osuche

It unfortunately is coming down to the "haves" and the "who cares?".

wyndhy,

Discussing my thingy and doohickeys in public is . . . actually good advertisement.

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Calm, quiet, smooth, devastating

After watching the "Sports Disasters" marathon last nite, I'm convinced now that we could make a dent in this population thing by classifying events like the Javelin Catch as "extreme sports"...at least it would get the Darwin thing going again...

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If the theory does not conform to the facts, then the facts must be discarded.

No good deed ever goes unpunished

Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level, & beat you with experience.

i recently read an on-line article which held forth that the models are flawed and the future estimates are much too conservative. perhaps off by 25 to 30 percent.

anyway, while i agree that the pop is getting too big for our planet i also see no way of stopping its overwhelming increase without the use of eugenics, sterilization or euthanasia and i must say i don't think the genpop is gonna find favor with most of that shit. omg! soylent green is people!!!!!

and to get back to the question, since the inevitable colonization of outerspace will take care of our population issues , i guess i think that the best thing i could do is to dabble in a little gene work and find the thingy that turns on tolerance, and the doohicky that enables mercy and empathy. fix those and THEN all other ills all but dissapear.

but then i would have to begin methodically checking it in every human born using the doctor’s without borders org as my front, which i would have filled with my minions over the course of several decades as i built it up into a multinational policy making juggernaut. then, someday, my altruistic goal would be discovered and misinterpreted and the population would revolt and go berzerk because while manipulating their genes i accidentally screwed something else up and now they’ve gone crazy and after the melee is over only about 1/5 of the population is left standing.

hey, i solved the population problem!

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Trees give peace to the souls of men * Nora Waln

The forest would be very quiet if no other birds sang than those who sing the best * Henry van Dyke

some fairly sordid tales, rambles, and anecdotes
Hypothetically Speaking * Something More * Cammy Interrupted * An Experimental Vacation * Masked * so..damn..hot * Thank You * My toy, his idea * no.19 Maple Lane * I Have A Surprise For You * Yesterday * In a Quiet Kitchen * help me decide * untitled prose * more untitled prose

here's my real opinion. i agree with osuche mostly. education is the key but not the book-smart education part so much, just the life skills part, and they need to be culture specific, too. teaching a zulu how to fix a nutritious meal for a family using a pound of processed cheese and a can of tuna isn't useful but teaching him about diseases--more specifically how not to get them---is very useful. guidance won't always fix the bigot or the zealot but it will help curb abuse, hunger, sickness, and intolerance.
(although if we could fix the fact that peeps don't give a shit without any bad side effects, i still think it's a great ieda)

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Trees give peace to the souls of men * Nora Waln

The forest would be very quiet if no other birds sang than those who sing the best * Henry van Dyke

some fairly sordid tales, rambles, and anecdotes
Hypothetically Speaking * Something More * Cammy Interrupted * An Experimental Vacation * Masked * so..damn..hot * Thank You * My toy, his idea * no.19 Maple Lane * I Have A Surprise For You * Yesterday * In a Quiet Kitchen * help me decide * untitled prose * more untitled prose