Are there GW level reactor designs based on materials available in sufficient quantity?
A 2MW reactor using air cooling or a 800MW design that requires 1000 tons of... meter-long nano-tubes (etc.) isn't going to help replace that 1GW coal plant any time soon.
The general problem is still thermal sinks. A nuclear plant has a thermal efficiency somewhere around 33% so twice as much energy has to go somewhere other than the power substation. Let's take a moderately small plant with an output of 500MW... which implies 1GW (thermal) has to be dissipated. Roughly you're looking at something like 12 million cubic meters per hour of airflow...assuming a 250C change in air inlet to output temp.
Not meant to flame...i'm curious how the math makes large scale (non-evaporative) air-cooled thermal plants possible.
I'm glad you can parrot the claimed reasons behind the origin of copyright law. However they have little to do with the current realities. In addition, you make lots of claims with no supporting arguments.
Making an intangible copy of an intangible thing that leaves the original entirely unaltered does not deprive anyone of anything. They still have *exactly* what they had before. Your implied argument of 'lost sales' is the same farce the MAFIAA keeps throwing around hoping it will stick. There are so many counter-arguments to it i'll let you do your own homework if you care enough.
You also are confusing copyright law with patent law. Both are horrible broken and abused but are otherwise entirely different things. Money most certainly CAN be made without the protection of copyright laws. However, the methods are different and so are the amounts. The MAFIAA feel they are entitled to keep their current, outdated business models and the retarded amounts of profits they essentially steal from everyone else (see hollywood accounting) and lobby other corrupt politicians to get laws passed to ensure it.
Funny how the majority of the population finds fault with copyright laws yet somehow they still exist and keep getting made stronger. The laws no longer function to serve the people, they function to serve special interest, lobby groups, and big business.
Actually I don't think it's as important as you think.
If you're faced with $bazillions in 'potential' fines and offered a settlement of $buy-a-car instead of paying a lawyer $buy-a-new-mercedes... well we know which way many people have gone.
Instead if you offer even mediocre legal counsel the person is much more likely to try for the newly available fourth choice of $nah-nah.
Having to go to trial on even 20% of the extortion threats (oh, sorry, pre-trial settlement offers) would suddenly make the whole prospect much less promising for the MAFIAA.
It seems you don't understand what anyone is talking about.
Taking a pack of gum without paying is stealing. You most certainly DID deprive someone of their gum. To be specific - the store. It was their gum that was manufactured from physical, limited-resource goods, shipped to the store, stocked for sale and taken by you. Thus the store no longer has possession of that pack of gum and they can not complete a sale for it.
However, intangible goods such as MP3s or eBooks are different, and the method of 'taking' is different. In fact, it's not taking, it's copying. It leaves the original entirely intact and no different than before the copy was made. If you were selling a painting and I cam and took a picture of it...you can still sell that painting for the exact same price as before I took the picture. It's not lessened, broken, or worn out in any way.
If he'd said it almost any other way, in almost any other setting, i'd agree with you.
But he is a lawyer. In a court room. On public record. Before witnesses.
An underlying, critical part of his job is speaking accurately and dealing with minute details of descriptions. Or put another way, if the lawyer said 'he couldn't have killed these guys because i killed them myself' would that be legally admissible as evidence?
Actually (and i still find your mock dialog funny so don't take this in a bad way) each of those people who *downloaded* a song is responsible for their copyright infringement (refuse to call it theft). So Jammie cant be held responsible for those downloads if the people who downloaded them already are.
Or reverse - if the uploading is infringing act, then you can't go after someone for just having the songs.
That or you wind up the the lovely paradox 'everybody vs. everybody where everybody is sure to get screwed over thought mr broflowski is sure to make a pretty penny'
I love the video clip of the guy holding an original wax cyclinder...he's got the Michael j fox think going and... oops...breaks into a bunch of tiny pieces as he's describing how rare and irreplaceable it is.
You clearly have no idea how heavily regulated the banking/finance sector is. The problem is more like the unregulated tidbits swimming among the sea of regulation. Of COURSE those tidbits will get the focus of greedy market manipulators.
The finance sector, if it was actually unregulated, should not be lawless either. Introducing general laws around open disclosure, honest accounting, direct responsibility, etc. would go much further towards fixing out financial system. Unfortunately that means companies would have to be more honest and THAT means less profit. Less profit means shareholders suffer - not the 'i have 50k or 250k invested' people but the 'my 3 portfolios total 350million or we manage 20billion in portfolios' who have direct lines to politicians, lawmakers, judges and so on. It's not tin-hat conspiracy, it's people using the means available to protect their own and not caring who else it hurts.
