If the feds re-schedule it before there is enough public support than you will see a bunch of outraged state legislators quickly moving to make it illegal at state level
It is already illegal at the state level, hence the states that are legalizing it passing NEW laws to legalize it for medical and/or recreational.
The current Fed laws as they stand ALREADY trump state laws passed to legalize it..hence, the need for the Feds to bring their laws down, which would fully let the states decide.
I don't mind if one state doesn't want to legalize it...if they do and you don't like it, you can move to a state that does.
If Obama was doing to do anything of real merit, he'd have moved to have pot taken off schedule 1 at the very least to allow for real medical investigation of the plant.
If he had wanted to do more, he could have put it to the states to decide.
But no..he wasted time when he had both houses of govt with him to do that. Hell, why not put that onto the ACA when they passed it? At least the medical research portion...?
Too late for that now I suppose....although Rand Paul would support it if Obama and other put these kinds of legislation forward.
Everyone with a smartphone, fills out their ballot on their device, and then "casts" it by going to the voting location to confirm it? Everyone else, back to pencil and paper.
Geez, you think people raise hell about merely showing PICTURE ID for voting? Just wait till you require or give special privileges for Smart Phones to anyone that wants to vote.
I mean, a free, simple photo id seems a basic, non-discriminatory and common sense thing to do...and we can't even get THAT passed in most states.
Smart phone for voting? I'm sure that's somehow racist too.
There will be rants about a "Smart Phone" gap about 10 seconds after this idea is pitched.
Get in yer room and learn and do the homework, or its Five across the Eyes!!!
:)
"Self Esteem" wasn't really even a concept discussed back in the day when you just had to go and learn at school. No one really suffered without that catering either...(the 5 across the eyes was a joke).
It all sounds like "Boo Hoo Hoo"...my self esteem isn't being groomed, people don't look out for my feelings, etc.
Seriously..it is a fucking JOB, you go in, you get it done, you leave. No one gives a fuck about your self esteem, or how you stick out in a crowd or your feelings.
We've been teaching this shit to kids so much in past years, and catering to their ever needs, and helicoptering around them so much to protect them from people that might NOT make friends with them or even *gasp* outright hurt their feelings, that they aren't ready for the REAL WORLD out there. When they leave home and enter the adult work place.
In the real world, not everyone gets a trophy for just showing up and participating. No one cares if you feel "different". As long as you aren't being persecuted or outright discriminated against for the getting the job, you're on your own.
You are there for ONE thing, plain and simple.
Work
Quit fucking whining and work...its what we've all been doing for decades before now, and no one gives a rats ass if you're a man/woman or what race you are.
We do care if you are dragging the team down by complaining about your self esteem issues, or if someone isn't all smiles and unicorns when you say something or come up with an idea.
It's called a JOB for a reason. It is work...you get paid for it, and nothing else.
If you want feelings time, and camaraderie, or ego stroking, go to a therapist or a bar with friends.
Where I really see benefit from external communication would be mostly Boolean data such as whether the kids made it home from school,
You know, more and more I'm glad I grew up in a day before you could so easily be tracked as a kid, and no cell phones, etc.
It made it more fun to be a kid. Sure, I was mischievous, and well, frankly, some of the things we did as kids and teens would likely be categorized as borderline terrorism...but it was a part of growing up. Experimenting and well...just being a kid at the time.
When young, I would leave the house, go play with friends roam mine and the adjacent neighborhood...first on foot, then bike and skateboard. When really young, my Mom's basic rule was to call from a friend's home every couple hours to check in. When older, not really even that. My parents both worked, and I'd come home from school alone or go play with friends. During the summers as a teen...I'd be at home on my own, run with friends, make my own lunches...etc.
It was fun having that independence and I never got into what you would call trouble, no more than just being a boy growing up.
Nowdays...geez, I guess mine (and all my peers at the time) parents would be cited for child neglect.
And as for "talent" wrt people skills what that really means is "good genes" just as with sports.
I disagree.
Unless you have mental problems, a slow learner, etc...you CAN learn people skills like any other skills.
If you have a normal functioning brain...you can learn to deal with people. It is NOT that big a deal.
Personally in real life, I'm quite an introvert in many ways, but can get up readily in front of people or a crowd. Think of it as performance, that is learned.
Here's the thing. I started working in IT because I don't understand people, can't talk to them, find it hard to build relationships and rarely remember anybody's name.
Computers don't need that shit, they respond to simple well structured inputs.
