They politely suggested that GnuTLS, which isn't even remotely drop-in, be used instead.
If you spent as much time looking into the matter as you have spent throwing a tantrum about it, you would realize that GnuTLS has an OpenSSL compatibility module
There is a choice here. You are either lying on purpose or you really are a moron who doesn't know when to quit.
You apparently don't know how to quit when you've lost an argument.
The idea that a person can develop a physical dependence on heroin or meth in days is an outright lie and would be more at home in a 1930 drug menace movie rather than on Slashdot. Maybe, next you could claim to be a pain doctor and try to baffle us all with some more drug war bullshit.
You don't seem to understand that opiate dependence arrives in degrees and is frequently the result of a COMBINATION of psychological and physical factors, and that the psychological factors are more important in the early stages. If you have used heroin for a week; you stop using it; you start to feel 'not right'; and your mind recalls how 'right' you felt while high, you are likely to decide that it is easier to take another dose than to continue feeling 'not right'. After all, you're not addicted or a 'junkie', you're just relaxing or giving yourself a reward for a hard day's work.
The pattern of meth dependence is quite different, if you've been binging on meth for the whole weekend and you realize you have to go to work, it's easier to just keep speeding than to crash and feel sick for a few days. The continued use is a learned behavior, and pretty soon you forget how to function when not speeding. Note that physical dependence on meth is largely nonexistent, so it is incomparable with opiates in terms of addiction.
You made that up didn't you. I was being a smart arse at your expense and you made up the existence of a document trail that leads at the end to free alcohol and cigarettes.
No, in fact it was at your expense because you are wrong. Please refer to any tobacco or alcohol related merchandise or rebate offer, which requires that you sign a statement saying "I certify that I am a smoker 21 years of age or older" or equivalent. I don't know what your point was to be honest
Heroin is not destructively addicting.
It didn't used to be, at least, before injection became the primary method of delivery. Arguably one of prohibition's greatest failures is the transition from the normal mode of heroin use being medicine bottle heroin to needle heroin.
If you disagree
Since you just contradicted a statement of mine, this phrase states the obvious
then please explain to me the reason that the majority of pain patients do not have to struggle to get off morphine and other opiates at the end of their treatment.
Because they aren't shooting recreational doses up their arms for a rush, creating psychological reinforcement at the same time delving deeper into the tolerance/withdrawal cycle characterizing physical dependence. I don't believe that you really can't see that there is a difference between managed pain therapy and recreational IV opiate use.
You also frame your argument as if I would agree that patented, commercially manufactured opiates are somehow less dangerous than black market opiates; you would be wrong. Oxycodone, hydro{cod|morph}one and friends have at least the same potential for abuse. The difference is in the mode of thought of the user and whether or not their access is restricted in a judicious fashion.
Note that I disagree that drugwar-style tactics are effective in discouraging opiate abuse, and in fact simply make it more expensive and harmful in several ways. But just because the drug war attempts to replace the harm of opiates with greater harms of its own (and should rightfully be discarded) does not make it wise to minimize the inherent risks of opiate use.
Now, if you install software that uses the TPM to grant control of your machine to others, then that's what happens. And it may very well be that that is the primary motivation behind the standard.
Yes, especially since the TPMs come preloaded with keys for Microsoft and the entertainment industries...
In order for that to work, you will have to leave the merchandise in question with them. Visa won't backcharge for things that are still in your possession.
The only people I've run into who use it regularly, are pretty hardcore Linux users who are adamant about not wanting to reboot into Windows in order to use some app, or run a game.
You're trying to tell me it's only "hardcore Linux users" that build a PC and don't want to fork over $200 minimum for a Windows license?
He never claimed piracy would end, quit attacking a straw man. The idea is that the profit curve is maximized at a DIFFERENT point than selling games for $50 with hideous copy protections, which is not an unreasonable claim.
Yes, the biggest problem with faith is that it explains nothing. If something good happens, it is by the grace of God that it happened. If something bad happens, it either means God works in mysterious ways, or it means maybe God didn't really mean to do that, so we need to pray more to try to convince him that we know the right thing that he should do instead. Faith is a crutch for people who can't accept that "shit happens". Science is a tool for people who accept that "shit happens" and wish to know what causes it.
You need to look at the LEGAL definition of terrorism, or you're going to go round in semantic circles.
Activities that involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the U.S. or of any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the U.S. or of any State; appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or to affect the conduct of a government by assassination or kidnapping; and occur primarily outside the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S., or transcend national boundaries in terms of the means by which they are accomplished, the persons they appear intended to intimidate or coerce, or the locale in which their perpetrators operate or seek asylum. 18 U.S.C.
If a drug dealer threatens a potential witness, that is not "intimidating or coercing a civilian population", even if such intimidation "occurs primarily outside the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S.". Terrorism refers to whipping up mass fear to effect political change, it does not refer to terrorizing several target individuals. The point with terrorism is that nobody knows whether they individually will be blown up or not because EVERYONE is considered fair game. We have witness protection programs for the example you cite, but we can't possibly have terrorist protection programs because we don't know who is a target.
