I was with right up until the word "dissatisfied". Abortion because you lnow your kid will be crippled is a good thing, abortion because you're trying to have green-eyed kids isn't.
I'm on a mac, and I have a 3 button scroll mouse. I don't mind the 1 button mouse, but that wheel thingy is just so damn cool, I had to go out and buy one.
Can't see why you couldn't do the same with your insane 12 button uber mouse.
With more and more technology draining from the US we'll drop below countries like the EU states, China or Russia. Countries which definitely don't care about international problems and the mind-stunning threat of internation terrorism.
Oh SHUT THE FUCK UP you trolling jerk! The EU countries that had terrorism problems for YEARS AND YEARS cared about international terrorism long before you ever knew it existed! Damn! People can be so dense! You think the bombs blowing up in the Paris subway went unnnoticed? Well, by the likes of you they did, but not over there! Mind-stunning indeed. The rest of the world has been concerned and trying to do something about terrorism for years, the fact that you need a LIVE TV BROADCAST of terrorism to even take notice should tell you that you are an egocentric prick, not that only your country cares. Jeez. Did you even read what the leaders of the other nations said about 9/11 after it happened? The things about "we know what its like to be terrorised, we'll help you guys" went well over your head huh?
the US looses its huge technological advantage over second world countries like the EU
The EU? The Freakin' european union is your idea of "second world countries"? France and germany and the likes? Your grasp of international politics/economy is quite impressive!
The world will be a mess and it will be because of whiners like you destroying the worldwide US surpremancy.
I so wish I could slap you right now...
You think that the US playing around with FINANCING, TRAINING AND ARMING TERRORIST is helping the world? How about putting dictators in power so they'll turn over the ressources to US companies while they kill and torture their citizens? The US isn't a benevolent big brother, its a worldwide bully that doesn't care who it hurts so long as it gets the other countries' lunch money. Don't kid yourself. The US might have its own citizen's best interest in mind (I said "might") but it sure as hell doesn't give a damn about the rest of the world.
There are a lot of good things and people in the US, but there are a lot of nasty stuff to. You, sir, are one of them.
PS Go ahead, mod me down as "-1 unamerican" all you want, I don't care, it needed to be said.
By having the FBI have access to your reading habits, it could save you from being in a building that gets hit by a plane.
How? Really, how exactly would the FBI spying on me protect me from random terrorism? Really, lets see.
step 1-Make profile of someone. step 2-??? step 3-Safety!
That is a good trade off. Even if not one terrorist is busted from this whole inactment, everyone in the trade towers and on the flights would have definitely traded this for their lives.
This sentence made no sense at all.
What they are doing is using fear of terrorism to gain powers that have nothing to do with protecting you from terrorism! And for some reason you seem to think that's the best idea ever...is your daddy a special agent by any chance?
Massive climate change has happened in the past without man's help. And some of those changes have been much more extreme than what we have witnessed in the last 150 years.
Yes, and people die of natural causes so murder is ok huh? Just because there have been other catastrophic climate changes and massive extinctions doesn't mean we are not causing this one and that we should just keep repeating our mistakes and let it happen or make it worse.
I believe that dealing with a little extra heat in our enviroment is more manageable than dealing with ice a mile thick. YMMV.
Say that to the next flood/hurricane/tornado that destroys your town.
We are not heading for an ice age. Sure, there seems to be an ice-age cycle and we would be approximatly due for a new one, but in geological terms, the error factor is of thousands of years. Plenty of time for civilisations to rise and fall. In the meantime, we have caused a hole in the ozone layer, we've made the planet way more radioactive than it was before, and we're buring the forest and even the fossilised forest really really fast. You think that's not a problem because it isn't in your own back yard, but we are doing it, its happening, and its dangerous. So we don't know exactly what will happen because nothing of this scale has ever been done before, but we do know that we are causing a climate change. How do we know? Because of rational thought, it goes like this: For every action there is a reaction of equal propostion. We are dumping megatons of climate changing pollutants. You expect that there will be no reaction to this? Do you also expect Santa to bring you gifts at Xmas?
Not really, they aren't bothering people and flooding their mailboxes with tons of stuff that they will have go through and filter. They are reducing the amount of available bandwith.
Its not ok, I guess, but its not as bad as spamming them.
Is it also Nokia's position that dressing up as a pimp is prostitution, plain and simple?
