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You can still watch this today if you're making the trip to Disney World in Florida. Fantasmic is shown every night at Disney-MGM Studios and yes, they use the "projection on water" technique a lot...very cool stuff. By turning off the stage lights they maximize the brightness of the display -- I was pretty impressed with the image quality.

Notice how we have gone from a War on Terror (where we didn't find Osama or even put an end to the Taliban, or stop terror)

Of course you remember that the current US policy is to ignore bin Laden? "The goal has never been to get bin Laden." It's funny how these things change over time.

We're at war

No, we're not. Congress has not declared war as required by the Constitution with which you wipe your ass. Just because Bush says something doesn't mean it's true.

and our economy is struggling (due in no small part to the Clinton administration's trade policies, by the way).

Can you Far-Right Troglodites please do me a favor? Huh? Please? GET THE FUCK OVER BILL CLINTON. Your pathetic attempt to drive him out of office over a blowjob failed and in any case he's not been President since January 20, 2001. That's more then THREE YEARS AGO. Three years in which pResident Bush has seen our economy bleed out millions of jobs, failed to catch Osama bin Laden, helped Atorney General Ashcroft rape our civil liberties in the name of "security" and gotten us into a totally pointless war in Iraq. But that's all somehow Bill and Hillary's fault, right?? And now Bush is starting up with Iran. Hell's bells!!

The government is spending necessary funds on defense and reconstruction, and investing in capital growth to get us out of this downturn.

"Investing in capital growth?!" Oh you mean like the trillion-dollar federal deficit we're piling up faster than a gambling addict using his credit card?! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!! Pull the other one, it's got bells on it!!

Meanwhile you're suggesting that the Congress put in mandatory appropriations for bullshit man-on-the-moon programs, and Bush is the one who's spending the country into bankruptcy?

Yes. He is. See above, or most any reputible news source aside from the Moonie-run Washington Times or Faux Newz.

And as for going back into space being "bullshit," I really hope that you're young right now. That way you can live a nice long time in a declining superpower as it slowly bleeds itself white fighting meaningless imperial brushfire wars all around the world while the Chinese colonize space and exploit it's resources, leaving us in the dust just as the rising United States left the old British Empire in the dust, so long ago. Didn't the Brits own full 1/2 the planet at one time, back in the 19th Century? Bet they never would have believed that it would end the way it did for them either, back at the dawn of the 20th.

Fuck you, man. Fuck you and all the left-wing nutjobs like you. You wouldn't recognize fiscal responsibility if you tripped over it.

And YOU wouldn't recognize long-term national priorities either, blinded as you are by fear and hatred. Fool.

Older folk aren't going to go for it, which leaves the younger folk, who aren't necessarily going to have enough cash.

Even counting only US younger folk, the younger folk represent a spending power larger than a pretty decent chuck of the African continent. Well, I don't know about African economies actually, but teenager's influenced spending power is about $520 billion. Anually.

With handset subsidies being what they are in many places, the difference between a very uncool phone and a very cool phone may only be a few bucks up front (of course, you'll pay for it in monthly charges later..) Smart kids will negotiate a good deal with their parents, and get the cool phone.

Nokia already is in the business of launching cooler and cooler phones (which under the skin are about 100% identical as far as hardware is concerned). And they're doing well at it. The prevailing "hip" model "everyone" has changes at least once a year, after which you'll only see older folk walking around with them, fumbling to get to grips with having to push the green button for it to actually dial the number you just entered..

Just in case you want to find out just how nasty DU can be, see this story on ABC's website

According to the article, AOL agrees to advertise Gamecube games by "spotlight[ing Nintendo products] on key AOL and AOL Time Warner websites". In return, Nintendo bundles more AOL coasters and agrees to feature AOL as their ISP of choice for internet games they don't plan to develop. We all remember Nintendo reporting that, unlike Sony and Microsoft, "We still don't see online gaming as a mass-market thing".

The same IGN press release announcing the partnership even rushes to point out that "this does not indicate the unveiling of a new online gaming approach from Nintendo. Nor does it signify that we have changed our position on the current business viability in the online console gaming field." Unless I'm missing something here, sounds an awful like saying "Yep, we'll use you if we ever want to go online, but we don't, so we won't."

Disney owns five record companies.

Disney also owns ABC and ESPN (plus probably some others I'm not aware of).

