I don't know if you're serious or not, but that's completely ridiculous for pot quite honestly. and most studies on pot and driving actually showed that people were more cautious, it does not have the same type of coordination effects of alcohol regardless of what some people may tell you.
quite honestly any restrictions on pot if it were made legal i'd expect to be equal or less than alcohol, since alcohol is a much more dangerous drug anyway.
and you know what, people who abuse stimulants (adderall is pretty much one step away from crystal meth) are some of the worst addicts I've met, don't even talk about them in the same paragraph...pot is completely different. you don't burst out into abusive fits of rage when you smoke pot like I've seen people do while hopped up on meth...
if you want people to hang around a real addict, they won't be pot smokers. Real addicts do a lot more than something as relatively harmless as pot.
I never said I was taking anything nor did I claim to be better at "handling my substances" than anyone else as you seem to imply by your driving analogy. It's anecdotal because this is a single personal account a friend and not a scientifically significant subset of the general population or a representation of much of anything at all except for that specific person's issues.
I mean, maybe the laws are there to protect, but quite honestly i don't know what your friends taking, but the laws protecting people from pot are hardly justified given that it's a hell of a lot less dangerous than the legal alternatives like cigarettes or alcohol. Further perpetuating misinformation about the effects of drugs is not going to help this any. I reckon even the "weak or poorly insighted" are not going to be so much more blinded by pot than those with some super-human substance-intaking abilities that you seem to imply exist...Sure you might see the person who's a "n00b" at it act all silly or what not, but the placebo effect is a powerful thing.
Ever seen those scientific studies where they give people "alcohol-free" beer and don't tell them, and then watch as the people proceed to talk louder and act stupid even though no alcohol was actually involved?
Fact is, people are dumb all by themselves, blaming the drugs is just an excuse...and if that person's use of drugs is making then even more dumb, then it's just an extension of that person's inherit stupidity.
maybe, but the fact they are getting busted means they probably aren't being very responsible in the first place....and anecdotal experiences hardly speak for everyone...but even so I'm not sure you're really disagreeing with me - if their job performance is shit then that should speak for itself should it not?
as for company image, i haven't seen too many cases where people getting busted for drugs listed the company they worked for and what not, not unless the person was a high ranking official in the company that people otherwise knew anyway...this is not really something you could predict, and quite honestly if it wasn't for all the broken drug laws this wouldn't even be an issue anyway...in either case I don't think this justifies drug testing one bit.
More and more it seems drug testing is used as a sort of blanket "cover our asses" type of thing for companies which are too lazy to actually monitor the performance of their employees. It's quite sad honestly.
well i've got a decent paying job with benefits and they don't drug test, so maybe i am limiting my options, but it hasn't hurt me any. Our employee handbook actually focuses more on addiction and rehab and stuff like that which I actually think is somewhat respectable. I'd much rather work for a company who is realistic than one who decides to violate the employee's privacy right from the start, it doesn't really speak well for the company and it's not the kind of place I'd want to work for...
yep that's pretty much the point i'm trying to make - people should be judged by how they perform their jobs, not on what they do outside of their jobs. Some of the commenter's here acting as if someone who smokes pot is an inferior person is just hilarious and goes to show how ignorant the masses can be. Sure too much of anything can be a bad thing, but losing a job cause you smoked some pot at a party 2-4 weeks ago (the amount of time it could potentially show up on a piss test) or something is just retarded and completely unjustified regardless.
i've always looked right over health care jobs because they drug test and I refuse to work for a company who does that...end of story. They wonder why they can't find anyone to work for them? hah...
it's basically true. I used to have comcast, I believe my plan was 7mb down and 384kbps up. Then they suddenly came out with "power boost", and magically i was getting about what they advertised now, 12mbps/2mbps! But, after a few minutes of use at that speed it would just slowly lower back down to the rate I had before. Good job comcast, you made your service last just long enough to pass a speed test at high speeds comparable to FiOS and then slowly throttling the packets back to where it used to be 3-4 years ago BEFORE powerboost.
