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Many people go through life being helped by Islam (just like Christianity) to be better people
Believing in things that are not true does not help anyone. Failing to critically analyze the world around you doesn't help anyone.
The problem is that just like Christianity a few years back it is twisted by some very sick individuals to justify their own sick ends.
The problem is that when you believe uncritically, you open yourself up to manipulation by anyone who has figured out that you are gullible.
The problem is not the idea of patriotism, democracy, christianity or islam. The problem is when we blindly follow interpretations of these ideas spouted by people with a hidden agenda
You cannot have the former without the latter. Though I don't see how democracy fits in there. Democracy cannot exist without a critically thinking populace. All of the rest of those ideas cannot exist with a critically thinking populace.
One needs only be about 2 levels above the student to be able to effectively teach a subject.
This is not true. You need to be 2 levels above the student AND you need to be motivated, engaged, and honestly feel that this is a valuable and valued use of your life. People who are good at their fields and enthusiastic about it are valuable commodities, which industry will pay well for. If we're not willing to provide competetive compensation, we'll get the same droning drones we've always had.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. We need those who can to teach.
Anyone who cares about education needs to get this through their head - *money does not solve this problem*. The issue is lack of standards, lack of quality teachers, and endless ivory-tower meddling in the educational process. None of those are solved by money.
Lack of standards--NCLB implemented standards and it just got worse. Quality teachers--Are you going to pay competetive salaries with industry to get competent people? How is that not solved with money? Endless ivory-tower meddling--the problem here is a lack of rigor, not the experimentation itself.
The real problem with education is rampant corruption.
Sure, given sufficient time, a student could reverse engineer the problem, but it's also trendy for teachers to hand out way too many problems as homework, without permitting the students time to understand.
Teachers use rote repetition to make up for actual learning. It's easier for a kid to apply the same pattern 20 times on a sheet of problems than it is for them to sit and think and "reverse engineer" one problem. But that time spent thinking about one problem teaches the kid far more than they could ever learn by repetition.
You identify the problem correctly, but you blame the wrong party. It's bad teachers, not bad textbooks.
Gateway inspired a couple of classic interactive fiction titles by Legend in the early 90s. These are mouse driven text adventures, with limited illustration. As text adventures go, these are a lot of fun to play. The story is obviously great, the world is portrayed well, and the puzzles are well balanced. It's hard to get stuck, which is high praise for adventures of this era. Anyway, if you liked The Dig and Planetfall, Gateway will be right up your alley.
What this attitude fails to incorporate is that the judicial system isn't concerned with unjust policies until they actually create injustice.
The first person denied his right to travel without due process has suffered an injustice.
It's not perfect, and sometimes the bad comes from congress faster than it can be addressed, but this is how things are supposed to work.
This isn't how it works. This is how it fails to work. There is absolutely no benefit whatsoever in allowing this sort of injustice to continue for over a decade. That it's taken so long is proof that our checks and balances need checking and rebalancing.
I can't say that I've ever read a paper published by Romanian researchers. China, yes. Pakistan, yes. Ireland, yes. Switzerland, yes. Romania? Never.
It sucks that they are not improving science, basic science is the best investment a country can make. But it's not like they're falling from a great height.
Impaired driving is already legal. It's legal to be impaired by fatigue. It's legal to be impaired by kids in the back seat. It's legal to be impaired by age. Nobody is at 100% all of the time, so we've all driven with some level of impairment. If you maintain full control of your vehicle, there's nothing wrong with that.
I'd be willing to fall back to some kind of coordination test for cannabis
A field sobriety test is a great option. If you fail the field sobriety test, you shouldn't be driving. It doesn't matter whether it's due to alcohol, THC, or an inner ear infection.
I do not think that the alternative to fact-ignoring drugwarfarers are fact-ignoring cannabispropagandist.
History shows us that nearly every "scientific" study on the harms of Cannabis is nothing more than propaganda. Don't ignore that fact. Science is not as clear cut as you think it is.
Most people here agree that it should not be sold to minors except for medical treatments. What would you suggest?
I suggest that it should be sold at the grocery store, in between the coffee and the chocolate. Because as recreational substances go, Cannabis's safety is somewhere between that of coffee and chocolate.
And do you REALLY believe that smoking 5 grams a day as a 13 year old over years won't effect their brains in an unwanted physical way?
I'm willing to bet it's a hell of a lot better for your brain than high school football is.
