"Do I drink coffee? No, actually. At least, not regularly enough to be called a "coffee drinker". I certainly don't drink it for the caffeine - I'm not sure I've ever felt the effects of it. I drink it for the bitter-sweet-milk taste. Otherwise, I mostly drink tea."
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAA "I certainly don't drink it for the caffeine" "Otherwise, I mostly drink tea" HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAA
omg THAT WAS AWESOME!! thanks for the laugh today.. awesome...!
for being mr science you sure don't know shit about how the brain works do you? FYI the only reason any drug works is because they either mimic the molecular properties of drugs that already are produced by your brain or stimulate the drugs the brain produce.
So yes you are taking drugs from the moment of birth.
I guarantee you are an addict, maybe not to drugs but to SOMETHING, it's how the brain is hardwired.. it's a pleasure/reward system that we all have, the difference with drugs is it's an external stimuli easily provoked, but that's actually quite a small difference when you consider how easily reward stimuli is provoked almost universally (food addicts, sex addicts, exercise addicts, being a moral person addict, etc.., whatever you continuously seek reward from doing to the detriment of others and self) it's all addiction, just easier for you to externalize shame onto others because they don't choose the same addiction as you do.
I see most everyone demonizing "drug addicts" here while feeding their own addiction of self righteousness, both addictions harm other people.
there are a number of withdrawal reducing or negating drugs out there that can be prescribed but are not, maybe finding out why this is or why people would not want to ask for these is a good start instead of making doctors afraid of prescribing pain medications to victims of serious bodily injury.
my personal experience is they don't.. my grandfather smoked for 60 years.. he had slight emphysema (used an inhaler when it got bad) and died at 82.
my grandmother smoked 50 years (quit at the end), had dementia and died at 84, no cancer or emphysema.
so... what was the point again? oh yah right, personal experience is crap when it comes to making decisions that effect EVERYONE, so please tell them to your friends after dinner (or maybe not) but keep it out of discussions about public policy decisions.
I just saw the chair of the FCC saying today that none of our comments on the NN debate has swayed him to regulate. (i'm sure some other back room deals have though).
"The national average salary somewhere else goes up, though. It's hard to argue against jobs moving from your country to another without claiming that people in your country are somehow better, more deserving of those jobs; otherwise, why is it wrong?"
Because who is doing it and why... that's why it's wrong.
"I don't think they think the "trifling" transgressions are "just as bad". I've never heard anyone say, or even suggest, that they are "just as bad"."
well you don't know what they think, but you can infer from their actions, and when they lump together rape with an off color joke, then use the combination of two separate and disparate incidents to use as a factor in the proposed statistic, then yes they are statistically equating the two as "just as bad".
maybe you're just not seeing the radical motivations behind what is portrayed as ethical objections?
"Are you kidding? What you call "this round of violence" started when Hamas started shooting rockets at Israel, _before_ the kidnappings. I know that Western media does not report this. The bombings are never news until Israel shoots back."
Let me interject from a western point of view.. someone who only knows of your conflict originally from news reports/papers/and general "western media".
I was ALWAYS under the impression that Palestinians were terrorists persecuting Jews with rocket attacks and suicide bombings for returning to basically what is the Jewish homeland.
Any Israelis attack on Palestine was a return of aggression.
what i've come to see after looking into the conflict on my own and doing my own investigation is that it seems to me Israel was given Palestinian land, US support, and outguns Palestine 100:1, they fight against israel the only way they can and yet all i hear about is how evil they are and how righteous israel only defends themselves.
i've realized that marketing is always to hide a deficit and now see the conflict reporting in western media as such the same as i see your post (never have i heard western media decry anything isaelis do).
Off-topic Sidenote: I was nearly turned into roadkill yesterday while out for a run in my neighborhood. There's no sidewalk so I run facing oncoming traffic as far to the side as possible. The jackass driver was playing with his cellphone, and drifting toward the side of the road, right at me, and didn't swerve until the last second. I was within a second of making a dive for the side of the road."
as you are breaking a few laws yourself i strain to find the exclusive right to be angry at the driver....
