I think the other poster managed to most successfully point out the flaw in the study. We were those students actually unable to pass, was it because they did get caught and did get kicked out and it was the kicking out that caused them to fail and not the random temporary intoxication. How about, what was the influence of alcohol and was that eliminated as a cause. Just because some people indulge in far less harmful MJ does not mean they stop the far more harmful addiction of alcohol. How about fiscal constraints, they selected from a group that likely will have to stop their education, randomly, as a result of economic occurrences that randomly afflict that group. Also. how about the actual results, does dropping out of University mean they drop dead and die or did they say, successfully pick up a trade instead.
Bloody hell, give you PR bullshit a rest, how many times do you have to post the same PR nonsense in the one thread. Want to minimise taxes then how about some real smart steps. One, kill all the banks and financial houses, all of them wipe them out. Simple have one government bank and the difference between the interest they pay you and the interest they charge on loans is big chunk of the tax everyone needs to pay. Why stick that money in the pockets of shit heads who routinely lie, cheat, steal and corrupt everything they can.
The same with any other essential services. Why should the difference between what it costs and what they charge, line the pockets of psychopaths, when instead it can cover all those tax burdens and everyone would pay upon a fair basis depending how much they used and if they are a waster they would pay for more.
Private businesses, all of the fail, ALL OF THEM, given sufficient time will fail, they all end up having to be rescued or just let go bankrupt. Private government is shit, and that is exactly what privatisation is, it is about creating private government for the benefit of psychopathic individuals and against the interests of the majority. A perverse sickness, all elements of our society form part of our governance, whether it be publicly controlled for the benefit of the majority, or mind boggling stupidly and gullibly privately controlled for the individual benefit of those who control it.
Which is likely exactly what this whole story is really about. It seems a likely bet that the NSA has hacked some key biometric databases and are looking to protect this hack for as long as possible with some military knob running around spreading PR=B$ about how secure biometrics are and how they can not get around it. These asshats would not admit the sky was blue unless they had a specific reason and advantage in doing so, otherwise they would continue try to obfuscate it's existence. So at a bet, a bunch of American criminals are running around the world doing something quite naughty at this time, hiding behind falsified biometric data. I wonder which countries, have started using more biometric security (compromised at it's core) and in which locations. Just like them monitoring and recording all US post and parcels.
So basically English is a constructed question. So the question is, what constructed language would you replace a constructed language with. The obvious answer to that is English will replace itself as it has done over the years and will continue to do so. It has proven to be a very adaptable malleable language and will continue to gain and loose, elements, even the letters might change over the years. Especially as we have to adapt to our idiot computer keyboard overlords who demand QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM as the new correct alphabetical order (this even on touch screens where they still refuse to provide an alphabetic alternative), so we can teach tomorrows children exactly how stubbornly stupid today's adults truly are/were.
Evolve with it. You even have the dimmest understanding of what you have written. Yep, "KILL ANY WHO RESIST" and quislings, cowards and psychopaths are the only one who temporarily survive and in the chaos that follows the whole species goes extinct.
Earthquakes do no eliminate stresses on fault lines, they simply shift them to other parts of the fault or onto different fault lines. You do not eliminate major earthquakes, you accelerate the likelihood of them occurring but keep up the silly hypothesis, the outcome will be quite interesting and good luck, you'll really need it. The rest of the world will look on conservative from the gut bullshit thinking and simply shake their heads.
Lets not forget how much that social welfare payment is, where it goes and how much profit is in it. Compare that to pork, where one, just one scamming corporate executive can pay off a politician and in one corrupt act, pay something like 150,000 social welfare payments for a whole year. Now you bloody conservative morons, all of that money rolls on right back into the economy and keeps everything circulating. Where as that top end payment, up to half of it can go flying offshore into a tax haven and for the other half you end up with nothing at all much to show for it.
The military industrial complex is an obscene black hole of waste, graft, corruption. Why does the left not care to much about social welfare payments because by far the majority of it circulates directly back into the economy and especially favours small business and when cheats are caught they have to pay it back and then some.
