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We seem to be talking past each other here. Intelligence is not "mostly learned." Intelligence is an innate characteristic that people are born with, just as height is. While a poor parent can stunt the growth of a child, with bad nutrition, a parent can stunt the brain development of a child...

No, Narz, you're just wrong on this one. Kids are born smart or stupid. Their parents can maximize their potential, but beyond a certain point there is nothing that will make a stupid kid smart. This isn't about me, or you. My smart master plumber brother isn't even genetically related to...

Aside from the misplaced apostrophe, which I am genetically constrained to point out, I just have to ask: what planet do you people live on who know so few people that you don't understand that stupid is inborn? Are you really so privileged and sheltered that you have never met a stupid person...

:D Are you tall? If so, do you brag about it? Do you consider being tall a particular source of pride? "Hi, I'm tall! that makes me better than you!" So how does being intelligent differ in any way from being tall? Accident of birth. No kudos to the tall or the smart. They were born that...

Genetics are more complicated than that. Both of my parents are of above-average intelligence, IQ 130-ish (like it or not, IQ gives a reasonable idea of general intelligence. IQ relevance is not the argument here.) So they have 2 kids. One is clearly more intelligent than either of them, one...

Ah, the civ2 advisors! Makes me want to load it up just to see the general drunk.... Of course they were all ghey. Not that there's anything wrong with that! :D /no on prop 8

The only problem benig that neither was a communist economy. They were centrally planned command economies, a completely different thing. Just becasue it was CALLED communism didn't make it so, any more than calling my dog a cat makes him LOL. :D

And that is the basic failure of the Communist model. If there is no reward for hard work, nobody will work hard. Where Republicans miss the point is that there is a huge difference between "everybody gets the same, no matter whether they work or not," and "everyone gets the same opportunity...

*burp* Understeer! So you get to the corner, turn the wheel , and the car goes straight on. That can't be good. Actually, all street cars are set up to understeer, because it is considered the safest condition for the inexperienced driver. You turn the wheel and the car turns less...

Good point. One can tell a lot about a person by where she draws the line between "us" and "them." For some, there is no "us." Even family is "them." Looking out for number one is all they care about. Most people have family and friends that they include in "us." But that is as far as...

Syterion, we all start at the same place: knowing nothing. Racing can be expensive, but it doesn't have to be. Here's the place you can start: New England Region Sports Car Club of America For the solo events, you can use your own car, with no modifications. It's perfectly safe, for you...

No that is not possible. Not even close. Not by several orders of magnitude. In other words, you could fill all the deserts and it would not make .001% difference in sea level.

Found the companion pic to the uncorrected oversteer shown above. This is what you have to do if it is really bad, but as always, just steer the way you want to go. Good illustration though...

Syterion, you're right, "steer into the skid" is a terrible phrase that has no real meaning. It's much simpler: steer the way you want the car to go. "Skid" is a ridiculous term, actually. As you have learned, there is oversteer, which is what is commonly referred to as a "skid" and also...

Touch with reality. As for the idea that atheism equals immorality, hogwash. A thoughtful atheist holds himself to a higher standard than, for example, a Christian, who can just do something bad and then pray for forgiveness. And then go right back and do it again. Jerry Falwell, Jim Bakker...

Yep. It happens to every planetary body, given enough time. To use the moon as an example, it started out roatating much as the earth still does. Tidal forces on the moon caused stresses, moonquakes, and heating of the moon's core. All that energy came from the rotation of the moon, and caused...

Step right up folks, see the ugly American. Note that he is a "vast right wing conspiracy agent." The recent thread: why does the rest of the world care about the US presidency? This guy is why. He can't figure out something as simple as why America's energy use affects the rest of the world...

Perot siphoned off GOP votes and got Clinton elected (which turned out well,) just as Nader got dubya elected (and we all know how THAT turned out :rolleyes: ) What's incomprehensible to me is that there are Republicans so stupid as to think that Reagan's trickle-down economics, which has...

You know, it would help if you people would identify where you are, at least when the question is specific to your location. It doesn't help to say "where I am..." when you don't say where you are! /rant The ruler of Dubai doesn't talk about Allah or prayer at all that I know of. He mostly...

Seriously, shop around. Even if you know you're going Marine, treat it like you would buying a car. Yeah, you are gonna buy that Mustang, but if you walk in the showroom sayin "ZOMG I love that car I must have it!!111eleventy!" the salesman is gonna take you to the cleaners. Same deal if you...