Firefox addons give you site-by-site preferences. Take a look at NoScript. I'm pretty sure some others do as well, but I use NoScript all the time. It's probably not the best thing since sliced bread, but it comes close.
You call it a problem. I see that as a tremendous advantage. Instead of installing my OS, then searching my drawers and closets for CD's and floppies, or downloading stuff from random sites, I just go to my trusted repository to install everything I need. All my downloads come from a single place, all of it having been vetted for malware and/or security holes. It's really great, IMHO. All updates come from the same source, there's no need for me to have my system tray loaded with icons that continuously check for updates.
Of course, if I find something interesting in the tubes, it may or may not be in the repositories. Then, I have to strain my mind real hard to find the half dozen commands needed to install alien software. If my feeble mind should fail to recall any of those commands, I can always google for them.
I really like things the way they are. My wife isn't even tempted to install some Dancing Ponies screensaver. It's not in the trusted repository, so she doesn't mess with it.
Member owned? Alright - what percentage of the central bank is "owned" by the member banks? And, who owns those banks that own shares in the Federal Reserve?
Small percentage, you say? Let me get that right - we are in debt so far that our descendants won't pay off the debt for generations to come, even if they do maintain a balanced budget. Yet, you claim that all the profit goes to us, the American government/taxpayers?
That small percentage is multiplied almost a hundred fold because of fractional reserves. The federal reserve prints up a billion dollars, then loans out ten billion to it's member banks.. Each of ten banks borrows a billion, and each of them loans out ten billion. So, the fed prints a billion, and we, collectively, borrow a hundred billion.
The AC who posted immediately after you recognizes how big a problem the central bank is, and he correctly identifies it as a political problem rather than an economic problem. However - he fails to connect a couple of dots. Money talks in politics, more than it talks anywhere else. The political problem has been translated into an economic problem.
"The US doesn't even need to fund deficit spending through debt either, as a government in sovereign control over its own currency, is capable of funding itself through money creation, with the only limit being the potential for inflation."
This is where you prove yourself to be a babe, lost in the woods.
The United States of America does not have control of it's own currency. The poorly and misleadingly named "Federal Reserve" has control over the currency that we BORROW from them. The Federal Reserve is a private bank, controlled by the heirs of the Rothschild family. The Federal Reserve is the same thing that many other countries call a "Central Bank". All those so-called central banks belong to the same people.
The banks do not exist for the benefit of the nations that host them. The banks do not exist for the benefit of citizens. The banks exist for one purpose, and one purpose only. That purpose is PROFIT.
When it profits those banks to do so, they will trigger a recession. When it profits them to do so, they end recessions, as well as depressions. The very same central banks will fund both sides of a war. The Central Bank of England funded Napoleon, at the same time that they also funded the armies that eventually beat him.
Apparently, you see Jobs, Ballmer, and Torvalds as equals. I don't see that. I know that if you used anything that either Jobs or Microsoft owns, you're expected to pay, and pay, and pay. On the other hand, Torvalds has given blanket permission for anyone in the world to use his product, pretty much as they see fit, whether commercially or for private or government use. It's pretty much free to use, and free to alter for your own purposes.
I just don't see two guys and their companies that have spent a lifetime accumulating mountains of money as equal to another guy who has given his work away for the benefit of all mankind.
That's kinda like comparing robber barons or warlords with the popular conception of Mahatma Ghandi.
Actually, Windows is the dictatorship of computing. No one outside of Microsoft's walls has any input into the kernel. In the world of Linux, lots of people have input. It's a lot like a "meritocracy". The better your input, the more input you get to put in.
But, the old goat has the right to veto anyone, at any time. It's his name on the product, after all.
You're right, of course - but what if the only shade you can find is your own shadow? How does that affect something like trying to record the temperature? I guess we could just say "hotter than hell" and leave it at that.
