They all have a glass ceiling, that is to say that they lack the room to grow their ambitions and are being sent out to find it
In the case of the notable FEW that you bring up, they were relegated to becoming fat lapdogs, servants of the royal family who could never rise above their 'place'. These were people with ambition who could have taken places of political or corporate leadership in a country that did not give all of those away to the royal family.
Of course leaders need foot soldiers and those come from the ranks of the 20-30 somethings who do not even get the lapdog jobs, they sit at home and take in a huge amount of propaganda about jihad and fighting the western corrupter. There are no jobs for them to start their own families so the become cannon fodder for the wars that the Wahhabis have created for them. These are the people applying in droves with hopes of gaining an income and family, or an honorable death that their families could give value to
It is the intent to keep pressure off of the ensconced leadership by diverting this 'energy' into jihad instead of a long-delayed internal revolution to provide equal opportunities to their people
These 'applicants' would probably never consider the path to jihad if they had a decent job and the ability to earn a living to raise a family
The unemployment rates are 27% with even higher rates for people in their twenties The application takes advantage of their desires to have a 'real' job and twists it into continuing strife that does nothing to improve their economic conditions
Yeah, just like that liberal, slacker, commie loving Eisenhower "Eisenhower teed off for a full round of golf about eight hundred times in his 8 years as president. Almost every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon he played three-hour, eighteen-hole rounds at Burning Tree, an all-male club in the Maryland suburbs. On twenty-three trips to Georgia, he played roughly 200 times at Augusta National,where friends built him, on the 1oth hole, a spacious three story house know initially as Mamie's Cabin, Then more commonly as the Eisenhower Cabin." Pg 43 "Ike's Bluff" by Evan Thomas
Look Bro, you may want to take some time listening, watching, or even reading these two sources before claiming that they got nothing to do with 'Merica. It may do your outlook a world of good
My basic reaction to Win 3.0 was... "This is going to really eff up the memory management for my AutoCAD install", and it did, so I pretty much avoided Windows until I was forced to install it to support the email tools that I had to use for work.
At that point all 'real' work went over to my Unix workstation. The one thing that it did for me was force me to step away from AutoCAD and start using ArcINFO for everything that I did
Windows NT got some positive attention from me because I could install and run Oracle database and developer tools on it to support off-hour investigation of new software
I think that 'Association Fallacy' would be closer than Ad Hominem
However, I do not think that it is a fallacy to doubt the credibility of any 'news' source that is part of the News Corp family
News Corp has demonstrated a decided bent in favor of the American right wing of the political spectrum, and it would be wise for anybody to take that into consideration when weighing the value of 'news' generated by any member of the New Corp family
I agree with laziness as being a problem, but I would say that it appears as people being too lazy to get their buts to the polls.
There is a large group of people who do not even bother to vote, with the 2014 election being an example of the lowest voter turnout for America in the past 70 years. There is a smaller group people who believe the fud they are served up and are motivated to vote because of it.
As a result we saw huge wins for the gop in 2014, which is the largest user of fear driven propaganda to get their base to he polls
If the larger group remains uninvolved the smaller, easily propagandized group (and the propagandists that motivate them) will determine public policy and this country will promote policies that will end up hurting the entire planet
Woe is me, I just got skewered by the smartest bravest AC on the planet
Funny thing is that shit costs money, and pumping and dumping the entire economy costs a lot of money to dig out of. It did after the Great Depression and it did after the Great Recession. The similarities do not stop there, particularly since both happened on the watch of ineffective, pro-business, anti-regulation republican administrations and both got rectified by effective Dem administrations that understand the value of stimulus and the role that government plays in regulating markets
Of course the rich-ass bastards know that they will be on the hook for the tax bill, just like they were from the Great Depression through to the election of Pres Reagan (the Saint of the uber wealthy), and they are using unlimited amounts of propaganda to attempt to convince people that taxing them is a baaaad thing
Go cry to your wealthy sponsor because your rant rings as hollow as anything that Dennis miller has spewed in the last 15 years
Sure, the Clintons should just slink off into anonymity and let the Bush family take over the US, because the gop is saying mean things about them
Right
I would be surprised of a day passes between now and the election when the gop does not come up with another cockamamie claim against he Clintons. it is kinda like a obsession for them
Reference to coal-tar base synthesis of Morphine "It was announced in 1973 that a team at the National Institutes of Health in the United States had developed a method for total synthesis of morphine, codeine, and thebaine using coal tar as a starting material. A shortage in codeine-hydrocodone class cough suppressants (all of which can be made from morphine in one or more steps, as well as from codeine or thebaine) was the initial reason for the research." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
However, on further research these steps may have been abandoned or subsidized with 'less expensive' means by importing Narcotic Raw Materials (NRM) from seven allowed countries, since NRMs may not be produced in America. The allowed countries are: "Traditional suppliers India and Turkey must be the source of at least 80 percent of the United States' requirement for NRM. Five non- traditional supplier countries--France, Poland, Hungary, Australia, and Yugoslavia--may be the source of not more than 20 percent. " http://www.deadiversion.usdoj....
