Blessed be the name of God. Blessed be His only begotten Son, Y'shua. Blessed be the Holy Spirit who spoke through the prophets and revealed God to us. Blessed be the prophets who loved God enough to accept being thrown in wells, strangled, sawn in half, burned, stoned, beaten to death, poisoned, and otherwise destroyed, offering their own torments as a gift of love to the Beloved, who himself was stripped naked and nailed to a cross. Again, blessed be He who saw us entrapped by daily evil, both petty and gross, and pitied us enough to give his life as a sacrifice on the cross. And blessed is he who does not scorn all of the above, but stops their unfairness and is turned.
You speak the truth about your actual war, but not about the problem. He who is the definition of reality can not be the problem. He who loved the world so much that ke sent His beloved son to die for their salvation, and raised him up again, is not the problem.
Though almost no christian church considers it canonical, nonetheless read 2 Esdras.
You know, at one time I too believed that; but Hadrian's ban quite effectively cleared the whole area of Jews. So no, the Palestinans are anything BUT descended from the Jews of the era. That said, Hadrian's ban did appear to be prophesied in both Leviticus, Enoch, and Daniel, but was for a limited duration. It appears that the prophesied time of exile possibly expired in 1947. But such prophesies tend *o be castigated here on slashdot.
At this point, I am inclined to think that the state of Israel will hvve a right to exist, and that Hamas will not do well. Their and God's enemies. But that said, that is up to God to enact, not me. My job is simply to stand where He put me, which is not in the middle east, and try to serve him as well as I can. But if other prophesies apply, then they may be betrayed by a certain superpower, followed by the destruction of their enemies.
Don't forget about the big investors shaking the tree on sure events. Reference book "Escape from America", a moderately useful guide for expat gonna-bes. Investor saw news of revolution in Rhodesia, and realized that -- I think the metal was Molybdenum -- would rise sharply in price, so he bought heavily on leverage, and then watched the price drop 15% before taking off like crazy. The stop loss call wiped him out. He asked his broker what happened, and his broker said that the really big investors also bought futures, but first shorted the market to shake the smaller investors out into their pockets.
Two rules for investing: 1] if you don't know who the sucker is then it's you 2] don't.
I went to a weather-watcher's class, and another person there actually had set up their vehicle for storm chasing. He had a whole office in his car. I suspect that those who get videos of things like tornados probably can market them pretty well.
At least for fame, maybe for money.
Anyhow... these things and more have been standard issue for news vans for some time now. I don't see what the big deal is, as long as he isn't using it while driving.
Also, being set up for use while in the driver's seat does not mean that it's set up for use while driving.
(1) I disagree that supposedly subconscious and internalized racism should be considered non-existent. I had to deal with one supervisor who kept saying "it's hard to find good white help" on the radio, in public... and told his level-3 certified QA that there was no room for him at our company, and chased him out, and found an untrained white replacement, whom he trained above other level-1 and -2 certified black employees. I repeatedly warned him against racism, and he denied he was racist: "they know I'm just joking." But it wasn't a joke, and it really blew up. The guy was about 30 years old. The company did fire him -- but it also fired the black who complained, on false pretext, and... since I had to testify, also emptied the main office of all wage-earners, firing most of them [not me], but also then ramping up pressure to destroy me as well. My own firing came the day I submitted a ten-page complaint, based on being told to put one of my suboridnates in a brakeless water truck, and being told that I had no right to ask if the brakes had been repaired. I challeneged it in the company, and they waited till the OSHA statute of limitations expired, and then found "nothing happened." That is corruption there, not racism... but the racism brand of corruption is alive and well.
Overt racism, whether subconscious or conscious, is still racism, and is still EXTREMELY obvious to those who hear it.
(2) Yes, there are examples of entitlement attitudes, as you describe. But they have their own justifications: that they did put in the work to be skilled, and are not paid according to their skills, even those which are used. They often are correct. But even those who aren't, complain about the entitlement attitude in those "lazy, shiftless...." I've seen it, I've heard it. So your point doesn't disprove the GP post. It just generalizes it to say that corruption is wider than racism. Okay, I believe it.
