I doubt the sun had anything to do with their issues with the satellite. It comes across more and more than these guys are politicians not actually doing anything but trying to be given free money. I would assume that the satellite had issues before this, but the flare makes a convenient excuse.
The problem with adhd is that the frontal lob isn't working like it should, by dumping stimulants into the body the brain is stimulated to work. The frontal lob being where impulse control is located, by stimulating it, the ADD/ADHD person actually gains control over their impulses rather than responding to everything else that happens around them.
While in the military, I used to drink a pot of coffee before bed in order to actually sleep. The biggest problem with regulating your impulse control through caffeine for me is that if I don't maintain my dosage withdrawal effects trigger migraines whereupon I spend the next 6-8 hours puking every time there is a loud noise or bright light.
It's kind of interesting that most stimulants have little to no effect ridalin; cocaine, etc at prescribed levels don't seem to work. Being class A drugs I'm not allowed to take the dosage that really would make an impact therefore, use of wellbutrin, caffeine, etc at 5x recommended dose is generally what I am put on while under treatment. I'm currently not under treatment, dropped the ball a while back and it's hard to pull myself together enough to get back into the doctors office.
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So even purchasing content it can still be taken away at any time by the studios. Don't sound like you are owning anything, just have the ability to view until they decide to discontinue the service or the studio sells the rights to someone else, or wants to put out a new version.
Might be worth playing around with, but not a major investment.
The problem with making the tests be the final arbitrator in matters of education is that people will teach what is on those tests. For the best teachers I have encountered, when something is brought up that doesn't directly impact the assigned work they are willing to discuss it and help the students to evaluate what it means and how it may apply to the subject at had. For instance, when I was going to school, I remember watching shuttle launches, presidential debates, etc. We had this one class called art where people did things other than filling in multiple guess tests. We had things like keyboarding, typing by any other name. Computer programming, etc. Music, choir, etc. The goal is to create well rounded students that can do a bit more than just answer test questions.
The problem is that if you make the test the sole criteria as to what is decent schooling and what is not and then you rank schools based on that criteria. That results in schools that only teach those subjects, do not pause from teaching those subjects, and do not think about anything that are not those subjects. Since funding is derived based on test scores, having a passing test doesn't matter, getting the best possible score is all that matters.
I've tutored a number of students and taught a few classes at the college level over the past few years. I've seen a number of students from other countries that use the focus on the test sort of questions. They mainly teach memorization without understanding of the fundamentals of how things work. These students tend to have problems when they have to come up with solutions that have not been done in the past. For instance following the instructions in the lab manual as to how to do the experiment, no problem, drawing up the graphs/charts/etc from the research, no problem, discussing errors within the procedures themselves or how they contribute to the margin of error, blank stares. Thinking outside of the box is a learned skill, and teaching only to the test doesn't seem to actually promote real understanding of the subject, instead it's memorization of rules and answers. While this may work for a lot of people, I, myself, worry about kids actually thinking rather than memorizing facts that can be pulled with a simple google search.
That is the problem about teaching to the test. Education shouldn't be about just memorization, it should be about thinking, unfortunately, thinking takes more time than memorization and since the schools are on deadline, they don't have time to worry about any of that, it's push memorization without understanding, after all kids can start learning when they get out of school right?
As posted by littleImp, the jobs are not done perfectly, but are created in such a way as to minimize the chances for a fatal mistake. Each crew is responsible for a limited number of things. Many times different groups will be waiting while another crew is doing their own work. The reason of course is that by reducing responsibility it makes it easier for people to concentrate on their assigned tasks, ie not rushing to get things done so that they can do something else. This also relates to downtime, you will be on the job until your superior releases you so there in no reason to rush. Which reduces the chances for error as well. The reason the entire flight deck does a fod walk, is precisely because people make mistakes. If you watch them do the walk you'll notice the same area is covered by multiple people.
So perfect is far from the way things are, the thing is that by reducing scope and having checks and double checks the hope is that major blunders are caught, but they aren't always caught. Also pressure on cables, etc are not precise there is lots of room for error, maybe not a 98% margin of error, but there is flexibility. Having a centralized command, training, and lots of time doing the same thing over and over may make it seem perfect from an outsider's view, but you could say the same thing watching any busy city intersection, hundreds of drivers working together flawlessly.