Actually - shares aren't as bad as you paint them to be. Startups need capital, so you induce people to gamble that your startup will work. No one wants to invest millions in an unheard of company, so you offer shares. A lot of people are willing to invest a dollar, ten dollars, maybe a hundred dollars. Fewer people are willing to invest thousands. So, they invest, you get started, working on their money.
They gambled, you won, so they win. The guy who "loaned" you a dollar gets his winnings, whether it's a ten, a hundred dollar bill, or possibly even millions. It all depends on how much you grow.
The stock markets have serious problems, for sure. But, the basic concept seems sound to me.
I'm somewhat surprised, TBH. Most of you guys seem so quiet, so soft spoken, it's hard to imagine one bubblehead eating another bubblehead's ass like that.
Now, us destroyermen do that, just for fun! Of course, we're expected to be like that. It's part of our "image" I think, part of what attracts new recruits to the navy. Either that, or we're just all assholes, LMAO!;^)
LMAO - in Linuxland, Mr. Linus Torvald IS law enforcement. He polices everything. There is no higher authority. So - who's he gonna call, Ghost Busters?
As for the malicious intent? I'm sure that there was none, initially. Mistakes are made. We all get our heads up our asses crooked sometimes, and really screw something up. It doesn't require any malicious intent to do so.
BUT - when the mistake becomes obvious, blaming someone else for the mistake constitutes malicious intent. At that point, you're trying to make someone else responsible for your mistakes, and your liability for those mistakes.
The guy at the traffic light who rear ended you? Did he jump out of his car, and start insulting you for backing into him? In effect, that is what our kernel maintainer did. He tried to blame userland maintainers for the screwups!
Bingo. Spot on. It simply can't be explained any better.
The kernel doesn't exist for it's own existence. An entire ecosystem is wrapped around the kernel. The kernel may arguably be the single most important part of that ecosystem, but without the system, the kernel is just a useless bit of shit.
So - call the man out, if you like. But, this ain't the place to get his attention. I mean - if I'm downtown Chicago, and I need calling out, I won't hear you calling from the bottom of your well in Kansas. You'll obviously have to bring your ass to Chicago for me to hear you, 'cause I'm not coming to Kansas to look down your well.
Whatever - I don't like fanbois of any kind, but if I were going to be one, I would be a Linus fan. You think he's being a douche, but I think he's big enough and good enough to get away with being a douche once in a while.
Personally, I've gone off on a few people like that, in my own life. NO ONE is perfectly composed all the time. When I go off, I just don't give a damn who might be watching. If someone screws up this badly in public, then they can take the ass chewing in public as well.
As for being the guy who screwed up - well - if I were in his place, I'd probably just meekly nod my head a couple of times, while saying "Yes, Boss!" then get on with my work. I can take an ass chewing, just as well as I can dish it out.
And, face it. It's a major fuck up. I can't say how "obvious" the fuck up should have been to the maintainer, since I'm no coder. But, obviously Linus thought it should have been pretty damned obvious.
You're very much right that not everyone actually requires fiberoptic service. First, separating wants from needs is important. I'd like to have super fast fiberoptic, but I don't "need" it. Few of us do, really. We can be patient, and wait for ten minutes to get a file that would have downloaded almost instantly on fiber. So, we're in agreement there.
But, you're a lot less right when you say that the internet isn't required by everyone. In today's world, if you don't have internet, then you cannot be competitive with the competition just a couple miles away. I live out in the sticks, where internet service was very spotty until five years ago. The access that is available is still pretty crappy today.
My "auto parts" store of choice lost business to franchised auto parts stores, until they finally got online. People searching for things simply couldn't find them. The franchised stores were either on line, or they were represented by a corporate headquarters site which listed them, along with a map with directions to their stores. My supplier simply didn't exist. Even though I knew where they were, I couldn't go online to find out if they had a particular item in stock, or if they would have to order it.
