Some of things marijuana helps with are pretty common. If you are one of those who has a hard time letting the idea of marijuana as evil go and therefore think it should require something severe than you are right.
That said, the cannabinoid system is a major body system that touches on large swaths of our physiology. The fact that we have an entire body system regulated by the cannabinoid is a relatively new discovery and regulations + prohibition limits research so the full impact is not yet known.
ADHD, Depression, long term memory problems (everyone knows about the effects on short term memory, what they don't know is that after intoxication marijuana actually stimulates neurogenesis).
Note, the research had to use a synthetic because of the prohibition and regulation of marijuana. There is a request process but in practice, only a DEA funded anti-drug facility is allowed to have research cannabis.
Really it doesn't matter. Any herbal remedy with a long established history of safe use is the criteria for an unregulated herbal supplement under FDA policy. Marijuana solidly falls in this category.
P.S. with how easy it is to grow and the high yield per acre unregulated marijuana would be dirt cheap, more like $5 a pound than the current $400/oz black market price.
At that point alternate methods of consumption that use more material like vaporization (yes it uses more not less, the less thing is a myth) and cooking become viable.
The only reason people smoke is because it takes very little material and they need to make the most of the expensive herb. When it is plentiful and cheap you probably won't even buy the plant just the foods/drink containing it.
"Cultivation will need to be taxed and controlled, just like alcohol."
Why? Sales are already taxed... of all substances. It is wrong that alcohol and tobacco are singled out and taxed there is certainly no reason to spread this discriminatory bad policy.
Marijuana is a widespread herbal remedy with thousands of years of documented safe use. According to the FDA regulations any substance in that category SHOULD be completely unregulated. Marijuana belongs on the shelf with ginko and vitamin c supplements.
"With Marijuana smoke carrying considerably less carcinogens then tobacco smoke, although I'd definitely be behind a dont bong and drive campaign as reaction times are slowed down more then when using alcohol."
Citation needed. Recent studies showing no decrease in practical reaction times recently came out. Previous studies have shown that low doses of marijuana increased defensive driving habits and therefore actually improved driving. High doses do show a marked impairment.
"Crowther adds that R136a1 is about as big as stars can get."
This week, last week we thought they could only get to about 60% of this size.
You'd think the scientist would be a bit more cautious before making a leap like this after a previous widely accepted theory was crushed. Of course tomorrow someone will be assuring us all that scientific theories are really more like facts than current, subject to change, understanding.
Of course theories are not mere guesses but they are often given as much too much weight in the scientific world as they are given too little in the civilian.
Additionally, there is the bogus idea that a revised theory should still be considered a theory. Instead a revised theory is now no more than a hypothesis, requiring fresh predictions (to be tested against new observation not previous data) and verification and requiring the fresh application of Occam's Razor (since a revised theory is also usually going to have additional complexity to patch up the previous theory).
As long as we are all clear that we should evacuate, me, then women (preferably in order of appearance) and progressively younger females first. After that start with the male children (if they count age in years they are little old) followed by decrepit old men with nasty rotting diseases.
Healthy young men (aside from myself) in or near fertile age should be evacuated last. They're tough, they have a better chance of surviving the impact.
"So that works out to a less than 1% chance of it hitting a heavily populated area."
That would depend on the size of the asteroid an asteroid that will be 1/3 the size of the earth at impact has a better than 1% chance of hitting someone.
Perhaps we could just forward on the most highly moderated questions in Slashdot tradition. For instance, I believe an AC above posed an interesting query regarding the size of her hooters...
Perhaps we could save precious strong barrier material by shaping it into closely spaced bars and put a lock on the over-surface hole.
We could even give the predator (who we will refer to by the arbitrary term "the man") the key and hope it one day lets us out if we (hereafter referred to as citizens) please it. We might call this "good behavior."
I think the problem isn't so much the hospital as the FDA. It's like copyright holders in the digital world. Digital lets them enforce more restrictions, so naturally if you go digital they require them.
"That's somewhere around 350 nurses just devoted to data entry. I doubt hospitals that have digital entry require that much manpower for the purpose."
You are right they don't dedicate the manpower they just don't keep up or cut corners to keep up.
"Then hire more nurses so they can do their jobs."
What purpose does the system serve if you need MORE staff to use it? Are we just going digital for its own sake? The point of the system is to reduce errors and cut labor requirements.
A cut in healthcare expenses puts just as much capital in consumer pockets as a tax cut. Arguably, unlike the tax cut, it puts the capital in the consumer pockets that are likely to need it.
Consumers then spend that money, into the productive economy but without screwing up a budget surplus.
I've been in hospitals with digitized systems. The nurses simply don't have the time to do data entry on top of their jobs.
It's hard enough grabbing the pills and running room to room without having to stop after each one, scan the cup into the system, fix the system when it doesn't log the cup correctly or the patient opt'd not to take the drugs yet or has a script that gives a different number of pills at night vs day or spit the pills out and she needs to get more.
Now you have nurses with several cups of pills they have to hold because the digital system already has them checked out. Patients who can't get medication because the nurse can't just go get more pills to replace the ones she knows weren't taken. People who aren't attended to at all because the nurse has to spend an extra 15 minutes per patient per room stop to handle data entry overhead.