(3) Entitlement is worst at the top. Why do I say this? Because the more powerful are more able to take -- and more demanding that they have a right to take -- than the weak. Didn't you notice when we doubled the national debt, and gave it all, for free [in limitless, interest free loans] to the wealthies in the US? We called it TARP, and we took away the staff of bread ***AND THE HOMES*** of at least half of Americans. Those people worked for their food. They wealthy who got the loot, don't know what work is, despite all their bluster and malarky and false pride. So I really don't want to hear about entitlement, anyways, until you can say it with at least a little sanity and proportion.
In case you haven't noticed, racism and sexism are forms of corruptoin. Power corrupts? Corruption is worst where power is worst. Not always true, but often true.
Actually, I am inclined to say that taxation, like all other financial industries, naturally tends towards theft: when your job is to take money from A, transfer it mostly to B, and put a portion of it in your pocket as a 'fee', then your basic feedback of job performance is that the more money you stick in your own pocket, the better you are doing your job. As such, taxes do tend towards theft, and further attract thieves. But I do not mean weLfare recipients, so much as I mean political hacks, contractors, bankers, and corporate bigwigs, mostly because a powerless person is much less able to steal than a powerful person.
As a corallary, I might add that social tax and spend programs will never be effective at combatting poverty, because money is a form of power, and the powerless will never be effective at using power to take power from the powerful.
So then, what do I mean by libertarianism? I mean that I hate bullying and corruption, and that I think that freedom is a pretty good thing. But I cannot,often, vote for what is presented as libertarian.
Why do techies completely miss that point, then, when the difference is 2000 years, and the subject is things for which they would have more experience than us?
I did vote Ron Paul in the Primaries, too. But to quote Mit before Iowa [and after Nevada four years before], 'the leadership won't permit Ron Paul to win'. Ten states of vote fraud later, I'd say he's right. But as the media likes to point out and the government seems to concur, vote fraud in the primary isn't actionable since the primary is a private issue. Nice coup for stalin.
Anyhow as a Virginia conservative I did the best I could do: I zeroed my Republican vote.
AND I ran into the Republican state PartY chairman and told him so.
It's ha|d to say what exactly is 'directly'.My home was in the Shenandoah, but it was on a ridge, And I was a little further south at school atthetime, so ME? No. Family? Yes. Hurricane Isaac, yes. 9-11, yes. All of these are part of destroying our government, though--so they ALL impact me directly in that sense.
Textbooks that are old are worth lots. The newest ones are often worthless.... except that I am speaking from a homeschooler's or tutor's point of view. To a professor with 100 students, it's more important to have everyone use the same book, than for the book to be correct.
He can instruct the students on what to ignore, and why. He can check the answers to problems, and come up with an errata sheet. He can't even hope to read 20-odd different texts, though.
Let's se. I've seen in my 43 years, the Shenandoah Valley flood [100 yr event], the 9-11 event [maybe a 200 year event?], the Indian Ocean tsunami [1000 year event], the Japanese tsunami [500 year event], Katrina [50?], and now Sandy. So... if the US has a massive earthquake and the country cracks in two, or if a georeactor blows and we get another massive lava trap, will that be classified as a 1000, 10000, or 100000 year event? How about if we just lose a war on our own soil, and spend 10 years under occupation?
There's not only diminishing returns; there's a basic inability to comprehend the present, much less the future.
Fwiw, the military has a program by which you, too, can have a free fighter jet, x-plane, battleship, tank, or whatnot. However, you do have to pay for its installation, and you do have to agree to pay for its upkeep as a museum piece, in respectable condition. I suspect that the Enterprise was given to NYC under those same terms, and--yes--they have already violated them, though their efforts were probvbly best spent saving lives.
