They could, but this is the US you're talking about. Money reigns supreme in the land of the free. Lots of other countries don't provide the same freedom to be fucked over.
That's when you hand them a quarter to use the payphone. Unless payphones have disappeared from the US as well.
This way if they really are in need, then you're helping them, and if they refuse and start to walk away that's when you might want to mention it to whatever security is around.
One day when I'm a trillionaire, you can argue about the book definition of genius all you like. I said 130+. That's 130 plus for those keeping track. Plus how much?.... Who gives a fuck?
Well, i'm just taking a guess here, but intelligent people are usually concerned with accurate definitions, and this sure as hell would bug any statistician. Now regardless of the criticisms of IQ in general, a 10 point difference from 130 to 140 accounts for about ~17% of the normal IQ range above 130 for adults. Not that much right? Well, except that only ~2.27% of the population has an IQ above 130, and only ~.4% has above 140. I left the last step of calculating the enormity of your error as an exercise for yourself, try not to hurt your brain:)
Believe me, I use approximations in my in head calculations all the time and assume most geniuses do, but only with error rates below 1-2%. If geniuses had more socialization the only appropriate response to what you said would be
I agree with most of this. We were called TAG(talented and gifted) fags and had no other classes with normal students except for PE (yeah, which genius came up with that).
However, I disagree about the hard work, at least where i was, we actually had project calendars to keep track of the extremely heavy workload compared to the regular kids.
Needless to say I dropped out as soon as possible to try and interact with normal kids.
Wait, is it better? Humans are social animals. You need to take care of yourself by finding an environment that enriches your life in all aspects not just fiscally. Fear is the biggest reason why the world is currently as it is. Don't ever let fear stop you from doing what you know in your heart is the right thing to do.
I'm not necessarily saying quit your job, but rather ask yourself, what role do I want to play in society? You may find that you'll stay and learn new methods to deal with your boss just because you believe that safety is important and since he doesn't care about it you will take responsability for it. Or you may find that safety aside you just disagree with the whole premise of the job/industry and move on to something else that utilizes the skills and passion that undermine the reason for your degree.
I remember when I was doing drug research being really disappointed by how people treated their lab animals and how undersocialized they were. My bro mentionned that staying there would be an opportunity to have someone treating their animals nicely. Only problem with that? Socialized happy rats don't take drugs!!! I had read papers before on this but to actually experience the inability to make happy rats into drug addicts just brought into question the model as a whole. Did i really want to participate in research whose whole goal is to hide/treat/prevent(not good prevention, but drug vaccines) the side-effects of modern society. Isn't the right path the one that works towards a solution and not towards a cover up?.
Facing decisions like this, that question our morals, ethics, beliefs, and force us to break from what is socially acceptable, help to clarify in our minds who we really are, what we're here to do, and how we're going to do it.
Fear of the unknown will always be there, but eventually you realize that confronting it just leads to an expansion of the known and that fear will turn into anticipation of the next unknown to conquer.
I was going to make some snarky remark about your IQ just barely qualifying for "genius", but I've noticed that usually the ones around 140 are more successful than those of us with much higher (others, i'm just 1sd above you) IQ's. IQ isn't everything, sometimes it just shows that we know how to fill up our brains, not whether we fill them with important things or things we know how to apply.
What seems to be the REAL problem here is that neither you nor the school are actually teaching your child anything. You just seem to be hoping and praying that his poor brain will eventually pick up the pattern.
Unfortunately, this problem won't go away until the person teaching actually understands the material, not knows it by rote, but actually understands it. I can come up with at least 3 non-standard ways of doing arithmetic, each being slightly easier for different thinking patterns, but that's because i understand what is going on, and how different cognitive areas can be harnessed with different methods.
N.B. They couldn't teach me math in school, they actually thought I was retarded. I couldn't multiply or do long-division at the start of grade 5. Thankfully, I was tested and they noticed my advance pattern matching skills. They didn't have the resources to really do anything for me, but they did hand me a grade 9 book on mathematical axioms. I shortly outperformed everybody, though frequently not reflected in my grades because I was unable to show my work for anything because I never was capable of learning their slow tedious methods.