Seriously, I wouldn't want some yaya using my company's network without authorisation, so I would think that is they did they were stealing bandwith. But if you leave the door open, its your own fault.
Hell, warchalking is a nice heads up to the company, it says "people use your network!". They should either block access, or better yet, let 'em do it and place a whole bunch of ads around the chalk marks : )
I'm saying that it may be much more dangerous then a lot of us would like to believe.
Yeah, I mean, look at all the babyboomers...they are all braindead by now eh? All the ex hippies all got so brain damaged they became mentally ill and went homicidal and... oh, no, that's right, they didn't. They became normal middle class drones...damn.
Jail has nothing to do with what's best for the criminal, it has to do with punishment for a crime.
Indeed. I'm saying: Pot smoking should not be a crime. The goal of criminalisation was to protect the public from becoming hopelessly addicted and incurably insane from that evil devil's weed. It was stupid and that mistake should be rectified. They stopped alcohol prohibition when they realised it was a lost cause. but for some reason they keep on with the pot laws as if they were a god-given holy law.
If we believe that the trafficking of a substance is dangerous, we want to deter that crime with a serious punishment.
Indeed. That is why I want the Monosodium Glutamate producers/dealers to get death sentences. Its addictive, it makes people sick, and it causes brain damage in rats (when injected in large doses).
But that doesn't justify the jail sentences for simple possesion. If the dealing is the crime, why is the buyer's life destroyed? (The pot doesn't destroy the pot head's life, the cops do.) I know a few regular pot smokers (and a bunch of party pot smokers), I don't want their lives destroyed. I don't want them thrown in jail. They can smoke tobacco and drink beer all they want, but a joint could make the police destroy their life. That's not right!
If pot is not this substance, then ya, it's kind of rediculous and we should change the laws. I just personally haven't made up my mind yet.
I propose a very unscientific and dubious experiement: Go rent a heroin movie (Trainspotting or Requiem for a dream) and then a pot movie (Half Baked...can't think of another good one right now), and see if they deserve to be in the same category.
Here's a link that supports your "its bad for you" line of thought. Here's what I think about it: DUH! Well, if you're smoking pot every day for years and you suddently stop and take a test, of COURSE you'll do bad! And of course students and yungins shouldn't smoke pot! These things (pot, booze, cigarettes) should only be used by grownups, and only when apropriate. But when you're old enough to vote and go get killed to protect your country. You're also old enough to make your own choices about drinking or eating or smoking what you want. If the governments don't want you too, they should educate you (without lies) and give you resources to help you get back on their idea of the right track. Not destroy you if you use your free will to do things they don't agree to.
Hey, I wouldn't even mind if they kept the dealing laws, because it is possible (if rare) to be addicted to pot, and so anyone who's dealing in it has an incentive to encourage abuse and addiction, but responsible users don't need to be marginalised for their choices.
I know it's only anecdotal, but all of my friends who somewhat regulary smoke pot respond slower to dialog.
They need some cafein to balance it out : )
I don't buy the Pot==Heroin bit, but I'm still not convinced that it's a safe enough substance for public trade and consumption.
You're right, it isn't 100% safe...I know, lets put people who smoke it in jail! Jail is good for you...having human feces thrown at you fortifies your immune system!
I don't see why warning labels shouldn't be enough.
Now, the people who deal in MSG, THEY should go to jail...scratch that, they should fry.
Etymology: Medieval Latin ultimatus last, final, from Late Latin, past participle of ultimare to come to an end, be last, from Latin ultimus farthest, last, final, superlative of (assumed) Latin ulter situated beyond
Damn! I knew I should have bought a burner before the MPAA made 'em illegal...
Aww jeez, not that "pot does the same as heroin" thing again! Sigh. Lets see, heroin users become physically dependant and quite often die of an overdose. Pot heads can quit in a snap (they'll be grumpy for a week or so, but they won't scream in pain or go nuts) and it has never killed anyone ever in thousands of years of recorded use. Like the article says, this study proves that pot is as similar to heroin as chocolate. I really don't see any non-propaganda point to these studies.
That cafein article is really interesting though... Caffeine has some negatives and positives, that much is certain.
Yup! Perks you up in the morning, makes you insomniac at nigh! : )
Well, Sadam is the new Castro. Painted as eviler than satan, and yet still in power and popular. Whenever the US government needs to distract its sheep...er..people, they have a Bad Guy they can point to and say "Ohhh! Evil! Bad! Ooohhh! Grrr! Nasty!" so people stay content and consent to whatever it was that the government wanted to sneak by them.
