finding children and explaining his concepts so that they could understand it, and find his own understanding.
Thanks for pointing out a typo, too.
Nice troll though.
And in this case, a troll is something you don't think is true... good call.
Maybe they are dealing with schizophrenics who resort to speaking Klingon to keep Echelon at bay because the Walt Disney Inc. / CIA / Apple conspiracy is after them and if they speak English they may trigger the floating nano-microphones that hang in the air. That is a 'reality' that a mental-health professional may not want to engage either, but you still want to know if these people are having side-effects when they have started taking their medication.
Than they are really fucking stupid. You can learn Klingon over the internet, where Echelon prevails. There is no reason to cater to the belief that there is a necessity to speak a language of imaginary creatures. It's not healthy. It's a stupid state law that has to be satisfied, and it's dumb. It's a waste of money.
So was Einstein, and many other people who changed our world. As a matter of fact, genius itself is mentally divergent.
You need to go read some books, Einstein was not mentally divergent. He had a very good grasp on reality.
I can see the effect it had on your language skills, and the wide command (or lack of) adjectives it gave you.
Now I know you're a dipshit, aside from the Einstein comment. People who use "profanity" are of a lessure statute. Yeah.. keep it up.
I hate to mention this to you, but that's what languages are. No language has any reality outside the mind of a person.
Equating any language and "Klingon" is just retarded. People who are this obsessed with a TV show should be put into the next reality based TV show. Put 3 people from each dumbass Sci-Fi show with a cult following, and let them fight to the death. It'd be like watching declawed sloths try to attack each other.
In a way, it makes sense. Mental patients are often extremely rigid. Some won't communicate at all. If the only way to communicate with a mental patient is in Klingon, that might be better than not communicating. The problems of dealing with a mentally ill patient are often far more difficult than hiring someone to speak Klingon. The expense of dealing with someone who won't communicate at all can be huge.
Call me insensitive, but so what? Yes, they are mental patients. Yes, they are insane. No, they won't communicate in a real language. Treat them like they don't speak. Treat them like they speak gibberish, as a lot of mental patients do. My tax dollars (and yours) are paying someone to speak a fictional language... don't you find that a bit wrong?
Portland is more international than Georgia. There are many people from all over the world here. We have more than 8,000 Hmong tribespeople from the mountains of Vietnam here in Portland, for example. So, there are often adjustments to the special requirements of people from other cultures. As a volunteer, I've taught English to Iranian women, for example. It was interesting getting to know them; Iranians are far different than you would guess after you have read U.S. government information about Iran. The 100 or more Iranians that I've met are gentle and friendly and concerned about family. The Iranians I've met are light years away from being terrorists.
Klingons aren't fucking real. These people are mentally divergent, and need help understanding that Klingon's don't fucking exist. They don't need someone to speak Klingon because it will enforce their delusions.
But you are right, Portland does have a lot of ethnic diversity. However, Klingons are fucking real. I can't believe this, and I'm pissed that our public schools are experiencing really shitty funding problems and now we're hiring figments of peoples imaginations...
I was involved in a federal case where the defendant was accused of unauthorized access because he used EXPN and VRFY to determine a range of email addresses to mailbomb. I thought it was bullshit, and faxed them a copy of this page (God forbid they use email) indicating that these commands were publically availible to anyone on the internet, but the prosecutors weren't particularly interested and were rather disappointed at my opinion.
A crowbar is a perfectly legal, commonly available tool to anyone who can buy one. What's your point?
So you're suggesting I should be screwing white trash. No interest. As you said, there's a price we pay and in this case, the reward is far from being worth the price.
This is your problem. It's called pretension. The best people I know have nothing to do with intellect, but they know society. The know the tides of people, and are extremely intruiging and just fun. It's not about white trash, it's about you realizing that you A) aren't that smart. B) intelligence != smart. C) Some times the most intelligent people are the stupidest.
My mom has a great quote, "For being a genius, you're an absolute idiot."
Gorgeous bodies are wonderful eye candy, but if the sex organ between the ears is allowed to atrophy, no amount of time in the gym or money spent at the Clinique counter will make a woman interesting OR a good lay.
Agreed, but there are very intelligent, very gorgeous women out there. My girlfriend isn't smart in the way of books, but she is incredibly wise. She's also incredibly gorgeous (makes me wonder why she dates me, but I don't mind.)
