That was a cheap shot, but I don't think of marijuana research as 'wasting money' considering how many people still do use it despite draconian laws against its possession, use, cultivation and sale. I feel that whenever something is being used/done/believed/whatever by a significant segment of the population, that something should be studied.
Making pot use a felony offense drives alot of people in many ways. If you want more time spent on "real" diseases, get the gov't to lay off pot. Otherwise, STFU and GBTW.
Farmers getting paid to not grow crops, or getting money to produce ethanol from soil-crops even though it's a down's syndrome solution to our need for energy. Algae in a vat FTW!
Also, the most conservative states are the ones which, proportionally to tax contributions, get the most 'free money' handed to them by the Federal Government. Next time some guy from New Mexico or Alabama or Arizona starts bitching about lazy bums getting welfare handouts, remember this and smile;)
I own over 300 CDs, been buying them since 1990. Back then "The Wall" would give you a new CD if yours broke...just bring in the bits and there you go. Now I'm told I'm only liscensing the content. This industry gets more and more protection from the government and they use it to squeeze the customer harder and harder. I dislike the fact that a failing business model is protected by law to ensure the profitability of a non-necessity. I dislike that when I buy a movie I am forced to watch commercials and be talked down to by FBI warnings...I bought the damn thing, didn't I? If I were to rip that DVD to a hypothetical disk array in order to strip off the annoying non-movie parts, I am breaking the law.
I suppose I could simply not use their content, but when it and advertisements for it is blasted at me whenever I go out in public or watch commercial TV, I just get all bitter. Since they have all this money, they can spew advertising at me for the crap deals they off on their content. What is my recourse? "ignore" it? I'm getting tired of that. I want to hit back at these douchebags for polluting my life with their advertising and then making the product such a shitty deal.
So, intrusive advertisment combined with a raw deal for the consumer equals a desire to get back at the rich bastards running the show. How better than to use their content without permission? It's the best revenge.
School is expensive enough in the USA, I don't think these grant-supported US-citizens would be able to afford schooling in England.
The conspiracy nut in me wonders if this is an effort by faith-based right-wingers to drive more and more people away from higher education. Get the kiddies early with stories of Sky Daddy, and keep them from experiencing crazy new ideas...where's my tin foil?
Wow, after 5 years and almost a Trillion pissed away into the sand, things are improving slightly! Yeah, take that terrorists! Fuck with the big bad USA and 5 years later we might actually get something done! I feel for those who were already in when this idiotic aggressive invasion took place. Those who enlisted after? Tough shit on them for supporting an evil agenda and being too stupid to realize that they were being lied to. We shoulda cleaned up in Afghanistan, gone home and secured our borders, and stayed vigilant. Pre-emptive strikes are bad precedent.
No declaration of war was made, no conscription, no rationing, no sacrifices made except to our rights and liberty. If this 'terrorist threat' was as serious as the government and their military cheerleaders say it is, why isn't there conscription? Why don't we have the 1/2 Million men in Iraq that military guidelines stated was needed to succeed there? Why doesn't our dear leader require Americans to ration gasoline and food so we can afford to properly equip those soldiers? The whole idea of invading Iraq was stupid because it wasn't involved, and then to top it all off, they went in with no plan.
Because this conflict was not to secure America, but to enrich the already-rich Americans with connections to politics. I'm sorry over 4k soldiers have wasted their lives for this crock of shit, but hey, they did volunteer knowing that even if a nut-job was elected that they would have to follow orders.
Sorry if that puts some hurt on your sacred cows, but reality often does that.
I give it a 5% chance that someone important will be punished, or any kind of law will be passed preventing this abuse by the Executive.
At least nobody I care about is gonna die for Bush...I guess that's a silver lining. Well that, and the big smirk I get every morning when I find out how much worse things have gone in Iraq. Man, I love watching the failure of ignorant assholes who ignore good advice. Too bad my kids are gonna have to foot the bill, and so many Iraqis had to die.
Of course, these are used to run the business, not act as a workstation. Oh well, I guess I should have remembered that Java died on the desktop back in 1999.
You know, the clowns who insist that the Mac 'just works' and take every chance to deride users of Windows. If someone has a windows problem, they bray "Get a Mac!" Now, all of a sudden, their sacred cow isn't working like they say it should. I think some windows users are experiencing Shaedenfreud(sp) and rubbing it in.
Where you like to argue that 'hacker' does not mean 'cracker', even though the entirety of the world has shifted to that definition. Face it chum, today's rednecks aren't exactly fighting for unionization. Today's rednecks are conservative/republicans who decry science in exchange for faith, hate gays and believe whatever fear-mongering comes from their government. Today's rednecks come from states who need handouts at the Federal level to keep their governments in operation...the residents can't earn enough so the coastal states pick up the tab.
What makes you think that? If anything your black-and-white view of actions affecting exclusively the actor, or exclusively the group is born of religious thinking.
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I play the rips, which conveniently have the bullshit ads removed, and keep the originals in a closet.
That was a cheap shot, but I don't think of marijuana research as 'wasting money' considering how many people still do use it despite draconian laws against its possession, use, cultivation and sale. I feel that whenever something is being used/done/believed/whatever by a significant segment of the population, that something should be studied.
Why not give some of your own money to research the 'real' diseases you're so concerned about.
Making pot use a felony offense drives alot of people in many ways. If you want more time spent on "real" diseases, get the gov't to lay off pot. Otherwise, STFU and GBTW.
Back to sticks and stones, digging industrial products out of landfills.
Sounds like a cool premise for some science fiction...