China, on the other hand, is a real threat. The day china decides to go at war, the world will shake. So it wouldn't be wise to piss 'em off too much.
Governments lie, politicians lie, and they do it all the time. If you want to understand their motivations, ask yourself where the profit goes.
I can joke about fire in a crowded theatre all I want, so long as I'm no yelling "FIRE!" its allright.
I guess you're of the stuck-up persuasion that thinks that "some things aren't funny". Of course, that's allright, you live a joyless empty life, no problem. But when you start ruining other people's lives because of your lack of a sense of humour, something is wrong.
"Right now it's too soon to say whether there should be a panic," said Gregory O'Shanick, medical director of the Arlington, Va.-based Brain Injury Association of America, which is studying rides and injuries. "The jury is still out."
The point is not just that you can't hear what is going on around you, but that you are concentrating on something else instead of on skiing/snowboarding. Listening to music requires a certain amount of concentration which isn't available for navigation - there is a finite amount of stuff you can attend to at one time.
Well, speak for yourself. Anyway since the jacket doesn't play the music but simply gives you access to the controll of the other device from another company, they wouldn't be liable. They could also put a disclaimer/warning/cover-our-ass-gimmick label in the jacket that says "Don't listen to music while performing a task wich requires your full attention, such as skiing, snowboarding or operating heavy machinery while drunk and fighting rabid monkeys", and state that is designed for use in the chairift and the easy controlls are there for easy shut down before getting off the chairlift and it prevents frosbite and so on.
I personally find that music can enhance concentration in some cases (a very familiar tune for instance).
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I was with right up until the word "dissatisfied".
Abortion because you lnow your kid will be crippled is a good thing, abortion because you're trying to have green-eyed kids isn't.
A horrid thing of a mouse with one button.
I'm on a mac, and I have a 3 button scroll mouse.
I don't mind the 1 button mouse, but that wheel thingy is just so damn cool, I had to go out and buy one.
Can't see why you couldn't do the same with your insane 12 button uber mouse.
With more and more technology draining from the US we'll drop below countries like the EU states, China or Russia. Countries which definitely don't care about international problems and the mind-stunning threat of internation terrorism.
Oh SHUT THE FUCK UP you trolling jerk! The EU countries that had terrorism problems for YEARS AND YEARS cared about international terrorism long before you ever knew it existed!
Damn! People can be so dense!
You think the bombs blowing up in the Paris subway went unnnoticed? Well, by the likes of you they did, but not over there!
Mind-stunning indeed. The rest of the world has been concerned and trying to do something about terrorism for years, the fact that you need a LIVE TV BROADCAST of terrorism to even take notice should tell you that you are an egocentric prick, not that only your country cares. Jeez. Did you even read what the leaders of the other nations said about 9/11 after it happened? The things about "we know what its like to be terrorised, we'll help you guys" went well over your head huh?
the US looses its huge technological advantage over second world countries like the EU
The EU? The Freakin' european union is your idea of "second world countries"? France and germany and the likes? Your grasp of international politics/economy is quite impressive!
The world will be a mess and it will be because of whiners like you destroying the worldwide US surpremancy.
I so wish I could slap you right now...
You think that the US playing around with FINANCING, TRAINING AND ARMING TERRORIST is helping the world? How about putting dictators in power so they'll turn over the ressources to US companies while they kill and torture their citizens? The US isn't a benevolent big brother, its a worldwide bully that doesn't care who it hurts so long as it gets the other countries' lunch money. Don't kid yourself. The US might have its own citizen's best interest in mind (I said "might") but it sure as hell doesn't give a damn about the rest of the world.
There are a lot of good things and people in the US, but there are a lot of nasty stuff to. You, sir, are one of them.
PS Go ahead, mod me down as "-1 unamerican" all you want, I don't care, it needed to be said.
Just saw it (had taped it).
Anyone else wonder why a squad of lilac coloured mobile infantry from Starship Troopers was on that train? : )
By having the FBI have access to your reading habits, it could save you from being in a building that gets hit by a plane.
How?
Really, how exactly would the FBI spying on me protect me from random terrorism? Really, lets see.
step 1-Make profile of someone.
step 2-???
step 3-Safety!
That is a good trade off. Even if not one terrorist is busted from this whole inactment, everyone in the trade towers and on the flights would have definitely traded this for their lives.
This sentence made no sense at all.
