If *NIX had introduced HTML in email before MS did,
Well, *NIX doesn't introduce things like this.
However, Netscape did introduce this before MS on *NIX, windows and mac.
Thanks for playing ---CONFLICT!!---
Broadband in Australia IS expensive ($74/month Australian, which is about $40/month US)
Either you are off on the price, off on the conversion rate, or just off on the comment.
$40/month US is $10/month US LESS than I pay in the US for cable in San Diego, California.
Well, how come all of you see "police" and assume "criminal" and "wrongly arrested" and "police state"?
In my case this is known as, "learning from history"
Stop being so trigger-happy and ganging up on people who every day risk their lives to make sure you can rant safely.
No cop has ever risked his life to protect any of my rights. If you were talking about the military you would have a point. You're talking about the police whose jobs is not to protect anything regardless of what it may say on their cars. Their job is to capture criminals AFTER they act against you and to generate revenue for the local government. ---CONFLICT!!---
First off, I do apologise for the passing acquaintance bit. One of those days, you know.
I also know, as I am sure you do as well, what the reasons for these measures are.
Well, I know what the reasons commonly given are. Quite frankly they are utter bullshit though. The simple and absolute proof that there is no excuse for anyone to be given an advantage over anyone else based on race is this pretty obvious.
By the end of the bad old days of affirmative action and quotas, Asians were totally ineligible for admission to universities in any technical field based on affirmative action. Why? Because there were "too many" of them. By this I just mean that they were in no way "under represented" (which is another term that doesn't mean a damn thing since there is no reason to assume that there are any right percentages).
Now Asians as a large segment of the population arrived in this country later than black and mexican people. And don't kid yourself, "we" hated them just as much. They largely, however, felt it was important to get educated and so they worked at it. Other cultures don't place as much emphasis on education and that is there own fucking fault.
So to address your points:
It is harder to get into college (much higher chance that you went to grade school at a substandard institution, and were not prepared for the SATs Not to put too fine a point on it, but too fucking bad. Schools don't prepare you for the SAT. Whatever you do in life you get out of it what you put in to it. This is certainly true for school. If someone doesn't give enough of a shit to put in whatever additional effort is required to enable themselves to do what they want to then fuck them they obviously don't really want to do it that bad.
It is harder to afford college (much higher chance that you come from a poor family) This is the sickest most disgusting part of this whole argument. No offense to you, this is just one of the standard whines by supporters of affirmative action. Too bad to see that you bought into it. Fuck the chance that you came from a poor family because of your race. There are poor people of every race. This is 100% a financial/class issue. Putting race in it is punishing people for being white. That is racism in its most hideous form.
It is often harder to graduate (see first point; also, depending on your cultural and linguistic background, there is a very good possibility that courses are being taught in your second language, and assuming as a basic background a familiarity with a culture and tradition that is not your own) If you are not prepared to handle the work than don't go to the school and waste everyone else's time. Seriously. Go to a freaking JC for two years if you are not prepared to do university level work. This is America we're talking about after all. Everyone is given an opportunity to bust their ass to get ahead. It's the busting ass part that is so often forgotten by cry babies who just want every thing handed to them. The only cultural issue required for success is the ability to speak and read english. If you can't do this then blame your parents. Don't punish me for your inabilities. If I went to another country to live, I would expect to have to learn the language. This is basic common sense. A university education is not a right. It is a privilege that you should absolutely have to work harder than you ever have before to get.
Now before the PC jagoffs jump on me, my story is this:
My mom died in childbirth and my dad overdosed on heroin when I was 12. I never went to high school at all. I was just a dead-end gutter punk living on the streets from 12 on. I looked around and saw how things were. I knew way too fucking many uneducated dipshits out there and I did not want to end up like that. So I got off my ass and prepared myself for the GED. I put myself through university and got a BS in mathematics. All of this was done in spite of the fact that I am a member of the only group it is legal to discriminate against. The white male.
I don't personally know anyone of another race who can tell a story as bad as mine, so fuck them if they think I will give up one inch of my rights to give them a free ride.