Which of course in reality is even more perverse. Consider if you catch a US spy, spying on your country, according to the most perverse imaginable US policy, they claim the right to take sanctions out against you if you report that criminal activity with the intent to disrupt that espionage activity to your own government. So by sanctions do they mean 'Eiger Sanction' https://www.youtube.com/watch?..., hmm, a violation of the law to enforce the law ie screw your laws only ours count.
More interestingly, how about the make point for M$, when IBM lawyers so foolishly made that huge mistake with regard to the contracts for the operating system for their retail computers. What a huge blunder.
I mean Bill was really, really, lucky that his daddy were with legal firm which had deep contacts with the IBM legal team. I wonder how much money IBM's lawyers of the day made out of M$ with that 'er' mistake. Lawyers, you can never trust them.
No they just want to force the children of the world to hand over their parents credit card details to the worlds pornographers because that would be a really good idea. Hmm, wait are they being paid bribes by the world pornographers or are they just being extorted by the worlds pornographers having been caught out. Want a safe internet for children, then fo fuck sake, fucking create a minors only with adult supervision internet, separate from the adult internet
Oh that is write can not do that because you would have to ban junk food ads and even worse alcohol ads which are also targeted at children.
There is no democracy in ignorance. Allowing news organisation to with hold the truth and lie is, whoops, has, destroyed the American democracy. News organisation should be actively prosecuted for lying, it is factually fraud based upon what they are selling.
Put yourself in the marketing directors shoes. Government agencies across the globe are becoming more and more ardent about computer security are watching computer company employees hiding code in programs. Hiding computer code in programs, code that is not a function of the program, code that does other stuff and, code the customer does not want. Harmless code fine, CIA and NSA and GHCQ and ASIO and CSIS and NZSIS, code not so much and of course not to forget organised crime, although I did technically mention by far largest English speaking organised crime groups (yes spying is literally organised crime and in reality does form links with other countries crime gangs).
Doesn't even stop there. Couple of recent stories have pointed up a new NSA hack. They are right into the US postal service. All the computerised mail and parcel handling computers have now been hacked and pawned by the NSA. This is resulting in seeming completely random police raids on individuals who do a suspect amount of letter and parcel postage, extremely violent raids, as the Evil Empire is desperate to fund more tax cuts for the rich by stealing 'er' confiscating the assets of the middle class, the drug war must continue. Happy posting in the US the NSA is watching you and passing on the info to law enforcement for violent action (never put the return address on the back, simply don't).
It was dangerous, quite a few injuries but then you would have to ban the new and primary schools. Kids will be kids, which is why the require proper adult supervision, including on the internet and I fully support the idea of a minor/school only internet running different encrypted protocols and access is strictly controlled. Minors do not belong on an internet meant for adults, the idea is stupid from the get go.
A lot of gerk and nerds knew the truth and where commenting on it many years ago, again stupidity is not an acceptable excuse, before quarter done government reports. Oh well, maybe stupidity with regard to quite a few NSA agents is a viable excuse, your choice;D.
It is about banning ideas about rapid combustion. Current easiest method of self immolation, fuel air. Get large metal container and spark plug. Make hole in container filling cap for spark plug. Put some highly flammable fuel along with a bit of liquid detergent, screw on cap with spark plug fitted. Shake it on up, the more the merrier. Attach conductive wire to spark plug, stretch wire out and move out of range, and attach other end of wire to battery. Now that one is so old that I learned about it as a kid, nearly fifty years ago, really quite dangerous dependent upon size of container and the amount of fuel, no internet, no books, just school yard chatter and bravado. Now people would go all terrorists nuts.
But, big BUTT here, the people at the NSA and people with university degrees, supposedly well educated and well informed people so the excuse but 'I'm stupid' doesn't really cut it. They knew they were breaking the law, every single last one of the lying asshats, they knew they were betraying their fellow citizens, there is no escape from that. What Snowden, was the one and only properly informed individual in the whole NSA including contractors, fucking bullshit. We are talking literally tens of thousands of co-conspiring criminals, obeying orders is no excuse, it is illegal to obey an illegal order and they are as guilty as the politicians who ordered them to do it.
