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What the *hell*? Educate, from sites that are pro-drug? Talk about propaganda.
I can't believe these posts.
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The majority of posts here are asking for legalization and the whole bit. Drug use is something I care about personally and what others do. You talk like we throw money at something that doesnt benefit us one bit, or some say that we throw money at something that in return hurts us...Then you have the conspiracy theorists saying that a bunch of groups are lobbying to keep the War raging. People want to legalize anything that doesnt hurt someone else directly. Directly I have to assume is similar to "a gun pointed at their head". But my question is How do we know that life would be great, crime would go down, and there would be great joy if the war on drugs was dropped and legalized everything?
In *our* society, how can you tell? Sure you have examples of others. And I dont want to hear "before such and such a year there werent drug laws" (was the automobile even created then?) We have a society where people have *huge* ammounts of free time (how ironic that this is a post to a mostly IT audience) compared to countries that are still considered "third world" or less developed, we have big gaps of time that we dont have to work. *Gasp* some of us even still have two days off FROM work.
I remember watching a news peice on tv, someone was interviewing some member of an african tribe, the responses were interesting, especially when asked "What would you do if you had free time, whats some of your hobbys?" His response was along the lines of "What do you mean free time? Theres always something to do." Why does any of this matter? Its because there is no way to tell for sure what would happen if we dropped the war on drugs and drugs were legal. Everyone gets caught in this "non direct" crap. If someone is on something, goes out driving, crosses the line and kills you, thats pretty direct wouldnt you say? Not to mention that it doesnt even need to be direct to harm someone. If you took a newborn. Put it in a lifespan that drugs were never mentioned, no one offered him a hit in gradeschool, no one in his class went to raves and beer blasts in high school, and he never saw a drug deal, are you telling me that he wouldnt be drug free the rest of his life? Anyone that contributes to the stigma "take drugs, you need it to have fun, your reality isnt cool enough" that society is saying, is directly affecting that middle schooler thats deciding whether or not to take a hit. You *can't* go along with "make everything legal, let people decide for themselves*. EVERYONE knows that kids are impressionable beyond belief, you cant present this load onto a kid, and you cant have the government, and the parents, supporting legal drugs, using drugs, and then saying to their kids "dont listen to anyone, decide for yourself whether you want to use drugs". Thats bull.
Everyone uses these statistics, about drugs not killing as many people as tobacco and alcohol. A basic statistics class will teach you can only compare evenly weighted subjects, legal and illegal substances dont seem to equal to me.
And then theres the statistics on how drugs arent physically as bad for you as they say. What about the view that drugs are a mental crutch? I find it a shame that your life isnt interesting enough that you need drugs. Partygoers, stoners, ravers, they all look at others and say "have a good time" "get a life, try it". *My* life is dynamic enough, interesting enough, and fun enough. Why do I need drugs? Why does anyone need drugs? I dont care how "bad" you think your life is, if you do think of it that way, its pretty obvious your using as a crutch, I dont care how bad you think your life is, the most developed and well along societies are the ones with the highest drug abuse, thank god that you live in such a society.
Everyone is pushing around this legalization shit, If someone is driving, and is on something, passes out at the wheel, and kills your family, come back to me and tell me that you still want your weed legalized.
Matt "So many have become demoralized that now a change must be forced or all will perish in the lunacy once it befalls."
*My* BIGGEST pet peeve when dealing with websites, is when you minimize one, and when it loads or gets to a page, itll maximize it for you, sometimes, if you minimize it again, itll maximize! You can have a game with this...GEEZ you know I MINIMIZED you for a reason...
I think I know where your coming from, I've had similar experiences. And my advice is just to look at it different.
You see this as "hot women" that complain to you. You have to ask yourself, is this all you see them as? Personally, I look for a girl that has well balanced likes and dislikes, pretty, has a well sense of humor and most importantly intelligent. If you just see your hot girl friends as that, hot girls, then how do you expect them to think any differently of you?
I'm not saying fool yourself into being and acting exactly like them. But I am saying open your horizon. I have some girls I am friends with, some are cheerleaders, and some play sports. I am realistic, is a Geek-Cheerleader combination gonna work? Probably not. So what do I do? Open my eyes to the Biology Club. Now I'm not saying the same is as easy for you but I like to look for people like ME. Realistically, there is probably a girl out there that you complain to, similar to the post you made. And she equally is tired of guys complaining how their hot friends complain to them and wont go out with you.
The biggest peice of advice I could give, and its probably theoretically best because no one truly does it probably: Try to not-think like you for a momment. Open your horizon and think realistically NOT from your point of view.
Come to think of it, if everyone did that, we'd have world peace. Girl problems AND world peace, all on Slashdot...
I can only speak for myself. But since Napster's creation, I have *purchased* more CDs than before. Anyone that has been burned by a one hit wonder knows how frustrating it is, to get a CD home, and just love one track and the rest of the CD sucks. Now with Napster, I am more prone to trying different stuff, stuff not played on modern radio, because I get to preview the tracks first. Before Napster, I was a "buy the new album of the few bands you love" kid. Now I am buying 6-8 CDs a month, a lot from new artists too. Napster truely has *made* me buy more CDs.
