The state has a sunshine law. They used the sunshine law. They shared the results.
I don't see what is potentially damaging about people knowing you signed it anyway. It doesn't make you a gay-bashing red-necked evil conservative. In fact, it could simply mean that you prefer a direct vote to a vote of representatives.
Just going by number of people, a legal drug will probably always be a greater ruin of lives nationally simply because of much wider availability - alcohol and tobacco in the USA.
However, as grandparent suggested, cocaine is probably a lot higher than alcohol on the rate of "users who ruined their lives with it vs total users".
"Think of your favorite song/artist. If GW Bush wanted to use that song as his campaign song, wouldn't you feel as though the artist were somehow endorsing that campaign?"
I totally agree. When I first read about Charles Manson, my very first thought was: "How could the Beatles be endorsing that psycho?"
I did a similar test this summer. Driving 160 mile round trips on the interstate, I found my car got the best mileage around 80-85 mph. Of course, being in a state with 65 mph limits, one ticket will quickly kill the savings in gas from going at that speed.
I was just trying to give a quick example - all the intricacies brought out in court would have ended up with way too long a post for my point, which was pointed (as you know) at the Black Ministerial Alliance and a certain city councilman.
If racism is terrorism, then we are all terrorists.
Recently a woman with dark skin (white mother, black father) was shot during a drug raid. She had 6 children from 5 fathers, and lived with a new boyfriend who was the focus of the raid for crack dealing. The self-appointed black leaders of the town shouted for months (and are still shouting) about racism in policing and the court system, brought Jesse Jackson to town, and called for murder charges against the officer. He was acquitted in court of lesser charges, and now they are pushing for a federal civil rights case.
Meanwhile, there have been 300 police calls for shootings this year, many of them black-on-black and from the same neighborhood as the raid, and not a peep from the same people from above. Racism?
Private land aside - OK, but they had better not complain if they don't have a warrant and I find and keep the device for my own use.
Also, you're paying money in gasoline and car upkeep to transport their gizmo. Send them a bill for (mass of tracker)/(total car mass) * gas cost.
Really, I read a few weeks ago about a toy being recalled because a girl ate 2 magnets separately and they tore apart her intestines. That's not a toy problem, that's a watch-your-kid-ripping-magnets-off-toys-and-eating-them problem.
It's almost as if they're trying to cover up the fact that nearly every front page politics story is against something in the Bush administration.
It's a vast left-wing conspiracy!
The great thing about atheists is that we don't need to be threatened to act moral, we act moral because we can reason that doing the things that are considered moral raise the quality of our lives and the lives of the people around us.
Atheists aren't threatened to act "moral"? Last time I checked, murder and polygamy were both against the law in the US for atheists and theists alike, one of them punishable by death in many states.
That's very kind of you to consider the lives of those around you. I wish more people, Christians included, would think a little before acting.
Isn't it curious, though, that you seem to admit following the same morals set largely by religious influence as being beneficial to all by reason?
Not trying to be a wiseass, just a thought.
It's plenty relevant. You wouldn't want to elect somebody who holds power over the lives of hundreds of millions of people and trillions of dollars who based major decisions on faith?
Is it the faith you don't trust, or the religion? Faith is simply belief without proof.
Do you believe you'll live long past tomorrow, perhaps an average-length life? That's called faith, basically faith that the statistics will go in your favor. Faith that you won't be hit by a bus, or that a hurricane or earthquake or tornado won't take out your town. Faith that some nutcase won't push the button and Dr. Strangelove us all. You can't prove you'll make it one more day, but most of us believe it because it just seems more rational.
I was one of those kids: my 1st grade teacher said I should be on Ritalin.
10 bored years later, I was saved by PSEOP. I'm not sure of the name in states other than Ohio, but it lets high school students apply to and take classes at colleges on the school's dime.
The Academy http://undergrad.osu.edu/academy/index.html at Ohio State was wonderful. So many choices, and it shaved off about a year from my engineering degree in math, science & electives. Of course it's no help before high school, but it is a nice option once you're there.
When being introduced to Congress, a bill shall have a realistic plan for implementation (made by people who actually know what they're doing) attached to it. I can just see Sen. Stevens talking to his staff about putting "filters" in the "tubes" of the internets. With a straight face.
How would eBay and other online stores fit into this little plan? I know that most online purchases here in the US aren't taxed, but how about the good old EU?
Oh, of course. Cells in South Korea & Japan are crazy awesome! By the time a physical system gets deployed to even half this ridiculously large and independent (read: stubborn) country, it's already become obsolete.
Tell me about it! If it weren't for that Henry Ford crazy and his "mass production" we could have put these traffic congestion problems off a good 10-20 more years. And if that other silly American, John Hetrick, hadn't invented airbags, maybe people would drive more safely.
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The state has a sunshine law. They used the sunshine law. They shared the results.
I don't see what is potentially damaging about people knowing you signed it anyway. It doesn't make you a gay-bashing red-necked evil conservative. In fact, it could simply mean that you prefer a direct vote to a vote of representatives.
