Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: OT: Farewell Windows Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2015 20:46:58 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <4b288676-8710-4eab-9962-b72fd8efa804@googlegroups.com> <8d106b9a-cb7a-4f89-a913-1dde4f129217@googlegroups.com> <2b6c8713-36cd-438b-a9d3-c18dde789f08@googlegroups.com> <8b7630e5-3854-48c2-9bfb-89c987ae379c@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: n4wpt9zq8xR26Ttf9mo2BA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:41241 On Sun, 09 Aug 2015 19:15:28 -0400, Bernd Paysan wrote: > visualforth@rocketmail.com wrote: >>> In many >>> instances, the stupid succeed where smart people fail. This is why >>> there is no proven correlation between intelligence and wealth. >>> >> >> There is a nice story reported by the German poet Erich Kaestner: >> In grade school their Math teacher told them to find out how many squares >> are on a chess board. Erich tried to multiply, but his neighbor counted >> each of the squares. His neighbor got the right result, but Erich himself >> struggled with the math and didn't get the right result. Later in life his >> neighbor got rich as a junk dealer, and Erich became a poet. >> >> I prefer to be a poet. > > Rod is wrong here; Rod is correct. > there is a strong, almost linear correlation between > income and IQ. Please learn to read. I said "wealth" not "income". You conflated the two, as you do with most things I say. Rod Pemberton -- Scientists now say we'll experience a mini-ice in 2030. So, I guess we need more global warming today ...