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Aszhrae -> RE: what's in their heads? (1/4/2009 2:06:19 PM)
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I would like to add, when individuals are considered, based more on their IQ than life skills, it only results in elitism. Example: MESA, I did have a chance to write their test. None of it had to do with life skills, all of it had to do with academia. So much for blue collared intelligence.
Another thing to consider while discussing points of intelligent quotient, is that such things are designed for the sole purpose of cataloging the masses of people into certain categories. Its basic demographic segregation by self absorbed academics that have nothing better to do than to determine who is less than them, equal to them and greater than them. They are also the same people that determine what is normal. By the way, our choice in lifestyle would be determined as perverted miscreants that would be considered a threat to society and have the potential to become psychopaths and sociopaths. Of course that would never happen, since there are academics that also engage in such behavior and would be included in the classification of not being normal.
There is also E.Q. if you want to concern your self with quotients.
I would welcome anyone to be able to build a house from the ground up without the use of an architects blueprint.
I figured it once years ago. How long with the present educational system at the level that it is now, would someone have to go to school to learn how to build houses? 14 years, 4 years in college for the practical, 6 years in university to get the theoretical as some courses require that you have a masters degree, finally the last 4 years as an apprentice.
Problem with engineers is that they tend to consult the book when it comes to problems because they have been conditioned to think the book is always correct. Not always the case, since most engineering texts are written by other engineers that have never held a hammer or circular saw in their whole career. Then walks in the individual that has 30 years experience, the person that taught him also had 30 years and before that another 30 years experience. So there is 90 years of combined working experience, practical knowledge, not theoretical. Tried and true methods on how things are done. Most have never taken hydrodynamics in school but they have working knowledge of how much pressure is behind a basement wall when it rains as the pressure becomes compounded until a small leak happens and a stream of water shoots out from the wall a good 12 feet before arching downwards. The engineer would want to analyze, consult manuals and check their gauges and then determine that the other side needs to excavated. Very expensive undertaking. Its simple actually, reverse pressure seal it. Use the water itself to help seal the hole. Simple fix for a simple problem. Another method hydraulic injection seal = more expensive, but you need to wait until the leak stops, drill hole into the concrete, affix the hydraulic injector to the wall and let it pump the hole full of sealant.
That's what is in my head. Do I care if I am average or not? Nope. Doesn't bother me in the least.
Question: How would you aluminum clad Swiss Gingerbread Curls?
your material: metal snips, a knife, a section of pipe, an aluminum break, hammer, hatchet, nail punch and some coated finishing nails
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