*unless accused of rape, copyright infringement, drunk driving, pedophilia, terrorism, racism, discrimination, or breaking of of the laws you're not legally allowed to know about.
(followed by millions of pages of law, case law, court rulings, 'popular law', and FUD)
I call BS on your BS. There ARE benefits to W7 however they fail to balance the large cost of upgrading in a corporate environment (which, mind you, is what this article is about).
Vista still has major bugs. They have NOT all been fixed - many have just been hacked around so they're less painful. I mean, seriously, who releases a new OS that is hideously slow just doing a basic file copy. Any PR flack MS got over vista they deserve 10x over. Only their complete refusal to admit to reality and millions of dollars spend on advertising kept it from being the biggest joke of the decade.
Our refusal to upgrade is NOT
a) based any way on 'shinyness'. In fact, the fewer things my staff have to tinker with, the better.
b) because of some unfounded fear of new ways of doing things. Instead consider having to re-train 1000's of employees (or 100x that even bigger companies) because MS decided to move icons, menus, labels, etc. around. It's not rocket science, but then again plenty of computer-using employees are far from computer guru's. Training cost and time lost figuring things out, getting lost in menus, and so on gets very expensive. Why change when the "old way" actually works quite well?
c) If a global company with global brand recognition, a WAN spanning a dozen+ countries, thousands of corporate clients is a limited world please do tell me what I'm missing. Granted we aren't hooked up to the ISS. But still. Security upgrades are handy but UAC is still not a substitute for proper rights management. Memory management... is this DOS 6.x and Win 3.11? Improved network stacks...?! I know some ultra-high-demand, ultra-low-latency situations where this DOES matter but none of those computers are running Windows.
So other than misplaced belief in new security (the biggest security flaw exists between the chair and keyboard at any given desk) and some nifty CONSUMER-ORIENTED things there's direct little benefit to W7 as of yet.
I just counted and actually surprised myself. 17 if you count laptops, the 2 PCs which have most of their parts, and the ones that are good boxes but just sitting unused. I personally actively use 5 on a regular basis...plus the one at work.
Forget research, just look back at the client count for the Spore torrents. For a week or two there was 10-20k concurrent leechers and nearly as many seeders. For anyone who doesn't remember, Spore made the news for some of the most restrictive DRM on a PC game to date - and the backlash resulted in them loosening the restrictions on several follow-up games including (go figure) C&C 3.
Anyone who "can not" lose weight is, quite simply, doing something wrong. Sure, they could be part of the.001% of people with a gland problem but let's be serious and talk about the overwhelming majority.
If you weight (far too many)lbs and restrict your dietary intake you WILL lose weight. It's pretty straight forward honestly. Exercise greatly helps of course. And for the 'my poor ankle' whining comes back around - there are people with NO LEGS that are still healthy. Clearly a bad ankle is not a barrier to avoiding obesity.
There are a TON of other excuses and all of them are just that - excuses. If you want to be healthy, in shape, or just plain old 'not fat' then make it a priority. If catching the new episode of MTV Real Life Ethiopia or the taste of a big mac are more important than losing weight then, chances are, it will not work.
As for the story - it's another amusing 'well duh'. Next thing they'll post that old and immunodeficient are more likely to die from the flu (oh, sorry...meant to specify swine flu even though it's nothing more than different strain of flu) and bla bla bla. Of COURSE less healthy people are higher risk. They're also higher risk for... well most other things.
Someone get back to me when the swine flu deaths are more than 5% of total flu deaths or when the evil swine flu increases the overall number of yearly flu deaths beyond the usual year-to-year variances. The whole swine flu nonsense is manufactured news.
A moderately skilled plumber can still work reasonably hard and make a reasonable living. Tell me that applies to musicians.
Besides all that, the MAFIAA just loves their current business model and the fact that they've gotten international laws enacted to help guarantee their income. There ARE other business models out there that certainly do work. Heck, there are plenty of PROFITABLE (ahemgoogleahem) that give away their product to their customers. Maybe musicians could get more into direct distribution. Lots of possibilities. Unfortunately many/most of them don't require the MAFIAA's bug-bucks spending to work or won't make the same amount of $$$ the MAFIAA is "entitled" to based on their skewed logic.
Funny how the music industry is stuck 30 years in the past and they blame their customers for it.
