kallend

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  1. 1400 is far from genius level. You typically need 1520 to be considered for admission to MIT, for example. And even then, those tests are very poor predictors of ability to solve novel problems or create new ideas. "Demonstrated ability" only works if your circumstances are such that you have had the opportunity to demonstrate.
  2. Would you lend your friend your airplane without first checking that she is legal to fly it?
  3. Is that all? You get 400 if you get everything wrong.
  4. Looks like the baby boomers coming of age and then growing old.
  5. kallend

    So Long

    I'll miss most of you. It's been good.
  6. Not fair that you can close a thread to ensure that you have the last word.
  7. Isn't this the same guy that was whining a couple of days ago about requiring professionals in training to improve their communications skills?
  8. The United States has more than 20,000 gun laws at the local, state, and federal levels. I reckon about 19,900 of them are duplicative, contradictory or just superfluous. Maybe more.
  9. No argument here. Even Isaac Newton had an irrational belief in an invisible Jewish zombie. If there were any actual objective evidence, it wouldn't be called "faith".
  10. It's classic troll behavior. I'm surprised you are playing his game.
  11. That may be your interpretation. However, those capable of critical thinking want BETTER gun laws. We already have too many.
  12. Why should anyone discuss the views of a lying troll?
  13. The Discovery Institute is an evangelical protestant think tank that promotes the pseudoscientific concept of intelligent (sic) design (aka "junk science"). It has nothing whatever to do with Cambridge University.
  14. I didn't make a statement.
  15. https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-loses-appeal-e-jean-carroll-5-million-defamation-verdict-2024-12-30/ Appeals court upholds $5M verdict against Predator Trump for defamation and sexual assault.
  16. I lectured at Cambridge, 1972-77. Perhaps you should pay more attention to me.
  17. Actually Reagan and Tip got on very well and there was a great deal of cooperation. McConnell promised to block everything Obama wanted to achieve in order to make him a one term president.. tip.jfif
  18. So what? Does lecturing at Cambridge make one infallible?
  19. There have been worse - in my lifetime.
  20. A good man. Maybe not the greatest president, but a good man who lived a good life.
  21. Better things to do with my time than listen to garbage about mythical creatures. Harry Potter is more realistic.
  22. More than 10^62 possibilities for a brute force search if you want the shortest route. Would take a while unless you have a quantum computer.
  23. Seems you don't know what a hypothesis is?