Well then why didn't you reply to it? Oh, wait, it isn't there. I expanded all the comments and ctrl+f'ed Obama, the only three instances were in your post..
So why exactly hasn't Slashdot (and every other blog on the planet) been sued into a smoking crater? I think you've been pulling plays out of the New York Times book here bud...
This one's sat at the back of my mind ever since I read Feynmans account of reviewing math books.
I was curious about this so i googled around and came across a copy here. It seems that not a day goes by in which I fail to see more evidence reinforcing my decision to home-school.
Yes. Like it or not cycles are so cheap that now everybody is starting to carry around little general computing devices. The unfortunate side effect of this is that people will attempt to compromise them.
Maybe instead of complaining about they pay, you should try to do your employer's job, since that's obviously where the profit margin you're looking for is at? Oh that's right, you can't DO that, can you?
If you would read the article, that's exactly what they HAVE done.
I think somebody in the neighborhood should just go take them down. I doubt they would bother to replace them. And if you did notice the signs being replaced, call the local news media and get them to show a video of workers installing stop signs on a road with no intersection.
I'm curious as to how you would handle a student who showed up infrequently, but turned in stellar projects (maybe a few days late) and aced the tests. That was my pattern throughout most of my schooling and I seemed to get completely random reactions to it from different teachers.
I have an honest question for you. Can you find me a country that will take me and help me get there with my family?
I got sucked into the American "justice" system when I was 14 for playing with fire in the middle of the road near my house. Ever since then the local cops have labelled me as trouble and been sure to search extra hard when I get pulled over.
I was kicked out of school shortly afterwards because several months earlier I had given a friend a copy of the anarchist cookbook on a floppy disk. The administration of course "found out" about this the day after the columbine shooting. Only after threatening to sue did they agree to pass me on to the next grade, but they wouldn't give me credit for all my high school level classes.
So I got dumped into 9th grade taking a bunch of classes I had already been through. Being young, angry, and too smart for my own good, this was of course unbearable. So I dropped out as soon as possible, but the laws being what they were I had to go through a year and a half of high school I didn't need. I skipped constantly only to show up on test days and get high 90%'s. Because I wasn't doing the boring repetitious homework of course my grades tanked. As soon as I hit 16 years old I dropped out, waited the mandatory 6 months and then took my GED, getting 99% on nearly every test. I've gone into community college a couple times but every time I get so bored and/or frustrated of taking classes full of people who dropped out of high school because it was too hard for them, and teachers who either don't expect much, don't care, or don't understand what they're supposed to be teaching. Between that and the need to work as much as I can so I don't starve I always end up dropping out
Thanks to the extra police scrutiny as well as a year long undercover investigation to bust our "drug ring" (read: teenagers smoking pot) I've got a handful of felony convictions. At 16 I decided to plead out instead of facing 20 years in prison for giving somebody I thought was a friend a dime bag after he claimed his step-dad would beat him if he didn't come home with some pot.
I spent a couple years hitching around with the hippies and anarchists trying to save the world from the insanity I had grown up in with slogans and protests, but eventually settled back down near my hometown and now have a fiancée and a 1 year old son. I did a lot of parkour during my roaming days and so now have a really screwed up spine (and no health insurance) so physical labor is out. Nobody corporate will hire me because of my criminal record so I work with my dad in real estate getting ~25% of his commissions (in exchange for keeping track of everything for him, half the reason I still work with him is because without me he would lose track of his own head). I barely make enough to keep a roof over my families head and the lights on. I have no higher degrees, no verifiable experience in anything other than getting my ass kicked by the cops, and no savings.
How the hell am I supposed to jump ship to another country?
Ok, I'll address this point by point since you laid it out that way.
A: I think 18 is a more sensible age. In fact I think we should drop the drinking age to 18 (at least) as well. Our current situation of scattering the ages of when things are legal really diminishes the concept of becoming an adult and I think is one of the main reasons we have so many people who never seem to grow up. They never have a defining moment that says "Now you are an adult, act like one." In fact, arguments could be made for pushing the age of majority as low as 14. The longer you treat somebody like they can't make their own decisions the more likely they are to make bad ones just to spite the fact that they're being told that they can't.
B: Several years? We're talking about people using drugs not manufacturing them right? You can learn practically everything you need to know to be a safe opiate user in a week, max. In fact all it basically boils down to is this:
1. Always know what you're taking and how strong it is relative to your tolerance. 2: Don't increase your dosage more than 2x what you're used to doing on a regular basis. 3: When you do increase your dosage see how it affects you and use that dosage several times before driving or operating heavy machinery. 4: If IVing don't share needles. 5: Use a fresh sterile needle every time 6: IVing pills not meant to be used IV is bad for you, the waxes, binders, and anti-abuse additives can cause all sorts of problems. 7: Don't mix opiates with other drugs without researching their interactions. 8: If you've been using for a while on a daily basis and want to stop try to slowly wean yourself off, stopping cold turkey can kill a heavy user and will make you sick as hell even if your daily dosage isn't very high.