It's not just that the media will side with the record companies, but that the record companies and the media are, for the most part, one and the same.

Disney owns five record companies.

Disney also owns ABC and ESPN (plus probably some others I'm not aware of).

It's not just that the media will side with the record companies, but that the record companies and the media are, for the most part, one and the same.

Disney owns five record companies.

Disney also owns ABC and ESPN (plus probably some others I'm not aware of).

It's not just that the media will side with the record companies, but that the record companies and the media are, for the most part, one and the same.

No this is for real these cop down in shelbyville kentuck believe that their station house is haunted. Check out the story at ABCnews.

That's roughly 6,000 to 11,000 elephants.

You mean 0.03 to 0.055 fluffy cumulous units or 65 to 120 little clouds? This is a gross underestimation I think. Has to be rather around 20 fluffies I feel. Can a NASA engineer appove these numbers?

(of course the way Bill Gates manages Microsoft often reminds me of Scientology, but that's a separate topic ;-)

You put a smiley in for humor, but there is nothing funny about the Scientologist software in Windows.

I forgot to mention in my previous reply; Hitler didn't invent anti-Semitism. It preceded him by a huge amount of time, and the sad truth of the matter is if he didn't have expansionist tendencies, he could have pretty much done whatever he wanted to the Jewish population in Germany. The leadership of the US, the UK and France really didn't seem to mind it; it certainly wasn't the reason the UK and France declared war on Germany. Am I saying that his domestic policy was correct? Not at all, I think he was an idiot; all I'm saying is that he did what a fairly large number of people at that time were thinking about doing, and if Hitler hadn't come to power and done it, maybe some other idiot in some other country would have gotten the "brilliant" idea. Imagine if that country had been the US. The US had some nasty programs at the time including an "eugenics" program and did a lot of unethical things, so you never know what would have developed over time if Hitler hadn't taken things to the extreme and inadvertently ended anti-Semitism.

"America has not yet seen what an intelligent, methodical sharpshooter can cause, even though I know dozens of people like myself."

"After a series of shooting terrorized the capital area for weeks ... authorities have linked them to 19 shootings, including 13 deaths"

On Aug. 1, 1966, the tower was like a lofty deer blind for Whitman, enabling him to mow down pedestrians blocks away and lay siege to the campus area for 90 minutes before he was slain in a shootout on the deck by Austin police. Unnoticed, in an era of lax security when mass murder was still a rarity, he had managed to take a foot locker full of armaments onto the deck, including three rifles and 700 rounds of ammunition.

No, it is time to have exams for parenting eligibility. Seriously. There was a recent case that also blamed games for some shootout.

Never do the articles even MENTION how the f**k those kids got the guns! A 14 year old child with an access to loaded shotgun is clearly a problem but not a one caused by video games.

What are the parents going to blame if the violent games are banned? Oh, right, movies.

If Libby brought me one moment of joy, I might agree. As it stands, however, I can't get enough of the SWK remixes. There sometime brillant in the original SWK video. The stuff AFV is made of. God bless you Bob Saget.

Separate cargo and crew are exactly what we need for space missions in the next few decades.

The cargo can fly on a Delta-2 rocket. The crew can take a Ford Expedition from Cape Canaveral to the NASA pavillion at Walt Disney World.

There, they can conduct all their orbital duties in complete safety, while being more accessible to the admiring public than ever before!

(Oops, maybe Disney isn't that safe after all...)

Eunuchs, Already Under Suspicion for Penile Theft

You are blinded by partisanship.

It was the BUSH campaign that sued - to STOP the vote counting that the local election boards had started.

Bush sued to force compliance with existing Florida laws. If Gore was really interested in the most accurate count, he would have been fighting for a statewide recount instead of singling out 4 heavily democratic counties.

The only "unequal" treatment was the counties that were heavily republican were counting illegal absentee ballots! These were supposedly "military" so they were counted even when it was clear they were filled out after the election!

That is pure fiction. Perhaps you are confusing this with the republicans completing some unfinished ballot applications prior to the election? But that was not illegal, and the lawsuit was dismissed.

This is just factually false! Gore won any recount with all counties.

Wrong. The statewide recount that was stopped by the supreme court would have given Bush a 493 vote win. Al Gore's 4 county strategy would have also ended in a Bush win.