I don't think there is any favoritism; rather, if there is a difference between red states and blue states, it is in what the city management is willing to pay for.
Norfolk wanted a battleship: they got the Wisconsin. NYC wvnted a carrier and a space shuttle test vehicle. They all will be decomissioned; they all will hvve the interesting stuff removed.
Or a wave tube. There are various things that are readily available, that will serve: for visible light, try those little fiber optic thingies. For radio and microwave, try steel pipe or conduit. For electric, try a strip of drawn copper wire, isolated with either air or polyester/pvc/nylon.
I dunno, it isn't Tesla worship: but at least his real work, good , bad, or useless, was real work, and was really his. I think Edison once pointed out that Tesla would never be great because he didn't know how to steal. That from a man who did steal, and kill, too. Seems to me that after TARP, you would have had enough of great men. If that wasn't enough, there's the quadrennial election.
Tesla's inventions may not be practical for various purposes, but they did have a use within their own limits.
I would have easily removable wainscotting for access to the walls, and lots of conduit allowing whatever room-to-room connections I might need later. I'd model it on hospital setups, but go cheaper:I'd use luann paneling for the wainscotting, for example.
I'm sorry, I thought Ron Paul was against TARP. The whole time. Almost everyone else involved was pushing for massive government theft, and giving it to the loo^H^H^Hreserve bankers who began the whole thing and executed it.
"...Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,"
It doesn't matter what the bankers did, except to them. Neither will they succeed, even if they go hand in hand with the other, powerful and corrupt of the earth.
Don't worry about the bankers. Worry about yourself.
Without that repetitive, mind-numbing homework, you can't just breeze through the tests. One of the huge problems I had with our kid's public school, is that they spent most of the time [literally] training for test-taking, and very little practicing the basic math they were learning. As a result, the teachers were saying that our son was one of their best sutudents, and was just a little slow on the tests, but it's okay because he got good grades, and Algebra (or geometry) should be no problem.
He couldn't add 8+7 except on his fingers.
My fix? I said that when he comes home, he is *first* responsible for doing an hour of that repetitive, mind-numbing math addition problems, until he could get the 60 3-digit addition test in 150 seconds (as specified by the book we have).
Once he got that, then he could go on in the book. He does those repetitive mind-numbing practice problems until he gets the answers perfectly.
Then he goes on.
At some point, he's going to speed up, because he has truly mastered the previous topics. Well, he already has.
He's also then responsible for an hour of active play. After that, comes homework. If he gets it, fine and well. If he doesn't, so be it. But I am just about done with caring about how well he learns nth degree metephysical imaginary-world architecture (or how he does on his 20th autobiographical display board).
Maybe next time he does the autobiographical display board, he can show two addition problems: one the left, 3+5 =6 (more or less). On the right, 3+5=8. In the middle, can be written "... lots of pointless mind-numbing drill... "
I've known a couple of cases of what is diagnosed as autism. One involved, if I remember, a wrapped umbilical cord. The other appeared suddenly after a DTP shot went bad, with fever, and brain swelling.
I suspect that most or all autistic children are not going to be brilliant savants: that the autism is a form of brain damage. Just because brain damage shares some characteristics in some metrics, with some aspect of genius, doesn't mean that they are related.
Internal cognitive math skills, genius: 180% normal. Communicative cognitive math skills: 105% normal. Internal cognitive math skills, Joey: 92% normal. Communicative congitive math skills: 53% normal. Just because the ratio of internal math to communicative ability is the same, doesn't make them the same.
Likewise, a psychopath is very focused on one thing: himself. The working out of that may be through his pride, or his pleasures, or his social status -- but there is one key common thread: He has no empathy. A genius who is immersed in his work may also appear the same. But -- take Michael Faraday for example -- most of his drive came from working out his salvation, and his care for others.
In agreement with the parent post, I think that what we are seeing is that when we measure a complex system by a 1-dimensional metric, we get a lot of scatter error. In this case, the author of the headline measured against a 4-dimensional metric (autism, psychopathy, education, opportunity), with almost equally ridiculous results.