Those are all the most important points. Some of these could even be dropped in the case of opiates being legal, easily obtainable, clearly labeled, and free from all of the dangerous anti-abuse additives. Those anti-abuse additives I believe are some of the most asinine evil shit the pharmacological companies do to appease the government. Opiate addicts have a physical addiction and making it difficult or dangerous to use will not stop a person who is in great physical pain from finding (often half-assed) ways around them in order to find relief. The only function they perform is endangering the lives of users and I feel run counter to the Hippocratic Oath. (sorry for getting somewhat off topic..)
C: Requiring a license for something is just a half-assed ban against certain groups of people. Especially since I can practically guarantee many states would revoke it for even non-drug related convictions. Similar to the way that non-violent felons are restricted from owning certain types of weapons. It doesn't stop anybody from doing it anyway and makes people into a different class of criminals than they otherwise would have been.
D: Why? It's not even like pot where one could make the argument that nearby people could end up intoxicated without intending to be so. The only reason for such a ban is the puritanical nonsense that got us into this stupid drug war to begin with.
E: You obviously don't know any opiate addicts. They're WAY more dangerous on the road when they DON'T have their typical dose. An addict going through detox experiences nausea, diarrhea, shakes, hot and cold flashes, drowsiness (but unable to actually sleep) and other effects that make them dangerous to be on the road. Of course you shouldn't substantially up your dose to where you're nodding off and have slowed response times before driving, but we already have laws against driving while impaired. If the drugs were legal and could be picked up cheaply at the local drug store, you would almost never have this problem. It happens all too often these days because their prohibited status makes it difficult for users to locate and afford their next dose, they are all too often in a pretty terrible state before they manage to find someone to sell them
The other thing to come to mind is they are probably making the mistake of equating hindering schoolwork with hindering education. Just because you're not learning what the state says you should doesn't mean you're not learning.
Naturally. My point (which I'll agree I didn't state very clearly) was simply that caves can often have leaks, in many cases worse than a poorly constructed roof. Of course when your floor is made of stone instead of wood and carpet, a bit of water leaking into your dwelling isn't quite as big of an issue.
What were we talking about again? Oh right.. cell phones...
You've obviously never spent much time in caves. Generally the rule of thumb for caving is unless you can see the sky from where you are, if it starts raining outside you need to get the hell out, fast. Very quickly the part of the cave you're in can end up FULL of water.
Perhaps beehive style complex structures could replace larger structures like apartment complexes and skyscrapers. Of course I'd hate to think what it would be like living in a building that has the flu.
The new corporatism is much, much more dangerous to our society than terrorism.
Not only that, but one could make the argument that it breeds actual terrorism. As we have learned in the middle east, if you ruin enough peoples lives eventually some of them will decide to come and TAKE yours.
I sure remembered. My first thought was "Shit, I hope they don't stop selling them, I still haven't had the spare scratch to get one yet!" It's pretty high on my list of "awesome shit to waste money on."
Yeah, all you have to do is drop at LEAST a couple hundred on a lawyer and have him handle it for you. Kind of hard to do when you're living paycheck to paycheck like most of the people who get stuck with bogus charges.
I think people don't protest because the only people with a legitimate complaint here are the urban kids getting screwed by the drug war.
And the sub-urban kids, and the rural kids, and the adults, and the taxpayers.
Everybody is screwed by the drug war except those who are profiting from it (weapons and police gear manufacturers, prison corporations and companies that use their (slave) labor, big pharma) and even in many of those cases it's just the officers of the companies that are doing well, as the employees often get crap pay and crap benefits and crap advancement opportunities.
So vote for a third party! I'm so sick of everybody saying "The republicans and democrats both are terrible!" and then going out and voting for one of them!
And no I'm not just doing this to hype the Pirate Party, because, honestly, I don't think we'll have a candidate in time for the next election. Even if the PP totally goes down the tubes I still think the best thing we as citizens can try to do to save our country's future is break out of the two party duopoly.
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Well then why didn't you reply to it? Oh, wait, it isn't there. I expanded all the comments and ctrl+f'ed Obama, the only three instances were in your post..
So why exactly hasn't Slashdot (and every other blog on the planet) been sued into a smoking crater? I think you've been pulling plays out of the New York Times book here bud...
This one's sat at the back of my mind ever since I read Feynmans account of reviewing math books.
