and yet, it's still harder to grow illegal marijuana outdoors, because law enforcement is actively trying find you, which is not the case with beer. I didn't grow the hops -- thanks for pointing that out, it helps my argument considerably. Alcohol is a lot easier to make, in part because you don't have to grow your own hops, and yet, a child can find marijuana easier. You have failed to refute my assertion.
Hops is a plant too. Marijuana is not more easily ready simply because it grows on plants. It's actually harder to produce psychotropic marijuana than it is to produce alcohol. I can and have homebrewed alcohol myself. You don't need $2,000 grow lights, you don't need fertilizer, you don't need to check PH levels, and the process is a few weeks instead of months. Quite simply, your logic is flawed, you are wrong, your argument crumbles quite nicely, and anyone in-the-know reading this is bound to have a chuckle.
LSD has only been done in the gram level once, when college students broke into a lab and snorted a bunch of LSD in powder form (an extremely rare thing indeed), thinking it was cocaine. I believe 3/4 only made it through the night due to being put on a respirator. It was probably a VERY VERY bad trip, to the point of not knowing how to work your lung muscles. Considering a 1990s hit was "100micrograms" or so, a milligram is 10 hits, and a gram is 10,000 hits. Is my math wrong? I'm forgetting some of my college stuff and am too lazy to google;)
I had to add Geekazoid as my friend after seeing the sound thrashing he gave to your laughably myopic (and in some cases strawman) reasoning. It's like you have no clue at all how reality works! People like you are so funny.
"Do you really think crack cocaine belongs in the streets?" Um.... Where do you think it is now? Do you listen to yourself? Every kid I know, including myself when I was that age, could more readily get marijuana than alcohol - precisely because alcohol was regulated and sold legally, making a black market unworkable. Go read up on Al Capone. We don't have Al Capones now because legalizing alcohol makes the black market for alcohol go away. That's how things work.
By the way, during alcohol prohibition, many people were sold the wrong kind of alcohol, causing permanent blindness. Thousands. That is because a black market has no government oversight. When you talk about black tar heroin, you miss the entire point -- Heroin is a brand name for a drug developed by a British pharmaceutical company (I think around the 1960s). It's just diacetylmorphine, a triple-strength morphine. It does zero physical harm to the human body when administered clinically (I don't count an IV needle as harm). Addiction is the only issue here.
And most overdoses occur due to lack of knowledge of purity. A bad metaphor, because you would taste it: Imagine drinking a 6 pack and later finding out it was 97% alcohol instead of 6% alcohol. For *me*, that would definitely kill me. In reality, with alcohol, you would taste it -- but if it was a pill/smokeable/injectable/quicker drug, it might be too late. And that's exactly what happens with heroin overdoses. If they were prescribed specific measured amounts, they would be fine. The UK and many European clinics simply get prescriptions for thier addicts. The addcits complain about that it's "never enough" because it's actually "just enough", which is how it should be. Not jail. And not overdose. Keep being productive, working to pay for your prescription, AND support the pharmaceutical industry:)
You should also go to your local library's federal government section, and go look at U.S. Bureau Of Mortality Statistics. Cross-reference them with U.S. NIDA drug-use statistics. Check out the number of daily alcohol drinkers, and the number of daily cocaine users. Now cross-check their deaths every year. You will be incredibly surprised. I was.
a decent monitor costs exactly as much as a decent television because they are one in the same. 1920x1080 desktop. No other monitor. This is it. 42-inch 1080p LCD $2350 Costco this month. Nice to finally escape 800x600-land (SDTV practical limit). I guess the television isn't inexpensive, but nobody actually needs a monitor that big, because the TV is already a dot-by-dot pixel-perfect LCD. It's yummy.
At least, it has been for me, for TWELVE YEARS NOW. Get with the times and quit yer whining. There is no need to have a separate device for doing X at home, when your computer can already do X at home. Typewriters were made obsolete first, then tape recorders and cd players, and now cable boxes and dvd players. Or, you can continue to purchase redundant functionality while simultaneously limiting your options (The programming I have to choose from is far more than anybody I know who uses no computer in their setup. Even the netflixers)
600 people visit every day to read something, and I have sent 10,000+ links to various sites that would not have gotten them otherwise. Oh, and I've had reporters contact me to incorporate some of my material in legitimate newspapers. I'm getting 50,000 views every 2 months now. So, others disagree with your assessment!
And yes, you will have to click through my personal blog to get to it. Nyah nyah. But it's also quite worth it, and is by far the biggest outgoing link from my blog, with 10,000+ people viewing the site simply because *I* talked about it.
Though, I could not ignore the rotting animal underneath my house. That was a miserable 5 weeks. I'm glad it was summer or I would have had to set up another television and another bed in another room.
I own my home (with no homeowners' association, by choice). If I bought cigarettes and was a regular smoker, I would not invite non-smoking couples over for dinner if they insisted I not smoke. I would simply make new friends that are compatible with my lifestyle choices.