Not to criticise the effort: but you need more truly independent variables.
Okay... first, there is the smart genius. He's somebody like euler. Now, school doesn't have to coddle him: he can take care of himself.
Then there's the psychopathic genius. This is usually somebody who is (using the term loosely) in love with themself, and he is all about number one. He gets the term genius, because he pursues it. Somebody like Edison comes to mind. That kind of a person also doesn't need schooling, because he'll school himself. Aside from that, he's all about taking, so he'll take whatever he needs.
Then there's the plain psychopath. He also is all about taking. However, he doesn't pursue the goal of genius, because some other bright shiney attracts him instead. You might know him as a local guy at the street corner who gets busted for posessing a crack pipe every few months. He also doesn't need to be coddled by the school systems. What he needed, back whenever, was perhaps proper parenting.
As far as I'm concerned, this is all a non issue. Schools at best are there to help the poorer students, who want to do well and otherwise wouldn't, understand how to fit into our society and do reasonably well.
caveat: that doesn't mean that I support no child left behind. NCLB was brought out by the NEA in an attempt to destroy homeschooling. Instead, it has destroyed public schooling, and should be abolished, with extreme apologies, ASAP. A certified teacher with a 30:1 student-teacher ratio is never going to outperform an invested parent with a 1:1 - 3:1 student-teacher ratio, who believes he/she can handle the job. In our own family, my wife can handle homeschooling one child, maybe two if they are well behaved. So we homeschool until the next comes along, and then pass the child on to the public schools. The last will probably be homeschooled the whole way [we both have engineering degrees], but maybe not. Works for us, works for them, and I don't expect too much out of the public schools.
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Blessed be the name of God. Blessed be His only begotten Son, Y'shua. Blessed be the Holy Spirit who spoke through the prophets and revealed God to us. Blessed be the prophets who loved God enough to accept being thrown in wells, strangled, sawn in half, burned, stoned, beaten to death, poisoned, and otherwise destroyed, offering their own torments as a gift of love to the Beloved, who himself was stripped naked and nailed to a cross. Again, blessed be He who saw us entrapped by daily evil, both petty and gross, and pitied us enough to give his life as a sacrifice on the cross.
And blessed is he who does not scorn all of the above, but stops their unfairness and is turned.
You speak the truth about your actual war, but not about the problem. He who is the definition of reality can not be the problem. He who loved the world so much that ke sent His beloved son to die for their salvation, and raised him up again, is not the problem.
Though almost no christian church considers it canonical, nonetheless read 2 Esdras.
The problem is the evil root in our own hearts.
You know, at one time I too believed that; but Hadrian's ban quite effectively cleared the whole area of Jews.
So no, the Palestinans are anything BUT descended from the Jews of the era. That said, Hadrian's ban did appear to be prophesied in both Leviticus, Enoch, and Daniel, but was for a limited duration. It appears that the prophesied time of exile possibly expired in 1947. But such prophesies tend *o be castigated here on slashdot.
At this point, I am inclined to think that the state of Israel will hvve a right to exist, and that Hamas will not do well.
Their and God's enemies. But that said, that is up to God to enact, not me. My job is simply to stand where He put me, which is not in the middle east, and try to serve him as well as I can.
But if other prophesies apply, then they may be betrayed by a certain superpower, followed by the destruction of their enemies.
Don't forget about the big investors shaking the tree on sure events. Reference book "Escape from America", a moderately useful guide for expat gonna-bes. Investor saw news of revolution in Rhodesia, and realized that -- I think the metal was Molybdenum -- would rise sharply in price, so he bought heavily on leverage, and then watched the price drop 15% before taking off like crazy. The stop loss call wiped him out. He asked his broker what happened, and his broker said that the really big investors also bought futures, but first shorted the market to shake the smaller investors out into their pockets.