Yes, looks matter. Yes, hygiene matters. But putting personality first is in no way "settling." Ot if it is, then I've "settled" for eight years of a great marriage (and son) and a better life than I ever thought I'd have.
You only parsed a bit of my intended meaning. I see a lot of guys who are, lets just say, unfortunate looking. These guys seem to have a problem having any sort of interaction with girls that are of average or below looks, and get constantly brushed off. They think that all girls are stupid bitches, or some such nonsense. When I say, "Just settle for a great personality" I mean, look at the personality, because you aren't getting the model. I'd rather have someone I can talk to, because in 40 years, everybody now is going to be ugly and wrinkled:)
The thousands of organizations trying to find the next genius to tout on their shoulders. Most people that enter Mensa are brought in because they're expected from a young age to be members.
Why am I even bothering with people like you? Since you obviously ain't got anything better to do either, you aren't in the position to bitch at others. Much less as you didn't bring up anything original or, gasp, a working solution.
I did bring up a working solution. Get your ass outta your house, or stop commenting on how people just don't interest you on an intellectual level. You started the thread, not me. I just said that people need to stop complaining or do something about it. You complain and don't do anything about it. You obviously aren't that smart if you can't figure out the solution to your own problems, including laziness. You bother with people like me because deep down inside yourself, you know that I'm right.
As straight A student at one of the countries most respected high schools (while never doing homework and stoned half the time in class), that's well within reach while making a pretty nice amount of cash in my spare time doing consulting work.
Newsflash, if you are that smart, they find you.
Heck with *no* prior confrontation to the concept, I implemented binary search with 15.
Binary search... uh, so what. If you implemented an AVL tree, then come talk to me. I clean re-wrote the entire string function set along with sorting algorithms when I was 12, because it was fun. Swing your dick a little bit more.
Did you even read my post? I was clearly speaking about German.
"Note that I'm non native English speaker and while reading newspaper articles in well respected papers (the ones where you would expect the writers to know their language) I'll usually find a few sentences that are just plain wrong."
I'm doubt your intelligence with every post.
Not if the other side constantly looks for your screw ups or how you're gonna react to her traps respectively thinks you're only interested in fucking her brains out which is inherently a bad thing as far as Swiss girls are concerned and god forbid she could enjoy it, too. Never mind it's far from true.
Coming from someone who admits they're a loser, I think you are full of shit.
If the Mensa tests are anything like most other IQ tests I've laid my eyes on, I have little doubt I'd pass. That for starters.
So, you are claiming that you are amongst the top 2% in the world. Ok, that's a good baseline to set yourself.
Note that I'm non native English speaker and while reading newspaper articles in well respected papers (the ones where you would expect the writers to know their language) I'll usually find a few sentences that are just plain wrong.
Even the most well respected of newspapers write at a 7th grade level. While you may think it is wrong, chances are it isn't, just dumbed down. English is a very creative language, in which there is more than one way to do things.
As to the intelligent guy riding his bike all day: good for him, obviously he can afford it (if I were allowed to ride one of the bad ass ones, you'd surely see me do but as a matter of fact, I need to wait at least one more year to be legally allowed).
If you are as smart as you think you are, you would already be there. If that's what you want.
Furthermore, there IS a curse on smart people. They think way too much. If I were to just speak with a girl without my brain thinking what/if type of stuff, I wouldn't get nervous and would certainly appear more appealing.
Talking is one of the easiest things to do in the world. If you can't figure that out, I'd rethink your opening statement.
Now, not everyone with whom I'm friendly necessarily is like that. I work with people, go to lunch with people, even socialize with people with whom I've never had a serious conversation. That's okay too. But my close friends are the people with whom I have those serious conversations about life.
See, you aren't what I'm talking about though. You socialize. I'm talking about people who are so convinced they're too smart to ever be "understood" so they hide in their houses to promote their own delusions...
But I'm bored very easily and I only ever met very few girls (below fingers on one hand in any case) that could keep me interested on an intellectual level for more than half an hour straight. So usually I don't even try getting dates this days, knowing it's wasted time for both sides. The fact that the women in this country have a seriously screwed relation to sex in general won't help it either. Oh and my brain tends to shut down when I'm supposed to talk with a girl. That cost me more girls than anything else. Including the love of my life.
