April 5th, 2006driving mode and annihilating the population: all in a good day’s work
My darling (read: irritating) cat sat on my phone and somehow, somehow, managed to turn it to “Driving Mode.” It has taken me 10 minutes and searching around to turn the damn thing off.
All was not lost, however, as I stumbled across these gems in the news…
3 arrested at Mass. baby shower brawl—funny, yet sad (particularly the part where a five-year-old drinks beer.)
Couric to become sole news anchor—she’s moving to CBS. Tell me why I hate this woman.
Professor’s remarks on overpopulation stir up a furor—because he thinks we should knock off a few million people to save the Earth. Not that I agree with that at all… ::moves frantically behind blog curtain::
i hate her smile… it’s so fake… and her hair needs to be un-shelacked.
Comment by wendykat — April 5, 2006 @ 12:14 pm
Absolutely.
Comment by the insider — April 5, 2006 @ 12:23 pm
Go Dr. Pianka!
Comment by Grampa — April 5, 2006 @ 12:41 pm
But, quite frankly, a few million just won’t do. I say we knock off nine out of every ten.
Comment by Grampa — April 5, 2006 @ 12:42 pm
Somehow I knew you’d agree with me on this.. 🙂
Comment by the insider — April 5, 2006 @ 1:22 pm
Simple Malthusian population mechanics, my dear. People will always outgrow the means to support themselves. In fact, any animal will. This leads to what Malthus termed “vice” and he included disease, famine, war and other lesser vices in this category (such as theft, murder, etc). This in turn brings us back to Darwin and his Survival of the Fittest, as when there become too many people and some have to die, then the fittest survive.
Now, who’s to say who’s fittest?
In this day of advanced technology and modern medicine, Darwin’s been thrown for a loop, so to speak. Those people who would have died off in less developed times are currently being kept alive by machines and drugs and old folks homes and welfare and social security and other things that help out people who can’t help themselves. This is not to say that we should rid ourselves of these things, but rather that when a massive disease or famine or economical collapse or war occurs because of excess population, then these will be the first people that succumb to Darwin’s savage return.
The whole survival of the fittest thing doesn’t mean that the strongest will always survive, but rather that one that adapts the quickest or is the luckiest to have a certain genetic anomaly which allows a resistance to say, bird flu, and those are the genes that will survive.
So, no sense in getting all buffed up and in shape and turning yourself into a killing machine, cause you might just get snuffed out by the bird flu and the little computer dude next door will be all like, “Sweet, I’m alpha male now.”
‘Course, as soon as he starts spreading his seed around, he’ll probably contract AIDS and die.
Happy thoughts everyone!
Comment by Grampa — April 5, 2006 @ 1:41 pm
Feeling better I see Mr. Darwin?
Comment by the insider — April 5, 2006 @ 1:46 pm
Your email sucks.
Comment by Grampa — April 5, 2006 @ 2:33 pm
We just had a server hiccup.
Shut up.
Comment by the insider — April 5, 2006 @ 2:36 pm
I love the baby shower thing–only in Springfield. It’s a Fox show waiting to happen.
Comment by moxie — April 6, 2006 @ 11:56 am
I’m back in action and ready to roll! (OMG! I’m actually seeing my caps whilst I type this?!?…Either you were able to finally get it fixed to work properly or you really broke something bad this time!)
Was offered a job today (yes I took it) and start next week. As for tomorrow, I have to go and pee in a cup 😐 Now that all of that is settled, I’m researching schools to see where it is I want to go to further my education.
LoL, yeah I know, I’m cruising for a bruising.
Comment by Shannon — April 6, 2006 @ 1:23 pm
Moxie… yeah, it’s just sad, lol.
Shannon: Hey now! LOL… someone pointed out the problem brat. 😛
Yay for the job— 🙂
Comment by the insider — April 6, 2006 @ 2:06 pm
What’s driving mode? Your phone beeps and cuts people off?
Comment by Moocow — April 6, 2006 @ 10:33 pm
hahaha
Apparently when you flip the phone open, it turns everything into a voice command. And when the phone rings, it automatically flips to speaker.
It’s very annoying.
Comment by the insider — April 6, 2006 @ 10:58 pm