Just going by number of people, a legal drug will probably always be a greater ruin of lives nationally simply because of much wider availability - alcohol and tobacco in the USA.
However, as grandparent suggested, cocaine is probably a lot higher than alcohol on the rate of "users who ruined their lives with it vs total users".
"Think of your favorite song/artist. If GW Bush wanted to use that song as his campaign song, wouldn't you feel as though the artist were somehow endorsing that campaign?"
I totally agree. When I first read about Charles Manson, my very first thought was: "How could the Beatles be endorsing that psycho?"
I did a similar test this summer. Driving 160 mile round trips on the interstate, I found my car got the best mileage around 80-85 mph. Of course, being in a state with 65 mph limits, one ticket will quickly kill the savings in gas from going at that speed.
At first I thought citing Matt Damon as a source was just another Team America reference about uppity actors, but then I read what he said.
Holy shit. How you believe we originated really matters on whether you should have control of nuclear codes?
Considering recent results from politicians with experience, I think I'll go for the hockey mom.
I was just trying to give a quick example - all the intricacies brought out in court would have ended up with way too long a post for my point, which was pointed (as you know) at the Black Ministerial Alliance and a certain city councilman.
If racism is terrorism, then we are all terrorists.
Recently a woman with dark skin (white mother, black father) was shot during a drug raid. She had 6 children from 5 fathers, and lived with a new boyfriend who was the focus of the raid for crack dealing. The self-appointed black leaders of the town shouted for months (and are still shouting) about racism in policing and the court system, brought Jesse Jackson to town, and called for murder charges against the officer. He was acquitted in court of lesser charges, and now they are pushing for a federal civil rights case.
Meanwhile, there have been 300 police calls for shootings this year, many of them black-on-black and from the same neighborhood as the raid, and not a peep from the same people from above. Racism?
Private land aside - OK, but they had better not complain if they don't have a warrant and I find and keep the device for my own use.
Also, you're paying money in gasoline and car upkeep to transport their gizmo. Send them a bill for (mass of tracker)/(total car mass) * gas cost.
Probably, but I never ate a single Lego.
the little punks to eat toys.
Really, I read a few weeks ago about a toy being recalled because a girl ate 2 magnets separately and they tore apart her intestines. That's not a toy problem, that's a watch-your-kid-ripping-magnets-off-toys-and-eating-them problem.
change the science!
are we for or against data havens these days?
It's almost as if they're trying to cover up the fact that nearly every front page politics story is against something in the Bush administration. It's a vast left-wing conspiracy!
Atheists aren't threatened to act "moral"? Last time I checked, murder and polygamy were both against the law in the US for atheists and theists alike, one of them punishable by death in many states.
That's very kind of you to consider the lives of those around you. I wish more people, Christians included, would think a little before acting.
Isn't it curious, though, that you seem to admit following the same morals set largely by religious influence as being beneficial to all by reason?
Not trying to be a wiseass, just a thought.
Is it the faith you don't trust, or the religion? Faith is simply belief without proof.
Do you believe you'll live long past tomorrow, perhaps an average-length life? That's called faith, basically faith that the statistics will go in your favor. Faith that you won't be hit by a bus, or that a hurricane or earthquake or tornado won't take out your town. Faith that some nutcase won't push the button and Dr. Strangelove us all. You can't prove you'll make it one more day, but most of us believe it because it just seems more rational.
I was one of those kids: my 1st grade teacher said I should be on Ritalin.
10 bored years later, I was saved by PSEOP. I'm not sure of the name in states other than Ohio, but it lets high school students apply to and take classes at colleges on the school's dime.
The Academy http://undergrad.osu.edu/academy/index.html at Ohio State was wonderful. So many choices, and it shaved off about a year from my engineering degree in math, science & electives. Of course it's no help before high school, but it is a nice option once you're there.
that needs a big fat asterisk. Seriously, a "90-day mission" and it's still going 3 years later? Something is rotten in Mars.
When being introduced to Congress, a bill shall have a realistic plan for implementation (made by people who actually know what they're doing) attached to it.
I can just see Sen. Stevens talking to his staff about putting "filters" in the "tubes" of the internets. With a straight face.
How would eBay and other online stores fit into this little plan? I know that most online purchases here in the US aren't taxed, but how about the good old EU?
The one that directly benefits you. Duh!
someone else will pick it up.
Isn't that kind of the point of open source?
Only if rendered both dead and alive by Schrodinger's cat.
...in Germany.
Americans, happy birthday!
Oh, of course. Cells in South Korea & Japan are crazy awesome!
By the time a physical system gets deployed to even half this ridiculously large and independent (read: stubborn) country, it's already become obsolete.
Tell me about it!
If it weren't for that Henry Ford crazy and his "mass production" we could have put these traffic congestion problems off a good 10-20 more years.
And if that other silly American, John Hetrick, hadn't invented airbags, maybe people would drive more safely.