Yes, because comparing activities of corporations that bribe politicians, shortchange clients (musicians), ruin people's lives, etc to mobsters is just that terrible. Almost as terrible as those same corporations comparing citzens to bloody ruthless murders, to the extent of redefining the vocabulary around such. Oh, but they would never do that, would they?
Ok, so maybe the ??AA aren't actively stepping out with machine guns and blowing people away, but they are ruining lives, tying up the court system, and in many cases even using our own police force to stage raids that are to nobody's benefit but their own. For that matter, I'm sure that the media companies aren't at all involved with illegal substances or other such things either? Additionally, I didn't personally see any refernces to violence, maiming or torturing, just to racketeering.
So yeah, you could call me a geeky kid (though I'm quite far away from being a kid) who whines about paying for mp3's (even though I actually pay for all my music). Or perhaps you might call me a concerned citizen who has some serious questions about the continually descending ethics of megacorps which wield bribes as opposed to tommyguns, but are having an increasingly destructive influence on the lives and liberties of citizens worldwide.
From my experience during the last time I visited Australia, the country in general is pretty decent at using solar power (probably because they got a lot more sun than many places, and less snow etc). If coal demand slows down, perhaps they can pioneer some more technology along the lines of solar or perhaps tidal power.
The funny thing is that I found the same thing with XP sometime ago, and that prompted me to investigate gaming on linux (verdict in my case: better for quite a few games, but not playable for all).
The two factors here were stability and speed. In terms of stability, it really came down to drivers, and the windows ones blew. I can only partially blame Microsoft for the bugginess of my Creative soundcard drivers, but they - as well as my wireless drivers - were a hefty source of lockups on my PC. The only reason I feel MS shares the blame for this is that even the so-called "certified" drivers caused lockups.
So, with games freezing regularly on windows, I tried gaming in 'nix and found that at the time, games like Warcraft had greater stability.
Now more up again to some other issues... Battlefield 2 ran really slow, and complained of outdated drivers on my laptop. Unfortunately the generic NVidia driver didn't work for laptops, and the manufacturer didn't really any new ones, so my windows system was stuck with rather pathetic performance. Cue linux again, where the NVidia driver updates still work for my older card, and provided increased functionality+performance, making it run noticeably better in 'nix (especially combined with faster load-times due to a superior filesystem).
So what use do I have for windows? Well, some stuff doesn't run in 'nix yet, and doesn't perform well in a VM, so I still keep a small winXP boot-partition available for those days that I want to run a windows-only game or app. The list of those is shrinking though, and certainly the list of "works-in-XP-but-not-in-Vista" (and works-in-'nix-but-not-in-Vista) may very well lead to Linux becoming not only the dominant, but the only OS on my future machines.
I found the same with many games. Perhaps you could get similar results by really tweaking out NTFS, but I've found that ReiserFS really ran circles around my window default FAT32/NTFS windows config, and XFS was pretty damn good too.
Merits of the OS as a whole aside, the windows world has seen pretty much nothing new except unmaterialized promises in the filesystem arena, whilst 'nix filesystems have experience regular updates and steady growth.
I always kinda liked the idea of having the registrars charge a small amount for the sites which they "taste." Not enough to have make it impact overall prices for those that aren't pulling a network solutions style ripoff, but enough that companies like NS end up paying out if they decide to try and hold potentially desirable domains for ransom.
To add to this, take a look at a kid or teen experiencing his (or her) first growth spurt. A lot of them will be very awkward and not spatially aware of themselves for the first while. I remember when I hit my first growth spurt I was forever brushing against things, knocking stuff over, bumping the milk glass with my elbows, etc.
I find that comparative when driving a new car. If the dimensions are significantly different than my old vehicle, getting a spacial sense of it when parking, turning, etc can be a real pain.
It shouldn't be applied to any internet connections, high speed or elsewise, except on a strictly opt-in basis. Those that are worried about lawsuits or want to "support the artists" are free to do so. Those who want to use the internet without greedy music industry bastards dipping their hands into our wallets (and by the way, happen to not bother pirating the shit music that's out there anyhow), can continue as we were.
Sorry, but anything that requires the user to pay for a service that benefits a special interest group but not the user himself/herself, is not in any way fair.
