Maybe if you just look at the Duden. But at least here in the southwest you'll never hear someone talking about Aspirin as a drug. And you even differentiate between addiction to medicaments or drugs.
Translation problems, I've just learned. I'm German, and here "drug" is used normally only for substances that alter your state of mind, while "medicine" covers everything used to stay/become healthy. So, in Germany you could use e. g. Heroin as a drug or as a medicine, but you'd never call Aspirin a "drug".
And, btw, Hemp and M. are the same plant, it's just that the sorts that produce more THC are called M.
Marijuana, on the other hand, has no commercial value other than as a drug (illegal or otherwise).
And here I have to object, too! There are several medical uses for M. (just to list some: giving back the appetite you lose because chemotherapy, asthma-patients appreciate it and it help with glaucome), so there surely is a commercial value.
Just Google a bit for "+marijuana +anslinger +prohibition" and inform yourself about the reasons and methods which were (ab)used in order to ban M. You should also find there links with infos why the ban is not dumped (hint: several groups like the pharma cons have commercial interest in M. staying illegal) although it's far less harmful to the people than the legal ethanol.
It also contains higher concentrations of a chemical called cannabidiol (CBD), which actually counters the effects of THC...
I have to object. THC is TetraHydroCannabinol, whereas CBD is CannaBiDiol. They're just slightly different Cannabinol-alkaloides. The difference is that the sedative effect of CBD and CBN (Cannabinol) is higher than the one of THC.
so smoking industrial hemp would more likely get you UN-stoned (and deathly ill, I'd imagine).
AFAIK not, as the only difference is in the concentration of the alkaloids. You just don't get high, sickness may come in when you try to compensate the lower concentration by smoking a lot more. But that would be the same with smoking hay.
If this thing will be as overpriced as the Segway, I see no future for it. The Segway would be a nice toy if it was priced in the regions of a good bicycle, but 3K is way too much.
go to http://bugmenot.com/ to avoid the whole having to register deal
I wish the posters of articles would avoid those f*cking reg. req'd. links and use the reg-free versions like from google instead. What's so difficult with it?
Kosi
NYT, wtf? When will you ever learn...
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... not to post links that require a subscription?!? I wonder how all those people can be so resistant to learn something so simple as not using links not everyone has access to. Unfortunately this time even no one came up with a reg-free link.:-(
Virgin (the record store) and Virgin (the record label) are different companies;
Isn't this like T-Com, T-Mobile and T-Online, which are all "different companies", but are completely owned by the Telekom?
Unfortunately for them, they don't have the DRM that can play on iPods.
Then they should sue Virgin (the label) and the other labels for forcing DRM on Apple, not Apple. Apple didn't do this because they wanted to have DRM, they did it because there was no other way to get to terms with the labels.
Aehm, isn't Virgin one of them? They could sell at least their own stuff in every legal way they want, including DRM-less.
And another thought: Apple did surely not implement the DRM mechanism because they wanted one, it were the content owners, of whom Virgin is a part. So they temselves are (partially) to blame that the iPod has this DRM included. And now they want do sue Apple because Apple did what they requested? That's a good laugh!
From which point you look at it, their claims are simply insane and ridiculous!
If they sold normal MP3 or AAC files, they would play perfectly on the iPod, and the customers were more pleased. So their claim that they could not sell songs "for the iPod" is absolutely ridiculous!
Try mailinator! Just enter whatever@mailinator.com as your adress, and when they receive it, the whatever mailbox will be created, mails last a few hours and are deleted. You can check the box via the website. But beware, everyone else who knows the adress can too, so just use for throw-away stuff that doesn't contain personal data.
This is absolutely ridiculous, in germany it would be illegal, too. You'd better look for a decent employer, I can't imagine what an asshole company this must be to even *think* of asking such a thing from their empoyees.
Hey, this is an article about filesharing! Who do you think steals (=takes away, so someone does not have something he had before) what from whom and how does it relate to the article?
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You just need more ammo, what's the problem?
But where to buy the headphones suited for this kind of music? Not seen any with 3 Gigawatts yet.
Exactly the same happened with me. Took me some seconds to parse PHB as the Player's HandBook. :-)
Maybe if you just look at the Duden. But at least here in the southwest you'll never hear someone talking about Aspirin as a drug. And you even differentiate between addiction to medicaments or drugs.
Translation problems, I've just learned. I'm German, and here "drug" is used normally only for substances that alter your state of mind, while "medicine" covers everything used to stay/become healthy. So, in Germany you could use e. g. Heroin as a drug or as a medicine, but you'd never call Aspirin a "drug".
And, btw, Hemp and M. are the same plant, it's just that the sorts that produce more THC are called M.
