"I don't normally feed the trolls, but I'll say this -- while making marijuana illegal in the first place wasn't necessarily done for the right reasons (from today's perspective), you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Hemp is not illegal. It is not at all difficult to find hemp paper, hemp rope, hemp milk, hemp seeds (protein for vegetarians), and an assload of other products."
Yes, you can find an assload of hemp products. However, none of them will have been grown or manufactured in the United States. IT'S ILLEGAL TO GROW HERE. Please stop being a dumbass.
"You're also sadly mistaken if you believe the Mexican cartels would disappear. If we legalized, Mexico would likely follow suit, and they'd legally flood the market."
The point he was (poorly) trying to make was that they wouldn't be flooding the market in the manner they currently do: with guns and violence. I have a hard time imagining the gang violence to be nearly as great of a problem if marijuana is legalized. Admittedly it will still be a problem as they smuggle a large variety of illegal drugs, but the alternative is to keep feeding them the money they currently make off pot.
If you were trying to suggest that we wouldn't get the money that legalization supporters are saying would come via taxation of the production of marijuana then that is a valid point, but Mexico isn't where most of the imports would be coming from anyways; it's generally know to have the bad, 'dirt-weed'. I don't think importing it would affect the revenue gained from a sales tax either way (I'm not sure, IANAE[conomist]).
"Why is it that marijuana advocates believe all the random shit they read in High Times or other 'advocacy books.' You may want to examine your ability to spell "Wears" before you spout off about how drugs are largely harmless."
Why is it that your average American continues to believe the blatant propaganda they've been fed since childhood?
Actually, you're right. He misspelled one word, so I've decided to change my position: potheds r dum lol keep dat shit ilegil.
"In our private conversations, Judge Cedarbaum has pointed out to me that seminal decisions in race and sex discrimination cases have come from Supreme Courts composed exclusively of white males. I agree that this is significant but I also choose to emphasize that the people who argued those cases before the Supreme Court which changed the legal landscape ultimately were largely people of color and women. I recall that Justice Thurgood Marshall, Judge Connie Baker Motley, the first black woman appointed to the federal bench, and others of the NAACP argued Brown v. Board of Education. Similarly, Justice Ginsburg, with other women attorneys, was instrumental in advocating and convincing the Court that equality of work required equality in terms and conditions of employment.
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am not so sure Justice O'Connor is the author of that line since Professor Resnik attributes that line to Supreme Court Justice Coyle. I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor Martha Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."
It's easy to mince people's words in order to prove a point.
It's much more difficult to actually listen to the whole thing and receive their message.
There's at least one other, more common, case, where someone who's lost the use of their hands no longer touches things enough to rub off the dead skin which erodes away to leave the ridges and grooves of your fingerprints.
I saw it on TV, it's totally true.
Also, I would have guessed you were the one frying your brains out via bong, judging from the severe paranoia you seem to suffer from ('OMG NO FINGERPRINTS HE MUST BE UP TO NO GOOD CAUSE THE BAD GUYS IN MOVIES USED ACID ON THEIR FINGERS TO BE SNEAKY OMG').
"He has also said that he 'would not be capable' of explaining the whole story of the game, and stated that the central idea is 'something big and subtle and resists being looked at directly.'"
To you, that may suggest that it's something so epic that neither you nor the creator can wrap your/his mind around it. To me, it suggests that the dev smoked a lot of weed, wrote some nonsense down, and figured it was good enough.
I mean, really, the theme of the game was not a bad one. The way it was presented, however, was horrible. The feeling of 'oh god, what have I done, it was really me all along' was communicated much more effectively and powerfully in Half-Life 2, with Breen's questioning of Gordon: "How could you have thrown it all away," and later, "What is it, exactly, that you have created?"
If the purpose of a game, as art, is to provoke thought and instill in me certain emotions with a high level of authenticity, and if, in Braid, these emotions were remorse and reconsideration of past actions in a different light, then Braid has, as both a game and a work of art, failed to do so. Half Life 2, on the other hand, actually made me think.
Braid, while attempting to convey similar emotions, instead told me the story of some guy who didn't appreciate his girlfriend. Half Life 2, on the other hand, takes you from being the sole savior of an alien race and the leader of the human resistance to being (to some) the greatest obstacle in the dawning of a new age for humanity.
How was it a work of art? It was a crappy platformer with a 'rewind time' button. You couldn't even technically die.
The 'story' was a bunch of nonsense about the main character emo-ing out on his ex. Hell I don't even know if she was his ex, the story seemed to follow a completely arbitrary time line.
Why do you start in the hero's house? Why are the doors in there portals to strange lands with ugly creatures? Why does going through a special door make a ladder appear in my house?! Mario can get away with 'Why am I crawling down a pipe?' because that was at least new, and fairly unique.
