Almost every day, you see Syria in the major news, as if it were the greatest problem this country has. They're beating the wardrums again, so get out your wallets. They say, never mind the povery, the joblessness, and fuel and energy shortages, just jump into another loosing conflict. Regardless of sad stories what the news sites tell you, the war mongers want to go over there because they sent soldiers to fight against us.
As far as the Stinger missiles, they are top shelf tech that shouldn't be sent as care packages. While they are not that complicated, I am sure that they could be modified to be used against the U.S. Their parent system, the Redeye, is not all that different, and was available in the 1960s. Aside from what the news tells you, the stingers battery/cooling canisters could easily be rebuilt giving years of dangerous enjoyment.
Will the Syrian rebels turn on us, just like they are with the did with their own? What better thing to shoot an airliner down?
The solve the problem, you must first turn the FTC into an organization that also looks out for the individual and the consumer, which it does not appear to do.
IMHO, the problem is: the FTC doesn't really want to keep people from getting calls, so they are just throwing up their hands, and saying that they can't do anything. It's hardly a matter or priorities.
The FTC did not take down of Microsoft's illegal monopoly because they are corrupt. The FTC does not care about people--only economy stimulus. If the cell phone companies would be forced to pay for spam calls, it would be stopped, but that is not going to happen because there are too many lobbyists in Washington D.C. looking out for commercial interests.
I am tried of Unity, which all but killed Ubuntu. I am tired of hearing Unity as described as "controversial." Nuclear war is controversial; Unity is just bad. I grow weary of being told that removing useful features, such as a dual-pane mode in Nautilus file manager makes it somehow cleaner. I am tired of form over function. Gnome 3 looks great, but the command bar should be persistent, and not hot cornered. I am tired of being told I should spend money storage that I should have locally. I use big files, and unless someone fronts me a T1, I am not going to be doing my graphic stuff and video editing in the cloud. I am tired of people joining open source projects, just to build interface into them, or monkey-wrench them.
rant{ With Apple gaining market share, threatening the open hardware market it feeds from, With Android not having the capability to use heavy-hitter applications, With Nvidia's/current/ Tegras being 1/10 as fast as a desktop chip, With AMD doing badly, With Intel laughing in their sleep and selling 10 month-old processors for only $10 less, With the near demise and total whoring of Ubuntu, With Mint still not being strong enough, With Nvidia crippling the GTX kepler gpu's just when GPU computing just when it was catching on, With marketing people totally overrunning the computer industry, telling everyone what we need, We need change. }
I still don't see the pure Gnome version of Ubuntu yet. If they don't do it well, perhaps Ubuntu should die off, and all Linux desktop users should all switch to Mint.
whOracle bought a company, and could have had their name well in the brainshare of the world, but instead, they were greedy, and that greed and disrespect for the open source community has come home to roost. Instead of trying to shake a well-earned bad reputation, I think that OpenOffice should climb on the bring out your dead cart.
I am not so sure whOracal should be inhibit the Librieoffe steering committee, because that cannot be trusted, and they will wedge proprietary technology into it.
Cat fur hides edges. It keeps heat in, as generally only the eyes, ears, and a little of a cat paw is warm on IR. Cat fur helps absorb Radar. I probably soaks up ultrasonic sound as well. What more can you ask for in stealth?
Darpa wants driverless cars so we can comb the desert looking for adversaries. What Darpa wants, Darpa gets, but who wants to be the first lucky person to be killed by a driverless car. Do you want your kids to die, just so we have the capability to go into another country and kill their kids?
Release after release, Mozilla has taunted us with the ability to remove unwanted plugins, but that promise has never been realized. Why? For Firefox to be secure, it should never allow a plug to be added and activated without the users's permission.
It makes me furious how are few people decide to make cowards of us all!
In the end it will not matter which method a terrorist uses, because they have already won. We destroying American values because we are supposed to live in fear and paranoia, because that's what the bastards in charge tell us what to do. They say:be afraid, give your liberties up, believe blindly in our authority. Be a coward like George W, who ran from the White House with his tail between his legs during the 911 attacks. The US. Constitution means nothing now, so everyone who laid down their lives--did it for naught.
It is inevitable that terrorist attacks will happen. We will stop some, but not all. To paraphrase James Burke said, "There is nothing to stop some nutcase from setting this thing off in any major city in world." In the end, we will not stop desperate people from doing desperate things. There is not authority capable from protecting us from overwhelmingly bad political decisions.
It's heartbreaking to watch the fall of ones country.
It is totally baffling why the user can't take out plugins; it's even more baffling on Windows that any company just can add a plugin to your browser. Not Secure!
AMD's Integer core idea was novel, but perhaps adding another FPU core to each unit would have made a difference in Cinebench. They need work of their scheduler as well.
Almost everything MS has done to Windows since 2000 has been a mistake. First the exceptions: 48Bit HD Addressing, 64 Bit Computing, and Cleartype.
