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Wow - I just saw this topic - err..., I don't often post under Theology Ok. Just to take a step back: Isn't 'smartness' actually knowledge? That's how I would see it. Knowledge can be acquired through study, experience and so forth. And as such, 'knowledge' is also expertise in a particular subject. A person may be extremely knowledgeable about nuclear physics, for example, BUT conversely have very little knowledge in other areas. So this fits with Sip's suggestion: Now Intelligence is another matter all together. I'm more inclined to think that intelligence cannot be acquired through study; I believe it's inherent. Someone may work very hard to 'become smart', but that does not necessarily or automatically make them intelligent. Intelligence is the ability to comprehend, synthesize and analyse a given problem/situation, and come up with plausible solutions. This also fits (at least pretty closely) with Sip's suggestion: Wisdom is unlike the other two, in that wisdom is more general. Wise Sip said: I believe wisdom is an ability to take a broad look at the big picture - to discern the right conclusion, yes, I agree - but wisdom goes further that that. Wisdom implies that the right conclusion be achieved through the correct means. This goes back to Domino's example of the atomic bomb. I do think that wisdom is dependant to some degree upon knowledge and inetlligence, however not entirely. I think wisdom also requires a great deal of intuition, which until now, has not been mentioned. Can wisdom be acquired? Can you study hard, travel, live many experiences and become wise? To a degree, yes - but not entirely. So with the above, we can modify that age old proverb to: I'll allow someone else to fill in the blank.

Disagree - different folks have their own reasons for their membership various on-line forums. Some out of loneliness certainly, but there are so many other possibilities.

Yes of course - BUT - in this picture, we also see a sculpture that was posted easlier in this thread - but never identified.

Note: this topic was taken off-line for clean up. Please try and keep your comments relevant to the subject at hand. Thank you.

Canada Reports Increase in Immigration!

-- Regarding perpetual deficit and a ever-growing national debt: As you've pointed out MJ, operating under a deficit is perfectly acceptable and even beneficial when undertaking additional debt for specific short/medium term goals - revenue growth, productivity increase, employment creation etc... however when the deficits continually add up, and the managability of long term debt seems to take a back seat - this is a cause for concern. Eventually some of that debt has to be paid back , a task that becomes more difiicult as the ratio of debt interest payments to GDP increases. At some point a steady run of surpluses are needed to bring the debt back into check - and often the surplus is at the expense the social programs, taxpayers. I'm not an economist. In all honesty I don't really understand how the macro-economic model that currently exists in western capitalist socities can be sustainable in the long term - it seems that we've trapped ourselves in a system that requires continuous growth of the economy to preserve itself. We depend on growth to pay ourselves out of debt. When the rate of growth slows, it's termed a 'downturn'. What happens when the economy stops growing completely?ç oh, and btw - i've never been called a 'hard-core'-anything before I guess I must be somewhat of a lefty then?

Nice work Ruben jan, it's nice to see you back again...

Just to lighten his depressing mood: See the Bush you want here..

It's a moot point now, isn't it? <_<

Fox news gives Bush Ohio - he's at 267 now.

I heard that Florida has almost 1.6 million absentee votes still to be counted. As things stand now, Kerry will have to win roughly 2/3 of those votes to take the state. Ohio's not looking much better. What are you American's thinking???

Where are you lokking Mos? I have: REP Bush (Incumbent) 45,333,723 51% 246 DEM Kerry 42,453,509 48% 188

Sadly, it doesn't look to be going Kerry's way... Trailing in OH & FL while up in the air in MI & WI.... hmmmm not what the Dems had hoped.

My thoughts and prayers are with you Americans during this very polarizing election day.

Would you consider a router with a built-in FW function and NAT as hardware firewall?

That makes three! Now how about the firewall part? - ZoneAlarm has been doing a bang up job for me - and it's easily configurable for things like remote access etc.

I know but you can go through their catalogues and pretty much order whatever you want. I'm still not a fan of Amazon... (my experiences have been less than convenient and needlessly expensive ).

Well, with the NY Times having changed their policy in this regard (to desist from using 'so-called', 'alleged' and other such ambiguous terms when referring to the genocide) I'm sure that one could convince the Miami Herald to follow suit.

who's Emil? Just joshing! Happy Birthday ya big purple hippo!

Nice to see you back MJ. Arpa, thanks for the links - I know very little about this opera. I think I'll check out my local HVM to see if i can get my hands on a recording. Any particular rendition I should look out for?

you guys are ALL

This particular error happened on the PC running the Console version of the core. The WU's completed on the Mac (with the graphical client) haven't even shown up on the stats. So I stopped running it. I'll leave the PC going, it"shalf way through another WU now...

Glad you got your plumbing fixed .... and it's my pleasure entirely for the humour.

and now, this: (from the log file) <_< [11:43:06] Completed 156000 out of 200000 steps (78) [11:50:23] Quit 101 - Fatal error: [11:50:23] Step 156626, time 313.252 (ps) LINCS WARNING [11:50:23] relative constraint deviation after LINCS: [11:50:23] max 0.000221 (between atoms 96367 and 96369) rms 0.000006 [11:50:23] [11:50:23] Simulation instability has been encountered. The run has entered a [11:50:23] state from which no further progress can be made. [11:50:23] If you often see other project units terminating early like this [11:50:23] too, you may wish to check the stability of your computer (issues [11:50:23] such as high temperature, overclocking, etc.). [11:50:23] Going to send back what have done. [11:50:23] logfile size: 135626 [11:50:23] - Writing 136312 bytes of core data to disk... [11:50:23] ... Done. [11:50:23] [11:50:23] Folding@home Core Shutdown: EARLY_UNIT_END

Bravo bravo bravo!!! very exciting news indeed! Congratulations!