"We conclude that smoking marijuana, regardless of tetrahydrocannabinol content, results in a substantially greater respiratory burden of carbon monoxide and tar than smoking a similar quantity of tobacco"
Not particularly important given that two hits of pot gets the job done. With the exception of a small percentage of pot smokers, nobody smokes pot like they smoke cigarettes.
"Most people will not care what is better by 0.3%"
Yes, we should let the fact that many people have no ability to discern quality make the decision for us. What about those of us who actually give a shit? See, I can actually see and hear the differences. So it pisses me off when some dipshit who hasn't learned to listen or watch dictate to me anything about a subject they obviously don't give a shit about. Why don't you focus on things you actually care about and let the rest of us who actually care about audio and video work this out. I have a feeling we'll do a much better job than you would.
Actually, it was the teachers that were the most engaging that I liked the best even in cases where I wasn't interested in their subject. For example, in high school I had history teacher who was awesome. Mind you, at the time I couldn't give a shit abut history but he was so good at teaching it that I looked forward to his class over all the other ones I was taking at the time. His tests were hard. His class was hard (harder than any college classes I've taken even) but I didn't give a shit about that. I only got a C in his class but is was mainly because I didn't do all the homework he assigned. In any event, I would have never given him a bad rating. He rocked, I didn't, simple as that. Oh, and after all these years I still remember him and his class. I've forgotten almost everyone else.
lol...your post is a bit naive. Sure, there are cases where offshoring is used to produce a product at a lower price but most of it is to simply increase the profit of the company. It is extremely rare for a company that suddenly starts offshoring their manufacturing to China to drop the price of their produce with all the money they saved on labor. It just doesn't happen for the most part. The only example I can think of where this discount is provided is with guitar manufacturing. So a company like Breedlove has an American line and a Chinese line of guitars and the Chinese ones are less. Even then it's hard to make a direct comparison though since the American ones are made with better quality woods, etc. In any event, having played both, the American ones are clearly better and have a much better rep than their Chinese counterparts. And I say that as a person who was praying the Chinese ones were just as good since the American ones are expensive ($2k+).
I'm not suggesting someone's career should rest in the hands of a single child or even small group of children. In any event, kids like good teachers so they're not generally inclined to fuck them over. Additionally, there's no need to tell the kids why you're asking about their teacher.
If you can't tell when kids are being full of shit, you need to get out of the education business. Plus, kids like passionate teachers. I don't think it's an issue.
lol...you're kidding right? Why don't you just ask the children in the class? If the kids cannot detect the passion, then it really doesn't matter whether some evaluation board thinks they have any or not.
Agreed. When I was in school, math was taught in the most uninteresting way possible. It was a boring, uninteresting slog with dispassionate teachers through problems that I could find no way to correlate to the real world. For me, it's very hard to stay interested in anything that I cannot correlate to my real world. What's especially sad about it is the fact that I actually was interested in math, really wanted to learn it, but became so utterly bored with the way it was taught and the quality of the text books that it almost completely killed my interest in it. My mother actually thought there was something wrong with me because my grades in math were so mediocre (mostly Cs), that she sent me to a psychologist.
You can couch this anyway you like but in the end, if she is obligated to pay the reward, she is fucked for ever. Her life is ruined. The reward is more than most people will make in their lifetime. Is that appropriate for ripping off some music?
The instructions say to ignore the fact that she's an individual, but I think that's a bunch of bullshit. She IS an individual and there's a huge difference between a company using premeditated unethical practices to defeat a competitor an an individual who merely wants to listen to some free tunes. In addition, if everyone guilty of this crime were given the same penalty, it would add up to far more than the RIAA could ever hope to make on the songs if they sold legally.
The punishment simply doesn't fit the crime. I guess in civil cases that just doesn't matter. Welcome to the United $tate$.
Cute. Sorry to inform you but I actually studied world history. You created the environment for the Nazis to exist courtesy of the reparations specified in the Treaty of Versailles. So, you fucked yourselves through poor leadership and a complete lack of foresight. And by "you" I mean specifically France which desired especially harsh treatment of Germany. So I'm still waiting to hear how that makes you better than us.
What first world country is more violent than the US?
