I can google does that mean I have an 148 IQ and will get accepted to MIT next year?
En masse... sacre bleu.
You had to look up things I know and can recite. I have knowledge you do not, yet this is not intelligence. I (like PL) was trying to think of an english word for his 'puzzle'. Just because I am bad at puzzles, does nto make me stupid.
Intelligence is such a nebulous word. People equate it with a knowledge of all things, which sadly it is not. IQ is even worse. It is a score received on a standardized test. Since the test encompasses many things such as logic, literary understanding, visual acuity and more, scoring high really means nothing other than to show that you retained information you had received in the past and were able to perform logic. Ever watch the show Unforgettable? Does having an infallible memory make you intelligent? Does it impart knowledge to you that you have never run across before? Can you describe thigns you have never seen?
Once again, *I* am secure in who *I* am, you seem to have a need to belittle what you do not understand.
I think I know something about education and educational theory having worked with 1000s of students since 1995. Let me explain what makes someone a brilliant and valued member of a society versus those who fail to integrate into the greater collective we call humanity.
They are able to use their EQ coupled with IQ when working with other human beings.
They are able to use every available resource at their disposal to solve any problem without having to memorize it and rely on a fallible memory or an egocentric view or bias. The collective intelligence of a well intentioned group working towards mutually beneficial goals will exceed any one human being every time.
They are cognisant that all human relationships must be valued as well as supported. There is not a single human today that can survive, nor was there any in the past, the conditions on this planet without the interconnections of that ancient human network has been fostering for over past 120,000 years or more.
What I see with you and countless 'sock-puppets', I'd prefer the term multiple accounts shared between a number of users, and from BFL in general is a very disturbing antisocial, bordering on sociopathic, need to make yourself somehow the most important individual in these forums. Neither you, Josh or those others, who seem to worm their way around here extolling the virtues of BFL while continually degrading human connections with a natural propensity or glee to insult your fellow human beings at every turn when someone disagrees with your insular world view that BFL is above reproach, understands that this community knows exactly what your end game is and it isn't to help better this community in any way shape or form. You are really insulting our collective intelligence with the most puerile distractions, proposing that less information is somehow good, proposing that anyone that offers up evidence is a liar even when there is ample evidence to contrary.
Pathological behavior is not something that most societies, including the bitcoin society, will blithely ignore and simply pass off as quirky or non-threatening. Human beings in collectives immediately smooth out the rough edges and will expect a minimal amount of social decorum. We do not like to be lied to, insulted and berated by individuals who do not have the respect of the collective. Fortunately there are plenty of people taking notice and calling you out on this behavior and are expecting you to either reign in your unethical behavior do what is minimally expected of any member of society to behave ethically.
I deal with 6 - 18 year olds on a daily basis they show more maturity, ethics and morality than any of these multiple account users who by all accounts are all adults with some semblance of a normal education albeit questionable mental / ethic capacity. It boggles the mind to think anyone would want to do business with such an unstable and morally bankrupt group of people but I guess not everyone gets what these people are actually doing to the majority of their customer base ripping them off.