As long as the purity is regulated and controlled and advertising is banned, evil corporations can corner the market all they want. It doesn't prevent me from growing and breeding if I choose to do so, any more than the existence of Budweiser means the end of homebrewing. Corporate production would probably be more efficient anyway, the buds and trichrome glands would be harvested for medicine and smoking, while the fibrous parts of the plant would be diverted to industry. Right now, either the smokable part or the fibrous part is wasted depending on who is growing the plant, which is really inefficient.
That one sentence proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
Eat me.
Do you really think that some smack dealer is going to give out free doses for months until someone develops a habit?
Yes, the "dope friend" phenomenon is quite real. You can choose to ignore it, but trust in the person with the profit motive is a large part of the reason people fall into this trap in the first place. And BTW, it can take only days to a week of using heroin or meth to develop physical dependence symptoms. It's not too late to get out at that point, but it's very easy to let oneself slide further in.
I'm totally surprised that you didn't try to claim that the pushers give everyone their first dose for free because 'everyone knows' that it only takes a whiff of marijuana while walking past a drug house to become a hopeless addict.
You're a fucking moron if you think I was referring to marijuana as an "addictive drug". Look at the title of the thread, for deity's sake.
We have people claiming they give it away for free (just like the alcohol and cigarette companies right?)
Alcohol and cigarette companies are not allowed to give product away for free unless the consumer signs a statement that they are already smoker or drinker of legal age
and then some Gutter Republican seems to think that locking up 12 year olds for five years coz they smoked a doobie is a good idea.
Marijuana has nothing to do with addictive drugs, stop changing the subject.
The rest of your article is a political rant which has nothing to do with the subject at hand. The problem there is that the opium, of which growing is futile to attempt to stop, is diverted into the illegal market. Purity unknown, concentration unknown, and manufactured into the destructively addictive heroin instead of more reasonable legal opiates.
Were it up to me, they would eradicate the opium fields and replace it with cannabis. The problem right now is that the profits per pound from cannabis simply isn't worth the risk, doesn't cover the cost of sometimes eradicated fields, while opium does, so nobody grows cannabis anymore over there. If the farmers were allowed to grow cannabis instead, the opium problem would disappear overnight in the shadow of a valuable, legal alternative that is just as easy or easier to grow.
Apple used (or misused, depending on your perspective) the DMCA against the OSx86 website because it infringed on protection measures Apple specifically set in place to prevent OSX from installing on whiteboxes.
Installing OSX on a whitebox is not a copyright violation, it is a EULA violation. The DMCA can't possibly apply unless an "access control measure" has been circumvented. How can Apple not including functionality to boot on a whitebox be considered an access control measure?
Wow, thanks for the elaborate reply. I was going to say that I was referring specifically to decongestants when I wrote that reply (I'm aware that suppressing a fever with analgesics is a recovery tradeoff), but you even covered those. Nice!
since the active ingredient, THC, in marijuana/cannibis is sched. III
Actually it's Marinol you are referring to, and it is a synthetic form of THC which isn't precisely the same as THC from the plant. THC from the plant would be referred to as hash oil, and is controlled, as marijuana is, in schedule I.
Do you know why we don't allow people to wander the streets intoxicated?
Not really. Why do we arrest people for crimes they might commit as a result of being under the influence? In fact, on the demand side, the statistics simply don't bear out that drugs cause crime. What causes drug-related crime (on the demand side) is people who have gotten addicted to addictive drugs not being able to secure a supply, which is entirely the fault of War On Drugs style policy - which treats addiction as a moral failing instead of a trap that the addict himself wants out of.
Some level of crime associated with addictive drugs is inescapable, look at people who rob cigarette and liquor stores at gunpoint. But we aren't doing any good by artificially increasing the prices of drugs. Pushers give out addictive illegal drugs to begin with, so the cost isn't a factor until someone is addicted. At that point, if treatment isn't available, they either detox at home for months, or they fall into a 9-to-5 job of scoring dope. Most addicts don't have the willpower to endure a nightmarish detox on their own, so they take the only other option available to them. They feel bad about stealing and hurting people, but do it anyway.
So because only addicts are paying for their drugs, and they don't have much other option anyway from their perspective, the increased cost just means more they will have to steal from others. It is no deterrent at all to initially becoming addicted. The net result of increased street prices is more collateral damage to normal people who want nothing to do with addictive drugs.
That's funny, since I use a Tecra 500CDT which is a 120MHz Pentium. Granted I have the RAM loaded up and I don't run things like Mozilla and Open Office, but Linux and X are definitely NOT slow.
Do what? Sorry, I jumped into the middle of this thread. I pasted that into a terminal and it just returned to the $ prompt, so maybe I missed something.
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Bullshit.
