Decriminalized all drugs. No punishment for users; only dealers remained criminals.
Within a year or two, drug abuse rates for all previously illegal drugs fell by half.
Violent crime, in the meantime, doubled. Because the market contracted by half, and said market was populated entirely by criminal sellers.
Lessons learned:
1) Anyone who thinks drug abuse will increase due to legalization is probably wrong. 2) Anyone who thinks decriminalizing use, while keeping manufacture and sale illegal, is a good idea, is... what's a polite way of saying "mouth-breathing fucktard?". This is literally the worst "compromise" possible. You know how everything's gone full-bore apeshit in Mexico lately? They decriminalized small-scale drug possession in 2009...
Legalization is the only path to regulation. See: Alcohol.
They Venezuelan authorities have a substantial criminal violence problem in their hands, and this is one necessary (but not sufficient) step to curb it.
Neither "necessary" nor "insufficient" are synonyms for "pointlessly ineffective", just so you know.
"Hugo Chavez's government says the ultimate aim is to disarm all civilians"
On the plus side, he's direct and forthright enough to skip all that "to reduce homicides" and "to eliminate mass shootings" and "to protect the children" fildercarb.
Actually, this could be interesting, as long as we can get reliable statistics... if gun-related violent crime rates stay the same, that'll answer the question once and for all
You'd think.
Australia and the UK banned guns decades ago, didn't they?
No one's claiming the guns cause the violence, only that they enable it.
Well, they SAY that, but all their actual recommended actions treat guns as the cause...no, really. You, yourself, even. You say "enable" as if there would be no violence if all the guns disappeared, like we're in Operation Flashpoint or something.
Check out Australia's homicide rate before/after their gun ban. No noticeable reduction over two decades (alongside, incidentally, what may very well be a totally coincidental rise in assaults and rape). That doesn't sound like guns "enabled" violence, more like they "differently abled" it.
As we've seen from Portugal's drug decriminalization, laws that actually create social change don't take decades to pan out, they show effects right away.
So the same thing then? If the listeners don't want to pay the musicians price they won't get new content. Any artiste is perfectly able to say "donate 10 billion dollars or I'll stop making music".
This. Not producing something that hasn't been paid for is the only uncrackable DRM.
If you think the government deserves credit for "allowing" someone to create a successful business, you're a lost cause.
...Especially if said successful business depends entirely on the Internet. In which case, credit for "making it possible to exist at all" would be more appropriate.
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When someone asks me what I'd like done with my mortal remains...
You get modded up to 4 (insightful) by calling all lawyers arrogant because of one crazy woman who claimed at one time to be a lawyer.
Maybe he's never met, seen, or heard of a non-arrogant one.
Everyone hates a lawyer until they need one.
No, we pretty much hate them then, too.
Texas has produced a lot of brilliant engineers, scientists, leaders, and good regular people too.
Can't help but notice that "lawyers" doesn't appear in that list.
Just sayin'.
Decriminalized all drugs. No punishment for users; only dealers remained criminals.
Within a year or two, drug abuse rates for all previously illegal drugs fell by half.
Violent crime, in the meantime, doubled. Because the market contracted by half, and said market was populated entirely by criminal sellers.
Lessons learned:
1) Anyone who thinks drug abuse will increase due to legalization is probably wrong.
2) Anyone who thinks decriminalizing use, while keeping manufacture and sale illegal, is a good idea, is... what's a polite way of saying "mouth-breathing fucktard?". This is literally the worst "compromise" possible. You know how everything's gone full-bore apeshit in Mexico lately? They decriminalized small-scale drug possession in 2009...
Legalization is the only path to regulation. See: Alcohol.
They Venezuelan authorities have a substantial criminal violence problem in their hands, and this is one necessary (but not sufficient) step to curb it.
Neither "necessary" nor "insufficient" are synonyms for "pointlessly ineffective", just so you know.
"Hugo Chavez's government says the ultimate aim is to disarm all civilians"
On the plus side, he's direct and forthright enough to skip all that "to reduce homicides" and "to eliminate mass shootings" and "to protect the children" fildercarb.
Actually, this could be interesting, as long as we can get reliable statistics... if gun-related violent crime rates stay the same, that'll answer the question once and for all
You'd think.
Australia and the UK banned guns decades ago, didn't they?
No one's claiming the guns cause the violence, only that they enable it.
Well, they SAY that, but all their actual recommended actions treat guns as the cause...no, really. You, yourself, even. You say "enable" as if there would be no violence if all the guns disappeared, like we're in Operation Flashpoint or something.
Check out Australia's homicide rate before/after their gun ban. No noticeable reduction over two decades (alongside, incidentally, what may very well be a totally coincidental rise in assaults and rape). That doesn't sound like guns "enabled" violence, more like they "differently abled" it.
As we've seen from Portugal's drug decriminalization, laws that actually create social change don't take decades to pan out, they show effects right away.
...to overthrow the government and install the Shaw...
Damn that UK, and their interconsonental meddling...
"whooooosh" is oldspeak, brother.
It's "doubleplus-highfast" now.
There you go, mis-spelling "corporations" as "government" again...
"Upright pianos with unusually tall frames and long strings are sometimes called upright grand pianos."
Hm. Maybe you should have said something when you first helped fund the project.
ProTools
- Works only with other Pro Tools stuff
- Ridiculously overpriced and lacking features compared to every single other piece of pro and semi-pro DAW software.
.
You forgot:
- produces files that largely act as pointers to independent audio files.
The .WAV files are all right there for you to use in whatever tool you like.
Bone Loss is caused by consumption of meat, fish, poultry and diary products.
Of course! This is why it primarily affects women!
Damn you, Bridget Jones!!
...I repeat DO NOT touch a pint glass and an anti-pint glass during a toast.
That is all.
Amusing comments in the "recent posts by others" section, though...
So the same thing then? If the listeners don't want to pay the musicians price they won't get new content. Any artiste is perfectly able to say "donate 10 billion dollars or I'll stop making music".
This. Not producing something that hasn't been paid for is the only uncrackable DRM.
Nobody.
Unless the box is on THE FUCKING MOON...
This thing is a brick!
The person on the other side of the camera isn't in public, and so has no right to record in public.
Please go away to some crappy country that deserves such foolish citizens.
He already said he moved to Baltimore.
If you think the government deserves credit for "allowing" someone to create a successful business, you're a lost cause.
...Especially if said successful business depends entirely on the Internet. In which case, credit for "making it possible to exist at all" would be more appropriate.
No-one else will make a deal with Ms Moss under better terms for book 5
no one?
Release Diablo III...