I was curious about this so i googled around and came across a copy here. It seems that not a day goes by in which I fail to see more evidence reinforcing my decision to home-school.
Yes. Like it or not cycles are so cheap that now everybody is starting to carry around little general computing devices. The unfortunate side effect of this is that people will attempt to compromise them.
Maybe instead of complaining about they pay, you should try to do your employer's job, since that's obviously where the profit margin you're looking for is at? Oh that's right, you can't DO that, can you?
If you would read the article, that's exactly what they HAVE done.
Programmers are a lot easier to find than people willing and able to lead/run a successful financial firm.
One would hope so. We've got enough sociopaths as it is.
I think somebody in the neighborhood should just go take them down. I doubt they would bother to replace them. And if you did notice the signs being replaced, call the local news media and get them to show a video of workers installing stop signs on a road with no intersection.
I'm curious as to how you would handle a student who showed up infrequently, but turned in stellar projects (maybe a few days late) and aced the tests. That was my pattern throughout most of my schooling and I seemed to get completely random reactions to it from different teachers.
I have an honest question for you. Can you find me a country that will take me and help me get there with my family?
I got sucked into the American "justice" system when I was 14 for playing with fire in the middle of the road near my house. Ever since then the local cops have labelled me as trouble and been sure to search extra hard when I get pulled over.
I was kicked out of school shortly afterwards because several months earlier I had given a friend a copy of the anarchist cookbook on a floppy disk. The administration of course "found out" about this the day after the columbine shooting. Only after threatening to sue did they agree to pass me on to the next grade, but they wouldn't give me credit for all my high school level classes.
So I got dumped into 9th grade taking a bunch of classes I had already been through. Being young, angry, and too smart for my own good, this was of course unbearable. So I dropped out as soon as possible, but the laws being what they were I had to go through a year and a half of high school I didn't need. I skipped constantly only to show up on test days and get high 90%'s. Because I wasn't doing the boring repetitious homework of course my grades tanked. As soon as I hit 16 years old I dropped out, waited the mandatory 6 months and then took my GED, getting 99% on nearly every test. I've gone into community college a couple times but every time I get so bored and/or frustrated of taking classes full of people who dropped out of high school because it was too hard for them, and teachers who either don't expect much, don't care, or don't understand what they're supposed to be teaching. Between that and the need to work as much as I can so I don't starve I always end up dropping out
Thanks to the extra police scrutiny as well as a year long undercover investigation to bust our "drug ring" (read: teenagers smoking pot) I've got a handful of felony convictions. At 16 I decided to plead out instead of facing 20 years in prison for giving somebody I thought was a friend a dime bag after he claimed his step-dad would beat him if he didn't come home with some pot.
I spent a couple years hitching around with the hippies and anarchists trying to save the world from the insanity I had grown up in with slogans and protests, but eventually settled back down near my hometown and now have a fiancée and a 1 year old son. I did a lot of parkour during my roaming days and so now have a really screwed up spine (and no health insurance) so physical labor is out. Nobody corporate will hire me because of my criminal record so I work with my dad in real estate getting ~25% of his commissions (in exchange for keeping track of everything for him, half the reason I still work with him is because without me he would lose track of his own head). I barely make enough to keep a roof over my families head and the lights on. I have no higher degrees, no verifiable experience in anything other than getting my ass kicked by the cops, and no savings.
How the hell am I supposed to jump ship to another country?
My guess would be that they're more likely unwilling to go to prison, rather than unwilling to engage in some violence.
Being arrested for smoking pot is much more likely to ruin your life than the actual act of smoking it.
Ok, I'll address this point by point since you laid it out that way.
A: I think 18 is a more sensible age. In fact I think we should drop the drinking age to 18 (at least) as well. Our current situation of scattering the ages of when things are legal really diminishes the concept of becoming an adult and I think is one of the main reasons we have so many people who never seem to grow up. They never have a defining moment that says "Now you are an adult, act like one." In fact, arguments could be made for pushing the age of majority as low as 14. The longer you treat somebody like they can't make their own decisions the more likely they are to make bad ones just to spite the fact that they're being told that they can't.
B: Several years? We're talking about people using drugs not manufacturing them right? You can learn practically everything you need to know to be a safe opiate user in a week, max. In fact all it basically boils down to is this:
1. Always know what you're taking and how strong it is relative to your tolerance.
2: Don't increase your dosage more than 2x what you're used to doing on a regular basis.
3: When you do increase your dosage see how it affects you and use that dosage several times before driving or operating heavy machinery.
4: If IVing don't share needles.
5: Use a fresh sterile needle every time
6: IVing pills not meant to be used IV is bad for you, the waxes, binders, and anti-abuse additives can cause all sorts of problems.
