Cannabis is easily available, much less expensive than heroin, won't unexpectedly kill you, or lead to extremely harmful behavior.
I have never seen a junkie transition from heroin to pot, leaving the heroin behind. And I have years of wrenching personal experience with a very close family member who had been addicted to heroin for years, but is now free after a full one year residential program.
Cannabis is not near close enough.
Consider looking into what some call a Paleo or Caveman diet. Basically drop out grains, legumes, sugars, starchy roots like potatoes (yams and such in moderation are fine), prepared foods as much as possible, and any so-called "foods" that have a long list of ingredients. Dairy is in or out as you wish.
Cook (Gasp*) with fresh meats, veggies, nuts, certain oils, fruit in moderation. Even bacon, the Candy of Meats, is in.
Brownies made with almond butter instead of flour, high-cocoa chocolate and a bit of honey are great, for instance.
And enjoy stepping outside Paleo eating once in a while; it's not an ascetic thing. Just different.
We've been human for 100-200,000 years, depending on who you ask. We ate "paleo" for the vast majority of that time. We're evolved/designed to do very well indeed on this sort of fare.
Anecdotal for sure, but my relatively inactive wife dropped 60 lbs in about 6 months with this diet change alone, no deliberate extra activity. My oldest daughter dropped about 15 (all she wanted/needed), started a Cross-Fit routine and at 34 is very, very fit. Myself, I didn't have much extra, maybe 10 lbs; it vanished with no change in activity level. We all eat as much as we want. At 60 I feel great.
And the cost isn't much more than what groceries, junk & fast food altogether were costing.
Seems to work for us!
*Yikes, I had genuine alarm at the prospect of grocery shopping more frequently and, you know, actually cooking. Turns out this wasn't really an issue.
This quote from TFA reveals much about our dilemna..."For example, the government has a lot more power than the people."
Where did The Government get such power? Food for thought, perhaps.
Implicit in that statement is the silly idea that the government and the corporations are separate entities. Where have you been for the last few decades?
Government and corporations are surely separate entities, at least at any given moment. But they cooperate intimately in order to fulfill their respective goals, power for government and wealth for corporations. They're a team, tightly knit, well practiced, interdependent, sharing information and people. Separately and together, they have long and hallowed traditions which have brought tremendous success.
We the People are the raw material. Government and large business working together are the process. Wealth and power for select individuals is the final product.
Such are the ways of the world. Always have been.
Perhaps if only natural persons, as individuals, could make campaign and other political contributions...with a cap, something like one-tenth of the annual poverty level for a family of four, or some such figure indexed to an amount that represents a natural reflection of the average economic life of all of us taken together. What a fantasy...
Let's take a(nother) look at Google from a business perspective:
96% Google's 1Q 2010 revenues came from advertisers. 66% via their own sites and 30% via Adsense.
Google 1Q 2010 Results
Our clicks are the real product, sold to advertisers.
The Google "products" mentioned above are the production method, not the product.
I seem to remember gas in California at about the mid-twenty-cents per gallon in the late fifties through about 1961.
Smokes were a quarter, gas about the same, 5 cents for a five-pack of gum, and about a buck to see a first-run movie.
And all I ever wanted was to grow up and make $10k a year...
There's at least one American city which has more than one cable provider, Ashland, OR. I live there. We have two providers because the city put out for its own fiber optic system a few years back. We have municipal Internet, re-sold through local ISP's, and cable TV, at least until the cable failed due a lousy business plan - spent too much and couldn't compete with the lower operating costs of the private provider. CTV is now sold through one of the ISP's. And we citizens are on hook for a few $million in debt for the build out. It was a bad idea, badly implemented. So easy to do when you're spending other peoples money...
Perhaps the market includes some dynamics you haven't taken into account? Technical innovation is a great catalyst for developing new markets, but so is good ol' fashioned human nature.
Are we SURE he was sincerely trying to resign...or could he (and Bush?) have been manufacturing a public opportunity for Bush to re-state his support for Rummy? I'm inclined to think it's posturing.
Mr Galloway is correct when he says this problem did not start four weeks ago. But Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not correct when he implies it began with certain events that may or may not have happened (his self-stated belief) in Europe in the late 1930's thru 1945.
The problem began before that. Long, long before that.
No disagreement on the scale of Ford's impact. I'm only saying that Ford observed the power of Whitney's use of standardized parts in his operations. I'm talking more about the birth of the concept of std pts, not who leveraged it the most.
Eli Whitney is generally credited with being the first to practically utilize standardized parts in manufacturing. Also credited as one of the earliest to use what we now call "mass production" manufacturing methods.
Help me out here. Aren't content based filters focused upon known patterns found in spam-type email? I don't care how many challenges I send back to bots. Have you found content based filters helpful in allowing email from real humans to get through without challenge?
Permission-based email works great for me. While new correspondents need to respond to a challenge, I can have every response automatically accepted. This minimizes the delay in getting new messages, and insures that the message is being sent by person and not a bot. If it turns out I don't want to receive future mail from an approved new sender, I can black list them, with or without an explanation to them, with about two clicks.
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Cannabis is easily available, much less expensive than heroin, won't unexpectedly kill you, or lead to extremely harmful behavior. I have never seen a junkie transition from heroin to pot, leaving the heroin behind. And I have years of wrenching personal experience with a very close family member who had been addicted to heroin for years, but is now free after a full one year residential program. Cannabis is not near close enough.
