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  1. Drugs were not always illegal in the US on World Health Organization Calls For Decriminalization of Drug Use · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Here is a recipe from my great-grandma's cookbook. Cough Syrup Syrup of squills four ounces, syrup of tolu four ounces, tincture of bloodroot one and one-half ounces, camphorated tincture of opium four ounces. Mix. Dose for an adult, one teaspoon repeated every two to four hours. She used to be able to go to the pharmacist and get tincture of opium.

  2. Re:Corporate culture on Ask Slashdot: How Many Employees Does Microsoft Really Need? · · Score: 1

    He had over a million in sales HIS FIRST Year in the company, You people are charming, is all I can say

  3. Corporate culture on Ask Slashdot: How Many Employees Does Microsoft Really Need? · · Score: 5, Informative

    My son is certified as a Microsoft Architect and at one point in his career was a senior Microsoft executive. He described the upper levels as very political. There was little team spirit.There was a lot of jockeying for position, backstabbing and attempts to degrade people to to elevate yourself. He eventually left and started his own company (which is doing quite well. He just bought a 40' RV)

  4. Kitchen Knives on Interview: Ask Ben Starr About the Future of Food · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What knives do you recommend? I use Chicago Cutlery, but I have been told that Wusthof is worth the money.

  5. What I used on Ask Slashdot: Easy Wi-Fi-Enabled Tablet For My Dad? · · Score: 1

    I trained my 91 year old mother-in-law with a Motorola Xoom. I put I put the email app on the front. Of course, now she can't find the tablet, but that is irrelevant to the question of which tablet to use

  6. Maybe not NSA snooping on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 2, Informative

    If this is the same Ellen Richardson, a disabled author, the DHS did not need her medical records. She posted her suicidal tendencies on the internet. http://ellenrichardson.ca/ http://ellenrichardson.ca/bio/index.html

  7. Re:Why subsidize? on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 1

    If solar is doing so great then why does it need subsidies? Thats what the GOP doesn't like, not that such a thing exists, but that the government creates distortions in the economy by picking winners before the race starts. Old school republicans and libertarians both distaste government intervention. Solar will eventually become cost effective without subsidies, lets wait for that to happen.

    If fossil fuels are doing so great then why do they need subsidies? Thats what the GOP doesn't like, not that such a thing exists, but that the government creates distortions in the economy by picking winners before the race starts. Old school republicans and libertarians both distaste government intervention. Fossil fuels eventually rise or fall without subsidies, lets wait for that to happen.

  8. Corporations on Why Johnny Can't Speak: a Cost of Paywalled Research · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The United States has become a nation of public financing and private profits.

  9. That explains it on GTA Online Runs Into an Online Roadblock · · Score: 3, Funny

    No wonder I am having a hard time logging into healthcare.gov to look at my (probably) new insurance. All the bandwidth is being sucked up by GTA5, because they both launched the same day.

  10. Cognitive Dissonance on GTA V Proves a Lot of Parents Still Don't Know or Care About ESRB Ratings · · Score: 1

    I want restrictions on all those OTHER children. My child is special.

  11. Terrorists on New Snowden Revelation: Terrorists Attempting To Infiltrate CIA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think the problem is EVERYTHING is labeled Top Secret and everything is a terrorist group. Is this going to embarrass Senator X? Label it top secret. Twenty years in the future, this fact MIGHT be pertinent. Label it Super Top Secret. Annoyed with someone? Label him a terrorist. Annoyed with a situation. Must be terrorists. In the rush to cover their governmental asses, everything must be labeled top secret and everyone must be spied on, because, ya know, they might become a terrorist someday. Land of the Free, as long as you do not upset anyone in power: corporate, military or government.

  12. Privacy Issue on Should Cops Wear Google Glass? · · Score: 1

    I see privacy issues both ways. If the cops is required to wear Google glasses all the time, we have an issue where the cops cannot use the restroom or eat in privacy. And if he takes them off, then some lawyer will be upset about the missing time. I also see a problem with overriding the individual judgement of the cop. What if he feels he HAS to write a ticket instead of just give a warning, because his every move is being monitored by someone. I think we should just stick with dashcams

  13. I would put it on my wall on Robot Produces Paintings With That 'Imperfect' Human Look · · Score: 1

    I actually went out and read/watched TFA (gasp!) What is created by this robot is aesthetically pleasing to me. My definition of art is: something that can invoke an emotional response. Some of the pictures invokes loneliness, or struggle. I would call it art.

