You are absolutely right. Wouldn't this be a great world if everyone could afford to buy heroin? There would be so many people in rehab that the burger flippers could afford that too.
Are you kidding? MSN has excellent customer service. After calling their support number, I found the touch-tone service menu easy to navigate. Would you believe they have an option specifically for quitting their service? It only took me a few minutes.
You mean like facts found here
http://www.google.com/search?q=marijuana+driving. Where even the most generous studies could only say that it isn't as bad as other drugs, but still dangerous? If you are relying on facts to assure you that marijuana consumption is harmless, then you are relying on the wrong facts.
Everyone keeps saying pot is safer than alcohol. Well, no shit. That isn't the point. Smoking pot is not safer than nothing at all. Can any of you say that you would be comfortable with your children's bus driver smoking pot before he picked them up for school?
Bullshit. Of those 100,000 deaths you speak of, I assume you are referring to driving related deaths, since health problems cause only a fraction of alcohol related deaths. What makes you think that people would be any more responsible with pot? If it were as accessable as alcohol, you would be citing twice as many deaths, unless you really believe that someone under the influence of marijuana is any better a driver than someone who had been drinking.
"In the US, somewhere around 40% of employees work for Local, State, or Federal governments."
This is obviously bogus. Think about your friends - do anywhere near 40% of them work for the gov't? Do even 10%? No. This wasn't even true during the world wars - there had to be many people producing war materials for each person on the front (and war materials were produced largely by private companies). Think before you post.
There is a very simple explanation for that. Government employees don't have friends. They probably aren't even born from natural human parents. Didn't I read a slashdot story about the government fabricating them to reduce training costs?
A lot of people are comparing simulated crimes such as murder, theft, etc. to simulated child porn. They fail to note a difference between the two. Aside from a few people with mental health issues, no one goes to the latest action movie to satisfy their urges to kill people. They have no predilection for that act. Can we say the same of those who seek out child porn? The majority of pedophiles would have sex with minors if they could. The majority of the average movie-viewing public would not kill a person if presented with the opportunity.
Although I do agree that the distinction between simulated porn and real porn is valid on the point of one having no immediate and real victims.
The technology of "simulation" is improving all the time. The situation becomes problematic when you are unable to distinguish between copies of real acts and simulated ones. Right now, you can prosecute someone in possesion of an incriminating video tape without the victims being identified. What do we do when we cannot make a clear determination on whether or not children were involved in the making of the porn?
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You are absolutely right. Wouldn't this be a great world if everyone could afford to buy heroin? There would be so many people in rehab that the burger flippers could afford that too.
Obligatory Slashdot metaphor: It is like buying a house in a neighborhood knowing it has a high crime rate and bitching because you got shot.
(Obligatory Slashdot counter-metaphor to follow this post.)
Yeah, but what if he wants to use the gameport to play games?
Are you kidding? MSN has excellent customer service. After calling their support number, I found the touch-tone service menu easy to navigate. Would you believe they have an option specifically for quitting their service? It only took me a few minutes.
You mean like facts found here http://www.google.com/search?q=marijuana+driving. Where even the most generous studies could only say that it isn't as bad as other drugs, but still dangerous? If you are relying on facts to assure you that marijuana consumption is harmless, then you are relying on the wrong facts.
Everyone keeps saying pot is safer than alcohol. Well, no shit. That isn't the point. Smoking pot is not safer than nothing at all. Can any of you say that you would be comfortable with your children's bus driver smoking pot before he picked them up for school?
Bullshit. Of those 100,000 deaths you speak of, I assume you are referring to driving related deaths, since health problems cause only a fraction of alcohol related deaths. What makes you think that people would be any more responsible with pot? If it were as accessable as alcohol, you would be citing twice as many deaths, unless you really believe that someone under the influence of marijuana is any better a driver than someone who had been drinking.
This is obviously bogus. Think about your friends - do anywhere near 40% of them work for the gov't? Do even 10%? No. This wasn't even true during the world wars - there had to be many people producing war materials for each person on the front (and war materials were produced largely by private companies). Think before you post.
There is a very simple explanation for that. Government employees don't have friends. They probably aren't even born from natural human parents. Didn't I read a slashdot story about the government fabricating them to reduce training costs?
Although I do agree that the distinction between simulated porn and real porn is valid on the point of one having no immediate and real victims. The technology of "simulation" is improving all the time. The situation becomes problematic when you are unable to distinguish between copies of real acts and simulated ones. Right now, you can prosecute someone in possesion of an incriminating video tape without the victims being identified. What do we do when we cannot make a clear determination on whether or not children were involved in the making of the porn?
You mean, "Could not HAVE been Taco", right?
Are you sure it shouldn't be "Could not have bean tacos?"
"Once someone has gone as far as oral sex, vaginal sex ain't too far away."
By my mark, it's just over two feet away.