calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
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Re: oops
Amen. From Kennard to Martin, those FCC Chairmen who consistently backpedaled from Reed Hunt's "all open" approach to competition must be happy with the paybacks from their duopolist friends.
The rest of us are just disappointed at how easily the incumbent telco and cable players used the FCC to gut competition.
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TScheisskopf
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| I look forward to the followers of Ayn Rand and their usual responses, repleat with oft-repeated phrases about how deregulation will bring our prices down, market forces will come to bear, and invisible hands will stroke us all.
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Titus Pullo
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join:2004-06-26
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said by calvoiper  :The rest of us are just disappointed at how easily the incumbent telco and cable players used the FCC to gut competition. What does anyone expect from unfettered capitalism? And this is a situation that's not likely to change in a nation of coprophagous consumer-bots with double-digit IQs .
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calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA | So others don't have to look it up like I did....
"Coprophagous" means "dung eating."
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N3OGH
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join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
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Re: oops
said by TScheisskopf :...them the deed to a certain bridge in Brooklyn. Sir, I want to buy your bridge... 
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Titus Pullo
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join:2004-06-26
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Re: So others don't have to look it up like I did....
said by calvoiper :"Coprophagous" means "dung eating." calvoiper And is where cursory exposure to Latin pays dividends (pun intended). Copro: feces; phagous: eating.
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operagost
join:1999-08-02
Spring City, PA | reply to Titus Pullo
Re: oops
Looks like "karlmarx" just got a new ID. |
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calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA | reply to Titus Pullo
Re: So others don't have to look it up like I did....
I suffered through a high school "cursory exposure to Latin," but my school was so repressed that the word for "dung" would never have been discussed.
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karlmarx
join:2006-09-18
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Re: oops
actually, no. But he's right on the money. Techically, about 50% of the population has a double digit IQ (how else could you explain republicans, the religious right, and creationists.
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ctgreybeard
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Re: So others don't have to look it up like I did....
said by Titus Pullo :And is where cursory exposure to Latin pays dividends (pun intended). Copro: feces; phagous: eating. It's Greek, actually, but a wonderful word none-the-less!
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Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA | reply to karlmarx
Re: oops
Actually an IQ number is an abstract concept where 100 was set to be the average. So EXACTLY 50% of the population SHOULD have double digit IQ's, otherwise 100 needs to be adjusted so that is true. |
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Titus Pullo
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join:2004-06-26
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Re: So others don't have to look it up like I did....
said by ctgreybeard :said by Titus Pullo :And is where cursory exposure to Latin pays dividends (pun intended). Copro: feces; phagous: eating. It's Greek, actually, but a wonderful word none-the-less! Wow, I had no idea the word would generate such, uh, interest -
It's all Greek to me! It stuck in my mind from studying Latin roots.
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dentman42
join:2001-10-02
Columbus, OH
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| reply to karlmarx
Re: oops
said by karlmarx :actually, no. But he's right on the money. Techically, about 50% of the population has a double digit IQ (how else could you explain republicans, the religious right, and creationists. Whereas single digit IQs must explain Democrats.
You started it. And left a wide opening. |
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kinabrew
join:2002-02-01
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| reply to Ahrenl
Actually, no.
•Some people have an IQ of exactly 100. Take this hypothetical group of IQs of 10 people:
two: 110
six: 100
two: 90
This group has a mean IQ of 100, but only 2/10 people have a two-digit IQ.
•Variation may not be consistent in both directions. Take this hypothetical group of IQs of 10 people:
three: 110
six: 100
one: 70
This group has a mean IQ of 100, but three are above, six are exactly 100, and only one is below the mean(and only that one has a two-digit IQ).
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RIRWIN1983
join:2005-08-30
Columbus, OH | reply to dentman42
Booya! LOL |
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chotty
join:2004-07-12
Birmingham, AL
·Bright House
| reply to karlmarx
Or... on the other hand, how else could you explain Political Correctness, Defeatism, Self-Hatred, Group Think, The Elitist Thought Police, The ACLU or Marxist-lite Millionaires who know what's best for all and feel the pain of the oppressed? ... (just as long as they don't have to live next to them). |
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thedad
join:2002-07-04
Douglas, GA | Yeah! What he said! |
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grcore
New and Improved
join:2003-12-06
usa
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said by dentman42 :Whereas single digit IQs must explain Democrats. And dectuple deficits come from Republicans, along with quintuple deaths in Iraq.
The power of numbers.... |
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Kirby Smith
join:2001-01-26
Derry, NH
·Verizon FIOS
| reply to kinabrew
Actually, measured (by some test standard) intelligence of large groups fits the Normal distribution. The results are scaled so that the mean is 100 and the standard deviation is 15. In order for even the range between 70 and 130 to have meaning, thousands of samples are required. In this real case, half the population have an IQ of 100 or less, by definition.
The wider extremes are more difficult to evaluate. For example, Marilyn vos Savant's purported IQ of 190 or thereabouts is six standard deviations above the mean. There aren't enough samples tested by any standard test to establish that value from the test population. I suspect her IQ was extrapolated by scaling MENSA test results from its members IQ distribution.
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NormanS
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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And I look forward to the responses from the followers of Karl Marx, with there their usual responses about how the government should be paying for it all.
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