Mr D seems to be expressing the 'soft side' claims of prohibitionists that there are no 'drug users' only 'drug dealers' in jail
This is an attempt to negate the 'less harm' argument that the most harmful thing that can happen to most drug users to being arrested, receiving a felony and going to jail, which places a life-long stigma on them and their ability to earn a living
Unfortunately, Mr D is wrong and prosecutors across the country make use of stiff felony convictions for drug users, frequently placing naive offenders into prison with violent convicts who only deepen the antisocial practices of the drug users
Codeine and Morphine are both synthesized in the US by processes patented in the 1950's and promoted in the US in the 1970's
"President's Nixon's War on Drugs made it increasingly difficult to obtain these poppies that grow mostly in areas of the world that are unfriendly to America's pharmaceutical interest, such as Afghanistan. Drug manufacturers have had to barter with heroin dealers for the purchase of this raw codeine product. This led chemist to the discovery of a method to synthesize codeine from coal tar, which eliminated the need for having the original black-tar opium and freed the drug companies from having to compete with the illicit drug cartels. " http://www.narconon.org/drug-i...
In the US the official doctrine is to suppress the growing of poppies for opiate production:
"The United States, however, has no present intention of entering the field of poppy cultivation. On the contrary, this field was abandoned as a matter of national policy, and commercial poppy cultivation suppressed even during the war: for it is the conviction of the narcotics authorities of the United States that only by striking at the source can the opium evil finally be overcome. It may be that in some countries the poppy can be grown for seed alone, or for seed and alkaloids, without the danger of narcotic addiction spreading among the population. Certain it is, however, that, in some countries, opium is produced far in excess of legitimate needs. It is the belief of the United States that the only way to conquer the opium evil is by restricting, and, where necessary, completely abolishing, the cultivation of the opium poppy plant itself. The narcotics authorities of the United States have expressed their satisfaction that the United States can contribute, by its own sacrifice and example, to this end" http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/...
The theory is that having a felony for possession allows the police to pressure the defendant into turning over their supplier
The theory goes onto suggest that they can use this technique to gain knowledge of and arrest the kingpins of the drug syndicate
This has not been demonstrated in reality where most of the people serving time for drug possession are wither users or low level stooges used to transport the products
An addict can either pay for heroin, or pay for a substitute like methadone (assuming that they want to get off of heroin)
If they decide to use heroin for their addiction, then they are criminals because there is no legal way to get heroin in America. This is very expensive and in many cases requires that they either steal from others, or sell heroin themselves. These are both criminal activities
We have a lot of 'prevention' activities going on right now. They seem to be ineffective. One big problem with them is that they have created a large blackmarket infrastructure that is particularly good at finding and supplying new customers.
Portugal has decriminalized all drugs and as a result reduced the number of new users, which is to say that decriminalization is the path to prevention
about the conduit that he was apart of between Central America and the mean streets of LA as part of the Iran Contra fiasco http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
We already did eliminate the need to grow opium and all opioids used in American pharmaceuticals come from a coal-tar process.
