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To: marek_wojna who wrote (86861)	6/14/2002 1:36:59 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116925

Shake hands with a politician and then give him back his watch, wallet and cufflinks. When he finds that there is 50 dollars missing from the biilfold, if you can look him straight in the eye and convince him that was all that was there, he will give you a job. He has an inherent respect for anyone who can lie and steal better than he can. Jobs are given and held socially. It is the same as marks in skule. If you want a job, you have to learn to be a sychophant. Collagen injections in the lips may help. There is no job, even a brain surgeon that any reasonably intelligent person cannot train to do adequately in three days. Aircraft pilots extend the training as flight school is where they meet all their drinking buddies and learn to seduce stewardesses. The highest average IQ of any work group is taxi drivers. This is an honest fact. It follows that if you want to learn about abstruse scientific phenomona, some aspect of obstetrics, or how to cure the social or political ills of the world, you should, at last resort, ask a taxi driver. They will answer you truthfully if you leave a tip. I will make you a degree, you don't have to have the skills, just memorize a few professors names and the name of one girl in the yearbook who looks like she did not have to work to get through. No one who was even in that class will doubt you. Memorize the basic theorem of integral calculus. It's two lines and no one remembers that. You can top that with the basic theorem of algebra. Not many people realize there even is one. If you can remember who came up with it, they will get suspicious right away, so don't go too far. If you have any skill or knowledge, act very proud of it. People will leave you alone. It has to be something no one, else even professors can fathom. (That is not too hard) Like the exact explanation of how Foucault's pendulum turns by coriois force, or the exact level at which the albedo effect makes artic air warmer than tropic air because of reflection. Or a computer sorting algorith that works but makes no sense. I have a humdoozy. Nobody but nobody can explain the mechanics of gyroscopic precession. Phd engineers have to stop their cars and get out three dimensional models to figure which way the darn things turn. I have an elegant intuitive proof of how it takes place. With a little bit of BS I could fake a chair in engineering science at MIT. Basically a degree is raised print paper in Latin and being good at deserving student loans. Anything worthwhile in the world was done by people who stayed clear of classes. If you read the story of many famous scientists, they almost always were invited to teach after they were recognized for their work outside a university. EC<:-}

To: marek_wojna who wrote (86861)	6/14/2002 10:49:14 AM
From: Ahda	Respond to of 116925

People are gonna die anyway no matter what you do, and they don't need half the education they get, as they lose it all within a year of leaving school. They don't use it all would be a better way of putting it. (know anybody who can still do high school algebra?) If people want to get somewhere, they will build the roads themselves. If that somewhere they want to get happens to run into an area that does not want those roads the building is going to take years. As far as defense goes, all you have to do, is live like pigs and no one will want any part of it. Come to think of it, anyone who invades the US deserves the trouble they get.>> Political systems too often forget the people element. All nations have a certain portion of people that could be considered as pigs though. That includes yours too.