> I used to grow this shit, and I could easily tell you > that a 20-30% THC content in a plant would make any > pharmaceutical company manufacturing Marinol very > unhappy, very quickly.
Uh, do you really think there are lots of people out there taking Marinol instead of smoking pot because Marinol is so much stronger? I think it has more to do with societal reasons.
> Name me one time violence DIDN'T solve a problem.
Iraq.
> (if you can discount the dozens of 'brush wars' like Vietnam)
Well, sorry, you can't. Vietnam was another huge fucking mistake made by people such as yourself who believe that enough violence thrown at a problem will solve anything. Not the case. No amount of violence or death was able to turn that mistake into a correct move. Same with our current events.
Oh, and the so-called "Global War On Terror" is not a war, it's an advertising slogan that you bought hook, line, and sinker.
Part of that could be that pipes are multi-use. I know there are favorite styles per drug, for functional reasons, but technically, you can smoke anything with any pipe. Only once you put crack into it does it become a crack pipe.
Laymen working together (ideally with a few social-minded lawyers so far away they couldn't benefit anyway) can help people to the point that they can maybe be aware of minor procedural technicalities.
The solution, as I see it, is simple. FLOOD the system with pro se litigants, who absolutely refuse to get a lawyer. Make and promote a well funded national organization dedicated to helping people act as pro se litigants, and giving organized sets of suggestions and articles written by other members, on the details and how-tos of various types of cases. A wikipedia-style open-source laywering reference and supporting org.
With enough pro se litigants, the courts and the rest of the system, after pitching their own fit for a while, will eventually realize that it is their duty under the law to deal with these people, and accomodations will be made.
It's a valid, scoped execution path under the current system, it just hasn't been used often enough to get much optimization work done on it. Society adapts to roadblocks though. They can't throw you in jail or refuse you a trial just for wanting to be your own lawyer.
As someone who is essentially from Los Angeles, I'd rather have the lesser populated states lose their voices to basically a few east and west coast states. It's not just about turning the tables for once, it's about fairness.
First, we have all lost our voices up to this point. If we switch it and the middle states lose influence, it will still take a while before everyone is served evenly.
More importantly though, it SHOULD be about population. Especially if you have to pick a group to disenfranchise (hate that word.)
If you have to (politically) screw some people, try to minimize the amount of people you hurt..
Microsoft doesn't usually have to to worry about pissing off customers. That may change.
I disagree. Pissing off customers is such an instinctual, natural, finely honed process at microsoft; I can't see them having to do any real retraining for many, many years. A simple yearly memo about the importance of pissing off customers should do just fine.
Knowing microsoft, it's probably like throwing in a painted plastic tube for the faucet, the knob for hot water, the toilet, the microwave, two metric tons of sewage, and a minefield.
Here's the real reason the movie types don't like this: They have been in a "smut arms race" for the last 40 years or so to see who can outdo each other.
Heh, no. That's the porn industry. Your statement is pretty close to true there, and this is coming from someone who appreciates that. Go rent three or four of the nastiest looking porn movies in each genre that you can find on some internet rental service, and then come back and try calling the mainstream movie a "smut arms race". I bet you won't be able to do so without cracking up.
If that weren't true then people would go back to making more G and PG movies, from which the majority of the most money-making movies come.
There are people out there, most people that I've met in fact, that would strongly prefer to not see anything below a PG-13. Because we're over 13 now. Although we usually wanted to see R-rated stuff even more before reaching 13.
Maybe your neighborhood is different. But there's nothing wrong, depraved, or sick in dealing with and making creative works about heavier or more sexual themes. There's also nothing wrong with wanting to skip parts.
But, if you don't like their artistic vision, why are you paying for their movies at all? Make your own movies and share them or sell them.
Really though, I know you're just pointing out that it can get much worse. What you don't seem to realize is that this article is proof that it is GETTING much worse, this is a new low. We already have a country trying to officially insist that a large group of people it doesn't like have no rights.
