Poll time....
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Not since high school ... and as I recall, I didn't really care for it much when I read it then.
If you decide to become a software engineer, you are signing up to have a 1/2" piece of silicon tell you exactly how stupid you really are for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week Zac
Me neither, but I can still remember lame little excerpts, making me smarter than you.
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Red Stateler wrote:
Unless that situation requires designing a particle accelerator.
As long as the specialist doesn't run into any situations outside his specialty, he would be better than an universalist. However, life doesn't tend to work that way ... and what is the percentage of people who have jobs in areas outside of the field they earned their degree in?
If you decide to become a software engineer, you are signing up to have a 1/2" piece of silicon tell you exactly how stupid you really are for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week Zac
Zac Howland wrote:
As long as the specialist doesn't run into any situations outside his specialty, he would be better than an universalist. However, life doesn't tend to work that way ... and what is the percentage of people who have jobs in areas outside of the field they earned their degree in?
I am employed outside of the field I earned my degree in.
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Shog9 wrote:
If you have to ask...
Ah, but the whole thread was intended to get off the regularly discussed topics, so I made myself a target.
And a whole lot of people just had to answer. Including myself. It's a beautiful thing... ;)
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?
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And a whole lot of people just had to answer. Including myself. It's a beautiful thing... ;)
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?
Shog9 wrote:
And a whole lot of people just had to answer. Including myself. It's a beautiful thing...
Exactly. And it seems my plan worked...brilliantly! ;) No Islam, muslims, conservative politics or the usual crap for a few minutes.
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Zac Howland wrote:
the suffix MD at the end of theirs
M.D. Moron's Degree ;P
The Apocalyptic Teacup wrote:
M.D. Moron's Degree
AD= Assholes degree BS= Bull Shit MS= More Shit PHD= Piled higher and deeper MD= money dammit Richard
Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself. --Mark Twain
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I'm trying to establish demonstrate the fact that I am the smartest person on this message board. So, how many of you other regulars have PhD's, or is it just me (thereby making me the smartest here)? :-D
So what is your PHD in --- psychology? That would make you an oxymoron!
John P.
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Me neither, but I can still remember lame little excerpts, making me smarter than you.
Red Stateler wrote:
Me neither, but I can still remember lame little excerpts, making me smarter than you.
Ah, but the differnce isn't that I "can't" remember them ... its that I intentionally purged the crap from my brain after taking my final exams for English that year. I had much better use for that section of my brain than to fill it with garbage from English class ;P
If you decide to become a software engineer, you are signing up to have a 1/2" piece of silicon tell you exactly how stupid you really are for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week Zac
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Zac Howland wrote:
As long as the specialist doesn't run into any situations outside his specialty, he would be better than an universalist. However, life doesn't tend to work that way ... and what is the percentage of people who have jobs in areas outside of the field they earned their degree in?
I am employed outside of the field I earned my degree in.
The Apocalyptic Teacup wrote:
I am employed outside of the field I earned my degree in.
Which is my point. If you specialize in something, and then don't use that specialty, it is worthless in comparison to a universalist. If memory serves me, I think the statistics were something like 75% of people hold jobs outside of the field of their degree.
If you decide to become a software engineer, you are signing up to have a 1/2" piece of silicon tell you exactly how stupid you really are for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week Zac
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Jonathan [Darka] wrote:
A PhD does not mean you are smart
Yes it does.
Jonathan [Darka] wrote:
I know a few PhD's and they are definately not all smart, one of them has 3.
Obviously I am smarter than a person with 3 PhD's. Apparently they were too dimwitted to see the redundancy of having 3 degrees. Duh. Besides, doctorates in Basket Weaving, Agricultural Sciences and Psychology don't count as PhD's. So far, this thread confirms my initial hypothesis.
