Here in Canada, we (actually the farmers) fly them up from Central America, house them, pay them $15+ an hour, and fly them back at the end of the season. Everyone is happy and food isn't that much more expensive.
Pure heroin is fairly harmless besides being addicting. Shit my aunt was given it when giving birth (last one in Canada). What's harmful is what it is cut with, along with the shortage of clean needles and what needs to be done to pay for it due to it being illegal. There's no reason that someone can't live a long life while using heroin regularly as long as they know the dosage to use, something hard to do with street drugs. Look at some of the Rolling Stones as examples of surviving a long time while being addicted but wealthy enough to support their habit.
Heroin is really cheap. Much cheaper then running prisons and a police state to deal with illegal drugs as well as the crime created by artificial shortages raising the price and encouraging cutting the heroin with much stronger (deadlier) drugs.
They've been experimenting here with giving some junkies heroin (in a clinic) with good results, as in people getting a job and taking responsibility for themselves. These people are self medicating their pain for a reason and to just write them off seems pretty heartless. Should we write off people who break a leg, what about with bad eyes and needing a crutch in the form of eyeglasses?
it gets expensive dealing with the diseases that are encouraged by needle sharing. You are right that they shouldn't be doing drugs on the street with the quality of todays street drugs. Somewhere safer would be a good start. Ideally remove the stress of where their next drugs are coming from so they can get a job and be productive members of society.
Sounds like an example of pure capitalism killing people. Something was sold that was misrepresented as a fairly harmless substance and killed 11 people. And yes, pure heroin, sold for a reasonable price, is fairly harmless. it does have a habit of causing constipation though so maybe it should be illegal.
Perhaps then this should be highlighted, there are a lot of stupid people and they get a say.
You want to know what scientific conclusion you can draw from an opinion poll? You can conclude that you know what that polled group of people think about the questions you asked, and even then your accuracy is probably still no greater than 80%. Cause they're lying. You can't even conclude with any reasonable certainty that you can extrapolate their answers to a larger population. Because, again, people will lie, or maybe your sample just sucks.
I think you need more balance in the number of Representatives. It's hard to represent 600,000+ people and as the sibling AC points out, less politicians means easier to influence, as well as making money more important in an election campaign. If you are going to stick with a system of one representative per 600,000 (and climbing), perhaps other parts of the system need changing so the districts are more balanced. That would take updating the Constitution and it would be easier to just ratify Article the 1st as it would only take 27 more States to ratify. Hey, Article the 2nd did finally pass.
Would a regulation making the Slashdot poll say it is not scientific or similar be that bad? While hopefully, we're all aware of the shortcomings of a Slashdot poll and just use it for conservation, for other polls, things may not be so clear and people don't have time to research every poll.
The weird thing about America is having the number in Congress frozen since 1911, as if the population hasn't grown, which gives more power to small States on top of their Constitutional power of the Senate. Originally 30,000 odd people to a Representative, now over 600,000 and this is reflected in the Electoral collage and puts the larger populated States at a disadvantage. Canada, for example, has over 300 representatives with 1/10th the population.
Yes, of course. Did I say otherwise? It, along with electric did compete with the various types of internal combustion engines with steam motors becoming quite refined. The Doble could be running with 30 seconds warmup, was silent, produced a 1000 ft lbs of torque at zero rpm, could go up to a thousand miles before needing water and was one of the fastest cars on the road, even faster then the Stanley Steamer. Steam was competition to the internal combustion engine for decades.
It's only half the experience. At least the bots don't snore as well as complaining about snoring. What's the saying? A marriage is two people who swear only the other partner snores.
The internal combustion engine was not superior for quite a while. Noisy, finicky, hard to start and not very much power at first saw steam and electric competing for the first while. Steam clearly had more power, the fastest cars on the road were steam, the most powerful tractors were clearly steam, but steam was even more finicky then internal engines in many ways. Complicated start up procedure, its own problems with consumables and the need for regular high maintenance that saw internal combustion eventually be a much better choice. Electric was much more convenient, a woman could jump in her electric car, turn a knob and get moving. Range wasn't the best but there were charging stations everywhere and plugging in a plug isn't hard and while slow, faster then foot or horse. Eventually the internal engine became easy to start, had more range and speed to make up for the complications such as a gearbox and a gas station every 50-100 miles ensured more range then a charging station every 10+ miles. Took quite a bit of technological development for internal combustion to be clearly superior.
