The movie DOES point to a solution!
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What we all seem to be focusing on is that the movie shows us the futility of our current war on drugs, but what we seem to miss is the briliance of this movie. It does show us a solution. We constantly see cops taking out drug dealers, or attempting to, and in either situation, cops also get hurt and in the end, nothing is different. Leave the dealers alone, and they will take care of themselves through their rivalries. What we also see is Michael Douglas's character realizing what the true solution is: treat the customers, not the buyers! If we spent more money for drug education and rehab centers, rather than fighting the dealers themselves, we would get much better results. Fight the ignitors, not those who supply the fuel.
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Now THIS is a good idea! Goddamn installing mandrake takes me like 2-3 hours! Graphical installers and all, why not have a little game of tetris (or for mandrake, a "short" game of freeciv) running at the side?
Becase tv commercials don't start by saying "Check out barly minor 's website where you can see her losing her virginity to 5 black studs while her parents watch! Just point your remote to channel...."
As mentioned in previous messages, if such a massive anti-free rights movement is going on, we still got a way out! Hollywood, the music companies, and all such media rely on us the customer. If we all simply boycott such media, and stick with the hardware we already have, and give up the brand new technology for just a few years, I'm willing to bet the industry will feel the impact. They are nothing without us, the customer, and eventually they will have to back down. The only sacrifice (unfortunately a big one) is that we can't get the latest and most hightech music/video formats but we still got our local strip clubs so what's the worry?
Dumbshit...only the executable is small...check out the memory footprint. Install win95, time how long it takes to load, then install ie4 and notice the difference.
(Although i agree its incredible that such a huge prog -- 16meg+ -- can appear so fast and responsive)
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What we all seem to be focusing on is that the movie shows us the futility of our current war on drugs, but what we seem to miss is the briliance of this movie. It does show us a solution. We constantly see cops taking out drug dealers, or attempting to, and in either situation, cops also get hurt and in the end, nothing is different. Leave the dealers alone, and they will take care of themselves through their rivalries. What we also see is Michael Douglas's character realizing what the true solution is: treat the customers, not the buyers! If we spent more money for drug education and rehab centers, rather than fighting the dealers themselves, we would get much better results. Fight the ignitors, not those who supply the fuel.
Now THIS is a good idea! Goddamn installing mandrake takes me like 2-3 hours! Graphical installers and all, why not have a little game of tetris (or for mandrake, a "short" game of freeciv) running at the side?
Becase tv commercials don't start by saying "Check out barly minor 's website where you can see her losing her virginity to 5 black studs while her parents watch! Just point your remote to channel ...."
As mentioned in previous messages, if such a massive anti-free rights movement is going on, we still got a way out! Hollywood, the music companies, and all such media rely on us the customer. If we all simply boycott such media, and stick with the hardware we already have, and give up the brand new technology for just a few years, I'm willing to bet the industry will feel the impact. They are nothing without us, the customer, and eventually they will have to back down. The only sacrifice (unfortunately a big one) is that we can't get the latest and most hightech music/video formats but we still got our local strip clubs so what's the worry?
Dammit...then i wouldnt have a job!
Dumbshit...only the executable is small...check out the memory footprint. Install win95, time how long it takes to load, then install ie4 and notice the difference. (Although i agree its incredible that such a huge prog -- 16meg+ -- can appear so fast and responsive)