And he, of course, won massively if the 20,000 ballots that were thrown out were counted.

Uh huh. If that helps you sleep at night, go ahead and believe it.

This sucks about as much as the end of Jeepers Creepers 2 where all the people except the hot chick die.

Mod this guy up, he'll save 106 minutes of your life.

Would a person be worth as much if his body were reduced to raw materials?

You might be surprised.

Wrong! ... Since an office file opener could be used to open your own documents, or documents that others want you to open, there exists a substantial non-infringing use, so the software would not be a circumvention device.

Yes, he is partly wrong, but so are you. It may be true that the circumvention device clauses are satisfied. Unfortunately, we don't have to look far to see how companies and projects that fit that exception are still prosecuted/persecuted and even killed.

This would be a good target for a bunch of SLAPP suits against the developers -- if they chose to implement it. The potential gain for Microsoft and others ("We bankrupted 30 contributers to OpenOffice for DMCA violations. We're sending you a DMCA notice. You wanna be bankrupt next?") far outweighs their potential cost ("We paid $250,000,000 in the cases we lost, but it's just an investment for product lock-in and extra FUD against developers.") .

Just being on the right side of the law does not mean that you will survive a massive legal attack from a multi-billion dollar company. Anti-SLAPP laws are in effect in most states but the DMCA altered the USC, which is the federal law, so those state laws could be carefully avoided.

Examples:

• DeCSS (multiple cases, some still in appeal)
• kazaa (in court and dying)
• napster (dead)
• CopyWrite (alive, after expensive years in court and an expensive appeal)
• Lessig about Fox fair use problems, MyMP3, Napster (in court & private settlements, dead, dead)
• DRM Conference transcrpt (discusses dead & dying, but legal, projects)
• Embedded fonts (alive, but at a big cost and avoidance of court)
• A student's paper with summaries of other cases (United States v. Sklyarov, Lexmark v. Static Control Components , Felton v. Recording Industry Ass'n of America) and several interesting hypothetical physical-world comparisons to the law (locking keys out of your car == loss of ownership of car until you present the Automobile Protection Assocaition with a proper court orders allowing you to jimmy the lock).

The unfortunate fact is that just because it is legal, and even if it is right, both StarOffice (Sun) and the contributors to OpenOffice (including Sun) could both face deadly lawsuits from Microsoft if they attempt compatability.

Strategic lawsuits (gray-area, predatory lawsuits), "death by lawsuit", and even Google's lists of Allegedly Unethical Firms, Corporate Accountability, and corporate criminals show how corporations are attacking and killing projects, even when the projects or public participation are the right and legal thing.

So while you are right that such a project would be legal, you are wrong in your implied statement that it would be a safe thing to do.

frob

Now really.. if we can't sort things into categories, what are we going to do? Hell, even Magic is science.

1. Microsoft doesn't use it for its own products. If .NET is so good, why? If someone said, "I would never eat this, but here is some for you", would you take what was offered?
2. Programs written in .NET are more easily decompiled. If you discover and implement an especially good algorithm, others may be able to see what you did. Maybe that is the reason for number 1, above.
3. All the tools are proprietary. The programmer and his employer become like dogs on a leash. Their fortunes are tied to the management decisions of the proprietary vendor. Computer company managements often make sink-the-company decisions; consider the .com self-destruction, for example. When your company uses proprietary tools, your company is dependent on the lifestyle of the proprietary vendor's management, the vendor's ability to hire and keep good people, the vendor's financial decisions, and the vendor's estimation of whether they want to invest more in the tools you are using.
4. My understanding is that the license agreement for .NET prevents a company from using .NET to compete with Microsoft in some areas. But how does a company know if software it develops will eventually compete with Microsoft?

1. Microsoft Windows: Insecure by Design
   The mainstream media is starting to realize that Microsoft products are especially insecure.
2. (PDF file): The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) urges the Department of Homeland Security to stop using insecure (Microsoft) products.
   The computer industry attempts to educate those in government about the insecurity of Microsoft software.
3. Stupid Microsoft Tricks -- Why the Richest Company on Earth Feels it Needs to Cheat
   A famous industry columnist exposes an example of Microsoft's apparent dishonesty. When ordered by a court to produce all its email records concerning a company that alleges theft by Microsoft, there was a 35-week gap.

