Actually, my guesttimates on their restock situation isn't based on anything I've heard. The sales figure? Sure, I'm just going by what I hear.. but how many more units will be out before christmas? I know a fair shake of people who were looking at PS3s (for curiousity's sake, nobody I know or talk to even begins to consider the price a reasonable figure), and a number of people who work in retail.. and everyone seems to be of the opinion that if the stores are even able to get in as many units before christmas, as they had for launch, it'll be a miracle.
Basically.
There's 4 weeks till Christmas. The numbers Sony had for their launch will have to be DUPLICATED.. for every week from now until christmas.. if their launch numbers were correct, and if the guesttimates for 750,000 units by christmas will be correct.
Call me what you will, but I can't say I see any reason to believe that their production suffered so badly for the months leading up to launch that their projected numbers were cut to a TENTH of what they claimed, but that somehow in the past month they've managed to produce as many units as they were able to muscle out the door for their launch.
I mean, honestly, does that many any sense to YOU? That Sony can't make more than maybe 250,000 units for their launch, but somehow production will just magically increase exponentially shortly after launch?
Seriously. Think about it. They'd have to put out as many units per week, from now till christmas, as they put out in the months leading up to launch.. is there any reason to believe all the problems with production have been solved and they've got things cranked up to ludicrous speed now?
and now to top it all off, Robots who respond to how we talk to them.
Just what we need. Get home from work, act snippy to your robot, and suddenly it decides it's going to eat you. You can't hide, it'll just find you, and you can't run, it'll just shoot you.
it doesn't have the physical addictiveness issues. You *DO* build up tolerance to THC, with time, but it's an entirely different type of tolerance.
This is where things get complicated, because science and experience don't exactly see eye to eye.
THC doesn't create any type of physical tolerance to itself like opioids, but ask anyone who's smoked a lot and you do wind up building up a tolerance. When you start, you can't finish a joint, come 3-4 months later you're burning up 1-3 grams a day. When you start, you smoke a bit and you can find it hard to function. Given time, excepting a goofy smile and slanty eyes, and a candy bar in hand.. it's be hard to tell you're high at all (and that's an exaggeration, too -- it can be impossible to tell by looking / interacting with someone that they're high, most especially when they're accustomed to the effects, but of course YMMV). Now, actually, none of that really should happen, most especially the tolerance part... but it does. It's not really that serious. Basically you just are able to function better while high, after you get high for a while.. big shocker. And personally, this is a guess, but I think the need for greater amounts of pot to get high after time is because you just get used to being high so much, and perhaps a buildup of metabolites makes it more difficult for it to absorb.. it's most likely the former (the first time you're exposed to high and variable G's it's disorienting, after repeated exposure it's managable), but I've noticed that working out and keeping in shape -- things that increase your metabolism and so increase the rate at which THC is metabolized and expelled from the body -- SEEM to help negate tolerance issues.
It doesn't deaden pain, but it does make it easier to.. not notice pain. For serious, major, hard-core chronic pain I'm not sure I'd rely solely on marijuana for pain relief.. but used in conjunction with an opiate? I couldn't imagine any other way of going about it, I'll be honest. And, obviously, the appetite aspects of pot are.. well known.
No, drug tests are just a way to keep those damned pothead hippies unemployed.
Coke, meth, opiates, esctasy, pcp? any of those, if you indulged on a friday afternoon, would be clear from your system come monday morning -- more or less. don't take this as gospel, it's not ENTIRELY that simple.
mushrooms? lsd? mescaline? you've got to be kidding. they don't even test for those. not even if they send a blood sample into a lab -- it's prohibitively expensive, and you just won't find anything anyway.
and there's a ton of LEGAL drugs they don't test for that can significantly impair you.. alcohol primarily. then there's things like dxm, motion sickness pills, and other OTC medicines.. and things like salvia, and muscimol, and other unscheduled and legal plants.
I've already spent (over) $600 on my media center.. I call it a Cohmpewtire!
Wiibound for sure. A console should not cost more than an off-the-shelf computer that's capable of playing any game I'd put on it -- and right now, the XBox and PS3 are failing that test horribly. The Wii's the only winner (wiinner? I'll buy the damned thing just for the pun potential.. pun-tential if you will.)
Hmm, seems we may have been operating on different assumptions of what was being said.