Usually an "act of god" is a natural, non-man influenced disasters. So your house might not be covered against a forest fire, but that depends on whether it was created by lightning strike (act of god) or a poorly extinguished campfire/cigarette or broken glass in the sun (act of man).
It also gets kinda dicey when it comes to things that were caused by a "natural disaster" but exabberated by human factors. For example, I wonder what the situation would be considered in a case like New Orleans, where flooding is natural, but poor dike maintenance might be a human-influenced factor.
a) Easier to track (sometimes): If you organize your email correctly, you can have an "in" and "out" workflow system for various persons/projects that outlines the tasks and communication(s) from start to finish
b) Easier to remember: Sometimes you might not remember the exact change that Larry stopped by your desk to request whilst you already had 1000001 things going. Again, if it's organized in email, it's easier to note the specifics later.
c) Accountability. When Bob asks you to change setting "X" and it hoses your company server for an hour, it's on record in email. When you requested 5 times that Sally do an important update so you could complete your own work, and it was ignored (thus making your work late), it's on record. When you remind people of things to avoid because he consistently makes the same mistake, it's on record. It's a coldhearted thing sometimes, but I've noticed that it's also more motivational to certain varieties of people if you re-send an old email saying "this is due tonight and is critical" with a CC to the boss...
Indeed, most people here just looked at "games as a whole" instead of the type of games.
I'd say that a kid is ready for "Reader Rabbit" or "Math Blaster" at whatever age he/she is most likely to benefit from it (which varies widely depending on the ability of the kid, I know some who began reading at a very young age). Being ready for the Rabbit doesn't make that same child ready for Crysis, Doom, or even Mario...
Still, I wouldn't rely too much on games, even educational ones. Time spent learning both in front of and away from the screen can be beneficial.
If you have a briefcase in the car then, does that mean they are allowed to search the briefcase when they pick you up for drunk driving? If it's locked, do you have to provide the key? For what period are they allowed to keep it
I guess my question would be: is it permissible in any situation for police to seize personal effects to be used as "evidence", especially in a day and age when some of these effects are expensive and have been known in some cases to not come back (or not for a long time, or not in working condition) after being seized.
I'd say take a picture of the phone before they cart it off, but then they're likely to snag your camera, too:-)
Quick to OSX is somewhat akin to what Internet Explorer is/was to Windows. It has in some cases deep ties with the OS, and modifying it therefore can change the behavior of the OS or other apps.
Perhaps MSW7 would be the equivalent to what win2k was over ME? It might actually be a decent product then (of all them, 2k was a shining star in many ways), but I'd imagine that if this is the case a *lot* of those who bought Vista (or machines with Vista) are going to be royally pissed.
Actually, while my job currently involves a certain amount of web development, it's not so involved as previous.
My concern is not so much for developing future applications, as the sheer amount of legacy code that works on IE6 but *not* on IE7, and sometimes not quite as expected on Firefox, either. I'm not a fan of IE6 by any means, but neither am I a fan of forced-upgrades in this sense.
Should IE7 be pushed out to machines and set as default over IE6... sure, why not. Should it erradicate the IE6 install in the process... well unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much of an choice/alternative. While it wouldn't speed the demise of IE6 quite as fast, it would at least allow people to continue using their old webapps. Most of the cases I've run into code that was IE6-centric it was programmed by a third party, so it's not like these places can fix it in-house (or even find the original developer to fix it quickly out-of-house).
The funny thing is that I've had quite a number of pages that worked fine in IE6, worked fine in firefox (and others), but totally bombed in IE7. In addition, there are a number of companies which in-house sites which are *not* IE7 compatible (yes, sometimes due to less than spectacular coding that IE6 compensated for... but it's still not a good idea for an upgrade to *break* compatibility across the board).
I wonder if it would be possible for MS to allow use of both legacy IE6 and IE7 somehow. At least if they're going to force an "upgrade" they can leave a fallback path for affected users.
For one thing, just because something isn't specifically a "secret" doesn't mean it has to be outed to the world in general.
While it's not always the case, the legal system is not supposed to be for 'retribution.' However, it is intended to have the effects of deterrence, rehabilitation, and protection of the public at large.
The first two tend to be falling by the wayside. Yes, in a lot of cases you have to do something fairly bad to get a record. In a lot of cases, though, you can be a victim of poor circumstance (and poorer defense counsel). The more easily it is to judge, and thus cast aside, somebody with such a record, the less effect the aspect of rehabilitation becomes. Why? Well, it's pretty damn hard - and increasingly so - to get back on track. Hard to get a job, hard to start or resume your life, and now hard to start a relationship.
