under the kyoto agreement what happens is that we'll pay financially for failing to reduce our emissions. so it's fine if we don't hit our targets - it's just expensive.
you're saying it's acceptable for a police force to collude with criminals to kill citizens - sometimes completely innocent civilians?
wow. that's pretty horrifying.
and i can't find a reference to any bomb in britain - by loyalists or republicans - that killed even 100 people. there was a bomb at harrods that injured 80. that was the largest i could find.
some were locked up, yes. i'm not going to go into my family history in huge detail, but yes i can think of one person locked up for commiting a crime while he was an active addict. and it contributed to his recovery.
not really the ideal way to treat an addiction though. a better way would be drug and alcohol treatment centers and there aren't nearly enough of them.
and i think i can speak with some authority that family life with an addict is much more disruptive then when they're at home. al-anon and similar programs teach a concept of "tough love."
not all people in prison for drig offences are addicts. in fact i'd guess most aren't. all i'm saying is that it will not be happy-fun-world if drugs are legalised tomorrow.
i just fail to see intelligent arguments that would lead me to believe that more legal addictive substances would make the problems any less worse.
*if* people would support higher taxes to properly educate people (k-12 on all subjects including drugs and civics and science), to provide decent healthcare (including drug treatment and mental healthcare - depression in particular), and to provide decent programs to help people escape poverty then i might believe that the societal causes of drug (and alcohol) abuse might be lowered - as well as lowering the negative effects on society.
but since most countries (in particular the usa) fail to adequately provide for even the most basic levels of those things, i don't think those societies should make their problems any worse.
you're omiting a bit of truth there. you forgot to mention the british military collusion with loyalist paramilitary groups. and you forgot to mention the loyalist paramilitary groups themselves and all the punishment beatings and killings they've been up to lately.
those of us who have had addicts (of any drug) as parents, siblings, s.o.'s, kids or friends, have a sightly less happy view of drugs. that's not to say "the war on drugs" is right, but that realistic debates on the topic would be nice.
wish away, but unless there's a sudden iq jump in america, bush will be re-elected. the republicans will increase their hold on congress.
many americans are eligible for citizenship in other countries. why waste your energy helping your fellow morons when there are more deserving fellow citizens elsewhere?
people look different on the outside - they're also different on the inside. depending on the dental work you're having done, a dentist will inject anesthesia into different parts of your mouth based on how *most* people are built.
sometimes they miss and sometimes your nerves are wired differently. that's why a dentist checks to see if a location is numb before working - even if they got it exactly spot on where they were taught to get it, that might not be the right spot for that patient.
so yeah, it's a bummer you have a numb tongue. that must really suck. but it is a possible side effect. if it was me i wouldn't sue, it's not really the guy's fault from what i've been told in the past.
note, i'm not a dentist, but i worked in a dental school and some of the students and the staff would explain how things worked.
if i'm late i can ring up someone in the group i'm meeting and let them know.
if i'm going to meet up with a friends at a houseparty i can call ahead on my way there to see if they need anything to pick up. or they can call me. or if it's my house everyone is going to i can ask someone who's coming.
directions. going to a new place with the knowledge that i can call for help on how to get there is an amazing stress reliever.
we might agree to meet up somewhere and discover that it's packed, lame, closed. the first ones there can redirect people to the new place.
and on a variation, a group might agree to meet up at a pub and then go on from there to an undecided restaurant. stragglers can be called when a decision has been made.
my phone, like 99% of phones, offers caller id. i can choose to answer who i feel like answering. my phone also offers an on/off switch. if i want to be left alone i can turn off the phone or only answer calls i want answered. even better then ignoring a landline i can explicitly reject calls i don't want so i don't have to listen to constant ringing.
yes, all that red tape that the gov't has that private industry lacked. right. that's why one of the hr people at one private company i worked at got mad at us for modifying our cubes. that's a job certified steelcase engineers.
red tape exists everywhere. just ask people in banks or insurance companies.
yes, that's a good idea. access your financial info on a regular basis from an internet cafe.
not to mention that i tend to use the net before going to bed to do things like finances, or to email friends in the states (due to time differences). and i don't use im type apps, but some people do - again due to time differences that's a common late evening activity.
live w/o the net in a new place for several years?
so give up one of the easiest ways to get cheap airfares, learn about holiday destinations, get bus/rail/s-bahn/u-bahn schedules? since this person is planning on returning to the usa, they should give up their online access to their financial info and instead use more expensive and less convenient phone/fax/mail? more importantly they have friends and family back in the usa. they should give up on an inexpensive way to keep in touch with their friends and family? give up email, pictures of newborn relatives, holiday snaps, etc?
and in the meantime there's day to day life. when you go live somewhere you need to get a place to stay, electricity, phone, net and all the other bits to live life.
all the places you mention are nice, but you can't live in them. sheesh.
