Did anyone read the press release sent out by the Libertarian party last week? Libertarian homepage
700,000 people were arrested last year for marijuana offenses... An even larger waste of resources than this raid.
I'd be more concerned about my physical thumb being stolen than my digital one..
Good way to meet friendly police officers
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Remote Breathalyzer
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Tape a cotton swab soaked in ethanol up to the sensor (cleaning/or religious purposes).. Sit back and wait for police harassment (who's harassing whom?).
Drive around a busy city around 2:00 AM. Repeat every night.
I'm pretty sure if a bunch of people were practicing this, the device would be deemed unreliable.
Note: You shouldn't drink while performing this task.
I'm sorry, but any one of infocoms 100+ games should have dominated that list.
Suspended took me three years to figure out. Beyond Zork: The best game ever.
Trinity? Awesome game.
Nord and Bert? Good lord, how'd they miss that?
Oh wait, maybe flashy graphics make a game good..
Explains why there aren't and space/kings/heroes/police quest games there either. And each and every one of those were much better than any First-person shooter.
God, Twitch, shoot, twitch? Do the video game companies really want us to build up large muscles in our hands?
prolixity
Re:This is just a NASA smokescreen
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I also believe that inflatable space(wo)men are the answer to all of NASA's woes. This solution is only second to the "Russian Mail-order cosmonauts" in effectiveness.
I just read something about that. I believe it was in "The Man Who Turned on the World" by Michael Hollingshead. He mentioned that biologists and physiologists like to treat the human body as a machine, but they overlook qualitative change- as they are so focused on the mechanistic workings of the human body.
Good book, I believe you can find an online copy at DRCNet.
Heroin is usually administered with a needle.
Video games aren't
Heroin is an autonomic system depressant.
Video games aren't
Heroin releases massive amounts of dopamine.
Video games don't
An excessive usage pattern of heroin administration will lead to withdrawl symptoms when the supply is severed.
Video games *aren't* physically addictive
Video games *are* safe to use without a physician's presence
Video games *do not* present a high potential for abuse.
The only criteria I can see for scheduling video games is that they have no currently accepted medical applications.
And by the way, if you read ahead of the current government propaganda, you can find plenty on non-scheduled alternatives.
prolixity
Re:Is anyone else worried about this?
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"What if China does decide to set up shop on the moon? What if they decide to try to mine something or go up there and basically claim something like the Sea of Tranquility as a territory of China? Who could really do anything about it? There are a lot of bad things that I can imagine could come from this. Everything from turning the moon into the largest garbage dump in the solar system to nuclear detonations"
Hmm...go ahead and claim the Sea of Tranquility...what will that accomplish?
"oh no, the chinese are claiming precious resources situated on the moon!"
How the hell are they going to exploit these resources?
And why the hell not detonate our nuclear weapons in space rather than on earth? Why not place our refuse on the moon? It's not like anybody lives there..
Yes, Cyrix. With a name like that, they could be heading an evil-world dominating corporation (ala-James Bond). To hell with Pentiums and Athlons..I want a computer that sounds mean. I want chills to run through the spines of my friends as I tell them that I have a badass Cyrix cpu in my box. Yeah!
"Similarly, scientists have studied Extasy and found it has massive detrimental longterm effects to your IQ"
Oh my god..so far from the truth. In reality, in studies conducted on users who have rolled hundreds of times compared to those who have abstained from ecstasy (notice how it is spelled correctly), no psychological differences were found. Although seratonin levels were slightly lower than their non-using counterparts, ecstasy users were found to function no differently than any non-user.
Check the facts..visit a library like Erowid.org or Lycaeum.org. You'll learn a lot.
"This most definately falls under the idea of cruel and unusual punishment"
I don't have a law degree, but in order for it to be unconstitutional doesn't it have to be both cruel and unusual at the same time? There be nothing cruel or unusual in this instance.
"Well, she didn't, she fainted and would have died if I haden't made her eat a whole bunch of cofee and salt." I think you may have taken an alarmist's viewpoint in this instance. While it may be possible to suffer a drop in blood pressure, this is rarely fatal. Your story is akin to an account I read on Lycaeum.org. A lady tried DXM for the first time (a really meager amount by the way) and didn't like what she was experiencing so she called the hospital. They ended up pumping her stomach and telling her she would have died. Come on! I know people who've been able to drink upwards of 24 oz. of robo and not even become comatose. Lots of people overreact and do stupid things when participating in or viewing illegal acts.
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hmm, that wouldn't happen to be anywhere near 12/21/2012 would it?
some of you know what I'm talking about.