They're planning on executing a Canadian to make a point, they've put out a traffic advisory to not travel to Canada, all because Canada has a treaty with the USA that Canada is honouring even while the USA is accusing Canada of being a national security threat and actually behind the arrest of the Chinese VIP and threatening to put her in jail for life when the usual response to selling stuff to Iran is large corporate fines.
It's not that hard to have a nice green lush lawn without chemicals. Good soil with the right mixture of sand and compost, don't mow the grass short so it shades out the weed seeds and live somewhere with lots of rainfall.
Don't worry, soon we'll have a new internet tax, I mean levy, to make up for the fact that Netflix doesn't pay its artists enough. Use over 15GBs a month, well you must be streaming and those artists need their paycheck increased. Don't like it, well here https://act.openmedia.org/noin...
They originally gave him 15 years. After the Huaweii incident, they seem to have decided to give him the death sentence and had a court session with the press invited to change the sentence. Inviting the press to a court session is seldom done.
I think most people would agree that some copyright is fine. Needs to be long enough to recoup costs and make a profit. Needs to be short enough to encourage more works is my thoughts. I also see no reason that this post should be copyrighted for the next century or so.
Copyright was originally 14 years with one renewal of 14 years possible (there was also a 35 year grandfather clause). It also took effort to copyright a work, and renew it. Now this shit I'm typing will be copyrighted until my grandchildren are old. The real problem is that copyright has always been about the publishers making money by buying the artists work cheap and milking it as long as possible and they discovered really quick that claiming copyright was for the artists was a good sound bite, used over and over to extend copyright. Personally, I think most artists are happy to make a decent living while creating and something like the 14 year copyright meets that goal.
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Here in Canada, we (actually the farmers) fly them up from Central America, house them, pay them $15+ an hour, and fly them back at the end of the season. Everyone is happy and food isn't that much more expensive.
Pure heroin is fairly harmless besides being addicting. Shit my aunt was given it when giving birth (last one in Canada). What's harmful is what it is cut with, along with the shortage of clean needles and what needs to be done to pay for it due to it being illegal.
There's no reason that someone can't live a long life while using heroin regularly as long as they know the dosage to use, something hard to do with street drugs. Look at some of the Rolling Stones as examples of surviving a long time while being addicted but wealthy enough to support their habit.
Heroin is really cheap. Much cheaper then running prisons and a police state to deal with illegal drugs as well as the crime created by artificial shortages raising the price and encouraging cutting the heroin with much stronger (deadlier) drugs.
They've been experimenting here with giving some junkies heroin (in a clinic) with good results, as in people getting a job and taking responsibility for themselves. These people are self medicating their pain for a reason and to just write them off seems pretty heartless. Should we write off people who break a leg, what about with bad eyes and needing a crutch in the form of eyeglasses?
it gets expensive dealing with the diseases that are encouraged by needle sharing. You are right that they shouldn't be doing drugs on the street with the quality of todays street drugs. Somewhere safer would be a good start. Ideally remove the stress of where their next drugs are coming from so they can get a job and be productive members of society.
Sounds like an example of pure capitalism killing people. Something was sold that was misrepresented as a fairly harmless substance and killed 11 people.
And yes, pure heroin, sold for a reasonable price, is fairly harmless. it does have a habit of causing constipation though so maybe it should be illegal.
Yes we have the history of prohibition to prove you right.
Perhaps then this should be highlighted, there are a lot of stupid people and they get a say.
You want to know what scientific conclusion you can draw from an opinion poll? You can conclude that you know what that polled group of people think about the questions you asked, and even then your accuracy is probably still no greater than 80%. Cause they're lying. You can't even conclude with any reasonable certainty that you can extrapolate their answers to a larger population. Because, again, people will lie, or maybe your sample just sucks.
I think you need more balance in the number of Representatives. It's hard to represent 600,000+ people and as the sibling AC points out, less politicians means easier to influence, as well as making money more important in an election campaign.
If you are going to stick with a system of one representative per 600,000 (and climbing), perhaps other parts of the system need changing so the districts are more balanced. That would take updating the Constitution and it would be easier to just ratify Article the 1st as it would only take 27 more States to ratify. Hey, Article the 2nd did finally pass.
