Oh, I think the fear is very logical, for the reasons that have been pointed out. Gotta maintain that barrier-to-entry to keep the markets under firm control. Otherwise, you know, we might have a free market, and the only people who want that are the very ones being excluded.
I'm not criticizing Americans in general. The people I'm criticizing make up a small, but vocal minority of Americans. I'm just doing my part as a normal, mainstream, patriotic American to point out our flaws so that we can work on them, in a way that many people find humorous. Sorry if that offends you.
Okay, how do you know I am missing anything? You are making assumptions, guesses really, based on your worldview, not on anything you really know about me, because you don't know me. I think you are deliberately trying to be insulting, to belittle me, and I can't help but wonder why?
I just have to point out that your logic is completely flawed. If you get everything you need from your mate, why are you having a conversation with me on Slashdot? If you and your spouse were capable of fulfilling each other's needs, you wouldn't be seeking conversations with strangers on some web site. And if you aren't married, well, you don't really know what you are talking about.
I just want to make it clear, I am not condemning monogamy, as I have been monogamous and enjoyed it myself. I think your criticisms would be at least semi-valid if directed against habitual promiscuity, which is often a psychological symptom of an inability to achieve emotional closeness.
What my wife and I engage in is polyamory, which is more about love, sharing, and emotional openness than it is about sex. We don't really have casual sex (to be honest, the few orgies we went to were a let down.) We have intimate sex in multiple close relationships.
To reiterate: we are all quite close. We all share a deep emotional bond. Your judgment (not very Christian of you, by the way) is misplaced, and by trying to 'educate' me in the supposed deficits of my lifestyle, you are trying to sell coal to Newcastle.
I hope you can understand this, and see past any religious and social blinders you may have. I know you are a smart, if opinionated and judgmental, person. Despite my earlier frustration, I do have some hope that you can understand my life style without resorting to knee-jerk, pop-psychology judgments.
I think maybe you thought I was poo-pooing monogamy, which I am not, or advocating casual, unemotional sex, which I am not, though I don't think casual sex is quite as bad and empty as you make it out to be.
I question why you became so angry and intent on hurting me. Your post isn't really an attempt to communicate as it is an attempt to make yourself feel superior, and I question why you feel the need to do so.
Don't malign plastic, you dirty hippies. They saved my life in WWII! Why, when I was a lad, we would have KILLED to have plastic food storage. You know what I hear when you say plastics are dangerous? "blah blah blah I hate America blah blah I hate progress blah blah blah." Real Americans can eat plastic like it was apple pie and not get sick.
The same goes double for global warming & the ozone layer. In fact, let's just stop funding research into things that may be bad for us. Only sissies care. All you are doing with your sissy studies is holding back progress and making people worry over nothing.
Admit it: you want us all to go back to living in caves. You hate the modern world and everything in it and you want to destroy it with your evil 'studies.' Elitist intellectual claptrap.
America stands for progress. Except we're not progressive, the damn hippies stole that word and turned it into something dirty. Either you love progress and you know that everything new is better, or you hate America and want everyone to live in caves.
If you hate plastics, you hate the whole human race!
Are you aware of the environmental destruction caused by rubber harvesting for bike tires? Where does the grease for your gears come from? Planet rapist.
I walk to work in shoes made from my own toenail clippings, wearing a breathing mask to filter out microbes so my immune system doesn't kill them, brushing bugs out of the way with a broom made from my own hair.
Stop being a condescending twit with a fixed, immutable worldview and try to open your mind to the possibility that other people are different from you. Even the best chefs in the world like to eat at other people's restaurants. Do you and your partner spend every waking minute together? If not, what's lacking? Does having a hobby that your partner doesn't share mean that your relationship is lacking?
Our other partners are something we share with each other. We are all friends, we aren't lacking anything, we have more than other people. Do you even know the difference between polyamory and swinging?
You aren't trying to understand me at all, you are making huge assumptions based on your own views. I'm not lacking anything, I'm not missing out. I have the closeness that you seem to think I don't. Intense emotional sex, not just fucking. We have a complete and total sharing and openness. We have incredible emotional intimacy.