So who are we trying to protect? How about people who have served their time, paid their dues, and are willing to start again. If we're not willing to allow this, then in many cases we might as well just hand out life sentences or even executions straightforth. If dude screwed up at age 20, and he still can't get a decent job, girlfriend, etc at age 30... what's the chance he's going to stay clean when he has no opportunities in life?
Who else does it protect? Well I'd hate to break it to you, but most search systems of this nature suck. There are plenty of people that have had their *credit* royally screwed up because they had the same name as somebody else. As many people have had issues wherein they have the same name as somebody with a record. So what happens to "Chris S Smythe" from Washington meets a girl who then looks up his record, and "Chris M Smythe" from Texas happens to be a an offender?
I know people who have had bad relationships. I know guys who have had their asses handed to them by their girlfriends and yet somehow been at fault. Some of them are big guys too, but that doesn't matter when the woman's got a rolling pin in her hand. But when the police show up, and dude is twice the size of his girlfriend, and she's accusing him of abuse... guess what happens. Moreover, their ability to mount a defense is hampered by the mentality that "I'm big, she's small, but even though she's got a carving knife if I take her down the cops are going to come after me." Same thing happens to women too, but the fact is that the law, and society as a whole, tends to generalize men as the aggressors, and a lot of people get screwed because of it.
So yeah, personally I think this would be a very bad idea, that could screw up the lives of a lot of good people.
In the case of many game movies, the game often does have a good plot, but the movie simply doesn't follow it. If you're lucky, it might occur in the same world. If no, well, perhaps a few of the characters have the same names.
Take for instance Doom. OK... well... it had a BFG (which incidentally wasn't even *that* like the game BFG). The plot, sucked. However, when I played through the actual game (Doom 3, that is), I remember being quite interested in the plot: alien race opens portal to nether dimension, dies off. Humans investigate and find cool ruins. People investigating ruins start coming back crazy ranting about demos etc. Crazy scientist releases demons. etc. It was actually decent if you played through and followed the neat little subitems in your data-pad.
Doom movie: loose copy of Resident Evil. Aliens with a virus. No hell portal. Lame.
Other movies were similarly murdered: Wing Commander comes to mind.
So perhaps I'm bitter, but I don't think that setting a movie in a given "universe" is going to help, simply because the movies go with meager plots and a few added special effects in an attempt to make a buck off the franchise.
Well, the thing is that cancer is something of a group rather than a very specific affliction. Ways to deal with certain types of cancer have been found, but there are actually quite a few different ones. In general dealing with sicknesses and diseases is a changeable and fairly complicated situation, what with multiple varieties/mutations/offshoots of a particular condition/disease/syndrome. That's not to say that the helium situation is an easy one, but we already know of conditions in nature (well, if you count the sun as nature) where helium can be thus created. In medical science, we have some natural immunities etc but it's not quite the same situation.
I guess this answered my other post. It's possible via enforced radioactive decay (through fusion), but not viable at the moment?
How about harvesting of helium from other celestial bodies. Weren't many comets etc supposed to be chock full of the stuff (not that hooking up with a comet and "siphoning" off helium would be very practical either)?
Sorry, my bad. I should have indicated the desire to synthesize something with the same useful properties as helium. Alternately, don't elements actually degenerate to lower-level elements as their lifetime comes up? Again, this is all poorly remember science on my part - so I could be talking out my backside - but perhaps an element higher-up in the table will actually end up as helium somehow. I'm guessing that most would have a pretty long half-life, and I'm not sure if it applies to non-radioactive elements (it's unlikely to be quick anyhow) but perhaps that process could be sped up a bit or created in a lab environment?
Selling prescription pharmaceuticals without a license: illegal
Selling prescription pharmaceuticals without an actual prescription: illegal
Selling prescription pharmaceuticals with a license and patient prescription: legal
I realize you were probably talking about illegal street drugs, but in a lot of cases it is illegal to sell certain substances "on the street" but perfectly legit through the proper channels.
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Any howto's on how you got these to work? They're pretty much the only games that I still reboot to windows for...