That's the only relevant fact. If you cause an accident you're at fault and you should be punished. Whether you were distracted because you were stoned, tired, had kids in the car, were trying to eat, were jamming out to tunes, or are just a shitty driver is irrelevant.
let's say the laws have reasonably defined which drugs cause dangerous impairment and what is a dangerous amount
That is factually impossible in the case of Cannabis, and has been known for 20 years. A 1993 study by the DOT determined that:
One of the program's objectives was to determine whether it. is possible to predict driving impairment by plasma concentrations of THC and/or its metabolite, THC-COOH, in single samples. The answer is very clear: it is not. Plasma of drivers showing substantial impairment in these studies contained both high and low THC concentrations; and, drivers with high plasma concentrations showed substantial, but also no impairment, or even some improvement
LOLWUT? Please explain how you don't need to pay attention to safely pilot a vehicle.
Cannabis does not affect the sort of attention required for driving safely, only the type of attention needed for navigation. You might forget your exit, but you're not going to fail to notice stop lights.
But driving while impaired is a reckless act in itself which should carry a punishment. Do you disagree?
Only if the impairment is such that it causes you to actually drive recklessly. That almost never happens with Cannabis intoxication. If you're in full control of your vehicle, whether you are impaired or not is irrelevant. What matters is that you have full control of your vehicle.
Why modded -1? This study supports other studies that came to similar conclusions:
Because correlation does not imply causation.
If those studies are right,
Which is a big if. There is a huge incentive to find some, ANY justification to continue the war on drugs. There is little incentive to simply tell the truth. Look at the decades and decades of bad science drug warriors have pushed to justify their crimes. Every claim that has been made about the harms of Cannabis has fallen apart after further scrutiny.
Ever since the Patriot Act the American people have been under this...to make Snowden's actions somehow necessary to have a 'national conversation' about privacy is incorrect
Apparently it was necessary, because we didn't have that conversation before Snowden. What more evidence do you need?
you are justifying after the fact
Well it's kind of hard to justify something before if happens. You don't even have a coherent point.
Well, there's plenty of evidence that Marijuana has effects on response time (like most depressants).
The DOT says
One may question what the effect of THC on reaction time would have been if subjects had driven at the same mean headway in all conditions? Covariance analysis of reaction time with headway as covariate was applied to answer this question. Figure 5.7 shows the mean changes in adjusted reaction times, from placebo levels. The figure makes clear that the differences in the adjusted reaction times were much less than those in the original ones. Though each THC dose increased reaction. time, none did significantly. This means that the elevation in the raw reaction times following the lowest THC dose were simply due to a longer headway.
For most of us who've smoked pot, we know it definitely affects your faculties to the point where you cant drive safely
It *can* impair to that point, but generally doesn't. If you're so high you can't drive safely, you're going to know it.
really it needs to be treated like other legal mind altering drugs
Like other legal mind altering drugs like caffeine and benadryl.
So if there was a car crash, the police have no real way to prove it was even a factor.
Why should it matter? What matters is what actually happened during a crash, and who did it. If I pull into traffic without looking, it doesn't matter whether I'm drunk, stoned, or sober. I'm at fault.
Punish people for what they actually do, not what's in their bloodstream.
University of Washington cited an Australian study showing that the research is a total mess in this area.
"the research is a total mess in this area" is government funded researcher code for "we don't have the data to support what the government wants to say, so give us more money and we'll see what we can do". It's been known since 1993, that cannabis at typical levels is less impairing than legally permissible levels of alcohol, and those who are impaired *overestimate* their impairment.
Also, any attempt to set blood THC limits is misguided. From the same 1993 DOT study:
One of the program's objectives was to determine whether it. is possible to predict driving impairment by plasma concentrations of THC and/or its metabolite, THC-COOH, in single samples. The answer is very clear: it is not. Plasma of drivers showing substantial impairment in these studies contained both high and low THC concentrations; and, drivers with high plasma concentrations showed substantial, but also no impairment, or even some improvement.
I've written this before, with links just like now...if you want to disagree, if you want to claim Snowden *did* release valuable information and not just technical details for things we already knew existed...you have to show evidence.
The evidence that Snowden's leak was valuable is on the front pages every day. Before Snowden, the NSA was in the news once or twice a year, buried in newspapers. After Snowden, the NSA is in the news almost every day. The disclosures may or may not be new, but the public attention is.
Gotta remember to pay the $10 3 times a year, but close to what you want
That's just ridiculous. Why can't they let me pay $30 once a year? No, they've got to jack it up to $80. Hell, I'll pay $300 for 10 years, just don't expire the fucking minutes. What a scam.