You aren't trying to understand me at all, you are trying to pigeonhole me into your personal view of the world, which is obviously warped. You assume too much, and I am done trying to educate you, because I find you insulting and condescending, and I see no hope of you ever opening your mind. Typical conservative.
We're married under the law, as witnessed by our friends and family and certified by the State of California. We aren't religious, so we never sought the blessings of such. We've been together eight years, and married for five. We're not only married, we're doing a better job of it than many people.
I've been with my wife for eight years, and married for five. We were monogamous for the first five years. I have also had a five year and three year monogamous relationship (living together but not married). I have had as much love and meaning in my relationships as an human being on the planet.
I wasn't equating relationships with taking a dump, once again you fail basic reading comprehension. I said 'people,' as in other people, think sex is dirty, like taking a dump. Sex, not relationships. Other people, not me. Damn, a double fail on the comprehension there. I'd say on the face of it that you are flat out jealous.
Guess what? I have an open relationship with a real connection, love, trust, openness and honesty AND I get to have loving, sexual relationships with other women, as well. You see, we aren't swingers, we're polyamorous, which means the focus is on love, not sex.
I feel sad for you, I can tell you have a bleak and closed minded view of love as being in limited quantities, a scarce resource to fight over. Too bad, you'll probably never understand how good and plentiful it can be.
No, I did not mean it that way. But Americans in general do look down on socialism, and so I like to point out that what we do IS akin to socialism, but only for the wealthy. I would prefer America had more socialism for the average person, rather than having all our tax dollars go to handouts and tax breaks for the owning class.
Seriously, I think whoever modded this 'flamebait' must be a teensy bit jealous. Off topic, I could see, but flamebait? Just because it made your sad little basement dwelling ass jealous, and made you feel like flaming me, does not make the above comment flamebait.
Tell you what, sad little virginal mods, I'm going out with a new hot chick this Saturday, I'll screw her once extra just for y'all.
15-20% seems right for the whole plant, but well manicured buds should have a higher trichome to regular plant matter ratio. Perhaps the figures I was quoting were for perfectly manicured buds, and the lower figures are for the entire plant?
I remember being told that 15-20% was the most that one could usually hope for, and the higher figures were for the best strains grown, cured, and trimmed perfectly. But you know how stoners are, those numbers could all have been completely made up:).
Erm, the wife and I have an open marriage. We have three ways. We've been to orgies. We discuss sex in frank and matter of fact ways with our friends. We are not at all embarrassed by sex, and consider it private only in that we don't do it in public. Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that, as long as there are no kids present. The only reason that people think it should be private is because they think it is dirty, like taking a dump.
Well, I could be wrong about the percentages, and maximum THC percentage certainly depends on the growing method as well. This was in 2000-2002, and I'm not in that business anymore. I think the 30% was quoted for some of the new Dutch strains.
I wasn't aware of a pocket in the trichome, but I do know that various strains produce different size and densities of trichomes. The better strains are nearly covered in trichomes, all of them huge fat globs on the ends of the hairs.
I know that the trichomes themselves contain much higher than 30% THC. Water hash, which is mostly compressed trichomes, has higher than 30% THC content, so the trichomes themselves must have more than that. I always thought the percentage figures included leaf matter and stems, so not only growing methods, but trimming methods can make a difference.
THC production also depends on timing. Make sure to harvest just after the trichomes turn amber. Past that point, the THC starts to break down into other compounds. Before that point, production hasn't peaked.
I don't think that in the fundies minds there was any sex at all going on in Eden. Sex is nasty and dirty and there wasn't any of that. But seeing as how nobody was mortal yet, and nobody ate anybody else, breeding probably wasn't necessary. And if it was, well, I think you had a friendly cuddle and maybe rubbed your barbie doll crotches together and then God flew down in the form of a stork and pulled a baby out of a cabbage patch for you. Or something.
I did computer security for a medical marijuana club in San Francisco, and learned quite a bit about cannabis while there. While I agree that real stoners don't call weed 'Sativa,' I disagree about the reasons.
First, Sativa does not have a low THC to CBD ratio. If anything, the reverse is true. Sativa gives an up, chatty, let's go out and do something kind of high. Indica has been bred for centuries to have a high CBD to THC ratio, for pain relief. It gives a sink you into the couch, stoned out of your gourd kind of high.
