Off-topic: Damn! I just used my last mod point! I would mod you Overrated just to prove that I really DON'T have a penis :p

Truthfully, I totally agree with you on the marijuana culture issue - at least within the sphere of universities, which is where most of us Slashdotters probably encounter it. However, it does depend on where you are - sometimes the people selling marijuana DO also sell harder drugs, too (my boyfriend worked in Hawaii for a while, the latter was the case there).

This is news? I thought that this idea has been around for a while, or at least it was the logical conclusion of having a multiverse. A livable universe doesn't exist "just for us," it just so happens that out of all of them, at least one of them would end up hospitable. Kind of like planets and solar systems.

In my case, I think it's the Strong Myopic Principle. I'd look for the other life-forms, but...where are my glasses?!