THC (and its metabolites, which are what is actually being tested for in a urine test) are fat soluble. The outer limit for detection time depends HEAVILY on frequency of use, as well as amount of body fat and metabolic rate.
Somebody who smokes several joints a day every day might be detectable for a month or more after stopping, whereas someone who smokes only occasionally and moderately can test clean in a couple days.
In practice, it leaves WAY too much discretion in the hands of the cop who pulls you over. He gets to act as judge and jury based on his evaluation of your performance of whatever "tests" he decides to administer.
An objective, testable standard is needed, similar to what we have for alcohol (0.08% BAC in most states). Exactly WHERE that level is set is subject to debate, of course. The acceptable BAC level has been getting pushed lower and lower in recent years, perhaps well below the point of objective impairment, simply because of political pressure by groups like MADD and the like.
The unusual pharmacology of THC (particularly the fat solubility and long retention time) compared to alcohol is going to make this a tricky issue to solve. But handing more power to cops is NOT the way to deal with it.
The only way I can see roadsode impairment tests working properly would be to make them impartial and objective, like the "Fitness for Duty" testing devices used in some workplaces, where the subject needs to complete some simple task like tracking a point of light on a computer screen or whatever. The problem with using these as ROADSIDE tests is that they rely on an INDIVIDUAL baseline for each subject, with pass/fail based on deviation from the subject's deviation from their own previous results (presumably when sober). Such an individualized standard isn't possible with random roadside tests.
involved in the US electoral process. But I wouldn't say that fact indicates that we have a "strong democracy" here.
Brute force has been replaced with the strategic application of cubic shitloads of MONEY. If anything, such a situation is a hell of a lot LESS democratic than mob rule would be. Just about anybody could scrape together some guns and enough people to try to take out undesirable politicians by force if that's the way they want to go about it, but only elite moneyed interests are able to mount a realistic electoral challenge through our political system.
A system where the vast majority of the people have no practical ability to influence the behavior of a politician short of an assassination attempt is NOT a "strong democracy" in my book...
My Kenmore washer, dryer and gas range (all less than 10 years old) came with wiring diagrams, parts lists, and other service information tucked into a little pouch on the back of each unit. The washer and dryer also had the wiring diagram pasted on the inside of the removable back cover. My understanding is that this is common in this industry, for whatever reason. Great to see in this day and age....
Up until the 1980s at least, GE television sets used to include fairly comprehensive service information inside a little compartment on the cabinet back, accessible by removing a screw from the inside once the cabinet back was removed.
Haven't seen that many CRT monitors operating in one place in many years. Whereas such a destructive test is a perfect application for whatever old junk monitors they might have had laying around, the history of weapons system tests being rigged to provide good PR makes me wonder if there was something else going on here...
Practical people realize that the two party system is here for a while in the US. They evaluate the two, and choose whichever is closer (dems for green, reps for libertarians). Then they try to change the party from the inside, bowing to party demands on less important issues in order to use political capital on big ones. These people actually get things done.
And how much have these people actually "gotten done"? How much has the Democratic party been moved closer to the Green position of late? Did I miss Obama stumping for Single Payer healthcare? A maximum wage law? Windfall profits taxes on oil companies? Arresting and prosecuting the bankers responsible for the financial meltdown?
On the other side, how much has the GOP been moved in a more Libertarian direction? Is Mitt Romney calling for an end to the War on Drugs? Closing down foreign military bases? Eliminating Selective Service registration?
The electoral system has been systematically rigged by the 2 major parties and the corporate media to prevent any of these positions from even being brought up in the "debates", even last night's "town hall". where all the questions were carefully pre-screened by the moderator beforehand, so as not to stray outside the allowable bounds as dictated by our corporate overlords.
I went to a Vo-Tech HS in the '80s, and majored in electronics. That required 4 years of science and 4 years of math, where other majors (and state HS diploma requirements at the time) only required 3 of each. For science, we got General science freshman year, followed the next 3 years by Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. Math was Algebra I, followed by Algebra II, Geometry, and Calculus I.
The areas that we got less exposure to than general HS students were electives like art, music etc., no foreign languages, and no study hall periods. That time was used for the technical classes...
The bar was raised from 5% to 15% in 2000, as soon as it became clear that Ralph Nader (Green Party) was exceeding the 5% threshold, and would have to be included in the debates, along with Bush and Gore.
