So which category does marijuana prohibition fall under?
I'd assume it is the cost... they can't make enough money to offset the other costs... Most likely health care, and truencies from work, as well as an extra burden on the social assistance network. But Alcohol is probably more responsible than marijuana is... the problem is, alcohol has been legal too long, they can't make it illegal... but I bet if they could, they would...
Sadly, very little... I can't handle smoking anything... and I don't enjoy drinking...
Personally I'd love to make all mind altering substances used for recreation illegal. Either that, or making all mind altering substances available, and government controlled. All of it... I say all or nothing... anything in between is just asking for trouble.
And I'm sick and tired of people telling me that I don't have the right to do what I want, when I'm the one who will have to deal with the consequences.
Fair enough, you have a right to do what you want... and you are the one who will deal with the consequences... so then, forgive me, but I don't see any point to your argument... you claim that you don't want to support the underground, but the big old bad government makes you because they make your substance abuse illegal, while Joe Q. Alcoholic has a legal store to go to... so you're all pissed off because the people in power have decided a certain substance is illegal? Or are you pissed off because you're too worried about the consequences of doing the right thing and getting your substance of choice in a non-criminal supporting way?
Either way, you have the power to stop supporting the underground... or you can keep standing on your soap box complaining about how things are, and how the government has made you a criminal... I enjoy speeding, I've lost my license for speeding... have I harmed anyone? No. Is it my right to drive as fast as I want? Honestly, I don't think so, but I do anyways... Do I think the government artificially set the speed limit on highways really low so they can make a profit? Yes.
And there is my point... all the laws are there to either protect life, or to make money... if the government had a good way of making money off of Marijuna sales without the health issues and health costs associated with it, it would be legal. But until then, the government will make it illegal, thus you will have to deal with that reality.
Your only option is NOT to purchase from people like this, as you put it... it's not your only damned choice... if you are so against supporting the underground then you should not purchase any... it's not like marijuana is essential to your survival... water, I'll accept, anything else... live with the fact it ain't legal, and stop using it...
Or, if you are so dependent on the drug, or just like it soooo damned much, grow your own. Stop supporting the underground.
I'm sick and tired of people claiming that it's the government's fault they have to support the black market/criminals to get their substance/product of choice... It's your fault, take responsibility for your actions... I don't smoke pot, but I know many people that do... and I know of a few who have decided to grow their own to stop supporting the underground market... Do something about it instead of whining...
I'll believe it when I see it... my sources inside MS (and no, I ain't giving any proof, so believe me or not, I don't give a shit), say that there are very hard deadlines for Longhorn, with features being left out if they don't meet certain benchmarks, etc... so to hear that they are now taking something, and wasting resources back porting it? Especially when they first said it would be dropped from longhorn? I call Bull..
True, it's peanuts... but no one said it would stay at that low a fine... do it again, and we'll up the fine... just like with a kid, slap the wrists, then the ass, then nail them over the head with a frying pan... As a side note, I'm not a parent, so take my example with a grain of salt
InfiniBand, which is derived from its underlying concept of "infinite bandwidth,"...
Umm... I don't know about you... but that description didn't help me much... infinite bandwidth? What is this? How is this? How does linux get past physical hardware limitations that other os's can't?
With all due respect to the visually impaired crowd... just because you can't see well, don't force me to endure loud noise when I'm operating a device. If you wish to cater to a group of people that have different needs, or heck, just different wants when it comes to the operation of said device, make it an option that is user configurable... heck, even make the default option the annyoing, loud noise generating one... but give me the ability to use the device without loud and blatantly unnecessary distraction. As I said before, I think the engineer/designer that made the choice of a loud, uncustomizable, unconfigurable musical tone play when turning off the phone needs to be shot. It's just as bad as those damned car alarms that go off when you turn them off... umm... I'm turning the damn thing off so that it won't make more noise... novel concept for these designers/engineers... whatever happend to practical usability studies? Something tells me all products now-a-days are simply placed infront of 12 to 14 year old girls and if they giggle and say they like it, it's sold the next day... but I digress... I'm a 24 year old consumer that remembers the good old days when phones where phones, and things did what you expected them to do... man I feel old...
Just recently in a meeting a phone went off on vibrate... it was still loud enough to cause everyone to look at the poor guy... and then to add insult to injury, he turned his phone off... thank you Motorola for your *DAMNED* making music while turning off the phone sounds... I'd like to meet the idiot who thought playing a sound was a good idea while turning the phone OFF... FLIPPIN' IDIOTS...
