Smoking up is not health, just like cigarettes. This country is working hard on getting rid of smoking - it is hard because smoking industry is firmly entrenched in our government and pays off our lawyers. But thats great, lets make this legal, and then we can start marketing cigarettes to children again. Hey gotta start them on something.
Um... you do know that there are a variety of ways to feel the effects of marijuana without having to smoke it, right? Also, what is it with this obsession with selectively telling people they can't do something because it isn't healthy?
Currently they just use field sobriety tests. If you're swerving all over the road with bloodshot eyes and your car wreaks of pot then the first thing any cop that pulls you over will due is claim probable cause and search your car or call in a K-9 unit. If they find anything drug related to arrest you for then they'll start with that. Otherwise, they'll administer a field sobriety test which is essentially the same as the one used for suspected drunk drivers (there might be a few subtle differences). If you fail then you're usually charged with DUI or DWI, the same charges a drunk driver would face. I'm confident that should marijuana be legalized, law enforcement will find a way to enforce limits with respect to driving or operating similar machinery in much the same way they do with alcohol (whether good or bad is a different discussion).
What I would be worried about, however, is how would the legalization of marijuana and recreational use play into employer mandated drug testing. I bet a majority of businesses that drug test would continue to reject applicants and fire current employees who test positive even though THC can be detected for weeks and sometimes up to months after use. I wonder how all the weed-haters would like it if they could get fired for getting drunk last Saturday even if they come to work stone cold sober on Monday.
I don't know where religios people get off trying to tell gay people that they don't have the right to share insurance, file taxes together, and visit each other in the hospital; which are about the only rights being legally married entitles you to anyway.
I remember listening to people calling up the radio stations because Bill White, mayor of Houston, was discussing how idiotic the proposed (at the time, now unfortunately a reality) Texas constitutional ban of gay marriage. People would call in and make the most illogical arguments against gay marriage and Bill White would literally call them an idiot or moron to their face (or ears).
I think what the entire argument boils down to is the old adage that people fear what they don't understand. They see these people who are different from them, just like foreigners with different accents, languages, and skin color, and they just lose it. They can't handle the fact that these people who are attracted to and have sex with members of the same sex want to participate in something that traditionally has been only for "normal" heterosexual people. These same people either don't understand the difference between a religious marriage and a civil union or they think homosexuals are just trying to take advantage of the legal benefits associated with marriage (taxes, etc). It isn't that different from the opposition to the woman's rights movement or the civil rights movement. People are just scared and dumb. I think that once most of the stuck-up-their-ass baby-boomer dinosaurs die off this will become less of a problem, at least until we reach the next social milestone.
Anyway, I expect the usual 800-post NRA/2nd Amendment gun nuts vs rational people thread.
I own two guns because I enjoy target shooting and I was on my university's Trap & Skeet team. My country's constitution guarantees my right to own guns. I have never killed another living thing with a gun. How exactly does that make me irrational?
I always find it interesting when people jump up and blame a crime on the tool as opposed to the criminal. If he had used a crossbow or a drill then you probably wouldn't have opened your mouth. But no, the kid stole his dad's gun and you had a perfect opportunity to make your snide little remark. I hope it made you feel all warm and fuzzy and reassured you that your ways are superior. Anyway, I'm glad you enjoy living in a country who's government has decided to prohibit law abiding citizens from owning guns while the criminals probably have them anyway. If that is your definition of "rational people" then I would much rather be grouped with the gun nuts.
People beat, stab, and strangle each other to death in the heat of passion all the time. If someone is crazy enough to plan out and murder their parents for confiscating a video game, the inability to find a gun won't stop them. He'd probably use his own shoelaces to strangle them if he had to.
It really just depends on the company. My father has been working 9/80 for years. He loves it so much he'll typically call me at work on his Friday off and brag to me that he's going to see a movie or something.
The really depressing analysis is that not only is this the start of the Second Great Depression, it's when we start running out of key raw materials like oil, copper, etc. Slowly, industrial civilization, which is only two centuries old, winds down. The world becomes the Rust Belt. We end up with a sustainable society in which life is nasty, brutish, and short.