I've often wondered about the brain damage hypothesis.
I had umbilical wrapped around my neck and my head crushed twice by improper use of forceps (granted they did save my life). However, even with that I was an early developer, speaking sentences at 12 months. 5 bad DTP vaccines later (protocol is to stop if there's a bad reaction and it's only supposed to be 3) and I turned into a mostly speechless parrot. By bad shots, I mean fever, pneumonia, viral infection, bacterial infection, extreme immune reaction with huge inflammed lymph nodes (i've got bad stretch marks), etc...
I've often wondered if I could sue since it's all documented and very obvious that protocol wasn't followed
Are you sure? What if minds are magnets? If you move past the maya of the physical world and see everything as fluctuating fields of energy, then what?
If humans as collections of emf's evolved in emf's do you not suppose there might have been some evolutionary advantage to detecting emfs? Well, in fact we did. The next question would be what kinds? Have higher functions such as speech and vision drowned out more subtle tools?
Science is quickly finding out that we can to some extent decode and match up brain emfs. Certain thought processes, even pictures as dreams just posted, generate certain emf patterns. So people that think similarly will actually produce similar fields. Is it possible that humans are subliminally aware of this?
3 minutes? What's genius about that, 5 secs max to map the layout then you just apply a solving algorithm that doesn't actually require looking at the cube.
You have a weird definition of stupid. If you know something is wrong and you do it anyways, then you're stupid and if you do it just because someone else might get the job then you're selfish and stupid.
I know that in the US this agressive stupidity is actively encouraged by the american dream, do whatever you have to do to get ahead, but the rest of the world see's it as stupidity...except of course where selfishness reigns.
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They could, but this is the US you're talking about. Money reigns supreme in the land of the free. Lots of other countries don't provide the same freedom to be fucked over.
This is where the thick clunkiness of the N900 has a similar advantage. Too old school for most.
This way if they really are in need, then you're helping them, and if they refuse and start to walk away that's when you might want to mention it to whatever security is around.
One day when I'm a trillionaire, you can argue about the book definition of genius all you like. I said 130+. That's 130 plus for those keeping track. Plus how much? .... Who gives a fuck?
Well, i'm just taking a guess here, but intelligent people are usually concerned with accurate definitions, and this sure as hell would bug any statistician. Now regardless of the criticisms of IQ in general, a 10 point difference from 130 to 140 accounts for about ~17% of the normal IQ range above 130 for adults. Not that much right? Well, except that only ~2.27% of the population has an IQ above 130, and only ~.4% has above 140. I left the last step of calculating the enormity of your error as an exercise for yourself, try not to hurt your brain :)
Believe me, I use approximations in my in head calculations all the time and assume most geniuses do, but only with error rates below 1-2%. If geniuses had more socialization the only appropriate response to what you said would be
"Wow".
Seriously, what other response is there both to your tripe and moderation?
So, Iraq was a necessity? Iran? How about almost every single country in the world that's been fucked over by the US, necessity?
Smart people know how to adapt and adopt.
Feel free to return to your hand washing.
Sheep follow shiny things, intelligent people actually know how to listen.
I think we can all tell that by your childish nick.
However, I disagree about the hard work, at least where i was, we actually had project calendars to keep track of the extremely heavy workload compared to the regular kids.
Needless to say I dropped out as soon as possible to try and interact with normal kids.
Wait, is it better? Humans are social animals. You need to take care of yourself by finding an environment that enriches your life in all aspects not just fiscally. Fear is the biggest reason why the world is currently as it is. Don't ever let fear stop you from doing what you know in your heart is the right thing to do.
I'm not necessarily saying quit your job, but rather ask yourself, what role do I want to play in society? You may find that you'll stay and learn new methods to deal with your boss just because you believe that safety is important and since he doesn't care about it you will take responsability for it. Or you may find that safety aside you just disagree with the whole premise of the job/industry and move on to something else that utilizes the skills and passion that undermine the reason for your degree.