Supply (we've got about all we're gonna get) & demand (spiked by natural human interest). Yeah, it's craven. But that's the way things are.
Consider looking into what some call a Paleo or Caveman diet. Basically drop out grains, legumes, sugars, starchy roots like potatoes (yams and such in moderation are fine), prepared foods as much as possible, and any so-called "foods" that have a long list of ingredients. Dairy is in or out as you wish. Cook (Gasp*) with fresh meats, veggies, nuts, certain oils, fruit in moderation. Even bacon, the Candy of Meats, is in. Brownies made with almond butter instead of flour, high-cocoa chocolate and a bit of honey are great, for instance. And enjoy stepping outside Paleo eating once in a while; it's not an ascetic thing. Just different. We've been human for 100-200,000 years, depending on who you ask. We ate "paleo" for the vast majority of that time. We're evolved/designed to do very well indeed on this sort of fare. Anecdotal for sure, but my relatively inactive wife dropped 60 lbs in about 6 months with this diet change alone, no deliberate extra activity. My oldest daughter dropped about 15 (all she wanted/needed), started a Cross-Fit routine and at 34 is very, very fit. Myself, I didn't have much extra, maybe 10 lbs; it vanished with no change in activity level. We all eat as much as we want. At 60 I feel great. And the cost isn't much more than what groceries, junk & fast food altogether were costing. Seems to work for us! *Yikes, I had genuine alarm at the prospect of grocery shopping more frequently and, you know, actually cooking. Turns out this wasn't really an issue.
Science may not be a competition, but technology certainly is. One thing leads to another...
This quote from TFA reveals much about our dilemna..."For example, the government has a lot more power than the people." Where did The Government get such power? Food for thought, perhaps.
Implicit in that statement is the silly idea that the government and the corporations are separate entities. Where have you been for the last few decades?
Government and corporations are surely separate entities, at least at any given moment. But they cooperate intimately in order to fulfill their respective goals, power for government and wealth for corporations. They're a team, tightly knit, well practiced, interdependent, sharing information and people. Separately and together, they have long and hallowed traditions which have brought tremendous success. We the People are the raw material. Government and large business working together are the process. Wealth and power for select individuals is the final product. Such are the ways of the world. Always have been.
Perhaps if only natural persons, as individuals, could make campaign and other political contributions...with a cap, something like one-tenth of the annual poverty level for a family of four, or some such figure indexed to an amount that represents a natural reflection of the average economic life of all of us taken together. What a fantasy...
Let's take a(nother) look at Google from a business perspective: 96% Google's 1Q 2010 revenues came from advertisers. 66% via their own sites and 30% via Adsense. Google 1Q 2010 Results Our clicks are the real product, sold to advertisers. The Google "products" mentioned above are the production method, not the product.
I seem to remember gas in California at about the mid-twenty-cents per gallon in the late fifties through about 1961. Smokes were a quarter, gas about the same, 5 cents for a five-pack of gum, and about a buck to see a first-run movie. And all I ever wanted was to grow up and make $10k a year...
thank you.
There's at least one American city which has more than one cable provider, Ashland, OR. I live there. We have two providers because the city put out for its own fiber optic system a few years back. We have municipal Internet, re-sold through local ISP's, and cable TV, at least until the cable failed due a lousy business plan - spent too much and couldn't compete with the lower operating costs of the private provider. CTV is now sold through one of the ISP's. And we citizens are on hook for a few $million in debt for the build out. It was a bad idea, badly implemented. So easy to do when you're spending other peoples money...
Perhaps you should look into the size of the tourism industry? It's becoming, or has become, the Largest Industry on the Planet. http://www.drtomorrow.com/lessons/lessons2/13.html
Perhaps the market includes some dynamics you haven't taken into account? Technical innovation is a great catalyst for developing new markets, but so is good ol' fashioned human nature.
Are we SURE he was sincerely trying to resign...or could he (and Bush?) have been manufacturing a public opportunity for Bush to re-state his support for Rummy? I'm inclined to think it's posturing.
Mr Galloway is correct when he says this problem did not start four weeks ago. But Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not correct when he implies it began with certain events that may or may not have happened (his self-stated belief) in Europe in the late 1930's thru 1945. The problem began before that. Long, long before that.
No disagreement on the scale of Ford's impact. I'm only saying that Ford observed the power of Whitney's use of standardized parts in his operations. I'm talking more about the birth of the concept of std pts, not who leveraged it the most.
Eli Whitney is generally credited with being the first to practically utilize standardized parts in manufacturing. Also credited as one of the earliest to use what we now call "mass production" manufacturing methods.
...or WHERE it ends up!
Best laugh of the day!
Help me out here. Aren't content based filters focused upon known patterns found in spam-type email? I don't care how many challenges I send back to bots. Have you found content based filters helpful in allowing email from real humans to get through without challenge?
I found many potential new clients are intrigued by experiencing the potential of a challenge/response permission-based email setup
Permission-based email works great for me. While new correspondents need to respond to a challenge, I can have every response automatically accepted. This minimizes the delay in getting new messages, and insures that the message is being sent by person and not a bot. If it turns out I don't want to receive future mail from an approved new sender, I can black list them, with or without an explanation to them, with about two clicks. ChoiceMail http://www.digiportal.com/