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What the *hell*? Educate, from sites that are pro-drug? Talk about propaganda.
The majority of posts here are asking for legalization and the whole bit. Drug use is something I care about personally and what others do. You talk like we throw money at something that doesnt benefit us one bit, or some say that we throw money at something that in return hurts us...Then you have the conspiracy theorists saying that a bunch of groups are lobbying to keep the War raging. People want to legalize anything that doesnt hurt someone else directly. Directly I have to assume is similar to "a gun pointed at their head". But my question is How do we know that life would be great, crime would go down, and there would be great joy if the war on drugs was dropped and legalized everything?
In *our* society, how can you tell? Sure you have examples of others. And I dont want to hear "before such and such a year there werent drug laws" (was the automobile even created then?) We have a society where people have *huge* ammounts of free time (how ironic that this is a post to a mostly IT audience) compared to countries that are still considered "third world" or less developed, we have big gaps of time that we dont have to work. *Gasp* some of us even still have two days off FROM work.
I remember watching a news peice on tv, someone was interviewing some member of an african tribe, the responses were interesting, especially when asked "What would you do if you had free time, whats some of your hobbys?" His response was along the lines of "What do you mean free time? Theres always something to do." Why does any of this matter? Its because there is no way to tell for sure what would happen if we dropped the war on drugs and drugs were legal.
Everyone gets caught in this "non direct" crap. If someone is on something, goes out driving, crosses the line and kills you, thats pretty direct wouldnt you say? Not to mention that it doesnt even need to be direct to harm someone. If you took a newborn. Put it in a lifespan that drugs were never mentioned, no one offered him a hit in gradeschool, no one in his class went to raves and beer blasts in high school, and he never saw a drug deal, are you telling me that he wouldnt be drug free the rest of his life? Anyone that contributes to the stigma "take drugs, you need it to have fun, your reality isnt cool enough" that society is saying, is directly affecting that middle schooler thats deciding whether or not to take a hit.
You *can't* go along with "make everything legal, let people decide for themselves*. EVERYONE knows that kids are impressionable beyond belief, you cant present this load onto a kid, and you cant have the government, and the parents, supporting legal drugs, using drugs, and then saying to their kids "dont listen to anyone, decide for yourself whether you want to use drugs". Thats bull.
Everyone uses these statistics, about drugs not killing as many people as tobacco and alcohol. A basic statistics class will teach you can only compare evenly weighted subjects, legal and illegal substances dont seem to equal to me.
And then theres the statistics on how drugs arent physically as bad for you as they say. What about the view that drugs are a mental crutch? I find it a shame that your life isnt interesting enough that you need drugs. Partygoers, stoners, ravers, they all look at others and say "have a good time" "get a life, try it". *My* life is dynamic enough, interesting enough, and fun enough. Why do I need drugs? Why does anyone need drugs? I dont care how "bad" you think your life is, if you do think of it that way, its pretty obvious your using as a crutch, I dont care how bad you think your life is, the most developed and well along societies are the ones with the highest drug abuse, thank god that you live in such a society.
Everyone is pushing around this legalization shit, If someone is driving, and is on something, passes out at the wheel, and kills your family, come back to me and tell me that you still want your weed legalized.
Matt
"So many have become demoralized that now a change must be forced or all will perish in the lunacy once it befalls."
*My* BIGGEST pet peeve when dealing with websites, is when you minimize one, and when it loads or gets to a page, itll maximize it for you, sometimes, if you minimize it again, itll maximize! You can have a game with this...GEEZ you know I MINIMIZED you for a reason...
Hotmail is a good example of this...
I think I know where your coming from, I've had similar experiences. And my advice is just to look at it different.
You see this as "hot women" that complain to you. You have to ask yourself, is this all you see them as? Personally, I look for a girl that has well balanced likes and dislikes, pretty, has a well sense of humor and most importantly intelligent. If you just see your hot girl friends as that, hot girls, then how do you expect them to think any differently of you?
I'm not saying fool yourself into being and acting exactly like them. But I am saying open your horizon. I have some girls I am friends with, some are cheerleaders, and some play sports. I am realistic, is a Geek-Cheerleader combination gonna work? Probably not. So what do I do? Open my eyes to the Biology Club. Now I'm not saying the same is as easy for you but I like to look for people like ME.
Realistically, there is probably a girl out there that you complain to, similar to the post you made. And she equally is tired of guys complaining how their hot friends complain to them and wont go out with you.
The biggest peice of advice I could give, and its probably theoretically best because no one truly does it probably: Try to not-think like you for a momment. Open your horizon and think realistically NOT from your point of view.
Come to think of it, if everyone did that, we'd have world peace. Girl problems AND world peace, all on Slashdot...
I can only speak for myself. But since Napster's creation, I have *purchased* more CDs than before. Anyone that has been burned by a one hit wonder knows how frustrating it is, to get a CD home, and just love one track and the rest of the CD sucks. Now with Napster, I am more prone to trying different stuff, stuff not played on modern radio, because I get to preview the tracks first. Before Napster, I was a "buy the new album of the few bands you love" kid. Now I am buying 6-8 CDs a month, a lot from new artists too. Napster truely has *made* me buy more CDs.