People need to stop whining and take responsibility for their own lives.
Put quite simply, Marriage is a religious covenant and should not be the realm of any government save a theocracy. Most offensive, to me at least, is the fact that a religious idea requires a license from the government.
Ummmmmmm.......Retard.....Marriage is a legal covenant. It should not require any kind of license from a religion. Just because it might be mentioned in your religion doesn't mean anything. It existed before your religion did.
I can say this safely without even knowing what religion you are.
I suspect you hate to hear this, but then you obviously acknowledge that race plays at least some role in your success, otherwise you wouldn't likely have mentioned the colour of your skin.
Obviously it plays a role in his success. It made his success much more difficult. A black woman, to use your example, has a far easier time succeeding than a white man as does every other combination of race and gender.
Think about it for half a second and it becomes clear.
It is easier to get in to college (lower standards)
It is easier to afford college (loans, grants and scholarships specific to the race and gender in question as well as those specific to "non-white". In fact I got a 500 page book when I was applying to college that was just a list of grants and scholarships. As a white male I was elegible for exactly 116 entries in this book. Given that there were about 40 entries per page that means.58% of the scholarships are non-discriminatory against white men. The fact that most of the rest were restricted to "left handed lesbian albino midgets who lived in Peoria, Illinois for not less than a week and not more than a month during a leap year" or something equally ridiculous meant there were exactly 3 I was elegible for:-( )
It is easier to graduate (free or reduced price tutoring and other programs)
Please try to at least make a passing acquaintance with reality before posting this kind of nonsense again.
Anyone can get an insurance policy. The only difference is they give their money to the insurance company instead of the government. Companies always run things more efficiently than the government.
The problem with this line of reasoning is that "efficient" in this context means not paying for treatments. ---CONFLICT!!---
but my point is that if you make the general populace more deadly, you ALSO make the criminal element more deadly. It is inevitable, and will only lead to more bloodshed.
You are seriously misunderstanding a few important points. First, the criminal element is right now more deadly than the general populace. Given this, making the general populace more deadly can only close the gap. If you also take into account the fact that the general populace greatly outnumbers the (violent) criminal element it becomes obvious that this would, in fact, prevent bloodshed since the criminals would be too scared to engage in any violent action since they know that ANYONE could potentially take them out.
Another point you are apparently unaware of is that we do not have the right to own guns to protect ourselves from criminals. We have this right explicitly spelled out in the Constitution for the sole purpose of protecting ourselves from the government.
It is the responsibility of the government through the police force and justice system to protect its citizens.
Your total lack of understanding of this is by far the scariest thing.
THE POLICE HAVE NO RESPONSIBILITY WHATSOEVER TO PROTECT YOU. This is not what they do and it is not their purpose. Their job is to clean up the mess a criminal makes out of you and catch them afterwards so that they can be punished. It is very important that you understand the distinction between these 2 things.
"I've been called a "Fucking Dick" by better people than you." -Me
So what you're saying is that no matter how good, cool, or smart I am if I think you're not a dick there is someone much better who knows something I don't?
Surprisingly enough, this might just be the best non-stock-computer to put Linux on for one simple reason.
Price.
Consoles are generally sold below cost.
Putting Linux on an XBox would take a stripped down, barely functional( sure it's ok for games, but as a computer it's barely functional) but extremely underpriced computer and turning it into a fully functional computer. ---CONFLICT!!---
He starts using the much-acclaimed MSIE for MacOS, and after browsing for awhile the system freezes up again. Reboot
You apparently don't know what the MS in MSIE means
Yeah right. Two hours (and several 3rd party application downloads) later, we've got a flaky connection to my PC using "DAVE." I don't remember the details (this happened a few months ago), but to put it mildly, DAVE was a pain in the ASS.
Again you're blaming the OS for an application failure. Also, blame MS for not supporting AppleTalk. Sure it's crappy, but it was the standard for home networking before MS even knew there was a market for it.
