Bungee Jumper

All of them, all of them,...and all of them. I don't have to PROVE to you that you're an idiot when you've already proven it to everyone.

But it's not my birthday. Considering the average birthday is July 2nd, that I was born on the 5th of December represents a measurement error of 157 days...so my birthday has actually been regressing towards July 2nd for the past forty years. Right now, I think my birthday's regressed all the way to late September...

Only because you're completely delusional.

Says the guy that hasn't !@#$ing read any of them. I don't "think" I remember what those books say; I read them. I could quote them, except 1) I can't post equations in this format, and 2) you wouldn't understand them anyway, so what's the point? In other words, "It's not true, because I didn't read it on the web." If you could do the math, you could disprove your own bull sh--. You can't...you can't even define "regression" or "mean" (in fact, you've consistently defined "mean" incorrectly throughout this discussion). I'm not even sure you can define "toward". Except that you demonstrably misunderstood that too, being unable to distinguish between the colloquial idea of "luck", the scientific idea of "error", and the mathematical ideas of "variance", "regression", and "mean". Yet another reason no one can discuss it with you: you don't even understand the basics. Like I said, pick up a statistics textbook.

"A link"? PICK UP A STATISTICS TEXTBOOK. I've got an even half-dozen on my bookshelf at home (excluding the stat mech and quantum physics textbooks, which are heavily statistical as well) that ALL say you're a horse's ass. Unfortunately, none of them actually exist as web pages...so the entire body of statistical and physics knowledge must be wrong, because you can't !@#$ing google it. Jesus Christ, you're a dope...

But it's much more absurd when he says it himself.

But that doesn't actually answer the question? How do you know "good research" requires "good thinking"? Really? And I ask again, where are your publications?

Shhh. Don't give him hints. Let him figure it out on his own. It's a lot funnier that way.

But it's not my birthday. Or maybe it is. Who knows?

None that I know of...but I'd like to wish a happy birthday to the execution of the Soviet operational concept of "Deep Battle", born 65 years ago today.

And you know this because...? And you know this because...?

How many textbooks did you find that support your egregiously erroneous blather? The last time I checked, you couldn't even define "variance", and you can't define "regression" without defining "variance". Well, you can't correctly define regression without it. You can make up all sorts of bull sh-- about "luck" and "measurement error", and spew some drivel that sort-of sounds like it might be "regression" if you were explaining it to your average table lamp. Too bad it's not even the least bit grounded in reality; otherwise, you might actually be capable of discussing it.

And you can judge his research as worthless because...?

No, her kid is Apple Paltrow. Which, amazingly, is a dumber name than "Fiona Apple".

How did you figure out it was my birthday, anyway?

You haven't listened to a thing anyone's posted on the subject, have you? Let me make this as clear as I can: we're right, you're wrong, we've proved it, YOU'VE proved it, shut up.

No sh--, really?

You forgot and and .

I swear, when I declare a revolution and topple the government, Paris, Jessica, and Britney are the first to be put up against a wall and shot, even before Michael Moore and Ann Coulter.

Those goddamned flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz. God, those !@#$ers freak me out...

"Hey, let's make a movie about Pearl Harbor! We'll start it out with the Battle of Britain, end it with the Doolittle raid, and have Josh Hartnett fool around with Kate Beckinsale in between! Oh, and maybe we should show the attack too..." You know your movie sucks when Ben Affleck is the bright spot in the film. That piece of sh-- should have come with a disclaimer: "Incredibly stupid !@#$ing film. Do not watch."

You have GOT to be kidding. Jesse Jackson only cares about his photo ops.

Hell, I'll stay in this country and bash it. I won't kiss up to Limeys for the sake of appearing cultured, like she did, but everything Paltrow said about Americans is pretty much spot-on.

Or don't buy a tree...alleviates the problems and eliminates the argument. I think maybe you're making this more complex than it needs to be. And it's juts pagan idolatry anyway.

Jews have it so much easier. You never hear them arguing about whether you put the candles in the top or bottom of the menorah...