It actually really simple: kids are kids, and the best way to get them to do something is by forbidding it. Kids in Holland don't regularly use drugs because it's not forbidden, and thus not kinky or exciting. Period.
I suspect that the drug prohibition here is also a big part of the reason why harder drugs are so popular. As you said kids are kids, and when they find out that everything they were told about marijuana was a lie they may think that the things they were told about cocaine and heroin are lies too.
Problem is that the bulk of photoshop users are griphics professionals, not programmers. So even if they had the desire, most don't have the skill to fix such things.
Do you have any idea of how much work it would take for reliable and accurate CMYK separations in GIMP?
I use GIMP sometimes, and Photoshop sometimes. It all depends on what I'm doing. If it's a quick image rotation and I don't feel the need to open photoshop, I'll GIMP it. If it's something more in depth, I'll use Photoshop.
At least all Linux kernal mods have to be approved by Linus.
They only have to be approved by Linus to make it into the "Official" tree. You, I or anyone else could make all of the patches we want and fork the kernel.
One huge difference between Linux and *NIX is that there is such a fanatical following that if someone does decide to fork the kernel there had better be a damned good reason or else the fork will have no users.
They'll want a tax on amplifiers and subwoofers, because if you have a loud stereo in your car all kinds of people will be able to hear the music without paying for it.
Unlike, say alcohol, coke, or heroin, it does not cause intoxication and cigarette addiction is very unlikely to cause you to lose your job and family.
Spoken like a true non-smoker.
When I first started smoking (10 years ago) I would catch such a buzz from a single cigarette that I had to lie down or I'd fall over. Nicotine is a powerful stimulant, it can very much be an intoxicant for those who have not developed a tolerance to it.
Actually, I was referring to mites, ticks and the like. It's not possible to keep them out of the mix when you're cooking up dope in a dirty barn. Since quality control isn't the top priority for people who are making illegal drugs, they make no attempt to purify the end result to get rid of the arthropod parts that enter the mix.
More often then we think, when we hear of someone who dies of an "overdose" it is not the drug that kills them, but the impurities that are present in street level drugs.
We're still using morphine in hospitals over here, so consequently I must assume that you are just regurgitating something you read someplace.
You assume incorrectly. Your use of "Schedule A" instead of "Schedule I" shows me where you are coming from.
Guess what? Morphine in general is the same thing as heroin.
I didn't say "Morpine", I said "Diamorphine", there is a difference. Granted, once in the body it is metabolized into morphine, like all other opiates, but that's not the point. Heroin was developed as a way to break people of morphine addiction. Oops.,4-MDMA began as a medically-purposed drug, primarily for psychological purposes, but became schedule A over here because it is highly addictive, both psychologically and physically, and causes real and permanent damage from the very first use. (The extent of this damage, however, is a subject of much debate.)
MDMA and LSD have seen widespread success in europe to treat certain mental illnesses and for terminally ill patients. If death is a certainty and opiates are no longer providing the kind of pain relief necessary, LSD has been shown to be an effective alternative.
Hell, there is a 2000+ year history of Marijuana being used medicinally, but it's still Shedule I (note, not schedule A for those of us who are not regurgitating something that we read somewhere) which means that it has "no accepted medical use in treatment,".
The Europeans have a much more enlightned view of drugs. For example, in europe you can get a pain killer called "Diamorphine", in the us that same painkiller is illegal because it is chemically the same as heroin. Eurpoean diamorphine is manufactured under controlled conditions and is as safe as any other pain killer. American heroin is made in dirty warehouses and contains so many impurities that you are more likely to die from the introduction of arthropod parts into your blood stream than you are to die from overdosing on diamorphine.
I typically sing the tune priaising the greatness of my country, but when it comes to drug policy, my country has it ass backwards.
I'm tempted to post this as anonymous because I have no idea how many mods are Will Smith fans, but I couldn't help it.
