The fact that the brave keep surviving through out every generation is that they breed when very young, so being killed in battle doesn't dwindle the bold population. These are the guys that are screwing every hole in sight. Raping and pilging every village like the Genghis Khans before them. Being brave also applies to these hoodlums too.
If anything its the cowards that are dwindling.
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My wife bought me an Ann talking doll for Christmas (to go along with the 'W' talking doll from the year before). I may put them on my desk at work, just to piss off the libs.
-- Keith
Oh please do; I promise not to hurt you.
John
Don't listen to him, W., he has corn soaked in lye, deliberately abuses MOSFETs to destruction, forces innocent junctions into avalanche at will and produces macabre jars of thick yellow INSECT JUICE.
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He-he-hoo-hoo-ha-ha! And I apply kilovolts to tiny 0603 resistors until they die in a puff of smoke! I run GaAs fets at 16 volts! I sneer at safe operating areas! I bolt transistors directly to anodized heatsinks! If Marlon Brando had been an engineer, he'd be me! Or I'd be him! Whatever.
That said, I think I'll go bake some brownies. The Joy of Cooking recipe is pretty good, with pecans.
John
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----------------- Nope, you missed it, they get to stick around and make babies. The thrill-seekers die young, if they die too young to breed, then they don't get to. Instead it's a dominant/recessive gene pair, like brown and blue eyes, so that even the timid can have a few brave children. Steve
Where the hell is he? I missed him something fierce.
Mark L. Fergerson
Never mind:
Mark L. Fergerson
Dunno, never heard it called that. It's just Fried Grits to us. My wife (from Boston) and my kid (from California) and my bird (from Brazil, maybe) all like grits, plain and fried. The cat doesn't care for it.
John
-- Here's a trick: Mix a little honey into cooked grits and Voila! It tastes just like Cream of Wheat. Joke: Did you hear that Buckwheat from Our Gang became Muslim? Now he wants to be called Karim O' Wheat!
-- Think so? Take a look in the yellow pages under "Warriors" and see what you find, and then look under "Attorneys".
-- If you recall it being called "mush", then you're probably thinking about cornmeal mush or polenta.
Who the hell is Al Farken? I'm guessing this topic is being directed to our US audience..
This is not a dna thing, it's society that sets up the rules that lets the cowards survive. In the jungle it's survival of the fittest.
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Al Franken is a hippy dippy US comedian from the 1970s.
Like most of the folks in the US entertainment industry, he forgot that he wasn't an expert at anything, but rather just played the role.
Al Franken is a hyper liberal so, he has decided to play the part of "liberal talk show host" to counter all of the hyper conservative talk show hosts in the us radio market.
-Chuck Harris
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A leftist (or "liberal") US comedian and writer. My earliest recollection of him was as a writer for the original Saturday Night Live US TV comedy show. He also had some minor parts in skits on the show and did a 2-man standup-comic act with another writer as Franken and Davis. He came again into prominence when he wrote a rebuttal to Rush Limbaugh (a US "conservative" radio comedian) a few years back entitled _Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot_. Last year he had another best-seller abour Fox TV and other "conservative" news programming "Fair and Balanced". Fox bortively sued over the book's title ("Fair and Balanced" is part of their advertising slogan) and gave Franken the gift of pushing his book to the top of the best-seller lists before it was released (which says something about "best-seller" lists).
Humans are social critters, even in the jungle. We are weak, naked, slow, un-armed and un-armored, and we win by forming tribes who include specialists. Warriors are a necessary minority of any tribe that successfully combats its most deadly enemies, other tribes.
It *is* a DNA thing.
John
Fitness involves the capacity to work out whether a contemplated action is brave or merely foolhardy, and the sense to work out whether the rewards are worth the risk. The foolish and the foolhardy do tend to describe the more perceptive as cowards, while the proper use of the word should be confined to those who can't nerve themselves to take even a small risk for a likely profit.
---------- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
Civilization is a mere 3000 years old, compared to how long man has been in existence iirc ~500,000 years, society hasn't been around long enough to have any effect on dna, merely a wink. we are still influenced by our cave man needs.
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Tribal organization far predated "civilization"; there's lots of archealogical evidence for that. Even cavemen had social needs. Lions hunt in packs, and elephants live and survive in herds. Chimps are social creatures, and their reproductive success is dominated by social dynamics.
Consider the worker bee, assigned to the role of soldier. She will fight to the death to defend the hive, even though the probablity of her ever breeding is essentially zero. The DNA she is defending isn't even in her own body. Social creatures behave that way, even if they're not "civilized."
John
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