Just because I talk about the US does not make me myopic. I am allowed to talk about my own fucking country. Like I said, it doesn't matter because no matter what we say or do, it's all the same to you. Why? Because Europe is filled with elitist assholes whose only way to feel superior is take act like you know everything and we know nothing. It's nothing new and rather cliche at this point.
As for driver's seats, you had your chance. You guys are so fucking brilliant and knowledgeable that you couldn't hang on to it? Poor baby. Cry more. When we are no longer in the driver's seat, it will be China next and not you sorry assholes and I can guarantee you that you will wish we were still in charge when that happens.
Maybe in a few hundred years, you'll get another chance to fuck up the world.
Whether you want to believe they kept POWs for decades or not, it doesn't have anything whatsoever to do with what I was arguing because they did keep prisoners for years after the war and that's not subject to debate.
I don't really consider China a first world country. Sure, it has a few modernized cities but the vast majority of it is as ass-backwards as you can get.
I'm not trying to convince you we're the worst country in the world or any such crap. What I'm trying to do is make Americans who think we're a bunch of angels realize that we're far from angelic and far from perfect. Too many see this country with rose colored glasses. You obviously don't so really there's no issue as far as I'm concerned with you.
Please spare me the "I'm the wise and more worldly European" bullshit. When did I ever say the US was "special" or "all that"? What I love about Europeans is that even when an American is willing to be critical about his own country you attack him for it and somehow construe it into the person having an ignorant myopic view of the world. In other words, from your perspective we're fucking morons no matter what we do or say. It's why so many people in this country don't give a fuck what you people think because your still so fucking bitter about not running the world anymore. Get over it. Maybe one day you assholes will get off your fucking high horses and get a perspective that doesn't involve having a stick up your ass. Until then, I couldn't give a fuck what you think.
I'm not talking about ancient history. I'm talking about TODAY's America and TODAY's world. Yes, we can go back in history and look at the Nazi's in Germany, and Stalin, etc. I'm talking about today. The bottom line is we're the worst. Btw, Russia is second world -- not first world. Anyway, look at my reply to 4D6963 for more evidence.
ROFL...on our TV we can have all forms of violence that is outlawed or at least looked down upon in most other first world nations but god forbid you show a tit. But hey, Fuck cartoons and TV. We simply kill more and it's not just because we have guns. Look at Canada. They have just as a high a percentage of gun ownership as we do, yet we kill many many times more people than they do (17000 vs. 578). We invade countries that haven't even attacked us. I could go on and on. What kind of fucking evidence do you need? You'd have to be completely delusional to think we aren't the most violent.
Thanks for cherry picking my most and losing my point. But since you bring it up, the Vietnamese did all kinds of evil shit during the war including using children to detonate grenades by US soldiers. But sure, their culture is so much more peaceful. Given the right circumstances, ANY culture will do evil things.
I'm afraid if you want change, it has to come from within. The Iranian people will have to rise up and displace their government, by force if necessary. Chatting about it on the net won't help, and the US is not going to at all be interested in forcing change at this point.
So easy to type while sitting on your fat ass in your lay-z-boy recliner. And how many drops of blood did you shed during the American Revolution? None, that's right. So STFU with your "change from within" bullshit. Until you put your ass on the line in the same way, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
FInally, revolutions need help. If you knew history you would know that the US would not exist today without external help.
Really? Show me the writings of the founding fathers that say this. I hear this bullshit all the time but I read all these things written by the founding fathers and I find it hard to imagine that based on those writings that their inspiration could be based so simply over finance. Your conclusion is simply illogical from the mountain mostly inspirational prose that they have written.
You are either unbelievably ignorant or a troll. 1) the vietnamese kept POWs for decades after the war, and 2) they are still suing for monetary compensation to clean up the ecological mess left by agent orange. America put the despot in power in Iran. Most Iranians in the past have actually been very pro-American. This is still true of most of the younger Iranians in spite of the fact that we've fucked them pretty hard in the past.
Reporter, I strongly suggest you learn A LOT more about history. If you want to talk about the difference of cultures, you need to actually learn about them. For starters, you need to learn that Americans have the most violent culture of any first world country. Start there, life is not black and white, wake the fuck up, and grow up. Oh, and I'm American.
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"We conclude that smoking marijuana, regardless of tetrahydrocannabinol content, results in a substantially greater respiratory burden of carbon monoxide and tar than smoking a similar quantity of tobacco"
Not particularly important given that two hits of pot gets the job done. With the exception of a small percentage of pot smokers, nobody smokes pot like they smoke cigarettes.