Obviously a lot... after all, all those missing brains must have gone *somewhere*
Yes, because comparing activities of corporations that bribe politicians, shortchange clients (musicians), ruin people's lives, etc to mobsters is just that terrible. Almost as terrible as those same corporations comparing citzens to bloody ruthless murders, to the extent of redefining the vocabulary around such. Oh, but they would never do that, would they?
Ok, so maybe the ??AA aren't actively stepping out with machine guns and blowing people away, but they are ruining lives, tying up the court system, and in many cases even using our own police force to stage raids that are to nobody's benefit but their own. For that matter, I'm sure that the media companies aren't at all involved with illegal substances or other such things either? Additionally, I didn't personally see any refernces to violence, maiming or torturing, just to racketeering.
So yeah, you could call me a geeky kid (though I'm quite far away from being a kid) who whines about paying for mp3's (even though I actually pay for all my music). Or perhaps you might call me a concerned citizen who has some serious questions about the continually descending ethics of megacorps which wield bribes as opposed to tommyguns, but are having an increasingly destructive influence on the lives and liberties of citizens worldwide.
From my experience during the last time I visited Australia, the country in general is pretty decent at using solar power (probably because they got a lot more sun than many places, and less snow etc). If coal demand slows down, perhaps they can pioneer some more technology along the lines of solar or perhaps tidal power.
The funny thing is that I found the same thing with XP sometime ago, and that prompted me to investigate gaming on linux (verdict in my case: better for quite a few games, but not playable for all).
The two factors here were stability and speed. In terms of stability, it really came down to drivers, and the windows ones blew. I can only partially blame Microsoft for the bugginess of my Creative soundcard drivers, but they - as well as my wireless drivers - were a hefty source of lockups on my PC. The only reason I feel MS shares the blame for this is that even the so-called "certified" drivers caused lockups.
So, with games freezing regularly on windows, I tried gaming in 'nix and found that at the time, games like Warcraft had greater stability.
Now more up again to some other issues... Battlefield 2 ran really slow, and complained of outdated drivers on my laptop. Unfortunately the generic NVidia driver didn't work for laptops, and the manufacturer didn't really any new ones, so my windows system was stuck with rather pathetic performance. Cue linux again, where the NVidia driver updates still work for my older card, and provided increased functionality+performance, making it run noticeably better in 'nix (especially combined with faster load-times due to a superior filesystem).
So what use do I have for windows? Well, some stuff doesn't run in 'nix yet, and doesn't perform well in a VM, so I still keep a small winXP boot-partition available for those days that I want to run a windows-only game or app. The list of those is shrinking though, and certainly the list of "works-in-XP-but-not-in-Vista" (and works-in-'nix-but-not-in-Vista) may very well lead to Linux becoming not only the dominant, but the only OS on my future machines.
I found the same with many games. Perhaps you could get similar results by really tweaking out NTFS, but I've found that ReiserFS really ran circles around my window default FAT32/NTFS windows config, and XFS was pretty damn good too.
Merits of the OS as a whole aside, the windows world has seen pretty much nothing new except unmaterialized promises in the filesystem arena, whilst 'nix filesystems have experience regular updates and steady growth.
How about one that's somewhat of a jet-assisted glider design?
I always kinda liked the idea of having the registrars charge a small amount for the sites which they "taste." Not enough to have make it impact overall prices for those that aren't pulling a network solutions style ripoff, but enough that companies like NS end up paying out if they decide to try and hold potentially desirable domains for ransom.
To add to this, take a look at a kid or teen experiencing his (or her) first growth spurt. A lot of them will be very awkward and not spatially aware of themselves for the first while. I remember when I hit my first growth spurt I was forever brushing against things, knocking stuff over, bumping the milk glass with my elbows, etc.
I find that comparative when driving a new car. If the dimensions are significantly different than my old vehicle, getting a spacial sense of it when parking, turning, etc can be a real pain.
It shouldn't be applied to any internet connections, high speed or elsewise, except on a strictly opt-in basis. Those that are worried about lawsuits or want to "support the artists" are free to do so. Those who want to use the internet without greedy music industry bastards dipping their hands into our wallets (and by the way, happen to not bother pirating the shit music that's out there anyhow), can continue as we were.
Sorry, but anything that requires the user to pay for a service that benefits a special interest group but not the user himself/herself, is not in any way fair.
