Marijuana is illegal for the simple reason that some right wing religious nuts think it's 'bad'.
I used to believe this. I also used to be 48 year-old who had never smoked marijuana.
But then things happened in my life in the last couple years: I developed horrible acid reflux. I had a lot of trouble sleeping. I got arthritis in my foot. I got high blood pressure. Nothing really major, but I was suddenly getting old and having lots of aches and pains. My wife, a regular pot smoker, said "try this" and handed me her bong. But I couldn't smoke it, it hurt my lungs. So then she made me some magic brownies. Holy crap, it WAS like magic. All the problems went away. I could sleep, I had no pain, I had less stress, my digestion improved, my BP went down.
I WAS taking over $150/month worth of various drugs for these conditions. And that's just the co-pay amount from insurance, no telling what actual amount is. Now I take...Well, probably $40 worth of cheap pot baked (haha) into brownies every month. It would be less if I could grow it, but I'll let someone else take that risk as long as it's illegal, besides, that's still cheap. I have a small brownie about every other evening and I have none of those problems.
So I'm now a 50 year-old who has still never smoked marijuana. But I use it, and it is costing the pharmaceutical companies a few hundred a month in lost business.
So don't discount the Big Pharma role in keeping it illegal. If I were them I would be scared, very scared.
No, Just pencil and paper. A calculator should not be used until one gets to at least algebra level and basic number concepts are firmly cemented in the brain.
In school nowadays they let them use calculators for everything, even basic math, which is WRONG. I spent four years trying to teach my step-daughter how to do math without a calculator, but they had let her use one from fourth grade onward. By the time I knew her (high school) she had NO math skills whatsoever, because she always had a calculator. You could ask "what is six plus seven?" and she'd reach for the goddamn calculator! I would take it away and she would say that EVERYONE uses them in class, so why should she memorize stupid stuff like that? She had NO concept of numbers whatsoever. And I found out that most of here friends were the same.
You don't realize how intuitively you have learned and "know" numbers as a concept until you deal with people who don't have that concept.
I tried to put her in Kumon to learn something about math, but she quickly quit because she was a 15 year-old girl in a room full of Asian pre-school and elementary kids. Seriously, there were NO white kids learning math at Kumon in Austin.
Now she's in college and suffering for her lack of math skills. I just say "I told you so."
Yeah, but that kind of gets everyone else in a huff, and complaining about free trade and stuff
I'm sure if Obama does it the republicans will conveniently forget that Reagan did the same thing. I used to work for a tech consortium that was formed under Reagan's aegis, and I'm a member of another. But if it's done now, it will be socialism.
Where I worked we even had a whole division that sent someone to Japan every month to buy samples of all the latest electronic gew-gaws. Then we'd tear them apart. And let me tell you, if you think any gadget or feature is "new" in the USA, I can guarantee they've had it in Japan for 5 years. I laughed my ass off when everyone was saying how "new" and "revolutionary" the Iphone was. I had seen similar phones for years from Japan.
And whether or not you want (or are required to have) water, electricity, gas, and sewage disposal
Yes, most people don't realize that about half of a building is site preparation. Putting in all the utilities and building a strong foundation is key.
I'll admit that a thin, light laptop is amazingly easy to tote around.
But you can get laptops pretty much as thin and light as this already from other vendors for a whole lot less money. My 13" Dell Vostro is 0.67" thin, weighs under 4 lbs and cost me all of $350, brand new.
I'll admit that a thin, light laptop is really freakin' awesome for transport, but Apple isn't the only one that has them, though they do a great job of making people think they do.
Two years ago I bought a Dell Vostro 13.5" notebook for $350 (brand new - $30% off sale on model being phased out) that is made of aluminum, is 0.65 inches thick and weighs about 3.9 lbs. Has all the usual ports, too, just no CD/DVD.
Don't know why, but Dell decided to make the next model that replaced it slightly thicker and heavier. Maybe Apple paid them off?
But hell, pay a few grand for a light notebook if it makes you happy.
The place with the highest concentration of iPhones and iPads is located between Baltimore and D.C. That's where I would expect to find the most intelligent people.
Wow. Just wow. The leap it took to correlate Apple product ownership with intelligence was amazing. I congratulate you, that was awesome.
Computer and High-Tech fields lack women because the culture is viewed as being misogynistic.
And if you are a woman, you SHOULD go into these fields, because all these tech companies WANT to hire women, if for nothing else to prove they do not discriminate.
My wife quit teaching 7 years ago, spent a year to take a few network classes at a junior college and immediately got a job that paid 40% more than teaching. In the 5 years since then she has tripled what she made as a teacher and is constantly bombarded by recruiters trying to hire her. She is very attractive (especially for a 50 year-old woman), but she also swears like a sailor and has no problem throwing sexist insults straight back at her co-workers and being "one of the guys." And she usually is the only female technical person wherever she works.
So as long as women don't have the "poor, delicate little me" hangup they can easily gain respect, money and power in the tech industry. My wife tries to teach young women this lesson, but none seem to listen.