You are right, it is a personality issue. You realize that most members of mensa don't have issues being entertained by those of lesser intellectual statute? It's called "Ego", now get over it. Do me a favor, and I'm not saying this to be an asshole, drop your pre-conceived notion that the only interesting things to talk about have to be of intellectual nature. Yeah, it helps, but it's not life.
You will never be the smartest person in the world. I could almost guarantee you that Sharon Stone is more intelligent than you. Why does she choose a career as acting? Because that's something she enjoys. Why is it that the man with the highest IQ rides around on a motorcycle all day? Because he wants to. That's intelligence, mate. Get over yourself. Your ego and intellect have nothing to do with it, it's your distance approach that you are taking with them.
You explicitely list that you have only met a few girls that can keep you interested on an intellectual leel, but how many guys? Why the difference? I've found women to be more insightful by far, just speaking of gender differences.
As for your brain shutting down, sounds like you aren't as smart as you think you are;)
I read this here a lot, but the sad fact is that many people would really like to get a date, but just aren't able to for some reason. Maybe they're not attractive, or have an introverted personality (which is really anethema to women). So the best these people can hope for is to find an engrossing hobby like this to keep them interested in life.
Or they could just leave the house, and clean themselves up a bit, understand they won't get the most beautiful girl they see and settle for someone with a great personality. Showers and going outside of the house do wonders towards increasing social life.
I have no sense of pity for dipshits who complain about being single who do nothing to help the situation.
Hopefully, one day some of these people can invent a fem-bot campanion robot which actually likes being around introverted guys.
The only advantage of this invention is prohibiting the possibility of these guys breeding. So yeah, hopefully someone does do it.
For text, a keyboard is much better and faster than handwriting, the only thing where a pencil is great is sketches, pictures, etc. - but only very few people need that.
Exactly. Welcome to the world of a geek... if they can't think of a use for them to use it, no one else should either. I wouldn't use one. Perhaps if I was doing designs and wanted to sketch things out, but I'd rather use Dia or Visio. My artist however, would use it. Just like he'd rather use a Mac than a Linux box.
As for keyboarding over handwriting, no kidding. I write exceedingly slow. If I don't, my handwriting resembles sanscript or aramaic. I can type probably 4-5 times faster than I can write, even when I'm writing quickly.
It spys(sic) on you, therefore it is Spyware. Uninstallability has nothing to do with it, especially given that 99% of people installed it unintentionally.
You seem to be forgetting that spy means it's trying to hide what they do. It proudly proclaims everything it does on the front page of GAIN. Spyware tries to hide what they do, not advertise it...
Gator is tied comes with something called OfferCompanion, which most certainly IS spyware/popup adware, and has been implicated in various 'drive-by download' schemes. It spams users with various offers, and advertises itself as being able to very accurately target users. How it targets them I leave to your imagination, but will give you a hint: it asks users NO questions to create their profile.
I can tell you with absolute certainty (no, I don't work for Gator) that you have to actually agree to install Gator or OfferCompanion. People who download it on their system and then blame it to be covert is just dumb. Most people click next. Most people don't read the clause that states, "This is ad supported software, OfferCompanion or Gator will be installed."
How it targets them I leave to your imagination, but will give you a hint: it asks users NO questions to create their profile.
Dude. It watches what websites you go to and runs an algorithm to find related websites that you build. It doesn't care about who you are, it cares about your demographic. I would actually not mind ads if they were about shit I cared about.
Same here: I'm very much hoping he goes round and rips Gator a new one... (Pats Ad-Aware on the head for killing that lousy scumware)
I love these people. Gator isn't scumware. Gator isn't spyware. They put on their front page what they do, and people still say that it does all this stuff.
You don't have to install Gator, and you can easily uninstall Gator. The only thing that Gator has done that was a wee bit fucked up was putting their pop-up advert windows over other sites advertisements, and they stripped that feature and got sued for it.
There is no way this guy is going to stop Gator, either.
Reformed as in disbanded, cancelled, shot to hell? Ok I agree with you there.
Well, I think that in theory it's a good concept. Also, we have the buildings all setup. Reformed as in burn all the policies in place, and come up with no policies. Maybe throw in some of the members as well... just for the added heat.