If the language is actually threatening -- "I'm going to kill you", "Just wait till you go home, I'll be waiting with a bat" -- that falls under 'terroristic threats' here in the States. Which is illegal. Something like simply shouting "Hey you, you ugly motherfucker! What the hell is wrong with you, are you deformed AND retarded? The circus tell you you're too weird to stay with them?".. that's A-OK material right there.
I'm sorry, but people insulting and shouting profanity at me are in no way a de facto government. They can say whatever the hell they want. I'm not going to listen to them, because they're just a bunch of loudmouthed assholes.
If they're going to act violently against me, I have the right to defend myself with due force. I've also got the law on my side, if indeed they act violently against me. They CAN'T enact violence upon me or any other individual without fear of reprisal.
But just shouting shit? Hey, maybe you're scared by someone shouting random crap at you from down the block, but honestly.. grow up. They are not oppressing you. Words are not violent. There is no need to punish someone for talking big. You ignore it. Simple. If it transgresses beyond words -- then the law has been broken. You're free to call for the police, or to defend yourself via whatever means may be legal in your particular locale.
Seriously, if the crazy guy on the corner covered in shit that keeps yelling "AH'M GANNA EAT YOOSE! BARBEQUE BABIES AND CATROLLS!" is somehow limiting your freedom and controlling you.. then I'll take up collection to send your poor nation two four-foot-diameter spheres of solid brass. Because it sounds like you all could use 'em -- two huge brass balls.
Actually it's suburban, so no one saw me, literally. In the city, yeah, there's thousands of homeless eyes watching... but no one listens to them anyway.
I would suggest that as long as if you react violently I can kill you no questions asked, then we are entitled to hurl as much abuse at eachother as we like
Yet if I don't react violently, it's not OK?
What if I were to simply act violently with no verbal pretense? You know, in that case, here in the US, it's entirely legal for you to kill them. Self-defense and all.
You see the problem with allowing people to aggresively verbally abuse eachother is that it inherently favours the useless over the useful, because there are inherent risks associated with responding to verbal abuse. The intelligent and capable are essentially ruled, when they leave their front door, by the ignorant and the useless because the latter have less to lose than the former, and no comprehension to realise what they have to lose in the first placce.
Flawed argument. Responding to others is a CHOICE -- you are essentially making the claim that the 'intelligent and capable' are at a disadvantage, because they lose more when they respond to verbal abuse. If they're so intelligent and capable one would certainly hope that they're not so fucking stupid as to get into a fight because someone called their mother a whore. Seriously. That's childish. How can you consider some sort of frivolous law forbidding me from SAYING something SUPERIOR, when in fact your entire argument is based upon the opinion that the subjects of the UK have so little self-control that they cannot help but start a fight when insulted and must be protected from their own uncontrollable violent reactions?
That's funny. You apparently live in a country of brainless knuckle-dragging hooligans. Who'd have thought?
FYI, I KNOW I have the right to go outside and insult people if I want. It's not without exception -- disturbing the peace, inciting a riot, slander (though that's a civil matter not subject to arrest). If they respond violently, that is THEIR problem. And good thing, too. Punish those idiots who are so juvenile they simply cannot ignore that which upsets them.
To prove my point: Bunch of thin-skinned bloody limeys. Buncha chavs the lot of ya. Ya git. Ya wanna fight about it?
I can't believe you labeled 'hurling abuse' as assault. I'm assuming you mean verbal abuse.. and if that's the case, you lot are much more thin-skinned than I thought.
It's my right -- nay, my priviledge! -- as an American to walk down the street and be told I'm a motherfucker, and to respond in kind.
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Actually, my guesttimates on their restock situation isn't based on anything I've heard. The sales figure? Sure, I'm just going by what I hear.. but how many more units will be out before christmas?
I know a fair shake of people who were looking at PS3s (for curiousity's sake, nobody I know or talk to even begins to consider the price a reasonable figure), and a number of people who work in retail.. and everyone seems to be of the opinion that if the stores are even able to get in as many units before christmas, as they had for launch, it'll be a miracle.
Basically.
There's 4 weeks till Christmas.
The numbers Sony had for their launch will have to be DUPLICATED.. for every week from now until christmas.. if their launch numbers were correct, and if the guesttimates for 750,000 units by christmas will be correct.
Call me what you will, but I can't say I see any reason to believe that their production suffered so badly for the months leading up to launch that their projected numbers were cut to a TENTH of what they claimed, but that somehow in the past month they've managed to produce as many units as they were able to muscle out the door for their launch.