Usually an "act of god" is a natural, non-man influenced disasters. So your house might not be covered against a forest fire, but that depends on whether it was created by lightning strike (act of god) or a poorly extinguished campfire/cigarette or broken glass in the sun (act of man).
It also gets kinda dicey when it comes to things that were caused by a "natural disaster" but exabberated by human factors. For example, I wonder what the situation would be considered in a case like New Orleans, where flooding is natural, but poor dike maintenance might be a human-influenced factor.
a) Easier to track (sometimes): If you organize your email correctly, you can have an "in" and "out" workflow system for various persons/projects that outlines the tasks and communication(s) from start to finish
b) Easier to remember: Sometimes you might not remember the exact change that Larry stopped by your desk to request whilst you already had 1000001 things going. Again, if it's organized in email, it's easier to note the specifics later.
c) Accountability. When Bob asks you to change setting "X" and it hoses your company server for an hour, it's on record in email. When you requested 5 times that Sally do an important update so you could complete your own work, and it was ignored (thus making your work late), it's on record. When you remind people of things to avoid because he consistently makes the same mistake, it's on record. It's a coldhearted thing sometimes, but I've noticed that it's also more motivational to certain varieties of people if you re-send an old email saying "this is due tonight and is critical" with a CC to the boss...
Don't worry about that, I can remind you...
:-)
Your last words before doing so were "mom, I'm going back to my room now"
Indeed, most people here just looked at "games as a whole" instead of the type of games.
I'd say that a kid is ready for "Reader Rabbit" or "Math Blaster" at whatever age he/she is most likely to benefit from it (which varies widely depending on the ability of the kid, I know some who began reading at a very young age). Being ready for the Rabbit doesn't make that same child ready for Crysis, Doom, or even Mario...
Still, I wouldn't rely too much on games, even educational ones. Time spent learning both in front of and away from the screen can be beneficial.
If you have a briefcase in the car then, does that mean they are allowed to search the briefcase when they pick you up for drunk driving? If it's locked, do you have to provide the key? For what period are they allowed to keep it
:-)
I guess my question would be: is it permissible in any situation for police to seize personal effects to be used as "evidence", especially in a day and age when some of these effects are expensive and have been known in some cases to not come back (or not for a long time, or not in working condition) after being seized.
I'd say take a picture of the phone before they cart it off, but then they're likely to snag your camera, too
Quick to OSX is somewhat akin to what Internet Explorer is/was to Windows. It has in some cases deep ties with the OS, and modifying it therefore can change the behavior of the OS or other apps.
Perhaps MSW7 would be the equivalent to what win2k was over ME? It might actually be a decent product then (of all them, 2k was a shining star in many ways), but I'd imagine that if this is the case a *lot* of those who bought Vista (or machines with Vista) are going to be royally pissed.
Actually, while my job currently involves a certain amount of web development, it's not so involved as previous.
My concern is not so much for developing future applications, as the sheer amount of legacy code that works on IE6 but *not* on IE7, and sometimes not quite as expected on Firefox, either. I'm not a fan of IE6 by any means, but neither am I a fan of forced-upgrades in this sense.
Should IE7 be pushed out to machines and set as default over IE6... sure, why not. Should it erradicate the IE6 install in the process... well unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much of an choice/alternative. While it wouldn't speed the demise of IE6 quite as fast, it would at least allow people to continue using their old webapps. Most of the cases I've run into code that was IE6-centric it was programmed by a third party, so it's not like these places can fix it in-house (or even find the original developer to fix it quickly out-of-house).
The funny thing is that I've had quite a number of pages that worked fine in IE6, worked fine in firefox (and others), but totally bombed in IE7. In addition, there are a number of companies which in-house sites which are *not* IE7 compatible (yes, sometimes due to less than spectacular coding that IE6 compensated for... but it's still not a good idea for an upgrade to *break* compatibility across the board).
I wonder if it would be possible for MS to allow use of both legacy IE6 and IE7 somehow. At least if they're going to force an "upgrade" they can leave a fallback path for affected users.
For one thing, just because something isn't specifically a "secret" doesn't mean it has to be outed to the world in general.
While it's not always the case, the legal system is not supposed to be for 'retribution.' However, it is intended to have the effects of deterrence, rehabilitation, and protection of the public at large.