I suspect that this threshold will be continually raised as soon as there is a danger of a 3rd party breaking through, just as copyrights keep getting extended just as Mickey Mouse is about to fall into the public domain....
Perhaps the cost of airbags has to do with them being safety-critical pyrotechnic devices that need to function perfectly within millisecond tolerances when needed, after perhaps a decade or more of sitting in your car, enduring summer heat and winter cold.
They cannot be 100% functionally tested, and therefore need to rely on severe quality assurance testing during manufacture and lot testing / traceability more akin to aerospace components than auto parts.
They contain chemicals that are HIGHLY toxic, and require special handling precautions and worker safeguards during manufacture.
And if one ever fails to function properly, it invites an expensive lawsuit against the component manufacturer and the carmaker. The product liability coverage alone for explosive devices that are used in direct proximity to people must be quite expensive, no?
Actually making a counterfeit functional would cut into their profits.
I would be surprised if these things actually contained any energetic materials at all. Probably just a short-circuited connector to fool the idiot light circuit, and an empty housing, filled with sand or whatever for weight.
The Chinese were caught sending counterfeit circuit breakers over here a few years ago, with nothing inside but a switch. No overcurrent protection at all. They have no qualms at all about faking safety-critical devices to make a buck...
their regular duties. You know, pouring defective cement casings on offshore oil wells, building US military bases on other people's lands, and chopping up the remains of the Iraqi oil industry.
, whereas nicotine is a bronchoconstrictor. The nicotine paralyses the cilia of the lungs, making it difficult for the body to remove the particulate matter (and carcinogens) left behind by the smoke.
This difference, coupled with the anti-cancer properties of the cannabinoids themselves, is theorized to be the reason for the differences in the carcinogenic properties between smoked cannabis and smoked tobacco.
This type of direct action civil disobedience has been going on since 1980, when the Berrigan brothers and others broke into a GE nuclear weapons plant in Pennsylvania and hammered on warhead nosecones. Dramatized in the excellent film "In the King of Prussia".
because it is a Schedule I drug. Writing a prescription for a Schedule I drug would quickly bring the DEA down on the prescribing physician, most likely eliminating said doctor's ability to prescribe any other controlled drugs.
It can, however be RECOMMENDED by a physician. The card you get in CA or other medical MJ states shows that your doctor thinks that cannabis might help your condition. It doesn't specify dosage, form, route of administration, or frequency of use like a standard prescription would.
The books credit Voskhod 2 for the first EVA, one year earlier. What did that one lack to make it "completly successful"?
The fact that Leonov was nearly killed when he couldn't get back into the spacecraft?
...you may as well add Apollo12 to the "Fail" list. That one didn't go smooth either, they had to choose another landing site in the last second.
A12 landed less than 600 feet from the original target, well within walking distance of the Surveyor probe that was a primary mission objective. A11 overshot their original target by several MILES, and had to do extensive maneuvering to find a suitable landing point among all the boulders and craters.
Getting a man on the moon was the only "first" the US ever scored in the space race.
What about:
First spacecraft capable of changing its own orbit (Gemini) First rendezvous in space (Gemini 6/7) First Docking (Gemini 8) First completely successful EVA (Gemini 12) First manned flight outside earth gravity (Apollo 8)
The main limitations of the CBS field-sequential system were the requirement for a rotating color filter wheel more than 2X the diameter of the picture tube. TV sets larger than 10" screen size or so became absolutely HUGE. The system was also incompatible with existing monochrome sets, which already had a substantial installed base by then.
Once RCA developed the all electronic system that eventually became "NTSC", the field sequential systems were relegated to niche applications such as the color cameras that flew to the moon on the Apollo landings. And yes, a similar system forms the heart of modern color DLP projectors.
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THC (and its metabolites, which are what is actually being tested for in a urine test) are fat soluble. The outer limit for detection time depends HEAVILY on frequency of use, as well as amount of body fat and metabolic rate.
Somebody who smokes several joints a day every day might be detectable for a month or more after stopping, whereas someone who smokes only occasionally and moderately can test clean in a couple days.
In theory, that would be the way to go.
In practice, it leaves WAY too much discretion in the hands of the cop who pulls you over. He gets to act as judge and jury based on his evaluation of your performance of whatever "tests" he decides to administer.