Catch is more money, honestly does not work that well, once you get beyond a some multiples of the minimum wage (pathetically miserable minimum wage in some countries). Employees motivated purely by money will leave at the drop of a hat for more money and of course when purely motivated by greed are likely to lie, cheat and steal and disrupt company activities in many ways. So other stuff comes into play like annual leave 6 weeks of holidays, long service leave which start being available after a decade, R.E.S.P.E.C.T. yep plain old respect for the employee as a human being and not just a cost and profit centre, personal climate control with individual offices, quality equipment (good chair and table, quality screens, keyboard and mouse), allow personal decorations, promote quality staff social interactions and most importantly of all fire those asshats fast who are only driven by money, money, money and more money, they are always destructive.
The problem here is a knee jerk response by an individual who should know better. When writing news laws care should always be take with, how reliably facts can be obtained about the action, how readily can the law be defrauded, how difficult will it be to be reliably prosecuted and how does the harm occur. The biggest problem with revenge porn is it underlies a basic deceit, about how differently people act in private compared to how they act in public and who they pretend to be. Those who feel the most victimised by revenge porn will factually be those who are most likely to judge others negatively when they are exposed, the greater the their negative judgement of others the more they feel the sting when they are exposed. This of course only holds true for adults. When it comes to minors, different story of course but who to blame when a minor exposes another minor, easy peasy, the 'ADULTS', that allowed it to occur, whether through perversion or greed and that greed guilt emphatically pointed at web sites that allow it because they are too greedy to spend money on preventing it (for many web sites, a simple policy of no minors allowed, does make sense) and this is also something governments should be paying attention, unsupervised minors do not really belong on an adult internet.
NO, being knowledgeable is about knowing how and why and not just what. People are just quickly referencing what without bothering with how and why. So a whole bunch of whats can appear to provide a conclusive answer but without the hows and whys, you can no assemble the right whats together to draw accurate conclusions. So google can provide answers but people must do more work in order to gain understanding.
So how would US law enforcement work, being both the defensive and the offensive, the police and organised crime, hmm, as it happens, the proof is in the pudding, not really all that fucking well. How about public defenders and public prosecutors working out of the same office, think of the administrative costs saved but seriously are you foolish enough to think it would work, well, apparently so.
Once the NSA wanted to break other countries laws they should immediately have been kicked out of the role of protecting US laws and that task should have been handed to a combination of the FBI and the FCC, the FCC providing computer expertise (so they could have pot heads) and the FBI providing legal authority, supervision and field agents. With both working to contain the inevitable criminal breaches of the NSA (which has been proven did occur upon a massive scale). This would also ensure that the FBI and the FCC could work with foreign governments and not be treated with downright suspicion and be considered a security threat. American arrogance fuelled by American exceptionalism, resulting in system wide medium and long term failure.
Someone has to take the opposing non fawning view and face although a pretty tough comment, it was the reality. Sure I could have been more polite in the rebuke but seriously, they have had their fun for nearly a century and every scam eventually has to come to an end.
Fine, on a more technical nature, War of the Worlds fails in the premise that aliens would be subject to infestation by microbes. Microbes of course survive by being able to not be noticed and reproduce, having evolved to target specific organisms. The reality of course is that aliens would suffer as a result of allergies, being subject to complex molecules they have not evolved to deal with. So dying of hay fever is more realistic than dying from infection.
Acting talent - the ability to falsely portray emotions and intent ie publicly lie, this has served you well https://www.youtube.com/watch?..., NOT. There are truly talented actors out there, I know that, those liars are a huge problem, from used car salespersons, to politicians, to main stream news talking heads, they are a fucking huge pain in the neck and we would all be better off without them. Celebrating the best of the seems pretty logically insane but hey that spend huge sums of money doing that in order to make more money.
Why test what you can not do. Lets start testing a mass produced date rape drug that can be applied with skin contact (there is one already but it is hugely dangerous to everyone). No, well why not, 'er' because it would be illegal. So why allow testing of something that would be banned, the whole idea makes no sense at all. Other reason to enforce bans. High unpredictability of wind at low altitude in built up areas and of course power lines.
