What exactly are those repercussions, that don't arise only as a consequence of legal status? Here's a hint, they're about the same as those of people taking high doses of other opiates prescribed by physicians; and those under heroin maintenance programs in Europe: virtually nil.
Pick another drug to make that comment about, because medically speaking, opiates (which includes heroin) are among the safest drugs out there when used legally. And before you bring up 'liver problems', remember that is a consequence of the Tylenol put into opioid preparations as a deterrent to recreational use.
And as a sanity check, I have to assume you believe the taxpayer should not be responsible for the repercussions of legal alcohol and tobacco use? Because if that's not the case, well, you know what that would make you. Oh and by the way, the burden on taxpayers will be less if it's legal regardless of the drug. The drug war sure as shit isn't free, and the non-drugwar costs are already there- and there's no good reason to believe untold masses of people are going to rush out and become heroin addicts just because it's legal.
What really infuriates me about self-checkout, in addition to those things, is that for some reason the scanners aren't nearly as good as the regular checkout. At a register they just swipe the item through, whereas at self checkout I often find myself rotating it around a bunch of times, or having to make the bar code perfectly flat; sometimes it takes 20+ second just to scan an item.
There is absolutely no good reason for this. It's why almost nobody uses self-checkout if they have more than 10 items.
Just like all the major banks say they don't want the business of the drug cartels. But they all knowingly participate in it, and indeed even depend on the billions of dollars of cash. They get caught once in a while, but all that happens is a relatively small fine and a promise to not do it again.
The precious metals and gems matter to these people too. And the design. See something like worldlux.com. They sell a $26895 roller ball pen there. I've never written with it but I don't suspect it's that much better than regular roller balls. How much better is the $12000 ST Dupont lighter than a Zippo? Multi-thousand dollar platinum ashtrays aren't any better than their non-platinum counterparts either.
Sorry I missed the part of the second amendment where it says 'the right to bear arms shall not be infringed, unless you were convicted of minor non-violent or victimless crime several decades ago'. Unless you're actually convicted of a violent crime (or the state can prove, through the courts, that their access to firearms presents a direct threat to the safety of others), there's no legitimate interest in denying that right. Deny an armed robber gun rights? Sure. But someone in on tax fraud? Or pot? Or criminal copyright? Please.
You seem to be implying that if you bought it, you would "own" it. And you'd find out just how wrong that was in a few years when EA shuts down the server and all your cities are gone and you can no longer play the game.
Among the community that's still playing SC4 nearly ten years in, there's near universal disappointment and even anger about the new version.
I would love to play some SimCity, but sadly SimCity 4 doesn't modern hardware/software,
SimCity 4 runs perfectly fine on modern hardware and software. I play it on Win7 x64; others have reported it runs fine on Win8. What's more, the community is still very active. Not only new buildings, but whole new transit networks... high speed rail, 2-10 lane highways. Things like the modular airport sets that let you build realistic airports that take up a whole large city tile (hell, I make an addon that uses 100 lots just to make the lines on the taxiways, and dozens and dozens of people use it). It's a whole new game. Drop by the community sites and look at what people are doing, and you'll see why there's still a huge group of players and add-on developers. We've made the real SimCity 5, and most of us won't be playing the new one.
And that leads to the biggest problem with the new SimCity- extremely limited to non-existent ability to add content and modify the game. I guarantee that 10 years from now, nobody will still be playing it, if EA hasn't shut it down beforehand that is.
Price fixing, colluding to limit choice, etc, by all the providers of a service seems to violate the fair dealings and good faith requirements of a valid contract. You and the courts may disagree, but don't assume the desire to break contract law isn't based on a sincere objection to the validity of said contract.
As for other laws, don't even pretend that all laws are just and the only reason people violate them is for 'entertainment and entitlements'.
The TV selection is abysmal. I'm not talking about hard to find stuff either. Even if you have a subscription to several different providers, there would still be plenty of recent tv shows you couldn't get.
And they're always changing their selection.
And what if you want to watch it somewhere without a connection?
And what if you want to format shift to watch it with a dvd player?
