>> MA, am I correct in assuming that you are joking? :-)

I doubt it.  I've certainly met less extreme versions; one of the more  
talented engineers I hired during my days as a manager became somewhat  
famous for announcing to the net at large how he'd drop acid to help  
him solve some of the more difficult problems he'd encounter...

Intelligence, talent, social skills, and interpersonal skills are all  
multi-dimensional and very orthogonal things to try to measure.  It's  
not at all difficult to be very good at something and still have very  
poor skills in some other area.  There was even a recent study/theory  
correlating science and engineering skills with autism and related  
disorders.  ( http://spectrum.ieee.org/oct06/4665/2 )

Solarwind, on the other hand, is destined to live under a bridge and  
hit travelers up for money.  I don't think I've ever seen so many  
troll-like comments (and entire discussion topics) come from one user- 
id; the real trolls generally use multiple ids to make it less obvious  
that all the contentious comments are coming from the same person.  :-)

BillW

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