XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.apps   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2023-12-24 14:41, Chris wrote:   
   > *Hemidactylus*  wrote:   
   >> Alan  wrote:   
   >>> On 2023-12-24 09:37, Wally J wrote:   
   >>>> *Hemidactylus*  wrote   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Racist pig.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The child-like uneducated low-IQ ignorant iKooks lack the basic adult   
   >>>> capacity to comprehend even the simplest of concepts such as a catenary.   
   >>>   
   >>> Wait...   
   >>>   
   >>> ...I thought it was ME who couldn't understand what a catenary   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Nor can these child-like uneducated low-IQ ignorant iKooks comprehend that   
   >>>> everyone (yes, everyone!) fits in one of the D-K test results quartiles.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Given those two facts, how could anyone have expected these child-like   
   >>>> uneducated low-IQ ignorant iKooks to comprehend Apple's marketing   
   strategy?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> No surprise.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Actually, I'm surprised you're the only one who responded that way, as you   
   >>>> are already on record for making guesses as to what's in the cites,   
   without   
   >>>> ever bothering to look at the cites.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> There were two types of cites in the OP:   
   >>>> 1. The first type were examples of Apple's marketing   
   >>>> 2. The second type were _analysis_ of Apple's marketing   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> He already others based on the statistically   
   >>>>> suspect Dunning Kruger effect that he is incapable to realize has flaws   
   >>>>> given his pseudointellectual tendencies.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> What I said about D-K was I read (and understood) the seminal papers.   
   >>>> You did not.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> What you don't understand, for example, is everyone fits on the D-K scale.   
   >>>> That's why they have those quartile markers.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> You have noticed the D-K quartile markers, Hemidactylus, haven't you?   
   >>>> What do _you_ think they're there for?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> He criticizes Alan who is an expert in teaching of car racing skills   
   >>>>> because he allegedly knows more than anyone else about everything.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Now you're being too nice to me, Hemidactylus, in praising my skills.   
   >>>> I clearly stated I know nothing about racing. I said I understood bimmers.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Once you're well educated, you learn enough to know two important things:   
   >>>> a. Other well educated people know more than you do in their fields, and,   
   >>>> b. You can easily apply your vast education to other fields (e.g.,   
   racing).   
   >>>>   
   >>>> What I _said_ was that the catenary is a specific shape for an extremely   
   >>>> important reason, having all to do with Newtonian forces in nature.   
   >>>   
   >>> And an object that is supporting it's own weight in a (semi-)continuous   
   >>> manner...   
   >>>   
   >>> ...which isn't anything a racing car is doing when it goes around a corner.   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> As such, it's one of the most important curves possible in racing   
   circuits,   
   >>>> and the fact that someone quoted Alan Baker as saying he's never even   
   heard   
   >>>> of the catenary, is a problem because an "expert" isn't that ignorant.   
   >>>   
   >>> Not one of the instructors I've worked with...   
   >>>   
   >>> ...dozens...   
   >>>   
   >>> ...nor any of the books on race driving   
   >>>   
   >>> ...has ever mentioned it.   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Braggart knuckledragger.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I realize all you iKooks lack education so your only defense to knowledge   
   >>>> that everyone else has attained except you, is to try to insult them.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> But wouldn't it be better if you took a Physics or Calculus class and   
   >>>> simply learned what a catenary is and how it applies to racing circuits?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> He is the punchline of the joke he starts but can't finish.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> What's patently clear is you do not know what a catenary is, Hemidactylus.   
   >>>> Therefore, you do not know how a catenary applies to the forces of nature.   
   >>>> Nor, as a result, are you aware of how those forces apply to racing.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The fact that EVERYONE on the planet who has taken a Physics or Calculus   
   >>>> class knows EXACTLY what a catenary is - and you and Alan Baker do not -   
   >>>> is the reason that your only response to facts is to try to insult the   
   >>>> bearer.   
   >>>   
   >>> I know exactly what a catenary is...   
   >>>   
   >>> ...and I learned it when I studied physics and calculus...   
   >>>   
   >>> ...in both high school AND university.   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Instead of claiming I am a "knuckedragger" because _you_ don't know what a   
   >>>> catenary is...  why don't you - instead - look up how a catenary applies   
   >>>> the Newtonian forces of nature to the teaching of proper racing circuits).   
   >>>   
   >>> It doesn't. That isn't the curve a racing vehicle takes around a corner.   
   >>>   
   >>> If you ask nicely, I'll tell you what is.   
   >>>   
   >>> :-)   
   >>>   
   >> Given I know a thing or two about lateral genetic transfer in bacteria and   
   >> immunology in humans he just wound up flying into my cobweb. I lack   
   >> advanced degrees though.   
   >   
   > So does he. He has read some (old) books apparently and is able to take   
   > pictures of them.   
   >   
      
   It looks more and more like Arlen simply encounters one book or paper   
   (or something) and whatever that first thing says on a particular   
   subject becomes his gospel forevermore.   
      
   :-)   
      
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