Networking is all lovely for people with great communication skills. I've spent an entire career trying to gain those and although I can walk into a room full of Execs and convince them to back my ideas I still can't fucking network.
Some of us have to rely on merit and job interviews.
Well, let me ask you. How did you get good at IT work with computers? Were you born with that knowledge?
No?
Did you read and study and try and fail till you gained your skills?
Well, there's nothing different about people skills.
Watch and observe how other people interact. There are books and good Lord...a whole Internet full of sites to study on how to interact and/or influence people.
You don't even have to mean it......you can approach it like a project. Read up on something, then while out in a mall or whatever, with a server or cashier even...practice. Make small talk. What do you care if they don't respond? They'll likely never see you again.
It is much like picking up women. Some need more help than others. Read up, learn...and while out and about, just out of the cold, approach a woman you might like and say your saved up witty joke, or just ask the time. Very simple, and move on. The more you do it, the easer it will be come and the more natural you will become at it.
You can use it for making more friends and relationships, but if you don't...just learn to sound like it and make business contacts...learn to influence people.
People skills are largely like ANY
Obviously you are intelligent and learned how to do IT work, and sounds like you do it well.
Why stop there? Seek out and learn the other skills that can really help your career...and actually, quality of life too.
Here's the thing. NETWORD the hell out of yourself while in school and especially when you are in the workforce.
Myself and most people I know that work IT (or most any field really) get their next and often better jobs from people they have met and known along the way in life.
You have to be personable and network, make friends...because when those folks get new jobs, they should become your FIRST contacts you make when you want to job hop.
When you get to the point where you might consider contracting yourself out...often your foot in the door is with contacts you already know.
It isn't always what you know, but WHO you know that most often gets you the job.
And if you can get a little personality and people skills to go with it, you will often get jobs over people that actually may have the edge on you from a purely technical perspective.
I've raised above ranks of people that were much better technically than I was, but were afraid to stand up and give even a small presentation in front of a group of 10 people, or even their peers.
So, you may lament everything should be based on merit, but so far in my many years in the real world, that just isn't the case very often.
Network, meet and stay in touch with people, and you will have much better job opportunities open up for you when you need a job, or when you want to job hop for a better salary.
And if you ever want to become independent and contract...it is invaluable to have contacts out there that know you and like you.
You are first attacked by a flock of gays and if one of them bites you there is a 45% chance of being infected. With no known antidote upwards of 90% of all those infected turn into The Gay and attempt to turn others.
I don't think the bite thing is how it works, that's zombies.
I think it works by if you "suck one dick" and then, well, you're gay from then on.
So what you are saying is that the companies that employ burger flippers are SUPPOSED to pay below-market wages because someone else (parents) is SUPPOSED to SUBSIDIZE those companies by paying to house, feed, and clothe their employees?
Well, that's the way those jobs were when I grew up, and beyond them.
If an adult has made SERIOUS vocational errors and is still flipping burgers for low wages, then they need to work extra hard and study and what it takes after hours to educate themselves and try to gain employment more suited to a grown adult.
"I'm sorry, but the philosophy and basket weaving departments are being eliminated because there is insufficient funding to hire the professors that teach those topics."
Why shouldn't people who work in the fast food and service industries earn a living wage even when they work more than 50 hours a week? Most fast food workers are single mothers and there's also a high percentage of college graduates. Do they deserve to suffer in poverty from your point of view?
Most people flipping burgers make above minimum wage today.
And when did this change? When I grew up, low end food service jobs were held predominately by HS and college kids, as beginning jobs.
If someone has fucked up in life, and didn't work for education, etc...well, tough road for them.
They have to double up, and work days, educate nights, etc...so they can get out of those low jobs.
Those that make bad choices, and don't try deserve to be stuck where they are.
And, if they can't afford to have kids, they shouldn't BE having kids.
An intelligent human can decide not to fuck unprotected if they can't afford to raise the consequences of their actions.
Education. And education is not just so you can get a job, but so you can be a well-rounded human being and have an understanding of the universe around you.
Education for education's sake, is something that has pretty much always ONLY been reserved for the wealthy that didn't NEED a job when they got out of college.
The days of college only being for education for most of its attendees, ended about the same time Plato did.
The whole point of a high school education is to prepare each child to live in society. Now you can't even get a living wage [wikipedia.org] with even some college degrees. Thus, a high school education is no longer sufficient to prepare children to live in society.
