Your high school history teacher called and said you graduated early. They’re sending your diploma in the post so don’t bother coming in anymore.

-Dick

“Let them eat cake.”

-Dick

Done.

It makes a very nice change from your endless brown-nosing and Nicole’s increasingly entertaining stupidity.

Now receiving a patent does not make you an inventor. It just means you took out a patent. Anyone can do this just by putting their name to something that nobody else got their name to first. That “something” can be anything you want; it doesn’t make it an invention. Even if it is an invention, it might be somebody else’s that you just nicked by getting to the patent office first. There have been many examples in history.

Now look. I could sharpen the end of a spoon, use it to dig wax out of my ears, and patent it. There you have it: the patented Parmenter ear de-waxer. Provided nobody else got there first, of course (sorry I didn’t bother to check this). But it doesn’t make me an inventor. All I have done is to take somebody else’s idea and apply it in a different way that nobody else got to yet. If it’s clever and people want to buy it, then I can make money from it. If it’s really clever, everyone might marvel at it and use it to make the world a better place. But there are thousands of patented ideas that are just crummy and not worth the paper they are written on. Like my ear de-waxer.

So I have to take a pinch of salt when I hear about some of these so-called inventions, which are really nothing more than design modifications or different applications of what already exists. I read about a convention for “female inventors” some while back. They were all of this ilk - nothing really original. The ludicrous example that sticks in my mind was the woman who had “invented” a feather duster with an elongated handle for getting into the corner of ceilings. Inventor? Don’t make me laugh.

A real invention represents a leap forward. It is something that did not exist previously in any way shape or form, that nobody would recognise first off because they had not seen the like of it before, and that represents a step change in a particular field. Novelty ear de-waxers and extensions to feather dusters don’t count. Regardless of the patent.

Which brings us to the supposedly inventive Sarah and her submarine lamp and telescope. Let’s allow her to be the person who dreamed up the idea - we can’t be sure, it might have been her dad or her husband who just wanted to be nice to her and let her have the patent; that happens too - so I give her credit for a clever application of somebody’s else’s invention. But at most, that’s all it was. Now if she had been the first person to produce a lamp, or a telescope, then that would make her a real inventor. But finding a novel application for what somebody else had invented, just makes her a novel applicator.

So you have to do better than this, Nicole.

I think the mistake was stating that single, isolated examples indicated equal ability overall. Nicole took this litterally; but it logically it shouldn’t be the case. There are always anomolies in any measurement. What’s important is

1) whether the measurements convey what you’re intending to measure
2) whether the anomolies carry any meaning
3) what the overall proportion and trends are.

Nicole seems to be implying that she believes 2) it true and that the presumed meaning is that women have been held back and largely haven’t been able to achieve to their true potential [based on other comments of hers]. (But this is an entire different issue)

*cough* bullshit *cough*
Nicole; according to these numbers; you’ve submitted more comments than anyone. You might not be sitting at home commenting all the time; but certainly others here have more of a life…

Guess it’s true what Dick says… “Quantity over quality”

Just to be clear, they are hashes of ips, not ips themselves. It’s an important distinction, but one would have to know what a hash and an ip was before one could make it.

Now, ladies, don’t get me wrong–I know why, and it’s not that you are worthless 9even if I’ve said it jokingly before). You are important in nurturing a family (just as long as a man is present to balance out your hormonally-charged passion). Thanks for all the hard work.

Women deal in opinions and magic and fairy tale bullshit so that they can never be labeled or pinned down. It also means they can never have any responsibility or be accountable for absolutely fucking anything.

From a man’s point of view, obviously no none of the answers are valid because Nicole missed the point entirely. From a woman’s point of view however — to use the words of a good friend of mine — “apples are orange!”

-Dick

For instance, if you were to look up MenAreBetterThanWomen.com’s all-time bone head posts:

http://www.menarebetterthanwomen.com/strangelove/#comment-164
http://www.menarebetterthanwomen.com/one-in-two-women-is-illiterate/#c omment-163

You would find that the IP Man-Hash’s of your prior posts match perfectly. Meaning that you posted from another computer once before and then used that same computer to post as “Jack” and “Jenny”. Don’t believe me? Click on the IP Man-Hashes for Jack and Jenny yourself and be prepared to be not surprised.

I have exorcized the demon.

-Dick

I was at school all day.

As already explained. Unlike some of the losers on this site I do not sit at home all day on a computer.

I’ve noticed Dick has put the IP number next to all coments. Not surprisingly mine is different to “Jacks”

You proved your own acusations wrong Dick, lets see if you can admit your mistake.