Yet the average lifespan of most Americans has gone down over the last ten years.
Would a regulation making the Slashdot poll say it is not scientific or similar be that bad?
While hopefully, we're all aware of the shortcomings of a Slashdot poll and just use it for conservation, for other polls, things may not be so clear and people don't have time to research every poll.
The weird thing about America is having the number in Congress frozen since 1911, as if the population hasn't grown, which gives more power to small States on top of their Constitutional power of the Senate.
Originally 30,000 odd people to a Representative, now over 600,000 and this is reflected in the Electoral collage and puts the larger populated States at a disadvantage.
Canada, for example, has over 300 representatives with 1/10th the population.
Yes, starting with the heads of the pharmaceutical companies and ending with the coffee pushers, all drug dealers should be executed.
The timing and the publicity (opening up the court to the press) were quite the coincidence.
Exactly, I'm west of the 100th meridian and get perhaps 150 inches of rain a year on the wet coast. I am about a dozen miles north of the USA though.
Yes, of course. Did I say otherwise? It, along with electric did compete with the various types of internal combustion engines with steam motors becoming quite refined. The Doble could be running with 30 seconds warmup, was silent, produced a 1000 ft lbs of torque at zero rpm, could go up to a thousand miles before needing water and was one of the fastest cars on the road, even faster then the Stanley Steamer. Steam was competition to the internal combustion engine for decades.
It's only half the experience. At least the bots don't snore as well as complaining about snoring.
What's the saying? A marriage is two people who swear only the other partner snores.
The internal combustion engine was not superior for quite a while. Noisy, finicky, hard to start and not very much power at first saw steam and electric competing for the first while.
Steam clearly had more power, the fastest cars on the road were steam, the most powerful tractors were clearly steam, but steam was even more finicky then internal engines in many ways. Complicated start up procedure, its own problems with consumables and the need for regular high maintenance that saw internal combustion eventually be a much better choice.
Electric was much more convenient, a woman could jump in her electric car, turn a knob and get moving. Range wasn't the best but there were charging stations everywhere and plugging in a plug isn't hard and while slow, faster then foot or horse. Eventually the internal engine became easy to start, had more range and speed to make up for the complications such as a gearbox and a gas station every 50-100 miles ensured more range then a charging station every 10+ miles.
Took quite a bit of technological development for internal combustion to be clearly superior.
The big thing that allowed the wheel to work well was decent roads. Civilizations without roads didn't use the wheel.
They're planning on executing a Canadian to make a point, they've put out a traffic advisory to not travel to Canada, all because Canada has a treaty with the USA that Canada is honouring even while the USA is accusing Canada of being a national security threat and actually behind the arrest of the Chinese VIP and threatening to put her in jail for life when the usual response to selling stuff to Iran is large corporate fines.
It's not that hard to have a nice green lush lawn without chemicals. Good soil with the right mixture of sand and compost, don't mow the grass short so it shades out the weed seeds and live somewhere with lots of rainfall.
Don't worry, soon we'll have a new internet tax, I mean levy, to make up for the fact that Netflix doesn't pay its artists enough. Use over 15GBs a month, well you must be streaming and those artists need their paycheck increased.
Don't like it, well here https://act.openmedia.org/noin...
They originally gave him 15 years. After the Huaweii incident, they seem to have decided to give him the death sentence and had a court session with the press invited to change the sentence. Inviting the press to a court session is seldom done.
I think most people would agree that some copyright is fine. Needs to be long enough to recoup costs and make a profit. Needs to be short enough to encourage more works is my thoughts.
I also see no reason that this post should be copyrighted for the next century or so.
Copyright was originally 14 years with one renewal of 14 years possible (there was also a 35 year grandfather clause). It also took effort to copyright a work, and renew it. Now this shit I'm typing will be copyrighted until my grandchildren are old.
The real problem is that copyright has always been about the publishers making money by buying the artists work cheap and milking it as long as possible and they discovered really quick that claiming copyright was for the artists was a good sound bite, used over and over to extend copyright.
Personally, I think most artists are happy to make a decent living while creating and something like the 14 year copyright meets that goal.