We could eliminate every violent medium on this planet, and it would not eliminate violence, because the violence starts with *us*. We're the ones who put the violence in there in the first place, so we're where the solutions have to start.

I agree completely.

This suggests, however, that the solution to the problem of violent children isn't as simple as replacing guns with walkie talkies. What you're suggesting is that the solution is downright elusive. To find it, one may even need patience, and not just the kind of patience required to wait through a long line at the supermarket.

Personally I believe there is no solution to the problem. What we are facing when we examine violence in children is part of the foundation supporting human nature itself. If there were a solution, the path to finding it would lead us to places where someone who actually thinks our entertainment industry invented violence would be totally unwilling to go.

It is "fashionable" to forget Clinton's little email thing? Which one - the fact that an IT contractor lost some emails (like that's never happened before), or that Clinton never actually used email when he was in office?

Like most psychotic right wing morons, I'm sure you think it's big deal that a few random thousand out of hundreds of thousands of Whitehouse emails were lost (and then later recovered - thanks to wasting $12,066,346 on the task). No one thinking it worthy of any special attention outside the tinfoil hat crowd.

Clinton went through the audit from hell, and the only thing hundreds of millions of dollars (some private, some public) ever determined about the man was that he has a weakness for hummers.

No shit sherlock.

Meanwhile, our current president is claiming "executive privilege" over so many things (that just a few years ago would have been front page news -- thanks to the "liberal" media) even tinfoil hat Republican Congressman Dan Burton has become uneasy.

Just because they were playing a computer game, it makes the news. If they were distracted watching TV instead, we would never have heard about it.

Still, I know there are plenty of us who are reading the magazines in the pediatrician's office and it seems to come up there every summer, right along with the importance of sunscreen and water safety.

Some people are bad parents, and some make one, really, incredibly tragic mistake. Either way, an innocent kid died because of what they did.

They also have a legal hitsquad that has managed to successfully prosecute some of the spammers and software copiers too. So, if Symantec's product activation scheme works, then they are at least, preventing a few people from helping spammers stay in business, and that's a good thing, right?

Heh, good job. You found the error in my post.

The argument is that even if only a few of them *aren't* sterile, and manage to breed in the wild, the fact that they are about 4x the size of normal salmon would give them a *huge* advantage in breeding and they would quickly replace the normal salmon population, until they died out from not being able to hunt enough food to live, of course.

Okay, it's off-topic... but it is a bit wierd. I'll bite.

I found the link for y'all. Gee, AC when you quote one of your little snips, leave the link for us.

http://msn.espn.go.com/page2/s/pressman/030827.htm l

The separation of church and state prevails in

Alabama

Cheers,
W00t

Actually it's not, diamonds are.

Here is a quote from THIS article on artificial spider silk made from goats.

"...spider silk is five times stronger than steel and about three times tougher than man-made fibers such as Kevlar"

Now, if you meant your 'strongest' comment in the context of something that can be woven, and is elastic, I can't disagree with you at this time. You can read THIS article which speaks about the reasons why spider silk is so strong from an elasticity perspective. It's a pretty good explanation if you ask me.

This is so, so sad. You should try to cultivate a taste for women who weren't raised on a Pop Star farm

THE OFFICIAL TACO-SNOTTING FAQ

By J. Wipo Troll, Esq., $Revision: 1.16 $

[This article attempts to document a vile, ungodly practice that runs rampant through the homosexual geek and hacker community, a practice known as Taco-snotting, or simply snotting. Taco-snotting is something that few geeks dare talk about in free or open conversation, but it is nonetheless a widely-practiced and dangerous form of homosexuality. If you or anyone you know has ever engaged in Taco-snotting, please get professional help before it is too late. ed.]

Why do I keep receiving emails from an individual calling himself CmdrTaco?

You have been receiving unsolicited mailings from a certain

Robert CmdrTaco Malda, owner of the popular technology website slashdot.org. Actually, its not a very popular site in the common sense of the word; the site is rife with pimply, antisocial geeks and hackers, zit-faced nerds, communists, dirty GNU hippies, and other societal rejects and outcasts. Its also home to one of the worlds largest suspected pdophile rings, the infamous Slashdot crew.