Anyway, just wanted to emphasize that things aren't done perfectly, they are structured to be safe even with errors. The problem with thinking that people are doing things perfectly, when a problem happens you start looking for who screwed up instead of why the problem arose. Which ends up being blaming someone rather than fixing the problem so that it doesn't happen again.
Well, if it makes you feel any better, since you're dead you don't have to pay the bills. They guy/gal that gets your organs will be put through the ringer though.
Magician; Raymond Fiest I think; they broke the first book up into 2 sections when it went to paperbook; later books weren't as attractive to me, but the first was good. Master of the five magics; been a while all 3 books are good/decent Thieves World collection; edited by asprin has a number of good stories, and there is an effort underway to continue the series now. Bio of a space Tyrant; Piers anthony. Not hard core sci fi, but I like the series when I read it. World of Tiers; farmer was mentioned earlier, I liked this series better than riverworld
Bathyscaphe, submarine, does it matter. The bathyscaphe was autonomous, it had not connection to the surface and had propellers to move it around. This is likely tied to the article they had a few weeks/months back about being the first to get to the bottom. Sounds like it's just trying to drum up publicity, but knowing that people know about the previous visit they are not saying it's the first any longer. Actually the previous was about some Chinese submersibles I think. It's interesting, but just wanted to point out that differences are minor versus major as the above comment tries to assert.
As a software developer, you've honed your skills to make things work and hopefully make things work efficiently. Management is a good route to go, possibly not even in the software industry, since the skills you need as a software developer hinge on you being able to find solutions to abstract problems. This is a very valuable skill as it seems most managers don't seem to have it. Working for a enterprise company means that your pay shouldn't go do much if it goes down at all. The other option is to look into office efficiency consultants. Being able to improve the workflow of a company to increase there income/productivity is a much needed skill as well. Of course, it will take time to find one of these positions, but if you want to get out of software they are viable career paths.
Yeah when they first started out it was noted that IBM could have just bought out the company at the then market place for less than the lawsuit was expected to cost, but IBM didn't do so. The conjecture here was that it would just create copy cat lawsuilts.
My first though was how do the remote control toys dig into the dirt. Well looking at the video he first does the digging by hand using a pick and breaks up the larger pieces. The remote control vehicles are just used to haul the material. Hardly digging it out with nothing but remote control vehicles.
Hmmm, I haven't found the books slow, perhaps that's me. So I guess put me in the other category. I've enjoyed the books and appreciating reading when they came out. The last few Harry Potters though...
Biggest issue I see with patents is in the cost. It's cost prohibitive for a small inventor to grab a single patent much less a portfolio with the current system; however, the cost is peanuts for those with the wealth. And attempting to enforce your patents are even a bigger joke. Basically, the way patents currently stand the haves get to keep all their toys and not share anything with the have nots. If you can't enforce your patent it is the same as not having one in the first place except that you costs are larger.
Not responding directly to you comment Dahamma just want to point out problems with completely different questions for each student.
If you give every student different problems this runs into a couple of problems.
First, you cannot compare students answers to each other in order to provide proper ranking, ie if one student gets mainly hard questions while another gets mainly easy answers, do you give the easy answer question student an A while the harder test student gets a B?
Furthermore, if there is a pool of questions, doesn't matter how big they are eventually all those questions will be entered on the web and answers listed so that they become easy to find with a google search.
One of the ways that individualized questions do become viable is if you base it off a student's work. In my computer science classes, I will typically take one of the homework assignments that the student turned in, print and attach it to the test and then write up a series of questions from that code. Since I spend a bit more time grading homework than most instructors, I find it fairly easy to measure a student's competence with programming and finding anomalies in their coding style that typically indicated cheating/plagiarism where they just copied code off the net and claimed it as their own. When the copying is not blatant this helps to find those that don't really understand what they copied. I find cheating in the lower level computer science courses to be around 30% of the typical class until I point out the cheating and around 15% at upper level classes. The main trick seems to be catching them at the lower level and teaching them that they must cite work that they copy and understand it. I have no problem with them copying code from the web as long as it is properly cited, whereas in the final I get to find out if they actually understand the code they were working with. Since I'm not focused on memorization but skill in producing code, this tends to work out well for me.