Two rules for investing: 1] if you don't know who the sucker is then it's you 2] don't.
He's apparently never googled "Orissa riots".
Just one example of many. Racism takes many forms, and the racist can't hold it in.
I went to a weather-watcher's class, and another person there actually had set up their vehicle for storm chasing. He had a whole office in his car. I suspect that those who get videos of things like tornados probably can market them pretty well.
At least for fame, maybe for money.
Anyhow... these things and more have been standard issue for news vans for some time now. I don't see what the big deal is, as long as he isn't using it while driving.
Also, being set up for use while in the driver's seat does not mean that it's set up for use while driving.
(1) I disagree that supposedly subconscious and internalized racism should be considered non-existent. I had to deal with one supervisor who kept saying "it's hard to find good white help" on the radio, in public... and told his level-3 certified QA that there was no room for him at our company, and chased him out, and found an untrained white replacement, whom he trained above other level-1 and -2 certified black employees. I repeatedly warned him against racism, and he denied he was racist: "they know I'm just joking." But it wasn't a joke, and it really blew up. The guy was about 30 years old. The company did fire him -- but it also fired the black who complained, on false pretext, and ... since I had to testify, also emptied the main office of all wage-earners, firing most of them [not me], but also then ramping up pressure to destroy me as well. My own firing came the day I submitted a ten-page complaint, based on being told to put one of my suboridnates in a brakeless water truck, and being told that I had no right to ask if the brakes had been repaired. I challeneged it in the company, and they waited till the OSHA statute of limitations expired, and then found "nothing happened." That is corruption there, not racism... but the racism brand of corruption is alive and well.
Overt racism, whether subconscious or conscious, is still racism, and is still EXTREMELY obvious to those who hear it.
(2) Yes, there are examples of entitlement attitudes, as you describe. But they have their own justifications: that they did put in the work to be skilled, and are not paid according to their skills, even those which are used. They often are correct. But even those who aren't, complain about the entitlement attitude in those "lazy, shiftless...." I've seen it, I've heard it. So your point doesn't disprove the GP post. It just generalizes it to say that corruption is wider than racism. Okay, I believe it.
(3) Entitlement is worst at the top. Why do I say this? Because the more powerful are more able to take -- and more demanding that they have a right to take -- than the weak. Didn't you notice when we doubled the national debt, and gave it all, for free [in limitless, interest free loans] to the wealthies in the US? We called it TARP, and we took away the staff of bread ***AND THE HOMES*** of at least half of Americans. Those people worked for their food. They wealthy who got the loot, don't know what work is, despite all their bluster and malarky and false pride. So I really don't want to hear about entitlement, anyways, until you can say it with at least a little sanity and proportion.
In case you haven't noticed, racism and sexism are forms of corruptoin. Power corrupts? Corruption is worst where power is worst. Not always true, but often true.
Actually, I am inclined to say that taxation, like all other financial industries, naturally tends towards theft: when your job is to take money from A, transfer it mostly to B, and put a portion of it in your pocket as a 'fee', then your basic feedback of job performance is that the more money you stick in your own pocket, the better you are doing your job. As such, taxes do tend towards theft, and further attract thieves. But I do not mean weLfare recipients, so much as I mean political hacks, contractors, bankers, and corporate bigwigs, mostly because a powerless person is much less able to steal than a powerful person.
As a corallary, I might add that social tax and spend programs will never be effective at combatting poverty, because money is a form of power, and the powerless will never be effective at using power to take power from the powerful.
So then, what do I mean by libertarianism? I mean that I hate bullying and corruption, and that I think that freedom is a pretty good thing. But I cannot,often, vote for what is presented as libertarian.
Why do techies completely miss that point, then, when the difference is 2000 years, and the subject is things for which they would have more experience than us?
I can do it captain, but I need more time!