Sadly, where I am today... I have a manager that meets all of your criteria... It's a weird feeling going in to work everyday doing a job I love (programming) in an environment that's great, and having a manager that is knowledgable, able to lead, and realistic when it comes to shit rolling down hill...
I just installed FreeBSD this morning... I must say, straight off the iso, a quick install had me up and running pretty darn fast... much quicker than any linux distro I've tried in the recent past... Now if only I could figure out how to get visual studio to run under it, I could ditch windows... stupid work... stupid requiring development on Windows...
One serious thing about FreeBSD over linux distro's... It feels like it has more of a structure, especially when installing utilities and apps... I find with linux distros, the stuff included feels like it's all over the place, hard to find where things end up installing... but I'm really a vxworks fan... so take what I say with a grain of salt...;)
And by destroy, do you mean like what happend to the poor UofW student that was driving their solar car last year, just as it veered outta control head on into a minivan killing him? These damned vehicles prove nothing, they're just dangerous...
This story is mis-titled... it should be how to keep your g/f occuppied... by letting her make windchimes... all the while, you go out and buy new hardware for yourself...;)
I once had Visual Studio crash, and take out my filesystem completely while I was working on a network driver at work... it blew away close to 2 days worth of work... I had to come in and work on the weekend instead of going on a roadtrip with my friends as I had planned... What if that would have been the one time I'd have met a woman drunk enough to have sex with me? There isn't enough money in the world to cover that... although... I think $5 will tide me over... do you think I meet their criteria?
Slashdot Mirror
I'm willing to bet that wireless telco's created it to increase revenues... ;)
So which category does marijuana prohibition fall under?
I'd assume it is the cost... they can't make enough money to offset the other costs... Most likely health care, and truencies from work, as well as an extra burden on the social assistance network. But Alcohol is probably more responsible than marijuana is... the problem is, alcohol has been legal too long, they can't make it illegal... but I bet if they could, they would...
Sadly, very little... I can't handle smoking anything... and I don't enjoy drinking...
Personally I'd love to make all mind altering substances used for recreation illegal. Either that, or making all mind altering substances available, and government controlled. All of it... I say all or nothing... anything in between is just asking for trouble.
And I'm sick and tired of people telling me that I don't have the right to do what I want, when I'm the one who will have to deal with the consequences.
Fair enough, you have a right to do what you want... and you are the one who will deal with the consequences... so then, forgive me, but I don't see any point to your argument... you claim that you don't want to support the underground, but the big old bad government makes you because they make your substance abuse illegal, while Joe Q. Alcoholic has a legal store to go to... so you're all pissed off because the people in power have decided a certain substance is illegal? Or are you pissed off because you're too worried about the consequences of doing the right thing and getting your substance of choice in a non-criminal supporting way?
Either way, you have the power to stop supporting the underground... or you can keep standing on your soap box complaining about how things are, and how the government has made you a criminal... I enjoy speeding, I've lost my license for speeding... have I harmed anyone? No. Is it my right to drive as fast as I want? Honestly, I don't think so, but I do anyways... Do I think the government artificially set the speed limit on highways really low so they can make a profit? Yes.
And there is my point... all the laws are there to either protect life, or to make money... if the government had a good way of making money off of Marijuna sales without the health issues and health costs associated with it, it would be legal. But until then, the government will make it illegal, thus you will have to deal with that reality.
Your only option is NOT to purchase from people like this, as you put it... it's not your only damned choice... if you are so against supporting the underground then you should not purchase any... it's not like marijuana is essential to your survival... water, I'll accept, anything else... live with the fact it ain't legal, and stop using it...
Or, if you are so dependent on the drug, or just like it soooo damned much, grow your own. Stop supporting the underground.
I'm sick and tired of people claiming that it's the government's fault they have to support the black market/criminals to get their substance/product of choice... It's your fault, take responsibility for your actions... I don't smoke pot, but I know many people that do... and I know of a few who have decided to grow their own to stop supporting the underground market... Do something about it instead of whining...
I'll believe it when I see it... my sources inside MS (and no, I ain't giving any proof, so believe me or not, I don't give a shit), say that there are very hard deadlines for Longhorn, with features being left out if they don't meet certain benchmarks, etc... so to hear that they are now taking something, and wasting resources back porting it? Especially when they first said it would be dropped from longhorn? I call Bull..