The reason I feel I'm entitled to all those options is because I pay for cable, including the major premium channels. Last I checked, it was legal for me to record what's on TV, keep it forever, edit out commercials, and convert it to whatever format I want. So there's no legitimate difference if I download it.
ps- Torrent Freak is a news site, they have neither an index nor a tracker.
It all depends on screen size and distance. I have a 27" screen as my monitor less than 3ft in front of me, at 1920x1080. Not only can I see the difference between SD and 1080p, I can see the difference between 720p and 1080p. The latter isn't very much, but for me there's a huge difference between 480p and 1080p in terms of picture clarity.
And even if the difference is small, just like with audio there's some people that really appreciate even small gains in signal quality. I enjoy a movie more with a better picture, regardless of genre. If it wasn't worth it, I wouldn't keep buying new hard drives to keep all my 8-12GB* movies-- DVD rips are 700mb-1.5gb.
Although the main benefit to higher resolutions would be more desktop area on a single screen (1080 is really not enough on a screen this size), it would certainly help picture quality if I had a 32"+ screen as my monitor 3ft away. So I certainly welcome 4K and would absolutely make use of it. Multiple monitors just don't cut it, and a bigger screen farther away doesn't do it for me either.
* - There's really no significant difference between these and the 30-40gb Blu-ray, so it's not all in my head. I spent quite a bit of time trying to justify keeping the larger files around, but couldn't.
By "have their badges for breakfast" surely you mean "have them placed on paid leave while an internal investigation concludes they did nothing wrong, while a lawsuit awards her money from taxpayers and not the individual officers or even the department".
To qualify for the diagnosis, not only do the criteria have to be met, but it must cause clinically significant impairment in functioning. People always seem to overlook that part.
No driver WANTs to run a true red-light. Those times you see someone blow through a red-light that wasn't just someone squeaking through or missing a yellow? Those mid-red light runners completely missed that there was a redlight there at all! They didn't run the red-light because they wanted to, they ran the red-light because they weren't paying attention.
Or it's the middle of the night and they have an unobstructed view of approaching vehicles and don't feel like stopping and/or sitting there for 2-3 minutes on a deserted road. Sometimes it's perfectly safe to run a red light.
Although this is mainly attributable to them wanting to please their handler or picking up on the handlers body language. And personally I watched a dog search 32 jail cells once, it alerted in 8 of them, drugs were found in zero of those (and good lord did they ever tear them apart), and at least 3 cells the dog didn't alert to actually had drugs in them.
The sad thing is you've vastly overestimated the accuracy of drug dogs. According to one study, in the field, it's under 50% for all drivers (alert resulting in finding drugs). Alerts where the driver was Hispanic was under 30% successful. In a performance test, if there was a sausage in the car, or if the handler believed there were drugs in the car, the success rate was only 14%-- that means 86% of the time the dog alerted there were no drugs found, so maybe you just got that mixed up. (see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/supreme-court-considers-t_1_b_2063820.html)
Another bonus: A drug dog alerting to cash you have is enough for the police to seize that cash (despite the vast majority of US currency having drugs on it), and you have a costly legal battle ahead if you want it back.
It couldn't be because at the time, the idea that "interstate commerce" applied to something you grow on your own land for yourself, never sold or moved off your land, wasn't yet the law of the land?
The Constitution is one of those quaint historical items, like the Magna Carta. Sure it might have some good ideas, but it's just not applicable to today's society, so we have to treat it more as guidelines than an actual binding document.
At least, that's the impression conveyed by the laws congress passes and the courts uphold. It's a "living document", so if it says "Congress shall make no law...", well, the meaning of that is ambiguous.
18USC/2423(d) covers travel with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct (read 'intent'- they don't need to prove you actually did have sex, merely that it's what you're planning on doing). Subsection (c) of the same law criminalizes the conduct itself, with the same penalty (up to 30 years) and does not require that to be the purpose of the trip.