I did vote Ron Paul in the Primaries, too. But to quote Mit before Iowa [and after Nevada four years before], 'the leadership won't permit Ron Paul to win'. Ten states of vote fraud later, I'd say he's right. But as the media likes to point out and the government seems to concur, vote fraud in the primary isn't actionable since the primary is a private issue. Nice coup for stalin.
Anyhow as a Virginia conservative I did the best I could do: I zeroed my Republican vote.
AND I ran into the Republican state PartY chairman and told him so.
Great day voting, if there ever was one.
It's ha|d to say what exactly is 'directly'.My home was in the Shenandoah, but it was on a ridge, And I was a little further south at school atthetime, so ME? No. Family? Yes. Hurricane Isaac, yes. 9-11, yes. All of these are part of destroying our government, though--so they ALL impact me directly in that sense.
Textbooks that are old are worth lots. The newest ones are often worthless .... except that I am speaking from a homeschooler's or tutor's point of view. To a professor with 100 students, it's more important to have everyone use the same book, than for the book to be correct.
He can instruct the students on what to ignore, and why. He can check the answers to problems, and come up with an errata sheet. He can't even hope to read 20-odd different texts, though.
Let's se. I've seen in my 43 years, the Shenandoah Valley flood [100 yr event], the 9-11 event [maybe a 200 year event?], the Indian Ocean tsunami [1000 year event], the Japanese tsunami [500 year event], Katrina [50?], and now Sandy. So... if the US has a massive earthquake and the country cracks in two, or if a georeactor blows and we get another massive lava trap, will that be classified as a 1000, 10000, or 100000 year event? How about if we just lose a war on our own soil, and spend 10 years under occupation?
There's not only diminishing returns; there's a basic inability to comprehend the present, much less the future.
Actually, the underpinnings of science are supposed to be mathematics, the repeatable experiment, and aristotolian loogic, as modified by Euler.
To try to repin science to the big bang theory, embryology, and whatnot, sounds more like ...
Fwiw, the military has a program by which you, too, can have a free fighter jet, x-plane, battleship, tank, or whatnot. However, you do have to pay for its installation, and you do have to agree to pay for its upkeep as a museum piece, in respectable condition. I suspect that the Enterprise was given to NYC under those same terms, and--yes--they have already violated them, though their efforts were probvbly best spent saving lives.
I don't think there is any favoritism; rather, if there is a difference between red states and blue states, it is in what the city management is willing to pay for.
Norfolk wanted a battleship: they got the Wisconsin. NYC wvnted a carrier and a space shuttle test vehicle. They all will be decomissioned; they all will hvve the interesting stuff removed.
Or a wave tube. There are various things that are readily available, that will serve: for visible light, try those little fiber optic thingies. For radio and microwave, try steel pipe or conduit. For electric, try a strip of drawn copper wire, isolated with either air or polyester/pvc/nylon.
I dunno, it isn't Tesla worship: but at least his real work, good , bad, or useless, was real work, and was really his. I think Edison once pointed out that Tesla would never be great because he didn't know how to steal. That from a man who did steal, and kill, too. Seems to me that after TARP, you would have had enough of great men. If that wasn't enough, there's the quadrennial election.
Tesla's inventions may not be practical for various purposes, but they did have a use within their own limits.
I would have easily removable wainscotting for access to the walls, and lots of conduit allowing whatever room-to-room connections I might need later. I'd model it on hospital setups, but go cheaper:I'd use luann paneling for the wainscotting, for example.
I'm sorry, I thought Ron Paul was against TARP. The whole time. Almost everyone else involved was pushing for massive government theft, and giving it to the loo^H^H^Hreserve bankers who began the whole thing and executed it.
"...Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,"
It doesn't matter what the bankers did, except to them. Neither will they succeed, even if they go hand in hand with the other, powerful and corrupt of the earth.
Don't worry about the bankers. Worry about yourself.
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Without that repetitive, mind-numbing homework, you can't just breeze through the tests. One of the huge problems I had with our kid's public school, is that they spent most of the time [literally] training for test-taking, and very little practicing the basic math they were learning. As a result, the teachers were saying that our son was one of their best sutudents, and was just a little slow on the tests, but it's okay because he got good grades, and Algebra (or geometry) should be no problem.