Whenever Mr. Malda gets bored (and who wouldnt, running a site like

Slashdot all day), he roams through the user database, penis in hand, looking for people who might enjoy engaging in homosexual activities with him. How he determines this is anyones guess; but if you have a homosexual-sounding nickname, or a nick with a letter of the English alphabet in it, youre a potential candidate.

This time, he found

you. Lucky you.

Mr. Malda seems to be speaking in some sort of code. Do you know what it means?

CmdrTacos code language is relatively easy to decipher. This pervert prefers to speak in thinly-veiled sexual innuendo (yes, thats right: he wants you) to evade the watchful eye of Slashdots parent corporation,

VA Software. Mr. Maldas Commander is, of course, his penis: a small, withered little thing that lives in his pants and only comes out in the presence of other male geeks or at the beck and call of Maldas own lubed-up right hand. His Taco bells are the shriveled testicles that droop beneath his Commander, and his Taco sauce is his thin, runny semen. It should be more than obvious to you now what he means if he asked you to ring his Taco bells or taste his gourmet Taco sauce.

I would also guess CmdrTaco asked you to engage in a practice known as Taco-snotting and, if he was in a particularly depraved mood at the time, a circle-snot.

Good Lord. And, yes, he did. What is Taco-snotting?

Taco-snotting is the term used by Robert Malda to refer to the depraved act of fellating another man (homo- or heterosexual; CmdrTaco is rumoured to prefer raping unwilling victims), then blowing the semen out his nose and back onto the face and body of his victim. Naturally, a long, bubbly stream of milky-white semen is

left on CmdrTacos face, dribbling out of his nose and down his cheek: hence the term, Taco-snotting.

And if thats not bad enough

Chomsky is, in fact, the imam of this religious worldview on today's college campuses. His great service to the progressive faith is to deny the history of the last hundred years, which is the history of progressive atrocity and failure. In the 20th century, progressives in power killed one hundred million people in the attempt to realize their impossible dream. As far as Noam Chomsky is concerned, these catastrophes of the left never happened. "I don't much like the terms left and right," Chomsky writes in yet another ludicrous screed called The Common Good. "What's called the left includes Leninism [i.e., Communism], which I consider ultra-right in many respects. Leninism has nothing to do with the values of the left in fact, it's radically opposed to them."

You have to pinch yourself when reading sentences like that.

Chomsky is, in fact, the imam of this religious worldview on today's college campuses. His great service to the progressive faith is to deny the history of the last hundred years, which is the history of progressive atrocity and failure. In the 20th century, progressives in power killed one hundred million people in the attempt to realize their impossible dream. As far as Noam Chomsky is concerned, these catastrophes of the left never happened. "I don't much like the terms left and right," Chomsky writes in yet another ludicrous screed called The Common Good. "What's called the left includes Leninism [i.e., Communism], which I consider ultra-right in many respects. Leninism has nothing to do with the values of the left in fact, it's radically opposed to them."

You have to pinch yourself when reading sentences like that.

I think of it as a children's software program. LARGE buttons, colorful pictures, and very little in the way of any "useful" interface.

I was recently (May I believe) visiting my family, and the youngest member (age 5) came down w/my Aunt and Uncle. She sat down w/me on the couch and fired up her favorite site (some disney webpage, see here). Where she had a screen full of large, colorful, cute, pictures. She was FLYING around the UI like it was nothing.

I was looking at all this "noise" and couldn't tell you how she would have even thought that she should click on these items.

I guess I am too used to being able to USE and INTERACT with a UI to think that these "new fangled" UIs with pretty pictures and hidden hints that you should click on them, are any good.

The younger generations are obviously being introduced to this at an early age and will be fine with it.

Me, give me the fucking command line and a few mouse drags. I am good with that.

"A group of Japanese researchers have proposed a Government plan to spend 50 billion yen per year (that's over 400 billion $US) for 30 years on"

Wait a minute.....


The dollar was trading at 119.01 yen on the Tokyo foreign exchange market Friday, down 0.31 yen from late Thursday and also below the 119.10 yen it bought in New York later that day.

Ok.... 1 dollar equals ~120 yen

Which means that 50 billion yen == 50,000,000,000/120 == ~416666667 dollars, or about 416 million dollars.

$400 Billion US dollars? I don't think so....now I may be drunk tonite, but I'm not *that* drunk....at least I hope not ;)

realityshunt

on a legal level, when it comes to federal vs state laws, I believe the constututional rule is, "A positive rule overrules a negative one". Thus if california had a law explicitly making the use of marijuana legal, it would be legal in california.


