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Gene Therapy Turns Slackers Into Workaholics
DrLudicrous writes "According to a recent Reuters article, scientists have been able to cause monkeys to stop procrastinating by blocking the development of a dopamine receptor in the brain. The net result- the monkeys turned into workaholics. An article has appeared in the online version of Nature. Apparently, monkeys, just like human beings, tend to slack off on tasks until the very last minute. They become quite adept at judging how long they have till they absolutely must complete these tasks. The original article appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. An additional blurb appears here courtesty of Science Blog." NIH has a press release.
In one of its numerous forgeries, CmdrTaco, cmdrtaco@slashdot.org, the
homosexual Romanian Slashdot administrator of "VA Software", lies:
>Everybody knows that I have written this, as I did with everything that
>comes from timothy, CowboyNeal, etc.
>
>If you can't see me, you can smell me - it's the shit I have instead of
>brains.
Actually the "long-haired forger" is telling the truth. Although the notorious
net.terrorist has managed in the past to put other users' names on his sleazy
forgeries, this time he was too stupid to futz with the article number to
cover up his filthy trace. This height of idiocy is not impressive for a
webmaster, even for a so severely mentally retarded one. Now everbody indeed
knows that he had written this. Nor does the fascist pervert from hell have
shit or anything else for brains. He is a Romanian, therefore, a totally
brainless, dickless, spineless, gutless asshole. Disgusting Romanian faggots
are full of shit in all the other places, but there's not even shit in their
craniums. But if a stupid Romanian can post forgeries, so can we the smart
Russians, and much better too.
It is obvious from the headers that the wily Romanian is responsible for this
and all the other smut and forgeries on Slashdot, as well as for cancelling
the BSD Is Dying/In Soviet Russia precious articles. But the Iron Guard
evasive tactics will not save him from swift retribution. A joint KGB / Secret
Service hit team has already been dispatched to the Ann Arbor all-male
whorehouse where the "long-haired prick" works and resides, with the orders to
chop off his testicles and deliver them to Moscow. Pickled in a glass jar,
they will decorate the GNAA prayer rug. That'll teach the deranged forger, if
the "Anally Injected Death Sentence" doesn't get him first. Let the filthy
queers eat shit and die from AIDS.
Until this "wet job" is done, the demented forger continues to pollute
Slashdot with his filthy mind's vaginal secretions, earning him the soubriqiet
"cunt for brains", together with the curse of monthly nasal bleedings. The
forger picks his nose and posts the findings to Slashdot. He bends the truth
over and forces his deviant sexual fantasies down innocent news readers'
throats. But the glorious Russian KGB will put an end to his obscene
perversions.
To defecate on this Romanian swine would be to give it more attention than it
deserves. We will instead defecate on all of Romania (paying especial
attention to the forger's ancestral graves), urinate on the forger (he'll
probably enjoy it), and fully expose him, his mother's cunt, and all other
Romanian swines for the subhuman mutants that they all are. Let them pack
their shit and go back to the zoo where they came from. That should be easy
for the "long-haired pervert", since he can hardly post anything to Slashdot
without a big Russian prick being up his ass.
For starters, and in response to the popular demand, here is the solution to
the "Intelligence Test" problems about the Official Romanian Fascist National
Insignia and Symbols, forged by the same "cmdrtaco@slashdot.org" on August
6th:
Official Romanian National Coat of Arms: Monkey Rimming Cossack's Ass
Official Romanian National Flower: Toilet Mildew
Official Romanian National Bird: Manure Fly
Official Romanian National Animal: Cockroach
Official Romanian National Food: Mamalyga (fermented polenta)
Official Romanian National Drink: Russian Sperm
Official Romanian National Sport: Sucking Big Russian Cocks
Official Romanian National Hobby: Pocket Billiards
Official Romanian National Art Form: Public Masturbation on Slashdot
The prejudice against and contempt of Romanian fascists so universally
expressed by Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, Jews, Gypsies, Hungarians,
Bulgarians, Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, Greeks, Albanians, Turks, Gagauzes, and
everyone else who comes
Wow, how insightful, there, Vernor. "Oh, you're making me work harder than my lazy ass would be default, so I view you as evil!" How fucking transparent. Is it any wonder how such bizarre concepts as god (good) and the devil (evil) come into existence? People are so single-minded.
I think of it differently. I think of it as a possible augmentation. People are augmented in all sorts of ways now... glasses/contacts, prosthetics, artificial joints, etc. I have been diagnosed as severely ADD informally by many doctors. I agree with you that that is "just the way I am". Unfortunately, that, along with my shortsightedness and lactose intolerance interfere with my lifestyle. The other two minor thinks I've mentioned are fixed. I add bacteria to my gut daily, and I wear glasses when I need to see distances. I think of a drug or gene therapy to help with procrastination/slackness/ADD/whatever as yet another augmentation to help me live my life. I run my own business, and there aren't enough hours in the day without me spending time on Slashdot or even get side tracked with work related stuff that doesn't need doing at the time. For me, something like this, or a drug, would help *tremendously*. Unfortunately, I haven't seen a doctor since I either don't (think that I) have the time, or I always forget, or I put it off [yes, I know... very ironic]. I happen to *want* to be able to work more. As hard as I try, most days I look back and ask myself, "what in the hell did you spend all day doing?" So I see it as just another fix to help us live better, fuller lives, more the way that we want to live them.