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I never claimed military service.
I learned in 20 minutes what you couldn't do in what... twelve years of living there, you say? lol Kinda like you claiming you served in the military....oh, now it's the CIA, huh? You know, I'm having a difficult time believing someone who said they served in the military and then later admitted they didn't at all.
Jack's pride knows no bounds. That colloquialisms employed in a region he claims familiarity with should perplex him so, only belie his supposed fluency with the local lingo. This and his unwillingness to acknowledge the results of a Google search that can be undertaken by a child.Kalahari desert, Jack....
I learned in 20 minutes what you couldn't do in what... twelve years of living there, you say? lol Kinda like you claiming you served in the military....oh, now it's the CIA, huh? You know, I'm having a difficult time believing someone who said they served in the military and then later admitted they didn't at all.
lulzI can certainly see why you would think that from your map, but apparently the mega Kalahari desert extends from the Orange River in So. Africa all the way up into the southern boundries of the Democratic Republic of Congo....
"...The Kalahari Desert - or Kgalagadi, as it is known in Botswana – stretches across 7 countries – Botswana, Zambia, the Republic of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It's coverage in Namibia is called a ‘desert' principally because it's porous, sandy soils cannot retain surface water, but in some areas annual rainfall can be as high as 250mm, which accounts for the luxuriant grass cover during good years...."
Kalahari Desert | Namibia
"...The Kalahari Desert is an area of scarce surface water stradding Botswana, Namibia ans South Africa. This is part of the more extensive area which is physio-graphically ans sedimentologically unified, called the Mega Kalahari (Thomas 1984). The Mega Kalahari lies within the trritories of eight countries, from north to south: Gabon, Republic of Congo, Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa..."
The KALAHARI transect
"...1n the southern part of Africa the extensive Mega-Kalahari erg extends fiom just south of the equator in the Congo Basin (de Dapper, 1988) to the Orange River in the south..."
Mega Kalahari
The Kalahari Environment - David S. G. Thomas, Paul A. Shaw - Google Books
"...The Kalahari is not a true desert, but a semi-arid zone extending from the Orange River in South Africa to the southern reaches of the Congo...."
African Safari Destinations, Kalahari Desert, Botswana
Kalahari sands extend from the northern Cape in South Africa to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Routes Travel Info Portal: Kalahari desert - Kalahari xeric savanna ecoregion
The Kalahari, which extends from the Orange River to the Congo, is the largest continuous stretch of sand in the world.
The Kalahari essays
The mega Kalahari can be seen as the orange area in this usda.gov soil map ......as you can see it extends up into the DRC....
Bigger view of map....
http://soils.usda.gov/use/worldsoils/mapindex/metadata/maps/afrorder.gif
Google is your friend.
She's not the one trying to save face, Jack.Learn first. Then post.
I think it's a bit ridiculous to think we've come to the point scientifically where we've mapped the human genome but somehow a objective test of innate human intelligence is impossible.
I think we are perfectly capable of measuring base intelligence with qualification.
But because there are distinctions, its considered junk science.
She's not the one trying to save face, Jack.
Jack's pride knows no bounds. That colloquialisms employed in a region he claims familiarity with should perplex him so, only belie his supposed fluency with the local lingo. This and his unwillingness to acknowledge the results of a Google search that can be undertaken by a child.
Give it up, Jack. The Bushmen refer to it as the 'sandface'. Stop pretending you don't comprehend the point. Is it so difficult to simply admit you made a mistake? After all this shucking and jiving it probably is, but you could have bowed out gracefully a lot sooner.This should end the nonsense.
Kalahari (desert region, Africa) -- Encyclopedia Britannica
Kalahari (desert region, Africa) -- Encyclopedia BritannicaKalahari
Kalahari, a large, basinlike plain of the interior plateau of southern Africa. It occupies almost all of Botswana, the eastern third of Namibia, and the northernmost part of Northern Cape province in South Africa. In the southwest it merges with the Namib, the coastal desert of Namibia. The Kalahari’s longest north–south extent is roughly 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometres), and its greatest east–west distance is about 600 miles; its area has been estimated at some 360,000 square miles (930,000 square kilometres).:mrgreen:
Though not incessantly.Ignorance speaks.
Give it up, Jack. The Bushmen refer to it as the 'sandface'. Stop pretending you don't comprehend the point. Is it so difficult to simply admit you made a mistake? After all this shucking and jiving it probably is, but you could have bowed out gracefully a lot sooner.
No, it's because it's junk.But because there are distinctions, its considered junk science.
Though not incessantly.
You have to sleep some time.
It couldn't be irrelevant since it's a pertinent fact. If not, then you know something Google doesn't. That may be the case, and perhaps all of Moot's links are irrelevant, also."Sandface" is irrelevant and there are no bushmen north of the Namibia-Angola border area. Your ignorance is breathtaking.:roll:
Imagine my grief.Enough. "Ignore" list for you.
If that science happens to deal with group differences in average IQ, the journalists’ surprise turns into shock and disdain. Experts who speak publicly about IQ differences end up portrayed as weird contrarians at best, and peddlers of racist pseudoscience at worst.
I’m speaking from experience. My Harvard Ph.D. dissertation contains some scientifically unremarkable statements about ethnic differences in average IQ, including the IQ difference between Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites. For four years, the dissertation did what almost every other dissertation does — collected dust in the university library. But when it was unearthed in the midst of the immigration debate, I experienced the vilification firsthand.
Because only Chairman Mao's Communist Party and its friends are permitted to participate in the New Capitalist Revolution along with a small percentage of workers who toil in the factories for slave wages while the bulk of the Chinese masses still live under the gun of a totalitarian police state_However....Chinese immigrants will become a dieing breed in America in a few more generations.
Not too far from now ....if China keeps growing ...while America keeps eroding ......why would a Chinese person want to come here?
This is just one of many unsolved mysteries that is likely to remain unsolved, because doing research on race and IQ has become taboo in many places. My own research was financed in part by a grant from a foundation that told me to remove any mention of IQ research from the activities listed in my project's application.
They didn't care if I used their money for that purpose but they did not want it on the record that they had financed research into race and intelligence. Many schools and boards of education also did not want it on the record that they had cooperated by supplying data for any such research. Only when assured of complete anonymity would they let me into their records.
A well-known black "social scientist" urged me not to do any such research. His stated reason was that it would "dignify" Professor Arthur Jensen's thesis of a genetic basis for black-white differences in IQ scores. But my own suspicion was that he was afraid that the research would prove Jensen right.
As it turned out, the research showed that the average IQ difference between black and white Americans -- 15 points -- was nothing unusual. Similar IQ differences could be found between various culturally isolated white communities and the general society, both in the United States and in Britain. Among various groups in India, mental test differences were slightly greater than those between blacks and whites in the United States.
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