I mean, honestly, does that many any sense to YOU? That Sony can't make more than maybe 250,000 units for their launch, but somehow production will just magically increase exponentially shortly after launch?
Seriously. Think about it. They'd have to put out as many units per week, from now till christmas, as they put out in the months leading up to launch.. is there any reason to believe all the problems with production have been solved and they've got things cranked up to ludicrous speed now?
750,000?
Bwahahaha. Yeah, and they'll drop the price, too. Oh god. You.. you're funny! You're funny!
Sony's shipped what, 200,000? So they'd have to nearly quadruple their production IN THE NEXT 4 WEEKS? God, you're funny!
In the past week or two we've heard about:
Robots who think we taste good (bacon mm!)
Robots with frickin' machineguns on their heads
Robots who can play hide and seek
and now to top it all off, Robots who respond to how we talk to them.
Just what we need. Get home from work, act snippy to your robot, and suddenly it decides it's going to eat you. You can't hide, it'll just find you, and you can't run, it'll just shoot you.
I don't even know why the scientists make them!
Blacker than the blackest black.. times infinity!
It's ok -- I have robot insurance!
For when the metal ones come for you.. and they will.
And when the time comes that someone is willing to do creative, individual things FOR LESS PAY.. what will you say then?
No it doesn't.
Many (most!) of those subs are in the asian market -- they don't pay $15USD per month to play. It's less. Much less.
Still, WoW is a money hat machine, regardless.
THC's nowhere near the same league as morphine..
HOWEVER..
it doesn't have the physical addictiveness issues. You *DO* build up tolerance to THC, with time, but it's an entirely different type of tolerance.
This is where things get complicated, because science and experience don't exactly see eye to eye.
THC doesn't create any type of physical tolerance to itself like opioids, but ask anyone who's smoked a lot and you do wind up building up a tolerance. When you start, you can't finish a joint, come 3-4 months later you're burning up 1-3 grams a day. When you start, you smoke a bit and you can find it hard to function. Given time, excepting a goofy smile and slanty eyes, and a candy bar in hand.. it's be hard to tell you're high at all (and that's an exaggeration, too -- it can be impossible to tell by looking / interacting with someone that they're high, most especially when they're accustomed to the effects, but of course YMMV).
Now, actually, none of that really should happen, most especially the tolerance part... but it does. It's not really that serious. Basically you just are able to function better while high, after you get high for a while.. big shocker. And personally, this is a guess, but I think the need for greater amounts of pot to get high after time is because you just get used to being high so much, and perhaps a buildup of metabolites makes it more difficult for it to absorb.. it's most likely the former (the first time you're exposed to high and variable G's it's disorienting, after repeated exposure it's managable), but I've noticed that working out and keeping in shape -- things that increase your metabolism and so increase the rate at which THC is metabolized and expelled from the body -- SEEM to help negate tolerance issues.
It doesn't deaden pain, but it does make it easier to.. not notice pain. For serious, major, hard-core chronic pain I'm not sure I'd rely solely on marijuana for pain relief.. but used in conjunction with an opiate? I couldn't imagine any other way of going about it, I'll be honest.
And, obviously, the appetite aspects of pot are.. well known.
im in ur organisms killin ur cellz?
Oh come on.
Go ahead and yell "FIRE!" in a crowded theater.
NOBODY WILL RUN. IT'S 2006. NOBODY WILL RUN.
They MIGHT.. MAYBE.. get up and look around. After all, fire is entertaining.
No, drug tests are just a way to keep those damned pothead hippies unemployed.
Coke, meth, opiates, esctasy, pcp? any of those, if you indulged on a friday afternoon, would be clear from your system come monday morning -- more or less. don't take this as gospel, it's not ENTIRELY that simple.
mushrooms? lsd? mescaline? you've got to be kidding. they don't even test for those. not even if they send a blood sample into a lab -- it's prohibitively expensive, and you just won't find anything anyway.
and there's a ton of LEGAL drugs they don't test for that can significantly impair you.. alcohol primarily. then there's things like dxm, motion sickness pills, and other OTC medicines.. and things like salvia, and muscimol, and other unscheduled and legal plants.
yeah. drug tests are just a joke.
except for pot.
Or just maybe... some people would rather not have to floss hair out of their teeth day in and day out.
Seriously. I know this is Slashdot, but I know I'm not alone here on that.
Part of the reason I've tried various illicit substances is so that I'm quite safe from ever being 'dosed' as you seem to fear.
