The white collar drug?

[llanlad2]

Re: The white collar drug?

INTELLIGENCE-BOOSTING DRUGS MAKE CHILDREN QUESTION POINT OF EXAMS

After doubling their IQs with pharmaceuticals, many pupils have completely lost faith in the idea of working hard at school in the vain hope of landing a repetitive office job with some hateful corporation and then handing most of their earnings straight to the government.

Kyle Stephenson, a 13-year-old Reminyl user, said: "My parents' generation worked hard at school, got so-called 'jobs' and slaved for decades to achieve an onerous mortgage, matching stomach ulcers and a deep reservoir of poisonous resentment.

"Therefore I could continue to diligently study oxbow lakes and isosceles triangles in the hope of getting sufficiently decent grades to join them on the soulless hamster wheel of modern life, or I could find a nice tree and sit under it playing the bongos and toying with my genitals.

"Who amongst you would dare to call me 'time-waster?'"

Fifteen year-old Donna Sheridan was predicting five Bs and four Cs before her parents put her on a course of drugs that boosted her IQ to 296.

She said: "My former interests in Twilight and being fingered have been eroded by a growing awareness that humanity is operating on a broken template, the dogged pursuance of which will lead to its unavoidable annihilation.

"Simultaneously I have come to the realisation that most of my teachers have little more than a rudimentary grasp of their supposedly specialist subject, having fallen into their career with a mixture of apathy and grim resignation after their true ambitions were thwarted by misfortune or lack of talent.

"Hence I can't be arsed to go to my French listening test and there's fuck all you can do about it."

[flintlock]

Re: The white collar drug?

INTELLIGENCE-BOOSTING DRUGS MAKE CHILDREN QUESTION POINT OF EXAMS

I'm still laughing .

[ER59]

Re: The white collar drug?

The most successful men in the college environment tend to be the most effeminate, while ethnicities with large numbers of low testosterone populations also tend to have groups that function well within a highly structured indoctrination environment (i.e. East Asians).

The last time the US won the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest was 1997. Either US male students got a great boost in testosterone lately or Chinese and Russian college students are getting very good at intelligence doping. Whatever the case, the fact remains, the US students are unable to compete despite of widespread use of Ritalin. "Four Chinese teams and four Russian teams dominated the top 10 rankings of the 2010 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC). Shanghai Jiaotong University took first place followed by Moscow State University in second place, and National Taiwan University in third place. In fourth place was Ukraine’s Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University. Petrozavodsk State University finished in fifth place. The remaining top slots were won by Tsinghua University, Saratove State University, Poland’s University of Warsaw, St. Petersburg State University, and Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) University in tenth place."
http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-r...2010/icpc-2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM_Int...amming_Contest

[cindykimlisa]

Re: The white collar drug?

You are female. Prior to the advent of industrial education in the late 19th century, school pretty much consisted of the three "r"s. Boys learned as young children the basics of how to learn, and from there were able to let their passions drive them as they saw fit. Women are much more suited to the modern concept of education, i.e. sitting still and taking direction for most of the day. The most successful men in the college environment tend to be the most effeminate, while ethnicities with large numbers of low testosterone populations also tend to have groups that function well within a highly structured indoctrination environment (i.e. East Asians).

The effects of stimulants on men are not well understood, but there is a relationship between testosterone, the hormone that makes mammals male, and the cortisol/adrenaline axis. All stimulants to some degree influence this biological function. The structure of amphetamine for instance is very similar to adrenaline.

Anyway, there is a fairly significant amount of evidence that higher baseline levels of testosterone low tolerance for boredome, presumably to encourage pursuit of more immediately beneficial ends (food, sex, etc.). The "reward" for this drive appears to be adrenalin, which would indicate there are indeed adrenalin "junkies" of a sort. Stimulants, by either mimicing adrenalin (amphetamine) or initiating its release (cocaine) seem to play a role in this. Exercise also works very well.

In any event, man has been consuming intoxicants since the dawn of civilization. Thou shalt not judge.

LMAO

Check my profile and you shall see that I am a male - idiot!

Cindy

[raja]

Re: The white collar drug?

Nervousness and insomnia are the most common adverse reactions but are usually controlled by reducing dosage and omitting the drug in the afternoon or evening. Other reactions include hypersensitivity (including skin rash, urticaria, fever, arthralgia, exfoliative dermatitis, erythema multiforme with histopathological findings of necrotizing vasculitis, and thrombocytopenic purpura); anorexia; nausea; dizzines; palpitations; headache; dyskinesia; drowsiness; blood pressure and pulse changes, both up and down; tachycardia; angina; cardiac arrhythmia; abdominal pain; weight loss during prolonged therapy. There have been rare reports of Tourette's syndrome. Toxic psychosis has been reported. Although a definite causal relationship has not been established, the following have been reported in patients taking this drug: leukopenia and/or anemia; a few instances of scalp hair loss. In children, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, weight loss during prolonged therapy, insomnia, and tachycardia may occur more frequently; however, any of the other adverse reactions listed above may also occur.

Yep.

The body is homeostatic and its systems interdependent . . . you can't boost one function without decreasing another. In other words, there is a price to pay for all drugs. The greater the effect, the bigger the price :eek:

[flintlock]

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LMAO

Check my profile and you shall see that I am a male - idiot!

Cindy

"My name is Sue, how do you do?"

-Johnny Cash

[cjppjc]

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INTELLIGENCE-BOOSTING DRUGS MAKE CHILDREN QUESTION POINT OF EXAMS

Kyle Stephenson, a 13-year-old Reminyl user, said: "My parents' generation worked hard at school, got so-called 'jobs' and slaved for decades to achieve an onerous mortgage, matching stomach ulcers and a deep reservoir of poisonous resentment.

"Therefore I could continue to diligently study oxbow lakes and isosceles triangles in the hope of getting sufficiently decent grades to join them on the soulless hamster wheel of modern life, or I could find a nice tree and sit under it playing the bongos and toying with my genitals.

"Who amongst you would dare to call me 'time-waster?'"

What 13 year old talks like this?

[llanlad2]

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What 13 year old talks like this?

It was a joke! ie not real. Satire.

[Serge_Tomiko]

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The last time the US won the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest was 1997. Either US male students got a great boost in testosterone lately or Chinese and Russian college students are getting very good at intelligence doping. Whatever the case, the fact remains, the US students are unable to compete despite of widespread use of Ritalin. "Four Chinese teams and four Russian teams dominated the top 10 rankings of the 2010 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC). Shanghai Jiaotong University took first place followed by Moscow State University in second place, and National Taiwan University in third place. In fourth place was Ukraine’s Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University. Petrozavodsk State University finished in fifth place. The remaining top slots were won by Tsinghua University, Saratove State University, Poland’s University of Warsaw, St. Petersburg State University, and Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) University in tenth place."
http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-r...2010/icpc-2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM_Int...amming_Contest

I tend to subscribe to the theory that baseline intelligence is hereditary. Demographic shifts in the US over past 40 years, which most accelerated post-1990, have in fact resulted in a population with higher testosterone levels.

[Serge_Tomiko]

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LMAO

Check my profile and you shall see that I am a male - idiot!

Cindy

I may be many things, but I'm not quite sure that particular error qualifies me as an idiot.

[cjppjc]

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It was a joke! ie not real. Satire.

I took the link. Satire indeed.