That's the direction things are heading. The age of consent in Germany is 14, and if a US citizen goes over there and legally has consensual sex with a 14 year old non-US citizen (or even a 17 year old, according to the DOJ), they can be arrested and imprisoned in the US; something that has happened.
And no one speaks out against this extraterritorial enforcement of American laws where local laws aren't broken, because hey, it's just for child molesters, right? Oh, and terrorists. They'd never expand it beyond that,...right? It's not like >99% of domestic Patriot Act powers aren't used against terrorists and are instead used against drug offenders. Wait... they are? Well fuck.
That idea was put to rest with Wickard v. Filburn back in '42. Now "interstate commerce" means damn well anything they can imagine. The employer does business with clients in other states? More than sufficient under current jurisprudence.
Besides, do you really think that the Republicans voted against it because of their desire for a more strict interpretation of the commerce clause?
Well it's nice that overcoming your addiction was so easy, but quite honestly 150mg a day is a very low dose. People with a permanent condition that take it for years, and serious abusers, 150mg might not even be enough to not feel withdrawal symptoms. When you take 10-20x that, every day, for years, it's not "part of recovery" and "not feeling like yourself" to stop. It's over a week of vomiting nothing but stomach acid and shitting clear jelly because you can't even keep down a cup of water for more than 10 minutes. when you're not laying in bed screaming, for cold turkey. Tapering from a very high dose is also very different than tapering from a low dose. You'll still feel shitty because you're not taking enough, only it will take 3 or more weeks to get down low enough to stop, and that kind of willpower is not easy.
oxycodone is different and acts through a different receptor
No it doesn't. It has different selectivity and binding affinity among the subtypes of opioid receptors, but acts through the same receptor as heroin (i.e. predominantly the mu-opioid receptor) and every other drug classified as a full agonist opioid.
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What exactly are those repercussions, that don't arise only as a consequence of legal status? Here's a hint, they're about the same as those of people taking high doses of other opiates prescribed by physicians; and those under heroin maintenance programs in Europe: virtually nil.
Pick another drug to make that comment about, because medically speaking, opiates (which includes heroin) are among the safest drugs out there when used legally.
And before you bring up 'liver problems', remember that is a consequence of the Tylenol put into opioid preparations as a deterrent to recreational use.
And as a sanity check, I have to assume you believe the taxpayer should not be responsible for the repercussions of legal alcohol and tobacco use? Because if that's not the case, well, you know what that would make you. Oh and by the way, the burden on taxpayers will be less if it's legal regardless of the drug. The drug war sure as shit isn't free, and the non-drugwar costs are already there- and there's no good reason to believe untold masses of people are going to rush out and become heroin addicts just because it's legal.
What really infuriates me about self-checkout, in addition to those things, is that for some reason the scanners aren't nearly as good as the regular checkout. At a register they just swipe the item through, whereas at self checkout I often find myself rotating it around a bunch of times, or having to make the bar code perfectly flat; sometimes it takes 20+ second just to scan an item.
There is absolutely no good reason for this. It's why almost nobody uses self-checkout if they have more than 10 items.
Just like all the major banks say they don't want the business of the drug cartels. But they all knowingly participate in it, and indeed even depend on the billions of dollars of cash. They get caught once in a while, but all that happens is a relatively small fine and a promise to not do it again.
The precious metals and gems matter to these people too. And the design. See something like worldlux.com. They sell a $26895 roller ball pen there. I've never written with it but I don't suspect it's that much better than regular roller balls. How much better is the $12000 ST Dupont lighter than a Zippo? Multi-thousand dollar platinum ashtrays aren't any better than their non-platinum counterparts either.
$8,000 fine for a TV station huh? So, less than they spend on the anchor's hair each month?
It's not like these are going to be firing missiles or calling in air strikes ala Afghan/Pakistan.
Yet. They're not armed Yet. Do you honestly believe police will never try to get this power once drones are well accepted?
'and not a convict'
Sorry I missed the part of the second amendment where it says 'the right to bear arms shall not be infringed, unless you were convicted of minor non-violent or victimless crime several decades ago'. Unless you're actually convicted of a violent crime (or the state can prove, through the courts, that their access to firearms presents a direct threat to the safety of others), there's no legitimate interest in denying that right.
