False. The US is not a group. It is a loosely organized confederation of several thousand groups. Anyway, your formula's busted - 3-5 people with good rapport exhibit better intelligence than the smartest one in the group.
Although in the case of Jerry, it's more like even a blind seal finding a club:)
One can only hope. It's amusing to note that he tried his site from 4 different computers, expecting to find different info on each(?!), and the screaming was a nice touch. The guy he found was really nice too - I would've told him to get bent.
First of all, 13B is ONE YEAR. Next year is paid for by ANOTHER 13B. Second of all, do the math. Let's say we need 10,000 people to manage the probe program (managers, engineers, secretaries, etc). Let's say it costs 100K per employee, just to be generous. That's only a billion dollars. That leaves another 12 billion.
That's what, less than a week of the Iraq quagmire? NASA's budget isn't that big, although I'm loath to feed their beast given their track record with things like the shuttle. You'd think they'd at least have proposals for the next gen shuttle, but I haven't heard a thing.
The vibrations from human equipment, outgassing, dust raised... sure, vibrations and dust are natural events there, but humans add more.
You need humans to fix these things when they break. You also don't get that much vibration from humans a couple miles away, and you can't raise dust with no air.
Umm nuumber three should be clinton got impeached for lying about the course of events in a civil trial and deliberatly attempting to mislead the direction of the trial. This is somethign that you or I would have been tossed in jail for if we done it.
And yet he was acquitted. I will also point out that he didn't lie. Under the definition givenm he didn't have sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. This is called a technicality.
On a side note, because of these actions he was disbared form praticing law in front of the suppream court and i belive he lost his law license in arkansas too.
So I hear. I still doubt that being tried for a crime isn't grounds for disbarrment.
I am no Republican supporter, but you realize that Clinton and the Democrats proposed a National ID Card in the 1990s, and it was the Republicans who opposed it?
Well yeah, but that was because it was Clinton. As you may recall, the Repiblicans spent the bulk of Clinton's presidency trying to undermine him. Hell, in 1994 the young republicans that got elected in Congress shut the federal government down for a month over some budgetary pissing match.
a failing public educational system in which we spend over $15,000 per student in some states and graduate about 1/3 of them from primary school who actually can read and write at an 8th grade level.
I'd say that's pretty good - primary school runs K-6, so a 6th grader reading at an 8th grade level 1/3 of the time is about right.
I stand corrected, thank you. Nice tidbit about Johnson, that I didn't know. I think my overall point is still valid, even if Nixon did get run out before he could "actually" be impeached.
No it isn't. Let's recap:
Johnson got impeached over some staffing issue (later deemed unconstitutional).
Nixon almost got impeached for dirty tricks during the election, but got away.
Clinton got impeached for lying about a blowjob.
All very important matters of state. Bush came along, attacked a country that was minding its own business, and completely botched up FEMA, but somehow that isn't nearly as important as a blowjob.
Every libertarian thinks that markets on average, when all is considered, solve problems BETTER THAN ANY ALTERNATIVE.
Well obviously, this is one of those non-average cases where the market fails.
When a business can't solve a problem, it runs out of money, and is replaced by some other business that does a better job.
When a business solves a problem by shafting you so it can pad its wallet and it's got the market cornered, what do you do then? You need politicians for these things, but you also need to be involved.
People get the government they deserve, and they deserve to get it good and hard.
So if you're on a $10/month texting plan you can find someone you don't like, send him as many messages as you can, and he racks up a huge bill? *shakes head*
No, you find out his phone number and send 1000 text messages from a hotmail account through his phone's email-sms gateway.
And as long as there are people with attitudes like yours on both sides, the problem will continue to exist.
GOd forbid someone value competence above dress sense.
Surely you see my point? So get past your righteous indignation. It's not really all that righteous.
All I saw was a strawman about copping attitude when all he said was that they ask for him by name because he fixes shit right. You have to expect a bit of hostility when the attitude he's responding to is that he can't know anything because he's got sandals on.
However, social skills cannot be learned from a book and there is a reason why the top salesman can earn more than a good programmer.
That's because sales are easier to measure. Note that a top programmer in a position to be measured can out earn a top salesman, it's just a bit riskier.
Exactly the ignorant elitist attitude that will place you near the top of the list when it's time to lay a few people off. Fact of the matter is that management needs tech and tech needs management, but neither needs arrogant know-it-alls like you.
The bitch of it is this: he's probably right. Management isn't hard, it's just irritating. Pay me enough and I'll go manage people and do it well.
Obviously - the common American Liberal is a caricature in every respect. They're basically the modern bogeyman of the Neocons. Remember this: Just because Hillary Clinton is a ridiculous carpetbagger doesn't make every other democrat worthy of the title.
No, sir, you do not understand conservation of energy.
And you don't understand the difference between theory and practice. In practice, Jets use less fuel to shift your ass from point A to point B, therefore they are more efficient. We'd probably still use them if they were a little less efficient because they're also faster.
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That means the IQ of the US is 7.70962746×10^-7.
False. The US is not a group. It is a loosely organized confederation of several thousand groups. Anyway, your formula's busted - 3-5 people with good rapport exhibit better intelligence than the smartest one in the group.
Although in the case of Jerry, it's more like even a blind seal finding a club :)
One can only hope. It's amusing to note that he tried his site from 4 different computers, expecting to find different info on each(?!), and the screaming was a nice touch. The guy he found was really nice too - I would've told him to get bent.
First of all, 13B is ONE YEAR. Next year is paid for by ANOTHER 13B. Second of all, do the math. Let's say we need 10,000 people to manage the probe program (managers, engineers, secretaries, etc). Let's say it costs 100K per employee, just to be generous. That's only a billion dollars. That leaves another 12 billion.