1. Full requirements up front. I do NOTHING before I know exactly what I am to do. Including timeline, interface appearance and ALL features. 2. 1/3 payment up front. Not negotiable. 3. 1/3 payment on delivery of Beta. Not negotiable. 4. Final 1/3 on delivery of spec'd requirements (see #1 above) NOT negotiable. 5. No fucking scope creep. All features requested after requirements accepted are 3X the price they would have been if included in #1. NOT negotiable. 6. If any of the payments above are not made, work is stopped, project is pulled.
If you DON'T do the above with your clients, you WILL get jerked around ALL the time.
My sister's science fair project in 1972 was on "continental drift" and she had to add "theory" to the title because several of the district science fair judges did not believe that it could possibly be true.
You forgot the 30% that goes to Apple for all Iphone transactions.
And since there will be no-lower-price payment contracts for firms who want to get the Iphone owner's business, all prices will have to increase by 30%.
Cancer causing is 100% correct. A friend of mine is a radiation oncologist. He has worked with every type of radiation emittable by a machine for many, many years. He knows the effects of all types of radiation on human flesh, it's his job. He uses various types of radiation to cure cancer and a host of other maladies. The man is an expert.
He also refuses to step into one of the scanners, and he has advised me and everyone he knows to avoid stepping into them.
In college back in the 1980's some girls I knew were completely smitten with an older Russian male student who organized all sorts of anti-Reagan demonstrations, and they helped him out. I wasn't a huge Reagan fan, but I did think something was odd about the situation.
After the collapse of the USSR he stayed in the US and one of the women found out he had been paid by the USSR all along. She said she felt so "used." I just laughed my ass off.
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Marijuana is illegal for the simple reason that some right wing religious nuts think it's 'bad'.
I used to believe this. I also used to be 48 year-old who had never smoked marijuana.
But then things happened in my life in the last couple years: I developed horrible acid reflux. I had a lot of trouble sleeping. I got arthritis in my foot. I got high blood pressure. Nothing really major, but I was suddenly getting old and having lots of aches and pains. My wife, a regular pot smoker, said "try this" and handed me her bong. But I couldn't smoke it, it hurt my lungs. So then she made me some magic brownies. Holy crap, it WAS like magic. All the problems went away. I could sleep, I had no pain, I had less stress, my digestion improved, my BP went down.
I WAS taking over $150/month worth of various drugs for these conditions. And that's just the co-pay amount from insurance, no telling what actual amount is. Now I take...Well, probably $40 worth of cheap pot baked (haha) into brownies every month. It would be less if I could grow it, but I'll let someone else take that risk as long as it's illegal, besides, that's still cheap. I have a small brownie about every other evening and I have none of those problems.
So I'm now a 50 year-old who has still never smoked marijuana. But I use it, and it is costing the pharmaceutical companies a few hundred a month in lost business.
So don't discount the Big Pharma role in keeping it illegal. If I were them I would be scared, very scared.
Man, sciencing is so much easier these days.
No, Just pencil and paper. A calculator should not be used until one gets to at least algebra level and basic number concepts are firmly cemented in the brain.
In school nowadays they let them use calculators for everything, even basic math, which is WRONG. I spent four years trying to teach my step-daughter how to do math without a calculator, but they had let her use one from fourth grade onward. By the time I knew her (high school) she had NO math skills whatsoever, because she always had a calculator. You could ask "what is six plus seven?" and she'd reach for the goddamn calculator! I would take it away and she would say that EVERYONE uses them in class, so why should she memorize stupid stuff like that? She had NO concept of numbers whatsoever. And I found out that most of here friends were the same.
You don't realize how intuitively you have learned and "know" numbers as a concept until you deal with people who don't have that concept.
I tried to put her in Kumon to learn something about math, but she quickly quit because she was a 15 year-old girl in a room full of Asian pre-school and elementary kids. Seriously, there were NO white kids learning math at Kumon in Austin.
Now she's in college and suffering for her lack of math skills. I just say "I told you so."
I assume Linux users will sleep in a dumpster. After all, it's FOSS
Free Open Sleeping Space!
Don't be silly, Dumpsters are proprietary. They have connectors to fit only certain types of garbage trucks for emptying.
Now cardboard boxes, THOSE are universal.
Apple users are gay faggots basically
No, "gay faggots" is like a double-negative, it would mean they are straight. You have to say "gay homosexual faggots" to get your point across.
Yeah, but that kind of gets everyone else in a huff, and complaining about free trade and stuff
I'm sure if Obama does it the republicans will conveniently forget that Reagan did the same thing. I used to work for a tech consortium that was formed under Reagan's aegis, and I'm a member of another. But if it's done now, it will be socialism.
Where I worked we even had a whole division that sent someone to Japan every month to buy samples of all the latest electronic gew-gaws. Then we'd tear them apart. And let me tell you, if you think any gadget or feature is "new" in the USA, I can guarantee they've had it in Japan for 5 years. I laughed my ass off when everyone was saying how "new" and "revolutionary" the Iphone was. I had seen similar phones for years from Japan.