Yes, but when do the Power Armor and Super Mutants show up?
I remember my first job out of college. We had a somewhat antisocial Chinese guy doing all of the programming and DBA stuff while I pretty much handled everything else that had to do with a computer. I was also on call 24/7 to handle tech support calls. I remember trying to call in sick one day. I ended up just taking the calls from home that day and I wasn't even paid for it. Eventually I learned when and how to say no. If you don't stand up for yourself in any environment then your employers will just keep walking all over you and wanting more and more the whole time. What they fail to realize though, especially if you're in a position where you are responsible for what should be done by 5 different people, is that when you leave its like having 5 employees quit at once.
I was trying to figure out why this thing would need to use poison when TFA only mentions a diet of insects. According to Wikipedia the "diet of solenodons consists largely of insects, earthworms, and other invertebrates, but they also eat vertebrate carrion, and perhaps even some living vertebrate prey such as small reptiles or amphibians"
Honestly, we need more teachers like this guy. Make them work hard in school, because school prepares you for the rest of your life. Suck at school, and chances are you suck at life.
...But if you don't push these kids to try hard when they're young, they're never going to try hard at anything.
No one is saying you shouldn't make kids work hard in school or that we shouldn't push them to try hard. But I agree with the parent, after eight hours of being in the prison environment that is school, six hours of homework (2 hours of homework from 3 oblivious teachers) every night is bullshit. I think its the teachers that aren't trying hard if you can't get the subject across without 2 hours of additional work every night. The very fact that a teacher would create an assignment designed around how much time it takes to complete as opposed to how well it hammers home the actual point of the lesson is incredibly disturbing. But then again, I suppose you're teaching them a life lesson about task management and managerial incompetence.
IE has has had its preferences screen in every menu slot on the browser. Why in the hell do they insist on playing "musical menu items?"
I don't know of a single other software company or OSS program that does this.
In Linux, the dialogue that pops up when you attempt to close Firefox with multiple tabs open has the buttons in different locations than the Windows version. I'm not sure if they've addressed this in 3.0.5 since I just updated Firefox on my Windows machine today and haven't updated it on my laptop running Ubuntu. Anyway, it is incredibly annoying. Also, the preferences menu option is located under Tools in the Windows version of Firefox but if I remember correctly it is listed under Edit in the Linux and Mac versions. Again, incredibly annoying.
I don't understand what this article is about. Why do they have to have any restrictions on the actual machine? Do they not use some sort of proxy to filter web at the school? That way the kids can't go to restricted sites while at school but they can do whatever they want when elsewhere. While proxies can be avoided, anything else you do to restrict the student's use of the computer will easily be bypassed if desired or turn them off to it completely. Seems like a no-brainer to me...
And they can't just indiscriminately stop processing payments made to certain companies...they'd get sued.
This has already happened to me before. A hold was placed on my card because I bought some software online and my credit card company found this to be suspicious for some reason. They never called to inform me of this or to verify if the purchase was legitimate. I had to find out my card didn't work by being embarrassed in front of a store full of people.
I don't have any problem with Apple's computers. I'd probably own one if I had the disposable income. I find myself becoming more and more irritated with the Mac commercials because they just come off as elitist and snobby. Instead of advertising what they do well they just rip on the competition. Same reason those stupid NOBama bumber stickers annoyed me. The latest Mac ad ripping on Microsoft's advertising budget for Vista is a prime example. Wow, you're so clever! The only argument you could come up with is a childish insult directed at your competitor... How about just stating what you do well and not be a condescending prick about it. Trust me to decide what is right for me.
Reminds me of this Dove commercial. They mention how girls have their perception of beauty distorted by the media and how they offer self esteem workshops to teach all little girls that they are beautiful in their own way.
The reason these types of commercials or programs don't exist for (American) men is because no one gives a shit. We've been conditioned to view the expression of emotion as gay and that real men look like Tommy Hilfiger models. Apparently its fine to derive your self esteem and sense of self worth from TV if you're male because males don't have feelings. I'm sure this fact is reflected by the male suicide rate being substantially lower than that of females...</sarcasm>
If you complain about any inequality between men and women that actually favors women, everyone will tell you to quit bitching and suck it up (ladies night, selective services). Almost everyone knows what misogyny is or has at least heard of it. Most people don't even know that misandry is a word, let alone what it means.