The pattern of meth dependence is quite different, if you've been binging on meth for the whole weekend and you realize you have to go to work, it's easier to just keep speeding than to crash and feel sick for a few days. The continued use is a learned behavior, and pretty soon you forget how to function when not speeding. Note that physical dependence on meth is largely nonexistent, so it is incomparable with opiates in terms of addiction.
No, in fact it was at your expense because you are wrong. Please refer to any tobacco or alcohol related merchandise or rebate offer, which requires that you sign a statement saying "I certify that I am a smoker 21 years of age or older" or equivalent. I don't know what your point was to be honestIt didn't used to be, at least, before injection became the primary method of delivery. Arguably one of prohibition's greatest failures is the transition from the normal mode of heroin use being medicine bottle heroin to needle heroin.Since you just contradicted a statement of mine, this phrase states the obviousBecause they aren't shooting recreational doses up their arms for a rush, creating psychological reinforcement at the same time delving deeper into the tolerance/withdrawal cycle characterizing physical dependence. I don't believe that you really can't see that there is a difference between managed pain therapy and recreational IV opiate use.You also frame your argument as if I would agree that patented, commercially manufactured opiates are somehow less dangerous than black market opiates; you would be wrong. Oxycodone, hydro{cod|morph}one and friends have at least the same potential for abuse. The difference is in the mode of thought of the user and whether or not their access is restricted in a judicious fashion.
Note that I disagree that drugwar-style tactics are effective in discouraging opiate abuse, and in fact simply make it more expensive and harmful in several ways. But just because the drug war attempts to replace the harm of opiates with greater harms of its own (and should rightfully be discarded) does not make it wise to minimize the inherent risks of opiate use.
In order for that to work, you will have to leave the merchandise in question with them. Visa won't backcharge for things that are still in your possession.
You do realize that the only reason XP boots on these machines is because it includes a _legacy_ firmware as well?
He never claimed piracy would end, quit attacking a straw man. The idea is that the profit curve is maximized at a DIFFERENT point than selling games for $50 with hideous copy protections, which is not an unreasonable claim.
Yes, the biggest problem with faith is that it explains nothing. If something good happens, it is by the grace of God that it happened. If something bad happens, it either means God works in mysterious ways, or it means maybe God didn't really mean to do that, so we need to pray more to try to convince him that we know the right thing that he should do instead. Faith is a crutch for people who can't accept that "shit happens". Science is a tool for people who accept that "shit happens" and wish to know what causes it.
As long as the purity is regulated and controlled and advertising is banned, evil corporations can corner the market all they want. It doesn't prevent me from growing and breeding if I choose to do so, any more than the existence of Budweiser means the end of homebrewing. Corporate production would probably be more efficient anyway, the buds and trichrome glands would be harvested for medicine and smoking, while the fibrous parts of the plant would be diverted to industry. Right now, either the smokable part or the fibrous part is wasted depending on who is growing the plant, which is really inefficient.
The rest of your article is a political rant which has nothing to do with the subject at hand. The problem there is that the opium, of which growing is futile to attempt to stop, is diverted into the illegal market. Purity unknown, concentration unknown, and manufactured into the destructively addictive heroin instead of more reasonable legal opiates.
Were it up to me, they would eradicate the opium fields and replace it with cannabis. The problem right now is that the profits per pound from cannabis simply isn't worth the risk, doesn't cover the cost of sometimes eradicated fields, while opium does, so nobody grows cannabis anymore over there. If the farmers were allowed to grow cannabis instead, the opium problem would disappear overnight in the shadow of a valuable, legal alternative that is just as easy or easier to grow.
No, you just need to innovate on behalf of a large corporation, because that way you are shielded as an individual from legal action.
Wow, thanks for the elaborate reply. I was going to say that I was referring specifically to decongestants when I wrote that reply (I'm aware that suppressing a fever with analgesics is a recovery tradeoff), but you even covered those. Nice!
Some level of crime associated with addictive drugs is inescapable, look at people who rob cigarette and liquor stores at gunpoint. But we aren't doing any good by artificially increasing the prices of drugs. Pushers give out addictive illegal drugs to begin with, so the cost isn't a factor until someone is addicted. At that point, if treatment isn't available, they either detox at home for months, or they fall into a 9-to-5 job of scoring dope. Most addicts don't have the willpower to endure a nightmarish detox on their own, so they take the only other option available to them. They feel bad about stealing and hurting people, but do it anyway.
So because only addicts are paying for their drugs, and they don't have much other option anyway from their perspective, the increased cost just means more they will have to steal from others. It is no deterrent at all to initially becoming addicted. The net result of increased street prices is more collateral damage to normal people who want nothing to do with addictive drugs.
You mean it illustrates the utility of the word.
That's funny, since I use a Tecra 500CDT which is a 120MHz Pentium. Granted I have the RAM loaded up and I don't run things like Mozilla and Open Office, but Linux and X are definitely NOT slow.