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To: Webster Groves who wrote (58239)	11/24/2009 12:24:07 AM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217986

Quite right Webby. I figured that out as a child <the advantage of intelligence for survival no longer holds. Relatively few intelligent people now make medicines, clean water, and food for the less educated masses. > My older brother told me we should have a bomb club and that I should put up the money and he'd put up the brains. That seemed an excellent idea to me and we arranged various explosions. I learned how to do it and in a few years arranged my own bombs without having to pay a royalty [patents weren't issued in Mangere]. As an adult I know the advantage of bomb clubs too. I work at some low intelligence job, save my money, then give it to people with lots of brains who know how to make bombs like CDMA/OFDM and launch big rockets into space with GPS and all that tricky stuff. They keep a lot of the profits for themselves and send me dividends. 6 billion humans can now download and use for zero cost amazing software developed by some Geek in some shed somewhere. Ignorant people who can barely use toilets can download porn from cyberspace for very low cost. Those who can read can download the New York Times and all sorts of things. Millions of gigabytes of information is available for no charge. In New Zealand, about 40 million sheep live happy lives eating grass with no wolves, snakes, tigers or other threats to their happy existence. If it wasn't for smart people, they'd have long ago been dinner. Pretty soon, even the smartest people will owe their existence to sentient cyberspace which will employ a few to correctly install photovoltaic panels and fusion reactors to keep the electrons and photons humming even if the sun goes out. There isn't actually an evolutionary disadvantage to being smart. Smart people can go troppo too or be "doing something else". I have never found I have a surplus of brain power and would plug in another megawatt of the stuff if available. I'll take stem cells injected straight into my brain and pay $10,000 per milligram if it'll do the trick. I'd like about another kilogram of brain to start with - that really high-powered variety made of really good DNA. Mqurice