Now that Mr. Baker has an online presence, he does get more business. His online presence isn't a very good presence, because he is not tech savvy, and doesn't understand the need to hire someone who is tech savvy. Still - he's there. And he gets business that he never did get before.
If the old guy would hire someone to market him online, he could gain a lot more business, because he offers things that the franchise stores don't. Farm and tractor supply parts, tractor trailer parts, small engine parts, that O'Reilly's and others don't offer at any price. The bulk of his business comes from word of mouth advertising. A real on line presence, tailored to suit his needs would easily increase his business by 10%, probably 20%. I could potentially increase his business by 100%, but there's no way to prove it until someone actually does it.
I say that in today's world, internet access is a necessity. You simply can't compete unless people can find you.
The pony was bought and paid for. The telcos have accepted money over the years, from the government, purportedly for the purpose of getting broadband internet out to the "last mile".
We're not asking for another pony. We just want to ride the frigging pony we've been promised. The pony that we paid for already.
I would agree with this mockery you make, except, just across the water in Europe, everyone has the pony. Fast ponies. They have pony races, just to see how fast they can go. We can't even climb on a broken down old circus pony to be led around a little rope corral.
Obviously, we're doing something wrong on this side of the pond.
"We would have the capabilities to do anything we decided to do, if only we had decided to do it."
Is that what you're saying? If so, allow me to point out that a capability that we decided not to develop is a capability that we DO NOT HAVE. Right now, today, we can't put people into space. We can't put people on the moon. And, we damn sure can't put people on Mars. The capabilities that we once had have atrophied. Ever heard, "Use it or lose it"? It applies to technology as well as it applies to your reproductive organs.
Good idea, except the penalty for being caught forging a passport is pretty stiff. About the only way I'd try it, is if I were being hunted by the FBI, ATF, CIA, ICE, IRS, and my ex-wife. It's much simpler to drive to the border somewhere, and sneak across. Heck, the Mexicans do it all day and all night, without getting shot up.
Uhhhh - the drinks that you mention are all fattening. You count calories if you like. They all have more calories than water, and none are as nutritious as milk. It's junk food, generally consumed with other junk foods.
Few years back, when I still had all three boys at home, I stopped off one evening to get something for supper. Ordered a big monster pizza, drinks, garlic bread, the bill was going to be about $35. Broad behind the counter rang it up, and asked for my phone number. Told her that I didn't have a phone, she said she couldn't ring it up. I says, "Fine! Now explain why!" Blah blah blah, and corporate headquarters demands that we identify customers, blah blah blah.
I walked across the street, and bought a bucket of the Colonel's Chicken to take home. Those chickens didn't care about my phone number!
The humorous bit here is, someone wasted mod points to mod your original post down to zero. It's not really funny that you were modded down, the real humor is in wondering who it was, and why they wasted a mod point on something that should at least be "interesting".
Of course, maybe you and I are just cynical SOB's, and the moderator dude isn't really a brainwashed dupe. Let me do a quick reality check here . . . . . . . .
Heh - I never gave a thought to the timing of criminalization of Mary J, that way.
I think the more important timing is, nylon rope became commercially available right about then. You know, the then new technology developed by DuPont. All that cordage that the Navy required prior to nylon rope was replaced by Nylon, which the DuPont companies had a monopoly on. Prior to uhhhh - was it 1942? farmers were actually REQUIRED to produce so much hemp each year. Hemp was a vital resource, and Uncle had plenty of regulations in place to ensure that he would never run out of that resource.
But, yes, I'm sure that your observation had some influence on passage of the criminalization laws. DuPont won, the prison industries won, and only dopeheads lost. That almost certainly swayed some undecided representatives who hadn't been bribed enough.
Ever wondered how much less shitty the world might be if people like yourself just minded their own business?