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I think the other poster managed to most successfully point out the flaw in the study. We were those students actually unable to pass, was it because they did get caught and did get kicked out and it was the kicking out that caused them to fail and not the random temporary intoxication. How about, what was the influence of alcohol and was that eliminated as a cause. Just because some people indulge in far less harmful MJ does not mean they stop the far more harmful addiction of alcohol. How about fiscal constraints, they selected from a group that likely will have to stop their education, randomly, as a result of economic occurrences that randomly afflict that group. Also. how about the actual results, does dropping out of University mean they drop dead and die or did they say, successfully pick up a trade instead.
Bloody hell, give you PR bullshit a rest, how many times do you have to post the same PR nonsense in the one thread. Want to minimise taxes then how about some real smart steps. One, kill all the banks and financial houses, all of them wipe them out. Simple have one government bank and the difference between the interest they pay you and the interest they charge on loans is big chunk of the tax everyone needs to pay. Why stick that money in the pockets of shit heads who routinely lie, cheat, steal and corrupt everything they can.
The same with any other essential services. Why should the difference between what it costs and what they charge, line the pockets of psychopaths, when instead it can cover all those tax burdens and everyone would pay upon a fair basis depending how much they used and if they are a waster they would pay for more.
Private businesses, all of the fail, ALL OF THEM, given sufficient time will fail, they all end up having to be rescued or just let go bankrupt. Private government is shit, and that is exactly what privatisation is, it is about creating private government for the benefit of psychopathic individuals and against the interests of the majority. A perverse sickness, all elements of our society form part of our governance, whether it be publicly controlled for the benefit of the majority, or mind boggling stupidly and gullibly privately controlled for the individual benefit of those who control it.
Which is likely exactly what this whole story is really about. It seems a likely bet that the NSA has hacked some key biometric databases and are looking to protect this hack for as long as possible with some military knob running around spreading PR=B$ about how secure biometrics are and how they can not get around it. These asshats would not admit the sky was blue unless they had a specific reason and advantage in doing so, otherwise they would continue try to obfuscate it's existence. So at a bet, a bunch of American criminals are running around the world doing something quite naughty at this time, hiding behind falsified biometric data. I wonder which countries, have started using more biometric security (compromised at it's core) and in which locations. Just like them monitoring and recording all US post and parcels.
So basically English is a constructed question. So the question is, what constructed language would you replace a constructed language with. The obvious answer to that is English will replace itself as it has done over the years and will continue to do so. It has proven to be a very adaptable malleable language and will continue to gain and loose, elements, even the letters might change over the years. Especially as we have to adapt to our idiot computer keyboard overlords who demand QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM as the new correct alphabetical order (this even on touch screens where they still refuse to provide an alphabetic alternative), so we can teach tomorrows children exactly how stubbornly stupid today's adults truly are/were.
Evolve with it. You even have the dimmest understanding of what you have written. Yep, "KILL ANY WHO RESIST" and quislings, cowards and psychopaths are the only one who temporarily survive and in the chaos that follows the whole species goes extinct.
Earthquakes do no eliminate stresses on fault lines, they simply shift them to other parts of the fault or onto different fault lines. You do not eliminate major earthquakes, you accelerate the likelihood of them occurring but keep up the silly hypothesis, the outcome will be quite interesting and good luck, you'll really need it. The rest of the world will look on conservative from the gut bullshit thinking and simply shake their heads.
Lets not forget how much that social welfare payment is, where it goes and how much profit is in it. Compare that to pork, where one, just one scamming corporate executive can pay off a politician and in one corrupt act, pay something like 150,000 social welfare payments for a whole year. Now you bloody conservative morons, all of that money rolls on right back into the economy and keeps everything circulating. Where as that top end payment, up to half of it can go flying offshore into a tax haven and for the other half you end up with nothing at all much to show for it.
The military industrial complex is an obscene black hole of waste, graft, corruption. Why does the left not care to much about social welfare payments because by far the majority of it circulates directly back into the economy and especially favours small business and when cheats are caught they have to pay it back and then some.
