I've been following former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson's take on decriminalizing drugs and he has some sound thoughts on the whole matter from a fiscally conservative point of view.
For marijuana, legalize and tax it using the tax funds toward drug rehabilitation and education. Provide prescription access to heroin in ways that have been proven in other countries to cut down on use. For the harder drugs, take them by a case by case basis and approach it in an intelligent, non-kneejerk, manner that addresses the real issues.
There was some talk of him running for president as a Republican in 2012.
"Most actors are what (famous, popular) they are because they were at the right place at the right time."
This kind of statement is akin to the many people that come up to me and want me to teach them "programming" because they see that I can do a lot of cool stuff and get paid well. They don't consider the years of no social life in high school and college and the many many many nights of no sleep while studying for exams or finishing up a computer project. Along with the years after college making a name for myself in my field.
10 years after getting my degree working and some punk kid comes up and says..."hey, can you teach me Java?"
I don't claim to know that much about the acting industry, but most of the big names have been in the business for years and who knows what they did before that to get to where they were. Tom Hanks didn't start out as Forest Gump, even though every snot nosed kid would say "I could do that...life is like a box of choc-o-lates".
The only way we can save the environment is by having a socialist economy.
It's time we stop beating around the bush and just show our true intentions.
I'm not a Republican, but I would probably say that the reason Republicans don't want to believe in this whole global warming thing is because the solution put out by any global warming enthusiast/nut has been a step toward socialism/communism.
You'll never once hear any of these global warming folks mention the fact that the government is our country's biggest polluter.
I've thought of something along these lines as a solution to file sharing.
The only thing I could come up with that would actually work would be for
each movie company to choose an image/word/number displayed in the actual
film and digitally change the number/color/image with a large amount of
possible variations. Track each variation to a number that is linked to
an account of the purchaser and you'll be able to keep track of each copy.
For example, have a scene where in the background you have a bakery with
a sign above the door showing that the address is 2149, then later in the
movie perhaps a phone number on a poster in the background of 329-1934.
With a bit of digital magic you could create millions of combinations of
those numbers, and they won't affect the movie one bit.
The differences could be any number of things changed in the movie, but it
would be visual.
That way, even if you change the bit code, or even throw it up on the wall
and copy it with a camera it'll still have the information in it.
As far as the problems of "what if someone steals it and distributes it..etc".
What if someone steals your gun and commits a crime? Is that a valid argument
against having trackable firearms?
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It's funnier if you check out the website... hint* It has something to do with the fake news website article
I read about these fake news sites on The Obama Forum and they said that Obama will be censoring those websites very soon.
For marijuana, legalize and tax it using the tax funds toward drug rehabilitation and education. Provide prescription access to heroin in ways that have been proven in other countries to cut down on use. For the harder drugs, take them by a case by case basis and approach it in an intelligent, non-kneejerk, manner that addresses the real issues.
There was some talk of him running for president as a Republican in 2012.
Check out:
http://www.garyjohnson2012.com/
Or as was brought up on The Obama Forum
"If people don't have anything to hide then they shouldn't be worried, prove that you're innocent by having a camera in your house."
http://www.theobamaforum.com/showthread.php?t=11257
This kind of statement is akin to the many people that come up to me and want me to teach them "programming" because they see that I can do a lot of cool stuff and get paid well. They don't consider the years of no social life in high school and college and the many many many nights of no sleep while studying for exams or finishing up a computer project. Along with the years after college making a name for myself in my field.
10 years after getting my degree working and some punk kid comes up and says..."hey, can you teach me Java?"
I don't claim to know that much about the acting industry, but most of the big names have been in the business for years and who knows what they did before that to get to where they were. Tom Hanks didn't start out as Forest Gump, even though every snot nosed kid would say "I could do that...life is like a box of choc-o-lates".
The only way we can save the environment is by having a socialist economy. It's time we stop beating around the bush and just show our true intentions.
I'm not a Republican, but I would probably say that the reason Republicans don't want to believe in this whole global warming thing is because the solution put out by any global warming enthusiast/nut has been a step toward socialism/communism. You'll never once hear any of these global warming folks mention the fact that the government is our country's biggest polluter.
Ed Brown is going to die because he believes taxes are unconstitutional. http://forum.soulawakenings.com/index.php?topic=38 68.0/
For example, have a scene where in the background you have a bakery with a sign above the door showing that the address is 2149, then later in the movie perhaps a phone number on a poster in the background of 329-1934. With a bit of digital magic you could create millions of combinations of those numbers, and they won't affect the movie one bit.
The differences could be any number of things changed in the movie, but it would be visual.
That way, even if you change the bit code, or even throw it up on the wall and copy it with a camera it'll still have the information in it.
As far as the problems of "what if someone steals it and distributes it..etc". What if someone steals your gun and commits a crime? Is that a valid argument against having trackable firearms?