The truth of the matter is that the terrorists represent nothing but a convenient implacable enemy, by which tyrants can seize greater control of the populace.
Mod parent up, this is an important point and the crux of what is going on in this article. The points of note are:
1) All courts of law foremost hate to have to make a ruling. If they have a valid excuse to not rule on a case, then they will seize it. In fact, the first hurdle to get over when you are plaintiff in a case is proving the court you have selected has jurisdiction. In this circumstance, since the court the copyright holders have chosen does not have jurisdiction in this matter, all it really takes is the defendant to come forward and say "Your honor, I live in a completely different state" for the judge to throw this out of his courtroom.
2) Now, an attorney has decided to author a self-help pamphlet and sell it (constituting paid legal advice). This document is effectively a howto on how to make a limited appearance in whatever specific court these suits are being filed in, and file a motion to dismiss based on lack of jurisdiction.
3) The legal team for the plaintiffs has decided that the legal advice of this attorney is adversely effecting their case, and they would like to figure out how to make him stop. In the legal world, the way you make someone stop doing something is you take them to court.
I think that this is actually a rather interesting case, because depending on the state, there may or may not be specific laws governing the sale of self-help pamphlets.. The worst that could happen for this attorney is that the judge could rule that he is representing all of these defendants.. and make him enter all of these cases that he has offered advice in... lol. I doubt that would happen, but really, it depends on the state.
I'm referring to tyrants whose primary object is to harass photographers with no legal basis.
In other words, you did nothing wrong, but these officers are illegally harassing you anyways.
In other words, they would ruin your film, because they can get away with it, even though they have no legal right to do so.
I'm not suggesting they would accuse you of spying.
If you actually are breaking the law in a way legally punishable with labor camp, then yeah, easily destructible media benefits you,
and you can probably easily just drop the piece of flash on the ground and smash it, if you want.
But there will be more evidence you did that
I'm not really sure where to start with this.. Your primary concern is that police officers will open the back of your camera to ruin your film just to harass you? How about rewinding the film cartridge? I think that this is no significant change from digital, where in both cases the harassing authority can just confiscate the entire camera or data medium. Secondly, this is the middle east. Legal right to do so? Are you serious? If any authorities were telling me that they thought I was a spy, I would be hoping to be able to destroy every bit of anything that might even be considered spying (including any pictures I might have taken of the area). The ability to open the back of the camera and destroy the pictures is actually not bad, much easier than trying to figure out how to break a flash card (drop on the ground and smash it? maybe with a hammer, but not your foot). If you need any reminders that the middle east is not the USA, remember the hikers that are still hanging out in Iranian prison for being spies with no proof or evidence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%932010_detention_of_American_hikers_by_Iran
you can easily and subtly swap the flash card, hiding the important one
I think that you might have actually hit on the real reason that they are concerned about digital cameras. MicroSD cards are easily hidden inside hollow coins. Rolls of film (even micro-film, like minox) are not nearly so easy to conceal.
Hm... I wonder if a technology ANALOG SLRs that don't use film would be effected by this?
For example, using a CMOS analog sensor instead of a digital image sensor.
And instead of storing bits, store voltages on some kind of media.
I suppose the Kuwaiti photography market might not be large enough to support such a device being created
[if it does not exist already], however
If only there were some kind of pre-existing analog SLR format that could be readily used... Some method, perhaps, wherein photons interact with molecules of silver hadride to form a latent image on some kind of plastic based substrate.. One could envision a method for retrieving the so-called "latent image" via chemical means.
Actually, no. When you opt out of the ionizing photon radiation (which will be skillfully administrated by a goon who earns less than the fry cook at McDonald's), you will receive a Standard Pat-Down. When they come up with something anomalous, either from the standard pat-down or the radiation (such as not being able to determine your circumcision status), then an Enhanced Pat-Down will be administered. The difference (in terms of personal privacy) is the difference between receiving a fairly standard frisk search and that of receiving a fairly intrusive just shy of strip-search.
Me? I'll just choose the standard pat-down to begin with, and avoid having a gloved TSA agent's hand in my underwear.
Tonight, go outside and look up at the beautiful starry sky and contemplate the size of the Universe. Then, consider the fact: We are only important to ourselves; This entire planet could disappear right now...