"Most people will not care what is better by 0.3%"
Yes, we should let the fact that many people have no ability to discern quality make the decision for us. What about those of us who actually give a shit? See, I can actually see and hear the differences. So it pisses me off when some dipshit who hasn't learned to listen or watch dictate to me anything about a subject they obviously don't give a shit about. Why don't you focus on things you actually care about and let the rest of us who actually care about audio and video work this out. I have a feeling we'll do a much better job than you would.
Actually, it was the teachers that were the most engaging that I liked the best even in cases where I wasn't interested in their subject. For example, in high school I had history teacher who was awesome. Mind you, at the time I couldn't give a shit abut history but he was so good at teaching it that I looked forward to his class over all the other ones I was taking at the time. His tests were hard. His class was hard (harder than any college classes I've taken even) but I didn't give a shit about that. I only got a C in his class but is was mainly because I didn't do all the homework he assigned. In any event, I would have never given him a bad rating. He rocked, I didn't, simple as that. Oh, and after all these years I still remember him and his class. I've forgotten almost everyone else.
lol...your post is a bit naive. Sure, there are cases where offshoring is used to produce a product at a lower price but most of it is to simply increase the profit of the company. It is extremely rare for a company that suddenly starts offshoring their manufacturing to China to drop the price of their produce with all the money they saved on labor. It just doesn't happen for the most part. The only example I can think of where this discount is provided is with guitar manufacturing. So a company like Breedlove has an American line and a Chinese line of guitars and the Chinese ones are less. Even then it's hard to make a direct comparison though since the American ones are made with better quality woods, etc. In any event, having played both, the American ones are clearly better and have a much better rep than their Chinese counterparts. And I say that as a person who was praying the Chinese ones were just as good since the American ones are expensive ($2k+).
I'm not suggesting someone's career should rest in the hands of a single child or even small group of children. In any event, kids like good teachers so they're not generally inclined to fuck them over. Additionally, there's no need to tell the kids why you're asking about their teacher.
If you can't tell when kids are being full of shit, you need to get out of the education business. Plus, kids like passionate teachers. I don't think it's an issue.
lol...you're kidding right? Why don't you just ask the children in the class? If the kids cannot detect the passion, then it really doesn't matter whether some evaluation board thinks they have any or not.
Agreed. When I was in school, math was taught in the most uninteresting way possible. It was a boring, uninteresting slog with dispassionate teachers through problems that I could find no way to correlate to the real world. For me, it's very hard to stay interested in anything that I cannot correlate to my real world. What's especially sad about it is the fact that I actually was interested in math, really wanted to learn it, but became so utterly bored with the way it was taught and the quality of the text books that it almost completely killed my interest in it. My mother actually thought there was something wrong with me because my grades in math were so mediocre (mostly Cs), that she sent me to a psychologist.
lol...that was resolved years ago. When was the last time you looked at VOIP??
You can couch this anyway you like but in the end, if she is obligated to pay the reward, she is fucked for ever. Her life is ruined. The reward is more than most people will make in their lifetime. Is that appropriate for ripping off some music?
The instructions say to ignore the fact that she's an individual, but I think that's a bunch of bullshit. She IS an individual and there's a huge difference between a company using premeditated unethical practices to defeat a competitor an an individual who merely wants to listen to some free tunes. In addition, if everyone guilty of this crime were given the same penalty, it would add up to far more than the RIAA could ever hope to make on the songs if they sold legally.
The punishment simply doesn't fit the crime. I guess in civil cases that just doesn't matter. Welcome to the United $tate$.
Yes because the real scientific community has so much experience with 120,000 year old bacteria...
rofl...you finally said something I agree with!
Actually you're the one who derailed the conversation. I accept your apology.
:)
Just an FYI...I'm unemployed and I suffer from chronic depression so I can go on like this forever.
Cute. Sorry to inform you but I actually studied world history. You created the environment for the Nazis to exist courtesy of the reparations specified in the Treaty of Versailles. So, you fucked yourselves through poor leadership and a complete lack of foresight. And by "you" I mean specifically France which desired especially harsh treatment of Germany. So I'm still waiting to hear how that makes you better than us.