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like microsoft?
under the kyoto agreement what happens is that we'll pay financially for failing to reduce our emissions. so it's fine if we don't hit our targets - it's just expensive.
wow, a rational response. based on facts and logic. i'm kind of stunned really.
sex and food aren't addictive, but there are sex and food addicts. there's more then just physical addiction.
you're saying it's acceptable for a police force to collude with criminals to kill citizens - sometimes completely innocent civilians?
wow. that's pretty horrifying.
and i can't find a reference to any bomb in britain - by loyalists or republicans - that killed even 100 people. there was a bomb at harrods that injured 80. that was the largest i could find.
some were locked up, yes. i'm not going to go into my family history in huge detail, but yes i can think of one person locked up for commiting a crime while he was an active addict. and it contributed to his recovery.
not really the ideal way to treat an addiction though. a better way would be drug and alcohol treatment centers and there aren't nearly enough of them.
and i think i can speak with some authority that family life with an addict is much more disruptive then when they're at home. al-anon and similar programs teach a concept of "tough love."
not all people in prison for drig offences are addicts. in fact i'd guess most aren't. all i'm saying is that it will not be happy-fun-world if drugs are legalised tomorrow.
of course it includes alcohol.
i just fail to see intelligent arguments that would lead me to believe that more legal addictive substances would make the problems any less worse.
*if* people would support higher taxes to properly educate people (k-12 on all subjects including drugs and civics and science), to provide decent healthcare (including drug treatment and mental healthcare - depression in particular), and to provide decent programs to help people escape poverty then i might believe that the societal causes of drug (and alcohol) abuse might be lowered - as well as lowering the negative effects on society.
but since most countries (in particular the usa) fail to adequately provide for even the most basic levels of those things, i don't think those societies should make their problems any worse.
you're omiting a bit of truth there. you forgot to mention the british military collusion with loyalist paramilitary groups. and you forgot to mention the loyalist paramilitary groups themselves and all the punishment beatings and killings they've been up to lately.
those of us who have had addicts (of any drug) as parents, siblings, s.o.'s, kids or friends, have a sightly less happy view of drugs. that's not to say "the war on drugs" is right, but that realistic debates on the topic would be nice.
"i wish bush wouldn't get re-elected."
wish away, but unless there's a sudden iq jump in america, bush will be re-elected. the republicans will increase their hold on congress.
many americans are eligible for citizenship in other countries. why waste your energy helping your fellow morons when there are more deserving fellow citizens elsewhere?
is in las vegas, nv, in august 17-19th. there's a link here.
every label and artist? where? will some of the money be going to artists and labels in ireland? russia? brasil? what percentage goes where?
people look different on the outside - they're also different on the inside. depending on the dental work you're having done, a dentist will inject anesthesia into different parts of your mouth based on how *most* people are built.
sometimes they miss and sometimes your nerves are wired differently. that's why a dentist checks to see if a location is numb before working - even if they got it exactly spot on where they were taught to get it, that might not be the right spot for that patient.
so yeah, it's a bummer you have a numb tongue. that must really suck. but it is a possible side effect. if it was me i wouldn't sue, it's not really the guy's fault from what i've been told in the past.
note, i'm not a dentist, but i worked in a dental school and some of the students and the staff would explain how things worked.
he didn't say he'd invented the internet.
damn, that was going to be my comment.
industry still uses all the "old" things you mention. and all the "new" things are based on the old ones. they evolved from those standards.
crawling is a useful skill to have. and while walking is better for many tasks, you still learned to crawl first.
and if so, what's their opinion of this?
but i won't be buying them in the future. if they're happy to burn one bridge, how do i know they won't burn a bridge that is critical to my company?
if i'm late i can ring up someone in the group i'm meeting and let them know.
if i'm going to meet up with a friends at a houseparty i can call ahead on my way there to see if they need anything to pick up. or they can call me. or if it's my house everyone is going to i can ask someone who's coming.
directions. going to a new place with the knowledge that i can call for help on how to get there is an amazing stress reliever.
we might agree to meet up somewhere and discover that it's packed, lame, closed. the first ones there can redirect people to the new place.
and on a variation, a group might agree to meet up at a pub and then go on from there to an undecided restaurant. stragglers can be called when a decision has been made.
my phone, like 99% of phones, offers caller id. i can choose to answer who i feel like answering. my phone also offers an on/off switch. if i want to be left alone i can turn off the phone or only answer calls i want answered. even better then ignoring a landline i can explicitly reject calls i don't want so i don't have to listen to constant ringing.
people moaning about mobiles need to get a clue.
yes, all that red tape that the gov't has that private industry lacked. right. that's why one of the hr people at one private company i worked at got mad at us for modifying our cubes. that's a job certified steelcase engineers.
red tape exists everywhere. just ask people in banks or insurance companies.
yes, that's a good idea. access your financial info on a regular basis from an internet cafe.
not to mention that i tend to use the net before going to bed to do things like finances, or to email friends in the states (due to time differences). and i don't use im type apps, but some people do - again due to time differences that's a common late evening activity.
live w/o the net in a new place for several years?
so give up one of the easiest ways to get cheap airfares, learn about holiday destinations, get bus/rail/s-bahn/u-bahn schedules? since this person is planning on returning to the usa, they should give up their online access to their financial info and instead use more expensive and less convenient phone/fax/mail? more importantly they have friends and family back in the usa. they should give up on an inexpensive way to keep in touch with their friends and family? give up email, pictures of newborn relatives, holiday snaps, etc?
get real.
and in the meantime there's day to day life. when you go live somewhere you need to get a place to stay, electricity, phone, net and all the other bits to live life.
all the places you mention are nice, but you can't live in them. sheesh.
seriously. they sent you a legal notice that was false. they logged into your ftp server with false information.
if you sent the bsa a legal document that was false, could you get away with, "oops, sorry?"
whereupon she congatulates you on treating books well.