Potheads want to smoke? What does it cost you, exactly? Put a price on what it actually costs you, for potheads to light up. No, you can't count the exorbitant costs of maintaining the DEA, the narc squad at your local police department, or the drug interdiction teams at the state level. You can't count all the costs involved in smuggling drugs. Those costs are created by nosy bastards who can't stand the idea that potheads might want to get high.
Pot can be grown in backyards for little to nothing. The pothead grows his own, dries it, rolls it, and smokes it at almost no cost to society, but people like yourself want to get involved. Why? Let the dopehead do his thing. That mellowed out bastard poses NO THREAT to you and yours.
So, just maybe you're partly right. Maybe if he spent all that energy and resources on bettering himself, or helping the community, the world just might be a little better.
Then again - I've met a lot of dopeheads who were veterans. They've already given to the communities across America. Leave them the hell alone!
Whatever their reasons for smoking pot, that's THEIR problem, not yours.
Shut up, sit down, and learn some tolerance. Maybe the potheads will allow you to sit with them, eat some munchies, and sing 'Kumbayah'. Think about it. Free munchies and some comaraderie. You don't even have to light up, they aren't as prejudiced as you are.
Violently anti-social young adult son? Tell me again, why there is no safe place to send that son. Mostly, it's the same crowd that had all they looney-bins shut down, who are now worried about that violently anti-social son's access to weapons.
As for the neighbor knocking on my door because of a drunken brawl - he knows to keep his drunken brawls on his own property.
I'm not impressed with these arguments, any more than you're impressed with my right to bear arms. It's a right, upheld by the Supreme Court, that I may keep and bear arms in my own personal defense. It's not a privilege like driving a car on the state maintained highways is a privilege.
I sure wish. I'm getting old, I got no money, no one's going to offer me a free ride - I guess I'll just die a worn-out old mud-dweller. Maybe my kids, though!! I can cough up some cash to help some of my DNA get up there!
Still on IRC? I should come visit the old gang . . .
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Firefox addons give you site-by-site preferences. Take a look at NoScript. I'm pretty sure some others do as well, but I use NoScript all the time. It's probably not the best thing since sliced bread, but it comes close.
You call it a problem. I see that as a tremendous advantage. Instead of installing my OS, then searching my drawers and closets for CD's and floppies, or downloading stuff from random sites, I just go to my trusted repository to install everything I need. All my downloads come from a single place, all of it having been vetted for malware and/or security holes. It's really great, IMHO. All updates come from the same source, there's no need for me to have my system tray loaded with icons that continuously check for updates.
Of course, if I find something interesting in the tubes, it may or may not be in the repositories. Then, I have to strain my mind real hard to find the half dozen commands needed to install alien software. If my feeble mind should fail to recall any of those commands, I can always google for them.
I really like things the way they are. My wife isn't even tempted to install some Dancing Ponies screensaver. It's not in the trusted repository, so she doesn't mess with it.
Member owned? Alright - what percentage of the central bank is "owned" by the member banks? And, who owns those banks that own shares in the Federal Reserve?
Small percentage, you say? Let me get that right - we are in debt so far that our descendants won't pay off the debt for generations to come, even if they do maintain a balanced budget. Yet, you claim that all the profit goes to us, the American government/taxpayers?
That small percentage is multiplied almost a hundred fold because of fractional reserves. The federal reserve prints up a billion dollars, then loans out ten billion to it's member banks.. Each of ten banks borrows a billion, and each of them loans out ten billion. So, the fed prints a billion, and we, collectively, borrow a hundred billion.
The AC who posted immediately after you recognizes how big a problem the central bank is, and he correctly identifies it as a political problem rather than an economic problem. However - he fails to connect a couple of dots. Money talks in politics, more than it talks anywhere else. The political problem has been translated into an economic problem.
"The US doesn't even need to fund deficit spending through debt either, as a government in sovereign control over its own currency, is capable of funding itself through money creation, with the only limit being the potential for inflation."
This is where you prove yourself to be a babe, lost in the woods.
