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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (62536)	4/23/2005 2:41:20 AM
From: shades	Respond to of 74559

You need to smoke more weed and stop reading so much - hehe slashdot.org Email Worse Than Marijuana For Intelligence? Posted by Zonk on Friday April 22, @08:35PM from the as-an-evergreen-state-graduate-i'm-unqualified-to-comment dept. wallykeyster writes "The Guardian is reporting that a recent study at King's College indicates that the average IQ loss of email users was 10 points (or six points more than cannabis users). Details on The Register as well. The Register has a related story about how computers make kids dumb and an apparent "problem-solving deficit disorder" observed in children who use computers. I thought it was television that rotted your brain?" ( Read More... \| 289 of 410 comments )

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (62536)	4/23/2005 9:24:31 AM
From: shades	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

Why does it seem mother nature intends higher birth rates for less healthy DNA and less IQ but more intelligent and healthier people seem to have less babies? "There's nothing wrong with looking after "me". What's wrong with most ideas of "me" is that people are unable to figure out what's good for themselves." Brad delong and krugman are releasing a paper that low birth rates in the developed world is bad for all our futures - how many kids did ayn have? "Not to mention the definition of "themselves" itself. By that I mean, one's mind isn't really anything more than an expression of one's DNA and experiences. No DNA = no mind. So the best manifestation of one's mind is more of the same DNA. That's what nature has been working on for a billion years." Yah, MORE dna, more babies you pass it on too - but there are memes out there convincing you that MORE dna is BAD - amazon.com amazon.com amazon.com She reminds her readers repeatedly that American women actually have more access to power than any other group of women in the world (after all, they make 83 percent of consumer purchases and comprise 51 percent of the electorate)--but they need to choose to use it. What was it many economists were saying about we spend too much on 600 dollar jeans and the latest GCO carpet and corian counter tops and it has broke our country? Some comments from amazon: Since then, I have attended many reunions where women have spoken about career progress. About 20 years ago, I noticed something troubling. Successful women described themselves as never mentoring other women in the workplace and never seeking out women suppliers. In fact, most of these women indicated that it had never occurred to them to play these roles. How will the lessons of getting ahead ever be passed down to the newly-educated women? Thier ME ME ME attitude even destroys other copies of chromosomes identical to them - xx xy yy - who the fck cares ME ME ME Then ten years ago, women at reunions started talking about dropping off of the fast career track for more time with their children. OH MY GAWD - CHILDREN? little DNA pieces of ME - FCK THAT - what a horrible trend - fck the babies - that is less time for ME ME ME and MY MY MY career, job, paycheck, jeans, etc etc More: I'm 21 and just about to start working toward a PhD in business and I had never realized that that so many women felt the desire to put their career on the back burner in order to have a family. I've always known I didn't want that left, but I never realized what implications the notion of being a potential "mommy" would have for me as I go forward. This is a great book for anyone who wants to know about women and getting ahead in today's society. Oh my god - BE A MOMMY? I never even thought of that stupidity - ME ME ME - fck the DNA copies - let the dumb western men figure out how to save the western future when we don't have enough kids - ME ME ME Another book to read on DNA convinced not to replicate against its intended function by Nature and how women are the real holders of power in future progression: Leonard Shlain: Sex, Time and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution Dr. Meghabghab watched star trek - he understood the benfits of replicaton like the borg - as mother nature seemed to intend, he sacrificed life and career and money and happiness for wife and hopefully future family - that selfish woman used him to get everything for ME ME ME like a good womens rights feminist and when he started wanting to have kids and spread that DNA as you say - she told him to FCK OFF - ME ME ME - she didn't squirt bowling ball babies - BWAHAH So from my perspective any meme that brings ultimate death is a bad one - ME ME ME just doesn't work it seems. Dean Baker, J. Bradford DeLong, and Paul Krugman (forthcoming 2005), 'Asset Returns and Economic Growth,' Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 2005:1. Abstract: We in America are probably facing a demographic transition—a slowdown in the rate of natural population increase—and possibly facing a slowdown in productivity growth as well. If these two factors do in fact push down the rate of economic growth in the future, is it still prudent to assume that the past performance of assets is an indication of future results? We argue “no.” tricycleblog.blogspot.com The Buddha became the Buddha because of his father and mother, because of his courtiers and the peasants in the fields, because of the horse that he rode to the forest, the sages who encouraged his pursuits, the ascetics who showed him that mortification isn't the answer, the stream that bathed him, the girl who fed him and the food, the boy and the grass, the tree, the snake, and the earth, because of the star that rose and shone just-as-it-is, because of the air that Siddhartha breathed as he sat there, the moon which exerted a gravitational pull on the oceans and thereby churned up the first particles that became life in the first place, because of the sun that provided him heat and nourished the plants he ate, everything everywhere came together to produce the Buddha. And most of all, the Buddha became the Buddha because he was already one with enlightenment to begin with, as are all things--he only discovered what had been the true state of himself and all things all along: vast emptiness, nothing holy. pespmc1.vub.ac.be When memetic and genetic fitness criteria are inconsistent, the different implicit objectives of memes and genes will lead to a direct competition for control of the carrier's behavior. Both replicators have similar aims to the degree that they use the same vehicles: individual organisms. Everything that strengthens the vehicles should in general be good for the replicators, and hence both genes and memes should be selected on the basis of their support for increased survivability and reproducability of their carriers. However, the implicit goals of genes and memes are different to the degree that they use different mechanisms for spreading from one vehicle to another one. Memes will be positively selected mainly for increased communicability. Genes will be selected mainly for sexual reproducability. These different emphases may lead to direct conflicts.