In my tests, I typically draw up questions based on information that we have covered in class using hypothetical situations. For many subjects, such as mathematics this doesn't work too well since they can just look up a formula generator and pull the information from there. Therefore questions basically need to be new for each test and cover application of theory rather than basic formula. Another thing that helps is making sure that there are enough questions that if they have to look up information for each question they will not be able to finish the test before time runs out. Preferable to plain answers of course are essay questions, but those will add to the time that it takes to grade the papers. I generally run my finals as take home tests, but they are considerably harder to answer than the typical tests. Being that the courses I teach are college level I find this works well, but requires one to two hours to grade each test which means that I have an upper limit of around 60 tests I can grade between turn in deadline and when scores have to be entered into the system. Since I make each test up per class every semester I can gauge the complexity of the tests depending on class size and competence of TA's.
If you do limit the test to in class tests remember, unless the classroom supplies computer systems to access the web, the students with laptops have an unfair advantage over those that do not or have slow computers.
Heh,
It seems to me, according to the summary, that they are telling fanboys to ask different questions. Which is akin to telling religious folks that they should change their doctrine. Who really cares and even if someone does, do you really think fanboys will change?
Best Buy should buy the extended warranty against business failure. Sure it will take a couple of months after they fail to get reimbursed but they will be back in business again as long as they don't lose the warranty and they dress well when filing their claim.
OMG, those dirty Chinese. There should be a law!!!! They don't have one? They better get one now!!!! After all if they do stuff like that, next thing you know they will be producing drek^H^H^H^H imitations of the highest form of crap^H^H^H^H artistic expression, just like those Americans using British patented stuff without licensing it and look at what became of them they eclipsed the British, let's not let the same thing happen in China! Keep America strong.
All kidding aside, China doesn't have the copyright laws that we have in the US and you think that is wrong. But why do you think it's wrong? Look at how microsoft dealt with the problem of copies of windows being distributed, they lowered their prices and got the chinese government to buy a bunch of copies through kickbacks, ie bribes, but that is the way things are done there. Are you saying that your personal preferences are more important than the chinese to govern and grow themselves?
I'm not personally against copyright, but it is an artificial scarcity imposed by the government supposedly to improve society as a whole. Currently according to the RIAA themselves, 85% of people in the US pirate. Now if 85% of the population represents a majority of the people, which by my math it does and the RIAA wants to bankrupt financially anyone that pirates, it seems to me that that isn't good for the population as a whole. Copyright is out of balance in my opinion and the solution is not to make everyone else conform to our laws.
Besides, how many Chinese are going to be buying American CD's and DVD's at the current prices that exceed a weeks wages? Just because the company producing the product values the product at a certain price, doesn't mean the value of that product is the price that the creator set. If I value a cup of coffee at one million dollars and someone bumps the table so that the coffee spills, does that mean I am entitled to a million dollars?
Equating their loss to millions of dollars is giving value where no value necessarily exists. If I can't afford 50 bucks to go to a movie, I'm not going to a movie, but if the same movie is playing at the dollar theater and I see it there, that's not a loss of 49 dollars to the movie industry. If the industry cannot provide a product at a price the public is willing to pay, that generally means the product isn't worth what the industry deems it's value is. Trying to legislate so that the industry is owed that money no matter what is highly unfair. Currently, copyright is being used to steal from the public. All these works that were produced when the copyright term was lower and then grandfathered into the new system is changing the contract to which the public did not agree. Congress and the executive branch stole from the public and the courts ruled that that was completely legal.
Now out of the products that are sold today and the product that could be sold today, who has lost more the industry or the public?
No they are one of the 9? independent agencies within the government that are directly overseen by congress and not a secretary or member of the executive branch. Wikipedia is a starting point, not an authority on any subject since anyone can go in and change things however they want. I provided the link as a place to get started, not as part of my argument. I barely glanced at the information on the page having researched this a couple of years ago. If nothing else the link to the official government webpage should be there somewhere or the associated pages linked to the article. I don't really have the time to argue the point either way. If you are interested in it, read up on the subject, don't just read to confirm your own viewpoint.
Who said having a higher intelligence was a good thing? Don't most of the business majors make more than engineers. If we go by that standard, intelligence is probably a liability. With intelligence and understanding come options and having more options isn't necessary the best thing in the world.
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I doubt the sun had anything to do with their issues with the satellite. It comes across more and more than these guys are politicians not actually doing anything but trying to be given free money. I would assume that the satellite had issues before this, but the flare makes a convenient excuse.
The problem with adhd is that the frontal lob isn't working like it should, by dumping stimulants into the body the brain is stimulated to work. The frontal lob being where impulse control is located, by stimulating it, the ADD/ADHD person actually gains control over their impulses rather than responding to everything else that happens around them.
