Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

At the risk of outing myself (ha), I have taken a class from Sandel. He's smart.

There are two ways a person can say another is smart- one can recognize another has intelligence far beyond their own. Or one can be so much smarter than one can quantify the other as being "smart" to a certain level. Which was your statement here?

But is the problem "merit"? If you think for a second about what you say about, the problem is not "merit," it's that the upper middle class (etc.) have real advantages because they have more money. If you go to Scarsdale H.S., you're going to get a better education and better opportunities than if you go to P.S. 123 in the Bronx. How many kids from Scarsdale go to Harvard (hi Hank!), and how many from your average public school in the Bronx go there?

I'm from the 313 equivalent of tobacco road, so I have "merit" to my Harvard/Yale/Stanford degrees.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

There are two ways a person can say another is smart- one can recognize another has intelligence far beyond their own. Or one can be so much smarter than one can quantify the other as being "smart" to a certain level. Which was your statement here?

It kinda makes you wonder why they run ads for new televisions. If you're watching on a television good enough to tell how awesome the picture is, you don't really need a new one.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

It kinda makes you wonder why they run ads for new televisions. If you're watching on a television good enough to tell how awesome the picture is, you don't really need a new one.

You watch commercials. You're smarter than that- and I have the ability to quantify how smart.

edit: we both have old guy eyesight now, so we don't need new ones BTW.