a team with a purpose

[SCpoloRicker]

I.. just..

*shakes head*

/not for the pun, either

[pachytriton]

If proceeds from this stuff go towards charity, I'll defineately grab some

[usagi_tetsu]

Illegitimi non carborundorum - don't let the bastards grind you down. You can either let what life has dealt drag you down into despair, or turn around and kick him (as Cartman would say) right square in the nuts. Good job, bud, good luck to you, and happy flinging!

[Mescalito]

Um... Overpopulation is not a problem. We could fit everyone in the world in their own 100'x100' space in a square with sides as long as the distance from New York to Chicago. Nevermind the fact that you seem to think the earth somehow knows there are too many of us and sends hurricanes to wipe us out. Disease and natural disaster have never really been an effective population check, and they never will be. So yeah, you are going to get flamed because you've got nothing valuable to say and you make that pretty damn clear. Or perhaps you didn't have the capability to think that far ahead.

I dont even know where to start. but ill give it a stab in the dark.

"Over population is not a problem."

Dude think outside of your own life and into the lives of others. There are families in china DROWNING thier own children because they wont carry on the family name... The over population there is so rampant that they only allow one child per household... How many siblings do you have? Why werent you the 2nd sibling to a family in china.... China's just the first.

"We could fit everyone in the world in their own 100'x100' space in a square with sides as long as the distance from New York to Chicago."

I would really like to see this... You ever seen a mosh pit a good slipknot show? your "idea" would make a slipknot moshpit look like a preschool extracurricular activity. You have obviously messed up your figures or twisted the words of someone MUCH more inltellegent then you.

" Disease and natural disaster have never really been an effective population check, and they never will be"

Durrr. Bubonic Plague... Ebola ziare, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, MDR Tuberculosis, THE LIST WILL GO ON... those who FORGET history are DOOMED to repeat it...

You are comfortable in your life and your brain will tell you its going to continue for many years in some sort of similar fasion. But what you dont know is that your brain is trying to kill you. Well.. IF I was you brain Id be tring to kill you.. Ignorance like yours degrades the gene pool of humanity and should be eradicated

If you call that flaming... I got a "torch tosser" you need to borrow.... hell I'll make you your own for a price...


____NOTE TO ALL AO READERS_____

If you take my previous words as some sort of personal attack on anyone.. thats just because you feel guilty about being a burden on the ground you tread on. Its not my intention to piss anyone off or create foes. It IS my intention to make people think about the crap they never will even consider. Im not worshiping disease. Im telling you it will NEVER go away. You expect a pill you can swollow or a sugery you can undergo to save your life. Well **** you and your lazy ***. GET UP AND DO SOMETHING LIKE THE HOMEBOY HERE WHO WE ARE TRYING READING ABOUT.

[skriptal]

I think that this is a great idea. Ill support them. Also I found this article which states that they would be using egos,

http://www.68caliber.com/news/tournament/nppl/story041265.php

Still I hope this team does well.

[Lohman446]

Sure i may get flamed for this... BUT diseases are a way that nature controlls the population of the planet... Has anyone ever heard of Carrying capacity? We live in a defined amount of space, with and exponentially expanding population... more kids making more kids... The earth can only support so much life... as human cities expand and expel indeginous flora and fauna out of their natural habitat, nature will fight back... IE katrina, tsunamis, animal attacks and diseases wrought from "contaminated animals".. what ever the form... nature is getting pissed. Sit back and think a minute about how your grand children's grand children's world will be, if they have a world to live in at all... But then again most people dont have the capability to think that far ahead...

I assume by your statement then that you are fully capable of surviving if dropped in the middle of the wilderness with zero technology right? No glasses/contacts (or lasik), no dental work ever, no broken bones or anything that you had to see a physician for, no infections that you had to take anti-biotics for. No shots for the major diseases that have been pretty well eradicated in the US by vacination? Let's go further, you directly produce all your needs for life, you don't need to go buy food, shelter, electricity, heat, etc. Your independent of society?

I expect the answer is no. Human kind lives in society, and one of the things about this society (and it happens in some animal groups as well) is we take care of our sick and ourselves. Its part of the fabric of society, its why we have been able to advance to where we are. The person making the next vaccine is given the time to dedicate to such a cause because others are able to provide him/her with the necessities of life. Same with the person working in a factory that produces any of the great industrial things we have today.

Your argument is egocentric... you have not applied it fully to yourself, or anything outside of a situation you have not considered. Its not just the curing / coping with of diseases that allows our population to expand.

Then again, most people don't have the capacity to fully understand the ramifications of an argument such as yours before making it.

/Don't think your better than most people
//Most people aren't

[ThePixelGuru]

Hmm. I would respond to Mescalito's attack on me, but hey, I don't need to bother with it. There's no one worth convincing that isn't convinced already. Besides, Lohman446's got it covered.

[pachytriton]

Another useful post for lohman!