While in the military, I used to drink a pot of coffee before bed in order to actually sleep. The biggest problem with regulating your impulse control through caffeine for me is that if I don't maintain my dosage withdrawal effects trigger migraines whereupon I spend the next 6-8 hours puking every time there is a loud noise or bright light.
It's kind of interesting that most stimulants have little to no effect ridalin; cocaine, etc at prescribed levels don't seem to work. Being class A drugs I'm not allowed to take the dosage that really would make an impact therefore, use of wellbutrin, caffeine, etc at 5x recommended dose is generally what I am put on while under treatment. I'm currently not under treatment, dropped the ball a while back and it's hard to pull myself together enough to get back into the doctors office.
Hmmm, part of their terms and conditions
VUDU’s authority to provide Content to you is subject to restrictions imposed by the movie studios and other distributors that make Content available to VUDU (“Content Providers”). These Content Providers may designate limited periods of time when VUDU is prohibited from renting, selling and/or streaming certain Content to you, including Content that you have previously purchased. You will be able to again rent, purchase and/or view such Content at the conclusion of these restricted periods.
So even purchasing content it can still be taken away at any time by the studios. Don't sound like you are owning anything, just have the ability to view until they decide to discontinue the service or the studio sells the rights to someone else, or wants to put out a new version.
Might be worth playing around with, but not a major investment.
The problem with making the tests be the final arbitrator in matters of education is that people will teach what is on those tests. For the best teachers I have encountered, when something is brought up that doesn't directly impact the assigned work they are willing to discuss it and help the students to evaluate what it means and how it may apply to the subject at had. For instance, when I was going to school, I remember watching shuttle launches, presidential debates, etc. We had this one class called art where people did things other than filling in multiple guess tests. We had things like keyboarding, typing by any other name. Computer programming, etc. Music, choir, etc. The goal is to create well rounded students that can do a bit more than just answer test questions.
The problem is that if you make the test the sole criteria as to what is decent schooling and what is not and then you rank schools based on that criteria. That results in schools that only teach those subjects, do not pause from teaching those subjects, and do not think about anything that are not those subjects. Since funding is derived based on test scores, having a passing test doesn't matter, getting the best possible score is all that matters.
I've tutored a number of students and taught a few classes at the college level over the past few years. I've seen a number of students from other countries that use the focus on the test sort of questions. They mainly teach memorization without understanding of the fundamentals of how things work. These students tend to have problems when they have to come up with solutions that have not been done in the past. For instance following the instructions in the lab manual as to how to do the experiment, no problem, drawing up the graphs/charts/etc from the research, no problem, discussing errors within the procedures themselves or how they contribute to the margin of error, blank stares. Thinking outside of the box is a learned skill, and teaching only to the test doesn't seem to actually promote real understanding of the subject, instead it's memorization of rules and answers. While this may work for a lot of people, I, myself, worry about kids actually thinking rather than memorizing facts that can be pulled with a simple google search.
That is the problem about teaching to the test. Education shouldn't be about just memorization, it should be about thinking, unfortunately, thinking takes more time than memorization and since the schools are on deadline, they don't have time to worry about any of that, it's push memorization without understanding, after all kids can start learning when they get out of school right?
As posted by littleImp, the jobs are not done perfectly, but are created in such a way as to minimize the chances for a fatal mistake. Each crew is responsible for a limited number of things. Many times different groups will be waiting while another crew is doing their own work. The reason of course is that by reducing responsibility it makes it easier for people to concentrate on their assigned tasks, ie not rushing to get things done so that they can do something else. This also relates to downtime, you will be on the job until your superior releases you so there in no reason to rush. Which reduces the chances for error as well. The reason the entire flight deck does a fod walk, is precisely because people make mistakes. If you watch them do the walk you'll notice the same area is covered by multiple people.
So perfect is far from the way things are, the thing is that by reducing scope and having checks and double checks the hope is that major blunders are caught, but they aren't always caught. Also pressure on cables, etc are not precise there is lots of room for error, maybe not a 98% margin of error, but there is flexibility. Having a centralized command, training, and lots of time doing the same thing over and over may make it seem perfect from an outsider's view, but you could say the same thing watching any busy city intersection, hundreds of drivers working together flawlessly.