I didn't even contradict your point and I'm already an asshole eh?
But since you want to go there. I note your numbers show $35 mil from unions. Doesn't sound like much compared to the $3.5 Billion your corporate friends spent. I'm also not sure the GP would consider $35mil of mob money contributions to be particularly relevant in the first place. The unions aka mob is really just an under the table corporation fscking us.
Here are some other interesting things.. from that site.
You must just not be interested in new blockbuster titles or Sony releases. By the time support discontinued for dvdshrink guides already recommended third party rippers. Even those are out of date now.
If you want to rip a new title you need something like DVDFab HD or anydvd HD to defeat the structural tricks that make the disc look like its broken. It rips part way and then fails like there is a scratch on the disc.
After ripping and decrypting you could still shrink with DVD Shrink. DVD Rebuilder is an easy to use front end for Cinema Craft Encoder that will give MUCH higher quality though (CCE comes with a $2k+ price tag though). I mean you are already pirating the movie, why not download a couple torrents?
After its ripped (and decrypted) shrink works fine to compress. There are still movies you can rip with shrink but none of them are major blockbuster releases and there are absolutely no new Sony releases you can rip with shrink.
Shrink is fast and its easy. Saying its best (even in its hayday) is a bit like calling ms paint best in a world with gimp and photoshop. CCE (Cinema Craft Encoder) for example will give you much higher quality output than shrink. You won't see a huge difference unless you have a large 40+ inch screen though if shrink didn't have to compress much.
I've done a lot of rips with linux as well using several methods. You can get nice output but unfortunately nothing in the ballpark of the windows tools.
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Some of things marijuana helps with are pretty common. If you are one of those who has a hard time letting the idea of marijuana as evil go and therefore think it should require something severe than you are right.
That said, the cannabinoid system is a major body system that touches on large swaths of our physiology. The fact that we have an entire body system regulated by the cannabinoid is a relatively new discovery and regulations + prohibition limits research so the full impact is not yet known.
ADHD, Depression, long term memory problems (everyone knows about the effects on short term memory, what they don't know is that after intoxication marijuana actually stimulates neurogenesis).
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8155-marijuana-might-cause-new-cell-growth-in-the-brain.html
Note, the research had to use a synthetic because of the prohibition and regulation of marijuana. There is a request process but in practice, only a DEA funded anti-drug facility is allowed to have research cannabis.
Really it doesn't matter. Any herbal remedy with a long established history of safe use is the criteria for an unregulated herbal supplement under FDA policy. Marijuana solidly falls in this category.
P.S. with how easy it is to grow and the high yield per acre unregulated marijuana would be dirt cheap, more like $5 a pound than the current $400/oz black market price.
At that point alternate methods of consumption that use more material like vaporization (yes it uses more not less, the less thing is a myth) and cooking become viable.
The only reason people smoke is because it takes very little material and they need to make the most of the expensive herb. When it is plentiful and cheap you probably won't even buy the plant just the foods/drink containing it.
"Cultivation will need to be taxed and controlled, just like alcohol."
Why? Sales are already taxed... of all substances. It is wrong that alcohol and tobacco are singled out and taxed there is certainly no reason to spread this discriminatory bad policy.
Marijuana is a widespread herbal remedy with thousands of years of documented safe use. According to the FDA regulations any substance in that category SHOULD be completely unregulated. Marijuana belongs on the shelf with ginko and vitamin c supplements.
"With Marijuana smoke carrying considerably less carcinogens then tobacco smoke, although I'd definitely be behind a dont bong and drive campaign as reaction times are slowed down more then when using alcohol."
Citation needed. Recent studies showing no decrease in practical reaction times recently came out. Previous studies have shown that low doses of marijuana increased defensive driving habits and therefore actually improved driving. High doses do show a marked impairment.
"They have by far the best customer service of any mobile provider"
That's a scary statement. The same T-Mobile where cust svc reps will randomly blind transfer you to other reps repeatedly?
Sorry, gp should have been "the article"
The gp didn't refer to plumpness, he referred to weight. Those old skeletons still weigh more than infants.
"Crowther adds that R136a1 is about as big as stars can get."
This week, last week we thought they could only get to about 60% of this size.
You'd think the scientist would be a bit more cautious before making a leap like this after a previous widely accepted theory was crushed. Of course tomorrow someone will be assuring us all that scientific theories are really more like facts than current, subject to change, understanding.
Of course theories are not mere guesses but they are often given as much too much weight in the scientific world as they are given too little in the civilian.
Additionally, there is the bogus idea that a revised theory should still be considered a theory. Instead a revised theory is now no more than a hypothesis, requiring fresh predictions (to be tested against new observation not previous data) and verification and requiring the fresh application of Occam's Razor (since a revised theory is also usually going to have additional complexity to patch up the previous theory).
"And ZOMG, I got FP for the first time in my Slashdot career!"
Bitch
That's just fscking great. We are all going to be killed by a pack of n00bs who don't know where to run to avoid drawing agro.
"Your world view is rather depressive."