What they are doing is using fear of terrorism to gain powers that have nothing to do with protecting you from terrorism! And for some reason you seem to think that's the best idea ever...is your daddy a special agent by any chance?
Massive climate change has happened in the past without man's help. And some of those changes have been much more extreme than what we have witnessed in the last 150 years.
Yes, and people die of natural causes so murder is ok huh?
Just because there have been other catastrophic climate changes and massive extinctions doesn't mean we are not causing this one and that we should just keep repeating our mistakes and let it happen or make it worse.
I believe that dealing with a little extra heat in our enviroment is more manageable than dealing with ice a mile thick. YMMV.
Say that to the next flood/hurricane/tornado that destroys your town.
We are not heading for an ice age. Sure, there seems to be an ice-age cycle and we would be approximatly due for a new one, but in geological terms, the error factor is of thousands of years. Plenty of time for civilisations to rise and fall. In the meantime, we have caused a hole in the ozone layer, we've made the planet way more radioactive than it was before, and we're buring the forest and even the fossilised forest really really fast. You think that's not a problem because it isn't in your own back yard, but we are doing it, its happening, and its dangerous. So we don't know exactly what will happen because nothing of this scale has ever been done before, but we do know that we are causing a climate change. How do we know? Because of rational thought, it goes like this: For every action there is a reaction of equal propostion. We are dumping megatons of climate changing pollutants. You expect that there will be no reaction to this? Do you also expect Santa to bring you gifts at Xmas?
Not really, they aren't bothering people and flooding their mailboxes with tons of stuff that they will have go through and filter. They are reducing the amount of available bandwith.
Its not ok, I guess, but its not as bad as spamming them.
Is it also Nokia's position that dressing up as a pimp is prostitution, plain and simple?
Seriously, I wouldn't want some yaya using my company's network without authorisation, so I would think that is they did they were stealing bandwith. But if you leave the door open, its your own fault.
Hell, warchalking is a nice heads up to the company, it says "people use your network!". They should either block access, or better yet, let 'em do it and place a whole bunch of ads around the chalk marks : )
I'm saying that it may be much more dangerous then a lot of us would like to believe.
... oh, no, that's right, they didn't. They became normal middle class drones...damn.
Yeah, I mean, look at all the babyboomers...they are all braindead by now eh? All the ex hippies all got so brain damaged they became mentally ill and went homicidal and
Jail has nothing to do with what's best for the criminal, it has to do with punishment for a crime.
Indeed. I'm saying: Pot smoking should not be a crime. The goal of criminalisation was to protect the public from becoming hopelessly addicted and incurably insane from that evil devil's weed. It was stupid and that mistake should be rectified. They stopped alcohol prohibition when they realised it was a lost cause. but for some reason they keep on with the pot laws as if they were a god-given holy law.
If we believe that the trafficking of a substance is dangerous, we want to deter that crime with a serious punishment.
Indeed. That is why I want the Monosodium Glutamate producers/dealers to get death sentences. Its addictive, it makes people sick, and it causes brain damage in rats (when injected in large doses).
But that doesn't justify the jail sentences for simple possesion. If the dealing is the crime, why is the buyer's life destroyed? (The pot doesn't destroy the pot head's life, the cops do.)
I know a few regular pot smokers (and a bunch of party pot smokers), I don't want their lives destroyed. I don't want them thrown in jail. They can smoke tobacco and drink beer all they want, but a joint could make the police destroy their life. That's not right!
If pot is not this substance, then ya, it's kind of rediculous and we should change the laws. I just personally haven't made up my mind yet.
I propose a very unscientific and dubious experiement: Go rent a heroin movie (Trainspotting or Requiem for a dream) and then a pot movie (Half Baked...can't think of another good one right now), and see if they deserve to be in the same category.
Here's a link that supports your "its bad for you" line of thought.
Here's what I think about it: DUH! Well, if you're smoking pot every day for years and you suddently stop and take a test, of COURSE you'll do bad! And of course students and yungins shouldn't smoke pot! These things (pot, booze, cigarettes) should only be used by grownups, and only when apropriate.
But when you're old enough to vote and go get killed to protect your country. You're also old enough to make your own choices about drinking or eating or smoking what you want. If the governments don't want you too, they should educate you (without lies) and give you resources to help you get back on their idea of the right track. Not destroy you if you use your free will to do things they don't agree to.