I can one-up this: Each and every individual is only important to themselves. Everyone is out for number 1. Oh, you think that people care about you, that they worry about you, etc... But that is not actually the case. They care about the relationship that they have with you. If you blink out of their world, it is their relationship with you that blinks out with it.. and that is the part they are concerned about. Not the actual YOU. One of the greatest ironies of our society is that everyone is out for number 1, even when they're helping other people. When people are happiest, they _appear_ to care about other people more.. but they actually care about them less. and when they are at their lowest, they _appear_ to care about other people less.. but they actually care about them more.
The Senate does not actually carry out actual filibusters anymore, where people get up and talk for hours,
This is something that I've often remarked on, and I simply don't understand. That is to say, I understand the concept that because any senator is allowed to hold the floor and talk about whatever subject that they want for as long as they want, then there is a concept called a "filibuster". What I _don't_ understand is that Senators are simply allowed to say "I am filibustering", and that's all it takes. It's like an epic rambling useless lecture that can last for eternity, yet is only imaginary? WTF?
I think that the Senators should have to actually stand on the floor and give their famous lecture on the intricacies of film photography.. or whatever other useless subject he can come up with. Seems like it would make the Senate floor a lot more interesting place. Perhaps the Senators were so tired of listening to "Senator Professor Johnson's epic physics lecture from hell" that they all voted that he could just shut up and sit down? I'm genuinely curious how we got to this state of affairs and I can't help but think that it is fundamentally flawed.
I have mod points, but decided to reply instead:
The Wii is not a direct competitor for the PS3/Xbox360. You know how I know this? Because most gamers I know own both a Wii and one of the PS3/Xbox360 (usually the 360). This shows that the Wii is sufficiently dissimilar to the 360 to not be a competitor, that it is something different in terms of gaming.
I'm _glad_ that Nintendo decided to take a step back from the graphics arms race this generation and focus on the control scheme. It has forced them to really remember that what matters is the game itself, not how it looks. You're taking potshots at Wii games that you don't like, but that is only your opinion. I've been a Nintendo fanboy since 1985 and I can tell you that I fucking love Metroid. Always have. I also love Super Mario Bros, and I think that the New Super Mario Bros game is fantastic. Nintendo made some really smart moves with this console, aiming it squarely between the eyes of early 30-something parents, people that have been playing Nintendo from the start and have kids. You know what is interesting? My 5 year old daughter loves to play the Wii more than any other game console in the house (I have a few... Dreamcast/PS2/Gamecube/2 360's/PS1) and what does she play on it? Sidescrollers. She loves the sidescrollers. and she beats them! It was pure genius on the part of Nintendo to make the Wiimote into a sidewise NES controller, and pure genius again to offer the classic NES games for impulse buy prices. After a few beers, $5 Mike Tyson's PunchOut sounds like a great idea! To summarize, The Wii is not competition to the 360, and I'm glad. I own both, and play both.
I second this 100%. I used to work as a correctional officer in a prison, so being frisked is literally no big deal to me at all. I like to give the TSA agent (who always looks way more uncomfortable than I do) tips. "You didn't check the bottoms of my feet". "You didn't have me take my hair down"... "You didn't check my junk". The fact is that these frisk searches are STILL security theater, they are still unwilling to do a proper search. I say make these guys do their jobs. If they are wanting to search people, make them search people by HAND. Plus, do we really need any more ionizing radiation in our lives? This stuff is aggregate.
I've been trying to find the data cap for my home FIOS connection for years.. and I mean really seriously giving it a good try. Haven't found it yet.
Perhaps Verizon is simply a better ISP than some of these others I keep hearing people complaining about?
Addendum: It looks like the broadband plan calls for 500mhz of spectrum to be allocated between 225mhz & 3.7ghz. This _might_ impact amateur radio frequencies, but those frequencies would all be UHF or higher that are impacted.. Big whoop. As far as I can tell, hams are delighted by the fact that this plan will not be using BPL, which causes QRM to HF bands.
http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-releases-em-national-broadband-plan-em
The FCC allows up to 9600 baud on the 70cm band, you insensitive clod! That's plenty fast. Range isn't too great, though.. I'm not sure about getting world news via UHF, lol. I think that after the apocalypse, I'll get my news via CW on 20m.
>>>Amateur Radio, the original geek hobby, still exists.
The FCC's Broadband Plan will reassign that chunk of the EM Spectrum to cellular phones (or internet). So no, it wouldn't still exist.
