I don't metamoderate either. Might as well take a bucket and try to empty out the Atlantic Ocean.

I say hang Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld and Rice and then worry about the lower downs who may or may not have been taking orders from the CIA. As soon as this guy starts pointing his finger at his American masters they'll arrange for him to have a convenient heart attack. Aren't you just tired of all of this bullshit already? Is no one here in the bloody Matrix able to think for themselves anymore?

I don't use my mod points. Modding doesn't prove anything. As for the cop involved, he should be required to either eat a raw pigeon every day for a year or go to prison for 10 years. When will they stop hiring cops who are anal retentive?

Indeed.

Excellent!

I have to wonder if this isn't some devious way of entering the Apple space with a future Cherry computer.

Yes. You are absolutely right. 100 isn't even the same for all IQ tests measuring the *same* population. It's just the mean of a normal distribution. BUT, that 100 figure refers to a real world population where 100 is really pretty darned stupid. These are folks who can't turn a picture of a box around in their heads. Perhaps what I should have said was, "a world in which the average IQ on the California Test is 101 (just a guess) relative to average results from 1950." After all, this is what they do with prices and inflation (or deflation), and gives you some idea where you actually stand. Sorry for the shorthand. I do that sometimes when I'm talking to intelligent people.

As for doctors (don't get me started!), there is a medical myth that the way to diagnose migraine disease is that the related headaches are asymmetrical. This is not true. ~30% of all migraines are symmetrical. The myth is being spread by drug company salesmen. I actually met a former one of these (he sold me a car) and he was dumbfounded that my headaches were sometimes symmetrical. The guy was obviously an idiot. But what do you say about the doctors who take these characters seriously?

If lawyers are anything like doctors, they get their information from legal pad salesmen and follow whatever the latest legal fad is, no matter how obviously stupid it is. Keep in mind that half the population has an IQ under 100 and that the civilization would collapse if half the population were excluded from gainful employment. In short, the world is being run by idiots.

In the future, the entire web will be downloaded to your brain as you sleep--along with your current belief system and the current standings of Eastasia, Oceania, and Eurasia.

Maybe it's an open source random litigation generator. And how do you define "error rate"?

Humans? Do you have documentary evidence of that? Are you sure it's not a random litigation generator manufactured by Diebold?

Rumor has it these guys are working on a method of accessing alternate realities so they can spy on their communications as well. After all, we wouldn't want somebody walking around loose who was thinking of committing a terrorist act in an alternate reality, would we?

It's only a misuse if you can show that it was used *originally* in a different manner. This is the argument used against "oxymoron." Supposedly "smart moron" was originally used to mean something completely different. Can this guy demonstrate that "steep learning curve" was ever used to mean easy and not hard? Looking at Webster's New Collegiate, the last and presumably most recent entry for steep is 4: "difficult to accept, meet, or perform." Clearly, this was the original meaning of the term. Why does this guy think it's wrong?

Yes, indeed. Actually, it makes perfect sense. "Steep" is a metaphor based on climbing a hill, where the steeper it is the harder it is to get to the top. Does this really escape some folks?

Scientists point out problems. Engineers use them to kill people overseas.

Just to put another spin on this: There is a long-term cometary-meteoric cycle whose current period is somewhere around 105 years, the last two events of which were the fall of 3000 meteorites at L'Aigle in Normandy on April 26, 1803, and the event at Tunguska, Siberia, on June 30, 1908. That would put the next event toward late August, 2013. End of the world? Probably not. Big surprise if a piece of it lands on New York City? Definitely. Did the Mayans have this particular cycle in mind when they drew up their calendar? Your guess is as good as mine. For all the data, see here: http://neros.lordbalto.com/ChapterEight.htm