  14. What could go wrong? on Every Public School Student In LA Will Get an iPad In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Are these going to be kept at the school? Or home? Have they thought this out? What is to keep an addicted parent from selling the ipad? The curious toddler from taking it apart or dropping it in the bathtub? I don't think will end well.

  15. Re:For crying out loud on US Lawmakers Want Sanctions On Any Country Taking In Snowden · · Score: 1

    Fairness has nothing to do with it. I am saying it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Illegal. Violation of oaths.

  16. For crying out loud on US Lawmakers Want Sanctions On Any Country Taking In Snowden · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All Snowden did was let the us, (ya know...We the People of these United States) know that the secret courts, and secret spying was running amuck. As we employ these people, we should have a say as to what is funded. How would an employer feel if he had a secret project in his company that had an unlimited budget. Ya think he might want to know details? You think the head of the project should tell him that he did not need to know, security and all that. And that he had no right to know what was going on? This is beyond bizarre

  17. Re:It's A Start on NSA Still Funded To Spy On US Phone Records · · Score: 2

    It IS a start. I live in Kansas, a deeply red state. I called my representative on this, and he actually voted "Aye" to reduce the funding. I was shocked, but pleased. He is what you can do, as a lowly, unimportant citizen. Look at the list. http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/113/house/1/412 . If your representative voted "NO" then he voted that the NSA should continue to spy on everyone. Vote him out. He is probably deep in the pocket of the Corporations/Military or deeply believes that the NSA accumulation of all phone, postal mail, email, for-all-I-know bedroom data is a wonderful thing. Vote him/her out. Your vote is one thing they have not managed to neuter yet.

  18. Re:I would, but... on Congress Voting On Amendment to Defund NSA Domestic Spying Tomorrow · · Score: 2

    All right, gang. I called Kevin Yoder, for what it is worth. FOR the Amash, Coyers amendment. AGAINST the Nugent amendment The intern taking the call said that he personally agreed with my stance, so maybe there is a .0001% chance of it making a difference. Then again, he may have been told to say that to everyone. Off to a Google Glass meeting.

  19. I would, but... on Congress Voting On Amendment to Defund NSA Domestic Spying Tomorrow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I live in Kansas, so if I called my Congressman, it would be totally ineffective. I have tried before and gotten the form letter which says, basically, "If you have an opinion that disagrees with mine, Suck It." Sincerely Your Congressman

  20. Sauce for the gander on Revealed: How the UK Spied On Its G20 Allies At London Summits · · Score: 1

    If the delegates have nothing to hide, then there should be no problem with the public having access.

  21. Re:Meanwhile, Americans are asking for a pardon. on USA Calling For the Extradition of Snowden · · Score: 3, Informative

    https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snowden/Dp03vGYD879 --- 404 Page not found The page you're looking for is currently unavailable to view We've been upgrading our site. It is possible that this page has been moved or renamed. You can use your browser's Back button to return to the previous page, go to the homepage, or you can browse or search for the information you're looking for. If you think that you have reached this page due to an error on our part, please let us know.

  22. But, Corporations are People! on The Amish Are Getting Fracked · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Except they have no ethics or morality. Or shame.

  23. What people need is tools on 3D Printers For Peace Contest · · Score: 1

    Axes, buckets, shovels, saws, knives, cooking pots, tarps, harnesses, fishing poles, gardening tools to start with. Later they will need more complex tools, such as auto parts.

  24. Constitution Amended on Did Internet Sales Tax Backers Bribe Congress? (Video) · · Score: 0

    Old Version: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. New Version as approved by SCOTUS: We the Lobbyists of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Corporation, establish Profitable Trade, insure domestic (and foreign) Profits, provide for the common stockholder, promote the general Welfare of our CEOs, and secure the Blessings of Wealth to ourselves and our Posterity (only), do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

  25. This does work on Campaign Raises Funds To Send Wikipedia Readers To Kids Without Internet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There has already been experiments that show that this is a good idea. Children given access to computers/knowledge WILL learn and exceed expectations. http://www.npr.org/2013/05/03/179828483/can-schools-exist-in-the-cloud