Even your figure of 1 million people in jail on drug charges is exaggerated. According to The Bureau of Justice Statistics only 20% of the prison population is in for pure drug related crimes.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm
That would make it about 400,000 prisoners in for drug related crimes and according to their stats only about half of that number is in only for drug possesion.
Well, I was just wondering, because you said that Arnold posing with the woman would cause people to vote for Larry instead of Arnold, but, hey, if it didn't occur to you.
Comparing driving a car to operating a computer is silly. While some people get away without driving around themselves, chances are they are using mass transit or having a friend drive them around. Incompetent drivers can kill people, incompetent computer users just annoy help desk operators. Plus, if a car needs servicing there are many obvious signals bad breaks squeal, the low oil light comes on, the check engine light lights up, etc. Even then, how many people work on their own car? On a computer, for many people the first sign of trouble is the BSOD. Which is greek to 99% of the users out there. You have to be proactive, and most casual pc users just dont care.
Your right most people who are not IT just use their computer as a tool. They want to check their email, use the spreadsheet, or use MS Word. They couldn't care less about whats going on inside the box.
>> Half the people in the US are in jail on drug-related charges.
Wow, I hope you were just trying to make some kind of exaggerated point, because that would mean that there are aproximately 145,880,109 people in jail just for drugs. That doesn't even count people in jail for murder, rape, arson, etc.
America's prison population topped 2 million in june 2002. At least base your examples in reality.
"Seek out the company of those who are searching for the truth. But avoid at all cost those who claim to have found it!" -Anon
Please do not use Canada's health care system as an example that the USA should look to. Our health care has more than its share of problems, but Canada's health care system has plenty of problems also.
In fact, the University of Toronto is offering a seminar this year which is titled, "Is Anything Right with Canada's Health Care System?" Not exactly a ringing endorsement.
"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." -Josh Billings
Perhaps, I'm missing something here. Why, exactly, would people who have a problem with Arnold posing with a naked woman on his shoulders vote for a pornographer? I would think that Flynt would be the last person that someone with a moral objection to Arnold would vote for.
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Even your figure of 1 million people in jail on drug charges is exaggerated. According to The Bureau of Justice Statistics only 20% of the prison population is in for pure drug related crimes.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm
That would make it about 400,000 prisoners in for drug related crimes and according to their stats only about half of that number is in only for drug possesion.
Well, I was just wondering, because you said that Arnold posing with the woman would cause people to vote for Larry instead of Arnold, but, hey, if it didn't occur to you.
Comparing driving a car to operating a computer is silly. While some people get away without driving around themselves, chances are they are using mass transit or having a friend drive them around. Incompetent drivers can kill people, incompetent computer users just annoy help desk operators. Plus, if a car needs servicing there are many obvious signals bad breaks squeal, the low oil light comes on, the check engine light lights up, etc. Even then, how many people work on their own car? On a computer, for many people the first sign of trouble is the BSOD. Which is greek to 99% of the users out there. You have to be proactive, and most casual pc users just dont care.
Your right most people who are not IT just use their computer as a tool. They want to check their email, use the spreadsheet, or use MS Word. They couldn't care less about whats going on inside the box.
Wow, I hope you were just trying to make some kind of exaggerated point, because that would mean that there are aproximately 145,880,109 people in jail just for drugs. That doesn't even count people in jail for murder, rape, arson, etc.
America's prison population topped 2 million in june 2002. At least base your examples in reality.
"Seek out the company of those who are searching for the truth. But avoid at all cost those who claim to have found it!" -Anon
Umm, Georgy is a girl. Which makes her a girly-girl. Not a bad thing IMHO.
"I believe in everything -- a little bit." -Marilyn Monroe
Please do not use Canada's health care system as an example that the USA should look to. Our health care has more than its share of problems, but Canada's health care system has plenty of problems also. In fact, the University of Toronto is offering a seminar this year which is titled, "Is Anything Right with Canada's Health Care System?" Not exactly a ringing endorsement. "As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." -Josh Billings
Perhaps, I'm missing something here. Why, exactly, would people who have a problem with Arnold posing with a naked woman on his shoulders vote for a pornographer? I would think that Flynt would be the last person that someone with a moral objection to Arnold would vote for.
"The earth is flat, and anyone who disputes this claim is an atheist who deserves to be punished." -Sheik Abdel-Aziz Ibn Baaz, Supreme religious authority, Saudi Arabia and author of a Muslim religious edict, 1993