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The politician you know is a felon is more honest than the one who claims not to be.
Sorry, I'm not gullible enough to fall for that meaningless bullshit. Do you have an actual argument to make?
Many people go through life being helped by Islam (just like Christianity) to be better people
Believing in things that are not true does not help anyone. Failing to critically analyze the world around you doesn't help anyone.
The problem is that just like Christianity a few years back it is twisted by some very sick individuals to justify their own sick ends.
The problem is that when you believe uncritically, you open yourself up to manipulation by anyone who has figured out that you are gullible.
The problem is not the idea of patriotism, democracy, christianity or islam. The problem is when we blindly follow interpretations of these ideas spouted by people with a hidden agenda
You cannot have the former without the latter. Though I don't see how democracy fits in there. Democracy cannot exist without a critically thinking populace. All of the rest of those ideas cannot exist with a critically thinking populace.
One needs only be about 2 levels above the student to be able to effectively teach a subject.
This is not true. You need to be 2 levels above the student AND you need to be motivated, engaged, and honestly feel that this is a valuable and valued use of your life. People who are good at their fields and enthusiastic about it are valuable commodities, which industry will pay well for. If we're not willing to provide competetive compensation, we'll get the same droning drones we've always had.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. We need those who can to teach.
Most of those services are provided by state and county government. The federal government does not educate you for instance...
If you're black, and living in the South, the Federal government is undeniably responsible for your education.
Just from reading the article, I can see that the key is using local browser storage
Which is about as secure as storing the key in /var/www.
Anyone who cares about education needs to get this through their head - *money does not solve this problem*. The issue is lack of standards, lack of quality teachers, and endless ivory-tower meddling in the educational process. None of those are solved by money.
Lack of standards--NCLB implemented standards and it just got worse.
Quality teachers--Are you going to pay competetive salaries with industry to get competent people? How is that not solved with money?
Endless ivory-tower meddling--the problem here is a lack of rigor, not the experimentation itself.
The real problem with education is rampant corruption.
Sure, given sufficient time, a student could reverse engineer the problem, but it's also trendy for teachers to hand out way too many problems as homework, without permitting the students time to understand.
Teachers use rote repetition to make up for actual learning. It's easier for a kid to apply the same pattern 20 times on a sheet of problems than it is for them to sit and think and "reverse engineer" one problem. But that time spent thinking about one problem teaches the kid far more than they could ever learn by repetition.
You identify the problem correctly, but you blame the wrong party. It's bad teachers, not bad textbooks.
Gateway inspired a couple of classic interactive fiction titles by Legend in the early 90s. These are mouse driven text adventures, with limited illustration. As text adventures go, these are a lot of fun to play. The story is obviously great, the world is portrayed well, and the puzzles are well balanced. It's hard to get stuck, which is high praise for adventures of this era. Anyway, if you liked The Dig and Planetfall, Gateway will be right up your alley.
Harmful to who? The truth is never a threat to honest people. Only our leaders need to fear the truth.
What this attitude fails to incorporate is that the judicial system isn't concerned with unjust policies until they actually create injustice.
The first person denied his right to travel without due process has suffered an injustice.
It's not perfect, and sometimes the bad comes from congress faster than it can be addressed, but this is how things are supposed to work.
This isn't how it works. This is how it fails to work. There is absolutely no benefit whatsoever in allowing this sort of injustice to continue for over a decade. That it's taken so long is proof that our checks and balances need checking and rebalancing.
Have you forgotten that companies used to train their employees?
I can't say that I've ever read a paper published by Romanian researchers. China, yes. Pakistan, yes. Ireland, yes. Switzerland, yes. Romania? Never.
It sucks that they are not improving science, basic science is the best investment a country can make. But it's not like they're falling from a great height.
I'm not willing to legalize impaired driving.
Impaired driving is already legal. It's legal to be impaired by fatigue. It's legal to be impaired by kids in the back seat. It's legal to be impaired by age. Nobody is at 100% all of the time, so we've all driven with some level of impairment. If you maintain full control of your vehicle, there's nothing wrong with that.
I'd be willing to fall back to some kind of coordination test for cannabis
A field sobriety test is a great option. If you fail the field sobriety test, you shouldn't be driving. It doesn't matter whether it's due to alcohol, THC, or an inner ear infection.
I do not think that the alternative to fact-ignoring drugwarfarers are fact-ignoring cannabispropagandist.
History shows us that nearly every "scientific" study on the harms of Cannabis is nothing more than propaganda. Don't ignore that fact. Science is not as clear cut as you think it is.