If a court of law and the system of justice it is supposed to enforce means anything to you (which you imply by citing the not guilty verdict as evidence of your innocence), you should really find a new lawyer and sue them. It's definitely not true that "you can't". It may be that you have less of a chance of winning than a non-white guy, but that's not what it's all about.
I know it's easy for me to say when I wouldn't have to go through the pain, but even if you lose, you at least cause them _some_ trouble and aggrivation for what they did to you.
And, even if you aren't up to suing them, why not at least publish their names and the departments in which they work here (or to an interested reporter), so concerned members of the public can have a word with them and make them feel bad. Or maybe supervisors will be more likely to notice.
Just to be clear I am not advocating any kind of physical harm or anything, I just think that cops treating people that way should have a lot of people hate them, and have that brought to their attention.
It's not "how can they", it's "how can they be stopped in the future".
This is the most gratuitous bullshit abuse of the Big Brother Act that I've ever heard of, and that's saying something. Since this guy got the job, he's unlikely to speak up, but maybe someone out there had the same problem and didn't_ have connections on the inside? Facebook, or any other social networking site consenting to violation of it's user's privacy without legal justification, needs to get sued.
That law was sold as an anti-terrorism thing. This ain't that.
It seems pretty obvious to that MS is composed of a bunch of incompetents, they not only can't get stuff done on time, but they can't get stuff done with any useable measure of security.
But being an idiot does not make it not your fault. And if you are also being an ass, you deserve any punishment you get.
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this doesn't belong on slashdot, it belongs on a press release service. It's all marketing.
bfd.
> I used to grow this shit, and I could easily tell you
> that a 20-30% THC content in a plant would make any
> pharmaceutical company manufacturing Marinol very
> unhappy, very quickly.
Uh, do you really think there are lots of people out there taking Marinol instead of smoking pot because Marinol is so much stronger?
I think it has more to do with societal reasons.
> Name me one time violence DIDN'T solve a problem.
Iraq.
> (if you can discount the dozens of 'brush wars' like Vietnam)
Well, sorry, you can't. Vietnam was another huge fucking mistake made by people such as yourself who believe that enough violence thrown at a problem will solve anything. Not the case. No amount of violence or death was able to turn that mistake into a correct move. Same with our current events.
Oh, and the so-called "Global War On Terror" is not a war, it's an advertising slogan that you bought hook, line, and sinker.
You link doesn't go anywhere, and you just wrote that comment. This is seeming more like a slashvertisment now..
Another example?
So the family is requesting a complete investigation, filing a complaint..
they need a damn lawyer!
They were lied to and manipulated ("we let you go because we're such good people") - this is a crime.
Any cop who makes up laws to arrest innocent bystanders deserves what he gets when he goes to prison.
You are right about bush (even at the beginning of a sentence, he doesn't deserve to be capitalized - he stole his capitolization already).
But being common doesn't make police abuses any less of a crime than the war in Iraq.
How about if it just becomes a normal drive once the flash dies?
Part of that could be that pipes are multi-use. I know there are favorite styles per drug, for functional reasons, but technically, you can smoke anything with any pipe. Only once you put crack into it does it become a crack pipe.
On the other hand, that was largely your point.
Laymen working together (ideally with a few social-minded lawyers so far away they couldn't benefit anyway) can help people to the point that they can maybe be aware of minor procedural technicalities.
It would be a process. But it's not impossible.
I wholeheartedly agree.
The solution, as I see it, is simple. FLOOD the system with pro se litigants, who absolutely refuse to get a lawyer. Make and promote a well funded national organization dedicated to helping people act as pro se litigants, and giving organized sets of suggestions and articles written by other members, on the details and how-tos of various types of cases. A wikipedia-style open-source laywering reference and supporting org.
With enough pro se litigants, the courts and the rest of the system, after pitching their own fit for a while, will eventually realize that it is their duty under the law to deal with these people, and accomodations will be made.
It's a valid, scoped execution path under the current system, it just hasn't been used often enough to get much optimization work done on it. Society adapts to roadblocks though. They can't throw you in jail or refuse you a trial just for wanting to be your own lawyer.