AKA realistic. The problem is that no space related project can succeed if it requires funding beyond the term of the current political trolls.
As long as we are all clear that we should evacuate, me, then women (preferably in order of appearance) and progressively younger females first. After that start with the male children (if they count age in years they are little old) followed by decrepit old men with nasty rotting diseases.
Healthy young men (aside from myself) in or near fertile age should be evacuated last. They're tough, they have a better chance of surviving the impact.
"So that works out to a less than 1% chance of it hitting a heavily populated area."
That would depend on the size of the asteroid an asteroid that will be 1/3 the size of the earth at impact has a better than 1% chance of hitting someone.
The solution is to alter the course of the earth so the asteroid impacts Afghanistan instead.
Why wait for an asteroid when we can start testing methods of moving the earth today.
Perhaps we could just forward on the most highly moderated questions in Slashdot tradition. For instance, I believe an AC above posed an interesting query regarding the size of her hooters...
Good point. We don't have to wait for an asteroid to come to us. We can begin practicing moving the Earth today!
Perhaps we could save precious strong barrier material by shaping it into closely spaced bars and put a lock on the over-surface hole.
We could even give the predator (who we will refer to by the arbitrary term "the man") the key and hope it one day lets us out if we (hereafter referred to as citizens) please it. We might call this "good behavior."
Nah... never catch on.
I think the problem isn't so much the hospital as the FDA. It's like copyright holders in the digital world. Digital lets them enforce more restrictions, so naturally if you go digital they require them.
"That's somewhere around 350 nurses just devoted to data entry. I doubt hospitals that have digital entry require that much manpower for the purpose."
You are right they don't dedicate the manpower they just don't keep up or cut corners to keep up.
"Then hire more nurses so they can do their jobs."
What purpose does the system serve if you need MORE staff to use it? Are we just going digital for its own sake? The point of the system is to reduce errors and cut labor requirements.
A cut in healthcare expenses puts just as much capital in consumer pockets as a tax cut. Arguably, unlike the tax cut, it puts the capital in the consumer pockets that are likely to need it.
Consumers then spend that money, into the productive economy but without screwing up a budget surplus.
I've been in hospitals with digitized systems. The nurses simply don't have the time to do data entry on top of their jobs.
It's hard enough grabbing the pills and running room to room without having to stop after each one, scan the cup into the system, fix the system when it doesn't log the cup correctly or the patient opt'd not to take the drugs yet or has a script that gives a different number of pills at night vs day or spit the pills out and she needs to get more.
Now you have nurses with several cups of pills they have to hold because the digital system already has them checked out. Patients who can't get medication because the nurse can't just go get more pills to replace the ones she knows weren't taken. People who aren't attended to at all because the nurse has to spend an extra 15 minutes per patient per room stop to handle data entry overhead.
I didn't even contradict your point and I'm already an asshole eh?
But since you want to go there. I note your numbers show $35 mil from unions. Doesn't sound like much compared to the $3.5 Billion your corporate friends spent. I'm also not sure the GP would consider $35mil of mob money contributions to be particularly relevant in the first place. The unions aka mob is really just an under the table corporation fscking us.
Here are some other interesting things.. from that site.
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=2010&ind=B02
407/435 House members were bought by the TV/MUSIC/MOVIE division of the copyright cartel.
86/100 Senators were also bought by the TV/MUSIC/MOVIE portion of the copyright cartel.
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?ind=B01++&goButt2.x=8&goButt2.y=8&goButt2=Submit
315/435 House members were bought by the Printing and Publishing division of the copyright cartels.
74/100 Senators
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?ind=C5120&goButt2.x=10&goButt2.y=12&goButt2=Submit
311/435 House Goes to the software division of the copyright cartels
67/100 Senate to the software division.
If you cross index that, I wonder what total portion of congress has sold out.
All in all, it looks like they have sold out pretty cheap too... at least in the reported numbers.
You must just not be interested in new blockbuster titles or Sony releases. By the time support discontinued for dvdshrink guides already recommended third party rippers. Even those are out of date now.
If you want to rip a new title you need something like DVDFab HD or anydvd HD to defeat the structural tricks that make the disc look like its broken. It rips part way and then fails like there is a scratch on the disc.
After ripping and decrypting you could still shrink with DVD Shrink. DVD Rebuilder is an easy to use front end for Cinema Craft Encoder that will give MUCH higher quality though (CCE comes with a $2k+ price tag though). I mean you are already pirating the movie, why not download a couple torrents?
After its ripped (and decrypted) shrink works fine to compress. There are still movies you can rip with shrink but none of them are major blockbuster releases and there are absolutely no new Sony releases you can rip with shrink.
Shrink is fast and its easy. Saying its best (even in its hayday) is a bit like calling ms paint best in a world with gimp and photoshop. CCE (Cinema Craft Encoder) for example will give you much higher quality output than shrink. You won't see a huge difference unless you have a large 40+ inch screen though if shrink didn't have to compress much.
I've done a lot of rips with linux as well using several methods. You can get nice output but unfortunately nothing in the ballpark of the windows tools.
Actually I think its Extenze /