7: Don't mix opiates with other drugs without researching their interactions.
8: If you've been using for a while on a daily basis and want to stop try to slowly wean yourself off, stopping cold turkey can kill a heavy user and will make you sick as hell even if your daily dosage isn't very high.
Those are all the most important points. Some of these could even be dropped in the case of opiates being legal, easily obtainable, clearly labeled, and free from all of the dangerous anti-abuse additives. Those anti-abuse additives I believe are some of the most asinine evil shit the pharmacological companies do to appease the government. Opiate addicts have a physical addiction and making it difficult or dangerous to use will not stop a person who is in great physical pain from finding (often half-assed) ways around them in order to find relief. The only function they perform is endangering the lives of users and I feel run counter to the Hippocratic Oath. (sorry for getting somewhat off topic..)
C: Requiring a license for something is just a half-assed ban against certain groups of people. Especially since I can practically guarantee many states would revoke it for even non-drug related convictions. Similar to the way that non-violent felons are restricted from owning certain types of weapons. It doesn't stop anybody from doing it anyway and makes people into a different class of criminals than they otherwise would have been.
D: Why? It's not even like pot where one could make the argument that nearby people could end up intoxicated without intending to be so. The only reason for such a ban is the puritanical nonsense that got us into this stupid drug war to begin with.
E: You obviously don't know any opiate addicts. They're WAY more dangerous on the road when they DON'T have their typical dose. An addict going through detox experiences nausea, diarrhea, shakes, hot and cold flashes, drowsiness (but unable to actually sleep) and other effects that make them dangerous to be on the road. Of course you shouldn't substantially up your dose to where you're nodding off and have slowed response times before driving, but we already have laws against driving while impaired. If the drugs were legal and could be picked up cheaply at the local drug store, you would almost never have this problem. It happens all too often these days because their prohibited status makes it difficult for users to locate and afford their next dose, they are all too often in a pretty terrible state before they manage to find someone to sell them
The other thing to come to mind is they are probably making the mistake of equating hindering schoolwork with hindering education. Just because you're not learning what the state says you should doesn't mean you're not learning.
Naturally. My point (which I'll agree I didn't state very clearly) was simply that caves can often have leaks, in many cases worse than a poorly constructed roof. Of course when your floor is made of stone instead of wood and carpet, a bit of water leaking into your dwelling isn't quite as big of an issue.
What were we talking about again? Oh right.. cell phones...
You've obviously never spent much time in caves. Generally the rule of thumb for caving is unless you can see the sky from where you are, if it starts raining outside you need to get the hell out, fast. Very quickly the part of the cave you're in can end up FULL of water.
Ok, this is like the third or fourth post I've seen in this discussion mentioning horse porn. Did I fucking miss something?
Perhaps beehive style complex structures could replace larger structures like apartment complexes and skyscrapers. Of course I'd hate to think what it would be like living in a building that has the flu.
The new corporatism is much, much more dangerous to our society than terrorism.
Not only that, but one could make the argument that it breeds actual terrorism. As we have learned in the middle east, if you ruin enough peoples lives eventually some of them will decide to come and TAKE yours.
Well there's our solution to all our road durability issues: just make them all out of chewing gum!
I sure remembered. My first thought was "Shit, I hope they don't stop selling them, I still haven't had the spare scratch to get one yet!" It's pretty high on my list of "awesome shit to waste money on."
I've noticed this effect myself, I'll sneeze for the first week or two that i'm around a new furry critter until I get acclimated.
However, it turns out you may be wrong about the nuts part at least. I had heard about this from a nanny friend of mine.
Yeah, all you have to do is drop at LEAST a couple hundred on a lawyer and have him handle it for you. Kind of hard to do when you're living paycheck to paycheck like most of the people who get stuck with bogus charges.
How the hell does one "check in" without being.. well.. in.
I think people don't protest because the only people with a legitimate complaint here are the urban kids getting screwed by the drug war.
And the sub-urban kids, and the rural kids, and the adults, and the taxpayers.
Everybody is screwed by the drug war except those who are profiting from it (weapons and police gear manufacturers, prison corporations and companies that use their (slave) labor, big pharma) and even in many of those cases it's just the officers of the companies that are doing well, as the employees often get crap pay and crap benefits and crap advancement opportunities.
So vote for a third party! I'm so sick of everybody saying "The republicans and democrats both are terrible!" and then going out and voting for one of them!
And no I'm not just doing this to hype the Pirate Party, because, honestly, I don't think we'll have a candidate in time for the next election. Even if the PP totally goes down the tubes I still think the best thing we as citizens can try to do to save our country's future is break out of the two party duopoly.