The totally hilarious segue to your post is that Marinol, delta-9-THC, one the primary active ingredients in Marijuana, is a DEA Class III drug. Like Vicodan. Subject to modest regulation, but totally legal.
So the natural stuff is Class I - Heroin type dangerous. The concentrated, pure stuff is Class III - not so bad.
Gotta love those smart people at the DEA.
(Yes, I know, real marijuana is more than just THC and Marinol doesn't do as well as the real thing in getting you high. I've prescribed it so patients have an excuse to have marijuana on their urine drug screen but most prefer the wild type. It's also ridiculously expensive.)
Well, yes, I agree. But that's the road to Hell that the states went down many years ago. It will be hard to pull back from that cliff. Addiction is a bitch.
"Using a hand's free phone" - OK, I could help out a little here. "Screaming kids in the backseat" - This is Slashdot, no kids in the back seat. "Driving with a hot potential breeding partner" - This is Slashdot, not a chance, chucko.
One out of three, maybe that will help a bit in the long run.
You haven't been outside in quite some while, have you? There are (isopropyl) alcohol based hand cleaners every 10 feet in some places. More common than fire extinguishers.
At first, I thought you were bluffing or just misinformed. A quick consultation with the oracle (No, not that Oracle) indicates you are correct. Except that the levels are too low to interfere with quantitative testing and legal proceedings. Don't try this excuse without consulting appropriate counsel.
If states could live within their means and didn't need Federal money they could do whatever the Hell they wanted (sort of, no nuclear weapons or suchlike).
The big concern was that he cut and pasted different pictures - a huge Bad Thing in photojournalism. Puts you right up with Iran and China and all of those popular folks.
I'm not convinced that he did. I think that he just adjusted levels and curves - that may have been 'too much' for pure photojournalism. The big screwup was the raw file. The judges should have disqualified him until he 'remembered' where he put it.
You can do it. It's just harder. Canon has a system that creates a digital provenance. It's used quite a bit in forensics. Nikon's system has been shown to be easily hacked.
It's a matter of degrees. These guys are running a photography contest, not a police department.
If you would have looked at the links, you would have seen that, indeed, other photographers had taken pictures of those exact same people. This guy tarted up the photo in ways that are not considered appropriate for 'photojournalism' - a specific form of photography. It would be similar to someone trying to show a Kodachrome in a Black and White photo exhibition.
The big issue was why the editors let it get through without the RAW file. So sorry dude, you don't bring everything to the table, you don't get the prize.
Yes, HDR (High Dynamic Range) modifications to an image would be contrary to the Photojournalism standards in this particular contest. They are pretty strict. You're allowed to crop (sort of), mild modifications to levels and curves but nothing along the lines of what he purportedly did.
For the New York Daily News, El Reg or Slashdot - it's fine. Photojournalism, it's not.
Oh BS. There are plenty of high yield seed varieties that aren't own by Monsanto or anyone else. Besides 'Roundup Ready' is just a gene for Roundup resistance and the weeds have already appropriated said gene for their own purposes, thankyouverymuch. The way to feeding the world's poor is not to rely on herbicide resistance.
No, "they" didn't 400 ppm has always been the big concerning level, after which positive feed back systems may be triggered. The truth is nobody really knows - although we are about to.
The statement that 'plants breath CO2 so extra CO2 is good' indicates that you've been smoking way too much of your ganga to understand that an ecosystem is a bit more complex than your hydroponics setup.
How about another way of looking at things: These are devastating illnesses. Non medical treatment hasn't been shown to be terribly effective. What the hell else do you do?
While I'm one of the first people to dump on Big Pharma, we've gone to a biopsychosocial model because chaining people up in asylums and beating them just didn't get the job done. The brain is clearly chemical in nature and at some point reductionist medication SHOULD point the way to detailed understanding and treatment. We just aren't there now. Doesn't surprise anyone in the field. We use the SAME drugs for many "different" diseases. How's that supposed to work?
Yes, by limiting discussion to just a certain framework of diseases you can inappropriately narrow thinking and treatment. You can make it so that it's hard to come up with a different paradigm.
The DSM was the first attempt to come up with a reasonable framework and language. It's not very accurate but you have to start somewhere. Everyone is open to suggestions.
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The totally hilarious segue to your post is that Marinol, delta-9-THC, one the primary active ingredients in Marijuana, is a DEA Class III drug. Like Vicodan. Subject to modest regulation, but totally legal.
So the natural stuff is Class I - Heroin type dangerous. The concentrated, pure stuff is Class III - not so bad.
Gotta love those smart people at the DEA.
(Yes, I know, real marijuana is more than just THC and Marinol doesn't do as well as the real thing in getting you high. I've prescribed it so patients have an excuse to have marijuana on their urine drug screen but most prefer the wild type. It's also ridiculously expensive.)
Well, yes, I agree. But that's the road to Hell that the states went down many years ago. It will be hard to pull back from that cliff. Addiction is a bitch.