" Maybe what we need are automatic tire spikes that rise when the light turns red.."
and when someone tries to run it and blows tires and is stuck there blocking the lane and intersection? how does changing the punishment alter the behavior?
" The problem is, there were two lanes, and if I had gone in front of "Mr Nice", I would have gotten clobbered by the car in the other lane that didn't stop!"
it's called pulling into the first lane and then merging over into the other lane... NOT crossing 5 lanes of traffic at once (or even two).
I was born and raised in california and lived here all my life, i have NEVER had any "traffic engineer" come tell me what the walk/don't walk/blinking/countdown etc means... let alone update me when "they" decide to change such things...
i guess ive lived this long by common intuition, is there supposed to be somewhere people "know" to get all this helpful info? Please don't say local traffic engineer.
"As for the summary (and I presume the FA it was quoted from), cars can't use the number to tell when the light is going red."
I know i have X seconds before i can assume it will go yellow or red, so i speed up accordingly if i can make the intersection with time to spare.
I don't see how it causes more accidents for me to do this as if the number is too low i slow down, enuf time i can speed up a couple of mph and make the crossing.. no one is crossing the intersection im going through...
why not give both as an option, let new users use the ribbon by default, switch to "classic" for old users. eventually the old users will die and you can support ribbon only.
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what term? Cunt?
"I don't quite follow your logic there. To sit together, families should...wait until more people get on the plane? "
You don't understand the logic of three different boarding groups.. A B and C, where each group boards TOGETHER?
how that would allow them to sit TOGETHER rather than boarding in two SEPARATE groups?
I'd rather people not feel like they get special treatment over others because they have kids.
ah, so you are just a troll.
" But I choose not to medicate myself out of that fear, but live in it. "
" that takes absolutely zero effort to avoid."
these two statements do not seem to reconcile.
can you help explain how not doing drugs takes zero effort when you have to constantly make sure to force yourself to live your life without them?
" by The Evil Atheist (2484676) Alter Relationship on Monday July 28, 2014 @08:01AM (#47549977) Homepage
Okay. I am stupid."
self realization can be wonderful, congrats on finally seeing your true self.!
"Do I drink coffee? No, actually. At least, not regularly enough to be called a "coffee drinker". I certainly don't drink it for the caffeine - I'm not sure I've ever felt the effects of it. I drink it for the bitter-sweet-milk taste. Otherwise, I mostly drink tea."
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAA
"I certainly don't drink it for the caffeine"
"Otherwise, I mostly drink tea"
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAA
omg THAT WAS AWESOME!! thanks for the laugh today.. awesome...!
" You're not born taking drugs."
for being mr science you sure don't know shit about how the brain works do you? FYI the only reason any drug works is because they either mimic the molecular properties of drugs that already are produced by your brain or stimulate the drugs the brain produce.
So yes you are taking drugs from the moment of birth.
why would anyone want to experience recreational pleasure in anyway at all?!!?!?!?
kudos you win the internet!
"There are millions more who smoke marijuana and DON'T. Your logical fallacy is beyond stupid."
NOT UH... you are!!! *ad infinitum*
can we all agree you're both fucking stupid and just ignore your bickering from here on out?
I guarantee you are an addict, maybe not to drugs but to SOMETHING, it's how the brain is hardwired.. it's a pleasure/reward system that we all have, the difference with drugs is it's an external stimuli easily provoked, but that's actually quite a small difference when you consider how easily reward stimuli is provoked almost universally (food addicts, sex addicts, exercise addicts, being a moral person addict, etc.., whatever you continuously seek reward from doing to the detriment of others and self) it's all addiction, just easier for you to externalize shame onto others because they don't choose the same addiction as you do.
I see most everyone demonizing "drug addicts" here while feeding their own addiction of self righteousness, both addictions harm other people.
and what about the people who are forced into prostitution by drug dependance (e.g. like in the film taken)??
there are a number of withdrawal reducing or negating drugs out there that can be prescribed but are not, maybe finding out why this is or why people would not want to ask for these is a good start instead of making doctors afraid of prescribing pain medications to victims of serious bodily injury.
my personal experience is they don't.. my grandfather smoked for 60 years.. he had slight emphysema (used an inhaler when it got bad) and died at 82.
my grandmother smoked 50 years (quit at the end), had dementia and died at 84, no cancer or emphysema.
so... what was the point again? oh yah right, personal experience is crap when it comes to making decisions that effect EVERYONE, so please tell them to your friends after dinner (or maybe not) but keep it out of discussions about public policy decisions.
