In times of great need I always defer to the Bard.

First kill all the lawyers.

/What was the question again?

Up the ante on reality shows. Bring back "You bet your Life".

The funny thing about this, it's actually right.

I say we vote on this and those who don't show up to vote make up the third (if not more)

Get rid of the brown ones.

Or simply have everyone on the planet line up and count off "I-2-3-1-2-3-1-2-3..."

Then you kill all the 3s.

DarkJohnson: The funny thing about this, it's actually right.

I say we vote on this and those who don't show up to vote make up the third (if not more)

everyone knows the elderly show up to vote more than any other group. We can't really maintain civilization with a bunch of old retirees.

I say we build soylent green factories. We reduce the population, create jobs and feed the poor.

"Congratulations! Enclosed is your ticket on Ark 'B!'"

A global, high stakes, rock-paper-scissor tournament.

Religious people first. They have somewhere else to be anyway.

DarkJohnson: The funny thing about this, it's actually right.

I say we vote on this and those who don't show up to vote make up the third (if not more)

sigh
the WORST part of this idea, which I like a lot, is that you need to take into account the people who voted for sarah palin/mccain.

you can HATE President Obama as much as you want, but you have to admit that he at least went to harvard and passed. EVEN if they used quotas and let him slide on grades.

compare this to palin, who, WTF ....

Easy, start with the person consuming the most resources and producing the most waste and work your way down the list.

/ start here ...

veedeevadeevoodee: [quickfacts.census.gov image 640x415]

/ start here ...

I'd start with Florida, then Texas, even though I live here. It's for the greater good.

Pfft.
We all know Africa will be the one to go.

simplicimus: veedeevadeevoodee: [quickfacts.census.gov image 640x415]

/ start here ...

I'd start with Florida, then Texas, even though I live here. It's for the greater good.

Unfortunately, we should probably do the whole Gulf Coast while we're at it, and I live here too.

But hey, hurricane season is around the corner, and this winter has been freakishly warm.

Sybarite: Easy, start with the person consuming the most resources and producing the most waste and work your way down the list.

so you are going to commit suicide now that you are done posting?
because that rule would include every person on the planet who owns a computer.

get back to use with your new rule which allows you to live, but kills 2 billion chinese/indians living in squalor

Immediately? Or can we just do it by dropping the birth rate? I'd think a virus causing sterility in about 50% of exposed females would also have about the same impact over the long term.

abb3w: Immediately? Or can we just do it by dropping the birth rate? I'd think a virus causing sterility in about 50% of exposed females would also have about the same impact over the long term.

Reminds me of that episode of Sliders... a virus that targeted cells with Y chromosomes. Most of the world's male population died and the society had no invitro fertilization technology. So the world became female-dominated and the remaining men were placed in special centers where they would fark all day to repopulate the planet.

I should keep this one on my radar, I have a feeling it's going to be true in a few years...

Scientists: 'Look, one-third of the human race has to die for civilization to be sustainable, so how do we want to do this?'

Death by ru-ru.

Double-oh Steven: veedeevadeevoodee: [quickfacts.census.gov image 640x415]

/ start here ...

And what exactly is your issue with the most educated, literate, and energy efficient state in the union, hmmm? I know we're ugly, but cut us some slack!

Because you need a decoder ring to drive there. "Densly Populated Area" on a road sign means 35 mph? I could have worded it better.

namatad: Sybarite: Easy, start with the person consuming the most resources and producing the most waste and work your way down the list.

so you are going to commit suicide now that you are done posting?
because that rule would include every person on the planet who owns a computer.

get back to use with your new rule which allows you to live, but kills 2 billion chinese/indians living in squalor


I'm just mocking the neo-Malthusian idea that the problem is too many brown people, when the truth is consumption dwarfs population as the main threat to the environment. Take carbon emissions. The wealthiest 7% of the planet produces 50% of the carbon emissions while the poorest 50% are responsible for just 7% of emissions. Virtually all of the 2 billion in population growth for the next 40 years will occur in the poorest 50% and will only raise their emission level from 7% to 11%. So, even if we achieved zero population growth today, it would have virtually no impact. The same is true across a wide range of issues related to consumption and waste. Sustaining the lifestyle of the average American uses about 9.5 hectares of land, for Germans that number is 4.2, the world average is 2.7, and for much of India and Africa (where most of the population growth will occur) it is below 1. If you have a child in America today, his or her environmental impact will be equivalent, across their lifespan, to four Chinese children, 55 Indian children, or 86 Nigerian children.

Double-oh Steven: simplicimus: Double-oh Steven: veedeevadeevoodee: [quickfacts.census.gov image 640x415]

/ start here ...

And what exactly is your issue with the most educated, literate, and energy efficient state in the union, hmmm? I know we're ugly, but cut us some slack!

Because you need a decoder ring to drive there. "Densly Populated Area" on a road sign means 35 mph? I could have worded it better.

It's deliberate to keep out the riff-raff.

Sure, and the exit from Boston airport to the tunnel is a Darwinian experiment. If you pass that test, there's always route 9 to weed out the weak.

houginator: 3 step plan. Have a lottery, give 2/3 of the people tickets that allow them to live. Have a waiting period where the people who got losing tickets can petition one of the winners to trade tickets with them. For example, if you got a winning ticket and Steven Hawking got a losing ticket you could trade yours with him because you think he would make a better contribution to the human race. At the end of the waiting period, instead of killing the one third with losing tickets, have a second surprise lottery and exempt all the people who were willing to give their lives up for someone else and the people they deemed important enought to die for. (Also kill all the people involved in running the lottery by default, because they would have too much of an incentive to game the system).

I've got a better idea: Random nuke strikes.