Citation please? Are you seriously trying to suggest that all amateur radio bands will be reassigned to cellular phones & internet? Are you high?
As far as I can tell, cellular phones & internet work best on UHF.. I want to see the 20m broadband plan.:D
I would hate to go to Yodok just because I wanted to find out if Kim ever recovered from double amnesia to discover his wife was really his father's ex-lover...
They must have gotten a lot smaller. I don't recognize the VAD that is in the image in this article, but it's representative. There is an implantable device (the pump), which is implanted into the heart. A cable (called the Percutaneous cable) connects the pump to a controller usually worn at the waist. The controller is an embedded device. It will have some battery packs that are connected to it as well. The whole apparatus will be waterproof. You can actually go swimming with modern LVAD's, even though I'm not sure I'd have the stones for it.
That's what I was thinking as well, when I saw the pictures. This definitely looks like an LVAD.
Normally when I hear the words "artificial heart" or "robotic heart", I would think of a device which replaced the heart, rather than a device which implants into the heart.
I agree, the interesting thing about this article is that they think they will get 25 years out of it. The last LVAD project I worked on (in 2005), it was expected that max reasonable lifetime for a patient would be 5 years with the implant. It was expected that it would be used as a bridge to a heart transplant.
As for the LVAD in a child angle, they've been implanting the Debakey LVAD in children for 10 years.
I don't smoke, but even after long-term "soberness," I sure as hell wish I could.
Marijuana was classed as a Schedule I narcotic pending the results of this study. I invite you to review this study yourself, as well as the implementation of its recommendations.
I find it interesting that all negative replies to my simple assertion that marijuana use is habit forming have had these 3 things in common:
1) I don't know what I'm talking about. I certainly didn't come up with this idea from literally smoking my weight in weed.
2) Marijuana isn't habit forming (Even though you state that you'd love to get at some, even after long-term sobriety)
3) Lastly, all posts go into a rant about what caused marijuana to be illegalized in the first place, which is of course well documented, and completely irrelevant to the point. Alcohol is habit forming and legal, cigarettes are habit forming and legal. So what? What does habit-forming ability have shit to do with legality of the substance?
it is absurd to draw attention to barely detectable withdrawal symptoms, when WE KNOW it is safe...
This guy has a chip on his shoulder an no mistake.
Drawing attention to the fact that this drug is like any other drug, it causes habituation and should be taken with respect.. really pisses him off. Also, I can't help but notice that there is a fair shake of paranoia in these posts... mccarthy, racists, big pharm... You _do_ know that one of the side effects of marijuana for a lot of people is paranoia, right?
Mod parent up, this is a very interesting and insightful post that adds to the conversation.
I can identify with just about everything in that post except for the cocaine. The only thing I can recommend about quitting nicotine is "Keep trying". It takes practice to quit smoking cigarettes.
and as for the pot addiction, I certainly didn't mean it in the same was as opiate addiction. However, I do believe that all too many pot heads wander around arguing that it isn't addictive while simultaneously smoking an 1/8 a week and watching their whole lives slip past. Yes, there are real withdrawals that happen from smoking weed, no they won't give you kicks or cold sweats, but they make life not as good for a while after you quit. the OP's assertion was that weed has "No" physical addictive qualities, and only the same psychological addictive qualities as "anything else that is fun." I believe that this is patently untrue.
My personal experience is that when you quit, most people experience anxiety, extreme agitation, loss of appetite, and even nightmares for several days afterwards.
[Citation Needed]
When someone starts a sentence with "The fact is", it's almost always not a fact.
The withdrawal from marijuana is nothing at all compared to the withdrawal from coffee, or even television.
You get short-tempered and agitated from turning off the TV? Holy shit. Kill your tv now, man.
What you incorrectly believe was actually entirely made up by racists in the 1920s, and perpetuated by McCarthyists.
Huh? What I incorrectly believe was drawn from smoking my share (and your share, and his share, and her share, and that guy's share.) You want to say it isn't habit forming, fine. Go smoke a blunt and talk about it some more.
To say cannabis incurs no withdrawal whatsoever would be more correct than exaggerating the extremely minor, usually unnoticed, symptoms.
Interesting, now we're admitting that there are physical symptoms of withdrawal. Even though you don't notice them doesn't mean that everyone around you doesn't notice them as well. Ask your girlfriend what you're like when you don't have anything to smoke.