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If you read the comments, you'll find that they're finding someone who speaks Klingon to be put on a list in case they find someone who only speaks Klingon. Is there any evidence that more science fiction fans go into mental wards then other comparable sections of society?
I'm not just talking of those Klingon-speaking mental ward goers. I'm talking of all mental ward goers. Illness is a sign of inferiority. It's not a pity thing, it's not anything else. It's inferiority. Darwin had it down.
That assertion was never clearly made, and I'm not sure it's worth challenging without evidence backing it up. (The fact that a very small percentage of the watchers of the shows have taken it to a point of obsession shows nothing unless you can show that these people wouldn't have focused their obsessions elsewhere.)
I'm not saying they aren't, but what I am saying is that they manifested their obsessive and unhealthy tendancies towards a fictional show that is being catered to. Allowing them to get by speaking Klingon is like allowing them to speak like a baby. It just isn't healthy. If people were able to make a clean distinction between the real world and the sci-fi world, than I wouldn't have an issue with it. These are the same people that think Wil Weaton should be killed because of his role on Star Trek...
Can you verify that it's his address, and not someone else's now? Bad karma to mailbomb the wrong person..
I'm not opposed to knocking on his door and asking if it's him, I can tell him I'm interested in DefibWorld and how to promote it aggressively in the market, just click here! er.. I mean, sign here!
No, but people *were* hired to act as translators between Einstein, his peers, and the non-scientific government officials that funded the research.
Which research are you talking about? Most of his work that made Einstein famous happened without any government research grants. In fact, he was shunned from the government (Roosevelt) after he informed them (4 times) that they Germans would be working on an atomic bomb.
Most of the talks about people saying Einstein needed a translator, or he was autistic are those who have never studied his work. Einstein managed to promote his ideas in very concise and clear manners, which is what made him famous. He truly understood the ideas, and also how to convey the ideas.
If you can provide any evidence that he required translators, please present it.
And I suppose, given your extensive knowledge of treatment for the mentally ill, you would recommend we simply yell at sick people and tell them to get better. I think not. Let professionals do their jobs, until you can come up with a demonstrably better method.
I minored in Abnormal and Criminal Psychology. It's pretty easy to say that catering to ones belief they are a chocolate bunny isn't healthy. Neither is enforcing their view that they are a fucking Klingon.
I never said yelling at them will help. What I did say is that helping their fantasies manifest themselves stronger is the opposite direction than you want to go.
A quick websearch reveals the phrase "mentally divergent" to come from 12 Monkeys. If you meant to say "insane", perhaps that's the word you should have used.
Insane is a legal term, not a medical one. Psychologically Divergent is the most "correct" term, but it too long to type.
Profanity can be used to great effect, when used sparingly for emotional impact. But the problem with your language is that you use vague slurs - "fucking", "retarded" (when used as an insult), "dumbass", "dipshit" - that express the fact that you don't approve of the subject, but don't explain why you disapprove, nor (consider how obvious your disapproval is otherwise) do they add anything to your message.
Well, considering I said, "shitty funding problems" indicating that the reasoning behind those funding problems are due to lots of really stupid problems, I'm not sure what basis you have with this. Then, dumbass Sci-Fi show, this is easy to explain. You see, they come up with words. They make up shit. The people I'm talking about are people who aren't content living a real life and fantasize about a better life in an exciting time. Same thing that western movies did. The problem is is that most people grow out of playing cowboy and indians when they turn 14.
Also, I'm saying that people who are obsessed with Sci-Fi shows are of a lower order. It presents plenty of information to be discussed, you just choose not to challenge my assertions that Sci-Fi shows promote psychological issues. They are going into mental wards, of course I'm superior to them.
There is currently a popular belief that Einstein was mildly autistic. This would indicate his reality, even if he had a good grasp on it, was quite different from our own.
No, it isn't a popular belief. It's a popular belief amongst the people who think that Einstein didn't know how to tie his own shoes and never read anything that Einstein wrote. How many books and papers by Einstein have you read?
His method of saying he understood something was being able to explain it so that anybody could understand it. One of his practices was finding children and explaining his concepts so that they could understand it, and find his own understanding.
Thanks for pointing out a typo, too.
Nice troll though.
And in this case, a troll is something you don't think is true... good call.
I can verify the address, that address is about 7 minutes away from my house. I'd be willing to deluge the fucker in spam.