Since a speed boost is really only useful if you're downloading large files (since they take the longest anyway) this is really just a big pile of marketing bullshit to make comcast seem faster than it really is. Quit playing games and upgrade your shit, comcast.
It wouldn't annoy me so much if they still advertised their old speeds with "power boost" but the fact they're still doing this now is a joke. If you can get FiOS in your area, do so.
hah, i used split loom tubing (split flex?) for keeping my cat from my chewing cables. Well that solves one problem...
that stuffs been used in the auto industry for many years and it works pretty darn well.
Still, keeping my cat off the cables is not that hard, and it's ceased to be a major problem, i imagine mice/rats are a lot harder to control and can get into much tighter spaces. I ended up spraying the cables with something nasty and that helped as well. I saw mentions of pepper spray and what not, I've never tried it for mice but it's worth a shot.
I can't agree more with the food source thing, a certainly family member of mine can't figure out why there's mice constantly on the kitchen counter when there's regularly a pile of compost sitting on there waiting to be hauled out...at least we have a cat...
I've used electric traps before, supposedly a bit more humane, but eh whatever, even regular traps can't be half as bad as the random things we've done to those things in the lab...
heh, pretty much exactly what i was thinking too. I don't think anyone in their right mind uses linspire. Don't they charge just to use their repository? what's the point when there's a ton of free alternatives which are likely just as good if not better.
Yeah, scare-mongering over mercury is pretty common. I remember when I was a kid I used to break open those little glass-tubes from old thermostats and collect the mercury. Safe? Eh, probably not, but I'm still alive and I don't have mercury poisoning. After all, elemental mercury isn't really the dangerous one anyway, it's organic mercury that's really dangerous, like good 'ol dimethylmercury which even a tiny amount will pass right through a pair of rubber gloves and kill you. Elemental mercury? Mercury vapor accumulating is probably the biggest risk, but I can't imagine the tiny amounts in a CFL being that big of a deal. It sounds like from the article that they had found high levels of mercury vapor, though I still question whether a single CFL bulb is enough to cause the amount of contamination the story claims.
I must agree with this, when I first read the grand-parent I was thinking, whats the point of a raid if it's all on the same drive? I mean technically I could do that right now with linux, just make 2 partitions of equal size and software raid across them. Pretty pointless....now maybe if it had 2 separate little mini-drives inside of one that might technically count....not entirely unfeasible if platter density increased enough, but still this seems a little silly to me...
I work for an (unnamed) webhost. We constantly have problems with comcast, so this is no news to me. We've been blocked many times, generally being unblocked again by the time we get in touch with them. The situation is pretty ridiculous, and has been going on and off for a while now. There's always the occasional provider that blacklists us, but as of recent comcast has been the big one. Oh well, so goes it. I'm honestly a bit fed up with blacklisting in general, after seeing how much trouble it causes on both the sending and receiving side (we use some blacklists as well, we are no where near as bad as comcast and generally work to get issues resolved, especially with big providers. It still seems to cause more trouble then it's worth, and spam still occasionally gets through our filters) Many of the big blacklists are far too ineffective and are way too easy to get on. It should take more then a single occurance to get on a black list.
Plus, as a webhost you always get people trying to abuse the service, there's always some asshole who runs some mass mailer program and sends out 20,000 messages individually spaced out over a period trying to beat our mail admins....of course they get caught but it might have already landed you on a blacklist by the time that happens...you can't go around black listing huge providers (ISPs or web hosts) just because some idiot abused the service and was of course promptly kicked off it. What if people did the same to comcast? Surely someones abused their services before...whether it be zombie pcs or what not...
Some providers are just not willing to work out solutions, even if you're a big provider and have the credentials to prove it. That's just bullshit IMO. Infact at this point I've just started to really hate e-mail in general as a communication medium...seems so outdated and inefficient. Oh well.
I had a savings account with them for about 2 months, i wanted to get a checking account but they didn't offer any free checking. I called their support to cancel the savings account and was speaking to someone in india. As soon as I asked to cancel I was then transferred to someone in america. OK.
Anyway I closed the account and went with another bank that did have free checking and never looked back.
"Recreational hazard: One group member shows the downside that comes with using their chosen artistic medium (temporary paint made from a mixture of corn starch, food coloring, Kool-Aid, and water)."