I just saw the chair of the FCC saying today that none of our comments on the NN debate has swayed him to regulate. (i'm sure some other back room deals have though).
"The national average salary somewhere else goes up, though. It's hard to argue against jobs moving from your country to another without claiming that people in your country are somehow better, more deserving of those jobs; otherwise, why is it wrong?"
Because who is doing it and why... that's why it's wrong.
"I don't think they think the "trifling" transgressions are "just as bad". I've never heard anyone say, or even suggest, that they are "just as bad"."
well you don't know what they think, but you can infer from their actions, and when they lump together rape with an off color joke, then use the combination of two separate and disparate incidents to use as a factor in the proposed statistic, then yes they are statistically equating the two as "just as bad".
maybe you're just not seeing the radical motivations behind what is portrayed as ethical objections?
from the link you provided:
" Its reputation has not risen over the years, and it is still a long way from general acceptance. Use regardless instead."
"Are you kidding? What you call "this round of violence" started when Hamas started shooting rockets at Israel, _before_ the kidnappings. I know that Western media does not report this. The bombings are never news until Israel shoots back."
Let me interject from a western point of view.. someone who only knows of your conflict originally from news reports/papers/and general "western media".
I was ALWAYS under the impression that Palestinians were terrorists persecuting Jews with rocket attacks and suicide bombings for returning to basically what is the Jewish homeland.
Any Israelis attack on Palestine was a return of aggression.
what i've come to see after looking into the conflict on my own and doing my own investigation is that it seems to me Israel was given Palestinian land, US support, and outguns Palestine 100:1, they fight against israel the only way they can and yet all i hear about is how evil they are and how righteous israel only defends themselves.
i've realized that marketing is always to hide a deficit and now see the conflict reporting in western media as such the same as i see your post (never have i heard western media decry anything isaelis do).
Off-topic Sidenote: I was nearly turned into roadkill yesterday while out for a run in my neighborhood. There's no sidewalk so I run facing oncoming traffic as far to the side as possible. The jackass driver was playing with his cellphone, and drifting toward the side of the road, right at me, and didn't swerve until the last second. I was within a second of making a dive for the side of the road."
as you are breaking a few laws yourself i strain to find the exclusive right to be angry at the driver....
" Maybe what we need are automatic tire spikes that rise when the light turns red.."
and when someone tries to run it and blows tires and is stuck there blocking the lane and intersection? how does changing the punishment alter the behavior?
" The problem is, there were two lanes, and if I had gone in front of "Mr Nice", I would have gotten clobbered by the car in the other lane that didn't stop!"
it's called pulling into the first lane and then merging over into the other lane... NOT crossing 5 lanes of traffic at once (or even two).
"No, have spikes that stick up and prevent cars from moving until the crosswalk is clear."
malfunctioning equipment or people trying to run the system couldn't possibly cause massive traffic jams everyday in cities across the globe.
go for it!
I was born and raised in california and lived here all my life, i have NEVER had any "traffic engineer" come tell me what the walk/don't walk/blinking/countdown etc means... let alone update me when "they" decide to change such things...
i guess ive lived this long by common intuition, is there supposed to be somewhere people "know" to get all this helpful info? Please don't say local traffic engineer.
"As for the summary (and I presume the FA it was quoted from), cars can't use the number to tell when the light is going red."
I know i have X seconds before i can assume it will go yellow or red, so i speed up accordingly if i can make the intersection with time to spare.
I don't see how it causes more accidents for me to do this as if the number is too low i slow down, enuf time i can speed up a couple of mph and make the crossing.. no one is crossing the intersection im going through...
why not give both as an option, let new users use the ribbon by default, switch to "classic" for old users. eventually the old users will die and you can support ribbon only.