As explored in Dark Star (1974), ship on a mission to destroy unstable planets, intelligent bomb has decided to blow up in the ship
[Doolittle convinces the bomb not to explode] Doolittle: Hello, Bomb? Are you with me? Bomb #20: Of course. Doolittle: Are you willing to entertain a few concepts? Bomb #20: I am always receptive to suggestions. Doolittle: Fine. Think about this then. How do you know you exist? Bomb #20: Well, of course I exist. Doolittle: But how do you know you exist? Bomb #20: It is intuitively obvious. Doolittle: Intuition is no proof. What concrete evidence do you have that you exist? Bomb #20: Hmmmm... well... I think, therefore I am. Doolittle: That's good. That's very good. But how do you know that anything else exists? Bomb #20: My sensory apparatus reveals it to me. This is fun.
Yep, that is about all that we are going to hear from the right because they got nothing on the issues
How about privacy? Do we all need to run our own email server or is Google going to protect us?
Maybe education... will either party follow through on President Obama's plan to include 2 years of community college in the no-cost public education system?
What about outsourcing of tech jobs, has Hillary made a position on giving preference to US workers over H-1B workers?
We already know that the gop thinks that they own us and will sell us down the river if their corporate sponsors believe that it will save them a few buck
Not to tell the submitter how to do their job, but these articles are suppose to have some relevance to/. readers
Unfortunately most business ethics as taught these days highlight the need to return value to the shareholders over most everything else
They like to highlight ideas like, "how would you feel if your grandmother saw this on the front page", or "think how the cost of criminal prosecution would hurt your company", while simultaneously propagandizing grandma to believe that being a tax cheat is like the Founders of the country, or subverting Congress to reduce the punishments associated with their crimes
If grandma is pleased that you are a tax cheat, and the fines for being one are negligible, there is no barrier in the current world of 'business ethics' to doing it
Sure, sure it is popular to claim that the government wastes money
It goes back to the Proxmire Golden Fleece Awards where a Senator from Wisconsin would claim to have identified horrendous wastes of money, while the state that he represented (Wisconsin) raked in billions of dollars in milk and cheese subsidies.
Between that and claims of 'Welfare Queens', the political right has played a distraction game to subvert programs like education while lining their pockets with money going to defense contractors and industries in their own backyards
FWIW, education is not a waste, neither are any number of programs that make for a healthier, smarter and more capable workforce. Companies like MS claim that they cannot find the 'right' resources here and that they have to bring in workers from overseas, while they simultaneously subvert the American worker by shortchanging us all when they find ways to avoid paying their taxes
Americans who are not billionaires or corporations need to stop buying into the BS propaganda and start demanding that companies pay their fair share
What country are you from? Here in America it is the cause of millions of arrests, up until very recently New York City used 'Stop and Frisk' as a way to target groups particularly for marijuana In much of the rest of America, any time that a person is pulled over they and their car are searched 'to check for weapons'
Here is a piece of info from the ACLU: "According to the ACLU’s original analysis, marijuana arrests now account for over half of all drug arrests in the United States. Of the 8.2 million marijuana arrests between 2001 and 2010, 88% were for simply having marijuana. Nationwide, the arrest data revealed one consistent trend: significant racial bias. Despite roughly equal usage rates, Blacks are 3.73 times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana." https://www.aclu.org/gallery/m...
Not to mention that at this point in the game many millions of people gain employment as a result of prohibition.
Drug counselors, prosecutors, defense attorneys, drug agents, black-market drug sellers, 'get tough on crime' politicians, prison guards, private prison owners, local cops, anybody who gets money from the RICO racket, etc... all of these people profit directly from the 'War on Drugs', and they and the people who gain from it indirectly have a stake in keeping the lies about marijuana in play and promoting propaganda to keep the laws from changing
We should all be rightfully pissed at our tax dollars being wasted in this way, it has as much to do with control over government waste and eliminating freeloaders on the government dole as it does any form of social justice
I disagree, like most prohibitionists, the AC assumes that anybody who dislikes marijuana prohibition is a marijuana user
They go on to make a comparison to an old propaganda film, 'Reefer Madness' in which marijuana users are psychotic killers
He was then inferring that I am a psychotic killer
On a lighter note, prohibitionists have regularly subjected people who disagree with them to police review and ostracism for disagreeing with their policies. Simply because anybody who disagrees with them _must_ be drug users, when any reasonable fiscally conservative person should be completely pissed off at them for wasting billions of dollars with absolutely zero positive effect and numerous negative effects on our society as a whole
I do not think that using marijuana and murder are remotely similar
The question raised in this study is the effect of legal marijuana, I am pointing out that criminalization of marijuana also has an impact on student performance
Why are prohibitionists so quick to resort to insults?