Indica and Sativa plants grow differently, sativa has a tall, rangy habit while indica grows a single, fat, 'donkey dick' bud. Under ideal conditions, both strains can produce the same amount per square foot of indoor hydroponic space. Sativa does tend to produce more outdoors on a per plant basis, however, as it can grow to enormous size.
Almost all modern pot is a hybrid between those two strains, as most recreational users tend to prefer the high from sativa, while indoor growers prefer the compact habit of indica. You can actually talk coherently on a sativa high, while medical users tend to prefer indica for its pain relief and appetite stimulating effects.
The strains bred for hemp production are generally sativa type, but these strains have very little THC at all. Modern high grade pure sativa strains generally top out around 20% THC, while indica strains can achieve 30%, and most crosses, when grown under perfect indoor hydroponic conditions, achieve 20-25%. By comparison, brick weed has about 2-5%.
As for the on-topic part of your post, I completely agree.:)
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Jeez, Otter, what crawled up your butt and died? The fact that in the 21st century, some people still think the Earth is only 6,000 years old because they misinterpreted a stupid fable, is funny.
You don't like us making fun of stupid religious people, but then you call us stupid. Are you a religious person? Do you think the world is only 6,000 years old? Why are you making such a big deal about this? I don't get it.
If it is only because the joke is old, I got news for you. People like old familiar jokes. You may have noticed, people here still quote a comedian who hasn't played outside of Laughlin, Nevada for decades. Do you also bitch and whine about the 'Soviet Russia' jokes? Do you rail about the stupidity of people quoting the Simpsons, or making Natalie Portman/Hot Grits comments?
Maybe this making fun of stupid religious beliefs hits a little close to home? What ARE your beliefs in that regard?
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Oh, I think the fear is very logical, for the reasons that have been pointed out. Gotta maintain that barrier-to-entry to keep the markets under firm control. Otherwise, you know, we might have a free market, and the only people who want that are the very ones being excluded.
Okay. I get it now. I WAS being a jerk, and making assumptions when I made that 'you all think sex is dirty' statement and I apologize.
I'm not criticizing Americans in general. The people I'm criticizing make up a small, but vocal minority of Americans. I'm just doing my part as a normal, mainstream, patriotic American to point out our flaws so that we can work on them, in a way that many people find humorous. Sorry if that offends you.
Okay, how do you know I am missing anything? You are making assumptions, guesses really, based on your worldview, not on anything you really know about me, because you don't know me. I think you are deliberately trying to be insulting, to belittle me, and I can't help but wonder why?
I just have to point out that your logic is completely flawed. If you get everything you need from your mate, why are you having a conversation with me on Slashdot? If you and your spouse were capable of fulfilling each other's needs, you wouldn't be seeking conversations with strangers on some web site. And if you aren't married, well, you don't really know what you are talking about.
I just want to make it clear, I am not condemning monogamy, as I have been monogamous and enjoyed it myself. I think your criticisms would be at least semi-valid if directed against habitual promiscuity, which is often a psychological symptom of an inability to achieve emotional closeness.
What my wife and I engage in is polyamory, which is more about love, sharing, and emotional openness than it is about sex. We don't really have casual sex (to be honest, the few orgies we went to were a let down.) We have intimate sex in multiple close relationships.
To reiterate: we are all quite close. We all share a deep emotional bond. Your judgment (not very Christian of you, by the way) is misplaced, and by trying to 'educate' me in the supposed deficits of my lifestyle, you are trying to sell coal to Newcastle.
I hope you can understand this, and see past any religious and social blinders you may have. I know you are a smart, if opinionated and judgmental, person. Despite my earlier frustration, I do have some hope that you can understand my life style without resorting to knee-jerk, pop-psychology judgments.
I think maybe you thought I was poo-pooing monogamy, which I am not, or advocating casual, unemotional sex, which I am not, though I don't think casual sex is quite as bad and empty as you make it out to be.
I question why you became so angry and intent on hurting me. Your post isn't really an attempt to communicate as it is an attempt to make yourself feel superior, and I question why you feel the need to do so.
Oh, I think they understood the sarcasm all too well, and thus the flamebait mod.
