Giant Gobs of Crazy and the EFCA

[Jaedar]

I think Russia has the biggest landmass of them all.. its just too cold and too communist.

Yes because communists are so evil, they would NEVER EVER sell food to the rest of the world...
You're right on the cold part though.

[DDL]

We ARE still in hypothetical land anyway, ffs.

Saying "oh but India would do it badly, coz they're all dirty and want to kill pakistan and stuff" is not only borderline racist, it's completely pointless. Everyone knows "we could make enough food to feed the world using india" is not a SERIOUS suggestion. It's a hypothetical conjecture, treating the human population as 'requires X amount of food', and the world as 'contains Y amount of arable land', and then working out how much Y could provide X, which turns out to be about half the size of india. It might've been Belgium. Or Brazil. Or Belize, ffs. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH INDIA, other than it fits the final calculation nicely and everyone's heard of it.

There are a ton of these sorts of things: hypothetical situations where, given complete freedom, most of the worlds more pressing problems could be solved fairly quickly. None of them will ever happen because people ARE TOO GODDAMN PAROCHIAL, and TOO GODDAMN STUPID.


Incidentally, I would make an awesome supreme ruler. Terrifying and massively massively cruel, but awesome.

[bobby 55]

Well DDL you'd get my vote
Since we are in hypothetical land, what about those mega food producing/controlling computers in I,Robot[the book].What was that stuff?Fungi or some sort of protein.

[Jaedar]

Incidentally, I would make an awesome supreme ruler. Terrifying and massively massively cruel, but awesome.

I'd vote for you

There are a ton of these sorts of things: hypothetical situations where, given complete freedom, most of the worlds more pressing problems could be solved fairly quickly. None of them will ever happen because people ARE TOO GODDAMN PAROCHIAL, and TOO GODDAMN STUPID.

* The major problem — one of the major problems, for there are several — one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

[Jonas]

You guys should hear his musings about killing babies or his stance on weaponising haemorrhagic peptides, I bet that would make you reconsider your vote.

[bobby 55]

You guys should hear his musings about killing babies or his stance on weaponising haemorrhagic peptides, I bet that would make you reconsider your vote.

BLOODY hell. lol. sorry i couldn't pass up that opportunity

[Jaedar]

You guys should hear his musings about killing babies or his stance on weaponising haemorrhagic peptides, I bet that would make you reconsider your vote.

BLOODY hell. lol. sorry i couldn't pass up that opportunity

I hear killing babies is a cure for cancer.

[Jcelios]

Yes because communists are so evil, they would NEVER EVER sell food to the rest of the world...
You're right on the cold part though.

But communists have a really, really, REALLY bad history with running farms properly.

Well DDL you'd get my vote
Since we are in hypothetical land, what about those mega food producing/controlling computers in I,Robot[the book].What was that stuff?Fungi or some sort of protein.

IT WAS PEOPL- oh wait wrong story.

Although I'm sure DDL would be in favor of Soylent Green. (I hear the DX devs ate it on pizza)

[bobby 55]

Soylent Green,i saw the so so movie, imo, hope the book was better as i have yet to read it

[DDL]

The problem with rendering dead people into food is that..it's not actually terribly efficient. Well, and people themselves aren't terribly efficient anyway (as engines for turning food into useful work).

I've not looked at it too closely, but I suspect you'd be better off rendering people into fertiliser and using it to feed plants. Probably avoid a lot of ethical hassle that way too.

Anyway, I'll start gathering my campaign warchest funds together and I'll see what I can do.

"Vote DDL for lowered booze tax and forced sterilization of chavs"

[bobby 55]

Lower booze tax.....yay! Now if you could curb the spiralling costs of the utilities in Brisbane,I'd push for you being supreme ruler of the universe

[Xesum]

I'd vote DDL if I was old enough.

[chris the cynic]

I've not looked at it too closely, but I suspect you'd be better off rendering people into fertiliser and using it to feed plants.

The grass is always greener in the cemetery?

[Xesum]

I've not looked at it too closely, but I suspect you'd be better off rendering people into fertiliser and using it to feed plants.

The grass is always greener in the cemetery?

Oddly it is.

[chris the cynic]

While that is true, around here people are buried in such a way (due to health concerns) that I doubt anyone's decomposing loved ones are truly responsible. More likely the grass is just well taken care of.