Personally I would have used Hotline or an FTP Server since TCP is the best way to make anything else talk to windows
so the ".mp3" got cut off and the Mac didn't make it too "user friendly" to get them working
Here's where it gets really difficult to tell if you're a troll or just a fool.
Windows is the only OS in the world that gives a shit about the file extension. All other OS's including MacOS look at the file and figure it out for themselves. Change it to.jpg or leave it blank AND IT DON'T MATTER!
The files would be sitting there, but you couldn't drag them onto Quicken to open them
Never heard of that one. I would guess they got transfered as ascii files. Who knows anyhow that's
a one time thing.
If Microsoft's monopoly collapses, then so does Microsoft.
Puh-leaze. Just like ATT whithered and died?
The difference being that AT&T didn't maintain their market share and dominance based solely on their monopoly. They actually developed some major innovations. See AT&T Bell labs now known as Lucent
Some people have been running the original builds of W2K since it first came out (27th Dec. 1999) - no reboots at all, 100% uptime.
Those people are known as fools if those machines are anywhere near a network since the original released version (which MS said would need no service packs) has at least 4 showstopping security holes. ---CONFLICT!!---
Hey,
could you leave that poor kid alone so he can sleep? ---CONFLICT!!---
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How about a donation to the "Get Slashdot moderators off of crack" fund?
I almost spit iced tea out my nose reading this comment and some loser marked it flamebait. Sheesh.
I have a moral right to raise my daughter as I see fit
Well, to a point
If she gets busted, who pays her attorney's fees, the bail money?
Ummm.... She does? If not, then you are sending her the message that it's ok to do bad things because you'll take care of it. The only way I would pay for this sort of thing is if I disagreed with the law that was broken or didn't believe that it was, in fact, broken.
I think it's good that you are willing to accept your responsibility as a parent, but part of that is to make sure she recognizes hers.
What I'd like to know is what the plaintiff's motive for requesting these documents in the first place is
This is really the critical issue. There is no good reason I can conceive of, but plenty of bad ones. My best guess is that he suspects that some students are coming to terms with possibly being gay and that they are visiting sites related to this lifestyle. Once he identifies them, the younger the better we must assume, he will use the threat of "outing" them to make them victims of his abuse.
Can anyone suggest a more reasonable scenario?
Or for the grand prize how about a scenario in which he is not a seriously disturbed psychotic ---CONFLICT!!---
I mean really, that whole thing had nothing to do with the fact that good little Willie is a raging womanizer and lied about it in court.
Ignoring your sarcasm, you're right.
The fact that questions about the sex life of the President of the United States were asked in court was an embarassment to our country and everyone living in it.
Assume for a second that I got laid last night and you asked me about it. Most likely I would tell you to fuck off. Assuming this wasn't a valid option, then quite possibly I would lie about it.
Why? Because I was taught that a gentleman doesn't discuss such things. It's no one's business.
Please note that I am not trying to say that Billy Boy's motivations were good in this sense, just that lying about something like this isn't necessarily bad. It is certainly in no way an impeachable offense. The fact that the Republicans cost us millions of dollars trying to bring down the legitimate government of the United States over a freaking blow job is ridiculous.
It seems like Larry Flint is the only one with the integrity and power to point out the idiocy of the people we have in office. ---CONFLICT!!---
As for the "flamebait" crack is concerned, I'd say you've got your signs reversed. IMHO, I seem to be attracting flamebait rather than producing it.
Actually you can not attract flamebait. You can however attract flames. What, you ask, would one use to attract flames?
That's right, flamebait.
Whether your initial comment would be considered flamebait by an objective reader is a seperate issue, but technically since you attracted flames it was flamebait. ---CONFLICT!!---
There is no violence associated with drugs, rather with the illegality of drugs. There is a demand for them, so a supply will be there. That is the main guiding principal of our (American) society. We are better described as a capitalistic society than a democracy or republic. I am not stating an opinion on this, just stating that it's true.
consider replacing cigaretts (already addictive) with something even more addictive and traumatic
There is nothing more addictive than cigarettes. More traumatic is really a more personal issue as to what you consider traumatic.