This was supposed to bring about the end of illegal opium and heroin, but has not had the effect because it is very hard to get people to stop growing a plant that they can get paid lots of money for.
Countries like Hungary allow farmers to grow a limited amount of poppies, which are purchased for use in the European pharma industry. This allows the farmers to make money and keeps it from becoming heroin
There is no reason to believe that creating new ways to synthesize opioids will reduce the growing of poppies
Unfortunately, the one effective treatment for opioid addiction is Ibogaine, and medical study or application of it in America is illegal because it is a schedule 1 drug
Yippee for 'Merica shooting itself in the foot for over 200 years
Whole new angle on home-brewing and probably a heck of a lot less obvious than a field of poppies growing on your property
I thought that the development of coal-tar based opioid synthesis processes in the US was supposed to support the wholesale eradication of poppies and black market production of opium and heroin.
That obviously failed because farmers want the income, so in the EU they allow farmers to grow poppies, then purchase the entire crop in bulk for use in their pharmaceutical processes. This allows the farmers to get the income and reduces the opiates in the black market
When will the US stop deluding itself and simply purchase bulk poppies from farmers in Central and South America who simply want a source of income? This will reduce the number of people who trade in the black market and reduce the opium available for heroin production
Slashdot Mirror
Doctors? Hardly
Mohammad Sidique Khan: aged 30, worked as 'learning mentor' in a primary school for immigrant children
Shehzad Tanweer: aged 22, worked part time at his father's fish and chips shop
Germaine Lindsay: aged 19, worked part-time as a carpet fitter and supplemented his income by selling covers for mobile phones at a local market
Hasib Hussain: aged 18, a recently graduated student who was living with in-laws and had a recent arrest for shoplifting
They all have a glass ceiling, that is to say that they lack the room to grow their ambitions and are being sent out to find it
In the case of the notable FEW that you bring up, they were relegated to becoming fat lapdogs, servants of the royal family who could never rise above their 'place'. These were people with ambition who could have taken places of political or corporate leadership in a country that did not give all of those away to the royal family.
Of course leaders need foot soldiers and those come from the ranks of the 20-30 somethings who do not even get the lapdog jobs, they sit at home and take in a huge amount of propaganda about jihad and fighting the western corrupter. There are no jobs for them to start their own families so the become cannon fodder for the wars that the Wahhabis have created for them. These are the people applying in droves with hopes of gaining an income and family, or an honorable death that their families could give value to
It is the intent to keep pressure off of the ensconced leadership by diverting this 'energy' into jihad instead of a long-delayed internal revolution to provide equal opportunities to their people
These 'applicants' would probably never consider the path to jihad if they had a decent job and the ability to earn a living to raise a family
The unemployment rates are 27% with even higher rates for people in their twenties
The application takes advantage of their desires to have a 'real' job and twists it into continuing strife that does nothing to improve their economic conditions
And give legitimacy to their adopted son, little Patrick Gerald (Fitz) Fitzgerald-Fitzpatrick
Yeah, just like that liberal, slacker, commie loving Eisenhower
"Eisenhower teed off for a full round of golf about eight hundred times in his 8 years as president. Almost every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon he played three-hour, eighteen-hole rounds at Burning Tree, an all-male club in the Maryland suburbs. On twenty-three trips to Georgia, he played roughly 200 times at Augusta National,where friends built him, on the 1oth hole, a spacious three story house know initially as Mamie's Cabin, Then more commonly as the Eisenhower Cabin."
Pg 43
"Ike's Bluff" by Evan Thomas
"Do you even lift?"
Look Bro, you may want to take some time listening, watching, or even reading these two sources before claiming that they got nothing to do with 'Merica. It may do your outlook a world of good
My basic reaction to Win 3.0 was... "This is going to really eff up the memory management for my AutoCAD install", and it did, so I pretty much avoided Windows until I was forced to install it to support the email tools that I had to use for work.
