I live in the UK where it _could_ be said that drug laws (particularly the classification of Cannabis) are in flux.
There was an interesting program on television that asked many health and drug proffesionals to rank many common legal and illegal drugs by their harm to the body (toxcicity) and their harm to society, very intersting that one of the lowest was ecstacy (18/20) and top three (from memmory) were heroin, coccaine and alcohol with tobbaco up there as well.
Tobbaco advertising has been banned almost everywhere, yet alcohol is advertised on TV. Oh the disparity.
All the 'debates' or discussions about drugs are so massively one-sidded, in order to have a proper debate you have to talk about the all aspects of drug taking, including the benefits of why people would take them. Maybe then we will get some straight answers as to what we should 'do about drugs'.
We need to have a real, reasoned debate about drugs and their effects on society. But you find me a politician/lawmaker who will stand up and actually talk about benefits of taking drugs.
I saw a guy years ago, trying to build realtime video goggles to filter out aspects of reality he didn't like.
He produced an algorithm to identify rectangles in any orientation in real time video and the device would ask you if you were interested or would prefer not to see it again. Once you decide to filter this particular advert/billboard/hoarding it would recognize future instances of it and replace them with a blank represtentation or something of your choice.
But this was years and years ago.
I am waiting for realtime video overlay, projected onto your retina by tiny lasers. With facial recognition and you will have a HUD tagging people visually with: their name, last time you saw them, any related birthdays coming up and possibly subjects to avoid. Wow that will make meetings/parties/get-togethers easier for me.
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I live in the UK where it _could_ be said that drug laws (particularly the classification of Cannabis) are in flux. There was an interesting program on television that asked many health and drug proffesionals to rank many common legal and illegal drugs by their harm to the body (toxcicity) and their harm to society, very intersting that one of the lowest was ecstacy (18/20) and top three (from memmory) were heroin, coccaine and alcohol with tobbaco up there as well. Tobbaco advertising has been banned almost everywhere, yet alcohol is advertised on TV. Oh the disparity. All the 'debates' or discussions about drugs are so massively one-sidded, in order to have a proper debate you have to talk about the all aspects of drug taking, including the benefits of why people would take them. Maybe then we will get some straight answers as to what we should 'do about drugs'. We need to have a real, reasoned debate about drugs and their effects on society. But you find me a politician/lawmaker who will stand up and actually talk about benefits of taking drugs.
What about liquified ABS plastic, viscous but flows and sets as hard as proper ABS plastic. Also easily available.
I saw a guy years ago, trying to build realtime video goggles to filter out aspects of reality he didn't like.
He produced an algorithm to identify rectangles in any orientation in real time video and the device would ask you if you were interested or would prefer not to see it again. Once you decide to filter this particular advert/billboard/hoarding it would recognize future instances of it and replace them with a blank represtentation or something of your choice.
But this was years and years ago.
I am waiting for realtime video overlay, projected onto your retina by tiny lasers. With facial recognition and you will have a HUD tagging people visually with: their name, last time you saw them, any related birthdays coming up and possibly subjects to avoid. Wow that will make meetings/parties/get-togethers easier for me.