As someone who is essentially from Los Angeles, I'd rather have the lesser populated states lose their voices to basically a few east and west coast states. It's not just about turning the tables for once, it's about fairness.
First, we have all lost our voices up to this point. If we switch it and the middle states lose influence, it will still take a while before everyone is served evenly.
More importantly though, it SHOULD be about population. Especially if you have to pick a group to disenfranchise (hate that word.)
If you have to (politically) screw some people, try to minimize the amount of people you hurt..
For the record, I have never once had to wait in line for more than 4 minutes to vote.
But I live in California, so my votes don't count on a federal level. Maybe that's why.
I disagree. Pissing off customers is such an instinctual, natural, finely honed process at microsoft; I can't see them having to do any real retraining for many, many years. A simple yearly memo about the importance of pissing off customers should do just fine.
Knowing microsoft, it's probably like throwing in a painted plastic tube for the faucet, the knob for hot water, the toilet, the microwave, two metric tons of sewage, and a minefield.
I'd crap her diapers too if I saw that checkbox. How about something like "Am I, Windows, going to be sharing this machine with linux?"
Or better yet, it could check and see - how about "I see you have linux here. Do you mind if I destroy it while installing?"
Just review it with your eyes closed.
Founding and building your own company is a much bigger gamble than grad school.
But isn't this extrapolation of theirs about failure done using the same failure-prone models?
So.. your argument is that spending more money on reducing the number of humans (a.k.a. military spending) is the way to go?
Heh, no. That's the porn industry. Your statement is pretty close to true there, and this is coming from someone who appreciates that. Go rent three or four of the nastiest looking porn movies in each genre that you can find on some internet rental service, and then come back and try calling the mainstream movie a "smut arms race". I bet you won't be able to do so without cracking up.
There are people out there, most people that I've met in fact, that would strongly prefer to not see anything below a PG-13. Because we're over 13 now. Although we usually wanted to see R-rated stuff even more before reaching 13.
Maybe your neighborhood is different. But there's nothing wrong, depraved, or sick in dealing with and making creative works about heavier or more sexual themes. There's also nothing wrong with wanting to skip parts.
But, if you don't like their artistic vision, why are you paying for their movies at all? Make your own movies and share them or sell them.
Yeah, man. You sound much more sensible.
Really though, I know you're just pointing out that it can get much worse. What you don't seem to realize is that this article is proof that it is GETTING much worse, this is a new low. We already have a country trying to officially insist that a large group of people it doesn't like have no rights.
We all know where that leads. Except you.
If a court of law and the system of justice it is supposed to enforce means anything to you (which you imply by citing the not guilty verdict as evidence of your innocence), you should really find a new lawyer and sue them. It's definitely not true that "you can't". It may be that you have less of a chance of winning than a non-white guy, but that's not what it's all about.
I know it's easy for me to say when I wouldn't have to go through the pain, but even if you lose, you at least cause them _some_ trouble and aggrivation for what they did to you.
And, even if you aren't up to suing them, why not at least publish their names and the departments in which they work here (or to an interested reporter), so concerned members of the public can have a word with them and make them feel bad. Or maybe supervisors will be more likely to notice.
Just to be clear I am not advocating any kind of physical harm or anything, I just think that cops treating people that way should have a lot of people hate them, and have that brought to their attention.
It's better to fight than to weep.
It's not "how can they", it's "how can they be stopped in the future".
This is the most gratuitous bullshit abuse of the Big Brother Act that I've ever heard of, and that's saying something.
Since this guy got the job, he's unlikely to speak up, but maybe someone out there had the same problem and didn't_ have connections on the inside? Facebook, or any other social networking site consenting to violation of it's user's privacy without legal justification, needs to get sued.
That law was sold as an anti-terrorism thing. This ain't that.
It seems pretty obvious to that MS is composed of a bunch of incompetents, they not only can't get stuff done on time, but they can't get stuff done with any useable measure of security.
But being an idiot does not make it not your fault. And if you are also being an ass, you deserve any punishment you get.