At that point all 'real' work went over to my Unix workstation. The one thing that it did for me was force me to step away from AutoCAD and start using ArcINFO for everything that I did
Windows NT got some positive attention from me because I could install and run Oracle database and developer tools on it to support off-hour investigation of new software
I think that 'Association Fallacy' would be closer than Ad Hominem
However, I do not think that it is a fallacy to doubt the credibility of any 'news' source that is part of the News Corp family
News Corp has demonstrated a decided bent in favor of the American right wing of the political spectrum, and it would be wise for anybody to take that into consideration when weighing the value of 'news' generated by any member of the New Corp family
The gop placed majority in the SCOTUS decided it
If you voted for the gop, or failed to vote against it, then YOU made the decision
I agree with laziness as being a problem, but I would say that it appears as people being too lazy to get their buts to the polls.
There is a large group of people who do not even bother to vote, with the 2014 election being an example of the lowest voter turnout for America in the past 70 years.
There is a smaller group people who believe the fud they are served up and are motivated to vote because of it.
As a result we saw huge wins for the gop in 2014, which is the largest user of fear driven propaganda to get their base to he polls
If the larger group remains uninvolved the smaller, easily propagandized group (and the propagandists that motivate them) will determine public policy and this country will promote policies that will end up hurting the entire planet
Like wow, you totally got me figured out
Woe is me, I just got skewered by the smartest bravest AC on the planet
Funny thing is that shit costs money, and pumping and dumping the entire economy costs a lot of money to dig out of. It did after the Great Depression and it did after the Great Recession. The similarities do not stop there, particularly since both happened on the watch of ineffective, pro-business, anti-regulation republican administrations and both got rectified by effective Dem administrations that understand the value of stimulus and the role that government plays in regulating markets
Of course the rich-ass bastards know that they will be on the hook for the tax bill, just like they were from the Great Depression through to the election of Pres Reagan (the Saint of the uber wealthy), and they are using unlimited amounts of propaganda to attempt to convince people that taxing them is a baaaad thing
Go cry to your wealthy sponsor because your rant rings as hollow as anything that Dennis miller has spewed in the last 15 years
OMG, somebody wrote a book so it must be true!
It does not need to be an actual indiscretion — it is perfectly fine to use innuendo as a vehicle for gop propaganda
FTFY
Sure, the Clintons should just slink off into anonymity and let the Bush family take over the US, because the gop is saying mean things about them
Right
I would be surprised of a day passes between now and the election when the gop does not come up with another cockamamie claim against he Clintons. it is kinda like a obsession for them
Reference to coal-tar base synthesis of Morphine
"It was announced in 1973 that a team at the National Institutes of Health in the United States had developed a method for total synthesis of morphine, codeine, and thebaine using coal tar as a starting material. A shortage in codeine-hydrocodone class cough suppressants (all of which can be made from morphine in one or more steps, as well as from codeine or thebaine) was the initial reason for the research."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
However, on further research these steps may have been abandoned or subsidized with 'less expensive' means by importing Narcotic Raw Materials (NRM) from seven allowed countries, since NRMs may not be produced in America. The allowed countries are:
"Traditional suppliers India and Turkey must be the source of at least 80 percent of the United States' requirement for NRM. Five non- traditional supplier countries--France, Poland, Hungary, Australia, and Yugoslavia--may be the source of not more than 20 percent. "
http://www.deadiversion.usdoj....
Mr D seems to be expressing the 'soft side' claims of prohibitionists that there are no 'drug users' only 'drug dealers' in jail
This is an attempt to negate the 'less harm' argument that the most harmful thing that can happen to most drug users to being arrested, receiving a felony and going to jail, which places a life-long stigma on them and their ability to earn a living
Unfortunately, Mr D is wrong and prosecutors across the country make use of stiff felony convictions for drug users, frequently placing naive offenders into prison with violent convicts who only deepen the antisocial practices of the drug users
Codeine and Morphine are both synthesized in the US by processes patented in the 1950's and promoted in the US in the 1970's
"President's Nixon's War on Drugs made it increasingly difficult to obtain these poppies that grow mostly in areas of the world that are unfriendly to America's pharmaceutical interest, such as Afghanistan. Drug manufacturers have had to barter with heroin dealers for the purchase of this raw codeine product. This led chemist to the discovery of a method to synthesize codeine from coal tar, which eliminated the need for having the original black-tar opium and freed the drug companies from having to compete with the illicit drug cartels. "
http://www.narconon.org/drug-i...
