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I just remember my passwords. As if someone else storing them is possibly safe.
Will they be using Nvidia drivers and DirectX?
Of course I want to have a fully charged battery in my laptop, that way, when they ask me to power it on and show the BIOS, I have plenty of room to put the explosive where the HD was, and need the power to fire the detonator.
Or they're just bad people who go into positions of power with no chance of being fired because they're bullies and jackasses.
When I go through the security screening, I often notice how they're members of the intellectual proletariat, obviously rising up in revolution against the bourgeois pigs who have their foot on their neck as they try to do their performance art about how hard it is being poor. Clearly they are from the non-nobility, who has codified peerage laws specifically naming them as next in line for the throne.P>
At least now it will be easier for the planes to be flown into buildings without the pilots knowledge and no terrorists needed, by projecting a false camera view.
#911InsideJob #blessed #lolcats
Is that the only measure of success?
...and this is why the terrorists are winning. If you're in 'murica, get some Jesus. If you aren't, stop takin' meh jobs!
This saves us from the terrorists how?
This sounds like the beginning of evil technology so that I can't use my DVR to skip commercials.
MENSA is for people who are insecure and conceited about their intelligence. An analogy I always use is the Club of Certified Badasses. What kind of badass would want to join that?
I hear they're pretty big on scientific racism too...they can have fun with that without me.
Wth is scientific racism? Do they refuse to research black body energy or something?
So it's a group of insecure people who are conceited, and you spend some amount of your waking hours constructing analogies for them.
And FYI? Chuck Norris is a certified bad-ass. That's who.
I thought I was special until I realised there are 140 000 000 potential mensans on earth.
...and most of them are from China and India.
And the fact that I'm pretty good at guessing which dice should come after a serie of 4 other dice doesn't tell much about myself, and surely shouldn't be taken as a genius indicator.
You should use a Hidden Markov model. It'll free up your time.
They know how to control for controlling for economic and social factors? What?
You make sure the test is in both metric and imperial units, to make sure dark poor people will answer the questions since they deal with kilos and grams often because...um....never mind.
...sup.
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. - Stephen Hawking
Said the man who is too stupid to operate a stairwell.
Mensies?
It's pronounced, "Menses". You've gone and made a bloody mess of it.
Before someone asks, yes, I am "Mensa material". I do IQ tests as a pastime. It's fun to watch shrinks stare in awe. So I could join them. As could, I'm certain, most people around here. Being in the 2% bracket isn't THAT difficult when you look at it. There are actually clubs out there with far tighter joining criteria. Also not really something I'd consider joining.
It isn't difficult to join. I mean, 50% of the population is below average intelligence and education. When you segment the rest up, you end up with a more focused test taker than the other handful of intelligent guys in the room. So unless you hang out regularly with the lower 50% in intelligence, you and most of your friends would probably be eligible.
I mean, let's be honest, why should I? Yes, it's fun to have a discussion with people who can think beyond next breakfast but it's no fun having them with people who consider themselves so "smart" and aloof to join a club that selects its members by intelligence. I mean, imagine you're good looking, would you want to join a club that only lets beautiful people join? Ponder what kind of self absorbed, shallow cunts such criteria attract. And then ponder whether you want to be part of that.
Mensa was started right after WW2, October 1, 1946. Television, cinema, media, culture was not like it is now. There were no cool internet billionaires. There were no movies showing how cool the nerds were if you just gave them a chance. You couldn't Facebook to find friends with your interests. Intelligence wasn't really part of the social fabric of the general population compared to today.
A high school might have a few HNICs (Head Nerds In Charge) who were beaten up, mocked, made fun of, and had their chess boards tipped over. Everyone else had probably been to war and/or in combat, and I'm going to assume most nerds didn't get that experience. They were isolated and alone. College wasn't like it is now when anyone can run up $100k in debt and join on ever lowering entrance requirements; not everyone could go into higher education in those days regardless of how smart they were. How were they going to hang out with people with their interests? Go to the bar with all the army guys talking about their experiences? Read comic books where pretty much the smart guys were all evil and beaten by the football-quarterback looking superhero? Go to a football game they might not have had an interest in?
People that tested in a particular bracket could join a group where there were other people like them. I don't think they were being snooty and laughing at everyone around them in the 1950s feeling superior. They weren't being shallow cunts who were the silicon valley hipsters of their day.
Mensa's constitution lists three purposes: "to identify and to foster human intelligence for the benefit of humanity; to encourage research into the nature, characteristics, and uses of intelligence; and to provide a stimulating intellectual and social environment for its members".
Clearly a bunch of dicks.
And even more, ponder whether you want to spend at least part of your life with someone like that.
God forbid you want to spend time with someone you can talk to about things. This is why my primary measure of a partner is based on breast size and their understanding that a raised fist means to shut the hell up.
Either you'll have a completely broken person who snapped under the pressure of being the expected "pinnacle of intelligence", or you get the ultimate self-absorbed asshole, or a combination of both.
Or they're just some intelligent people who test well and get along fine with people and have learned how to handle social interactions?
Smartest guy I know wastes most of every day playing Xbox and smoking pot.
It's you isn't it. You're the pot smoker fragging me in CoD.
Your measure of intelligence is based on how many Doritos crumbs are scattered around?
Whenever someone tells me they are in Mensa, I usually think, what a fuck head.
The first sign of intelligence is making immediate conclusions based on no relevant observations.
Not only did you care enough to jump through the hoops to join, but you are arrogant enough to want everyone to know you're a member.
I just submitted my GRE. I think I had to use the post office at some point.
In my case, I stuck a "Federal Bikini Inspector" card on the back of my Mensa card. It's more amusing that way and decreases the punching.
Instead, show me your intellect with witty conversation, keen understanding, and curiosity, and you won't be such an ass.
Have you considered buying a television?
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