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I'm trying to establish demonstrate the fact that I am the smartest person on this message board. So, how many of you other regulars have PhD's, or is it just me (thereby making me the smartest here)? :-D
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I'm trying to establish demonstrate the fact that I am the smartest person on this message board. So, how many of you other regulars have PhD's, or is it just me (thereby making me the smartest here)? :-D
Chuck Norris can count to infinity, twice; can you do the same ?
Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad
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Good luck.
We're the regulators that de-regulate We're the animators that de-animate
K(arl) wrote:
Good luck.
Oh, I fully expect massive blow-back from this post. God forbid I offer some different (and humourous) alternative to the usual crap!
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Ray Cassick wrote:
No, it does not. What it means is that you paid a bunch of cash to a school that issued a document specifying that you did the work they required. It does NOT prove you are intelligent at all.
:laugh: It's funny how some people can't distinguish tongue-in-cheek threads. Relax, I'm just trying to change the tune here. I'm not looking for arguments. :rolleyes:
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Mark Clifton doesn't have a PhD, but he's smarter than you. ;P
Red Stateler wrote:
he's smarter
And amazing thing is that he appear as a hippy.
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Red Stateler wrote:
he's smarter
And amazing thing is that he appear as a hippy.
Adnan Siddiqi wrote:
And amazing thing is that he appear as a hippy.
Do you even know what a hippie is?
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I'm trying to establish demonstrate the fact that I am the smartest person on this message board. So, how many of you other regulars have PhD's, or is it just me (thereby making me the smartest here)? :-D
I swear I hear your voice as Vizzini (A Princess Bride) Vizzini: I can't compete with you physically, and you're no match for my brains. Westley: You're that smart? Vizzini: Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Westley: Yes. Vizzini: Morons. :laugh:
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Your name alone is worth about 10 PhD's... :-D
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Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:
Your name alone is worth about 10 PhD's...
:laugh: But it's so common...there were even two in my year at school which made things confusing. BTW, I've managed to trace my family tree back to one Eystein Glumra Ivarsson around the year 800 - maybe we're related? :laugh:
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Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:
Your name alone is worth about 10 PhD's...
:laugh: But it's so common...there were even two in my year at school which made things confusing. BTW, I've managed to trace my family tree back to one Eystein Glumra Ivarsson around the year 800 - maybe we're related? :laugh:
Steve_Harris wrote:
maybe we're related?
Could be, could be! The year seem to match the Viking tour! Do you know from which nordic country tribe/geographic area Ivarsson came from?
-- Verletzen zerfetzen zersetzen zerstören Doch es darf nicht mir gehören Ich muss zerstören
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Steve_Harris wrote:
maybe we're related?
Could be, could be! The year seem to match the Viking tour! Do you know from which nordic country tribe/geographic area Ivarsson came from?
-- Verletzen zerfetzen zersetzen zerstören Doch es darf nicht mir gehören Ich muss zerstören
Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:
Do you know from which nordic country tribe/geographic area Ivarsson came from?
Wikipedia says: Eystein Glumra also called Eystein Ivarsson (born 788 in Maer), Nord Trondelag, Norway) was a petty king of Norway, the son of Ivar Halfdan and the father of Ragnvald Eysteinsson. He was married to Ascrida Rognvaldsdatter c. 819. Almost all of my family are Cornish but one person married the many-times grand-daughter of a bastard son on one of the Norman kings of England, which gave the Nordic link.
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Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:
Do you know from which nordic country tribe/geographic area Ivarsson came from?
Wikipedia says: Eystein Glumra also called Eystein Ivarsson (born 788 in Maer), Nord Trondelag, Norway) was a petty king of Norway, the son of Ivar Halfdan and the father of Ragnvald Eysteinsson. He was married to Ascrida Rognvaldsdatter c. 819. Almost all of my family are Cornish but one person married the many-times grand-daughter of a bastard son on one of the Norman kings of England, which gave the Nordic link.
So, you're royal then! Your majesty... :-D
-- Verletzen zerfetzen zersetzen zerstören Doch es darf nicht mir gehören Ich muss zerstören