Even Federal Judges at the DEA, reviewing the testimony of experts, have deemed that it is relativeyharmless, and ruled it should be legal.
Did I say it shouldn't be legal? No. It's far more harmless and much safer than alcohol, and THAT is legal. I never said it shouldn't be legalized.
It's not physically addictive at all, and no more habit-forming than anything else that's fun.
Bullshit. This is a classic line espoused by chronic marijuana users. The fact is that when you quit, most people experience anxiety, extreme agitation, loss of appetite, and even nightmares for several days afterwards.
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The truth of the matter is that the terrorists represent nothing but a convenient implacable enemy, by which tyrants can seize greater control of the populace.
1) All courts of law foremost hate to have to make a ruling. If they have a valid excuse to not rule on a case, then they will seize it. In fact, the first hurdle to get over when you are plaintiff in a case is proving the court you have selected has jurisdiction. In this circumstance, since the court the copyright holders have chosen does not have jurisdiction in this matter, all it really takes is the defendant to come forward and say "Your honor, I live in a completely different state" for the judge to throw this out of his courtroom.
2) Now, an attorney has decided to author a self-help pamphlet and sell it (constituting paid legal advice). This document is effectively a howto on how to make a limited appearance in whatever specific court these suits are being filed in, and file a motion to dismiss based on lack of jurisdiction.
3) The legal team for the plaintiffs has decided that the legal advice of this attorney is adversely effecting their case, and they would like to figure out how to make him stop. In the legal world, the way you make someone stop doing something is you take them to court.
I think that this is actually a rather interesting case, because depending on the state, there may or may not be specific laws governing the sale of self-help pamphlets.. The worst that could happen for this attorney is that the judge could rule that he is representing all of these defendants.. and make him enter all of these cases that he has offered advice in... lol. I doubt that would happen, but really, it depends on the state.
I'm referring to tyrants whose primary object is to harass photographers with no legal basis. In other words, you did nothing wrong, but these officers are illegally harassing you anyways.
In other words, they would ruin your film, because they can get away with it, even though they have no legal right to do so.
I'm not suggesting they would accuse you of spying. If you actually are breaking the law in a way legally punishable with labor camp, then yeah, easily destructible media benefits you, and you can probably easily just drop the piece of flash on the ground and smash it, if you want.
But there will be more evidence you did that
I'm not really sure where to start with this.. Your primary concern is that police officers will open the back of your camera to ruin your film just to harass you? How about rewinding the film cartridge? I think that this is no significant change from digital, where in both cases the harassing authority can just confiscate the entire camera or data medium. Secondly, this is the middle east. Legal right to do so? Are you serious? If any authorities were telling me that they thought I was a spy, I would be hoping to be able to destroy every bit of anything that might even be considered spying (including any pictures I might have taken of the area). The ability to open the back of the camera and destroy the pictures is actually not bad, much easier than trying to figure out how to break a flash card (drop on the ground and smash it? maybe with a hammer, but not your foot). If you need any reminders that the middle east is not the USA, remember the hikers that are still hanging out in Iranian prison for being spies with no proof or evidence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%932010_detention_of_American_hikers_by_Iran
That kind of thinking is going to get you in trouble, Citizen.
you can easily and subtly swap the flash card, hiding the important one
I think that you might have actually hit on the real reason that they are concerned about digital cameras. MicroSD cards are easily hidden inside hollow coins. Rolls of film (even micro-film, like minox) are not nearly so easy to conceal.
Hm... I wonder if a technology ANALOG SLRs that don't use film would be effected by this? For example, using a CMOS analog sensor instead of a digital image sensor. And instead of storing bits, store voltages on some kind of media. I suppose the Kuwaiti photography market might not be large enough to support such a device being created [if it does not exist already], however
If only there were some kind of pre-existing analog SLR format that could be readily used... Some method, perhaps, wherein photons interact with molecules of silver hadride to form a latent image on some kind of plastic based substrate.. One could envision a method for retrieving the so-called "latent image" via chemical means.
Me? I'll just choose the standard pat-down to begin with, and avoid having a gloved TSA agent's hand in my underwear.
Tonight, go outside and look up at the beautiful starry sky and contemplate the size of the Universe. Then, consider the fact: We are only important to ourselves; This entire planet could disappear right now...