You COULD have just painted the firefox logo with sidewalk chalk, but nooo, you had to be fancy and now look what you've done!
I was never "horrible" at halloween, I used to go out with friends and have plenty of fun when I was younger. I still hate it, however. Not because I first failed at it and then in retaliation decide to hate it as some sort of defense. No, I am not that pathetic. My reasoning for hating such social customs (or as I like to call them, traditions) comes from logic a little more sound then that.
Halloween is nothing compared to some of the other traditions which people have attempted to push on me. Be glad I was kidding. I tend to piss people off when I'm serious.
it depends on the area, kids still trick or treat where I live but it's not as many as it was at my old house, where we used to get TONS of kids (and trouble makers)
I've had to deal with the trouble makers on more than one occasion. What's the point of everyone buying candy and giving it to kids anyway? Just buy candy for your own damn kids if it matters that much, I never got the point. Half the time we end up eating half the candy for halloween before halloween even comes so we have to buy some more....
A true geek isn't invited to parties. They don't have enough friends.
A true geek doesn't like such silly traditions anyway, so it doesn't matter.
A true geek probably is home on their computer at halloween, avoiding those annoying kids who keep coming to the door begging for candy, disturbing us at a time which could have been well spent hacking.
You mean as opposed to how it's unethical to be selling people older products at the same price as the newer ones, on the off chance you MIGHT pick up the newer model?
I'm glad someone said this. I can't believe how many people don't realize that limewire is just a gnutella client. There is plenty of good gnutella clients for both linux and windows. I personally use gtk-gnutella, which you've mentioned, however on windows there's things like Shareaza, among others.
So yeah, if limewire wants to commit suicide, let them be my guest...
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I don't know if you're serious or not, but that's completely ridiculous for pot quite honestly. and most studies on pot and driving actually showed that people were more cautious, it does not have the same type of coordination effects of alcohol regardless of what some people may tell you.
quite honestly any restrictions on pot if it were made legal i'd expect to be equal or less than alcohol, since alcohol is a much more dangerous drug anyway.
and you know what, people who abuse stimulants (adderall is pretty much one step away from crystal meth) are some of the worst addicts I've met, don't even talk about them in the same paragraph...pot is completely different. you don't burst out into abusive fits of rage when you smoke pot like I've seen people do while hopped up on meth...
if you want people to hang around a real addict, they won't be pot smokers. Real addicts do a lot more than something as relatively harmless as pot.
I never said I was taking anything nor did I claim to be better at "handling my substances" than anyone else as you seem to imply by your driving analogy. It's anecdotal because this is a single personal account a friend and not a scientifically significant subset of the general population or a representation of much of anything at all except for that specific person's issues.
I mean, maybe the laws are there to protect, but quite honestly i don't know what your friends taking, but the laws protecting people from pot are hardly justified given that it's a hell of a lot less dangerous than the legal alternatives like cigarettes or alcohol. Further perpetuating misinformation about the effects of drugs is not going to help this any. I reckon even the "weak or poorly insighted" are not going to be so much more blinded by pot than those with some super-human substance-intaking abilities that you seem to imply exist...Sure you might see the person who's a "n00b" at it act all silly or what not, but the placebo effect is a powerful thing.
Ever seen those scientific studies where they give people "alcohol-free" beer and don't tell them, and then watch as the people proceed to talk louder and act stupid even though no alcohol was actually involved?
Fact is, people are dumb all by themselves, blaming the drugs is just an excuse...and if that person's use of drugs is making then even more dumb, then it's just an extension of that person's inherit stupidity.
maybe, but the fact they are getting busted means they probably aren't being very responsible in the first place....and anecdotal experiences hardly speak for everyone...but even so I'm not sure you're really disagreeing with me - if their job performance is shit then that should speak for itself should it not?
as for company image, i haven't seen too many cases where people getting busted for drugs listed the company they worked for and what not, not unless the person was a high ranking official in the company that people otherwise knew anyway...this is not really something you could predict, and quite honestly if it wasn't for all the broken drug laws this wouldn't even be an issue anyway...in either case I don't think this justifies drug testing one bit.