Affordable is relative. The first product in any area is expensive but that expense is relative. The first cars were not cheap. The first computers were not cheap. The first...and so on. However each item had relative value. Both in utility and 'early adopter' shinyness.
Besides, care to count the number of people driving a $40k lexus, BMW, Infinity...not to mention the 50-60k SUV's...erm..tanks.
50k isn't inexpensive, but it is certainly within the reach of your upper middle class car buyer. Especially when you figure in the lower 'fuel' cost, green ego points, and the cool factor.
I'm not doubting your source, but I would sincerely question the maths behind those numbers. It costs pennies to deliver an e-book. In fact, I would bet more is spend on encryption (development, maintenance, etc) and retarded DRM than it costs to deliver the book, excluding royalty payment to the publisher of course.
In fact, if Amazon is making pennies of profit on a $10 book, then how come I can go down to borders (which has to have a big honkin store with plenty of overhead costs) and buy a book for 7 bucks? A real, paper, burns-if-lit book. I *KNOW* it costs more to print a book, bind it, ship it, and put it on a shelf than making a copy of some digital 1's and 0's. In fact, copying those 1's and 0's costs, effectively ZERO dollars (ignoring creation costs ofc) or else P2P would bankrupt itself.
So when Amazon cries wolf over ebook sales I will continue to sit back and laugh. Someone, somewhere, will do a min-max on DRM vs. sales vs. actual profit and actually get it in front of someone who makes decisions...oh wait...Baen DID that already and they have one of the few ebook sites I will buy from. And, yes, I actually buy from them instead of hitting P2P because it's easier, faster, safer, and doesn't force me to deal with retarded DRM. Prices are even reasonable (though trending upwards ) so I don't feel like i'm getting ripped off too badly.
Amazing how the new, high-tech world is incapable of turning a profit on the same sales that have been going on for centuries when they can eliminate a large % of the cost that the old-school ways have. Oh...except anything new and high tech has to play nice by our retarded DMCA and enhanced copyright laws - which are supposed to encourage innovation and artists? gag me
I'm poor and wanted to end my pathetic life so I took 40. I'm nearly dead. Send me to jail now please so I can get top-of-the-line health care for free./sarcasm
I just came back from Europe (Sweden to be specific) a week ago.
Their cigs all have white stickers with warnings. Not like in the US "The surgeon general says smoking can do bad stuff so on noes" but rather more specific "SMOKING KILLS".
If you buy that pack, you damn well know what you're getting into (oddly though, it's in english).
Yet someone clearly could be illiterate and still buy 3 packs a day till they die. CLEARLY the fault of the manufacturer and it's poor warning.
We essentially banned pseudophedrine because some tiny fraction of of the population was taking meth and an even smaller fraction was using OTC decongestant to make the stuff. Never mind that 99.9% (give or take, find your own citation) of all pseudophedrine use was as intended.
How about we just ban everything that is potentially unsafe or could be used in a dangerous manner. Water is the first on my list i think (see 'google: dihydrogen monoxide' for laughs).
I would have to disagree. What was done to this child was *not nice* but being a big fat meanie-head isn't illegal.
In the end, you are responsible for your own actions. If someone tells me that microshaft stock is going through the roof tomorrow and i buy in big only to see them tank...well too bad, so sad. There are, of course, exceptions for someone you employ who intentionally gives you known wrong information - but in that case you have a contractual agreement (verbal, virtual, or on paper) that they are violating.
If you want to criminalize lying or making someone feel bad I suggest you go lobby for yet another unenforcible law that will make the non-sheeple shake their heads.
I don't like what she did - it was a terrible thing to do - but I support a person's right to saw what they want no matter how much i disagree with it.
Gotta know when to hold em, gotta know when to fold em.
Is having a good paying job, nice car/house/etc. worth the unhealthy and stressful lifestyle? Depends on your goals in life. I know plenty of people who burn out, plenty who succeed and plenty who decide a simple, clean place to live with simple possessions is enough for them if they have time for the things they enjoy doing.
If you have a wife and kids to support...well you suck it up and take the job until a better one comes along. In the mean time - do what you can.
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Are there GW level reactor designs based on materials available in sufficient quantity?
A 2MW reactor using air cooling or a 800MW design that requires 1000 tons of ... meter-long nano-tubes (etc.) isn't going to help replace that 1GW coal plant any time soon.
The general problem is still thermal sinks. A nuclear plant has a thermal efficiency somewhere around 33% so twice as much energy has to go somewhere other than the power substation. Let's take a moderately small plant with an output of 500MW ... which implies 1GW (thermal) has to be dissipated. Roughly you're looking at something like 12 million cubic meters per hour of airflow...assuming a 250C change in air inlet to output temp.