I still don't want incindental damage, though. Those people might not be invited back.
I had to get that out. Not only are you incapable of imagining one of the many points made by the many people who responded to your troll, but you waste everyone else's time by posting a stupid fucking post that is sympathetic to companies taking away our Right Of First Sale Doctrine. Go fuck yourself.
Well, my parties tend to have 35-65 attendees who start arriving 7PM and don't all leave until 7AM. Debauchery ensues, and many of them don't throw parties themselves (I call those people "party leechers") because they are too uptight about their own place or people don't generally go over to their place as a general rule because it's not a place everyone can chill comfortably.
Or, you go, but then you have to go outside in the freezing cold to smoke this and that, (ten times more annoying when coupled with "no shoes inside", which I usually do disregard.. I'm very conscious about actually using a welcome mat to ensure shoes are clean before continuing past the threshold)... But anyway, I don't consider that to be actual hospitality, as in, I generally wont return a 2nd time if I find out about that, unless they are people I really like. Actual hospitality is letting someone do the things that make them comfortable.
Imagine a vegetarian throwing a party, and not allowing the guests to eat meat. Not the same as smell? Smell is subjective. The smell of something burning isn't a "Bad" smell, like the smell of a rotting corpse or feces. It's a neutral aesthetic which some people choose to associate with their own pathological neurosis (i.e. inability to not be annoyed by certain smells). It's like banning the color yellow because you don't like having to look at it. To stretch another bad metaphor even further, imagine if when people wore yellow, it turned your couch yellow for 3 days later. So you ban the color yellow from your house. That is precisely how I see it -- controlling others aesthetics.
P.S. Only smoke when around others smoking (once a week), don't buy cigarettes, have an excellent sense of smell. When approaching a campsite in the woods, I smelled a glass of red wine from 10 feet away and kind of freaked out the girl holding it. (She probably thought I was all Hannibal Lechter "I can smell your c**t"). I can't identify food by smell, but I can definitely tell if someone used the elevator to take a smoke break. But I am also capable of recognizing that simply sensing a particular sensation is not actually causing me grievous harm. As for asthmatics, they are handicapped. I don't go hiking with quadriplegics, I don't play strategy games with the mentally retarded, and I don't smoke with asthmatics.
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And you, my friend, quite possibly did not get the subtle joke there. Or maybe you did. But probably not.
You're a Tool.
and yet, it's still harder to grow illegal marijuana outdoors, because law enforcement is actively trying find you, which is not the case with beer. I didn't grow the hops -- thanks for pointing that out, it helps my argument considerably. Alcohol is a lot easier to make, in part because you don't have to grow your own hops, and yet, a child can find marijuana easier. You have failed to refute my assertion.
Hops is a plant too. Marijuana is not more easily ready simply because it grows on plants. It's actually harder to produce psychotropic marijuana than it is to produce alcohol. I can and have homebrewed alcohol myself. You don't need $2,000 grow lights, you don't need fertilizer, you don't need to check PH levels, and the process is a few weeks instead of months. Quite simply, your logic is flawed, you are wrong, your argument crumbles quite nicely, and anyone in-the-know reading this is bound to have a chuckle.
Why can kids get marijuana easier than alcohol, then? Go ask any high schooler who can obtain both which is easier to get.
Do your homework, idiot.
hmmm. a Ween song starts with strap on your jammie pack...
Kind of like how the 's' disappeared from your typing of "others"? :)
that same problem is probably why they messed it up, heh.
LSD has only been done in the gram level once, when college students broke into a lab and snorted a bunch of LSD in powder form (an extremely rare thing indeed), thinking it was cocaine. I believe 3/4 only made it through the night due to being put on a respirator. It was probably a VERY VERY bad trip, to the point of not knowing how to work your lung muscles. Considering a 1990s hit was "100micrograms" or so, a milligram is 10 hits, and a gram is 10,000 hits. Is my math wrong? I'm forgetting some of my college stuff and am too lazy to google ;)
"Do you really think crack cocaine belongs in the streets?" Um.... Where do you think it is now? Do you listen to yourself? Every kid I know, including myself when I was that age, could more readily get marijuana than alcohol - precisely because alcohol was regulated and sold legally, making a black market unworkable. Go read up on Al Capone. We don't have Al Capones now because legalizing alcohol makes the black market for alcohol go away. That's how things work.
By the way, during alcohol prohibition, many people were sold the wrong kind of alcohol, causing permanent blindness. Thousands. That is because a black market has no government oversight. When you talk about black tar heroin, you miss the entire point -- Heroin is a brand name for a drug developed by a British pharmaceutical company (I think around the 1960s). It's just diacetylmorphine, a triple-strength morphine. It does zero physical harm to the human body when administered clinically (I don't count an IV needle as harm). Addiction is the only issue here.