The United States of America does not have control of it's own currency. The poorly and misleadingly named "Federal Reserve" has control over the currency that we BORROW from them. The Federal Reserve is a private bank, controlled by the heirs of the Rothschild family. The Federal Reserve is the same thing that many other countries call a "Central Bank". All those so-called central banks belong to the same people.
The banks do not exist for the benefit of the nations that host them. The banks do not exist for the benefit of citizens. The banks exist for one purpose, and one purpose only. That purpose is PROFIT.
When it profits those banks to do so, they will trigger a recession. When it profits them to do so, they end recessions, as well as depressions. The very same central banks will fund both sides of a war. The Central Bank of England funded Napoleon, at the same time that they also funded the armies that eventually beat him.
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I take it that you dislike Linus and the Linux operating system?
Apparently, you see Jobs, Ballmer, and Torvalds as equals. I don't see that. I know that if you used anything that either Jobs or Microsoft owns, you're expected to pay, and pay, and pay. On the other hand, Torvalds has given blanket permission for anyone in the world to use his product, pretty much as they see fit, whether commercially or for private or government use. It's pretty much free to use, and free to alter for your own purposes.
I just don't see two guys and their companies that have spent a lifetime accumulating mountains of money as equal to another guy who has given his work away for the benefit of all mankind.
That's kinda like comparing robber barons or warlords with the popular conception of Mahatma Ghandi.
A sand castle! Good idea!
Actually, Windows is the dictatorship of computing. No one outside of Microsoft's walls has any input into the kernel. In the world of Linux, lots of people have input. It's a lot like a "meritocracy". The better your input, the more input you get to put in.
But, the old goat has the right to veto anyone, at any time. It's his name on the product, after all.
You're right, of course - but what if the only shade you can find is your own shadow? How does that affect something like trying to record the temperature? I guess we could just say "hotter than hell" and leave it at that.
Actually - shares aren't as bad as you paint them to be. Startups need capital, so you induce people to gamble that your startup will work. No one wants to invest millions in an unheard of company, so you offer shares. A lot of people are willing to invest a dollar, ten dollars, maybe a hundred dollars. Fewer people are willing to invest thousands. So, they invest, you get started, working on their money.
They gambled, you won, so they win. The guy who "loaned" you a dollar gets his winnings, whether it's a ten, a hundred dollar bill, or possibly even millions. It all depends on how much you grow.
The stock markets have serious problems, for sure. But, the basic concept seems sound to me.
Greets, Bubblehead!
I'm somewhat surprised, TBH. Most of you guys seem so quiet, so soft spoken, it's hard to imagine one bubblehead eating another bubblehead's ass like that.
Now, us destroyermen do that, just for fun! Of course, we're expected to be like that. It's part of our "image" I think, part of what attracts new recruits to the navy. Either that, or we're just all assholes, LMAO! ;^)
LMAO - in Linuxland, Mr. Linus Torvald IS law enforcement. He polices everything. There is no higher authority. So - who's he gonna call, Ghost Busters?
As for the malicious intent? I'm sure that there was none, initially. Mistakes are made. We all get our heads up our asses crooked sometimes, and really screw something up. It doesn't require any malicious intent to do so.
BUT - when the mistake becomes obvious, blaming someone else for the mistake constitutes malicious intent. At that point, you're trying to make someone else responsible for your mistakes, and your liability for those mistakes.
The guy at the traffic light who rear ended you? Did he jump out of his car, and start insulting you for backing into him? In effect, that is what our kernel maintainer did. He tried to blame userland maintainers for the screwups!
Bingo. Spot on. It simply can't be explained any better.
The kernel doesn't exist for it's own existence. An entire ecosystem is wrapped around the kernel. The kernel may arguably be the single most important part of that ecosystem, but without the system, the kernel is just a useless bit of shit.