He couldn't add 8+7 except on his fingers.
My fix? I said that when he comes home, he is *first* responsible for doing an hour of that repetitive, mind-numbing math addition problems, until he could get the 60 3-digit addition test in 150 seconds (as specified by the book we have).
Once he got that, then he could go on in the book. He does those repetitive mind-numbing practice problems until he gets the answers perfectly.
Then he goes on.
At some point, he's going to speed up, because he has truly mastered the previous topics. Well, he already has.
He's also then responsible for an hour of active play. After that, comes homework. If he gets it, fine and well. If he doesn't, so be it. But I am just about done with caring about how well he learns nth degree metephysical imaginary-world architecture (or how he does on his 20th autobiographical display board).
Maybe next time he does the autobiographical display board, he can show two addition problems: one the left, 3+5 =6 (more or less). On the right, 3+5=8. In the middle, can be written " ... lots of pointless mind-numbing drill ... "
I've known a couple of cases of what is diagnosed as autism. One involved, if I remember, a wrapped umbilical cord. The other appeared suddenly after a DTP shot went bad, with fever, and brain swelling.
I suspect that most or all autistic children are not going to be brilliant savants: that the autism is a form of brain damage. Just because brain damage shares some characteristics in some metrics, with some aspect of genius, doesn't mean that they are related.
Internal cognitive math skills, genius: 180% normal. Communicative cognitive math skills: 105% normal. Internal cognitive math skills, Joey: 92% normal. Communicative congitive math skills: 53% normal. Just because the ratio of internal math to communicative ability is the same, doesn't make them the same.
Likewise, a psychopath is very focused on one thing: himself. The working out of that may be through his pride, or his pleasures, or his social status -- but there is one key common thread: He has no empathy. A genius who is immersed in his work may also appear the same. But -- take Michael Faraday for example -- most of his drive came from working out his salvation, and his care for others.
In agreement with the parent post, I think that what we are seeing is that when we measure a complex system by a 1-dimensional metric, we get a lot of scatter error. In this case, the author of the headline measured against a 4-dimensional metric (autism, psychopathy, education, opportunity), with almost equally ridiculous results.
Not to criticise the effort: but you need more truly independent variables.
Okay... first, there is the smart genius. He's somebody like euler. Now, school doesn't have to coddle him: he can take care of himself.
Then there's the psychopathic genius. This is usually somebody who is (using the term loosely) in love with themself, and he is all about number one. He gets the term genius, because he pursues it. Somebody like Edison comes to mind. That kind of a person also doesn't need schooling, because he'll school himself. Aside from that, he's all about taking, so he'll take whatever he needs.
Then there's the plain psychopath. He also is all about taking. However, he doesn't pursue the goal of genius, because some other bright shiney attracts him instead. You might know him as a local guy at the street corner who gets busted for posessing a crack pipe every few months. He also doesn't need to be coddled by the school systems. What he needed, back whenever, was perhaps proper parenting.
As far as I'm concerned, this is all a non issue. Schools at best are there to help the poorer students, who want to do well and otherwise wouldn't, understand how to fit into our society and do reasonably well.
caveat: that doesn't mean that I support no child left behind. NCLB was brought out by the NEA in an attempt to destroy homeschooling. Instead, it has destroyed public schooling, and should be abolished, with extreme apologies, ASAP. A certified teacher with a 30:1 student-teacher ratio is never going to outperform an invested parent with a 1:1 - 3:1 student-teacher ratio, who believes he/she can handle the job. In our own family, my wife can handle homeschooling one child, maybe two if they are well behaved. So we homeschool until the next comes along, and then pass the child on to the public schools. The last will probably be homeschooled the whole way [we both have engineering degrees], but maybe not. Works for us, works for them, and I don't expect too much out of the public schools.