The marijuana laws were passed for a couple of reasons. Stop competition to Hearsts new pulp paper industry. Keep hispanic people in line and to give all the G-men a job after prohibition was repealed. Opium was illegalized to keep the Chinese in line and cocaine was illegalized to keep the black people in line. These all sound like political reasons, not reasons to protect people like theft laws etc. Hemp can be argued as the first plant that was domesticated and definitely has been used throughout history. Even George Washington was interested for some reason in growing sinsemilia bud which is only useful for ingestation. And as another poster mentions suicide is illegal in some jurisdictions and attempted suicide is illegal in many more.
Sounds interesting and has been on my to do list a long time. I don't watch much TV nowadays and don't have much choice of channels where I live. And downloading isn't much of an option on my crappy dialup link.
In principle you are perfectly right. The problem comes when the nation doing the pushing is 10 times larger (population) spends most of their money on weapons and you are economically dependent on them. America has a long history of beating the shit out of countries that have something they want and don't give it. Just today I was reading in the paper Obama saying that he won't hesitate to enter a just war. And America is very good at twisting something into a just war, 2 of them happening right now. Iraq was disobedient and got invaded and Afghanistan wanted proof that Bin-Laden was behind the 9/11 actions and got invaded. There is a reason that you guys have 10 or more carrier fleets spread around the world and it's not for self-defence. Also it is kind of disheartening when our political activists end up in American jails where it is very hard to run for government.
You do realize that you do have the right to speed don't you? Turn on the TV to the racing channel and you'll see lots of people speeding on private property and sometimes on public property. You just don't have the right to endanger others unless they agree. I'm not arguing that you have the right to blow smoke in someones face or operate heavy equipment while under the influence of anything that can screw up your judgment/reflexes. You also have a right to loud music. Try it sometime, go somewhere where people don't mind and turn up the music as loud as you want. As long as you are not interfering with other peoples right to quiet it is perfectly legal. Just like you have a right to swing your fist. Just not to make contact with my face. The drug laws are one of the few things where if you are not a danger to others and doing it in complete privacy the law can and if they don't like you will arrest you and convict you.
I guess I just don't understand the reference to Nightwatch. I doubt that anyone thinks the American border guards are vampires as in the movie, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_(2004_film). Anyways my apologies if I've misunderstood you. It seems to get harder and harder to communicate with Americans as their fork of English moves further away from English.
You do realize that America has over 2 million of its people in jail, with a good proportion in there for political reasons. Like all successful police states these people aren't busted for expressing anti-Government views. Instead laws are passed taking away fundamental rights (remember your bill of rights is not an exhaustive list and IIRC amendment #9 basically states this) then the undesirables are targeted. The favourite rights to be removed are things like the right to grow plants and have the products in your possession. While this is bad enough, it's your country and if the citizens like having a police state so they can feel safe that is your right. What really pisses me off about America is the way you treat foreign political activists. If they're lucky they get extradited and spend years in the inhuman American jails perhaps being raped. If they're not lucky they get tortured and/or killed. Also you push other countries around to remove the same rights from their citizens. See drug laws and the most recent thing being IP laws with ACTA being pushed by Americans to take away my right to play the DVD I purchased on my computer and my right to make personal copies of stuff and lend stuff to you to make personal copies. Shit, when the leader of a political party that I voted for is being threatened with the death penalty on a trumped up charge of money laundrying (making him a king pin) and a charge of selling seeds, a law that has only been enforced against political activists, there is something wrong. One article, http://peacesecurity.suite101.com/article.cfm/marc_emery_and_the_bc3 google Marc Emery for many more. Of course like all police states if you are a respectable citizen you don't have much to worry about. Just keep your nose clean and you won't have your life ruined by being accused of diddling children.
So you say that CO2 is plant food, much like shit. So the more plant food the better so logically we should not be treating our sewage as it is good for plants.