Anyway, just wanted to emphasize that things aren't done perfectly, they are structured to be safe even with errors. The problem with thinking that people are doing things perfectly, when a problem happens you start looking for who screwed up instead of why the problem arose. Which ends up being blaming someone rather than fixing the problem so that it doesn't happen again.
Well, if it makes you feel any better, since you're dead you don't have to pay the bills. They guy/gal that gets your organs will be put through the ringer though.
Pool of radiance, Something like 15-20 disks
Hmmm, American government tends to be worse than the mobile phone company.
Couple of fantasy books;
Magician; Raymond Fiest I think; they broke the first book up into 2 sections when it went to paperbook; later books weren't as attractive to me, but the first was good.
Master of the five magics; been a while all 3 books are good/decent
Thieves World collection; edited by asprin has a number of good stories, and there is an effort underway to continue the series now.
Bio of a space Tyrant; Piers anthony. Not hard core sci fi, but I like the series when I read it.
World of Tiers; farmer was mentioned earlier, I liked this series better than riverworld
Bathyscaphe, submarine, does it matter. The bathyscaphe was autonomous, it had not connection to the surface and had propellers to move it around. This is likely tied to the article they had a few weeks/months back about being the first to get to the bottom. Sounds like it's just trying to drum up publicity, but knowing that people know about the previous visit they are not saying it's the first any longer. Actually the previous was about some Chinese submersibles I think. It's interesting, but just wanted to point out that differences are minor versus major as the above comment tries to assert.
As a software developer, you've honed your skills to make things work and hopefully make things work efficiently. Management is a good route to go, possibly not even in the software industry, since the skills you need as a software developer hinge on you being able to find solutions to abstract problems. This is a very valuable skill as it seems most managers don't seem to have it. Working for a enterprise company means that your pay shouldn't go do much if it goes down at all. The other option is to look into office efficiency consultants. Being able to improve the workflow of a company to increase there income/productivity is a much needed skill as well. Of course, it will take time to find one of these positions, but if you want to get out of software they are viable career paths.
Yeah when they first started out it was noted that IBM could have just bought out the company at the then market place for less than the lawsuit was expected to cost, but IBM didn't do so. The conjecture here was that it would just create copy cat lawsuilts.
Hence the need to dispense even when the user is unconscious.
My first though was how do the remote control toys dig into the dirt. Well looking at the video he first does the digging by hand using a pick and breaks up the larger pieces. The remote control vehicles are just used to haul the material. Hardly digging it out with nothing but remote control vehicles.
Hmmm, I haven't found the books slow, perhaps that's me. So I guess put me in the other category. I've enjoyed the books and appreciating reading when they came out. The last few Harry Potters though...
Biggest issue I see with patents is in the cost. It's cost prohibitive for a small inventor to grab a single patent much less a portfolio with the current system; however, the cost is peanuts for those with the wealth. And attempting to enforce your patents are even a bigger joke. Basically, the way patents currently stand the haves get to keep all their toys and not share anything with the have nots. If you can't enforce your patent it is the same as not having one in the first place except that you costs are larger.
Not responding directly to you comment Dahamma just want to point out problems with completely different questions for each student.
If you give every student different problems this runs into a couple of problems.
First, you cannot compare students answers to each other in order to provide proper ranking, ie if one student gets mainly hard questions while another gets mainly easy answers, do you give the easy answer question student an A while the harder test student gets a B?
Furthermore, if there is a pool of questions, doesn't matter how big they are eventually all those questions will be entered on the web and answers listed so that they become easy to find with a google search.
One of the ways that individualized questions do become viable is if you base it off a student's work. In my computer science classes, I will typically take one of the homework assignments that the student turned in, print and attach it to the test and then write up a series of questions from that code. Since I spend a bit more time grading homework than most instructors, I find it fairly easy to measure a student's competence with programming and finding anomalies in their coding style that typically indicated cheating/plagiarism where they just copied code off the net and claimed it as their own. When the copying is not blatant this helps to find those that don't really understand what they copied. I find cheating in the lower level computer science courses to be around 30% of the typical class until I point out the cheating and around 15% at upper level classes. The main trick seems to be catching them at the lower level and teaching them that they must cite work that they copy and understand it. I have no problem with them copying code from the web as long as it is properly cited, whereas in the final I get to find out if they actually understand the code they were working with. Since I'm not focused on memorization but skill in producing code, this tends to work out well for me.