More and more it seems drug testing is used as a sort of blanket "cover our asses" type of thing for companies which are too lazy to actually monitor the performance of their employees. It's quite sad honestly.
Shoulda put a "usually" in there. but all the luck to ya :P
well i've got a decent paying job with benefits and they don't drug test, so maybe i am limiting my options, but it hasn't hurt me any. Our employee handbook actually focuses more on addiction and rehab and stuff like that which I actually think is somewhat respectable. I'd much rather work for a company who is realistic than one who decides to violate the employee's privacy right from the start, it doesn't really speak well for the company and it's not the kind of place I'd want to work for...
this is anecdotal at best and really speaks out more about your friend as a person than it does the effects of the drugs on him....
yep that's pretty much the point i'm trying to make - people should be judged by how they perform their jobs, not on what they do outside of their jobs. Some of the commenter's here acting as if someone who smokes pot is an inferior person is just hilarious and goes to show how ignorant the masses can be. Sure too much of anything can be a bad thing, but losing a job cause you smoked some pot at a party 2-4 weeks ago (the amount of time it could potentially show up on a piss test) or something is just retarded and completely unjustified regardless.
i've always looked right over health care jobs because they drug test and I refuse to work for a company who does that...end of story. They wonder why they can't find anyone to work for them? hah...
it's basically true. I used to have comcast, I believe my plan was 7mb down and 384kbps up. Then they suddenly came out with "power boost", and magically i was getting about what they advertised now, 12mbps/2mbps! But, after a few minutes of use at that speed it would just slowly lower back down to the rate I had before. Good job comcast, you made your service last just long enough to pass a speed test at high speeds comparable to FiOS and then slowly throttling the packets back to where it used to be 3-4 years ago BEFORE powerboost.
Since a speed boost is really only useful if you're downloading large files (since they take the longest anyway) this is really just a big pile of marketing bullshit to make comcast seem faster than it really is. Quit playing games and upgrade your shit, comcast.
It wouldn't annoy me so much if they still advertised their old speeds with "power boost" but the fact they're still doing this now is a joke. If you can get FiOS in your area, do so.
hah, i used split loom tubing (split flex?) for keeping my cat from my chewing cables. Well that solves one problem...
that stuffs been used in the auto industry for many years and it works pretty darn well.
Still, keeping my cat off the cables is not that hard, and it's ceased to be a major problem, i imagine mice/rats are a lot harder to control and can get into much tighter spaces. I ended up spraying the cables with something nasty and that helped as well. I saw mentions of pepper spray and what not, I've never tried it for mice but it's worth a shot.
I can't agree more with the food source thing, a certainly family member of mine can't figure out why there's mice constantly on the kitchen counter when there's regularly a pile of compost sitting on there waiting to be hauled out...at least we have a cat...
I've used electric traps before, supposedly a bit more humane, but eh whatever, even regular traps can't be half as bad as the random things we've done to those things in the lab...
heh, pretty much exactly what i was thinking too. I don't think anyone in their right mind uses linspire. Don't they charge just to use their repository? what's the point when there's a ton of free alternatives which are likely just as good if not better.
you must mean valium. vicodin is a whole other beast, in the family of synthetic opiates (hydrocodone). Of course, it's easy to like opiates...
Yeah, scare-mongering over mercury is pretty common. I remember when I was a kid I used to break open those little glass-tubes from old thermostats and collect the mercury. Safe? Eh, probably not, but I'm still alive and I don't have mercury poisoning. After all, elemental mercury isn't really the dangerous one anyway, it's organic mercury that's really dangerous, like good 'ol dimethylmercury which even a tiny amount will pass right through a pair of rubber gloves and kill you. Elemental mercury? Mercury vapor accumulating is probably the biggest risk, but I can't imagine the tiny amounts in a CFL being that big of a deal. It sounds like from the article that they had found high levels of mercury vapor, though I still question whether a single CFL bulb is enough to cause the amount of contamination the story claims.
Alright, so who's up for stealing Dan Glickman's car?
