How awesome would that be? On closer inspect, it is a defunct battle station of unknown origins.

We would be there in a decade, easy.

Gamregate is, and always has been, a hate group.
http://goo.gl/MKIfXX

Nope, it is not. Not by any stretch. Gamergate is based around made up 'issues' as an excuse to attack people who point out the rampant sexism.
Ganmergate is a bunch of people who realize the industry is changing and they don't like change.
They use propaganda, lies, and threats to push an ideological agenda.
They are a hate group.

The VAT was implemented to tax consumption, not replace income tax.

The Fair tax as been torn apart many times. In fact, I'm surprised to see it mentioned again on /.
IN short, the Fair Tax would destroy the middle class with any practical implementation.

It needs to be both.
The most excess consumption of the rich will be far less then their capital growth; which leads to a fewer and fewer people having wealth.
The minimal consumption on the poor will still be more then there wealth growth.
You need to tax where the money is.

"a recently graduated yet unemployed due to lack of experience computer programmer"
They are either in the wrong area, or have no motivation. It is an in demand field.

IN this case? the mean smarter. They aren't talking about id something is intelligent.

Those are separate things. You can also have smart and well adjusted people.

We did do the least expensive o first. What? you think changing society would be cheap?
First, you need to get people to realize that no, they don't actually instinctively know whats best for their child, and yes we all should pool are knowledge about children together.
Right now we live in a 'She is my child, therefor I know everything that's best for her' mentality that is hurts children and society.

You are under the delusion there is some sort of balance.. With genetic selection you can max them all out.*

*their potential, yada yad, etc . . .

It will go into the home recycler and energy machine a bunch of smart people invented.

Of course natural selection is working, there is just fewer ways to be selected out. I.e. the pressure has changed.

"we pretty much switched natural selection off.."
no. We just changes the pressure.

" seeing as look are very much dependent on the current fashion"
there are several things that are timeless, and the ones that aren't are social.
about 6 feet, strong and athletic is pretty much always in style.
People are now attracted to fat people? eat more doughnuts. Thin? don't eat doughnuts
Muscular? Lift more doughnuts.(not to your mouth) Party and skinny? eat doughnuts made with heroine.

Man I'm craving doughnuts.

Welcome to reality.
Also: Compared nest to the rest of the universe, you are so small as to statistically not even exist.
Also: You are very likely to die someday.

Maybe you should focus on other things then the fact we are just a sack of chemicals walking around for a bit. Like climbing, or building, or killing spys in TF2*

*The most noble and worthy cause. F'n OP spys.