Not meant to flame...i'm curious how the math makes large scale (non-evaporative) air-cooled thermal plants possible.
You must be new here. lol
I'm glad you can parrot the claimed reasons behind the origin of copyright law. However they have little to do with the current realities. In addition, you make lots of claims with no supporting arguments.
Making an intangible copy of an intangible thing that leaves the original entirely unaltered does not deprive anyone of anything. They still have *exactly* what they had before. Your implied argument of 'lost sales' is the same farce the MAFIAA keeps throwing around hoping it will stick. There are so many counter-arguments to it i'll let you do your own homework if you care enough.
You also are confusing copyright law with patent law. Both are horrible broken and abused but are otherwise entirely different things. Money most certainly CAN be made without the protection of copyright laws. However, the methods are different and so are the amounts. The MAFIAA feel they are entitled to keep their current, outdated business models and the retarded amounts of profits they essentially steal from everyone else (see hollywood accounting) and lobby other corrupt politicians to get laws passed to ensure it.
Funny how the majority of the population finds fault with copyright laws yet somehow they still exist and keep getting made stronger. The laws no longer function to serve the people, they function to serve special interest, lobby groups, and big business.
it's not -1 disagree, it's -1 wrong
Actually I don't think it's as important as you think.
If you're faced with $bazillions in 'potential' fines and offered a settlement of $buy-a-car instead of paying a lawyer $buy-a-new-mercedes ... well we know which way many people have gone.
Instead if you offer even mediocre legal counsel the person is much more likely to try for the newly available fourth choice of $nah-nah.
Having to go to trial on even 20% of the extortion threats (oh, sorry, pre-trial settlement offers) would suddenly make the whole prospect much less promising for the MAFIAA.
It seems you don't understand what anyone is talking about.
Taking a pack of gum without paying is stealing. You most certainly DID deprive someone of their gum. To be specific - the store. It was their gum that was manufactured from physical, limited-resource goods, shipped to the store, stocked for sale and taken by you. Thus the store no longer has possession of that pack of gum and they can not complete a sale for it.
However, intangible goods such as MP3s or eBooks are different, and the method of 'taking' is different. In fact, it's not taking, it's copying. It leaves the original entirely intact and no different than before the copy was made. If you were selling a painting and I cam and took a picture of it...you can still sell that painting for the exact same price as before I took the picture. It's not lessened, broken, or worn out in any way.
If he'd said it almost any other way, in almost any other setting, i'd agree with you.
But he is a lawyer. In a court room. On public record. Before witnesses.
An underlying, critical part of his job is speaking accurately and dealing with minute details of descriptions. Or put another way, if the lawyer said 'he couldn't have killed these guys because i killed them myself' would that be legally admissible as evidence?
Ya know...while the gubbermint is out taxing things like FAST FOOD maybe they should send a few cronies over to hollywood and open a few books.
When you include fines and penalties (and royalties due) they'd be owned (literally).
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There. I've not given you every piece of software, music, video, and pron ever put onto a computer*.
*Assembly required (double pun, go me!)
Actually (and i still find your mock dialog funny so don't take this in a bad way) each of those people who *downloaded* a song is responsible for their copyright infringement (refuse to call it theft). So Jammie cant be held responsible for those downloads if the people who downloaded them already are.
Or reverse - if the uploading is infringing act, then you can't go after someone for just having the songs.
That or you wind up the the lovely paradox 'everybody vs. everybody where everybody is sure to get screwed over thought mr broflowski is sure to make a pretty penny'
I love the video clip of the guy holding an original wax cyclinder...he's got the Michael j fox think going and ... oops...breaks into a bunch of tiny pieces as he's describing how rare and irreplaceable it is.
You clearly have no idea how heavily regulated the banking/finance sector is. The problem is more like the unregulated tidbits swimming among the sea of regulation. Of COURSE those tidbits will get the focus of greedy market manipulators.
The finance sector, if it was actually unregulated, should not be lawless either. Introducing general laws around open disclosure, honest accounting, direct responsibility, etc. would go much further towards fixing out financial system. Unfortunately that means companies would have to be more honest and THAT means less profit. Less profit means shareholders suffer - not the 'i have 50k or 250k invested' people but the 'my 3 portfolios total 350million or we manage 20billion in portfolios' who have direct lines to politicians, lawmakers, judges and so on. It's not tin-hat conspiracy, it's people using the means available to protect their own and not caring who else it hurts.
