[ale] China chooses FreeBSD as basis for secure OS

[Lightner, Jeff]

Or maybe geeks just can't get laid.  :-)

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Kinney
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 2:40 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] China chooses FreeBSD as basis for secure OS

 

my bias in my statement was geared ONLY for "in the US". 

In more agricultural environments, higher child count is the norm. This
is related to the higher child mortality rates.

In the US, the more a parent team knows, the less likely they are to
have an abundance of children. They know what is involved and are wisely
reluctant to shoulder that burden.

Whereas the lower end of the education scale has people who have trailer
parks full of kids because they don't know any better. 

It's really more of a cultural thing than an IQ thing. People tend to
clump into similar social groups. It's a rare thing to see
intelligentsia arise from a trailer park (but it _does_ happen - I've
seen it). But the combined drive for high intellectual achievement
coupled with the drive for high birth rate is far less common.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Joe Knapka <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:

Perhaps, but correlation is not causation.  My SO lived in a
third-world country for a decade, where the level of education was
generally low and families tended to be be larger than we're used to
here.  But she says she didn't know a single family that hadn't lost
at least one child. In this case it seems obvious (which doesn't ==
"is true") that larger families are simply a response to higher
mortality, rather than anything to do with parental education. (Of
course the overall level of education in that society probably has
something to do with higher child mortality, but that's a distinct
issue.)

-- JK



On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Not quite. Intelligence is selected for but stupid breeds faster and
more
> often.
>
> Higher educated families have a strong tendency towards fewer
children.
> Larger families are associated with lower education.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Charles Shapiro
<hooterpincher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Therefor, intelligence is selected against.  Hmm.
>>
>> -- CHS
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Brian Stanaland
<brian at stanaland.org>
>> wrote:
>> > For the eventual outcome of that just watch Idiocracy.
>> >
>> > --Brian
>> >
>> > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Lightner, Jeff
<jlightner at water.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Birth is the problem.   Far more stupid people procreate than
>> >> intelligent ones.
>> >>
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