Nicotine is more addictive than heroin. The physical withdrawal is not as bad, but the addiction is very similar.
It is not illegal to be under the influence in America.
Now certain states/cities (not sure which) have laws about this.
Las Vegas, for example, has a law against "internal posession" ---CONFLICT!!---
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If *NIX had introduced HTML in email before MS did,
Well, *NIX doesn't introduce things like this.
However, Netscape did introduce this before MS on *NIX, windows and mac.
Thanks for playing
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Broadband in Australia IS expensive ($74/month Australian, which is about $40/month US)
Either you are off on the price, off on the conversion rate, or just off on the comment.
$40/month US is $10/month US LESS than I pay in the US for cable in San Diego, California.
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Well, how come all of you see "police" and assume "criminal" and "wrongly arrested" and "police state"?
In my case this is known as, "learning from history"
Stop being so trigger-happy and ganging up on people who every day risk their lives to make sure you can rant safely.
No cop has ever risked his life to protect any of my rights. If you were talking about the military you would have a point. You're talking about the police whose jobs is not to protect anything regardless of what it may say on their cars. Their job is to capture criminals AFTER they act against you and to generate revenue for the local government.
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I also know, as I am sure you do as well, what the reasons for these measures are.
Well, I know what the reasons commonly given are. Quite frankly they are utter bullshit though. The simple and absolute proof that there is no excuse for anyone to be given an advantage over anyone else based on race is this pretty obvious.
By the end of the bad old days of affirmative action and quotas, Asians were totally ineligible for admission to universities in any technical field based on affirmative action. Why? Because there were "too many" of them. By this I just mean that they were in no way "under represented" (which is another term that doesn't mean a damn thing since there is no reason to assume that there are any right percentages).
Now Asians as a large segment of the population arrived in this country later than black and mexican people. And don't kid yourself, "we" hated them just as much. They largely, however, felt it was important to get educated and so they worked at it. Other cultures don't place as much emphasis on education and that is there own fucking fault.
So to address your points:
Not to put too fine a point on it, but too fucking bad. Schools don't prepare you for the SAT. Whatever you do in life you get out of it what you put in to it. This is certainly true for school. If someone doesn't give enough of a shit to put in whatever additional effort is required to enable themselves to do what they want to then fuck them they obviously don't really want to do it that bad.
This is the sickest most disgusting part of this whole argument. No offense to you, this is just one of the standard whines by supporters of affirmative action. Too bad to see that you bought into it. Fuck the chance that you came from a poor family because of your race. There are poor people of every race. This is 100% a financial/class issue. Putting race in it is punishing people for being white. That is racism in its most hideous form.
If you are not prepared to handle the work than don't go to the school and waste everyone else's time. Seriously. Go to a freaking JC for two years if you are not prepared to do university level work. This is America we're talking about after all. Everyone is given an opportunity to bust their ass to get ahead. It's the busting ass part that is so often forgotten by cry babies who just want every thing handed to them. The only cultural issue required for success is the ability to speak and read english. If you can't do this then blame your parents. Don't punish me for your inabilities. If I went to another country to live, I would expect to have to learn the language. This is basic common sense. A university education is not a right. It is a privilege that you should absolutely have to work harder than you ever have before to get.
Now before the PC jagoffs jump on me, my story is this:
My mom died in childbirth and my dad overdosed on heroin when I was 12. I never went to high school at all. I was just a dead-end gutter punk living on the streets from 12 on. I looked around and saw how things were. I knew way too fucking many uneducated dipshits out there and I did not want to end up like that. So I got off my ass and prepared myself for the GED. I put myself through university and got a BS in mathematics. All of this was done in spite of the fact that I am a member of the only group it is legal to discriminate against. The white male.
I don't personally know anyone of another race who can tell a story as bad as mine, so fuck them if they think I will give up one inch of my rights to give them a free ride.
People need to stop whining and take responsibility for their own lives.