Deny an armed robber gun rights? Sure. But someone in on tax fraud? Or pot? Or criminal copyright? Please.
You seem to be implying that if you bought it, you would "own" it. And you'd find out just how wrong that was in a few years when EA shuts down the server and all your cities are gone and you can no longer play the game.
Among the community that's still playing SC4 nearly ten years in, there's near universal disappointment and even anger about the new version.
I would love to play some SimCity, but sadly SimCity 4 doesn't modern hardware/software,
SimCity 4 runs perfectly fine on modern hardware and software. I play it on Win7 x64; others have reported it runs fine on Win8. What's more, the community is still very active. Not only new buildings, but whole new transit networks... high speed rail, 2-10 lane highways. Things like the modular airport sets that let you build realistic airports that take up a whole large city tile (hell, I make an addon that uses 100 lots just to make the lines on the taxiways, and dozens and dozens of people use it). It's a whole new game. Drop by the community sites and look at what people are doing, and you'll see why there's still a huge group of players and add-on developers. We've made the real SimCity 5, and most of us won't be playing the new one.
And that leads to the biggest problem with the new SimCity- extremely limited to non-existent ability to add content and modify the game. I guarantee that 10 years from now, nobody will still be playing it, if EA hasn't shut it down beforehand that is.
Price fixing, colluding to limit choice, etc, by all the providers of a service seems to violate the fair dealings and good faith requirements of a valid contract. You and the courts may disagree, but don't assume the desire to break contract law isn't based on a sincere objection to the validity of said contract.
As for other laws, don't even pretend that all laws are just and the only reason people violate them is for 'entertainment and entitlements'.
To be fair the petitions are already a joke. It's not like they've been giving serious responses to anything.
The TV selection is abysmal. I'm not talking about hard to find stuff either. Even if you have a subscription to several different providers, there would still be plenty of recent tv shows you couldn't get.
And they're always changing their selection.
And what if you want to watch it somewhere without a connection?
And what if you want to format shift to watch it with a dvd player?
The reason I feel I'm entitled to all those options is because I pay for cable, including the major premium channels. Last I checked, it was legal for me to record what's on TV, keep it forever, edit out commercials, and convert it to whatever format I want. So there's no legitimate difference if I download it.
ps- Torrent Freak is a news site, they have neither an index nor a tracker.
It all depends on screen size and distance. I have a 27" screen as my monitor less than 3ft in front of me, at 1920x1080. Not only can I see the difference between SD and 1080p, I can see the difference between 720p and 1080p. The latter isn't very much, but for me there's a huge difference between 480p and 1080p in terms of picture clarity.
And even if the difference is small, just like with audio there's some people that really appreciate even small gains in signal quality. I enjoy a movie more with a better picture, regardless of genre. If it wasn't worth it, I wouldn't keep buying new hard drives to keep all my 8-12GB* movies-- DVD rips are 700mb-1.5gb.
Although the main benefit to higher resolutions would be more desktop area on a single screen (1080 is really not enough on a screen this size), it would certainly help picture quality if I had a 32"+ screen as my monitor 3ft away. So I certainly welcome 4K and would absolutely make use of it. Multiple monitors just don't cut it, and a bigger screen farther away doesn't do it for me either.
* - There's really no significant difference between these and the 30-40gb Blu-ray, so it's not all in my head. I spent quite a bit of time trying to justify keeping the larger files around, but couldn't.
By "have their badges for breakfast" surely you mean "have them placed on paid leave while an internal investigation concludes they did nothing wrong, while a lawsuit awards her money from taxpayers and not the individual officers or even the department".
To qualify for the diagnosis, not only do the criteria have to be met, but it must cause clinically significant impairment in functioning. People always seem to overlook that part.
No driver WANTs to run a true red-light. Those times you see someone blow through a red-light that wasn't just someone squeaking through or missing a yellow? Those mid-red light runners completely missed that there was a redlight there at all! They didn't run the red-light because they wanted to, they ran the red-light because they weren't paying attention.