Which of course in reality is even more perverse. Consider if you catch a US spy, spying on your country, according to the most perverse imaginable US policy, they claim the right to take sanctions out against you if you report that criminal activity with the intent to disrupt that espionage activity to your own government. So by sanctions do they mean 'Eiger Sanction' https://www.youtube.com/watch?..., hmm, a violation of the law to enforce the law ie screw your laws only ours count.
More interestingly, how about the make point for M$, when IBM lawyers so foolishly made that huge mistake with regard to the contracts for the operating system for their retail computers. What a huge blunder.
I mean Bill was really, really, lucky that his daddy were with legal firm which had deep contacts with the IBM legal team. I wonder how much money IBM's lawyers of the day made out of M$ with that 'er' mistake. Lawyers, you can never trust them.
No they just want to force the children of the world to hand over their parents credit card details to the worlds pornographers because that would be a really good idea. Hmm, wait are they being paid bribes by the world pornographers or are they just being extorted by the worlds pornographers having been caught out. Want a safe internet for children, then fo fuck sake, fucking create a minors only with adult supervision internet, separate from the adult internet
Oh that is write can not do that because you would have to ban junk food ads and even worse alcohol ads which are also targeted at children.
There is no democracy in ignorance. Allowing news organisation to with hold the truth and lie is, whoops, has, destroyed the American democracy. News organisation should be actively prosecuted for lying, it is factually fraud based upon what they are selling.
Put yourself in the marketing directors shoes. Government agencies across the globe are becoming more and more ardent about computer security are watching computer company employees hiding code in programs. Hiding computer code in programs, code that is not a function of the program, code that does other stuff and, code the customer does not want. Harmless code fine, CIA and NSA and GHCQ and ASIO and CSIS and NZSIS, code not so much and of course not to forget organised crime, although I did technically mention by far largest English speaking organised crime groups (yes spying is literally organised crime and in reality does form links with other countries crime gangs).
Doesn't even stop there. Couple of recent stories have pointed up a new NSA hack. They are right into the US postal service. All the computerised mail and parcel handling computers have now been hacked and pawned by the NSA. This is resulting in seeming completely random police raids on individuals who do a suspect amount of letter and parcel postage, extremely violent raids, as the Evil Empire is desperate to fund more tax cuts for the rich by stealing 'er' confiscating the assets of the middle class, the drug war must continue. Happy posting in the US the NSA is watching you and passing on the info to law enforcement for violent action (never put the return address on the back, simply don't).
It was dangerous, quite a few injuries but then you would have to ban the new and primary schools. Kids will be kids, which is why the require proper adult supervision, including on the internet and I fully support the idea of a minor/school only internet running different encrypted protocols and access is strictly controlled. Minors do not belong on an internet meant for adults, the idea is stupid from the get go.
A lot of gerk and nerds knew the truth and where commenting on it many years ago, again stupidity is not an acceptable excuse, before quarter done government reports. Oh well, maybe stupidity with regard to quite a few NSA agents is a viable excuse, your choice ;D.
It is about banning ideas about rapid combustion. Current easiest method of self immolation, fuel air. Get large metal container and spark plug. Make hole in container filling cap for spark plug. Put some highly flammable fuel along with a bit of liquid detergent, screw on cap with spark plug fitted. Shake it on up, the more the merrier. Attach conductive wire to spark plug, stretch wire out and move out of range, and attach other end of wire to battery. Now that one is so old that I learned about it as a kid, nearly fifty years ago, really quite dangerous dependent upon size of container and the amount of fuel, no internet, no books, just school yard chatter and bravado. Now people would go all terrorists nuts.
But, big BUTT here, the people at the NSA and people with university degrees, supposedly well educated and well informed people so the excuse but 'I'm stupid' doesn't really cut it. They knew they were breaking the law, every single last one of the lying asshats, they knew they were betraying their fellow citizens, there is no escape from that. What Snowden, was the one and only properly informed individual in the whole NSA including contractors, fucking bullshit. We are talking literally tens of thousands of co-conspiring criminals, obeying orders is no excuse, it is illegal to obey an illegal order and they are as guilty as the politicians who ordered them to do it.