And whether or not you want (or are required to have) water, electricity, gas, and sewage disposal
Yes, most people don't realize that about half of a building is site preparation. Putting in all the utilities and building a strong foundation is key.
Of course, the Burj Khalifa doesn't even have this.
http://boingboing.net/2011/11/08/what-happens-when-you-flush-a-toilet-in-the-worlds-tallest-building.html
This was done by altering the statistical method until any statistical significance was found
I'm convinced that backing into a conclusion by playing with analysis is the raison d'être of most white collar work in the Western world.
I thought that's how we were taught to do labs back in all my science classes.
I'll admit that a thin, light laptop is amazingly easy to tote around.
But you can get laptops pretty much as thin and light as this already from other vendors for a whole lot less money. My 13" Dell Vostro is 0.67" thin, weighs under 4 lbs and cost me all of $350, brand new.
I'll admit that a thin, light laptop is really freakin' awesome for transport, but Apple isn't the only one that has them, though they do a great job of making people think they do.
Two years ago I bought a Dell Vostro 13.5" notebook for $350 (brand new - $30% off sale on model being phased out) that is made of aluminum, is 0.65 inches thick and weighs about 3.9 lbs. Has all the usual ports, too, just no CD/DVD.
Don't know why, but Dell decided to make the next model that replaced it slightly thicker and heavier. Maybe Apple paid them off?
But hell, pay a few grand for a light notebook if it makes you happy.
the Southern US has been a political and intellectual dead weight drag on this country since its founding
When was the Southern US "founded" anyway? Seems like many of those states were in the original 13.
The place with the highest concentration of iPhones and iPads is located between Baltimore and D.C. That's where I would expect to find the most intelligent people.
Wow. Just wow. The leap it took to correlate Apple product ownership with intelligence was amazing. I congratulate you, that was awesome.
Computer and High-Tech fields lack women because the culture is viewed as being misogynistic.
And if you are a woman, you SHOULD go into these fields, because all these tech companies WANT to hire women, if for nothing else to prove they do not discriminate.
My wife quit teaching 7 years ago, spent a year to take a few network classes at a junior college and immediately got a job that paid 40% more than teaching. In the 5 years since then she has tripled what she made as a teacher and is constantly bombarded by recruiters trying to hire her. She is very attractive (especially for a 50 year-old woman), but she also swears like a sailor and has no problem throwing sexist insults straight back at her co-workers and being "one of the guys." And she usually is the only female technical person wherever she works.
So as long as women don't have the "poor, delicate little me" hangup they can easily gain respect, money and power in the tech industry. My wife tries to teach young women this lesson, but none seem to listen.
Easier rules that I use:
1. Full requirements up front. I do NOTHING before I know exactly what I am to do. Including timeline, interface appearance and ALL features.
2. 1/3 payment up front. Not negotiable.
3. 1/3 payment on delivery of Beta. Not negotiable.
4. Final 1/3 on delivery of spec'd requirements (see #1 above) NOT negotiable.
5. No fucking scope creep. All features requested after requirements accepted are 3X the price they would have been if included in #1. NOT negotiable.
6. If any of the payments above are not made, work is stopped, project is pulled.
If you DON'T do the above with your clients, you WILL get jerked around ALL the time.
but I'm still going to check the temperature before going outside.
I'm still just going to poke my head out the door or window.
My sister's science fair project in 1972 was on "continental drift" and she had to add "theory" to the title because several of the district science fair judges did not believe that it could possibly be true.
You forgot the 30% that goes to Apple for all Iphone transactions.
And since there will be no-lower-price payment contracts for firms who want to get the Iphone owner's business, all prices will have to increase by 30%.
Next thing you'll tell us is that folks will project an emotional attachment to sports team and gain or lose validation that way as well.
You leave local sports franchise out of this! They are the CHAMPS! They will defeat your sports franchise any day of the week and twice on Sundays!
local sports franchise slogan!
local sports franchise slogan!
local sports franchise slogan!
If he can't play "What's New, Pussycat" 21 times in a row, with an "It's Not Unusual" thrown in occasionally.
Cancer causing is 100% correct. A friend of mine is a radiation oncologist. He has worked with every type of radiation emittable by a machine for many, many years. He knows the effects of all types of radiation on human flesh, it's his job. He uses various types of radiation to cure cancer and a host of other maladies. The man is an expert.
He also refuses to step into one of the scanners, and he has advised me and everyone he knows to avoid stepping into them.
'nuff said.
Uh-oh. Better get your prion buildup checked!
Why bring homosexuality into this? Troll!
Yeah, it's already an Apple thread!
DOUBLE TROLL!
Because of the Internet, I stopped paying for porn years ago.
I just want a loop of the "Sanford and Son" theme playing whenever I am in a parking lot.
Exactly. This has been going on forever.
In college back in the 1980's some girls I knew were completely smitten with an older Russian male student who organized all sorts of anti-Reagan demonstrations, and they helped him out. I wasn't a huge Reagan fan, but I did think something was odd about the situation.
After the collapse of the USSR he stayed in the US and one of the women found out he had been paid by the USSR all along. She said she felt so "used." I just laughed my ass off.