To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (3020 ) 12/31/2005 4:20:22 PM From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 217842 SC, it's not behaviour modification, it's mind modification. <I'd be lost without behaviour modification :o) self induced or not > And, regarding Jay's stew of DNA <I think you are splitting hairs ... Of course I meant the Chinese part... > Is that the eyelid Chinese part, or the dark straight hair Chinese part, or the haemoglobin haplotype ... etc? one can't be two things, let alone half a dozen, at the same time. If one has the Chinese straight hair, one doesn't simultanously have the Negro curly hair. One can't roll one's tongue, and not, simultaneously. Ethnicity is a crock, usually trundled out to get some taxpayer money, or to steal somebody else's property, or to generally get one up on somebody else. Being an Amerindian rates as more cool than being a Negro and that's swankier than being Scottish who are superior to English who think they are better than everyone else, especially the French who affect an air of superiority to nobody in particular but everyone in general. But they all secretly know they are just chimps wearing hats. Other than the Chinese, who are really starting to think they are something special. Look at Yiwu the Mad! Shades of the Third Reich. They should provide even more entertainment than the Germans did from 1870 to 1945, culminating in Aryan master race theory [which involved killing everyone else so that ipso facto, they were in fact superior, being the only people left]. Meanwhile, speaking of mind modification, the USA is planning to do some mind modification in Iran, which is not a bad idea. While China's CCP megalomania is nasty and scary, Islamic Jihad makes Adolf look tame. Islamic Jihad with a bunch of noocular weapons would make Beslan look trivial. It is 2006 here now and so far it looks okay, but I'm sure there will be a LOT of fun before the year is out. Free will rulz OK! Down with mindless mantras. Don't let a slogan do your thinking for you. Mqurice