And why the hell did the game designer expect you to figure out that you had to die, rewind time, and let your shadow die again to bounce an enemy in the air? It's a completely random mechanic, and the only part of the game I actually had to look up. Of course, I guess you could at least say it was the one part of the game that was 'innovative'. The rest made me yawn.
The ONLY thing I would like to see from Braid in any other game is the artistic style, which hardly makes up for the lack of content (with regards to both gameplay and story). I think I would have been happier spending my money on a poster.
Maybe it's from excessive use of those absolutely appalling smiles.
Correlation may not imply causation, but I've been around these here internets for quite awhile, and wherever you see an emote of that caliber, idiocy is often quite close by...
Wow, not only did you not RTFA, you managed to also not read the asstons of comments on here proving you an idiot. And, on top of that, you told someone ELSE to RTFA!
Take a chill pill, man. Or a chill helmet. Whatever.
"To do otherwise is just to puff yourself up, and no real Marine needs to puff himself up."
Yeah, you sure made your point about how much better you are by pointing out how you don't need to... point it... out...
I don't know which is funnier, your average internet tough guy or your average 'I USED TO BE IN THE MARINES, I'M SO HARDCORE' tough guy. This guy's BOTH!
While more specific, I wouldn't call that the 'proper' term. Nobody seems to speak Latin much around these parts (the ones I try it with just give me funny looks).
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"I don't normally feed the trolls, but I'll say this -- while making marijuana illegal in the first place wasn't necessarily done for the right reasons (from today's perspective), you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Hemp is not illegal. It is not at all difficult to find hemp paper, hemp rope, hemp milk, hemp seeds (protein for vegetarians), and an assload of other products."
Yes, you can find an assload of hemp products. However, none of them will have been grown or manufactured in the United States. IT'S ILLEGAL TO GROW HERE. Please stop being a dumbass.
"You're also sadly mistaken if you believe the Mexican cartels would disappear. If we legalized, Mexico would likely follow suit, and they'd legally flood the market."
The point he was (poorly) trying to make was that they wouldn't be flooding the market in the manner they currently do: with guns and violence. I have a hard time imagining the gang violence to be nearly as great of a problem if marijuana is legalized. Admittedly it will still be a problem as they smuggle a large variety of illegal drugs, but the alternative is to keep feeding them the money they currently make off pot.
If you were trying to suggest that we wouldn't get the money that legalization supporters are saying would come via taxation of the production of marijuana then that is a valid point, but Mexico isn't where most of the imports would be coming from anyways; it's generally know to have the bad, 'dirt-weed'. I don't think importing it would affect the revenue gained from a sales tax either way (I'm not sure, IANAE[conomist]).
"Why is it that marijuana advocates believe all the random shit they read in High Times or other 'advocacy books.' You may want to examine your ability to spell "Wears" before you spout off about how drugs are largely harmless."
Why is it that your average American continues to believe the blatant propaganda they've been fed since childhood?
Actually, you're right. He misspelled one word, so I've decided to change my position: potheds r dum lol keep dat shit ilegil.
"In our private conversations, Judge Cedarbaum has pointed out to me that seminal decisions in race and sex discrimination cases have come from Supreme Courts composed exclusively of white males. I agree that this is significant but I also choose to emphasize that the people who argued those cases before the Supreme Court which changed the legal landscape ultimately were largely people of color and women. I recall that Justice Thurgood Marshall, Judge Connie Baker Motley, the first black woman appointed to the federal bench, and others of the NAACP argued Brown v. Board of Education. Similarly, Justice Ginsburg, with other women attorneys, was instrumental in advocating and convincing the Court that equality of work required equality in terms and conditions of employment.
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am not so sure Justice O'Connor is the author of that line since Professor Resnik attributes that line to Supreme Court Justice Coyle. I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor Martha Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."
It's easy to mince people's words in order to prove a point.
It's much more difficult to actually listen to the whole thing and receive their message.
Full text: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/politics/15judge.text.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
FARE! It will FARE better! FARE as in FAREWELL.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fare#Verb
Sorry, had to stop the stupid before someone else caught it.
Grats, you're officially the first person I've ever heard take issue with Android's UI.
Now would you like to tell us WHY you think a three year old designed it?
Never thought I'd feel old at 20, but there it is...
There's at least one other, more common, case, where someone who's lost the use of their hands no longer touches things enough to rub off the dead skin which erodes away to leave the ridges and grooves of your fingerprints.
I saw it on TV, it's totally true.
Also, I would have guessed you were the one frying your brains out via bong, judging from the severe paranoia you seem to suffer from ('OMG NO FINGERPRINTS HE MUST BE UP TO NO GOOD CAUSE THE BAD GUYS IN MOVIES USED ACID ON THEIR FINGERS TO BE SNEAKY OMG').