I must agree with this, when I first read the grand-parent I was thinking, whats the point of a raid if it's all on the same drive? I mean technically I could do that right now with linux, just make 2 partitions of equal size and software raid across them. Pretty pointless....now maybe if it had 2 separate little mini-drives inside of one that might technically count....not entirely unfeasible if platter density increased enough, but still this seems a little silly to me...
wish I could tell you how many times i've seen that same automatic response from comcast...and yet end up right back on the list a few days later....
I work for an (unnamed) webhost. We constantly have problems with comcast, so this is no news to me. We've been blocked many times, generally being unblocked again by the time we get in touch with them. The situation is pretty ridiculous, and has been going on and off for a while now. There's always the occasional provider that blacklists us, but as of recent comcast has been the big one. Oh well, so goes it. I'm honestly a bit fed up with blacklisting in general, after seeing how much trouble it causes on both the sending and receiving side (we use some blacklists as well, we are no where near as bad as comcast and generally work to get issues resolved, especially with big providers. It still seems to cause more trouble then it's worth, and spam still occasionally gets through our filters) Many of the big blacklists are far too ineffective and are way too easy to get on. It should take more then a single occurance to get on a black list.
Plus, as a webhost you always get people trying to abuse the service, there's always some asshole who runs some mass mailer program and sends out 20,000 messages individually spaced out over a period trying to beat our mail admins....of course they get caught but it might have already landed you on a blacklist by the time that happens...you can't go around black listing huge providers (ISPs or web hosts) just because some idiot abused the service and was of course promptly kicked off it. What if people did the same to comcast? Surely someones abused their services before...whether it be zombie pcs or what not...
Some providers are just not willing to work out solutions, even if you're a big provider and have the credentials to prove it. That's just bullshit IMO. Infact at this point I've just started to really hate e-mail in general as a communication medium...seems so outdated and inefficient. Oh well.
I had a savings account with them for about 2 months, i wanted to get a checking account but they didn't offer any free checking. I called their support to cancel the savings account and was speaking to someone in india. As soon as I asked to cancel I was then transferred to someone in america. OK.
Anyway I closed the account and went with another bank that did have free checking and never looked back.
"Recreational hazard: One group member shows the downside that comes with using their chosen artistic medium (temporary paint made from a mixture of corn starch, food coloring, Kool-Aid, and water)."
You COULD have just painted the firefox logo with sidewalk chalk, but nooo, you had to be fancy and now look what you've done!
I think you've taken me a little too seriously.
I was never "horrible" at halloween, I used to go out with friends and have plenty of fun when I was younger. I still hate it, however. Not because I first failed at it and then in retaliation decide to hate it as some sort of defense. No, I am not that pathetic. My reasoning for hating such social customs (or as I like to call them, traditions) comes from logic a little more sound then that.
Halloween is nothing compared to some of the other traditions which people have attempted to push on me. Be glad I was kidding. I tend to piss people off when I'm serious.
it depends on the area, kids still trick or treat where I live but it's not as many as it was at my old house, where we used to get TONS of kids (and trouble makers)
I've had to deal with the trouble makers on more than one occasion. What's the point of everyone buying candy and giving it to kids anyway? Just buy candy for your own damn kids if it matters that much, I never got the point. Half the time we end up eating half the candy for halloween before halloween even comes so we have to buy some more....
A true geek isn't invited to parties. They don't have enough friends.
A true geek doesn't like such silly traditions anyway, so it doesn't matter.
A true geek probably is home on their computer at halloween, avoiding those annoying kids who keep coming to the door begging for candy, disturbing us at a time which could have been well spent hacking.
But, what do I know? I hate halloween.
You mean as opposed to how it's unethical to be selling people older products at the same price as the newer ones, on the off chance you MIGHT pick up the newer model?
Yeah, perfectly reasonable. Sleezy bastards.
I'm glad someone said this. I can't believe how many people don't realize that limewire is just a gnutella client. There is plenty of good gnutella clients for both linux and windows. I personally use gtk-gnutella, which you've mentioned, however on windows there's things like Shareaza, among others.
So yeah, if limewire wants to commit suicide, let them be my guest...