Catch is more money, honestly does not work that well, once you get beyond a some multiples of the minimum wage (pathetically miserable minimum wage in some countries). Employees motivated purely by money will leave at the drop of a hat for more money and of course when purely motivated by greed are likely to lie, cheat and steal and disrupt company activities in many ways. So other stuff comes into play like annual leave 6 weeks of holidays, long service leave which start being available after a decade, R.E.S.P.E.C.T. yep plain old respect for the employee as a human being and not just a cost and profit centre, personal climate control with individual offices, quality equipment (good chair and table, quality screens, keyboard and mouse), allow personal decorations, promote quality staff social interactions and most importantly of all fire those asshats fast who are only driven by money, money, money and more money, they are always destructive.
The problem here is a knee jerk response by an individual who should know better. When writing news laws care should always be take with, how reliably facts can be obtained about the action, how readily can the law be defrauded, how difficult will it be to be reliably prosecuted and how does the harm occur. The biggest problem with revenge porn is it underlies a basic deceit, about how differently people act in private compared to how they act in public and who they pretend to be. Those who feel the most victimised by revenge porn will factually be those who are most likely to judge others negatively when they are exposed, the greater the their negative judgement of others the more they feel the sting when they are exposed. This of course only holds true for adults. When it comes to minors, different story of course but who to blame when a minor exposes another minor, easy peasy, the 'ADULTS', that allowed it to occur, whether through perversion or greed and that greed guilt emphatically pointed at web sites that allow it because they are too greedy to spend money on preventing it (for many web sites, a simple policy of no minors allowed, does make sense) and this is also something governments should be paying attention, unsupervised minors do not really belong on an adult internet.
NO, being knowledgeable is about knowing how and why and not just what. People are just quickly referencing what without bothering with how and why. So a whole bunch of whats can appear to provide a conclusive answer but without the hows and whys, you can no assemble the right whats together to draw accurate conclusions. So google can provide answers but people must do more work in order to gain understanding.
So how would US law enforcement work, being both the defensive and the offensive, the police and organised crime, hmm, as it happens, the proof is in the pudding, not really all that fucking well. How about public defenders and public prosecutors working out of the same office, think of the administrative costs saved but seriously are you foolish enough to think it would work, well, apparently so.
Once the NSA wanted to break other countries laws they should immediately have been kicked out of the role of protecting US laws and that task should have been handed to a combination of the FBI and the FCC, the FCC providing computer expertise (so they could have pot heads) and the FBI providing legal authority, supervision and field agents. With both working to contain the inevitable criminal breaches of the NSA (which has been proven did occur upon a massive scale). This would also ensure that the FBI and the FCC could work with foreign governments and not be treated with downright suspicion and be considered a security threat. American arrogance fuelled by American exceptionalism, resulting in system wide medium and long term failure.
Someone has to take the opposing non fawning view and face although a pretty tough comment, it was the reality. Sure I could have been more polite in the rebuke but seriously, they have had their fun for nearly a century and every scam eventually has to come to an end.
Fine, on a more technical nature, War of the Worlds fails in the premise that aliens would be subject to infestation by microbes. Microbes of course survive by being able to not be noticed and reproduce, having evolved to target specific organisms. The reality of course is that aliens would suffer as a result of allergies, being subject to complex molecules they have not evolved to deal with. So dying of hay fever is more realistic than dying from infection.
Acting talent - the ability to falsely portray emotions and intent ie publicly lie, this has served you well https://www.youtube.com/watch?..., NOT. There are truly talented actors out there, I know that, those liars are a huge problem, from used car salespersons, to politicians, to main stream news talking heads, they are a fucking huge pain in the neck and we would all be better off without them. Celebrating the best of the seems pretty logically insane but hey that spend huge sums of money doing that in order to make more money.
Why test what you can not do. Lets start testing a mass produced date rape drug that can be applied with skin contact (there is one already but it is hugely dangerous to everyone). No, well why not, 'er' because it would be illegal. So why allow testing of something that would be banned, the whole idea makes no sense at all. Other reason to enforce bans. High unpredictability of wind at low altitude in built up areas and of course power lines.
Want easy delivery, build an city within a building http://io9.com/these-futuristi... and everything will be delivered to your door 24/7/365 and your job will be down the hall, down the lift and up another hall, as will all the other services you need.