You say cocaine and meth destroy lives, how much of that is due to the illegality?
Can't work if you're a user (no money). Drug is expensive, but you have no job. Drug comes before everything else in life.. life ruined.
or
Police come in arrest person for use of drug, take away family, throw person in jail.
Would it be different if the drug was legal, and this person could work in a minimum wage job to pay for the drug, and have plenty of opportunities to enter treatment, offered every time he goes to buy it from the drug store (for lack of a better term)?
I know a few ex heroin addicts, I know the damage it causes, but I've yet to see any positives to its illegality. Lots of criminals make very good money supplying it, lots of police time is wasted chasing it (and they can't even hope to intercept more than a few percent of the amounts that enter), lots of time is wasted in the judicial system, and many lives are destroyed when a parent is jailed for a few years, instead of in treatment for a month or so..
You understand that they're not going away, right? Even in countries where drug dealing gets you the death penalty you can still find drugs.
Sometimes wars can't be won.. unless you're fighting them for some entirely different reason (keeping the lower classes down).
When has a bag of heroin kicked in someone's door and shot family members? When has a 8 ball of cocaine taken someone's house, car and any other property that can be confiscated without recourse?
There is no drug worse than the drug war. Drug addicts need treatment, not incarceration (unless they did crimes which weren't the use of the drug). Drugs remaining illegal means that the prices are sky high, and people willing to do the illegal work can make lots and lots of money (so do the police intercepting them), this means that an addict has little hope of maintaining their addiction, and they will turn to crime to support it. If drugs were legal (or decriminalized) they would have much lower prices, the crime surrounding it would be heavily reduced, and addicts could receive help as there wouldn't be stigmas and they wouldn't risk jail.
Go read up on the drugs you're demonizing, read the studies done before they became illegal, then make a decision as to whether drugs are really worse than laws that remove constitutional rights, police states, and millions incarcerated for non violent crimes which hurt no one (besides themselves).
Depends in what context, especially when it comes down to who defines the context (are photos of naked children in the bath CP?), bestiality was legal in the netherlands until recently.. I won't even get into the cartoons or fictional stories questions.
Supposedly cloud computing is "on demand" so, having more resources available when you need them (though who knows if it'll help in cases where bandwidth is a limitation) should resolve a lot of these problems. It'd probably also be a sort of intermediary, a cloud of caching servers, leaving the main servers to update the cloud..
Well, we're then assuming that the encrypted file will remain where it is (and in its current form).. if the object behind the locked door was to remain there indefinitely, the same sort of disclaimers apply (the better technology gets, the easier it will be to open)..
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I'm not lumping them all in together though.
You say cocaine and meth destroy lives, how much of that is due to the illegality?
Can't work if you're a user (no money).
Drug is expensive, but you have no job.
Drug comes before everything else in life.. life ruined.
or
Police come in arrest person for use of drug, take away family, throw person in jail.
Would it be different if the drug was legal, and this person could work in a minimum wage job to pay for the drug, and have plenty of opportunities to enter treatment, offered every time he goes to buy it from the drug store (for lack of a better term)?
I know a few ex heroin addicts, I know the damage it causes, but I've yet to see any positives to its illegality. Lots of criminals make very good money supplying it, lots of police time is wasted chasing it (and they can't even hope to intercept more than a few percent of the amounts that enter), lots of time is wasted in the judicial system, and many lives are destroyed when a parent is jailed for a few years, instead of in treatment for a month or so..
You understand that they're not going away, right? Even in countries where drug dealing gets you the death penalty you can still find drugs.
Sometimes wars can't be won.. unless you're fighting them for some entirely different reason (keeping the lower classes down).
When has a bag of heroin kicked in someone's door and shot family members? When has a 8 ball of cocaine taken someone's house, car and any other property that can be confiscated without recourse?
There is no drug worse than the drug war. Drug addicts need treatment, not incarceration (unless they did crimes which weren't the use of the drug). Drugs remaining illegal means that the prices are sky high, and people willing to do the illegal work can make lots and lots of money (so do the police intercepting them), this means that an addict has little hope of maintaining their addiction, and they will turn to crime to support it. If drugs were legal (or decriminalized) they would have much lower prices, the crime surrounding it would be heavily reduced, and addicts could receive help as there wouldn't be stigmas and they wouldn't risk jail.
Go read up on the drugs you're demonizing, read the studies done before they became illegal, then make a decision as to whether drugs are really worse than laws that remove constitutional rights, police states, and millions incarcerated for non violent crimes which hurt no one (besides themselves).
Seriously.
The fact that celery is a calorie negative food still doesn't make up for the fact that nutella is fat and sugar with chocolate and hazelnut flavor.
I dunno if it's worse than peanut butter, but healthy it isn't.
SASL and TSL don't require port 25.
Depends in what context, especially when it comes down to who defines the context (are photos of naked children in the bath CP?), bestiality was legal in the netherlands until recently.. I won't even get into the cartoons or fictional stories questions.
Meh, doesn't have to kill off everything to doom the human race.
and probably seeing the sun.
If that goes off, waiting for a world killing asteroid won't be necessary.
Lotus do make some small two seaters, but I don't think I can fit one on my desk.
and by the way, how many library of Congresses is that per second.kilometer?
Make that two..
of a pretty small minority.
You enjoyed the first LOTR movie?
I avoided the other two _because_ I saw the first.
Funny, you don't look like BadAnalogyGuy...
Thanks to your link I've now got diabeetus!!!
Maybe, maybe for something like a thumb drive, but on a hard drive?
Or maybe I'm just scarred by microsoft's implementation of it...
http://www.bog-standard.org/
Many of them are computer scientists, mathematicians, and hackers.
Those people are actively recruited by the russian mob, because they have seen the amounts of money available in these sorts of scams.
Years of php programming have danaged my bain to!
get this man a wheelbarrow for his grain of salt :)
Supposedly cloud computing is "on demand" so, having more resources available when you need them (though who knows if it'll help in cases where bandwidth is a limitation) should resolve a lot of these problems. It'd probably also be a sort of intermediary, a cloud of caching servers, leaving the main servers to update the cloud..
Take that with as much salt as you feel it needs.
Those guys are called telecom companies.
Remind me, who was it that paid billions to build their infrastructures, give them right of way, and virtual monopolies?
It rhymes with axeplayers.
My girlfriend has no problems with either of those..
in Distraction?
Made genetic modifications to the humans to make their blood poisonous to the mosquitoes..
Well, we're then assuming that the encrypted file will remain where it is (and in its current form).. if the object behind the locked door was to remain there indefinitely, the same sort of disclaimers apply (the better technology gets, the easier it will be to open)..
In reality, given the time and effort, processing power, etc... yeah, there are some secure ones.
They're like locks, they make getting in hard enough that most people will look for an easier target.
And two about data centers.
News for nerds, or news for obsessive man children?