Depends on the country - in a lot of places, it's actually the thc that's illegal. Cops and judges are generally stupid, though, and don't listen when you try to explain there's a difference:-)
Here in.be, there's a few small-scale Indica farms, who seem to survive, but then again, we're also allowed one Sativa plant for personal use.
I live in Belgium, and like so many countries, I've been legally obliged to have identification on me at all times, iirc whenever I'm more than 2km from home. There's also a legal requirement to carry some money, used to be 500 BEF / € 12.50 - dunno if the amount has changed since the introduction of the Euro.
> when people visit the Middle East they get a nice dose of Sharia Laws when they kiss their wife/husband in the open.
I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna be kissing my husband anywhere in the south or the bible belt. I happen to be gay.
> American people compared to Arabs\Persians\Middle Easterners are a lot more intelligent and Middle Eastern illiteracy rates are astonishing.
You're unfortunately right about the illiteracy, but for all that, there's also some quite intelligent people there. I won't bother saying something about the intelligence of americans, but I sure hope you don't believe you're all rocket scientists.
> Leaders are asshats is no excuse for the common people to get a green pass on not being criticized, cry me a river when all Americans were being called ignorant/stupid when Bush was in office. The apologist only seem to come out when somebody tries to criticize poor little Middle Eastern people.
The stereotype of the stupid american was there before Bush, and it hasn't really gone away. Obama is indeed building up some international credibility, which does reflect off on the country as a whole; but the impression that you still have more nutjobs than any other part of the world is rather tenacious. Where there's smoke, there's probably a bunch of rednecks:-)
For every dumb generalisation you make about them, one can be made about you. Just like everywhere, there's good and there's bad. The major difference in leadership, however, is that you elected a shitty president, while they haven't got much say in it. Both kinds prove to be good at brainwashing, though.
So why don't you eat a nice steak? After all, if you don't, someone else will; the cow gets killed anyway.
Would you, as a vegan, be comfortable selling hydraulic pins to slaughterhouses ? After all, for all you know they'll use them just to drive nails in the wall and hang up beautiful paintings of cute bunnies.
"Everyone else does it" and "if I don't, someone else will" just don't seem to be very good reasons to throw your ethics overboard, I think.
Umm... fast-growing trees swallow less CO2 than slow-growing ones, I think. Thus, replacing a 200 year old oak with three or four saplings that you'll be harvesting in five or ten years, is not really a balanced trade.
True, but maybe the industry should be more clear about that, and not use it as an excuse for why they should be allowed to destroy natural forest areas that do contain biodiversity.
But, then again, that would impact their paycheck.
In your first paragraph, you say the environmentalists pushed to use recycled paper instead of fresh. In your second paragraph, you suggest the aim was using *less* paper. Which is it ?
If the recycled paper wears out the printer rolls, they maybe they should've used a better type of recycled paper. If it was sold as laser printer paper, sue the manufacturer. If the paper turns out to have been OK, blame HP for selling planned obsolesence.
You also claim ten times more water is needed to bleach recycled paper. You might be right, but as far as I know, water doesn't bleach. You're leaving out part of the story.
As a last point, even if it would be less bad for the environment to use fresh paper (taking into account the impact on forests, energy use, and whatnot), then it's still undeniably true that using less paper in total is better.
Because, I hear you think, they can then also harvest the tetrahydrocannabinol-rich flowers and smoke themselves into a stupor.
Not so, unfortunately. First off, only the unfertilised flowers produce plenty of THC. This means you have to keep the male plants far away. Doable, there's even something called 'feminised' seeds, but still a bother. A bigger hurdle, however, is that the smokey stuff is Cannabis Sativa. The stuff used to make paper, rope and other hemp products, is Cannabis Indica, which doesn't make a particularly good smoke.
The pope is an old man who most likely hasn't got a clue about the internet, and probably even has people that print his mail for him. The internet is a mundane tool, that has no more implications on spiritual matters than, say, a sharp knife has - both do not care if they are used for good or evil.
I do not believe the old man of Rome is in a position to speak on technology and transparancy.
So you're moving more and more towards a nation that sits walled in on it's continent, and has the capability to swiftly strike at any point on the globe without having to worry about it's people being out there ?
Washington is the only thing that unites a lot of these American states, they would just be killing each other instead. The American people are totally disconnected with the rest of the world and have no idea what is going on in other countries or ever get to visit.... Not saying you're *entirely* wrong, but kindly stop generalising. There's a lot of different people there, with a lot of different cultures. The leaders may be asshats, some of the people may be asshats, but there's good guys there, too.
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I'm allergic to gold, you insensitive clod.
Depends on the country - in a lot of places, it's actually the thc that's illegal. Cops and judges are generally stupid, though, and don't listen when you try to explain there's a difference :-)
.be, there's a few small-scale Indica farms, who seem to survive, but then again, we're also allowed one Sativa plant for personal use.
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opt-out bad, mmmkay ?
Exactly what freedom am I so sorely lacking by being able to prove who I am at all times?
I don't know for sure, but I assume that valid ID for your home country is required for Schengen residents, and a passport for others.
An ISP siding with their customers ? Now there's a novelty.