And most overdoses occur due to lack of knowledge of purity. A bad metaphor, because you would taste it: Imagine drinking a 6 pack and later finding out it was 97% alcohol instead of 6% alcohol. For *me*, that would definitely kill me. In reality, with alcohol, you would taste it -- but if it was a pill/smokeable/injectable/quicker drug, it might be too late. And that's exactly what happens with heroin overdoses. If they were prescribed specific measured amounts, they would be fine. The UK and many European clinics simply get prescriptions for thier addicts. The addcits complain about that it's "never enough" because it's actually "just enough", which is how it should be. Not jail. And not overdose. Keep being productive, working to pay for your prescription, AND support the pharmaceutical industry :)
You should also go to your local library's federal government section, and go look at U.S. Bureau Of Mortality Statistics. Cross-reference them with U.S. NIDA drug-use statistics. Check out the number of daily alcohol drinkers, and the number of daily cocaine users. Now cross-check their deaths every year. You will be incredibly surprised. I was.
(because I was going to say the same thing)
a decent monitor costs exactly as much as a decent television because they are one in the same. 1920x1080 desktop. No other monitor. This is it. 42-inch 1080p LCD $2350 Costco this month. Nice to finally escape 800x600-land (SDTV practical limit). I guess the television isn't inexpensive, but nobody actually needs a monitor that big, because the TV is already a dot-by-dot pixel-perfect LCD. It's yummy.
too bad that doesn't exactly compile an EXE. maybe if you did that to a BAT file and used a working BAT2EXE converter? :D
At least, it has been for me, for TWELVE YEARS NOW. Get with the times and quit yer whining. There is no need to have a separate device for doing X at home, when your computer can already do X at home. Typewriters were made obsolete first, then tape recorders and cd players, and now cable boxes and dvd players. Or, you can continue to purchase redundant functionality while simultaneously limiting your options (The programming I have to choose from is far more than anybody I know who uses no computer in their setup. Even the netflixers)
600 people visit every day to read something, and I have sent 10,000+ links to various sites that would not have gotten them otherwise. Oh, and I've had reporters contact me to incorporate some of my material in legitimate newspapers. I'm getting 50,000 views every 2 months now. So, others disagree with your assessment!
YOU are annoying and bland, karma-whore (I'm a link-whore, not a karma-whore). :)
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And yes, you will have to click through my personal blog to get to it. Nyah nyah. But it's also quite worth it, and is by far the biggest outgoing link from my blog, with 10,000+ people viewing the site simply because *I* talked about it.
Insensitive clod. I pay $70/mo for my 3M! Cockbag.
asshole!
Just curious. Does Wiikey still work?
Though, I could not ignore the rotting animal underneath my house. That was a miserable 5 weeks. I'm glad it was summer or I would have had to set up another television and another bed in another room.
I own my home (with no homeowners' association, by choice). If I bought cigarettes and was a regular smoker, I would not invite non-smoking couples over for dinner if they insisted I not smoke. I would simply make new friends that are compatible with my lifestyle choices.
I still don't want incindental damage, though. Those people might not be invited back.
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I had to get that out. Not only are you incapable of imagining one of the many points made by the many people who responded to your troll, but you waste everyone else's time by posting a stupid fucking post that is sympathetic to companies taking away our Right Of First Sale Doctrine. Go fuck yourself.
Or, you go, but then you have to go outside in the freezing cold to smoke this and that, (ten times more annoying when coupled with "no shoes inside", which I usually do disregard.. I'm very conscious about actually using a welcome mat to ensure shoes are clean before continuing past the threshold)... But anyway, I don't consider that to be actual hospitality, as in, I generally wont return a 2nd time if I find out about that, unless they are people I really like. Actual hospitality is letting someone do the things that make them comfortable.
Imagine a vegetarian throwing a party, and not allowing the guests to eat meat. Not the same as smell? Smell is subjective. The smell of something burning isn't a "Bad" smell, like the smell of a rotting corpse or feces. It's a neutral aesthetic which some people choose to associate with their own pathological neurosis (i.e. inability to not be annoyed by certain smells). It's like banning the color yellow because you don't like having to look at it. To stretch another bad metaphor even further, imagine if when people wore yellow, it turned your couch yellow for 3 days later. So you ban the color yellow from your house. That is precisely how I see it -- controlling others aesthetics.
P.S. Only smoke when around others smoking (once a week), don't buy cigarettes, have an excellent sense of smell. When approaching a campsite in the woods, I smelled a glass of red wine from 10 feet away and kind of freaked out the girl holding it. (She probably thought I was all Hannibal Lechter "I can smell your c**t"). I can't identify food by smell, but I can definitely tell if someone used the elevator to take a smoke break. But I am also capable of recognizing that simply sensing a particular sensation is not actually causing me grievous harm. As for asthmatics, they are handicapped. I don't go hiking with quadriplegics, I don't play strategy games with the mentally retarded, and I don't smoke with asthmatics.
I think you need to read "The Princess And The Pea". Also: Go start your own pet peeve list.