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My condolences to you and your family.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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My condolences. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Very sorry for your loss.
/ravi
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Sorry to hear that man. Hope you guys remember the good times and focus on the life he lived.
Jeremy Falcon
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My condolences! May he rest in peace!
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My condolences. My thoughts're with you & your family
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He was a young man...Just a few months older than I am.
Condolences.
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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"Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that."
This is only true for the median, not for the average. So there.
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Earl Truss wrote: for the median, not for the average
They don't have to be different. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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They're only guaranteed to be the same in a normal distribution; if you think humans are normal I think we know where all of Nagy's missing Gin went to. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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But it's a bell curve, so they're the same
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If only. 
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True, since the average is heavily weighted toward the wrong end.
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Good point!
Though you are confusing layman's language with specialist language.
Admitedly the fuzzy layman's language might be a source of many cognitive error, so it might be a mistake worth fighting for! 
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Just because something is popular doesn't mean it's correct.
Super Lloyd wrote: Though you are confusing layman's language with specialist language.
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Mmm....
My argument has nothing do with correctness!
It is related to the fact that words mean different things to different people!
Let me a find an example that you might be able to understand more easily...
For example: 1 mile is.... 1.6km or 1.8km depending whether you ask a landlubber or a sailor.
Neither meaning is correct or incorrect. It just highlight that words mean different things to different people in different context.
And that is my point. Mathematical average is not the same as every day English average.
Neither is particularly truer than the other. They are just the same word for different (though seemingly related) concept.
I hope this will help you understand that language is a subtle and contextual tool!
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Laymen don't say "median".
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Exactly my point!
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Yeah, well, George Carlin was a comedian, not a statistician... The exact quote, I believe, is:
"Think of how smart the average person is, and then realize that half of them are dumber than him."
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Well, I'm not a statistician either, I'm a mathematician.
I got into a lot of trouble once for referring to the "human factors" department as "ship B". I've always been in ship C.
Ian Shlasko wrote: Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
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Earl Truss wrote: I got into a lot of trouble once for referring to the "human factors" department as "ship B".
Do you really mean to say that the HR people in your company are literate?!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Do you really mean to say that the HR people in your company are literate?!
Somebody needs to catch up on their HHG2G 
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Ian Shlasko wrote: Somebody needs to catch up on their HHG2G
That's precisely my point; they actually read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and know what ark B was full of.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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