Then why did the Supreme Court strike down California's medical marijuana law?

>Brother makes solid stuff, and their
>cartridges are pretty reasonable.

However, their drums normally cost more than the printer itself and the printer is programmed to bitch at between 10k to 20k pages (depending on your printer model). Even used ones are extraordinarialy expensive.

That and my Brother HL-760 blew up it's thermistor after printing a small book. It took over 3 weeks for Brother to ship replacement parts from Quebec to Ontario. I have a donated HL-1060 (under 10,000 pages) and the repaired HL-760. Both of the feedrollers in them are ruined. This is truly a poorly manufactured printer.

Avoid Brother like the plague, IMHO, when it comes to laser stuff. Oh, and many of their already sold laser units are fire hazards.

Well maybe it is in Iowa and Minnesota, but it has proven to be both efficient and profitable for small scale producers, as discussed here back in March.

The systems described in the main article do not sound very practical to me (800 degrees F. takes a lot of energy to maintain), but they are not the only example of biomass energy being put into practise, and they might be the right choice if you already have a lot of sawdust on hand (like in a lumberyard or a furniture fab).

Anything that reduces the dependency on foreign oil is good for the economy, and less dependency on large energy companies is good for the consumer. That these technologies allow small business to reduce thier cost of operation (or increase thier income) and are environmentally sound is good for everyone.

Well it's actually Cowshit, but close enough. Biomass is efficient, cheap, and practical as has been proven at this farm, and this one (which was discussed here back in March.)

ESPN Gamer has a good write up of all of the game-cover curses right here.

Covering The Blues

What really needs to be done is for Congress to get off their butts (more specifically, the democrats in the Senate) and get the energy bill passed...the one they've been sitting on for two years

I know this isn't related to the topic at hand, but:

Some of you are saying India should spend its money on helping reduce poverty, others are saying this space program will do this indirectly.

The reality is, US has a land area of just over 9 million sq km. India has a land area of just over 3 million sq km.

Considering the fact that US has more resourceful land, and has a population less than 1/3 of India, isn't the main problem population?

India celebrated when they reached 1 billion. I think the real celebration should be when they go back under 1 billion (if that ever happens).

But yes I do think this space program definitely has a better affect on the national economy than just giving food/money away.

The power went out on a hot, humid day when many residents had been blasting their air conditioning. In New York's Central Park, it was a sultry 88 degrees when the power went out. It was 87 degrees in Detroit and Cleveland at 4:30 p.m. ET, and 81 degrees in Toronto.

Melting Glaciers everywhere Maybe when George goes back to the Texas ranch and finds it is too hot to spend time outside and then has a big drought and has to hand feed and water all his lifestock (does he have any?), that he might feel the effects of environmental abuse.

It isn't so much that climate change is new, it is just that every time it happens quickly, weather disasters and species extinctions go with it.

Eg the el nino, el nina current cycles didn't used to swap over so quickly. Things coped and survived. Now whole species are under threat along the whole west coast of South America, not to mention icons like the Great Barrier Reef

Couple quick climate change with a "mini-nuke" winter that the pentagon seem so keen on and our way of life could go the way of previous big resource hungry civilizations. Eg Egypt then Rome.

espn.com
thisespn.com???
i would say it is 100 % their fault
their os shipped with their browser
that crashed with a pluggin (flash) they included(??)
on their website (or is this msn stuff unrelated to Ms?)
with a flash animation they have chosen to provide
it could only be worse if they decided to set the page as default Home page in IE when you install the os

its funny you should mention that, I've used it for a couple of years and have talked to may other people who have used it both irl and on chat forums. whenever someone complains about stomach cramps or other problems the question to them was "how much water are you drinking?" in almost every case the person complaining of problems had an insufficient water intake. once they started drinking more water the problem was solved.

i know you were trying to be funny but it's these short little blurbs about creatine and (mentioned in another post) ephedra that make it sound absolutely horrible without qualifying the statement. btw, in cases of people taking ephedra/ephedrine and dying more often than not there were other mitigating factors. like shitty health in the first place, or taking obscenely high amount and dying from an overdose.

i just get irratated when people say, "someone died! lets ban it!" before taking a look at the whole picture...