Or it's the middle of the night and they have an unobstructed view of approaching vehicles and don't feel like stopping and/or sitting there for 2-3 minutes on a deserted road. Sometimes it's perfectly safe to run a red light.
Well this was just brought up in another thread, so I'll correct it again here. Dogs are terrible detectors for drugs, being wrong anywhere from 50% of the time to 85% of the time depending on the circumstances.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/supreme-court-considers-t_1_b_2063820.html
Although this is mainly attributable to them wanting to please their handler or picking up on the handlers body language. And personally I watched a dog search 32 jail cells once, it alerted in 8 of them, drugs were found in zero of those (and good lord did they ever tear them apart), and at least 3 cells the dog didn't alert to actually had drugs in them.
The sad thing is you've vastly overestimated the accuracy of drug dogs. According to one study, in the field, it's under 50% for all drivers (alert resulting in finding drugs). Alerts where the driver was Hispanic was under 30% successful. In a performance test, if there was a sausage in the car, or if the handler believed there were drugs in the car, the success rate was only 14%-- that means 86% of the time the dog alerted there were no drugs found, so maybe you just got that mixed up. (see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/supreme-court-considers-t_1_b_2063820.html)
Another bonus: A drug dog alerting to cash you have is enough for the police to seize that cash (despite the vast majority of US currency having drugs on it), and you have a costly legal battle ahead if you want it back.
It couldn't be because at the time, the idea that "interstate commerce" applied to something you grow on your own land for yourself, never sold or moved off your land, wasn't yet the law of the land?
The Constitution is one of those quaint historical items, like the Magna Carta. Sure it might have some good ideas, but it's just not applicable to today's society, so we have to treat it more as guidelines than an actual binding document.
At least, that's the impression conveyed by the laws congress passes and the courts uphold. It's a "living document", so if it says "Congress shall make no law...", well, the meaning of that is ambiguous.
It's a sad state of affairs.
18USC/2423(d) covers travel with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct (read 'intent'- they don't need to prove you actually did have sex, merely that it's what you're planning on doing).
Subsection (c) of the same law criminalizes the conduct itself, with the same penalty (up to 30 years) and does not require that to be the purpose of the trip.
That's the direction things are heading. The age of consent in Germany is 14, and if a US citizen goes over there and legally has consensual sex with a 14 year old non-US citizen (or even a 17 year old, according to the DOJ), they can be arrested and imprisoned in the US; something that has happened.
...right? It's not like >99% of domestic Patriot Act powers aren't used against terrorists and are instead used against drug offenders. Wait... they are? Well fuck.
And no one speaks out against this extraterritorial enforcement of American laws where local laws aren't broken, because hey, it's just for child molesters, right? Oh, and terrorists. They'd never expand it beyond that,
That idea was put to rest with Wickard v. Filburn back in '42. Now "interstate commerce" means damn well anything they can imagine. The employer does business with clients in other states? More than sufficient under current jurisprudence.
Besides, do you really think that the Republicans voted against it because of their desire for a more strict interpretation of the commerce clause?
Well it's nice that overcoming your addiction was so easy, but quite honestly 150mg a day is a very low dose. People with a permanent condition that take it for years, and serious abusers, 150mg might not even be enough to not feel withdrawal symptoms.
When you take 10-20x that, every day, for years, it's not "part of recovery" and "not feeling like yourself" to stop. It's over a week of vomiting nothing but stomach acid and shitting clear jelly because you can't even keep down a cup of water for more than 10 minutes. when you're not laying in bed screaming, for cold turkey. Tapering from a very high dose is also very different than tapering from a low dose. You'll still feel shitty because you're not taking enough, only it will take 3 or more weeks to get down low enough to stop, and that kind of willpower is not easy.
Mild discomfort my ass.
oxycodone is different and acts through a different receptor
No it doesn't. It has different selectivity and binding affinity among the subtypes of opioid receptors, but acts through the same receptor as heroin (i.e. predominantly the mu-opioid receptor) and every other drug classified as a full agonist opioid.