Piloting is the second most dangerous occupation

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Mxsmanic wrote:
Doug Semler writes:

piggybacking, I broke down and plonked MX

Next thing he'll say is "just
because you're smart doesn't mean you have commmon sense" ...

No. First, there's no such thing as "common sense."

Whatever. MX knows exactly what I meant by the statement. Total strawman.
Like I said, a child in the corner jumping up and down yelling "look at
me...look at me...."

Second, intelligent
people have reasoning ability superior to that of unintelligent people,
since
this ability is one of the hallmarks of intelligence.

So you admit that I have a superior reasoning ability since I can prove my
intelligence. Duh. What's the point of argument with me then? Masochism?


*All* groupings based on a demonstrable ability are "self-selected,"
from Mensans to pilots to NFL players.

No. People choose to join Mensa, but they do not choose to be subject
to,
say, military conscription.

Still having reading comprehension problems I see.

What "demonstrable ability" makes one subject to military conscription
other than being of "normal" health?

I don't care if you are an "English teacher" or an "English as a second
language teacher." Both require basic comprehension skills. Which MX
obviously lacks.


In other words, it isn't because those
other 119,930,000 people haven't joined because they were denied, it
was because they CHOSE not to join.

Essentially, yes, although it's not a matter of actively choosing not to
join
so much as it is a matter of not actively choosing to join.

Most intelligent people don't need the trivial validation that Mensa
membership provides. The ones who do are that way because they've
accomplished so little else in life, in most cases.

Yeah, right, straight from the mouth of the poster boy for those that
have "accomplished so little else in life".

It still smells like sour grapes.

I notice the context was snipped again. But I agree on the sour grapes
comment. MX has a habit of gross overgeneralization. I joined not for any
"trivial validation" such as has been claimed. *I* know I'm smart. I don't
need any validation for that. I joined as a resume booster for the area in
which I live. It's amazing how those little words (Member, American Mensa)
put your resume on the top of the pile. I'm published. Google "Unisys
Federal Reserve." The high speed image processing software is mine (ok,ok,
with the help of a few others g, but you get the point) . I helped to
write alot of the software that is used by the US military (and foreign
governments, for that matter) for weather forecasting (never mention the
words "MM5," "GRIB," or "SeaWifs" to me g). Hell, the same algorithms are
used to flag the winds aloft on weather.gov..It's pretty cool how you can
uses satellite microwave sensor data to detect the wind speed and direction
at various altitudes. The forcasting algorithms, on the other hand.....But
I digress.

No. I don't need validation. My accomplishments have been recognized by
those that matter. MX is *not* one of those that matter. The US government
is a differnt story g. Besides, I don't know that I would consider
"thousands of hours of flight time" in a flight simulator, no matter HOW
good, as any sort of accomplishment.

Oh, I don't mean to sound like I'm tooting my own horn (which I am, of
course big grin, but sigh whatever. I'm now going to go back to
analyzing my results on why people become pilots.

--
Doug Semler
a.a. #705, BAAWA. EAC Guardian of the Horn of the IPU (pbuhh).
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