So - call the man out, if you like. But, this ain't the place to get his attention. I mean - if I'm downtown Chicago, and I need calling out, I won't hear you calling from the bottom of your well in Kansas. You'll obviously have to bring your ass to Chicago for me to hear you, 'cause I'm not coming to Kansas to look down your well.
Whatever - I don't like fanbois of any kind, but if I were going to be one, I would be a Linus fan. You think he's being a douche, but I think he's big enough and good enough to get away with being a douche once in a while.
Personally, I've gone off on a few people like that, in my own life. NO ONE is perfectly composed all the time. When I go off, I just don't give a damn who might be watching. If someone screws up this badly in public, then they can take the ass chewing in public as well.
As for being the guy who screwed up - well - if I were in his place, I'd probably just meekly nod my head a couple of times, while saying "Yes, Boss!" then get on with my work. I can take an ass chewing, just as well as I can dish it out.
And, face it. It's a major fuck up. I can't say how "obvious" the fuck up should have been to the maintainer, since I'm no coder. But, obviously Linus thought it should have been pretty damned obvious.
You're very much right that not everyone actually requires fiberoptic service. First, separating wants from needs is important. I'd like to have super fast fiberoptic, but I don't "need" it. Few of us do, really. We can be patient, and wait for ten minutes to get a file that would have downloaded almost instantly on fiber. So, we're in agreement there.
But, you're a lot less right when you say that the internet isn't required by everyone. In today's world, if you don't have internet, then you cannot be competitive with the competition just a couple miles away. I live out in the sticks, where internet service was very spotty until five years ago. The access that is available is still pretty crappy today.
My "auto parts" store of choice lost business to franchised auto parts stores, until they finally got online. People searching for things simply couldn't find them. The franchised stores were either on line, or they were represented by a corporate headquarters site which listed them, along with a map with directions to their stores. My supplier simply didn't exist. Even though I knew where they were, I couldn't go online to find out if they had a particular item in stock, or if they would have to order it.
Now that Mr. Baker has an online presence, he does get more business. His online presence isn't a very good presence, because he is not tech savvy, and doesn't understand the need to hire someone who is tech savvy. Still - he's there. And he gets business that he never did get before.
If the old guy would hire someone to market him online, he could gain a lot more business, because he offers things that the franchise stores don't. Farm and tractor supply parts, tractor trailer parts, small engine parts, that O'Reilly's and others don't offer at any price. The bulk of his business comes from word of mouth advertising. A real on line presence, tailored to suit his needs would easily increase his business by 10%, probably 20%. I could potentially increase his business by 100%, but there's no way to prove it until someone actually does it.
I say that in today's world, internet access is a necessity. You simply can't compete unless people can find you.
The pony was bought and paid for. The telcos have accepted money over the years, from the government, purportedly for the purpose of getting broadband internet out to the "last mile".
We're not asking for another pony. We just want to ride the frigging pony we've been promised. The pony that we paid for already.
I would agree with this mockery you make, except, just across the water in Europe, everyone has the pony. Fast ponies. They have pony races, just to see how fast they can go. We can't even climb on a broken down old circus pony to be led around a little rope corral.
Obviously, we're doing something wrong on this side of the pond.
To paraphrase you,
"We would have the capabilities to do anything we decided to do, if only we had decided to do it."
Is that what you're saying? If so, allow me to point out that a capability that we decided not to develop is a capability that we DO NOT HAVE. Right now, today, we can't put people into space. We can't put people on the moon. And, we damn sure can't put people on Mars. The capabilities that we once had have atrophied. Ever heard, "Use it or lose it"? It applies to technology as well as it applies to your reproductive organs.
Good idea, except the penalty for being caught forging a passport is pretty stiff. About the only way I'd try it, is if I were being hunted by the FBI, ATF, CIA, ICE, IRS, and my ex-wife. It's much simpler to drive to the border somewhere, and sneak across. Heck, the Mexicans do it all day and all night, without getting shot up.