The IRA's fight is totally different than the Americans went through around 1776. The current Americans are more like the orangists. You went to a different place and conquered and killed the native population just like you did in Eire except you didn't kill most all the Irish and put them in reservations. Only difference is that you wanted to be self-governing.
I don't think that there will be any ejaculate after having your balls cut off, especially if done at an early age. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castration#Medical_consequences usually there is no sex drive after castration so this would help prevent all stds and it also prevents testicular cancer. Of course if that is not enough we could also promote penectomies, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penectomy. Just think of it as extreme circumcision.
Actually in Canada after a case where someone did end up getting 5 years for picking up an under aged girl at the bar the law was changed so that believing someone was of age was a legitimate defence. This was long enough ago that the drinking age at the time was 21. Now it is 18-19 depending on province.
Evolutionary pressure also pushes women to sleep around. A women finds a guy who is a good provider. Has a child with him to cement the relationship then attempts to get pregnant by other men, often the exciting warrior type who does not make a good provider. She ends up with a bigger variety of children
If the changes on Mars are caused by the Sun putting out more energy then obviously all the planets should be warming up. Instead we have one planet warming up, a couple of others putting out more heat internally (both Jupiter and Neptune put out more heat then they receive from the sun) and the rest staying constant or cooling down. Seems like a random distribution, 4 warming up and 5 (including the moon) not warming up.
One possible reason that astrology had a bit of truth in it in primitive times is that the stars were used as a calendar and the season that some one was born had much more influence. A baby born in the middle of winter is more likely to start out malnourished affecting their intelligence, size, etc whereas a baby born at harvest is more likely well fed. Even today the season has some affect. The extreme example is identical twins born 10 minutes apart. One at 11:55 PM on Dec 31st and the other at 00:05 AM on Jan 1st. One twin will be the oldest in his age group and can be expected to be ahead of his peers and the other will be the youngest. I'd think this would make quite a difference on how these genetically identical people end up.
You live in a country where the most invasive searches (removing blood from inside your body) are allowed due to signing a right away to get the privilege to drive (varies amongst the states). I'd say due process is long gone.
Considering that current theories about stellar evolution point to the Sun putting out about 75% energy back then the question then arises whether Mars had enough green house gasses to raise the temperature to liquid water temperatures that early in the history of the Solar System. Also when talking about that the early Solar System you have to consider bombardment. Earth early on seems to have been hit by a massive planetoid which would have remelted the Earths surface. There is also evidence that Mars got hit by something relatively massive, one hemisphere is quite a bit higher then the other. This may of kept Mars molten when the Earth had cooled down. Basically it is hard to say which planet cooled down and became habitual first.
Friend of mine had headaches like this. Doctors couldn't figure them out. Mentioned it to his Dentist who said it could be a grinding teeth in sleep problem (IIRC) and made him an insert to sleep with. Headaches went away. The insert was somewhat expensive.
You can take the engine out of the car and sell it or put it in a different car. Windows has more licensing which stops you from (legally) selling it or using it on your old computer.
You do realize that as British subjects Americans had the right to bear arms enshrined in the Bill of Rights of 1689 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689 . Though it was only for self-defence and only if you weren't Catholic. It was also a strong British tradition that all Free men were part of the militia and were expected to maintain their own arms, at least back when the main arms were long bows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia#Origins
There was a case here where a Chinese citizen killed his girlfriend and ran back to China. The compromise reached between Canada and China is that he will be tried in a Chinese court with no death penalty. Not sure about the status of extradition treaties between Canada and China.
Well the constitution can be updated to bring it into line with current views on being civilized. Remember when it was written lots of things were considered fine that are no longer tolerated with slavery being the big one.
Actually convincing people to not get pregnant is probably the most successful course right now. The trick is to educate them early and make contraceptives available. This also solves the problems of unwanted children, teen pregnancy and the glut of children out there who can't get adopted.
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The marijuana laws were passed for a couple of reasons. Stop competition to Hearsts new pulp paper industry. Keep hispanic people in line and to give all the G-men a job after prohibition was repealed.