You have to have friends or at least social acquaintances.
Remember where you are posting.
Get a horse. It's only illegal to drive (do they use that term?) drunk on a horse in a few states. I don't think Florida has figured out that one yet.
Let's see;
"Using a hand's free phone" - OK, I could help out a little here.
"Screaming kids in the backseat" - This is Slashdot, no kids in the back seat.
"Driving with a hot potential breeding partner" - This is Slashdot, not a chance, chucko.
One out of three, maybe that will help a bit in the long run.
The alcohol based are already forbidden
You haven't been outside in quite some while, have you? There are (isopropyl) alcohol based hand cleaners every 10 feet in some places. More common than fire extinguishers.
no one is using soap anymore
Please stay downstairs.
At first, I thought you were bluffing or just misinformed. A quick consultation with the oracle (No, not that Oracle) indicates you are correct. Except that the levels are too low to interfere with quantitative testing and legal proceedings. Don't try this excuse without consulting appropriate counsel.
It's the Golden Rule
He who has the gold, rules.
If states could live within their means and didn't need Federal money they could do whatever the Hell they wanted (sort of, no nuclear weapons or suchlike).
You let them in, they own the house.
You need to quit driving so much.
It's not healthy, sitting all that long.
Nothing wrong with duct tape. Nothing at all. Keeps much of the known universe functioning.
A big step up, actually.
The big concern was that he cut and pasted different pictures - a huge Bad Thing in photojournalism. Puts you right up with Iran and China and all of those popular folks.
I'm not convinced that he did. I think that he just adjusted levels and curves - that may have been 'too much' for pure photojournalism. The big screwup was the raw file. The judges should have disqualified him until he 'remembered' where he put it.
You can do it. It's just harder. Canon has a system that creates a digital provenance. It's used quite a bit in forensics. Nikon's system has been shown to be easily hacked.
It's a matter of degrees. These guys are running a photography contest, not a police department.
If you would have looked at the links, you would have seen that, indeed, other photographers had taken pictures of those exact same people. This guy tarted up the photo in ways that are not considered appropriate for 'photojournalism' - a specific form of photography. It would be similar to someone trying to show a Kodachrome in a Black and White photo exhibition.
The big issue was why the editors let it get through without the RAW file. So sorry dude, you don't bring everything to the table, you don't get the prize.
Yes, HDR (High Dynamic Range) modifications to an image would be contrary to the Photojournalism standards in this particular contest. They are pretty strict. You're allowed to crop (sort of), mild modifications to levels and curves but nothing along the lines of what he purportedly did.
For the New York Daily News, El Reg or Slashdot - it's fine. Photojournalism, it's not.
Go for it. Only 5 comments at present.
Think fast, though.
Oh BS. There are plenty of high yield seed varieties that aren't own by Monsanto or anyone else. Besides 'Roundup Ready' is just a gene for Roundup resistance and the weeds have already appropriated said gene for their own purposes, thankyouverymuch. The way to feeding the world's poor is not to rely on herbicide resistance.
Well, I'm glad we've solved that problem.
Random Slashdotter has said so. No need for the PhD's and such.
Weep for the future, folks.
No, "they" didn't 400 ppm has always been the big concerning level, after which positive feed back systems may be triggered. The truth is nobody really knows - although we are about to.
The statement that 'plants breath CO2 so extra CO2 is good' indicates that you've been smoking way too much of your ganga to understand that an ecosystem is a bit more complex than your hydroponics setup.
If I were you, I'd suggest not going into either medicine or electronics as careers.
You might, however, give a go at car analogies.
Who in the hell wants to listen to an "English major" who runs an online ad service? This guy should be drawn and quartered, not quoted.
You forgot WD-40 (although you could argue that it really is a mix of gasoline, oil and water).
How about another way of looking at things: These are devastating illnesses. Non medical treatment hasn't been shown to be terribly effective. What the hell else do you do?
While I'm one of the first people to dump on Big Pharma, we've gone to a biopsychosocial model because chaining people up in asylums and beating them just didn't get the job done. The brain is clearly chemical in nature and at some point reductionist medication SHOULD point the way to detailed understanding and treatment. We just aren't there now. Doesn't surprise anyone in the field. We use the SAME drugs for many "different" diseases. How's that supposed to work?
Yes, by limiting discussion to just a certain framework of diseases you can inappropriately narrow thinking and treatment. You can make it so that it's hard to come up with a different paradigm.
The DSM was the first attempt to come up with a reasonable framework and language. It's not very accurate but you have to start somewhere. Everyone is open to suggestions.
That thing is so poorly made that it will likely kill or injure you just by turning it on (I had the Harbor Freight version for a while).
No step 2 needed.
Sometimes good deeds go unpunished. What would have happened if that blob on the FLIR was a napping grizzly bear?
I wonder what the relative costs are for the drone or a Cessna with a FLIR camera?
I really hope you're wrong. Not necessarily optimistic, but still holding out some hope.
Hang around here for a while. We'll ring that out of you.