An objective, testable standard is needed, similar to what we have for alcohol (0.08% BAC in most states). Exactly WHERE that level is set is subject to debate, of course. The acceptable BAC level has been getting pushed lower and lower in recent years, perhaps well below the point of objective impairment, simply because of political pressure by groups like MADD and the like.
The unusual pharmacology of THC (particularly the fat solubility and long retention time) compared to alcohol is going to make this a tricky issue to solve. But handing more power to cops is NOT the way to deal with it.
The only way I can see roadsode impairment tests working properly would be to make them impartial and objective, like the "Fitness for Duty" testing devices used in some workplaces, where the subject needs to complete some simple task like tracking a point of light on a computer screen or whatever. The problem with using these as ROADSIDE tests is that they rely on an INDIVIDUAL baseline for each subject, with pass/fail based on deviation from the subject's deviation from their own previous results (presumably when sober). Such an individualized standard isn't possible with random roadside tests.
involved in the US electoral process. But I wouldn't say that fact indicates that we have a "strong democracy" here.
Brute force has been replaced with the strategic application of cubic shitloads of MONEY. If anything, such a situation is a hell of a lot LESS democratic than mob rule would be. Just about anybody could scrape together some guns and enough people to try to take out undesirable politicians by force if that's the way they want to go about it, but only elite moneyed interests are able to mount a realistic electoral challenge through our political system.
A system where the vast majority of the people have no practical ability to influence the behavior of a politician short of an assassination attempt is NOT a "strong democracy" in my book...
My Kenmore washer, dryer and gas range (all less than 10 years old) came with wiring diagrams, parts lists, and other service information tucked into a little pouch on the back of each unit. The washer and dryer also had the wiring diagram pasted on the inside of the removable back cover. My understanding is that this is common in this industry, for whatever reason. Great to see in this day and age....
Up until the 1980s at least, GE television sets used to include fairly comprehensive service information inside a little compartment on the cabinet back, accessible by removing a screw from the inside once the cabinet back was removed.
I'm guessing that's what probably caused the battery to vent, exposing the lithium to the water...
Pretty basic chemistry going on here....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxhW7TtXIAM
The gist is that IR equipment is not generally available to public citizens...
How much longer can we expect this ruling to stand, though?
http://www.amazon.com/Fluke-Ti10-9Hz-Thermal-Imager/dp/B0018LCAM6
Haven't seen that many CRT monitors operating in one place in many years. Whereas such a destructive test is a perfect application for whatever old junk monitors they might have had laying around, the history of weapons system tests being rigged to provide good PR makes me wonder if there was something else going on here...
Practical people realize that the two party system is here for a while in the US. They evaluate the two, and choose whichever is closer (dems for green, reps for libertarians). Then they try to change the party from the inside, bowing to party demands on less important issues in order to use political capital on big ones. These people actually get things done.
And how much have these people actually "gotten done"? How much has the Democratic party been moved closer to the Green position of late? Did I miss Obama stumping for Single Payer healthcare? A maximum wage law? Windfall profits taxes on oil companies? Arresting and prosecuting the bankers responsible for the financial meltdown?
On the other side, how much has the GOP been moved in a more Libertarian direction? Is Mitt Romney calling for an end to the War on Drugs? Closing down foreign military bases? Eliminating Selective Service registration?
The electoral system has been systematically rigged by the 2 major parties and the corporate media to prevent any of these positions from even being brought up in the "debates", even last night's "town hall". where all the questions were carefully pre-screened by the moderator beforehand, so as not to stray outside the allowable bounds as dictated by our corporate overlords.
,,,at least in the STEM areas.
I went to a Vo-Tech HS in the '80s, and majored in electronics. That required 4 years of science and 4 years of math, where other majors (and state HS diploma requirements at the time) only required 3 of each. For science, we got General science freshman year, followed the next 3 years by Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. Math was Algebra I, followed by Algebra II, Geometry, and Calculus I.
The areas that we got less exposure to than general HS students were electives like art, music etc., no foreign languages, and no study hall periods. That time was used for the technical classes...
The bar was raised from 5% to 15% in 2000, as soon as it became clear that Ralph Nader (Green Party) was exceeding the 5% threshold, and would have to be included in the debates, along with Bush and Gore.
I suspect that this threshold will be continually raised as soon as there is a danger of a 3rd party breaking through, just as copyrights keep getting extended just as Mickey Mouse is about to fall into the public domain....
