Superbug

Have a head ache? No problem! Just take a pill! 

Slight cold? Take the arbitrary cold tablet.

This is the birth of the super bug. It hides and breeds. Antibodies swarm around it and they are powerless. Antibiotics stream and attack it fiercely. Not a scrape on it. It floats around undeterred. Multiplies unquestioned. Destroys its host. But as far as it's concerned, it got there with help and it's just surviving. Like homo erectus  killed the lions that attacked their camp, and monkeys scratch and bite you if you try to steal their young ones.

Patient walks into a clinic with a simple incurable common cold. Doctor pushes antibiotic to convince patient he's done something. Naive patient unwittingly takes in and feels better', a.k.a. , Placebo effect. Virii get exposure to weak antibiotics and eventually develop immunity. Grows stronger. 

It's not speculation anymore. It's a fact of life. Really. Google it if you don't believe me. Eventually, we are going to have serious problems. When fevers can kill and colds incapacitate. Think about it. Some day, patients who are actually ill won't get treatment.

Getting to the top

So, I was thinking about people and how smart they can be and how each person decides his own destiny and all that sort of related gibberish. Everyone does this some time or the other.

I was thinking, hmm, everyone is born with some inner latent ability/talent. Some persons are just smart, and some are just dumb, but most are in between! This is obviously demonstrated by a normal curve! Let's call this the inner ability everybody has the Latent Factor(L). 

Also, not only does it matter that a person has a high L, it also matters how much effort they put into their lives. Let's call this the Effort Factor(E). As a sweeping generalization(a logical fallacy I agree), we'll assume that this variable also has normal distribution. 

So from these two variables, a person's Quality Product(Q), or how good a person is in general at something is given by

Q = E x L

Now, L is generally a constant, but E isn't.   An overall distribution for a population would would like this...(spare the inaccuracies, please)

But the thing is, the top percent on the L graph don't have to be top 10% in the E graph. Or just put, someone with an L of 0.5, the worldwide average, can easily have as much Q as someone with a high L(say,1), simply because of the fact that most people have a Q of around 1/2!!  Of course, now the question becomes, how hard is it to get a high E, to sufficiently bump up your Quality Product to super-average levels? Just work hard I guess! 

4 reasons why Facebook sucks

1) Every time I do ANYTHING, I'm interrupted by the page, which takes frikkin' forever to load, that tells me to send some shitty invite to all my friends.
2) Because of the above, I get about 20 invitations to totally arbitrary things from sending 'drinks' and 'gifts' and other quizzes about movies totally unheard of!
3) Again, because of the above two, the supposedly most important part of social whatevering - the messaging, done by a unique tool called The Wall in Facebook, comes at the end of a 10,000,000 pixel long page. That's roughly about 'Oh shit, I'm closing this window' long.
4) It's just like windows - allow some blasted noobs to write 'apps' for you, 'Face' a big load of annoying bugs and totally unusable interfaces.