The first two tend to be falling by the wayside. Yes, in a lot of cases you have to do something fairly bad to get a record. In a lot of cases, though, you can be a victim of poor circumstance (and poorer defense counsel). The more easily it is to judge, and thus cast aside, somebody with such a record, the less effect the aspect of rehabilitation becomes. Why? Well, it's pretty damn hard - and increasingly so - to get back on track. Hard to get a job, hard to start or resume your life, and now hard to start a relationship.
So who are we trying to protect? How about people who have served their time, paid their dues, and are willing to start again. If we're not willing to allow this, then in many cases we might as well just hand out life sentences or even executions straightforth. If dude screwed up at age 20, and he still can't get a decent job, girlfriend, etc at age 30... what's the chance he's going to stay clean when he has no opportunities in life?
Who else does it protect? Well I'd hate to break it to you, but most search systems of this nature suck. There are plenty of people that have had their *credit* royally screwed up because they had the same name as somebody else. As many people have had issues wherein they have the same name as somebody with a record. So what happens to "Chris S Smythe" from Washington meets a girl who then looks up his record, and "Chris M Smythe" from Texas happens to be a an offender?
I know people who have had bad relationships. I know guys who have had their asses handed to them by their girlfriends and yet somehow been at fault. Some of them are big guys too, but that doesn't matter when the woman's got a rolling pin in her hand. But when the police show up, and dude is twice the size of his girlfriend, and she's accusing him of abuse... guess what happens. Moreover, their ability to mount a defense is hampered by the mentality that "I'm big, she's small, but even though she's got a carving knife if I take her down the cops are going to come after me." Same thing happens to women too, but the fact is that the law, and society as a whole, tends to generalize men as the aggressors, and a lot of people get screwed because of it.
So yeah, personally I think this would be a very bad idea, that could screw up the lives of a lot of good people.
In the case of many game movies, the game often does have a good plot, but the movie simply doesn't follow it. If you're lucky, it might occur in the same world. If no, well, perhaps a few of the characters have the same names.
Take for instance Doom. OK... well... it had a BFG (which incidentally wasn't even *that* like the game BFG). The plot, sucked. However, when I played through the actual game (Doom 3, that is), I remember being quite interested in the plot: alien race opens portal to nether dimension, dies off. Humans investigate and find cool ruins. People investigating ruins start coming back crazy ranting about demos etc. Crazy scientist releases demons. etc. It was actually decent if you played through and followed the neat little subitems in your data-pad.
Doom movie: loose copy of Resident Evil. Aliens with a virus. No hell portal. Lame.
Other movies were similarly murdered: Wing Commander comes to mind.
So perhaps I'm bitter, but I don't think that setting a movie in a given "universe" is going to help, simply because the movies go with meager plots and a few added special effects in an attempt to make a buck off the franchise.
Well, the thing is that cancer is something of a group rather than a very specific affliction. Ways to deal with certain types of cancer have been found, but there are actually quite a few different ones. In general dealing with sicknesses and diseases is a changeable and fairly complicated situation, what with multiple varieties/mutations/offshoots of a particular condition/disease/syndrome. That's not to say that the helium situation is an easy one, but we already know of conditions in nature (well, if you count the sun as nature) where helium can be thus created. In medical science, we have some natural immunities etc but it's not quite the same situation.
I guess this answered my other post. It's possible via enforced radioactive decay (through fusion), but not viable at the moment?
How about harvesting of helium from other celestial bodies. Weren't many comets etc supposed to be chock full of the stuff (not that hooking up with a comet and "siphoning" off helium would be very practical either)?
Sorry, my bad. I should have indicated the desire to synthesize something with the same useful properties as helium. Alternately, don't elements actually degenerate to lower-level elements as their lifetime comes up? Again, this is all poorly remember science on my part - so I could be talking out my backside - but perhaps an element higher-up in the table will actually end up as helium somehow. I'm guessing that most would have a pretty long half-life, and I'm not sure if it applies to non-radioactive elements (it's unlikely to be quick anyhow) but perhaps that process could be sped up a bit or created in a lab environment?
- Selling illegal/prohibited drugs: always illegal
- Selling prescription pharmaceuticals without a license: illegal
- Selling prescription pharmaceuticals without an actual prescription: illegal
- Selling prescription pharmaceuticals with a license and patient prescription: legal
I realize you were probably talking about illegal street drugs, but in a lot of cases it is illegal to sell certain substances "on the street" but perfectly legit through the proper channels.