I agree that labour rackets and illegal gambling rackets existed before prohibition, but the real money for Capone and Joe P. Kennedy came from bootlegging, as I recall ( I recently read "Blood and Power" by I don't remember who ).
As to Prohibition being effective, are you saying that all other countries have either never decreased their drinking levels or that the US was the lead nation in alcohol-related problems? From what I understand, US was the only country ( barring some Muslim nations ) to actually pass a law banning alcohol for consumption.
Does this imply that everyone else was wrong and the US is the only country that knew what it's doing? I highly doubt that.
I would estimate that emergency rooms would be filled with countless pot heads,
This is SO a troll
Explain to me what a pothead would be doing in an emergency room. Extreme munchies? Bumped head on monitor? Bad vibes, man?
Pothead in hospital: Dude, you have to help me! I have this thing... and... oh look, jello.
Are our hospitals right now overflowing with drunk drivers, people with cirossis (sp?) of the liver and alcohol poisoning? Or are those just a few idiots who can't handle alcohol responsibly? Hey, why don't we ban alcohol, since it's responsible for SO many more deaths than weed is ( 0 roughly )? Oh yeah, cuz there's a) a huge industry built around it and b) you idiots tried that once, and ended up smuggling alcohol from up here ( Canada ) and fostering a ton of organized crime ( like, say, the organized crime that feeds on illegal drug trade ).
The highest frequency of any digital system is determined, at the end, by how fast the transistors can switch on and off. A really cool thing will happen when asynchronous processors will come out. Asynchronous devices don't have clocked speeds, so the only limitation is the speed of the logic gates through which the signal must go. The problem with asynchronous devices is that they're a bitch to design, because you have race conditions to worry about and you don't know if you can accept the input and such ( since there is no clock cycle to tell you that )
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Must..stop... laughing.. at work.
If only there were more people like you in the world... sigh.
As to Prohibition being effective, are you saying that all other countries have either never decreased their drinking levels or that the US was the lead nation in alcohol-related problems? From what I understand, US was the only country ( barring some Muslim nations ) to actually pass a law banning alcohol for consumption.
Does this imply that everyone else was wrong and the US is the only country that knew what it's doing? I highly doubt that.
Thank you for your intelligent reply, however :)
This is SO a troll
Explain to me what a pothead would be doing in an emergency room. Extreme munchies? Bumped head on monitor? Bad vibes, man?
Pothead in hospital: Dude, you have to help me! I have this thing... and... oh look, jello.
Are our hospitals right now overflowing with drunk drivers, people with cirossis (sp?) of the liver and alcohol poisoning? Or are those just a few idiots who can't handle alcohol responsibly?
Hey, why don't we ban alcohol, since it's responsible for SO many more deaths than weed is ( 0 roughly )? Oh yeah, cuz there's a) a huge industry built around it and b) you idiots tried that once, and ended up smuggling alcohol from up here ( Canada ) and fostering a ton of organized crime ( like, say, the organized crime that feeds on illegal drug trade ).
The highest frequency of any digital system is determined, at the end, by how fast the transistors can switch on and off. A really cool thing will happen when asynchronous processors will come out. Asynchronous devices don't have clocked speeds, so the only limitation is the speed of the logic gates through which the signal must go. The problem with asynchronous devices is that they're a bitch to design, because you have race conditions to worry about and you don't know if you can accept the input and such ( since there is no clock cycle to tell you that )