Kosi
Marijuana, on the other hand, has no commercial value other than as a drug (illegal or otherwise).
And here I have to object, too! There are several medical uses for M. (just to list some: giving back the appetite you lose because chemotherapy, asthma-patients appreciate it and it help with glaucome), so there surely is a commercial value.
Just Google a bit for "+marijuana +anslinger +prohibition" and inform yourself about the reasons and methods which were (ab)used in order to ban M. You should also find there links with infos why the ban is not dumped (hint: several groups like the pharma cons have commercial interest in M. staying illegal) although it's far less harmful to the people than the legal ethanol.
Kosi
It also contains higher concentrations of a chemical called cannabidiol (CBD), which actually counters the effects of THC...
I have to object. THC is TetraHydroCannabinol, whereas CBD is CannaBiDiol. They're just slightly different Cannabinol-alkaloides. The difference is that the sedative effect of CBD and CBN (Cannabinol) is higher than the one of THC.
so smoking industrial hemp would more likely get you UN-stoned (and deathly ill, I'd imagine).
AFAIK not, as the only difference is in the concentration of the alkaloids. You just don't get high, sickness may come in when you try to compensate the lower concentration by smoking a lot more. But that would be the same with smoking hay.
Kosi
If this thing will be as overpriced as the Segway, I see no future for it. The Segway would be a nice toy if it was priced in the regions of a good bicycle, but 3K is way too much.
It's what you get when Mercedes-Benz people build a Rolls-Royce-like car:
http://www.maybach-manufaktur.com
What in the world does TW think of disabling any of the features in a device, especially ones which are a main reason to buy this device?
This is like buying a Maybach because of all the comfort and then learning that the backseats, air condition and the bar have been removed.
go to http://bugmenot.com/ to avoid the whole having to register deal
I wish the posters of articles would avoid those f*cking reg. req'd. links and use the reg-free versions like from google instead. What's so difficult with it?
Kosi
... not to post links that require a subscription?!? I wonder how all those people can be so resistant to learn something so simple as not using links not everyone has access to. Unfortunately this time even no one came up with a reg-free link. :-(
Kosi
Unless, of course, you are willing to accept the existence of "imaginary time."
As we experience our whole universe only in our imagination, who could not be?
Kosi
Virgin (the record store) and Virgin (the record label) are different companies;
Isn't this like T-Com, T-Mobile and T-Online, which are all "different companies", but are completely owned by the Telekom?
Unfortunately for them, they don't have the DRM that can play on iPods.
Then they should sue Virgin (the label) and the other labels for forcing DRM on Apple, not Apple. Apple didn't do this because they wanted to have DRM, they did it because there was no other way to get to terms with the labels.
the content owners
Aehm, isn't Virgin one of them? They could sell at least their own stuff in every legal way they want, including DRM-less.
And another thought: Apple did surely not implement the DRM mechanism because they wanted one, it were the content owners, of whom Virgin is a part. So they temselves are (partially) to blame that the iPod has this DRM included. And now they want do sue Apple because Apple did what they requested? That's a good laugh!
From which point you look at it, their claims are simply insane and ridiculous!
... which is one of the main reasons why they suck that much.
WMA has absolutely no use, better make the iPod play Vorbis, Musepack, FLAC and APE.
If they sold normal MP3 or AAC files, they would play perfectly on the iPod, and the customers were more pleased. So their claim that they could not sell songs "for the iPod" is absolutely ridiculous!
That would be great, and I'd want to have a shopping bag made of it. No tracing of my movements through the store!
Or think of those poor school kids in Japan, they could protect themselves with this from "big blothel", too.
50 GB? There was not that much good music made in this part of Germany. The socialist regime suppressed many musicians (among all other artists).
Or what did you mean with DDR, surely not DoubleDataRate, the only other abbreviation I'm common with.
A kernel with a size of 11 byte?
Try mailinator! Just enter whatever@mailinator.com as your adress, and when they receive it, the whatever mailbox will be created, mails last a few hours and are deleted. You can check the box via the website. But beware, everyone else who knows the adress can too, so just use for throw-away stuff that doesn't contain personal data.
This is absolutely ridiculous, in germany it would be illegal, too. You'd better look for a decent employer, I can't imagine what an asshole company this must be to even *think* of asking such a thing from their empoyees.
The amount of thievery...right to steal.
Hey, this is an article about filesharing! Who do you think steals (=takes away, so someone does not have something he had before) what from whom and how does it relate to the article?
- open source would be nice, but at least it should be ad-, syp- and malwarefree.
- use weblinks (like edonkey)
- encrypt the swapped data and let it go through one or two other clients to conceal from whom the data comes originally (anonymizer)
- include ratio and credit system (like edonkey/mule)
- use a protocol similar to overnet which means serverless