I can one-up this: Each and every individual is only important to themselves. Everyone is out for number 1. Oh, you think that people care about you, that they worry about you, etc... But that is not actually the case. They care about the relationship that they have with you. If you blink out of their world, it is their relationship with you that blinks out with it.. and that is the part they are concerned about. Not the actual YOU. One of the greatest ironies of our society is that everyone is out for number 1, even when they're helping other people. When people are happiest, they _appear_ to care about other people more.. but they actually care about them less. and when they are at their lowest, they _appear_ to care about other people less.. but they actually care about them more.
The Senate does not actually carry out actual filibusters anymore, where people get up and talk for hours,
This is something that I've often remarked on, and I simply don't understand. That is to say, I understand the concept that because any senator is allowed to hold the floor and talk about whatever subject that they want for as long as they want, then there is a concept called a "filibuster". What I _don't_ understand is that Senators are simply allowed to say "I am filibustering", and that's all it takes. It's like an epic rambling useless lecture that can last for eternity, yet is only imaginary? WTF? I think that the Senators should have to actually stand on the floor and give their famous lecture on the intricacies of film photography.. or whatever other useless subject he can come up with. Seems like it would make the Senate floor a lot more interesting place. Perhaps the Senators were so tired of listening to "Senator Professor Johnson's epic physics lecture from hell" that they all voted that he could just shut up and sit down? I'm genuinely curious how we got to this state of affairs and I can't help but think that it is fundamentally flawed.
I'm _glad_ that Nintendo decided to take a step back from the graphics arms race this generation and focus on the control scheme. It has forced them to really remember that what matters is the game itself, not how it looks. You're taking potshots at Wii games that you don't like, but that is only your opinion. I've been a Nintendo fanboy since 1985 and I can tell you that I fucking love Metroid. Always have. I also love Super Mario Bros, and I think that the New Super Mario Bros game is fantastic. Nintendo made some really smart moves with this console, aiming it squarely between the eyes of early 30-something parents, people that have been playing Nintendo from the start and have kids. You know what is interesting? My 5 year old daughter loves to play the Wii more than any other game console in the house (I have a few... Dreamcast/PS2/Gamecube/2 360's/PS1) and what does she play on it? Sidescrollers. She loves the sidescrollers. and she beats them! It was pure genius on the part of Nintendo to make the Wiimote into a sidewise NES controller, and pure genius again to offer the classic NES games for impulse buy prices. After a few beers, $5 Mike Tyson's PunchOut sounds like a great idea! To summarize, The Wii is not competition to the 360, and I'm glad. I own both, and play both.
I second this 100%. I used to work as a correctional officer in a prison, so being frisked is literally no big deal to me at all. I like to give the TSA agent (who always looks way more uncomfortable than I do) tips. "You didn't check the bottoms of my feet". "You didn't have me take my hair down"... "You didn't check my junk". The fact is that these frisk searches are STILL security theater, they are still unwilling to do a proper search. I say make these guys do their jobs. If they are wanting to search people, make them search people by HAND. Plus, do we really need any more ionizing radiation in our lives? This stuff is aggregate.
I've been trying to find the data cap for my home FIOS connection for years.. and I mean really seriously giving it a good try. Haven't found it yet. Perhaps Verizon is simply a better ISP than some of these others I keep hearing people complaining about?
Addendum: It looks like the broadband plan calls for 500mhz of spectrum to be allocated between 225mhz & 3.7ghz. This _might_ impact amateur radio frequencies, but those frequencies would all be UHF or higher that are impacted.. Big whoop. As far as I can tell, hams are delighted by the fact that this plan will not be using BPL, which causes QRM to HF bands. http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-releases-em-national-broadband-plan-em
Packet radio for teh (slow baud rate) win!
The FCC allows up to 9600 baud on the 70cm band, you insensitive clod! That's plenty fast. Range isn't too great, though.. I'm not sure about getting world news via UHF, lol. I think that after the apocalypse, I'll get my news via CW on 20m.
>>>Amateur Radio, the original geek hobby, still exists.
The FCC's Broadband Plan will reassign that chunk of the EM Spectrum to cellular phones (or internet). So no, it wouldn't still exist.
Citation please? Are you seriously trying to suggest that all amateur radio bands will be reassigned to cellular phones & internet? Are you high? As far as I can tell, cellular phones & internet work best on UHF.. I want to see the 20m broadband plan. :D
I would hate to go to Yodok just because I wanted to find out if Kim ever recovered from double amnesia to discover his wife was really his father's ex-lover...