Sounds oddly like 2008 for some reason.
New definition of irony:
Government-backed anti-pedo creates a censorship list of all known pedo sites so they can be blocked by participating ISPs.
Pedo gets a copy, signs up for non-filtered ISP, imports list --> bookmarks. Thanks gubermint!
US law now reads something like:
Innocent until proven guilty*
*unless accused of rape, copyright infringement, drunk driving, pedophilia, terrorism, racism, discrimination, or breaking of of the laws you're not legally allowed to know about.
(followed by millions of pages of law, case law, court rulings, 'popular law', and FUD)
I call BS on your BS. There ARE benefits to W7 however they fail to balance the large cost of upgrading in a corporate environment (which, mind you, is what this article is about).
Vista still has major bugs. They have NOT all been fixed - many have just been hacked around so they're less painful. I mean, seriously, who releases a new OS that is hideously slow just doing a basic file copy. Any PR flack MS got over vista they deserve 10x over. Only their complete refusal to admit to reality and millions of dollars spend on advertising kept it from being the biggest joke of the decade.
Our refusal to upgrade is NOT
a) based any way on 'shinyness'. In fact, the fewer things my staff have to tinker with, the better.
b) because of some unfounded fear of new ways of doing things. Instead consider having to re-train 1000's of employees (or 100x that even bigger companies) because MS decided to move icons, menus, labels, etc. around. It's not rocket science, but then again plenty of computer-using employees are far from computer guru's. Training cost and time lost figuring things out, getting lost in menus, and so on gets very expensive. Why change when the "old way" actually works quite well?
c) If a global company with global brand recognition, a WAN spanning a dozen+ countries, thousands of corporate clients is a limited world please do tell me what I'm missing. Granted we aren't hooked up to the ISS. But still. Security upgrades are handy but UAC is still not a substitute for proper rights management. Memory management ... is this DOS 6.x and Win 3.11? Improved network stacks...?! I know some ultra-high-demand, ultra-low-latency situations where this DOES matter but none of those computers are running Windows.
So other than misplaced belief in new security (the biggest security flaw exists between the chair and keyboard at any given desk) and some nifty CONSUMER-ORIENTED things there's direct little benefit to W7 as of yet.
One. *laugh*
I just counted and actually surprised myself. 17 if you count laptops, the 2 PCs which have most of their parts, and the ones that are good boxes but just sitting unused. I personally actively use 5 on a regular basis...plus the one at work.
Forget research, just look back at the client count for the Spore torrents. For a week or two there was 10-20k concurrent leechers and nearly as many seeders. For anyone who doesn't remember, Spore made the news for some of the most restrictive DRM on a PC game to date - and the backlash resulted in them loosening the restrictions on several follow-up games including (go figure) C&C 3.
Anyone who "can not" lose weight is, quite simply, doing something wrong. Sure, they could be part of the .001% of people with a gland problem but let's be serious and talk about the overwhelming majority.
If you weight (far too many)lbs and restrict your dietary intake you WILL lose weight. It's pretty straight forward honestly. Exercise greatly helps of course. And for the 'my poor ankle' whining comes back around - there are people with NO LEGS that are still healthy. Clearly a bad ankle is not a barrier to avoiding obesity.
There are a TON of other excuses and all of them are just that - excuses. If you want to be healthy, in shape, or just plain old 'not fat' then make it a priority. If catching the new episode of MTV Real Life Ethiopia or the taste of a big mac are more important than losing weight then, chances are, it will not work.
As for the story - it's another amusing 'well duh'. Next thing they'll post that old and immunodeficient are more likely to die from the flu (oh, sorry...meant to specify swine flu even though it's nothing more than different strain of flu) and bla bla bla. Of COURSE less healthy people are higher risk. They're also higher risk for ... well most other things.
Someone get back to me when the swine flu deaths are more than 5% of total flu deaths or when the evil swine flu increases the overall number of yearly flu deaths beyond the usual year-to-year variances. The whole swine flu nonsense is manufactured news.
Ignoring plenty of faults in the analogy...
A moderately skilled plumber can still work reasonably hard and make a reasonable living. Tell me that applies to musicians.
Besides all that, the MAFIAA just loves their current business model and the fact that they've gotten international laws enacted to help guarantee their income. There ARE other business models out there that certainly do work. Heck, there are plenty of PROFITABLE (ahemgoogleahem) that give away their product to their customers. Maybe musicians could get more into direct distribution. Lots of possibilities. Unfortunately many/most of them don't require the MAFIAA's bug-bucks spending to work or won't make the same amount of $$$ the MAFIAA is "entitled" to based on their skewed logic.