Maybe they are dealing with schizophrenics who resort to speaking Klingon to keep Echelon at bay because the Walt Disney Inc. / CIA / Apple conspiracy is after them and if they speak English they may trigger the floating nano-microphones that hang in the air. That is a 'reality' that a mental-health professional may not want to engage either, but you still want to know if these people are having side-effects when they have started taking their medication.
Than they are really fucking stupid. You can learn Klingon over the internet, where Echelon prevails. There is no reason to cater to the belief that there is a necessity to speak a language of imaginary creatures. It's not healthy. It's a stupid state law that has to be satisfied, and it's dumb. It's a waste of money.
So was Einstein, and many other people who changed our world. As a matter of fact, genius itself is mentally divergent.
You need to go read some books, Einstein was not mentally divergent. He had a very good grasp on reality.
I can see the effect it had on your language skills, and the wide command (or lack of) adjectives it gave you.
Now I know you're a dipshit, aside from the Einstein comment. People who use "profanity" are of a lessure statute. Yeah.. keep it up.
I hate to mention this to you, but that's what languages are. No language has any reality outside the mind of a person.
Equating any language and "Klingon" is just retarded. People who are this obsessed with a TV show should be put into the next reality based TV show. Put 3 people from each dumbass Sci-Fi show with a cult following, and let them fight to the death. It'd be like watching declawed sloths try to attack each other.
In a way, it makes sense. Mental patients are often extremely rigid. Some won't communicate at all. If the only way to communicate with a mental patient is in Klingon, that might be better than not communicating. The problems of dealing with a mentally ill patient are often far more difficult than hiring someone to speak Klingon. The expense of dealing with someone who won't communicate at all can be huge.
Call me insensitive, but so what? Yes, they are mental patients. Yes, they are insane. No, they won't communicate in a real language. Treat them like they don't speak. Treat them like they speak gibberish, as a lot of mental patients do. My tax dollars (and yours) are paying someone to speak a fictional language... don't you find that a bit wrong?
Portland is more international than Georgia. There are many people from all over the world here. We have more than 8,000 Hmong tribespeople from the mountains of Vietnam here in Portland, for example. So, there are often adjustments to the special requirements of people from other cultures. As a volunteer, I've taught English to Iranian women, for example. It was interesting getting to know them; Iranians are far different than you would guess after you have read U.S. government information about Iran. The 100 or more Iranians that I've met are gentle and friendly and concerned about family. The Iranians I've met are light years away from being terrorists.
Klingons aren't fucking real. These people are mentally divergent, and need help understanding that Klingon's don't fucking exist. They don't need someone to speak Klingon because it will enforce their delusions.
But you are right, Portland does have a lot of ethnic diversity. However, Klingons are fucking real. I can't believe this, and I'm pissed that our public schools are experiencing really shitty funding problems and now we're hiring figments of peoples imaginations...
Yeah, fuck it, I'm moving out.
I was involved in a federal case where the defendant was accused of unauthorized access because he used EXPN and VRFY to determine a range of email addresses to mailbomb. I thought it was bullshit, and faxed them a copy of this page (God forbid they use email) indicating that these commands were publically availible to anyone on the internet, but the prosecutors weren't particularly interested and were rather disappointed at my opinion.
A crowbar is a perfectly legal, commonly available tool to anyone who can buy one. What's your point?
So you're suggesting I should be screwing white trash. No interest. As you said, there's a price we pay and in this case, the reward is far from being worth the price.
This is your problem. It's called pretension. The best people I know have nothing to do with intellect, but they know society. The know the tides of people, and are extremely intruiging and just fun. It's not about white trash, it's about you realizing that you A) aren't that smart. B) intelligence != smart. C) Some times the most intelligent people are the stupidest.
My mom has a great quote, "For being a genius, you're an absolute idiot."
Gorgeous bodies are wonderful eye candy, but if the sex organ between the ears is allowed to atrophy, no amount of time in the gym or money spent at the Clinique counter will make a woman interesting OR a good lay.
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Agreed, but there are very intelligent, very gorgeous women out there. My girlfriend isn't smart in the way of books, but she is incredibly wise. She's also incredibly gorgeous (makes me wonder why she dates me, but I don't mind.)