Hey, I wouldn't even mind if they kept the dealing laws, because it is possible (if rare) to be addicted to pot, and so anyone who's dealing in it has an incentive to encourage abuse and addiction, but responsible users don't need to be marginalised for their choices.
I know it's only anecdotal, but all of my friends who somewhat regulary smoke pot respond slower to dialog.
They need some cafein to balance it out : )
I don't buy the Pot==Heroin bit, but I'm still not convinced that it's a safe enough substance for public trade and consumption.
You're right, it isn't 100% safe...I know, lets put people who smoke it in jail! Jail is good for you...having human feces thrown at you fortifies your immune system!
I don't see why warning labels shouldn't be enough.
Now, the people who deal in MSG, THEY should go to jail...scratch that, they should fry.
Etymology: Medieval Latin ultimatus last, final, from Late Latin, past participle of ultimare to come to an end, be last, from Latin ultimus farthest, last, final, superlative of (assumed) Latin ulter situated beyond
Damn! I knew I should have bought a burner before the MPAA made 'em illegal...
Aww jeez, not that "pot does the same as heroin" thing again! Sigh.
Lets see, heroin users become physically dependant and quite often die of an overdose. Pot heads can quit in a snap (they'll be grumpy for a week or so, but they won't scream in pain or go nuts) and it has never killed anyone ever in thousands of years of recorded use.
Like the article says, this study proves that pot is as similar to heroin as chocolate. I really don't see any non-propaganda point to these studies.
That cafein article is really interesting though...
Caffeine has some negatives and positives, that much is certain.
Yup! Perks you up in the morning, makes you insomniac at nigh! : )
That sure as hell beats getting pre-empted by some terrorist attack.
Well, Bush might terrorize Irak anytime, mabe even tonight, trigger happy as he is. So you never know.
Carefull! You'll get moded -1 troll for comments like that! (I did) ;- )
Forget preempted, around here you need that fancy digital cable thingy to even get the channel its on.
And digital cable sux0r oh so very much : (
you mean the cyber tool? I got one, its a great tool to screw in stuff in a computer.
Its got a bunch of screw heads and everything.
Well, Sadam is the new Castro. Painted as eviler than satan, and yet still in power and popular.
/cynicism
Whenever the US government needs to distract its sheep...er..people, they have a Bad Guy they can point to and say "Ohhh! Evil! Bad! Ooohhh! Grrr! Nasty!" so people stay content and consent to whatever it was that the government wanted to sneak by them.
China, on the other hand, is a real threat. The day china decides to go at war, the world will shake. So it wouldn't be wise to piss 'em off too much.
Governments lie, politicians lie, and they do it all the time. If you want to understand their motivations, ask yourself where the profit goes.
Time machine: Here I come!
Next step: finding a deLorean on eBay...
I do that a lot actually.
I can joke about fire in a crowded theatre all I want, so long as I'm no yelling "FIRE!" its allright.
I guess you're of the stuck-up persuasion that thinks that "some things aren't funny". Of course, that's allright, you live a joyless empty life, no problem. But when you start ruining other people's lives because of your lack of a sense of humour, something is wrong.
"Right now it's too soon to say whether there should be a panic," said Gregory O'Shanick, medical director of the Arlington, Va.-based Brain Injury Association of America, which is studying rides and injuries. "The jury is still out."
DON'T PANIC!
Duh
Give me a break. You neglect to mention that they "joked" about commiting an act of mass destruction.
Well, even if they did joke around (wich they say they didn't), are you telling me that's grounds for arrest now?
You sure as hell ain't turning into a thought police state huh?
I am a tad insulted...
Don't say "free pot" if you don't mean it!
: (
Damn right!
The point is not just that you can't hear what is going on around you, but that you are concentrating on something else instead of on skiing/snowboarding. Listening to music requires a certain amount of concentration which isn't available for navigation - there is a finite amount of stuff you can attend to at one time.
Well, speak for yourself.
Anyway since the jacket doesn't play the music but simply gives you access to the controll of the other device from another company, they wouldn't be liable. They could also put a disclaimer/warning/cover-our-ass-gimmick label in the jacket that says "Don't listen to music while performing a task wich requires your full attention, such as skiing, snowboarding or operating heavy machinery while drunk and fighting rabid monkeys", and state that is designed for use in the chairift and the easy controlls are there for easy shut down before getting off the chairlift and it prevents frosbite and so on.
I personally find that music can enhance concentration in some cases (a very familiar tune for instance).