What first world country is more violent than the US?
Just because I talk about the US does not make me myopic. I am allowed to talk about my own fucking country. Like I said, it doesn't matter because no matter what we say or do, it's all the same to you. Why? Because Europe is filled with elitist assholes whose only way to feel superior is take act like you know everything and we know nothing. It's nothing new and rather cliche at this point.
As for driver's seats, you had your chance. You guys are so fucking brilliant and knowledgeable that you couldn't hang on to it? Poor baby. Cry more. When we are no longer in the driver's seat, it will be China next and not you sorry assholes and I can guarantee you that you will wish we were still in charge when that happens.
Maybe in a few hundred years, you'll get another chance to fuck up the world.
What first world country is more violent than the US?
Whether you want to believe they kept POWs for decades or not, it doesn't have anything whatsoever to do with what I was arguing because they did keep prisoners for years after the war and that's not subject to debate.
I don't really consider China a first world country. Sure, it has a few modernized cities but the vast majority of it is as ass-backwards as you can get. I'm not trying to convince you we're the worst country in the world or any such crap. What I'm trying to do is make Americans who think we're a bunch of angels realize that we're far from angelic and far from perfect. Too many see this country with rose colored glasses. You obviously don't so really there's no issue as far as I'm concerned with you.
Please spare me the "I'm the wise and more worldly European" bullshit. When did I ever say the US was "special" or "all that"? What I love about Europeans is that even when an American is willing to be critical about his own country you attack him for it and somehow construe it into the person having an ignorant myopic view of the world. In other words, from your perspective we're fucking morons no matter what we do or say. It's why so many people in this country don't give a fuck what you people think because your still so fucking bitter about not running the world anymore. Get over it. Maybe one day you assholes will get off your fucking high horses and get a perspective that doesn't involve having a stick up your ass. Until then, I couldn't give a fuck what you think.
I'm not talking about ancient history. I'm talking about TODAY's America and TODAY's world. Yes, we can go back in history and look at the Nazi's in Germany, and Stalin, etc. I'm talking about today. The bottom line is we're the worst. Btw, Russia is second world -- not first world. Anyway, look at my reply to 4D6963 for more evidence.
ROFL...on our TV we can have all forms of violence that is outlawed or at least looked down upon in most other first world nations but god forbid you show a tit. But hey, Fuck cartoons and TV. We simply kill more and it's not just because we have guns. Look at Canada. They have just as a high a percentage of gun ownership as we do, yet we kill many many times more people than they do (17000 vs. 578). We invade countries that haven't even attacked us. I could go on and on. What kind of fucking evidence do you need? You'd have to be completely delusional to think we aren't the most violent.
Thanks for cherry picking my most and losing my point. But since you bring it up, the Vietnamese did all kinds of evil shit during the war including using children to detonate grenades by US soldiers. But sure, their culture is so much more peaceful. Given the right circumstances, ANY culture will do evil things.
I'm afraid if you want change, it has to come from within. The Iranian people will have to rise up and displace their government, by force if necessary. Chatting about it on the net won't help, and the US is not going to at all be interested in forcing change at this point.
So easy to type while sitting on your fat ass in your lay-z-boy recliner. And how many drops of blood did you shed during the American Revolution? None, that's right. So STFU with your "change from within" bullshit. Until you put your ass on the line in the same way, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. FInally, revolutions need help. If you knew history you would know that the US would not exist today without external help.
Really? Show me the writings of the founding fathers that say this. I hear this bullshit all the time but I read all these things written by the founding fathers and I find it hard to imagine that based on those writings that their inspiration could be based so simply over finance. Your conclusion is simply illogical from the mountain mostly inspirational prose that they have written.
You are either unbelievably ignorant or a troll. 1) the vietnamese kept POWs for decades after the war, and 2) they are still suing for monetary compensation to clean up the ecological mess left by agent orange. America put the despot in power in Iran. Most Iranians in the past have actually been very pro-American. This is still true of most of the younger Iranians in spite of the fact that we've fucked them pretty hard in the past.
Reporter, I strongly suggest you learn A LOT more about history. If you want to talk about the difference of cultures, you need to actually learn about them. For starters, you need to learn that Americans have the most violent culture of any first world country. Start there, life is not black and white, wake the fuck up, and grow up. Oh, and I'm American.