That's what, less than a week of the Iraq quagmire? NASA's budget isn't that big, although I'm loath to feed their beast given their track record with things like the shuttle. You'd think they'd at least have proposals for the next gen shuttle, but I haven't heard a thing.
The vibrations from human equipment, outgassing, dust raised ... sure, vibrations and dust are natural events there, but humans add more.
You need humans to fix these things when they break. You also don't get that much vibration from humans a couple miles away, and you can't raise dust with no air.
Umm nuumber three should be clinton got impeached for lying about the course of events in a civil trial and deliberatly attempting to mislead the direction of the trial. This is somethign that you or I would have been tossed in jail for if we done it.
And yet he was acquitted. I will also point out that he didn't lie. Under the definition givenm he didn't have sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. This is called a technicality.
On a side note, because of these actions he was disbared form praticing law in front of the suppream court and i belive he lost his law license in arkansas too.
So I hear. I still doubt that being tried for a crime isn't grounds for disbarrment.
Any encryption scheme is going to have a set of keys that will be, at a minimum, susceptible to some sort of clever replay attack
I can hack any encryption with only two things:
Are you sure we're talking about DVD still? With the DVD I know, subtitles are stored completely separately from the video.
And pirates might take the quick and dirty approach and overdub subtitles on the video stream. Simpler than tacking on real subtitles.
I am no Republican supporter, but you realize that Clinton and the Democrats proposed a National ID Card in the 1990s, and it was the Republicans who opposed it?
Well yeah, but that was because it was Clinton. As you may recall, the Repiblicans spent the bulk of Clinton's presidency trying to undermine him. Hell, in 1994 the young republicans that got elected in Congress shut the federal government down for a month over some budgetary pissing match.
a failing public educational system in which we spend over $15,000 per student in some states and graduate about 1/3 of them from primary school who actually can read and write at an 8th grade level.
I'd say that's pretty good - primary school runs K-6, so a 6th grader reading at an 8th grade level 1/3 of the time is about right.
I stand corrected, thank you. Nice tidbit about Johnson, that I didn't know. I think my overall point is still valid, even if Nixon did get run out before he could "actually" be impeached.
No it isn't. Let's recap:
All very important matters of state. Bush came along, attacked a country that was minding its own business, and completely botched up FEMA, but somehow that isn't nearly as important as a blowjob.
Every libertarian thinks that markets on average, when all is considered, solve problems BETTER THAN ANY ALTERNATIVE.
Well obviously, this is one of those non-average cases where the market fails.
When a business can't solve a problem, it runs out of money, and is replaced by some other business that does a better job.
When a business solves a problem by shafting you so it can pad its wallet and it's got the market cornered, what do you do then? You need politicians for these things, but you also need to be involved.
People get the government they deserve, and they deserve to get it good and hard.
Telling lies to users will only make them disregard other things you say.
How is saying that AOL and Hotmail are too much of a pain in the ass to deal with a lie?
Much like the Hilton sisters, his kids are going to be able to be complete morons and they will get by just fine in life...
Unless they pull a River Phoenix. The survival of stupid people is by no means assured, and that's a good thing.
For some reason I thought VB stood for Victoria Bitter when I first read your sig.
Yeah, VB isn't like generic beer at all.
Repay? I'm just looking at ways to abuse people.
So if you're on a $10/month texting plan you can find someone you don't like, send him as many messages as you can, and he racks up a huge bill? *shakes head*
No, you find out his phone number and send 1000 text messages from a hotmail account through his phone's email-sms gateway.
And as long as there are people with attitudes like yours on both sides, the problem will continue to exist.
GOd forbid someone value competence above dress sense.
Surely you see my point? So get past your righteous indignation. It's not really all that righteous.
All I saw was a strawman about copping attitude when all he said was that they ask for him by name because he fixes shit right. You have to expect a bit of hostility when the attitude he's responding to is that he can't know anything because he's got sandals on.
Let's not forget that all of those C-level types currently on trial were very well dressed . . .
Hey, when you're looting the pension fund, it's easy to pay for the best.
However, social skills cannot be learned from a book and there is a reason why the top salesman can earn more than a good programmer.
That's because sales are easier to measure. Note that a top programmer in a position to be measured can out earn a top salesman, it's just a bit riskier.
Exactly the ignorant elitist attitude that will place you near the top of the list when it's time to lay a few people off. Fact of the matter is that management needs tech and tech needs management, but neither needs arrogant know-it-alls like you.
The bitch of it is this: he's probably right. Management isn't hard, it's just irritating. Pay me enough and I'll go manage people and do it well.
I'm safer now living in DC than I would be if I had stayed in Mississippi where I grew up.
You had me up until there. DC is alternately a pit, a party district, and a quiet suburb. Which part are you in?
libs != common sense, so I fail to be suprised :-)
Obviously - the common American Liberal is a caricature in every respect. They're basically the modern bogeyman of the Neocons. Remember this: Just because Hillary Clinton is a ridiculous carpetbagger doesn't make every other democrat worthy of the title.
No, the median (assuming a total distribution of: 0 legs, 1 leg and 2 legs) would be 1 leg. The mode would certainly be 2. Also s/average/mean/.
No, it's 2, since most people have 2 legs.
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If it's anything like here, that doesn't mean that he manages people.
No, sir, you do not understand conservation of energy.
And you don't understand the difference between theory and practice. In practice, Jets use less fuel to shift your ass from point A to point B, therefore they are more efficient. We'd probably still use them if they were a little less efficient because they're also faster.