Sad day for Mxsmanic

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Oh by the way - why did you dutifully reproduce the preceding text, but wipe
out the part about schizophrenia?

It's a classic MX trolling tactic. He is a master of selectively quoting
people, and then responding only to what's quoted to steer the
conversation in his preferred direction. If you stated that the Earth is
round in a debate with him, he would snip out just enough to make it
look like you were an idiot, and then make a reply that, at least
superficially, makes him look like the only one who knows anything.

I completely disagree. You give him far too much credit.
I don't think he's a master of much, and I don't think his intellectual
dishonesty fools much of anyone. You make it sound like he's sly and
resourceful - I see him as slow, dumb and cumbersome. Getting the better of him
intellectually is extremely easy, and his lame attempts at recovery are
transparent to all. He rarely makes a successful rejoinder to any challenge,
and contradicts himself repeatedly. I cannot recall any instance in which he
has made anyone other than himself look like an idiot.



--
Mike Ash
Radio Free Earth
Broadcasting from our climate-controlled studios deep inside the Moon

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But G1000 is so generalized that now you can no longer buy a small or
medium plane without it.

I'll worry about that when I'm in the market for an airplane.

I'm sure that more traditional avionics are available for those willing to pay
for them. I'm not willing to entrust my life to a single unproven ball of
software.


Well, you could at least take a chance - because as soon as you quit the
application you get your life back! But I guess that's not getting much back,
is it?

Technical question : What part of G1000 is unproven, and where's the "ball"?

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With respect, I'd urge you to not underestimate MX. I have not tested
him, but judging from the level of his responses I'd judge a
conventional IQ test would find him in the 125 area. That is not to
say his social skills or human interaction skills are advanced -- they
are not.


125's not much. . .
Certainly far from sufficient to substantiate the profile he's trying to cut
here. He's out of his depth and running naked.

Quite a few contributors here who can better that score and better him - and
do, regularly, while making tuna salad in the background.

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Quite a few contributors here who can better that score and better him - and
do, regularly, while making tuna salad in the background.

I'm well aware of that. Never the less, mischaracterizing him
diminishes the person doing that.


You're beginning to sound like him.
Unravel his twisted argument to reveal its fallacies, and it reflects badly on
yourself. Are we talking Kharma here?!

His intention is to feign superiority, yet his intellect is insufficient to
attain it. Deer in the headlights.

I'm not mischaracterizing him in the least by saying he's just not quite as
smart as he thinks, and rather less than some others here. He's used to
walking into situations in which he's more articulate than others - this time
he blew it. Everyone has to meet their match.

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The topic was truth in advertising and calling a flying game a flight
simulator.

Since flight, and only flight, simulators have a legal definition, calling
something a flight simulator that is not is false advertising.

That's not the way the law works.

Claiming that a flight simulator can be used to log hours or for training
recognized by the FAA when the simulator has not been certified by the FAA for
these purposes is indeed fraud, but simply calling it a flight simulator is
entirely legal and is not at all false advertising.

All the flight simulator game sellers are quite explicit in saying what
they are selling is a game.

No, they are not. Visit the Web site for X-Plane, which tries hard to give
the impression that their simulator is certified by the FAA. (In fact,
X-Plane can be _part of_ a certified simulator, but you cannot just download
it and log the hours.)

Microsoft calls it a game so that they won't be sued. X-Plane comes from a
small company (mostly from one person, in fact), and is a lot more "flexible"
in its description.

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Flight simulators have a legal definition under 14CFR.

That legal definition doesn't apply to anyone except the FAA, and affects only
simulators that claim to be approved by the FAA for logging hours.

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With respect, I'd urge you to not underestimate MX. I have not tested
him, but judging from the level of his responses I'd judge a
conventional IQ test would find him in the 125 area. That is not to
say his social skills or human interaction skills are advanced -- they
are not.

125's not much. . .
Certainly far from sufficient to substantiate the profile he's trying to cut
here. He's out of his depth and running naked.

Quite a few contributors here who can better that score and better him - and
do, regularly, while making tuna salad in the background.

I'm well aware of that. Never the less, mischaracterizing him
diminishes the person doing that. He may be a standard deviation or
more to the good side of normal in IQ, but far to the other side in
other important social characteristics.

That's just my opinion, of course, but I do have some training and
professional experience in that area.



Since you're a professional - I have a close family member who is a severe
Asperger's case, with a significant touch of dissociation, just like MX. His
conventional IQ has been measured at over 160. He's able to bull**** his way
through almost everything, with a tone strikingly similar to MX's. It's the
"almost" that hurts, though. He's in jail now - ran out of bull**** and reality
hit like a brick wall at mach 2. That's where MX is headed. He's out of his
depth here, and since his intentions are disingenuous no one is going to have
any pity for him.

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Says Who?

Say my instructors.

But you have never had any training of this kind!

Well, yes, I have.

So does MX really think that Rod Machado is truly giving him flight
instruction, courtesy of Bill Gates, or has he really found his way to the
airport?

In any event, he's missed out on a great resource. When I was taking primary
instruction, I had the benefit of asking all my stupid questions on these
newsgroups, without being told to go F myself.

I think he's burned that bridge. I find that very satisfying.

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You have stated in the past that you did not.

Times change.

But you haven't.

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Well, you could at least take a chance - because as soon as you quit
the
application you get your life back!

Since I wouldn't trust it in real life, I don't trust it in simulation.

Technical question : What part of G1000 is unproven, and where's the
"ball"?

All of it, unfortunately.

Why would you care, all you ever fly is your desk.