Yes, looks matter. Yes, hygiene matters. But putting personality first is in no way "settling." Ot if it is, then I've "settled" for eight years of a great marriage (and son) and a better life than I ever thought I'd have.
You only parsed a bit of my intended meaning. I see a lot of guys who are, lets just say, unfortunate looking. These guys seem to have a problem having any sort of interaction with girls that are of average or below looks, and get constantly brushed off. They think that all girls are stupid bitches, or some such nonsense. When I say, "Just settle for a great personality" I mean, look at the personality, because you aren't getting the model. I'd rather have someone I can talk to, because in 40 years, everybody now is going to be ugly and wrinkled
Whom will find me?
The thousands of organizations trying to find the next genius to tout on their shoulders. Most people that enter Mensa are brought in because they're expected from a young age to be members.
Why am I even bothering with people like you? Since you obviously ain't got anything better to do either, you aren't in the position to bitch at others. Much less as you didn't bring up anything original or, gasp, a working solution.
I did bring up a working solution. Get your ass outta your house, or stop commenting on how people just don't interest you on an intellectual level. You started the thread, not me. I just said that people need to stop complaining or do something about it. You complain and don't do anything about it. You obviously aren't that smart if you can't figure out the solution to your own problems, including laziness. You bother with people like me because deep down inside yourself, you know that I'm right.
As straight A student at one of the countries most respected high schools (while never doing homework and stoned half the time in class), that's well within reach while making a pretty nice amount of cash in my spare time doing consulting work.
Newsflash, if you are that smart, they find you.
Heck with *no* prior confrontation to the concept, I implemented binary search with 15.
Binary search... uh, so what. If you implemented an AVL tree, then come talk to me. I clean re-wrote the entire string function set along with sorting algorithms when I was 12, because it was fun. Swing your dick a little bit more.
Did you even read my post? I was clearly speaking about German.
"Note that I'm non native English speaker and while reading newspaper articles in well respected papers (the ones where you would expect the writers to know their language) I'll usually find a few sentences that are just plain wrong."
I'm doubt your intelligence with every post.
Not if the other side constantly looks for your screw ups or how you're gonna react to her traps respectively thinks you're only interested in fucking her brains out which is inherently a bad thing as far as Swiss girls are concerned and god forbid she could enjoy it, too. Never mind it's far from true.
Coming from someone who admits they're a loser, I think you are full of shit.
If the Mensa tests are anything like most other IQ tests I've laid my eyes on, I have little doubt I'd pass. That for starters.
So, you are claiming that you are amongst the top 2% in the world. Ok, that's a good baseline to set yourself.
Note that I'm non native English speaker and while reading newspaper articles in well respected papers (the ones where you would expect the writers to know their language) I'll usually find a few sentences that are just plain wrong.
Even the most well respected of newspapers write at a 7th grade level. While you may think it is wrong, chances are it isn't, just dumbed down. English is a very creative language, in which there is more than one way to do things.
As to the intelligent guy riding his bike all day: good for him, obviously he can afford it (if I were allowed to ride one of the bad ass ones, you'd surely see me do but as a matter of fact, I need to wait at least one more year to be legally allowed).
If you are as smart as you think you are, you would already be there. If that's what you want.
Furthermore, there IS a curse on smart people. They think way too much. If I were to just speak with a girl without my brain thinking what/if type of stuff, I wouldn't get nervous and would certainly appear more appealing.
Talking is one of the easiest things to do in the world. If you can't figure that out, I'd rethink your opening statement.
Now, not everyone with whom I'm friendly necessarily is like that. I work with people, go to lunch with people, even socialize with people with whom I've never had a serious conversation. That's okay too. But my close friends are the people with whom I have those serious conversations about life.
See, you aren't what I'm talking about though. You socialize. I'm talking about people who are so convinced they're too smart to ever be "understood" so they hide in their houses to promote their own delusions...
But I'm bored very easily and I only ever met very few girls (below fingers on one hand in any case) that could keep me interested on an intellectual level for more than half an hour straight. So usually I don't even try getting dates this days, knowing it's wasted time for both sides. The fact that the women in this country have a seriously screwed relation to sex in general won't help it either. Oh and my brain tends to shut down when I'm supposed to talk with a girl. That cost me more girls than anything else. Including the love of my life.