Perhaps the cost of airbags has to do with them being safety-critical pyrotechnic devices that need to function perfectly within millisecond tolerances when needed, after perhaps a decade or more of sitting in your car, enduring summer heat and winter cold.
They cannot be 100% functionally tested, and therefore need to rely on severe quality assurance testing during manufacture and lot testing / traceability more akin to aerospace components than auto parts.
They contain chemicals that are HIGHLY toxic, and require special handling precautions and worker safeguards during manufacture.
And if one ever fails to function properly, it invites an expensive lawsuit against the component manufacturer and the carmaker. The product liability coverage alone for explosive devices that are used in direct proximity to people must be quite expensive, no?
Nope. Working as a corporate raider for Bain Capital was sufficient.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/bain-capital-mitt-romney-outsourcing-china-global-tech
http://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickallen/2012/07/12/how-mitt-romney-invested-millions-in-outsourcing/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/romneys-bain-capital-invested-in-companies-that-moved-jobs-overseas/2012/06/21/gJQAsD9ptV_story.html
Actually making a counterfeit functional would cut into their profits.
I would be surprised if these things actually contained any energetic materials at all. Probably just a short-circuited connector to fool the idiot light circuit, and an empty housing, filled with sand or whatever for weight.
The Chinese were caught sending counterfeit circuit breakers over here a few years ago, with nothing inside but a switch. No overcurrent protection at all. They have no qualms at all about faking safety-critical devices to make a buck...
their regular duties. You know, pouring defective cement casings on offshore oil wells, building US military bases on other people's lands, and chopping up the remains of the Iraqi oil industry.
, whereas nicotine is a bronchoconstrictor. The nicotine paralyses the cilia of the lungs, making it difficult for the body to remove the particulate matter (and carcinogens) left behind by the smoke.
This difference, coupled with the anti-cancer properties of the cannabinoids themselves, is theorized to be the reason for the differences in the carcinogenic properties between smoked cannabis and smoked tobacco.
Screw that old RV, and cooking in roach-infested houses.Imagine the crystals they can grow in microgravity!
Just hope Jesse's funyun crumbs don't screw up the environmental control system...
This type of direct action civil disobedience has been going on since 1980, when the Berrigan brothers and others broke into a GE nuclear weapons plant in Pennsylvania and hammered on warhead nosecones. Dramatized in the excellent film "In the King of Prussia".
http://www.klydemorris.com/strips.cfm?strip_ID=2362
OxyContin is time released oxycodone, not heroin.
Heroin is diacetylmorphine, a different (if related) chemical compound.
because it is a Schedule I drug. Writing a prescription for a Schedule I drug would quickly bring the DEA down on the prescribing physician, most likely eliminating said doctor's ability to prescribe any other controlled drugs.
It can, however be RECOMMENDED by a physician. The card you get in CA or other medical MJ states shows that your doctor thinks that cannabis might help your condition. It doesn't specify dosage, form, route of administration, or frequency of use like a standard prescription would.
The books credit Voskhod 2 for the first EVA, one year earlier. What did that one lack to make it "completly successful"?
The fact that Leonov was nearly killed when he couldn't get back into the spacecraft?
A12 landed less than 600 feet from the original target, well within walking distance of the Surveyor probe that was a primary mission objective. A11 overshot their original target by several MILES, and had to do extensive maneuvering to find a suitable landing point among all the boulders and craters.
Getting a man on the moon was the only "first" the US ever scored in the space race.
What about:
First spacecraft capable of changing its own orbit (Gemini)
First rendezvous in space (Gemini 6/7)
First Docking (Gemini 8)
First completely successful EVA (Gemini 12)
First manned flight outside earth gravity (Apollo 8)
compared to the cost of the rocket itself. High reliability aerospace hardware isn't something you can buy off the shelf at WalMart, after all.
It was actually ADOPTED as the official US color broadcast standard by the FCC from 1950-1953.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-sequential_color_system
The main limitations of the CBS field-sequential system were the requirement for a rotating color filter wheel more than 2X the diameter of the picture tube. TV sets larger than 10" screen size or so became absolutely HUGE. The system was also incompatible with existing monochrome sets, which already had a substantial installed base by then.
Once RCA developed the all electronic system that eventually became "NTSC", the field sequential systems were relegated to niche applications such as the color cameras that flew to the moon on the Apollo landings. And yes, a similar system forms the heart of modern color DLP projectors.