Catfish are known to be radioactive at short ranges while alive. Apparently he touched too many catfish.
(Hey, there's two other explanations here modded to +3 and ONE of them has to be bullshit. Figured I'd give it a try.)
"He has also said that he 'would not be capable' of explaining the whole story of the game, and stated that the central idea is 'something big and subtle and resists being looked at directly.'"
To you, that may suggest that it's something so epic that neither you nor the creator can wrap your/his mind around it. To me, it suggests that the dev smoked a lot of weed, wrote some nonsense down, and figured it was good enough.
I mean, really, the theme of the game was not a bad one. The way it was presented, however, was horrible. The feeling of 'oh god, what have I done, it was really me all along' was communicated much more effectively and powerfully in Half-Life 2, with Breen's questioning of Gordon: "How could you have thrown it all away," and later, "What is it, exactly, that you have created?"
If the purpose of a game, as art, is to provoke thought and instill in me certain emotions with a high level of authenticity, and if, in Braid, these emotions were remorse and reconsideration of past actions in a different light, then Braid has, as both a game and a work of art, failed to do so. Half Life 2, on the other hand, actually made me think.
Braid, while attempting to convey similar emotions, instead told me the story of some guy who didn't appreciate his girlfriend. Half Life 2, on the other hand, takes you from being the sole savior of an alien race and the leader of the human resistance to being (to some) the greatest obstacle in the dawning of a new age for humanity.
Sorry to reply to myself, but I had to say:
Play Cave Story( http://www.miraigamer.net/cavestory/ ). It's free and it's about 100x more fun than Braid. It actually has replayability too.
How was it a work of art? It was a crappy platformer with a 'rewind time' button. You couldn't even technically die.
The 'story' was a bunch of nonsense about the main character emo-ing out on his ex. Hell I don't even know if she was his ex, the story seemed to follow a completely arbitrary time line.
Why do you start in the hero's house? Why are the doors in there portals to strange lands with ugly creatures? Why does going through a special door make a ladder appear in my house?! Mario can get away with 'Why am I crawling down a pipe?' because that was at least new, and fairly unique.
And why the hell did the game designer expect you to figure out that you had to die, rewind time, and let your shadow die again to bounce an enemy in the air? It's a completely random mechanic, and the only part of the game I actually had to look up. Of course, I guess you could at least say it was the one part of the game that was 'innovative'. The rest made me yawn.
The ONLY thing I would like to see from Braid in any other game is the artistic style, which hardly makes up for the lack of content (with regards to both gameplay and story). I think I would have been happier spending my money on a poster.
Maybe it's from excessive use of those absolutely appalling smiles.
Correlation may not imply causation, but I've been around these here internets for quite awhile, and wherever you see an emote of that caliber, idiocy is often quite close by...
^^
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cromulent
I'm so confused now... troll? Not troll? Will the world ever know?
Wow, not only did you not RTFA, you managed to also not read the asstons of comments on here proving you an idiot. And, on top of that, you told someone ELSE to RTFA!
Take a chill pill, man. Or a chill helmet. Whatever.
I find it hard to believe that you can't connect the dots between 'government data' and 'data.gov'.
Well, never mind, this IS Slashdot... the 'data' stands for 'data' and the 'gov' stands for 'government'.
HTH
"Here here."
Where, where? I don't think that means what you think it means. Try, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear_hear
Wow, 50 Cent was a slave at one point?
You really do learn something new every day...
I don't think you understand.
It was red matter.
Red. Matter.
"Hi, I'm Superman. Now, give me a nuclear resistant bunker/home to put my friends family in so they can party while I occasionally save the world."
How hard would that really be?
"Seconded. I had to leave the theater due to vertigo (I've got nasty seasonal allergies and some blockage in my ears, I think)."
You left the new Star Trek... due to vertigo... caused by allergies...?
*hands you my Geek Card*
Yeah. You get TWO.
Maybe the guy just loves the feel of watermelon in his hands. Don't judge.
Sure, you're a biochemist. That's nice.
But this guy's seen a movie about the FUTURE (and he almost spelled it right too)!
Sooo naive.
"To do otherwise is just to puff yourself up, and no real Marine needs to puff himself up."
Yeah, you sure made your point about how much better you are by pointing out how you don't need to... point it... out...
I don't know which is funnier, your average internet tough guy or your average 'I USED TO BE IN THE MARINES, I'M SO HARDCORE' tough guy. This guy's BOTH!
While more specific, I wouldn't call that the 'proper' term. Nobody seems to speak Latin much around these parts (the ones I try it with just give me funny looks).
I prefer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synechdoche
Looks like someone has a fat college loan they're awfully proud of paying off ;)
To the person who modded this coward troll: http://content.dell.com/us/en/corp/d/bios/erin.aspx