My info doesn't break down the handouts, but you can start here:
http://www.taxfoundation.org/UserFiles/Image/Blog/ftsbs-large.jpg
Nothing wrong with getting a little help, I just can't stand a hypocrite.
Farmers getting paid to not grow crops, or getting money to produce ethanol from soil-crops even though it's a down's syndrome solution to our need for energy. Algae in a vat FTW!
;)
Also, the most conservative states are the ones which, proportionally to tax contributions, get the most 'free money' handed to them by the Federal Government. Next time some guy from New Mexico or Alabama or Arizona starts bitching about lazy bums getting welfare handouts, remember this and smile
I own over 300 CDs, been buying them since 1990. Back then "The Wall" would give you a new CD if yours broke...just bring in the bits and there you go. Now I'm told I'm only liscensing the content. This industry gets more and more protection from the government and they use it to squeeze the customer harder and harder. I dislike the fact that a failing business model is protected by law to ensure the profitability of a non-necessity. I dislike that when I buy a movie I am forced to watch commercials and be talked down to by FBI warnings...I bought the damn thing, didn't I? If I were to rip that DVD to a hypothetical disk array in order to strip off the annoying non-movie parts, I am breaking the law.
I suppose I could simply not use their content, but when it and advertisements for it is blasted at me whenever I go out in public or watch commercial TV, I just get all bitter. Since they have all this money, they can spew advertising at me for the crap deals they off on their content. What is my recourse? "ignore" it? I'm getting tired of that. I want to hit back at these douchebags for polluting my life with their advertising and then making the product such a shitty deal.
So, intrusive advertisment combined with a raw deal for the consumer equals a desire to get back at the rich bastards running the show. How better than to use their content without permission? It's the best revenge.
Alternatively, I buy my music from emusic.
Copyright is a dying concept, I'm glad to be part of its death.
I'm not going to pay for what I can get for free, and neither will anyone else. Sucks to be you I guess, missing out and all.
I'm starting to think so too....bleh.
The same cannot be said for our government. There is a significant cost to changing citizenship, if it is at all possible.
Also, Google cannot declare me an 'enemy combatant' and suspend my right to a trial.
School is expensive enough in the USA, I don't think these grant-supported US-citizens would be able to afford schooling in England.
The conspiracy nut in me wonders if this is an effort by faith-based right-wingers to drive more and more people away from higher education. Get the kiddies early with stories of Sky Daddy, and keep them from experiencing crazy new ideas...where's my tin foil?
I don't want my taxes paying for a standing army of 1/2 Million. That is what conscription is for! That's how we won WW2!
Wow, after 5 years and almost a Trillion pissed away into the sand, things are improving slightly! Yeah, take that terrorists! Fuck with the big bad USA and 5 years later we might actually get something done! I feel for those who were already in when this idiotic aggressive invasion took place. Those who enlisted after? Tough shit on them for supporting an evil agenda and being too stupid to realize that they were being lied to. We shoulda cleaned up in Afghanistan, gone home and secured our borders, and stayed vigilant. Pre-emptive strikes are bad precedent.
No declaration of war was made, no conscription, no rationing, no sacrifices made except to our rights and liberty. If this 'terrorist threat' was as serious as the government and their military cheerleaders say it is, why isn't there conscription? Why don't we have the 1/2 Million men in Iraq that military guidelines stated was needed to succeed there? Why doesn't our dear leader require Americans to ration gasoline and food so we can afford to properly equip those soldiers? The whole idea of invading Iraq was stupid because it wasn't involved, and then to top it all off, they went in with no plan.
Because this conflict was not to secure America, but to enrich the already-rich Americans with connections to politics. I'm sorry over 4k soldiers have wasted their lives for this crock of shit, but hey, they did volunteer knowing that even if a nut-job was elected that they would have to follow orders.
Sorry if that puts some hurt on your sacred cows, but reality often does that.
I give it a 5% chance that someone important will be punished, or any kind of law will be passed preventing this abuse by the Executive.
At least nobody I care about is gonna die for Bush...I guess that's a silver lining. Well that, and the big smirk I get every morning when I find out how much worse things have gone in Iraq. Man, I love watching the failure of ignorant assholes who ignore good advice. Too bad my kids are gonna have to foot the bill, and so many Iraqis had to die.
Bleh.
It's amazing how people can cling to an idea, despite that idea having been discounted and found to be a lie.
Murder is OK in some circumstances, and this woman's situation is one of them.
Of course, these are used to run the business, not act as a workstation. Oh well, I guess I should have remembered that Java died on the desktop back in 1999.
I don't think I understand your post. Java is not 'made by Apple' so Apple doesn't care if it runs on their system?
You know, the clowns who insist that the Mac 'just works' and take every chance to deride users of Windows. If someone has a windows problem, they bray "Get a Mac!" Now, all of a sudden, their sacred cow isn't working like they say it should. I think some windows users are experiencing Shaedenfreud(sp) and rubbing it in.
Most citizens seem to think it is much better to just buy the tank and drool as you drive. It's for the children and all. Bleh.
Where you like to argue that 'hacker' does not mean 'cracker', even though the entirety of the world has shifted to that definition. Face it chum, today's rednecks aren't exactly fighting for unionization. Today's rednecks are conservative/republicans who decry science in exchange for faith, hate gays and believe whatever fear-mongering comes from their government. Today's rednecks come from states who need handouts at the Federal level to keep their governments in operation...the residents can't earn enough so the coastal states pick up the tab.
Seems like 87 years have changed some things...
It's a culture and a belief system, which does not afford you the protections you think you deserve.
What makes you think that? If anything your black-and-white view of actions affecting exclusively the actor, or exclusively the group is born of religious thinking.