I suppose it depends on what you do...I mean, plumbers and electricians and construction workers, they make significantly above minimum wage.
If you're talking burger flippers, those jobs aren't MEANT for people to earn a living at, those are jobs for college and HS kids working as first jobs, to learn what a job is about and have a little extra money in school, while their parents are still supporting them and their education.
That and the general public is dumb as a box of rocks. *snip*
There...Fixed that for you.
:)
Seriously, if you've everworked a job dealing with the general public, you leave with this concept permanently burned into your brain. It sounds elitist to those that have never had to deal with the general public in a meaningful way (retail, support of any kind, food service, etc), but once you do, you just realize most people out there are 100% fucked in the head.
It amazes me so many of them can even process oxygen correctly.
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I say..grow some thicker skin.
It is already illegal at the state level, hence the states that are legalizing it passing NEW laws to legalize it for medical and/or recreational.
The current Fed laws as they stand ALREADY trump state laws passed to legalize it..hence, the need for the Feds to bring their laws down, which would fully let the states decide.
I don't mind if one state doesn't want to legalize it...if they do and you don't like it, you can move to a state that does.
That's how it is all SUPPOSED to work.
I've never had an account there, nor twitter, etc.
I've found it hasn't impacted my life in any negative way.
If he had wanted to do more, he could have put it to the states to decide.
But no..he wasted time when he had both houses of govt with him to do that. Hell, why not put that onto the ACA when they passed it? At least the medical research portion...?
Too late for that now I suppose....although Rand Paul would support it if Obama and other put these kinds of legislation forward.
Because that is the basis for ALL our government power, responsibility and authority.
It is arguable that the Feds for many years have overstepped those few enumerated powers they are supposed to have.
Many of us in the US feel it is time to reign in the Feds.
I believe that even though it passed in DC...that congress can put the kibosh on this pretty quick?
Geez, you think people raise hell about merely showing PICTURE ID for voting? Just wait till you require or give special privileges for Smart Phones to anyone that wants to vote.
I mean, a free, simple photo id seems a basic, non-discriminatory and common sense thing to do...and we can't even get THAT passed in most states.
Smart phone for voting? I'm sure that's somehow racist too.
There will be rants about a "Smart Phone" gap about 10 seconds after this idea is pitched.
Get in yer room and learn and do the homework, or its Five across the Eyes!!!
"Self Esteem" wasn't really even a concept discussed back in the day when you just had to go and learn at school. No one really suffered without that catering either...(the 5 across the eyes was a joke).
Seriously..it is a fucking JOB, you go in, you get it done, you leave. No one gives a fuck about your self esteem, or how you stick out in a crowd or your feelings.
We've been teaching this shit to kids so much in past years, and catering to their ever needs, and helicoptering around them so much to protect them from people that might NOT make friends with them or even *gasp* outright hurt their feelings, that they aren't ready for the REAL WORLD out there. When they leave home and enter the adult work place.
In the real world, not everyone gets a trophy for just showing up and participating. No one cares if you feel "different". As long as you aren't being persecuted or outright discriminated against for the getting the job, you're on your own.
You are there for ONE thing, plain and simple.
Work
Quit fucking whining and work...its what we've all been doing for decades before now, and no one gives a rats ass if you're a man/woman or what race you are.
We do care if you are dragging the team down by complaining about your self esteem issues, or if someone isn't all smiles and unicorns when you say something or come up with an idea.
It's called a JOB for a reason. It is work...you get paid for it, and nothing else.
If you want feelings time, and camaraderie, or ego stroking, go to a therapist or a bar with friends.
You know, more and more I'm glad I grew up in a day before you could so easily be tracked as a kid, and no cell phones, etc.
It made it more fun to be a kid. Sure, I was mischievous, and well, frankly, some of the things we did as kids and teens would likely be categorized as borderline terrorism...but it was a part of growing up. Experimenting and well...just being a kid at the time.
When young, I would leave the house, go play with friends roam mine and the adjacent neighborhood...first on foot, then bike and skateboard. When really young, my Mom's basic rule was to call from a friend's home every couple hours to check in. When older, not really even that. My parents both worked, and I'd come home from school alone or go play with friends. During the summers as a teen...I'd be at home on my own, run with friends, make my own lunches...etc.
It was fun having that independence and I never got into what you would call trouble, no more than just being a boy growing up.
Nowdays...geez, I guess mine (and all my peers at the time) parents would be cited for child neglect.