I remember when I was doing drug research being really disappointed by how people treated their lab animals and how undersocialized they were. My bro mentionned that staying there would be an opportunity to have someone treating their animals nicely. Only problem with that? Socialized happy rats don't take drugs!!! I had read papers before on this but to actually experience the inability to make happy rats into drug addicts just brought into question the model as a whole. Did i really want to participate in research whose whole goal is to hide/treat/prevent(not good prevention, but drug vaccines) the side-effects of modern society. Isn't the right path the one that works towards a solution and not towards a cover up?.
Facing decisions like this, that question our morals, ethics, beliefs, and force us to break from what is socially acceptable, help to clarify in our minds who we really are, what we're here to do, and how we're going to do it.
Fear of the unknown will always be there, but eventually you realize that confronting it just leads to an expansion of the known and that fear will turn into anticipation of the next unknown to conquer.
I was going to make some snarky remark about your IQ just barely qualifying for "genius", but I've noticed that usually the ones around 140 are more successful than those of us with much higher (others, i'm just 1sd above you) IQ's. IQ isn't everything, sometimes it just shows that we know how to fill up our brains, not whether we fill them with important things or things we know how to apply.
Ah genius. You do know that the lowest agreed upon cutoff for genius defined by IQ is 140 no?
Unfortunately, this problem won't go away until the person teaching actually understands the material, not knows it by rote, but actually understands it. I can come up with at least 3 non-standard ways of doing arithmetic, each being slightly easier for different thinking patterns, but that's because i understand what is going on, and how different cognitive areas can be harnessed with different methods.
N.B. They couldn't teach me math in school, they actually thought I was retarded. I couldn't multiply or do long-division at the start of grade 5. Thankfully, I was tested and they noticed my advance pattern matching skills. They didn't have the resources to really do anything for me, but they did hand me a grade 9 book on mathematical axioms. I shortly outperformed everybody, though frequently not reflected in my grades because I was unable to show my work for anything because I never was capable of learning their slow tedious methods.
It's so sad so many people don't understand co-relation.
I had umbilical wrapped around my neck and my head crushed twice by improper use of forceps (granted they did save my life). However, even with that I was an early developer, speaking sentences at 12 months. 5 bad DTP vaccines later (protocol is to stop if there's a bad reaction and it's only supposed to be 3) and I turned into a mostly speechless parrot. By bad shots, I mean fever, pneumonia, viral infection, bacterial infection, extreme immune reaction with huge inflammed lymph nodes (i've got bad stretch marks), etc...
I've often wondered if I could sue since it's all documented and very obvious that protocol wasn't followed
Either way, it's made for an interesting life :)
Stop looking in the mirror while thinking you're looking at the world.
US election time is the best, there's just so much comedy gold lying around. I'd probably find it sad and depressing if I was a USian though.
If humans as collections of emf's evolved in emf's do you not suppose there might have been some evolutionary advantage to detecting emfs? Well, in fact we did. The next question would be what kinds? Have higher functions such as speech and vision drowned out more subtle tools?
Science is quickly finding out that we can to some extent decode and match up brain emfs. Certain thought processes, even pictures as dreams just posted, generate certain emf patterns. So people that think similarly will actually produce similar fields. Is it possible that humans are subliminally aware of this?
You obviously don't speak EMF.
social and evil genius is often under-rated.
3 minutes? What's genius about that, 5 secs max to map the layout then you just apply a solving algorithm that doesn't actually require looking at the cube.
I know that in the US this agressive stupidity is actively encouraged by the american dream, do whatever you have to do to get ahead, but the rest of the world see's it as stupidity...except of course where selfishness reigns.
Ah, USians, your viewpoints blind you to non-selfish, humanity enriching acts that happen all over the world.
The world will be a better place when stupid people don't give out stupid selfish advice like you.
Then again, this from the land that allowed early civ artificats to be destroyed and stolen during their terrorism attacks in Iraq.