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Put quite simply, Marriage is a religious covenant and should not be the realm of any government save a theocracy. Most offensive, to me at least, is the fact that a religious idea requires a license from the government.
Ummmmmmm.......Retard.....Marriage is a legal covenant. It should not require any kind of license from a religion. Just because it might be mentioned in your religion doesn't mean anything. It existed before your religion did.
I can say this safely without even knowing what religion you are.
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Obviously it plays a role in his success. It made his success much more difficult. A black woman, to use your example, has a far easier time succeeding than a white man as does every other combination of race and gender.
Think about it for half a second and it becomes clear.
Please try to at least make a passing acquaintance with reality before posting this kind of nonsense again.
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Anyone can get an insurance policy. The only difference is they give their money to the insurance company instead of the government. Companies always run things more efficiently than the government.
The problem with this line of reasoning is that "efficient" in this context means not paying for treatments.
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but my point is that if you make the general populace more deadly, you ALSO make the criminal element more deadly. It is inevitable, and will only lead to more bloodshed.
You are seriously misunderstanding a few important points. First, the criminal element is right now more deadly than the general populace. Given this, making the general populace more deadly can only close the gap. If you also take into account the fact that the general populace greatly outnumbers the (violent) criminal element it becomes obvious that this would, in fact, prevent bloodshed since the criminals would be too scared to engage in any violent action since they know that ANYONE could potentially take them out.
Another point you are apparently unaware of is that we do not have the right to own guns to protect ourselves from criminals. We have this right explicitly spelled out in the Constitution for the sole purpose of protecting ourselves from the government.
It is the responsibility of the government through the police force and justice system to protect its citizens.
Your total lack of understanding of this is by far the scariest thing.
THE POLICE HAVE NO RESPONSIBILITY WHATSOEVER TO PROTECT YOU.
This is not what they do and it is not their purpose. Their job is to clean up the mess a criminal makes out of you and catch them afterwards so that they can be punished. It is very important that you understand the distinction between these 2 things.
---CONFLICT!!---
"I've been called a "Fucking Dick" by better people than you." -Me
So what you're saying is that no matter how good, cool, or smart I am if I think you're not a dick there is someone much better who knows something I don't?
---CONFLICT!!---
Surprisingly enough, this might just be the best non-stock-computer to put Linux on for one simple reason.
Price.
Consoles are generally sold below cost.
Putting Linux on an XBox would take a stripped down, barely functional( sure it's ok for games, but as a computer it's barely functional) but extremely underpriced computer and turning it into a fully functional computer.
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He starts using the much-acclaimed MSIE for MacOS, and after browsing for awhile the system freezes up again. Reboot
.jpg or leave it blank AND IT DON'T MATTER!
You apparently don't know what the MS in MSIE means
Yeah right. Two hours (and several 3rd party application downloads) later, we've got a flaky connection to my PC using "DAVE." I don't remember the details (this happened a few months ago), but to put it mildly, DAVE was a pain in the ASS.
Again you're blaming the OS for an application failure. Also, blame MS for not supporting AppleTalk. Sure it's crappy, but it was the standard for home networking before MS even knew there was a market for it.
Personally I would have used Hotline or an FTP Server since TCP is the best way to make anything else talk to windows
so the ".mp3" got cut off and the Mac didn't make it too "user friendly" to get them working
Here's where it gets really difficult to tell if you're a troll or just a fool.
Windows is the only OS in the world that gives a shit about the file extension. All other OS's including MacOS look at the file and figure it out for themselves. Change it to
The files would be sitting there, but you couldn't drag them onto Quicken to open them
Never heard of that one. I would guess they got transfered as ascii files. Who knows anyhow that's
a one time thing.
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If Microsoft's monopoly collapses, then so does Microsoft.
Puh-leaze. Just like ATT whithered and died?
The difference being that AT&T didn't maintain their market share and dominance based solely on their monopoly. They actually developed some major innovations. See AT&T Bell labs now known as Lucent
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Some people have been running the original builds of W2K since it first came out (27th Dec. 1999) - no reboots at all, 100% uptime.