I'd recognize and be able to quite easily cope with whatever was going on. Huzzah!
Uh.
... huh look at that, Prince Charles looks.. mighty.. not.. royal.
Look at our politicians.
Look at leaders of industry.
Dubya ain't pretty. And.. Ted Kennedy? Hello?
SOMEONE TELL ME BALLMER IS HOT -- I DARE YOU.
So how about royalty, they've had a few centuries of selective breeding right?
Terrorists Win
... you sir win 2.5 intarnets
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I can just picture Glenn Danzig hanging out with Hitler.
That makes me giggle.
Absolutely not -- I'm looking forward to even more once I get my very only Wii to play with.
:|
I hope I don't drive my girlfriend off with obscene cheesy jokes involving the word "Wii"... time will tell. I've been warned already.
I've already spent (over) $600 on my media center.. I call it a Cohmpewtire!
Wiibound for sure. A console should not cost more than an off-the-shelf computer that's capable of playing any game I'd put on it -- and right now, the XBox and PS3 are failing that test horribly. The Wii's the only winner (wiinner? I'll buy the damned thing just for the pun potential.. pun-tential if you will.)
Hmm, seems we may have been operating on different assumptions of what was being said.
If the language is actually threatening -- "I'm going to kill you", "Just wait till you go home, I'll be waiting with a bat" -- that falls under 'terroristic threats' here in the States. Which is illegal. Something like simply shouting "Hey you, you ugly motherfucker! What the hell is wrong with you, are you deformed AND retarded? The circus tell you you're too weird to stay with them?".. that's A-OK material right there.
I'm sorry, but people insulting and shouting profanity at me are in no way a de facto government. They can say whatever the hell they want. I'm not going to listen to them, because they're just a bunch of loudmouthed assholes.
If they're going to act violently against me, I have the right to defend myself with due force. I've also got the law on my side, if indeed they act violently against me. They CAN'T enact violence upon me or any other individual without fear of reprisal.
But just shouting shit? Hey, maybe you're scared by someone shouting random crap at you from down the block, but honestly.. grow up. They are not oppressing you. Words are not violent. There is no need to punish someone for talking big. You ignore it. Simple.
If it transgresses beyond words -- then the law has been broken. You're free to call for the police, or to defend yourself via whatever means may be legal in your particular locale.
Seriously, if the crazy guy on the corner covered in shit that keeps yelling "AH'M GANNA EAT YOOSE! BARBEQUE BABIES AND CATROLLS!" is somehow limiting your freedom and controlling you.. then I'll take up collection to send your poor nation two four-foot-diameter spheres of solid brass. Because it sounds like you all could use 'em -- two huge brass balls.
Actually it's suburban, so no one saw me, literally. In the city, yeah, there's thousands of homeless eyes watching... but no one listens to them anyway.
Yet if I don't react violently, it's not OK?
What if I were to simply act violently with no verbal pretense? You know, in that case, here in the US, it's entirely legal for you to kill them. Self-defense and all.
Flawed argument. Responding to others is a CHOICE -- you are essentially making the claim that the 'intelligent and capable' are at a disadvantage, because they lose more when they respond to verbal abuse. If they're so intelligent and capable one would certainly hope that they're not so fucking stupid as to get into a fight because someone called their mother a whore. Seriously. That's childish. How can you consider some sort of frivolous law forbidding me from SAYING something SUPERIOR, when in fact your entire argument is based upon the opinion that the subjects of the UK have so little self-control that they cannot help but start a fight when insulted and must be protected from their own uncontrollable violent reactions?
That's funny. You apparently live in a country of brainless knuckle-dragging hooligans. Who'd have thought?
FYI, I KNOW I have the right to go outside and insult people if I want. It's not without exception -- disturbing the peace, inciting a riot, slander (though that's a civil matter not subject to arrest). If they respond violently, that is THEIR problem. And good thing, too. Punish those idiots who are so juvenile they simply cannot ignore that which upsets them.
To prove my point: Bunch of thin-skinned bloody limeys. Buncha chavs the lot of ya. Ya git. Ya wanna fight about it?
I can't believe you labeled 'hurling abuse' as assault. I'm assuming you mean verbal abuse.. and if that's the case, you lot are much more thin-skinned than I thought.
It's my right -- nay, my priviledge! -- as an American to walk down the street and be told I'm a motherfucker, and to respond in kind.