Don't malign plastic, you dirty hippies. They saved my life in WWII! Why, when I was a lad, we would have KILLED to have plastic food storage. You know what I hear when you say plastics are dangerous? "blah blah blah I hate America blah blah I hate progress blah blah blah." Real Americans can eat plastic like it was apple pie and not get sick.
The same goes double for global warming & the ozone layer. In fact, let's just stop funding research into things that may be bad for us. Only sissies care. All you are doing with your sissy studies is holding back progress and making people worry over nothing.
Admit it: you want us all to go back to living in caves. You hate the modern world and everything in it and you want to destroy it with your evil 'studies.' Elitist intellectual claptrap.
America stands for progress. Except we're not progressive, the damn hippies stole that word and turned it into something dirty. Either you love progress and you know that everything new is better, or you hate America and want everyone to live in caves.
If you hate plastics, you hate the whole human race!
Well done. You were trolling, right?
Are you aware of the environmental destruction caused by rubber harvesting for bike tires? Where does the grease for your gears come from? Planet rapist.
I walk to work in shoes made from my own toenail clippings, wearing a breathing mask to filter out microbes so my immune system doesn't kill them, brushing bugs out of the way with a broom made from my own hair.
Stop being a condescending twit with a fixed, immutable worldview and try to open your mind to the possibility that other people are different from you. Even the best chefs in the world like to eat at other people's restaurants. Do you and your partner spend every waking minute together? If not, what's lacking? Does having a hobby that your partner doesn't share mean that your relationship is lacking?
Our other partners are something we share with each other. We are all friends, we aren't lacking anything, we have more than other people. Do you even know the difference between polyamory and swinging?
You aren't trying to understand me at all, you are making huge assumptions based on your own views. I'm not lacking anything, I'm not missing out. I have the closeness that you seem to think I don't. Intense emotional sex, not just fucking. We have a complete and total sharing and openness. We have incredible emotional intimacy.
You aren't trying to understand me at all, you are trying to pigeonhole me into your personal view of the world, which is obviously warped. You assume too much, and I am done trying to educate you, because I find you insulting and condescending, and I see no hope of you ever opening your mind. Typical conservative.
We're married under the law, as witnessed by our friends and family and certified by the State of California. We aren't religious, so we never sought the blessings of such. We've been together eight years, and married for five. We're not only married, we're doing a better job of it than many people.
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I've been with my wife for eight years, and married for five. We were monogamous for the first five years. I have also had a five year and three year monogamous relationship (living together but not married). I have had as much love and meaning in my relationships as an human being on the planet.
I wasn't equating relationships with taking a dump, once again you fail basic reading comprehension. I said 'people,' as in other people, think sex is dirty, like taking a dump. Sex, not relationships. Other people, not me. Damn, a double fail on the comprehension there. I'd say on the face of it that you are flat out jealous.
Guess what? I have an open relationship with a real connection, love, trust, openness and honesty AND I get to have loving, sexual relationships with other women, as well. You see, we aren't swingers, we're polyamorous, which means the focus is on love, not sex.
I feel sad for you, I can tell you have a bleak and closed minded view of love as being in limited quantities, a scarce resource to fight over. Too bad, you'll probably never understand how good and plentiful it can be.
No, I did not mean it that way. But Americans in general do look down on socialism, and so I like to point out that what we do IS akin to socialism, but only for the wealthy. I would prefer America had more socialism for the average person, rather than having all our tax dollars go to handouts and tax breaks for the owning class.
But if that pit bull grew up in Alaska, it will be an expert on international affairs and diplomacy, because Alaska is near Russia.
Seriously, I think whoever modded this 'flamebait' must be a teensy bit jealous. Off topic, I could see, but flamebait? Just because it made your sad little basement dwelling ass jealous, and made you feel like flaming me, does not make the above comment flamebait.
Tell you what, sad little virginal mods, I'm going out with a new hot chick this Saturday, I'll screw her once extra just for y'all.
15-20% seems right for the whole plant, but well manicured buds should have a higher trichome to regular plant matter ratio. Perhaps the figures I was quoting were for perfectly manicured buds, and the lower figures are for the entire plant?
