Valedictorian speech

[IndiReloaded]

Yes, because intelligence is directly measurable by one's ability to generate revenue.

Simpleton.

Yes, you are. Particularly since I'm not the one drew that conclusion, you are.

Do you make a habit of setting yourself up to look like a loser b/c you enjoy it or is it genetic?

[Sonrisa]

Unfortunately I must agree with Nick since there are many people of high intelligence who haven't been able to use it towards revenue.

And i am not sure about his dad's intelligence, but he sure was able to build himself a little empire. Does that make him more intelligent than his son? I highly doubt it.

[Sonrisa]

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct, and giving his actions the morality they had formerly lacked. Then only, when the voice of duty takes the place of physical impulses and right of appetite, does man, who so far had considered only himself, find that he is forced to act on different principles, and to consult his reason before listening to his inclinations. Although, in this state, he deprives himself of some advantages which he got from nature, he gains in return others so great, his faculties are so stimulated and developed, his ideas so extended, his feelings so ennobled, and his whole soul so uplifted, that, did not the abuses of this new condition often degrade him below that which he left, he would be bound to bless continually the happy moment which took him from it for ever, and, instead of a stupid and unimaginative animal, made him an intelligent being and a man.

[IndiReloaded]

Revenue is only one measurable outcome of intelligence. I could have given examples of others, but I assumed my point was clear enough to be understood by the mean on the guassian curve. My mistake for giving more credit than deserved.


^And I'd be impressed by that passage if I didn't know it was plagerized. Rousseau, I think.

[Sonrisa]

i didn't claim that passage, Indi. no need to get offensive.

[Asip4u]

i didn't claim that passage, Indi. no need to get offensive.

Yes but the point is you could have used quotes and given credit instead of just blindly posting it.

[IndiReloaded]

i didn't claim that passage, Indi. no need to get offensive.

^ Academic reflex. Sorry.

[Sonrisa]

Yes but the point is you could have used quotes and given credit instead of just blindly posting it.

"The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct, and giving his actions the morality they had formerly lacked. Then only, when the voice of duty takes the place of physical impulses and right of appetite, does man, who so far had considered only himself, find that he is forced to act on different principles, and to consult his reason before listening to his inclinations. Although, in this state, he deprives himself of some advantages which he got from nature, he gains in return others so great, his faculties are so stimulated and developed, his ideas so extended, his feelings so ennobled, and his whole soul so uplifted, that, did not the abuses of this new condition often degrade him below that which he left, he would be bound to bless continually the happy moment which took him from it for ever, and, instead of a stupid and unimaginative animal, made him an intelligent being and a man" Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a major Genevois philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy influenced the American Revolution and subsequently the French Revolution, and the development of modern political, sociological and educational thought.

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Jacques_Rousseau]Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url]

[hurt_confuzd]

The smartest ones already left the system and set up things like Google, or other profitable businesses. Actually, the smartest ones set up companies, make them profitable and then sell them for an immense profit.

Yes, because intelligence is directly measurable by one's ability to generate revenue.

I'm not the one drew that conclusion, you are.

Revenue is only one measurable outcome of intelligence.

Would you care to retract the word "smartest" and maybe replace it with "smarter," to maybe give a little consistency to your point?

Even if you did, I would still call you an idiot. Revenue is by no means a way to measure intelligence. I can name dozens of very successful morons, as well as brilliant mathematicians that were completely broke their entire life, and wanted to keep it that way. Like Grigori Perelman, who was offered a million dollars for proving the Poincaré conjecture, but turned it down.

Are you smarter than Perelman, you godforsaken toolshed?

[IndiReloaded]

You are cute when you get owned, HD.

[nerdy_guy]

Would you care to retract the word "smartest" and maybe replace it with "smarter," to maybe give a little consistency to your point?

Even if you did, I would still call you an idiot. Revenue is by no means a way to measure intelligence. I can name dozens of very successful morons, as well as brilliant mathematicians that were completely broke their entire life, and wanted to keep it that way. Like Grigori Perelman, who was offered a million dollars for proving the Poincaré conjecture, but turned it down.

Are you smarter than Perelman, you godforsaken toolshed?

True, Nikola Tesla was very poor, then J.P. Morgan screwed him even further.

[hurt_confuzd]

You are cute when you get owned, HD.

I'll consider myself "owned" when the rest of the forum agrees with you and I try to say something stupid like, "Revenue is one way to measure intelligence."

In the meantime, though, I'll ask what "HD" stands for.



(What does HD stand for?)

[Gribble]

Not really. The smartest ones already left the system and set up things like Google, or other profitable businesses. Actually, the smartest ones set up companies, make them profitable and then sell them for an immense profit. Do this a few times, invest well and you basically do what you want at 30 - 40. They tend to keep a low profile, tho.

Recognizing the problem is only the first step and relatively trivial. Its what you do with the knowledge that makes one smart, IMO.

I disagree. First off, those people are smart, but they're also lucky. Folks will say luck has nothing to do with it. That's bullshit. There are hundreds of Michelangelo's starving in the streets. A brilliant artist who doesn't know a lick about marketing, doesn't have a shot at befriending the right people, or who paints out of the pure ecstasy his medium provides him is nonetheless a genius. It takes a certain level of intelligence, I think, to even truly question the reality that's been set before us all, and an even greater leap of intelligence to stand up to it and to the frothing masses who live by it.

I think there are lots and lots of mind bogglingly smart people out there who devote their lives to something other than the pursuit of money. In fact, I think the smartest of us all have figured out that money and property are all rather meaningless when you get right down to it.

Heh. I sound like some kind of Jesus freak.

PS HD stants for Hot Dicksauce.

[IndiReloaded]

I'll consider myself "owned" when the rest of the forum agrees with you and I try to say something stupid like, "Revenue is one way to measure intelligence."

In the meantime, though, I'll ask what "HD" stands for.



(What does HD stand for?)

Okay, Hot Dicksauce (your new 'Nick' name, get it?) "smarter" it is. I'm not an artsy english major, my typing is fast but not always accurate. Yawn.

[doppelgaenger]

I think intelligence can be measured by vocabulary.

edit:

Okay, Hot Dicksauce (your new 'Nick' name, get it?) "smarter" it is. I'm not an artsy english major, my typing is fast but not always accurate. Yawn.

PFftttaahahahahaha. Indi: 1 Hot dicksauce: 0