I live in Belgium, and like so many countries, I've been legally obliged to have identification on me at all times, iirc whenever I'm more than 2km from home. There's also a legal requirement to carry some money, used to be 500 BEF / € 12.50 - dunno if the amount has changed since the introduction of the Euro.
It's not a big deal. Get over it.
Yep, network engineer.
I can't help but wonder what you understand by "used" paper, then ?
> when people visit the Middle East they get a nice dose of Sharia Laws when they kiss their wife/husband in the open.
:-)
I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna be kissing my husband anywhere in the south or the bible belt. I happen to be gay.
> American people compared to Arabs\Persians\Middle Easterners are a lot more intelligent and Middle Eastern illiteracy rates are astonishing.
You're unfortunately right about the illiteracy, but for all that, there's also some quite intelligent people there. I won't bother saying something about the intelligence of americans, but I sure hope you don't believe you're all rocket scientists.
> Leaders are asshats is no excuse for the common people to get a green pass on not being criticized, cry me a river when all Americans were being called ignorant/stupid when Bush was in office. The apologist only seem to come out when somebody tries to criticize poor little Middle Eastern people.
The stereotype of the stupid american was there before Bush, and it hasn't really gone away. Obama is indeed building up some international credibility, which does reflect off on the country as a whole; but the impression that you still have more nutjobs than any other part of the world is rather tenacious. Where there's smoke, there's probably a bunch of rednecks
For every dumb generalisation you make about them, one can be made about you. Just like everywhere, there's good and there's bad. The major difference in leadership, however, is that you elected a shitty president, while they haven't got much say in it. Both kinds prove to be good at brainwashing, though.
So why don't you eat a nice steak? After all, if you don't, someone else will; the cow gets killed anyway.
Would you, as a vegan, be comfortable selling hydraulic pins to slaughterhouses ? After all, for all you know they'll use them just to drive nails in the wall and hang up beautiful paintings of cute bunnies.
"Everyone else does it" and "if I don't, someone else will" just don't seem to be very good reasons to throw your ethics overboard, I think.
There's certainly a degree of truth in that, but it is not the absolute that the people who earn billions selling weapons would like you to believe.
> I also think saying that he's kept 110/163 = 67% of his promises is also dishonest.
Agreed.
> And yes, on his inauguration day, he hadn't done anything, so he hadn't kept any of his promises yet.
True, but he also hasn't "not kept" any of them, yet.
"Not keeping" a promise, for me, means pretty much the same as breaking it.
> Yeah, war is bad, but why not take economic advantage / only take economic disadvantage from it?
It's called ethics, and I know for a fact that not all swedes lack that trait.
So, basically, we gotta pick between getting asthma or getting a tan ?
Damn, but what a conundrum this is. There really are no easy questions.
Umm... fast-growing trees swallow less CO2 than slow-growing ones, I think. Thus, replacing a 200 year old oak with three or four saplings that you'll be harvesting in five or ten years, is not really a balanced trade.
True, but maybe the industry should be more clear about that, and not use it as an excuse for why they should be allowed to destroy natural forest areas that do contain biodiversity.
But, then again, that would impact their paycheck.
In your first paragraph, you say the environmentalists pushed to use recycled paper instead of fresh. In your second paragraph, you suggest the aim was using *less* paper. Which is it ?
If the recycled paper wears out the printer rolls, they maybe they should've used a better type of recycled paper. If it was sold as laser printer paper, sue the manufacturer. If the paper turns out to have been OK, blame HP for selling planned obsolesence.
You also claim ten times more water is needed to bleach recycled paper. You might be right, but as far as I know, water doesn't bleach. You're leaving out part of the story.
As a last point, even if it would be less bad for the environment to use fresh paper (taking into account the impact on forests, energy use, and whatnot), then it's still undeniably true that using less paper in total is better.
Because, I hear you think, they can then also harvest the tetrahydrocannabinol-rich flowers and smoke themselves into a stupor.
Not so, unfortunately. First off, only the unfertilised flowers produce plenty of THC. This means you have to keep the male plants far away. Doable, there's even something called 'feminised' seeds, but still a bother.
A bigger hurdle, however, is that the smokey stuff is Cannabis Sativa. The stuff used to make paper, rope and other hemp products, is Cannabis Indica, which doesn't make a particularly good smoke.
You should wait half an hour, or so, to ensure that the burning bush doesn't actually get burned.
The pope is an old man who most likely hasn't got a clue about the internet, and probably even has people that print his mail for him.
The internet is a mundane tool, that has no more implications on spiritual matters than, say, a sharp knife has - both do not care if they are used for good or evil.
I do not believe the old man of Rome is in a position to speak on technology and transparancy.
Well, if it's a metric football field, americans would probably call it a soccer field.
You also gave us Britney Spears and M. Knight Shamalayan. I rather think the balance is tipped the other way.
So you're moving more and more towards a nation that sits walled in on it's continent, and has the capability to swiftly strike at any point on the globe without having to worry about it's people being out there ?
This worries me.
Washington is the only thing that unites a lot of these American states, they would just be killing each other instead. The American people are totally disconnected with the rest of the world and have no idea what is going on in other countries or ever get to visit. ... Not saying you're *entirely* wrong, but kindly stop generalising. There's a lot of different people there, with a lot of different cultures. The leaders may be asshats, some of the people may be asshats, but there's good guys there, too.