PING: Tom del Rosso

I've been in that club for years.

According to that 'fast processor' articles I cited in the NY Times that explicitly make my case don't say what they explicitely say, unprecedented events have no connection to other unprecedented events that happened less than 24 hours before, etc. There's no limit to how those warp speed processors can warp logic.

Tom Del Rosso thinks he "cites" articles, without providing links back to t hem. Most of us have mastered the art of finding links to articles we like, and posting them them in our output. Tom is still crawling towards that le vel of competence, and may not yet realise that he he needs to show that he has mastered it.

The nice thing about posting a link to a cited articles is that the reader can go through it and find the detail that the person citing it happened to ignore.

James Arthur is good like that - he reads what he cites with a rather selec tive eye, which leaves him open to better-informed criticism. Tom Del Rosso may be a right-wing as James Arthur, but he's more ill-informed than misin formed.

Nobody says that Jim can't process data quickly. His problem is that he's remarkably selective about the data he chooses to process.

I offer him links to the Arizona school audit report, which demonstrates that secondary education in Arizona is poor (if cheaper) than the US national average, and he doesn't feel like getting his head around that particular fact.

The stupid are often ignorant, but the ignorant aren't always stupid.

Massachusetts has some of the best public schools in the country and it's not because there's any shortage of people who vote Republican in Massachusetts as one can see in this diagram:

But Massachusetts Republican voters tend to be very wealthy; the "RINOs" are mostly driven in their voting decisions by atavistic self-interest and not whatever passes for Republican ideology these days, being super-rich they're mostly smart enough to understand that's all a heaping pile of dingoes kidneys. Donald Trump keeps their taxes low at the federal level, while at the local level Democrats push local taxes into the public school system and then they send their kids there, where the chances of getting accepted to Ivy League from the even an "average" Massachusetts public school are ten times better than anything public, private, or charter in Arizona has to offer.

WRONG. I provided links. Give up right there. No need to go further.

Hopefully you will killfile fake-PhD-slowman and spare us all his annoyances.

That's the only way to rid this group of the trash... everyone should join in.

And, yes, killfile me, also, if you like... listening to free speech is by FREE choice... terrorizing or shouting-down is against the law and should be stopped... by _lethal_ force, if necessary.

Buy your AR-15 while you can >:-} ...Jim Thompson

Not in this thread, and not in the "Leftist and Eoro-peon Education Experts" thread either.

Provide date, time and thread where you did, or just post the links.

The main point of the exercise - from my point of view - is to give me the chance of showing how you've misunderstood what you've read.

My first though that was that you were confusing "quoting" and "citing", but you've at least established that you know the difference, if even you couldn't be bothered to re-post the links.

That's unfair on the Commies, Jim. Shouting down is the only way they can hope to win what passes for their "arguments" in a public forum.

It's funny how Marxism invariably results in mass starvation and the deaths of millions. You'd have thought these fools would have learned something by now, 200 years after that PoS Marx was shat-out by whatever genetically-defective and mentally-impaired 'mother' he had. He probably acquired additional brain damage in his passage through the birth canal as well. It's the only possible explanation for his dumb-arse, half-baked theories and complete inability to reason anything out.

Nothing recent, and nothing in the relevant threads.

What goes in in Tom Del Rosso's head may make perfect sense to him, but it doesn't look too rational to outside observers.

The Ph.D. is real, and the annoyance comes from the fact that Jim and Tom g et shown up as misinformed from time to time.

People who are interested in the real world are happy when their errors are corrected. People who post as much nonsense as Jim and Tom don't seem to b e able recognise that they have been posting errors and find the experienc e of being corrected to be painful, rather than improving.

Killfiling people is a way of protecting yourself from the idea that you mi ght actually be wrong. It's rather like injecting opiods - the initial effe ct may be pleasant but the long term effect is to end up in an echo chamber where everybody is re-iterating the same silly ideas.

Not a particularly useful weapon on a text-only international user-group.

Sarcasm is more effective, but killfiling does provide some protection agai nst that.

Some serious internet-bad-assery going on in this thread lol. You can find most of the baddest asses on the Internet

Cursitor Doom probably thinks that Jeremy Corbyn is a "Commie".

In fact he identifies himself as a "democratic socialist" and people with a little more political sophistication that Cursitor Doom are aware that Kar l Marx and the proto-communists got thrown out of the international sociali st movement in 1872 for being undemocratic.

It might be funny, if it were true. Totalitarian dictatorships do kill peop le, sometimes in large numbers. Some of those dictatorships have claimed be followers of Karl Marx, but it doesn't seem to be their Marxism that made them lethal.

Karl Marx's mother seems to have been perfectly respectable. She was part o f the Philips family which went on to set up Philips Electrical in the Neth erlands. The genes involved don't seem to have been all that defective.

Marx and Engels revolutionised economics by making it a more or less numeri cal subject. Marx on politics was less impressive - his enthusiasm for the "leading role of the party" was unfortunate, as Mikhail Bakunin pointed out around 1872.

irth > canal as well.

Seems unlikely. He's more like Noam Chomsky and Linus Pauling, who managed to revolutionise their fields of study while never getting their personal v ersions of the new theory entirely correct.

The problem here is that Cursitor Doom is expressing dumb-arse half-baked o pinions about a subject he knows very little about.

Kill-filing is silly, if you don't like the content of this message please stop reading now.

I've never been a "subject" before. Maybe that's why.

I don't even understand the point of this one, first it was vague comparisons to computer processors then I'm supposed to stock up on AR-15s now CD is aggressively ranting about Karl Marx's mother's birth canal. Well God bless and good luck

I'm not even reading most of a thread that was named after me. :)

Thanks. You too.

AKA her sigmoid colon. There, fixed it.

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Tom read enough to claim that he had posted links to the New York City education data that he thought that he had cited, but stopped reading at the point where he was challenged to re-post the links.

Why are we not surprised?