Those people are known as fools if those machines are anywhere near a network since the original released version (which MS said would need no service packs) has at least 4 showstopping security holes.
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Pretty funny.
Remember though that the US never signed the Geneva convention
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This is just the real world - as long as MS's standards are open and not proprietry I have no particular problem with it.
Ummmm... welcome to the real world MS's "standards" are ALWAYS proprietary and never open.
Without MS I fear the Net would degenerate into conflicting and incompatible rulesets
Dude! MS is THE reason we have conflicting incompatible rulesets.
You are either about the most ignorant person who ever lived or a lame troll
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Hey,
could you leave that poor kid alone so he can sleep?
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How about a donation to the "Get Slashdot moderators off of crack" fund?
I almost spit iced tea out my nose reading this comment and some loser marked it flamebait. Sheesh.
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I have a moral right to raise my daughter as I see fit
Well, to a point
If she gets busted, who pays her attorney's fees, the bail money?
Ummm.... She does? If not, then you are sending her the message that it's ok to do bad things because you'll take care of it. The only way I would pay for this sort of thing is if I disagreed with the law that was broken or didn't believe that it was, in fact, broken.
I think it's good that you are willing to accept your responsibility as a parent, but part of that is to make sure she recognizes hers.
Disclaimer: I am not a parent
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What I'd like to know is what the plaintiff's motive for requesting these documents in the first place is
This is really the critical issue. There is no good reason I can conceive of, but plenty of bad ones. My best guess is that he suspects that some students are coming to terms with possibly being gay and that they are visiting sites related to this lifestyle. Once he identifies them, the younger the better we must assume, he will use the threat of "outing" them to make them victims of his abuse.
Can anyone suggest a more reasonable scenario?
Or for the grand prize how about a scenario in which he is not a seriously disturbed psychotic
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Thanks.
;-)
the replies to my comment were more flame-worthy than the comment itself.
I certainly can't argue that point
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I mean really, that whole thing had nothing to do with the fact that good little Willie is a raging womanizer and lied about it in court.
Ignoring your sarcasm, you're right.
The fact that questions about the sex life of the President of the United States were asked in court was an embarassment to our country and everyone living in it.
Assume for a second that I got laid last night and you asked me about it. Most likely I would tell you to fuck off. Assuming this wasn't a valid option, then quite possibly I would lie about it.
Why? Because I was taught that a gentleman doesn't discuss such things. It's no one's business.
Please note that I am not trying to say that Billy Boy's motivations were good in this sense, just that lying about something like this isn't necessarily bad. It is certainly in no way an impeachable offense. The fact that the Republicans cost us millions of dollars trying to bring down the legitimate government of the United States over a freaking blow job is ridiculous.
It seems like Larry Flint is the only one with the integrity and power to point out the idiocy of the people we have in office.
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As for the "flamebait" crack is concerned, I'd say you've got your signs reversed. IMHO, I seem to be attracting flamebait rather than producing it.
Actually you can not attract flamebait. You can however attract flames. What, you ask, would one use to attract flames?
That's right, flamebait.
Whether your initial comment would be considered flamebait by an objective reader is a seperate issue, but technically since you attracted flames it was flamebait.
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I personally much prefer "Shakespeare Stout" from the Rouge Brewing Company in Oregon.
Not as widely available, but much better IMHO
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Just to respond to a few of your points:
There is no violence associated with drugs, rather with the illegality of drugs. There is a demand for them, so a supply will be there. That is the main guiding principal of our (American) society. We are better described as a capitalistic society than a democracy or republic. I am not stating an opinion on this, just stating that it's true.
consider replacing cigaretts (already addictive) with something even more addictive and traumatic
There is nothing more addictive than cigarettes. More traumatic is really a more personal issue as to what you consider traumatic.
Nicotine is more addictive than heroin. The physical withdrawal is not as bad, but the addiction is very similar.
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It is not illegal to be under the influence in America.
Now certain states/cities (not sure which) have laws about this.
Las Vegas, for example, has a law against "internal posession"
---CONFLICT!!---