Ok....now..GET OFF MY LAWN.
How will people see me flash my Gold or Platinum digital token???
I disagree.
Unless you have mental problems, a slow learner, etc...you CAN learn people skills like any other skills.
If you have a normal functioning brain...you can learn to deal with people. It is NOT that big a deal.
Personally in real life, I'm quite an introvert in many ways, but can get up readily in front of people or a crowd. Think of it as performance, that is learned.
Well, let me ask you. How did you get good at IT work with computers? Were you born with that knowledge?
No?
Did you read and study and try and fail till you gained your skills?
Well, there's nothing different about people skills.
Watch and observe how other people interact. There are books and good Lord...a whole Internet full of sites to study on how to interact and/or influence people.
You don't even have to mean it......you can approach it like a project. Read up on something, then while out in a mall or whatever, with a server or cashier even...practice. Make small talk. What do you care if they don't respond? They'll likely never see you again.
It is much like picking up women. Some need more help than others. Read up, learn...and while out and about, just out of the cold, approach a woman you might like and say your saved up witty joke, or just ask the time. Very simple, and move on. The more you do it, the easer it will be come and the more natural you will become at it.
You can use it for making more friends and relationships, but if you don't...just learn to sound like it and make business contacts...learn to influence people.
People skills are largely like ANY Obviously you are intelligent and learned how to do IT work, and sounds like you do it well.
Why stop there? Seek out and learn the other skills that can really help your career...and actually, quality of life too.
Sounded like I had a cold when I typed that...
Myself and most people I know that work IT (or most any field really) get their next and often better jobs from people they have met and known along the way in life.
You have to be personable and network, make friends...because when those folks get new jobs, they should become your FIRST contacts you make when you want to job hop.
When you get to the point where you might consider contracting yourself out...often your foot in the door is with contacts you already know.
It isn't always what you know, but WHO you know that most often gets you the job.
And if you can get a little personality and people skills to go with it, you will often get jobs over people that actually may have the edge on you from a purely technical perspective.
I've raised above ranks of people that were much better technically than I was, but were afraid to stand up and give even a small presentation in front of a group of 10 people, or even their peers.
So, you may lament everything should be based on merit, but so far in my many years in the real world, that just isn't the case very often.
Network, meet and stay in touch with people, and you will have much better job opportunities open up for you when you need a job, or when you want to job hop for a better salary.
And if you ever want to become independent and contract...it is invaluable to have contacts out there that know you and like you.
I don't think the bite thing is how it works, that's zombies.
I think it works by if you "suck one dick" and then, well, you're gay from then on.
Turns out, it might have been a couple of bluejays getting horny!!!
The only thing missing was the sound of the thermin...
That would take all the fun out of driving...
Well, that's the way those jobs were when I grew up, and beyond them.
If an adult has made SERIOUS vocational errors and is still flipping burgers for low wages, then they need to work extra hard and study and what it takes after hours to educate themselves and try to gain employment more suited to a grown adult.
You say that like that's a problem?
Most people flipping burgers make above minimum wage today.
And when did this change? When I grew up, low end food service jobs were held predominately by HS and college kids, as beginning jobs.
If someone has fucked up in life, and didn't work for education, etc...well, tough road for them.
They have to double up, and work days, educate nights, etc...so they can get out of those low jobs.
Those that make bad choices, and don't try deserve to be stuck where they are.
And, if they can't afford to have kids, they shouldn't BE having kids.
An intelligent human can decide not to fuck unprotected if they can't afford to raise the consequences of their actions.
Education for education's sake, is something that has pretty much always ONLY been reserved for the wealthy that didn't NEED a job when they got out of college.
The days of college only being for education for most of its attendees, ended about the same time Plato did.
I suppose it depends on what you do...I mean, plumbers and electricians and construction workers, they make significantly above minimum wage.
If you're talking burger flippers, those jobs aren't MEANT for people to earn a living at, those are jobs for college and HS kids working as first jobs, to learn what a job is about and have a little extra money in school, while their parents are still supporting them and their education.
There...Fixed that for you.
Seriously, if you've everworked a job dealing with the general public, you leave with this concept permanently burned into your brain. It sounds elitist to those that have never had to deal with the general public in a meaningful way (retail, support of any kind, food service, etc), but once you do, you just realize most people out there are 100% fucked in the head.
It amazes me so many of them can even process oxygen correctly.
I want to avoid this brand/model like the plague!!!