Thanks FOR THE HONOUR. I will just give my opinion, if you don't like it-ignore it.. Anyways , I will not ignore your comments. I think you understood by now that I am just ignoring your comments,unless specifically informative.
Next time,I will not even reply like this. The last time you replied,there was some information in it. Regards, jd On 8/19/10, Rakesh <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know why some of you respond to Jitesh, he's either a > professional troller at worst or an AI experiment into convincing us > he's all human and not a computer program, at best. His responses add > absolutely nothing new to any thread on here. > > I've gone and created a 'special' gmail rule for his responses! > > Rakesh > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> > wrote: >> If you genuinely want to explore this stuff, there's a few great resources >> out there: >> Newsweek, "best countries in the world" >> http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/15/interactive-infographic-of-the-worlds-best-countries.html >> GapMinder: >> http://www.gapminder.org/ >> >> TED Talks by Hans Rosling, mostly on the subject of GapMinder: >> http://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling.html >> >> On 19 August 2010 09:37, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Aug 19, 10:10 am, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Jitesh: >>> > America is brilliant, it has has more Nobel Laureates than anyone else >>> > >>> > Me: >>> > Perhaps, but that's only because it has more people in total, it's >>> > actually >>> > pretty low down the scale if measured per-capita >>> > Wikipedia says so too >>> > >>> > Jitesh: >>> > No, no, no. By "more" I actually meant "better" and that they were by >>> > smarter people >>> > It's clear you didn't understand that because you just wanted to start >>> > comparing things by using numbers! >>> > You just don't get Nobel prizes at all, they're actually a lot like >>> > cricket >>> > >>> > Me: >>> > ... >>> >>> Jitesh, the society in the US is unique. They grow the elite (those >>> with talent and money) and sets the expectations really high with the >>> result that those 5% who does make it "up on top" truly are good. The >>> price of this model however is that they loose the bottom 20% >>> completely, resulting in probably the biggest social gab in any >>> western country. Another way to see this "price" is how the US has 5% >>> of the worlds population, but also 25% of the worlds incarcerated >>> population (people in prison). >>> >>> So if you apply standard normalization, you will come to quite a >>> different conclusion then you currently do. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "The Java Posse" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Kevin Wright >> >> mail/google talk: [email protected] >> wave: [email protected] >> skype: kev.lee.wright >> twitter: @thecoda >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