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You are right, it is a personality issue. You realize that most members of mensa don't have issues being entertained by those of lesser intellectual statute? It's called "Ego", now get over it. Do me a favor, and I'm not saying this to be an asshole, drop your pre-conceived notion that the only interesting things to talk about have to be of intellectual nature. Yeah, it helps, but it's not life.
You will never be the smartest person in the world. I could almost guarantee you that Sharon Stone is more intelligent than you. Why does she choose a career as acting? Because that's something she enjoys. Why is it that the man with the highest IQ rides around on a motorcycle all day? Because he wants to. That's intelligence, mate. Get over yourself. Your ego and intellect have nothing to do with it, it's your distance approach that you are taking with them.
You explicitely list that you have only met a few girls that can keep you interested on an intellectual leel, but how many guys? Why the difference? I've found women to be more insightful by far, just speaking of gender differences.
As for your brain shutting down, sounds like you aren't as smart as you think you are
I read this here a lot, but the sad fact is that many people would really like to get a date, but just aren't able to for some reason. Maybe they're not attractive, or have an introverted personality (which is really anethema to women). So the best these people can hope for is to find an engrossing hobby like this to keep them interested in life.
Or they could just leave the house, and clean themselves up a bit, understand they won't get the most beautiful girl they see and settle for someone with a great personality. Showers and going outside of the house do wonders towards increasing social life.
I have no sense of pity for dipshits who complain about being single who do nothing to help the situation.
Hopefully, one day some of these people can invent a fem-bot campanion robot which actually likes being around introverted guys.
The only advantage of this invention is prohibiting the possibility of these guys breeding. So yeah, hopefully someone does do it.
For text, a keyboard is much better and faster than handwriting, the only thing where a pencil is great is sketches, pictures, etc. - but only very few people need that.
Exactly. Welcome to the world of a geek... if they can't think of a use for them to use it, no one else should either. I wouldn't use one. Perhaps if I was doing designs and wanted to sketch things out, but I'd rather use Dia or Visio. My artist however, would use it. Just like he'd rather use a Mac than a Linux box.
As for keyboarding over handwriting, no kidding. I write exceedingly slow. If I don't, my handwriting resembles sanscript or aramaic. I can type probably 4-5 times faster than I can write, even when I'm writing quickly.
It spys(sic) on you, therefore it is Spyware. Uninstallability has nothing to do with it, especially given that 99% of people installed it unintentionally.
You seem to be forgetting that spy means it's trying to hide what they do. It proudly proclaims everything it does on the front page of GAIN. Spyware tries to hide what they do, not advertise it...
Gator is tied comes with something called OfferCompanion, which most certainly IS spyware/popup adware, and has been implicated in various 'drive-by download' schemes. It spams users with various offers, and advertises itself as being able to very accurately target users. How it targets them I leave to your imagination, but will give you a hint: it asks users NO questions to create their profile.
I can tell you with absolute certainty (no, I don't work for Gator) that you have to actually agree to install Gator or OfferCompanion. People who download it on their system and then blame it to be covert is just dumb. Most people click next. Most people don't read the clause that states, "This is ad supported software, OfferCompanion or Gator will be installed."
How it targets them I leave to your imagination, but will give you a hint: it asks users NO questions to create their profile.
Dude. It watches what websites you go to and runs an algorithm to find related websites that you build. It doesn't care about who you are, it cares about your demographic. I would actually not mind ads if they were about shit I cared about.
Same here: I'm very much hoping he goes round and rips Gator a new one... (Pats Ad-Aware on the head for killing that lousy scumware)
I love these people. Gator isn't scumware. Gator isn't spyware. They put on their front page what they do, and people still say that it does all this stuff.
You don't have to install Gator, and you can easily uninstall Gator. The only thing that Gator has done that was a wee bit fucked up was putting their pop-up advert windows over other sites advertisements, and they stripped that feature and got sued for it.
There is no way this guy is going to stop Gator, either.
But remember, when doing performance mods, always use Performance Yellow Krylon(tm) Brand Spray Paint!
Yellow = Performance
Reformed as in disbanded, cancelled, shot to hell? Ok I agree with you there.
Well, I think that in theory it's a good concept. Also, we have the buildings all setup. Reformed as in burn all the policies in place, and come up with no policies. Maybe throw in some of the members as well... just for the added heat.