Margaret Thatcher was Britains greatest leader since Churchill. Discuss.

[kentonio]

No doubt it is highly rated, but it's a rather small thing to be proud of. Personal achievement is far more relavent.

Someone posting a ranking before, and your school was 4th or something in maths and science.

Indeed. Going to a good high school means your parents could afford to live somewhere nice usually. Succeeding after going to a ****hole, means you're actually worth something.

[Dauphin]

All this said, molly ripped his schooling, so it's fair game for him to say to molly, "No, it's a top notch school".

[DaShi]

Worth it because I can post links now. I'm actually a spambot for Wegmans.

http://www.wegmans.com/

I see now that you were referring to the Hong Kong being destroyed thing. The thrust of my point remains intact in the sense that HC's claims were not totally baseless, and were several steps above your ad hominem attacks.

:sigh: No, that is not what I was referring. Maybe you're reading a different thread. Your point was lost long ago. Now I'm just trying to give you a chance to save face.

[DaShi]

The attempt and failure at dickwaving was Alby trying to pretend that his education is comparable to mine. When a 27-year-old argues with a then-17-year-old about whose high school was better (mine, by the way), the 27 year old loses by default.

No, you both lose. And since you need to depend on brand name schools, CMU is an ok, but not great choice.

[regexcellent]

No, you both lose. And since you need to depend on brand name schools, CMU is an ok, but not great choice.

I hope this is a joke on your part.

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate-computer

That's just a couple. There are a number of people up here who wish they could be at CMU, but are here because they couldn't get in.

[DaShi]

I'm sure there are plenty of people lining up. CMU produces code monkeys (albiet good code monkeys), nothing more.

[DaShi]

And you know what, you're right. For the type of work he'll be doing, his reasoning skills are just fine.

[molly bloom]

Oh yeah, to answer the question, although you apparently aren't interested, TJHSST is the high school rated as the best in the entire United States in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 by US News.

I'm swooning in deference.

Are you there in a janitorial capacity ?

[molly bloom]

All this said, molly ripped his schooling, so it's fair game for him to say to molly, "No, it's a top notch school".

I made a passing reference to his misuse of vitriolic. His schooling interests me not a jot.

Though if he seriously thinks that any of my recent posts and any of my replies to him have been vitriolic, then perhaps he needs remedial English classes.

I should point out that if you have enough money and/or connections you can get into many educational establishments. It's what you do in them and take from them that counts.

[Dauphin]

I should point out that if you have enough money and/or connections you can get into many educational establishments. It's what you do in them and take from them that counts.

Oh yeah. Dubya springs to mind.

[DaShi]

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

I must say that I'm loving this new thing on Poly which can be paraphrased as "I note your comments, but I suspect that you may have used the internet to investigate them at some point. Therefore I win".

It's great. It saves all that inconvenient nonsense about actually discussing issues and facts, because all that matters is how you learned them. The only thing it needs is a suitable name.

I suggest "Intellectual Apartheid".

[BeBMan]

Using the internet is even worse than learning stuff from the books or something

[The Mad Monk]

Not based on my employment history. Or my grades. Given how everyone on this board seems to jump on Zevico, I'm pretty convinced at this point that most on this forum will just assume anyone who disagrees with them is an idiot.

God dammit, someone please fix the rolleyes smiley.

Welcome to the Internet.

[DaShi]

Using the internet is even worse than learning stuff from the books or something

Yes, but really, not learning anything from top ranked schools is the worst offense.