I remember being told that 15-20% was the most that one could usually hope for, and the higher figures were for the best strains grown, cured, and trimmed perfectly. But you know how stoners are, those numbers could all have been completely made up :).
Now get off the IC's lawn you kids, and turn down that gosh-darned music!
Erm, the wife and I have an open marriage. We have three ways. We've been to orgies. We discuss sex in frank and matter of fact ways with our friends. We are not at all embarrassed by sex, and consider it private only in that we don't do it in public. Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that, as long as there are no kids present. The only reason that people think it should be private is because they think it is dirty, like taking a dump.
Well, I could be wrong about the percentages, and maximum THC percentage certainly depends on the growing method as well. This was in 2000-2002, and I'm not in that business anymore. I think the 30% was quoted for some of the new Dutch strains.
I wasn't aware of a pocket in the trichome, but I do know that various strains produce different size and densities of trichomes. The better strains are nearly covered in trichomes, all of them huge fat globs on the ends of the hairs.
I know that the trichomes themselves contain much higher than 30% THC. Water hash, which is mostly compressed trichomes, has higher than 30% THC content, so the trichomes themselves must have more than that. I always thought the percentage figures included leaf matter and stems, so not only growing methods, but trimming methods can make a difference.
THC production also depends on timing. Make sure to harvest just after the trichomes turn amber. Past that point, the THC starts to break down into other compounds. Before that point, production hasn't peaked.
I don't think that in the fundies minds there was any sex at all going on in Eden. Sex is nasty and dirty and there wasn't any of that. But seeing as how nobody was mortal yet, and nobody ate anybody else, breeding probably wasn't necessary. And if it was, well, I think you had a friendly cuddle and maybe rubbed your barbie doll crotches together and then God flew down in the form of a stork and pulled a baby out of a cabbage patch for you. Or something.
I did computer security for a medical marijuana club in San Francisco, and learned quite a bit about cannabis while there. While I agree that real stoners don't call weed 'Sativa,' I disagree about the reasons.
First, Sativa does not have a low THC to CBD ratio. If anything, the reverse is true. Sativa gives an up, chatty, let's go out and do something kind of high. Indica has been bred for centuries to have a high CBD to THC ratio, for pain relief. It gives a sink you into the couch, stoned out of your gourd kind of high.
Indica and Sativa plants grow differently, sativa has a tall, rangy habit while indica grows a single, fat, 'donkey dick' bud. Under ideal conditions, both strains can produce the same amount per square foot of indoor hydroponic space. Sativa does tend to produce more outdoors on a per plant basis, however, as it can grow to enormous size.
Almost all modern pot is a hybrid between those two strains, as most recreational users tend to prefer the high from sativa, while indoor growers prefer the compact habit of indica. You can actually talk coherently on a sativa high, while medical users tend to prefer indica for its pain relief and appetite stimulating effects.
The strains bred for hemp production are generally sativa type, but these strains have very little THC at all. Modern high grade pure sativa strains generally top out around 20% THC, while indica strains can achieve 30%, and most crosses, when grown under perfect indoor hydroponic conditions, achieve 20-25%. By comparison, brick weed has about 2-5%.
As for the on-topic part of your post, I completely agree. :)
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And outside this particular garden was the rest of the Earth, surrounded by the people and animals who pre-existed the ones in said garden.
If you were from Kansas, you'd have read what it says.
Well, maybe not Kansas, but certainly Alexandria.
Huh? Read what WHAT says? If I was from Alexandria, would this post make more sense to me?
Jeez, Otter, what crawled up your butt and died? The fact that in the 21st century, some people still think the Earth is only 6,000 years old because they misinterpreted a stupid fable, is funny.
You don't like us making fun of stupid religious people, but then you call us stupid. Are you a religious person? Do you think the world is only 6,000 years old? Why are you making such a big deal about this? I don't get it.
If it is only because the joke is old, I got news for you. People like old familiar jokes. You may have noticed, people here still quote a comedian who hasn't played outside of Laughlin, Nevada for decades. Do you also bitch and whine about the 'Soviet Russia' jokes? Do you rail about the stupidity of people quoting the Simpsons, or making Natalie Portman/Hot Grits comments?
Maybe this making fun of stupid religious beliefs hits a little close to home? What ARE your beliefs in that regard?