Funny how the music industry is stuck 30 years in the past and they blame their customers for it.
Affordable is relative. The first product in any area is expensive but that expense is relative. The first cars were not cheap. The first computers were not cheap. The first...and so on. However each item had relative value. Both in utility and 'early adopter' shinyness.
Besides, care to count the number of people driving a $40k lexus, BMW, Infinity...not to mention the 50-60k SUV's...erm..tanks.
50k isn't inexpensive, but it is certainly within the reach of your upper middle class car buyer. Especially when you figure in the lower 'fuel' cost, green ego points, and the cool factor.
I'm not doubting your source, but I would sincerely question the maths behind those numbers. It costs pennies to deliver an e-book. In fact, I would bet more is spend on encryption (development, maintenance, etc) and retarded DRM than it costs to deliver the book, excluding royalty payment to the publisher of course.
In fact, if Amazon is making pennies of profit on a $10 book, then how come I can go down to borders (which has to have a big honkin store with plenty of overhead costs) and buy a book for 7 bucks? A real, paper, burns-if-lit book. I *KNOW* it costs more to print a book, bind it, ship it, and put it on a shelf than making a copy of some digital 1's and 0's. In fact, copying those 1's and 0's costs, effectively ZERO dollars (ignoring creation costs ofc) or else P2P would bankrupt itself.
So when Amazon cries wolf over ebook sales I will continue to sit back and laugh. Someone, somewhere, will do a min-max on DRM vs. sales vs. actual profit and actually get it in front of someone who makes decisions...oh wait...Baen DID that already and they have one of the few ebook sites I will buy from. And, yes, I actually buy from them instead of hitting P2P because it's easier, faster, safer, and doesn't force me to deal with retarded DRM. Prices are even reasonable (though trending upwards ) so I don't feel like i'm getting ripped off too badly.
Amazing how the new, high-tech world is incapable of turning a profit on the same sales that have been going on for centuries when they can eliminate a large % of the cost that the old-school ways have. Oh...except anything new and high tech has to play nice by our retarded DMCA and enhanced copyright laws - which are supposed to encourage innovation and artists? gag me
So if I read between the lines correctly...your average joe-sixpack is better at judging dosages and drug interactions (OTC meds) than MD's are.
Gotta love it.
I'm poor and wanted to end my pathetic life so I took 40. I'm nearly dead. Send me to jail now please so I can get top-of-the-line health care for free. /sarcasm
Similar thing with cigs...
I just came back from Europe (Sweden to be specific) a week ago.
Their cigs all have white stickers with warnings. Not like in the US "The surgeon general says smoking can do bad stuff so on noes" but rather more specific "SMOKING KILLS".
If you buy that pack, you damn well know what you're getting into (oddly though, it's in english).
Yet someone clearly could be illiterate and still buy 3 packs a day till they die. CLEARLY the fault of the manufacturer and it's poor warning.
We essentially banned pseudophedrine because some tiny fraction of of the population was taking meth and an even smaller fraction was using OTC decongestant to make the stuff. Never mind that 99.9% (give or take, find your own citation) of all pseudophedrine use was as intended.
How about we just ban everything that is potentially unsafe or could be used in a dangerous manner. Water is the first on my list i think (see 'google: dihydrogen monoxide' for laughs).
I would have to disagree. What was done to this child was *not nice* but being a big fat meanie-head isn't illegal.
In the end, you are responsible for your own actions. If someone tells me that microshaft stock is going through the roof tomorrow and i buy in big only to see them tank...well too bad, so sad. There are, of course, exceptions for someone you employ who intentionally gives you known wrong information - but in that case you have a contractual agreement (verbal, virtual, or on paper) that they are violating.
If you want to criminalize lying or making someone feel bad I suggest you go lobby for yet another unenforcible law that will make the non-sheeple shake their heads.
I don't like what she did - it was a terrible thing to do - but I support a person's right to saw what they want no matter how much i disagree with it.
Gotta know when to hold em, gotta know when to fold em.
Is having a good paying job, nice car/house/etc. worth the unhealthy and stressful lifestyle? Depends on your goals in life. I know plenty of people who burn out, plenty who succeed and plenty who decide a simple, clean place to live with simple possessions is enough for them if they have time for the things they enjoy doing.
If you have a wife and kids to support...well you suck it up and take the job until a better one comes along. In the mean time - do what you can.