LK
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I can see from that high UID, you're relatively new here. This is Slashdot. You'd have better luck getting Planned Parenthood to recommend that you adopt out your baby than finding people here who actually RTFA.
Postal inspectors are allowed to carry guns anywhere under US jurisdiction. They are on a level similar to the FBI and BATF. It's bad for one's health to fuck with the USPS.
So if companies are really security concious, they'll check employees with coke packs. Seriously though, how many people that work at those "high-level" (sic) facilities, bring 6/12 packs to work everyday.
It doesn't seem unreasonable to me that an employee might brown bag it and take a couple of cans of Coke in from home. One of those cans could very well be a "winner".
Way back when they used to include cheap cigarettes with the C-Rats. I guess that was to help you forget about the awful taste of the food.
If you go even further back, the US Army fed troops beef that was rotten when they bought it. Some troops dies, but Hormel made tons of money off of it.
And you need to keep recipts for all of them. Some people prefer to not have that much information to track. One recipt from IBM, Dell or Gateway and you're covered.
Silly me, I was thinking of the law as a binary concept (either your breaking it or you're not) but you've changed my life forever.
IANAL but this is common sense. There are civil infractions, and criminal infractions criminal comes in several varities (summary, misdemeanor, felony...) so yes, there are degrees of "breaking the law".
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It actually really simple: kids are kids, and the best way to get them to do something is by forbidding it. Kids in Holland don't regularly use drugs because it's not forbidden, and thus not kinky or exciting. Period.
I suspect that the drug prohibition here is also a big part of the reason why harder drugs are so popular. As you said kids are kids, and when they find out that everything they were told about marijuana was a lie they may think that the things they were told about cocaine and heroin are lies too.
LK
Problem is that the bulk of photoshop users are griphics professionals, not programmers. So even if they had the desire, most don't have the skill to fix such things.
Do you have any idea of how much work it would take for reliable and accurate CMYK separations in GIMP?
I use GIMP sometimes, and Photoshop sometimes. It all depends on what I'm doing. If it's a quick image rotation and I don't feel the need to open photoshop, I'll GIMP it. If it's something more in depth, I'll use Photoshop.
To each his own.
LK
And what's to stop you from calling your fork "Linux based"?
As much as I may hate to delve into Stallman like anal retentiveness, Linux is not the OS, it's just the kernel.
LK
At least all Linux kernal mods have to be approved by Linus.
They only have to be approved by Linus to make it into the "Official" tree. You, I or anyone else could make all of the patches we want and fork the kernel.
One huge difference between Linux and *NIX is that there is such a fanatical following that if someone does decide to fork the kernel there had better be a damned good reason or else the fork will have no users.
LK
So someone who drops stone cold dead on their ass from a hotshot really died from impurities.
Not always, I won't even go as far as to say most of the time, but often, yes.
Thanks for remediating our ignorance.
You're welcome.
LK
Give it a few decades, it'll be as safe(and not nearly as gross) as do it yourself body modification.
LK
They'll want a tax on amplifiers and subwoofers, because if you have a loud stereo in your car all kinds of people will be able to hear the music without paying for it.
LK
Unlike, say alcohol, coke, or heroin, it does not cause intoxication and cigarette addiction is very unlikely to cause you to lose your job and family.
Spoken like a true non-smoker.
When I first started smoking (10 years ago) I would catch such a buzz from a single cigarette that I had to lie down or I'd fall over. Nicotine is a powerful stimulant, it can very much be an intoxicant for those who have not developed a tolerance to it.
LK
Yes, shooting up shrimp isn't good for you. :D
Actually, I was referring to mites, ticks and the like. It's not possible to keep them out of the mix when you're cooking up dope in a dirty barn. Since quality control isn't the top priority for people who are making illegal drugs, they make no attempt to purify the end result to get rid of the arthropod parts that enter the mix.
More often then we think, when we hear of someone who dies of an "overdose" it is not the drug that kills them, but the impurities that are present in street level drugs.