Opium was illegalized to keep the Chinese in line and cocaine was illegalized to keep the black people in line.
These all sound like political reasons, not reasons to protect people like theft laws etc.
Hemp can be argued as the first plant that was domesticated and definitely has been used throughout history. Even George Washington was interested for some reason in growing sinsemilia bud which is only useful for ingestation.
And as another poster mentions suicide is illegal in some jurisdictions and attempted suicide is illegal in many more.
Sounds interesting and has been on my to do list a long time. I don't watch much TV nowadays and don't have much choice of channels where I live. And downloading isn't much of an option on my crappy dialup link.
In principle you are perfectly right. The problem comes when the nation doing the pushing is 10 times larger (population) spends most of their money on weapons and you are economically dependent on them.
America has a long history of beating the shit out of countries that have something they want and don't give it. Just today I was reading in the paper Obama saying that he won't hesitate to enter a just war. And America is very good at twisting something into a just war, 2 of them happening right now. Iraq was disobedient and got invaded and Afghanistan wanted proof that Bin-Laden was behind the 9/11 actions and got invaded.
There is a reason that you guys have 10 or more carrier fleets spread around the world and it's not for self-defence.
Also it is kind of disheartening when our political activists end up in American jails where it is very hard to run for government.
You do realize that you do have the right to speed don't you? Turn on the TV to the racing channel and you'll see lots of people speeding on private property and sometimes on public property. You just don't have the right to endanger others unless they agree.
I'm not arguing that you have the right to blow smoke in someones face or operate heavy equipment while under the influence of anything that can screw up your judgment/reflexes.
You also have a right to loud music. Try it sometime, go somewhere where people don't mind and turn up the music as loud as you want. As long as you are not interfering with other peoples right to quiet it is perfectly legal.
Just like you have a right to swing your fist. Just not to make contact with my face.
The drug laws are one of the few things where if you are not a danger to others and doing it in complete privacy the law can and if they don't like you will arrest you and convict you.
I guess I just don't understand the reference to Nightwatch. I doubt that anyone thinks the American border guards are vampires as in the movie, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_(2004_film).
Anyways my apologies if I've misunderstood you. It seems to get harder and harder to communicate with Americans as their fork of English moves further away from English.
You do realize that America has over 2 million of its people in jail, with a good proportion in there for political reasons.
Like all successful police states these people aren't busted for expressing anti-Government views. Instead laws are passed taking away fundamental rights (remember your bill of rights is not an exhaustive list and IIRC amendment #9 basically states this) then the undesirables are targeted.
The favourite rights to be removed are things like the right to grow plants and have the products in your possession.
While this is bad enough, it's your country and if the citizens like having a police state so they can feel safe that is your right.
What really pisses me off about America is the way you treat foreign political activists. If they're lucky they get extradited and spend years in the inhuman American jails perhaps being raped. If they're not lucky they get tortured and/or killed.
Also you push other countries around to remove the same rights from their citizens. See drug laws and the most recent thing being IP laws with ACTA being pushed by Americans to take away my right to play the DVD I purchased on my computer and my right to make personal copies of stuff and lend stuff to you to make personal copies.
Shit, when the leader of a political party that I voted for is being threatened with the death penalty on a trumped up charge of money laundrying (making him a king pin) and a charge of selling seeds, a law that has only been enforced against political activists, there is something wrong. One article, http://peacesecurity.suite101.com/article.cfm/marc_emery_and_the_bc3 google Marc Emery for many more.
Of course like all police states if you are a respectable citizen you don't have much to worry about. Just keep your nose clean and you won't have your life ruined by being accused of diddling children.
Luckily our Venusian friends already ran the experiment to see if increasing CO2 will warm up a planet.
So you say that CO2 is plant food, much like shit. So the more plant food the better so logically we should not be treating our sewage as it is good for plants.
The IRA's fight is totally different than the Americans went through around 1776. The current Americans are more like the orangists. You went to a different place and conquered and killed the native population just like you did in Eire except you didn't kill most all the Irish and put them in reservations.