In other news, my computer is also prone to failing if I microwave it... hit it with a hammer, or attempt to install water cooling while I'm drunk...
True, it's peanuts... but no one said it would stay at that low a fine... do it again, and we'll up the fine... just like with a kid, slap the wrists, then the ass, then nail them over the head with a frying pan... As a side note, I'm not a parent, so take my example with a grain of salt
Nothing new, innate objects, such as TV have been raising generations of kids... now it's moved on to the computer...
InfiniBand, which is derived from its underlying concept of "infinite bandwidth,"...
Umm... I don't know about you... but that description didn't help me much... infinite bandwidth? What is this? How is this? How does linux get past physical hardware limitations that other os's can't?
Oh dear lord... what's he in charge of? More importantly does this affect his borg status at all?
With all due respect to the visually impaired crowd... just because you can't see well, don't force me to endure loud noise when I'm operating a device. If you wish to cater to a group of people that have different needs, or heck, just different wants when it comes to the operation of said device, make it an option that is user configurable... heck, even make the default option the annyoing, loud noise generating one... but give me the ability to use the device without loud and blatantly unnecessary distraction. As I said before, I think the engineer/designer that made the choice of a loud, uncustomizable, unconfigurable musical tone play when turning off the phone needs to be shot. It's just as bad as those damned car alarms that go off when you turn them off... umm... I'm turning the damn thing off so that it won't make more noise... novel concept for these designers/engineers... whatever happend to practical usability studies? Something tells me all products now-a-days are simply placed infront of 12 to 14 year old girls and if they giggle and say they like it, it's sold the next day... but I digress... I'm a 24 year old consumer that remembers the good old days when phones where phones, and things did what you expected them to do... man I feel old...
Really, just because you think that the Looney Tunes themes is cute doesn't mean that the people around don't view you as an idiot.
;)
Sadly, the ring tune had very little to do with their view of you as an idiot... although it may have helped cement the view...
Just recently in a meeting a phone went off on vibrate... it was still loud enough to cause everyone to look at the poor guy... and then to add insult to injury, he turned his phone off... thank you Motorola for your *DAMNED* making music while turning off the phone sounds... I'd like to meet the idiot who thought playing a sound was a good idea while turning the phone OFF... FLIPPIN' IDIOTS...
It's like he's saying what I'm thinking!
;)
Since this is slashdot... I'm sure more than half the reader can identify with wasting tons of work time listening to ring tones... I know I have...
Sadly, where I am today... I have a manager that meets all of your criteria... It's a weird feeling going in to work everyday doing a job I love (programming) in an environment that's great, and having a manager that is knowledgable, able to lead, and realistic when it comes to shit rolling down hill...
I claim that I can fly by doing nothing more than flapping my arms... How about a demonstration of these claims?
But does it run on linux? Oh... wait...
I just installed FreeBSD this morning... I must say, straight off the iso, a quick install had me up and running pretty darn fast... much quicker than any linux distro I've tried in the recent past... Now if only I could figure out how to get visual studio to run under it, I could ditch windows... stupid work... stupid requiring development on Windows...
;)
One serious thing about FreeBSD over linux distro's... It feels like it has more of a structure, especially when installing utilities and apps... I find with linux distros, the stuff included feels like it's all over the place, hard to find where things end up installing... but I'm really a vxworks fan... so take what I say with a grain of salt...
Yeah... there are days that I wish I could squat my ceo's car... in protest of... umm... not owning one?
And by destroy, do you mean like what happend to the poor UofW student that was driving their solar car last year, just as it veered outta control head on into a minivan killing him? These damned vehicles prove nothing, they're just dangerous...
They've been doing these races for years... what's the point?
This story is mis-titled... it should be how to keep your g/f occuppied... by letting her make windchimes... all the while, you go out and buy new hardware for yourself... ;)
I once had Visual Studio crash, and take out my filesystem completely while I was working on a network driver at work... it blew away close to 2 days worth of work... I had to come in and work on the weekend instead of going on a roadtrip with my friends as I had planned... What if that would have been the one time I'd have met a woman drunk enough to have sex with me? There isn't enough money in the world to cover that... although... I think $5 will tide me over... do you think I meet their criteria?
Did you read the EULA? It doesn't give you the right to use windows update if you aren't using windows.