In my tests, I typically draw up questions based on information that we have covered in class using hypothetical situations. For many subjects, such as mathematics this doesn't work too well since they can just look up a formula generator and pull the information from there. Therefore questions basically need to be new for each test and cover application of theory rather than basic formula. Another thing that helps is making sure that there are enough questions that if they have to look up information for each question they will not be able to finish the test before time runs out. Preferable to plain answers of course are essay questions, but those will add to the time that it takes to grade the papers. I generally run my finals as take home tests, but they are considerably harder to answer than the typical tests. Being that the courses I teach are college level I find this works well, but requires one to two hours to grade each test which means that I have an upper limit of around 60 tests I can grade between turn in deadline and when scores have to be entered into the system. Since I make each test up per class every semester I can gauge the complexity of the tests depending on class size and competence of TA's.
If you do limit the test to in class tests remember, unless the classroom supplies computer systems to access the web, the students with laptops have an unfair advantage over those that do not or have slow computers.
Heh,
It seems to me, according to the summary, that they are telling fanboys to ask different questions. Which is akin to telling religious folks that they should change their doctrine. Who really cares and even if someone does, do you really think fanboys will change?
Best Buy should buy the extended warranty against business failure. Sure it will take a couple of months after they fail to get reimbursed but they will be back in business again as long as they don't lose the warranty and they dress well when filing their claim.
OMG, those dirty Chinese. There should be a law!!!! They don't have one? They better get one now!!!! After all if they do stuff like that, next thing you know they will be producing drek^H^H^H^H imitations of the highest form of crap^H^H^H^H artistic expression, just like those Americans using British patented stuff without licensing it and look at what became of them they eclipsed the British, let's not let the same thing happen in China! Keep America strong.
All kidding aside, China doesn't have the copyright laws that we have in the US and you think that is wrong. But why do you think it's wrong? Look at how microsoft dealt with the problem of copies of windows being distributed, they lowered their prices and got the chinese government to buy a bunch of copies through kickbacks, ie bribes, but that is the way things are done there. Are you saying that your personal preferences are more important than the chinese to govern and grow themselves?
I'm not personally against copyright, but it is an artificial scarcity imposed by the government supposedly to improve society as a whole. Currently according to the RIAA themselves, 85% of people in the US pirate. Now if 85% of the population represents a majority of the people, which by my math it does and the RIAA wants to bankrupt financially anyone that pirates, it seems to me that that isn't good for the population as a whole. Copyright is out of balance in my opinion and the solution is not to make everyone else conform to our laws.
Besides, how many Chinese are going to be buying American CD's and DVD's at the current prices that exceed a weeks wages? Just because the company producing the product values the product at a certain price, doesn't mean the value of that product is the price that the creator set. If I value a cup of coffee at one million dollars and someone bumps the table so that the coffee spills, does that mean I am entitled to a million dollars?
Equating their loss to millions of dollars is giving value where no value necessarily exists. If I can't afford 50 bucks to go to a movie, I'm not going to a movie, but if the same movie is playing at the dollar theater and I see it there, that's not a loss of 49 dollars to the movie industry. If the industry cannot provide a product at a price the public is willing to pay, that generally means the product isn't worth what the industry deems it's value is. Trying to legislate so that the industry is owed that money no matter what is highly unfair. Currently, copyright is being used to steal from the public. All these works that were produced when the copyright term was lower and then grandfathered into the new system is changing the contract to which the public did not agree. Congress and the executive branch stole from the public and the courts ruled that that was completely legal.
Now out of the products that are sold today and the product that could be sold today, who has lost more the industry or the public?
Ah thanks. I appear to have been focused on other things and made a quick reply without confirmation. Did the rest of the summary seem to fit?
No they are one of the 9? independent agencies within the government that are directly overseen by congress and not a secretary or member of the executive branch. Wikipedia is a starting point, not an authority on any subject since anyone can go in and change things however they want. I provided the link as a place to get started, not as part of my argument. I barely glanced at the information on the page having researched this a couple of years ago. If nothing else the link to the official government webpage should be there somewhere or the associated pages linked to the article. I don't really have the time to argue the point either way. If you are interested in it, read up on the subject, don't just read to confirm your own viewpoint.
The more you learn the more you realize you don't know. So the wise man understands he knows almost nothing.
Who said having a higher intelligence was a good thing? Don't most of the business majors make more than engineers. If we go by that standard, intelligence is probably a liability. With intelligence and understanding come options and having more options isn't necessary the best thing in the world.