No, legalization of marijuana is less harmful than criminalization
In a long term study in Australia, comparing the effects of marijuana use in colonies that legalized and criminalized marijuana it was found that there was far worse long term outcomes int he colonies that criminalized marijuana
This is because they lost opportunities such as education, faced poor job prospects and turned to life as petty criminals to earn a living.
These effects were not seen in colonies that legalized marijuana, where users were able to gain education, jobs and go on to lead a normal life
Criminalization is more harmful than legalization
It is the prohibitionists that want to hold up the straw man argument of 'harmless' because it is easier to poke holes in
Meanwhile, students who were incarcerated for possession of marijuana, or who lost their student loans for a marijuana arrest were 100% less likely to pass their university courses
I'm pretty sure there must by a User License Agreement that you have to click through to gain access to the evil lair and see their secret plans. As far as naming the rocket goes, it looks a lot like Hugh Johnson
There is a large difference between surviving and being fine
Sure, we could lose much of our arable land, drinking water and the oceans as a primary source of food and a small percentage of the population can still survive
But that is a long way from 'fine' since we would lose many of the societal advances of the past thousand years
It means that in the present we have to wade through mountains of denier fud and be confronted by minions of anti climate change trolls whenever trying to have a discussion about the changing climate
In the future we will only have to suffer the pangs of coulda, woulda and shoulda
There was a theory put out earlier this year about Jupiter 'roving' about the inner solar system and eliminating the super-earth that is seen in other solar systems http://astronomynow.com/2015/0...
Is there any correlation between these two theories? Like Jupiter breaking up an earlier Super Earth, and then the remnants of that larger world becoming the Earth and Moon...
Is there any chance of Jupiter having drug the leftovers into a more distant orbit and forming the asteroid belt with them?
Slashdot Mirror
It's all on the heads of those damned Puritans
That should be the next 'go back in time' movie, send the Puritans to colonize Krakatoa and let the good-timing criminals colonize America
My first thought was that we would be greeted as, 'Ugly bags of mostly water'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
As explored in Dark Star (1974), ship on a mission to destroy unstable planets, intelligent bomb has decided to blow up in the ship
[Doolittle convinces the bomb not to explode]
Doolittle: Hello, Bomb? Are you with me?
Bomb #20: Of course.
Doolittle: Are you willing to entertain a few concepts?
Bomb #20: I am always receptive to suggestions.
Doolittle: Fine. Think about this then. How do you know you exist?
Bomb #20: Well, of course I exist.
Doolittle: But how do you know you exist?
Bomb #20: It is intuitively obvious.
Doolittle: Intuition is no proof. What concrete evidence do you have that you exist?
Bomb #20: Hmmmm... well... I think, therefore I am.
Doolittle: That's good. That's very good. But how do you know that anything else exists?
Bomb #20: My sensory apparatus reveals it to me. This is fun.
Yep, that is about all that we are going to hear from the right because they got nothing on the issues
How about privacy? Do we all need to run our own email server or is Google going to protect us?
Maybe education... will either party follow through on President Obama's plan to include 2 years of community college in the no-cost public education system?
What about outsourcing of tech jobs, has Hillary made a position on giving preference to US workers over H-1B workers?
We already know that the gop thinks that they own us and will sell us down the river if their corporate sponsors believe that it will save them a few buck
Not to tell the submitter how to do their job, but these articles are suppose to have some relevance to /. readers
Unfortunately most business ethics as taught these days highlight the need to return value to the shareholders over most everything else
They like to highlight ideas like, "how would you feel if your grandmother saw this on the front page", or "think how the cost of criminal prosecution would hurt your company", while simultaneously propagandizing grandma to believe that being a tax cheat is like the Founders of the country, or subverting Congress to reduce the punishments associated with their crimes
If grandma is pleased that you are a tax cheat, and the fines for being one are negligible, there is no barrier in the current world of 'business ethics' to doing it
Sure, sure it is popular to claim that the government wastes money
It goes back to the Proxmire Golden Fleece Awards where a Senator from Wisconsin would claim to have identified horrendous wastes of money, while the state that he represented (Wisconsin) raked in billions of dollars in milk and cheese subsidies.
Between that and claims of 'Welfare Queens', the political right has played a distraction game to subvert programs like education while lining their pockets with money going to defense contractors and industries in their own backyards
FWIW, education is not a waste, neither are any number of programs that make for a healthier, smarter and more capable workforce. Companies like MS claim that they cannot find the 'right' resources here and that they have to bring in workers from overseas, while they simultaneously subvert the American worker by shortchanging us all when they find ways to avoid paying their taxes
Americans who are not billionaires or corporations need to stop buying into the BS propaganda and start demanding that companies pay their fair share
What country are you from?