In the US the official doctrine is to suppress the growing of poppies for opiate production:
"The United States, however, has no present intention of entering the field of poppy cultivation. On the contrary, this field was abandoned as a matter of national policy, and commercial poppy cultivation suppressed even during the war: for it is the conviction of the narcotics authorities of the United States that only by striking at the source can the opium evil finally be overcome. It may be that in some countries the poppy can be grown for seed alone, or for seed and alkaloids, without the danger of narcotic addiction spreading among the population. Certain it is, however, that, in some countries, opium is produced far in excess of legitimate needs. It is the belief of the United States that the only way to conquer the opium evil is by restricting, and, where necessary, completely abolishing, the cultivation of the opium poppy plant itself. The narcotics authorities of the United States have expressed their satisfaction that the United States can contribute, by its own sacrifice and example, to this end"
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/...
Possession of heroin is a felony
The theory is that having a felony for possession allows the police to pressure the defendant into turning over their supplier
The theory goes onto suggest that they can use this technique to gain knowledge of and arrest the kingpins of the drug syndicate
This has not been demonstrated in reality where most of the people serving time for drug possession are wither users or low level stooges used to transport the products
You are playing word games
An addict can either pay for heroin, or pay for a substitute like methadone (assuming that they want to get off of heroin)
If they decide to use heroin for their addiction, then they are criminals because there is no legal way to get heroin in America.
This is very expensive and in many cases requires that they either steal from others, or sell heroin themselves. These are both criminal activities
We have a lot of 'prevention' activities going on right now. They seem to be ineffective. One big problem with them is that they have created a large blackmarket infrastructure that is particularly good at finding and supplying new customers.
Portugal has decriminalized all drugs and as a result reduced the number of new users, which is to say that decriminalization is the path to prevention
Try selling that idea in America
You betcha, just ask Freeway Ricky Ross...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%...
about the conduit that he was apart of between Central America and the mean streets of LA as part of the Iran Contra fiasco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Fascinating
Interesting...
Drug cartels make money because drugs are illegal
Therefore, politicians that work to keep drugs illegal are enabling drug cartels to make money
Would it be going too far to wonder if the drug cartels would bother to support the election of politicians who work to keep drugs illegal?
We already did eliminate the need to grow opium and all opioids used in American pharmaceuticals come from a coal-tar process.
This was supposed to bring about the end of illegal opium and heroin, but has not had the effect because it is very hard to get people to stop growing a plant that they can get paid lots of money for.
Countries like Hungary allow farmers to grow a limited amount of poppies, which are purchased for use in the European pharma industry. This allows the farmers to make money and keeps it from becoming heroin
There is no reason to believe that creating new ways to synthesize opioids will reduce the growing of poppies
Unfortunately, the one effective treatment for opioid addiction is Ibogaine, and medical study or application of it in America is illegal because it is a schedule 1 drug
Yippee for 'Merica shooting itself in the foot for over 200 years
Whole new angle on home-brewing and probably a heck of a lot less obvious than a field of poppies growing on your property
I thought that the development of coal-tar based opioid synthesis processes in the US was supposed to support the wholesale eradication of poppies and black market production of opium and heroin.
That obviously failed because farmers want the income, so in the EU they allow farmers to grow poppies, then purchase the entire crop in bulk for use in their pharmaceutical processes. This allows the farmers to get the income and reduces the opiates in the black market
When will the US stop deluding itself and simply purchase bulk poppies from farmers in Central and South America who simply want a source of income? This will reduce the number of people who trade in the black market and reduce the opium available for heroin production
sheeples, huh?
Your language reveals that you are more 'stuck' in an unworkable ideology than the people who you criticize