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Um... you do know that there are a variety of ways to feel the effects of marijuana without having to smoke it, right? Also, what is it with this obsession with selectively telling people they can't do something because it isn't healthy?
Currently they just use field sobriety tests. If you're swerving all over the road with bloodshot eyes and your car wreaks of pot then the first thing any cop that pulls you over will due is claim probable cause and search your car or call in a K-9 unit. If they find anything drug related to arrest you for then they'll start with that. Otherwise, they'll administer a field sobriety test which is essentially the same as the one used for suspected drunk drivers (there might be a few subtle differences). If you fail then you're usually charged with DUI or DWI, the same charges a drunk driver would face. I'm confident that should marijuana be legalized, law enforcement will find a way to enforce limits with respect to driving or operating similar machinery in much the same way they do with alcohol (whether good or bad is a different discussion).
What I would be worried about, however, is how would the legalization of marijuana and recreational use play into employer mandated drug testing. I bet a majority of businesses that drug test would continue to reject applicants and fire current employees who test positive even though THC can be detected for weeks and sometimes up to months after use. I wonder how all the weed-haters would like it if they could get fired for getting drunk last Saturday even if they come to work stone cold sober on Monday.
I remember listening to people calling up the radio stations because Bill White, mayor of Houston, was discussing how idiotic the proposed (at the time, now unfortunately a reality) Texas constitutional ban of gay marriage. People would call in and make the most illogical arguments against gay marriage and Bill White would literally call them an idiot or moron to their face (or ears).
I think what the entire argument boils down to is the old adage that people fear what they don't understand. They see these people who are different from them, just like foreigners with different accents, languages, and skin color, and they just lose it. They can't handle the fact that these people who are attracted to and have sex with members of the same sex want to participate in something that traditionally has been only for "normal" heterosexual people. These same people either don't understand the difference between a religious marriage and a civil union or they think homosexuals are just trying to take advantage of the legal benefits associated with marriage (taxes, etc). It isn't that different from the opposition to the woman's rights movement or the civil rights movement. People are just scared and dumb. I think that once most of the stuck-up-their-ass baby-boomer dinosaurs die off this will become less of a problem, at least until we reach the next social milestone.
I own two guns because I enjoy target shooting and I was on my university's Trap & Skeet team. My country's constitution guarantees my right to own guns. I have never killed another living thing with a gun. How exactly does that make me irrational?
I always find it interesting when people jump up and blame a crime on the tool as opposed to the criminal. If he had used a crossbow or a drill then you probably wouldn't have opened your mouth. But no, the kid stole his dad's gun and you had a perfect opportunity to make your snide little remark. I hope it made you feel all warm and fuzzy and reassured you that your ways are superior. Anyway, I'm glad you enjoy living in a country who's government has decided to prohibit law abiding citizens from owning guns while the criminals probably have them anyway. If that is your definition of "rational people" then I would much rather be grouped with the gun nuts.
People beat, stab, and strangle each other to death in the heat of passion all the time. If someone is crazy enough to plan out and murder their parents for confiscating a video game, the inability to find a gun won't stop them. He'd probably use his own shoelaces to strangle them if he had to.
Or erasing the tax records of scandal plagued politicians and their chronies...
It really just depends on the company. My father has been working 9/80 for years. He loves it so much he'll typically call me at work on his Friday off and brag to me that he's going to see a movie or something.
Yes, but when do the Power Armor and Super Mutants show up?
I remember my first job out of college. We had a somewhat antisocial Chinese guy doing all of the programming and DBA stuff while I pretty much handled everything else that had to do with a computer. I was also on call 24/7 to handle tech support calls. I remember trying to call in sick one day. I ended up just taking the calls from home that day and I wasn't even paid for it. Eventually I learned when and how to say no. If you don't stand up for yourself in any environment then your employers will just keep walking all over you and wanting more and more the whole time. What they fail to realize though, especially if you're in a position where you are responsible for what should be done by 5 different people, is that when you leave its like having 5 employees quit at once.