Fixed that for you.
They must have gotten a lot smaller. I don't recognize the VAD that is in the image in this article, but it's representative. There is an implantable device (the pump), which is implanted into the heart. A cable (called the Percutaneous cable) connects the pump to a controller usually worn at the waist. The controller is an embedded device. It will have some battery packs that are connected to it as well. The whole apparatus will be waterproof. You can actually go swimming with modern LVAD's, even though I'm not sure I'd have the stones for it.
I agree, the interesting thing about this article is that they think they will get 25 years out of it. The last LVAD project I worked on (in 2005), it was expected that max reasonable lifetime for a patient would be 5 years with the implant. It was expected that it would be used as a bridge to a heart transplant.
As for the LVAD in a child angle, they've been implanting the Debakey LVAD in children for 10 years.
I don't smoke, but even after long-term "soberness," I sure as hell wish I could.
Marijuana was classed as a Schedule I narcotic pending the results of this study. I invite you to review this study yourself, as well as the implementation of its recommendations.
I find it interesting that all negative replies to my simple assertion that marijuana use is habit forming have had these 3 things in common:
1) I don't know what I'm talking about. I certainly didn't come up with this idea from literally smoking my weight in weed.
2) Marijuana isn't habit forming (Even though you state that you'd love to get at some, even after long-term sobriety)
3) Lastly, all posts go into a rant about what caused marijuana to be illegalized in the first place, which is of course well documented, and completely irrelevant to the point. Alcohol is habit forming and legal, cigarettes are habit forming and legal. So what? What does habit-forming ability have shit to do with legality of the substance?
it is absurd to draw attention to barely detectable withdrawal symptoms, when WE KNOW it is safe...
This guy has a chip on his shoulder an no mistake. Drawing attention to the fact that this drug is like any other drug, it causes habituation and should be taken with respect.. really pisses him off. Also, I can't help but notice that there is a fair shake of paranoia in these posts... mccarthy, racists, big pharm... You _do_ know that one of the side effects of marijuana for a lot of people is paranoia, right?
Mod parent up, this is a very interesting and insightful post that adds to the conversation. I can identify with just about everything in that post except for the cocaine. The only thing I can recommend about quitting nicotine is "Keep trying". It takes practice to quit smoking cigarettes. and as for the pot addiction, I certainly didn't mean it in the same was as opiate addiction. However, I do believe that all too many pot heads wander around arguing that it isn't addictive while simultaneously smoking an 1/8 a week and watching their whole lives slip past. Yes, there are real withdrawals that happen from smoking weed, no they won't give you kicks or cold sweats, but they make life not as good for a while after you quit. the OP's assertion was that weed has "No" physical addictive qualities, and only the same psychological addictive qualities as "anything else that is fun." I believe that this is patently untrue.
My personal experience is that when you quit, most people experience anxiety, extreme agitation, loss of appetite, and even nightmares for several days afterwards.
[Citation Needed]
When someone starts a sentence with "The fact is", it's almost always not a fact.
Sorry, fixed that for you.
Bingo.
The withdrawal from marijuana is nothing at all compared to the withdrawal from coffee, or even television.
You get short-tempered and agitated from turning off the TV? Holy shit. Kill your tv now, man.
What you incorrectly believe was actually entirely made up by racists in the 1920s, and perpetuated by McCarthyists.
Huh? What I incorrectly believe was drawn from smoking my share (and your share, and his share, and her share, and that guy's share.) You want to say it isn't habit forming, fine. Go smoke a blunt and talk about it some more.
To say cannabis incurs no withdrawal whatsoever would be more correct than exaggerating the extremely minor, usually unnoticed, symptoms.
Interesting, now we're admitting that there are physical symptoms of withdrawal. Even though you don't notice them doesn't mean that everyone around you doesn't notice them as well. Ask your girlfriend what you're like when you don't have anything to smoke.
Even Federal Judges at the DEA, reviewing the testimony of experts, have deemed that it is relativey harmless, and ruled it should be legal.
Did I say it shouldn't be legal? No. It's far more harmless and much safer than alcohol, and THAT is legal. I never said it shouldn't be legalized.
It's not physically addictive at all, and no more habit-forming than anything else that's fun.
Bullshit. This is a classic line espoused by chronic marijuana users. The fact is that when you quit, most people experience anxiety, extreme agitation, loss of appetite, and even nightmares for several days afterwards.