LK
We're still using morphine in hospitals over here, so consequently I must assume that you are just regurgitating something you read someplace.
,4-MDMA began as a medically-purposed drug, primarily for psychological purposes, but became schedule A over here because it is highly addictive, both psychologically and physically, and causes real and permanent damage from the very first use. (The extent of this damage, however, is a subject of much debate.)
You assume incorrectly. Your use of "Schedule A" instead of "Schedule I" shows me where you are coming from.
Guess what? Morphine in general is the same thing as heroin.
I didn't say "Morpine", I said "Diamorphine", there is a difference. Granted, once in the body it is metabolized into morphine, like all other opiates, but that's not the point. Heroin was developed as a way to break people of morphine addiction. Oops.
MDMA and LSD have seen widespread success in europe to treat certain mental illnesses and for terminally ill patients. If death is a certainty and opiates are no longer providing the kind of pain relief necessary, LSD has been shown to be an effective alternative.
Hell, there is a 2000+ year history of Marijuana being used medicinally, but it's still Shedule I (note, not schedule A for those of us who are not regurgitating something that we read somewhere) which means that it has "no accepted medical use in treatment,".
LK
The Europeans have a much more enlightned view of drugs. For example, in europe you can get a pain killer called "Diamorphine", in the us that same painkiller is illegal because it is chemically the same as heroin. Eurpoean diamorphine is manufactured under controlled conditions and is as safe as any other pain killer. American heroin is made in dirty warehouses and contains so many impurities that you are more likely to die from the introduction of arthropod parts into your blood stream than you are to die from overdosing on diamorphine.
I typically sing the tune priaising the greatness of my country, but when it comes to drug policy, my country has it ass backwards.
LK
He's a sissy bitch.
Look at my blog for details.
I'm tempted to post this as anonymous because I have no idea how many mods are Will Smith fans, but I couldn't help it.
LK
I can see from that high UID, you're relatively new here. This is Slashdot. You'd have better luck getting Planned Parenthood to recommend that you adopt out your baby than finding people here who actually RTFA.
LK
Postal inspectors are allowed to carry guns anywhere under US jurisdiction. They are on a level similar to the FBI and BATF. It's bad for one's health to fuck with the USPS.
LK
Almost any crime associated with USPS is a federal crime...
Um, well, since the USPS is under the umbrella of the US Federal Government that kind of goes without saying.
LK
I'll bet that all of that kid's surviving relatives and friends would NEVER think of ripping someone off over the internet now.
LK
Also keep in mind that if you have your CC company do a chargeback against PayPal, PayPal WILL add that information to your credit report.
LK
So if companies are really security concious, they'll check employees with coke packs. Seriously though, how many people that work at those "high-level" (sic) facilities, bring 6/12 packs to work everyday.
It doesn't seem unreasonable to me that an employee might brown bag it and take a couple of cans of Coke in from home. One of those cans could very well be a "winner".
LK
The requested journal entries could not be found.
LK
Just ask anyone who had to endure C-rations.
Way back when they used to include cheap cigarettes with the C-Rats. I guess that was to help you forget about the awful taste of the food.
If you go even further back, the US Army fed troops beef that was rotten when they bought it. Some troops dies, but Hormel made tons of money off of it.
LK
I think it's unisex like Jamie, Kendall, Marion, Stacey, Tracey, etc...
LK
And you need to keep recipts for all of them. Some people prefer to not have that much information to track. One recipt from IBM, Dell or Gateway and you're covered.
LK
Silly me, I was thinking of the law as a binary concept (either your breaking it or you're not) but you've changed my life forever.
IANAL but this is common sense. There are civil infractions, and criminal infractions criminal comes in several varities (summary, misdemeanor, felony...) so yes, there are degrees of "breaking the law".
LK
Who knows, they might never make an album again out of frustration...
Bad example. You need to show that there is a down side to piracy.
LK
no one? the types that load linux custom build.
Not ones who want a manufacturer's warranty on the system.
LK