Did anyone read the press release sent out by the Libertarian party last week?
Libertarian homepage
700,000 people were arrested last year for marijuana offenses... An even larger waste of resources than this raid.
I'd be more concerned about my physical thumb being stolen than my digital one..
Tape a cotton swab soaked in ethanol up to the sensor (cleaning/or religious purposes).. Sit back and wait for police harassment (who's harassing whom?).
Drive around a busy city around 2:00 AM. Repeat every night.
I'm pretty sure if a bunch of people were practicing this, the device would be deemed unreliable.
Note: You shouldn't drink while performing this task.
I'm sorry, but any one of infocoms 100+ games should have dominated that list.
Suspended took me three years to figure out. Beyond Zork: The best game ever.
Trinity? Awesome game.
Nord and Bert? Good lord, how'd they miss that?
Oh wait, maybe flashy graphics make a game good..
Explains why there aren't and space/kings/heroes/police quest games there either. And each and every one of those were much better than any First-person shooter.
God, Twitch, shoot, twitch? Do the video game companies really want us to build up large muscles in our hands?
prolixity
I also believe that inflatable space(wo)men are the answer to all of NASA's woes. This solution is only second to the "Russian Mail-order cosmonauts" in effectiveness.
Prolixity
I just read something about that. I believe it was in "The Man Who Turned on the World" by Michael Hollingshead. He mentioned that biologists and physiologists like to treat the human body as a machine, but they overlook qualitative change- as they are so focused on the mechanistic workings of the human body.
Good book, I believe you can find an online copy at DRCNet.
prolixity
hmm..
Heroin is usually administered with a needle.
Video games aren't
Heroin is an autonomic system depressant.
Video games aren't
Heroin releases massive amounts of dopamine.
Video games don't
An excessive usage pattern of heroin administration will lead to withdrawl symptoms when the supply is severed.
Video games *aren't* physically addictive
Video games *are* safe to use without a physician's presence
Video games *do not* present a high potential for abuse.
The only criteria I can see for scheduling video games is that they have no currently accepted medical applications.
And by the way, if you read ahead of the current government propaganda, you can find plenty on non-scheduled alternatives.
prolixity
"What if China does decide to set up shop on the moon? What if they decide to try to mine something or go up there and basically claim something like the Sea of Tranquility as a territory of China? Who could really do anything about it? There are a lot of bad things that I can imagine could come from this. Everything from turning the moon into the largest garbage dump in the solar system to nuclear detonations"
Hmm...go ahead and claim the Sea of Tranquility...what will that accomplish?
"oh no, the chinese are claiming precious resources situated on the moon!"
How the hell are they going to exploit these resources?
And why the hell not detonate our nuclear weapons in space rather than on earth? Why not place our refuse on the moon? It's not like anybody lives there..
Intel...
Amd...
Cyrix...
Yes, Cyrix. With a name like that, they could be heading an evil-world dominating corporation (ala-James Bond). To hell with Pentiums and Athlons..I want a computer that sounds mean. I want chills to run through the spines of my friends as I tell them that I have a badass Cyrix cpu in my box. Yeah!
Stop the Hate! No on 22!
Notorious Coward
"Similarly, scientists have studied Extasy and found it has massive detrimental longterm effects to your IQ"
Oh my god..so far from the truth. In reality, in studies conducted on users who have rolled hundreds of times compared to those who have abstained from ecstasy (notice how it is spelled correctly), no psychological differences were found. Although seratonin levels were slightly lower than their non-using counterparts, ecstasy users were found to function no differently than any non-user.
Check the facts..visit a library like Erowid.org or Lycaeum.org. You'll learn a lot.
Josh
"This most definately falls under the idea of cruel and unusual punishment"
I don't have a law degree, but in order for it to be unconstitutional doesn't it have to be both cruel and unusual at the same time? There be nothing cruel or unusual in this instance.
"Well, she didn't, she fainted and would have died if I haden't made her eat a whole bunch of cofee and salt."
I think you may have taken an alarmist's viewpoint in this instance. While it may be possible to suffer a drop in blood pressure, this is rarely fatal. Your story is akin to an account I read on Lycaeum.org. A lady tried DXM for the first time (a really meager amount by the way) and didn't like what she was experiencing so she called the hospital. They ended up pumping her stomach and telling her she would have died. Come on! I know people who've been able to drink upwards of 24 oz. of robo and not even become comatose. Lots of people overreact and do stupid things when participating in or viewing illegal acts.
Light speed is 670.615.200 mph, I believe