Uhhhh - the drinks that you mention are all fattening. You count calories if you like. They all have more calories than water, and none are as nutritious as milk. It's junk food, generally consumed with other junk foods.
I love it. I love DOING that kind of thing, too.
Few years back, when I still had all three boys at home, I stopped off one evening to get something for supper. Ordered a big monster pizza, drinks, garlic bread, the bill was going to be about $35. Broad behind the counter rang it up, and asked for my phone number. Told her that I didn't have a phone, she said she couldn't ring it up. I says, "Fine! Now explain why!" Blah blah blah, and corporate headquarters demands that we identify customers, blah blah blah.
I walked across the street, and bought a bucket of the Colonel's Chicken to take home. Those chickens didn't care about my phone number!
The humorous bit here is, someone wasted mod points to mod your original post down to zero. It's not really funny that you were modded down, the real humor is in wondering who it was, and why they wasted a mod point on something that should at least be "interesting".
Of course, maybe you and I are just cynical SOB's, and the moderator dude isn't really a brainwashed dupe. Let me do a quick reality check here . . . . . . . .
"reality.sys is corrupt - reboot universe?"
Damn, we can't be sure with those results!
Heh - I never gave a thought to the timing of criminalization of Mary J, that way.
I think the more important timing is, nylon rope became commercially available right about then. You know, the then new technology developed by DuPont. All that cordage that the Navy required prior to nylon rope was replaced by Nylon, which the DuPont companies had a monopoly on. Prior to uhhhh - was it 1942? farmers were actually REQUIRED to produce so much hemp each year. Hemp was a vital resource, and Uncle had plenty of regulations in place to ensure that he would never run out of that resource.
But, yes, I'm sure that your observation had some influence on passage of the criminalization laws. DuPont won, the prison industries won, and only dopeheads lost. That almost certainly swayed some undecided representatives who hadn't been bribed enough.
Ever wondered how much less shitty the world might be if people like yourself just minded their own business?
Potheads want to smoke? What does it cost you, exactly? Put a price on what it actually costs you, for potheads to light up. No, you can't count the exorbitant costs of maintaining the DEA, the narc squad at your local police department, or the drug interdiction teams at the state level. You can't count all the costs involved in smuggling drugs. Those costs are created by nosy bastards who can't stand the idea that potheads might want to get high.
Pot can be grown in backyards for little to nothing. The pothead grows his own, dries it, rolls it, and smokes it at almost no cost to society, but people like yourself want to get involved. Why? Let the dopehead do his thing. That mellowed out bastard poses NO THREAT to you and yours.
So, just maybe you're partly right. Maybe if he spent all that energy and resources on bettering himself, or helping the community, the world just might be a little better.
Then again - I've met a lot of dopeheads who were veterans. They've already given to the communities across America. Leave them the hell alone!
Whatever their reasons for smoking pot, that's THEIR problem, not yours.
Shut up, sit down, and learn some tolerance. Maybe the potheads will allow you to sit with them, eat some munchies, and sing 'Kumbayah'. Think about it. Free munchies and some comaraderie. You don't even have to light up, they aren't as prejudiced as you are.
Violently anti-social young adult son? Tell me again, why there is no safe place to send that son. Mostly, it's the same crowd that had all they looney-bins shut down, who are now worried about that violently anti-social son's access to weapons.
As for the neighbor knocking on my door because of a drunken brawl - he knows to keep his drunken brawls on his own property.
I'm not impressed with these arguments, any more than you're impressed with my right to bear arms. It's a right, upheld by the Supreme Court, that I may keep and bear arms in my own personal defense. It's not a privilege like driving a car on the state maintained highways is a privilege.
I sure wish. I'm getting old, I got no money, no one's going to offer me a free ride - I guess I'll just die a worn-out old mud-dweller. Maybe my kids, though!! I can cough up some cash to help some of my DNA get up there!
Still on IRC? I should come visit the old gang . . .