Only difference is that you wanted to be self-governing.
I don't think that there will be any ejaculate after having your balls cut off, especially if done at an early age.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castration#Medical_consequences usually there is no sex drive after castration so this would help prevent all stds and it also prevents testicular cancer.
Of course if that is not enough we could also promote penectomies, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penectomy. Just think of it as extreme circumcision.
Actually in Canada after a case where someone did end up getting 5 years for picking up an under aged girl at the bar the law was changed so that believing someone was of age was a legitimate defence.
This was long enough ago that the drinking age at the time was 21. Now it is 18-19 depending on province.
Castration even works better.
Evolutionary pressure also pushes women to sleep around.
A women finds a guy who is a good provider. Has a child with him to cement the relationship then attempts to get pregnant by other men, often the exciting warrior type who does not make a good provider.
She ends up with a bigger variety of children
If the changes on Mars are caused by the Sun putting out more energy then obviously all the planets should be warming up.
Instead we have one planet warming up, a couple of others putting out more heat internally (both Jupiter and Neptune put out more heat then they receive from the sun) and the rest staying constant or cooling down.
Seems like a random distribution, 4 warming up and 5 (including the moon) not warming up.
Around here they go by calendar age. Anyways it's just an example and you can adjust the dates to suite your areas school admission policy.
One possible reason that astrology had a bit of truth in it in primitive times is that the stars were used as a calendar and the season that some one was born had much more influence.
A baby born in the middle of winter is more likely to start out malnourished affecting their intelligence, size, etc whereas a baby born at harvest is more likely well fed.
Even today the season has some affect. The extreme example is identical twins born 10 minutes apart. One at 11:55 PM on Dec 31st and the other at 00:05 AM on Jan 1st.
One twin will be the oldest in his age group and can be expected to be ahead of his peers and the other will be the youngest.
I'd think this would make quite a difference on how these genetically identical people end up.
You think they won't cut you off just because it was free-as-in-freedom art?
One of the motivations for these laws is to kill independent art
You live in a country where the most invasive searches (removing blood from inside your body) are allowed due to signing a right away to get the privilege to drive (varies amongst the states).
I'd say due process is long gone.
Considering that current theories about stellar evolution point to the Sun putting out about 75% energy back then the question then arises whether Mars had enough green house gasses to raise the temperature to liquid water temperatures that early in the history of the Solar System.
Also when talking about that the early Solar System you have to consider bombardment.
Earth early on seems to have been hit by a massive planetoid which would have remelted the Earths surface.
There is also evidence that Mars got hit by something relatively massive, one hemisphere is quite a bit higher then the other. This may of kept Mars molten when the Earth had cooled down.
Basically it is hard to say which planet cooled down and became habitual first.
Friend of mine had headaches like this. Doctors couldn't figure them out.
Mentioned it to his Dentist who said it could be a grinding teeth in sleep problem (IIRC) and made him an insert to sleep with. Headaches went away.
The insert was somewhat expensive.
You can take the engine out of the car and sell it or put it in a different car.
Windows has more licensing which stops you from (legally) selling it or using it on your old computer.
You do realize that as British subjects Americans had the right to bear arms enshrined in the Bill of Rights of 1689 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689 . Though it was only for self-defence and only if you weren't Catholic.
It was also a strong British tradition that all Free men were part of the militia and were expected to maintain their own arms, at least back when the main arms were long bows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia#Origins
There was a case here where a Chinese citizen killed his girlfriend and ran back to China.
The compromise reached between Canada and China is that he will be tried in a Chinese court with no death penalty.
Not sure about the status of extradition treaties between Canada and China.
Well the constitution can be updated to bring it into line with current views on being civilized.
Remember when it was written lots of things were considered fine that are no longer tolerated with slavery being the big one.
Actually convincing people to not get pregnant is probably the most successful course right now.
The trick is to educate them early and make contraceptives available. This also solves the problems of unwanted children, teen pregnancy and the glut of children out there who can't get adopted.