Here in America it is the cause of millions of arrests, up until very recently New York City used 'Stop and Frisk' as a way to target groups particularly for marijuana
In much of the rest of America, any time that a person is pulled over they and their car are searched 'to check for weapons'
Here is a piece of info from the ACLU:
"According to the ACLU’s original analysis, marijuana arrests now account for over half of all drug arrests in the United States. Of the 8.2 million marijuana arrests between 2001 and 2010, 88% were for simply having marijuana. Nationwide, the arrest data revealed one consistent trend: significant racial bias. Despite roughly equal usage rates, Blacks are 3.73 times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana."
https://www.aclu.org/gallery/m...
Here are numbers from the FBI identifying over 600,000 marijuana possession arrests a year:
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cm...
Not to mention that at this point in the game many millions of people gain employment as a result of prohibition.
Drug counselors, prosecutors, defense attorneys, drug agents, black-market drug sellers, 'get tough on crime' politicians, prison guards, private prison owners, local cops, anybody who gets money from the RICO racket, etc... all of these people profit directly from the 'War on Drugs', and they and the people who gain from it indirectly have a stake in keeping the lies about marijuana in play and promoting propaganda to keep the laws from changing
We should all be rightfully pissed at our tax dollars being wasted in this way, it has as much to do with control over government waste and eliminating freeloaders on the government dole as it does any form of social justice
I disagree, like most prohibitionists, the AC assumes that anybody who dislikes marijuana prohibition is a marijuana user
They go on to make a comparison to an old propaganda film, 'Reefer Madness' in which marijuana users are psychotic killers
He was then inferring that I am a psychotic killer
On a lighter note, prohibitionists have regularly subjected people who disagree with them to police review and ostracism for disagreeing with their policies. Simply because anybody who disagrees with them _must_ be drug users, when any reasonable fiscally conservative person should be completely pissed off at them for wasting billions of dollars with absolutely zero positive effect and numerous negative effects on our society as a whole
Sure, just try and talk to them about a social contract to reduce the harm that comes from widespread ownership of firearms
I do not think that using marijuana and murder are remotely similar
The question raised in this study is the effect of legal marijuana, I am pointing out that criminalization of marijuana also has an impact on student performance
Why are prohibitionists so quick to resort to insults?
Don't know about gonads...
But Michael Phelps was photographed smoking marijuana, and he holds the most records for Olympic swimming gold medals
No, legalization of marijuana is less harmful than criminalization
In a long term study in Australia, comparing the effects of marijuana use in colonies that legalized and criminalized marijuana it was found that there was far worse long term outcomes int he colonies that criminalized marijuana
This is because they lost opportunities such as education, faced poor job prospects and turned to life as petty criminals to earn a living.
These effects were not seen in colonies that legalized marijuana, where users were able to gain education, jobs and go on to lead a normal life
Criminalization is more harmful than legalization
It is the prohibitionists that want to hold up the straw man argument of 'harmless' because it is easier to poke holes in
Meanwhile, students who were incarcerated for possession of marijuana, or who lost their student loans for a marijuana arrest were 100% less likely to pass their university courses
No, it should tell you that they have all been abusing the tax code and are about to be asked to pay their fair share of income tax
Sounds good, maybe they can use marionettes for crew until it gets human rated
I'm pretty sure there must by a User License Agreement that you have to click through to gain access to the evil lair and see their secret plans. As far as naming the rocket goes, it looks a lot like Hugh Johnson
GalaxyOne seems a bit presumptuous and I am pretty sure that Eagle was landed on the Moon... Freedom???
Maybe we can do a write-in, I vote for MickeyCyclops, no particular reason, just think that it has a nice ring to it
There is a large difference between surviving and being fine
Sure, we could lose much of our arable land, drinking water and the oceans as a primary source of food and a small percentage of the population can still survive
But that is a long way from 'fine' since we would lose many of the societal advances of the past thousand years
It means that in the present we have to wade through mountains of denier fud and be confronted by minions of anti climate change trolls whenever trying to have a discussion about the changing climate
In the future we will only have to suffer the pangs of coulda, woulda and shoulda
Big telecom in the US is dis-incentivized because the POTS is a shared resource that they do not have sole access to
If they throw in a fiber link they get control over access and can deny competitors
In this case they probably want to run fiber to the neighborhood pedestal, then use the existing lines to the houses
This will keep their competitors from piggybacking, unless they want to build out their own links to the neighborhood
> I used to be able to receive it with an antenna!
If only we all could afford the antennas that you have :)
Basically, the CO is a pedestal at the end of your block
There was a theory put out earlier this year about Jupiter 'roving' about the inner solar system and eliminating the super-earth that is seen in other solar systems
http://astronomynow.com/2015/0...
Is there any correlation between these two theories?
Like Jupiter breaking up an earlier Super Earth, and then the remnants of that larger world becoming the Earth and Moon...
Is there any chance of Jupiter having drug the leftovers into a more distant orbit and forming the asteroid belt with them?
Beside, people are suing for deep linking because it subverts their add revenue
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...