Most people here agree that it should not be sold to minors except for medical treatments. What would you suggest?
I suggest that it should be sold at the grocery store, in between the coffee and the chocolate. Because as recreational substances go, Cannabis's safety is somewhere between that of coffee and chocolate.
And do you REALLY believe that smoking 5 grams a day as a 13 year old over years won't effect their brains in an unwanted physical way?
I'm willing to bet it's a hell of a lot better for your brain than high school football is.
If someone causes an accident
That's the only relevant fact. If you cause an accident you're at fault and you should be punished. Whether you were distracted because you were stoned, tired, had kids in the car, were trying to eat, were jamming out to tunes, or are just a shitty driver is irrelevant.
let's say the laws have reasonably defined which drugs cause dangerous impairment and what is a dangerous amount
That is factually impossible in the case of Cannabis, and has been known for 20 years. A 1993 study by the DOT determined that:
LOLWUT? Please explain how you don't need to pay attention to safely pilot a vehicle.
Cannabis does not affect the sort of attention required for driving safely, only the type of attention needed for navigation. You might forget your exit, but you're not going to fail to notice stop lights.
But driving while impaired is a reckless act in itself which should carry a punishment. Do you disagree?
Only if the impairment is such that it causes you to actually drive recklessly. That almost never happens with Cannabis intoxication. If you're in full control of your vehicle, whether you are impaired or not is irrelevant. What matters is that you have full control of your vehicle.
Why modded -1? This study supports other studies that came to similar conclusions:
Because correlation does not imply causation.
If those studies are right,
Which is a big if. There is a huge incentive to find some, ANY justification to continue the war on drugs. There is little incentive to simply tell the truth. Look at the decades and decades of bad science drug warriors have pushed to justify their crimes. Every claim that has been made about the harms of Cannabis has fallen apart after further scrutiny.
Ever since the Patriot Act the American people have been under this...to make Snowden's actions somehow necessary to have a 'national conversation' about privacy is incorrect
Apparently it was necessary, because we didn't have that conversation before Snowden. What more evidence do you need?
you are justifying after the fact
Well it's kind of hard to justify something before if happens. You don't even have a coherent point.
Well, there's plenty of evidence that Marijuana has effects on response time (like most depressants).
The DOT says
For most of us who've smoked pot, we know it definitely affects your faculties to the point where you cant drive safely
It *can* impair to that point, but generally doesn't. If you're so high you can't drive safely, you're going to know it.
really it needs to be treated like other legal mind altering drugs
Like other legal mind altering drugs like caffeine and benadryl.
Marijuana impairs attention.
Which to be honest, only affects navigation.
So if there was a car crash, the police have no real way to prove it was even a factor.
Why should it matter? What matters is what actually happened during a crash, and who did it. If I pull into traffic without looking, it doesn't matter whether I'm drunk, stoned, or sober. I'm at fault.
Punish people for what they actually do, not what's in their bloodstream.
University of Washington cited an Australian study showing that the research is a total mess in this area.
"the research is a total mess in this area" is government funded researcher code for "we don't have the data to support what the government wants to say, so give us more money and we'll see what we can do". It's been known since 1993, that cannabis at typical levels is less impairing than legally permissible levels of alcohol, and those who are impaired *overestimate* their impairment.
Also, any attempt to set blood THC limits is misguided. From the same 1993 DOT study:
One of the program's objectives was to determine whether it. is possible to predict driving
impairment by plasma concentrations of THC and/or its metabolite, THC-COOH, in single
samples. The answer is very clear: it is not. Plasma of drivers showing substantial impairment
in these studies contained both high and low THC concentrations; and, drivers with high plasma
concentrations showed substantial, but also no impairment, or even some improvement.
What happens when we have enough people working on those things we can't make robots do? What do we do with excess labor then?
I've written this before, with links just like now...if you want to disagree, if you want to claim Snowden *did* release valuable information and not just technical details for things we already knew existed...you have to show evidence.
The evidence that Snowden's leak was valuable is on the front pages every day. Before Snowden, the NSA was in the news once or twice a year, buried in newspapers. After Snowden, the NSA is in the news almost every day. The disclosures may or may not be new, but the public attention is.
Gotta remember to pay the $10 3 times a year, but close to what you want
That's just ridiculous. Why can't they let me pay $30 once a year? No, they've got to jack it up to $80. Hell, I'll pay $300 for 10 years, just don't expire the fucking minutes. What a scam.