I was trying to figure out why this thing would need to use poison when TFA only mentions a diet of insects. According to Wikipedia the "diet of solenodons consists largely of insects, earthworms, and other invertebrates, but they also eat vertebrate carrion, and perhaps even some living vertebrate prey such as small reptiles or amphibians"
No one is saying you shouldn't make kids work hard in school or that we shouldn't push them to try hard. But I agree with the parent, after eight hours of being in the prison environment that is school, six hours of homework (2 hours of homework from 3 oblivious teachers) every night is bullshit. I think its the teachers that aren't trying hard if you can't get the subject across without 2 hours of additional work every night. The very fact that a teacher would create an assignment designed around how much time it takes to complete as opposed to how well it hammers home the actual point of the lesson is incredibly disturbing. But then again, I suppose you're teaching them a life lesson about task management and managerial incompetence.
In Linux, the dialogue that pops up when you attempt to close Firefox with multiple tabs open has the buttons in different locations than the Windows version. I'm not sure if they've addressed this in 3.0.5 since I just updated Firefox on my Windows machine today and haven't updated it on my laptop running Ubuntu. Anyway, it is incredibly annoying. Also, the preferences menu option is located under Tools in the Windows version of Firefox but if I remember correctly it is listed under Edit in the Linux and Mac versions. Again, incredibly annoying.
I don't understand what this article is about. Why do they have to have any restrictions on the actual machine? Do they not use some sort of proxy to filter web at the school? That way the kids can't go to restricted sites while at school but they can do whatever they want when elsewhere. While proxies can be avoided, anything else you do to restrict the student's use of the computer will easily be bypassed if desired or turn them off to it completely. Seems like a no-brainer to me...
This has already happened to me before. A hold was placed on my card because I bought some software online and my credit card company found this to be suspicious for some reason. They never called to inform me of this or to verify if the purchase was legitimate. I had to find out my card didn't work by being embarrassed in front of a store full of people.
Actually, he said exactly what you said although you did a better job of explaining it.
Translate British "pants" to American "pants" = underwear
Translate British "trousers" to American "trousers" = pants
A little off topic I guess, but McDonald's wasn't the first to hit 1 billion burgers either. I'm pretty sure White Castle hit 1 billion back in 1961.
Would have been funnier if it was found in Indochina...
These people are just morons. No need to go making ridiculous generalizations about the rest of us...
Where there no emergencies or on-call before cell phones existed?
Nah, they left after they traded the entire planet to us for one lousy bead.
I don't have any problem with Apple's computers. I'd probably own one if I had the disposable income. I find myself becoming more and more irritated with the Mac commercials because they just come off as elitist and snobby. Instead of advertising what they do well they just rip on the competition. Same reason those stupid NOBama bumber stickers annoyed me. The latest Mac ad ripping on Microsoft's advertising budget for Vista is a prime example. Wow, you're so clever! The only argument you could come up with is a childish insult directed at your competitor... How about just stating what you do well and not be a condescending prick about it. Trust me to decide what is right for me.
Reminds me of this Dove commercial. They mention how girls have their perception of beauty distorted by the media and how they offer self esteem workshops to teach all little girls that they are beautiful in their own way.
The reason these types of commercials or programs don't exist for (American) men is because no one gives a shit. We've been conditioned to view the expression of emotion as gay and that real men look like Tommy Hilfiger models. Apparently its fine to derive your self esteem and sense of self worth from TV if you're male because males don't have feelings. I'm sure this fact is reflected by the male suicide rate being substantially lower than that of females...</sarcasm>
If you complain about any inequality between men and women that actually favors women, everyone will tell you to quit bitching and suck it up (ladies night, selective services). Almost everyone knows what misogyny is or has at least heard of it. Most people don't even know that misandry is a word, let alone what it means.
No undercover police in your universe?
Maybe that you should stop being a dick instead of being proud of it?
No Tribes?