Just off of the top of my head, here are a few things that went wrong with XP and W7. XP's Melted plastic interface. XP's and forward has different sized windows controls. Visa/7's has huge memory footprint, too large for a phone, and delayed services. W7's Computer logs are slow as molasses on my 3.4 2600k, with 16GB ram. It takes a minute to open and check the hardware log. Some logs cannot be cleared by the user through the UI. The W7 small start button orb is too large for the rest of the bar, but otherwise the bar is good, that's why they will be changing it in W8. Personal menus were a waste of user time. Menus are faster to use if they don't change. In W7 many file properties like filesize are more tedious to retrieve. Vista and W7 take a long time to boot. Briefcases were a nice idea, but they crashed and were never fixed. Too much indexing going on in the background. I cannot belief that W7 defaults to reading through every file you have. Windows update should have never been done in a web browser. What were they training people for? W7 needlessly removes all but 2 power schemes. W7 audio is abyssal, with huge lag and delay recording anything with preview. System restore takes up too much space on large drives. 10% of 3TB is too much. I patch windows to fix it. Windows 7 updater is so stupid it won't even take the service pack first. Desktop gadgets failed and died. The idea that you would separate 32 and 64 bit programs into 2 folders was just plain messy. Local, Roaming, LocalLow gave too many places to look for stuff. W7 backpadaled meaning we still have the word "My" in front of everything. W7 networking is slow out of the box. In W7 deleting or copying files is slower than XP or 2000. W7 hangs all the time in odd places, such as when opening "My computer" They removed Regclean for the sake of registry cleaning companies. They made the defrag less informative and stopped freespace optimization for the sake of defrag companies.
Anyway, from what I have seen of W8 is W7+W7phone. Windows 8 looks like quite the pigeon-rat. It's too large to be a phone OS and too limited to be a desktop system. I feel bad that I have an expensive CAD program as well as Photoshop, and have only this crap of Apple's walled in garden of weak hardware to choose from. Maybe they will fix Gnome 3, and add the dual pane back into Nautilus. Perhaps they will bring back the minimize button.
I am very disappointed with Microsoft, Apple, Android, Ubuntu, and Gnome, and there is no where else to turn : ( I would think that if Gnome got rid of hot corners, un-dumbed Nautilus, and brought back multi-pane windows, it would be the best of the above.
I am not chattin, texting, and facebooking all day. I write books, whole 110,000 word books, and sometimes, I actually have more than open at once! I edit large photoshops documents, once again, more than one open at once.
The thing of it is: we need to work on these computers!
I am sick and tired of people trying to bury personal computers. Just because smarphones sell, and there is a lot of money to be pried from their users, does not mean that we should abandon computers that we can actually get work done on!
I own a tablet, but I use a laptop for word processing. I use a desktop for CAD and video editing. Because devices are small, they can be a marvel, but I remember when computers were much more useful with less hardware. Business did not want to spend the money for a 386DX 33MHZ, but if they did,they could run their whole business on it; smarphones are tablets are much more powerful and their are relegated to playing angry birds and small applets. People are amazed if they can write a single page of text on a smartphone, but were angry if they couldn't lay out a whole book on a 1GHZ desktop computer.
RISC processors might be the way of the future, but my laptop is still 10x faster than my tablet, for now, and there is no reason to make them faster if we don't expect better software. AMD's failure in the marketplace means that intel has gone dormant like a sleeping bear--stagnating the desktop market. Microsoft is trying to wall-in the open PC garden. Ubuntu screwed up by trying "Unity." Gnome screwed up by turning its back on desktop users, and for removing too much usefulness.
I like that people network more and can collaborate on projects more easily, but we have grown too dependent on single points of failure. To some, Google is the internet; that scares me. We are building too many card houses, and sooner or later, they will fall.
All the old terminals are buried now. We have page-up and page down, and home, and arrow keys, and insert, and home... We have standardized keys for cut copy and paste, too.
In the last incarnation of Gnome, I've seen a user interface stripped of usability. Yes, the new interface looks good, but usability has taken a backslide. I feel that Gnome has stripped the desktop to the usefulness of a tablet. We need power, to move files, start programs, reboot the computer. I don't agree on making Gnome a testbed for whatever fanciful bimbo flash-in-the-pan UI experiment, they dream up.
Get back to the basics. Save on mouse clicks. Don't bury things. Don't hid things. Don't remove things. Don't dumb it down for people who should never use computers in the first place. We want a usable interface the power of a desktop computer.
Gnome.org is just not listening to anyone anymore. They are are an organization completely out of touch with the people who use their GUI.
In 1980's, my life was pretty terrible. I lived in a poor post-industrial city where hope dwindled. I lived on a street where the bikers were fighting with the block punks. I have seen people beaten and bloodied. I have seen someone's jaw broken with a three foot stick. I have seen someone choke someone unconscious. I have seen someone seizure from a beating. I have known two people who were scarred from being dragged down the street at the end of a rope. As a teen, I knew quite a few others who were abused both brutally and sexually. It seemed that every day something was going wrong. When someone pulled a blackjack on me it took 22 minutes for the police to arrive. My house was broken into twice. I have been the victim of violence several times, including sexual.
I remember one night when all us bad youths were sitting in an old bus hulk. We were listening to "Hell is for Children" from Pat Benatar. Everyone looked elsewhere as we chanted along with the song. Yes, we were high, and perhaps because we were, we survived, I survived.
I remember when I first saw the a computer a person could actually own. Oddly, it was a Tandy Model 1. Later on, I bought a Color Computer 2, and I loved that thing. It had 256x192 graphics, in 4 colors. I love computer graphics, and started writing lots of programs for it, because that's what computer users did back then.
My point is, having been though what I have, it is doubtful that I would been able to relax enough to do that, in the environment I was in. For me, pot is a gateway drug that led to some computer programming, Photoshop use, working at dot-com, working at a major computer game company, it led to CAD, and writing a provisional patent, and some other things.
When people talk about drugs, I feel that they do not talk about the benefits. IM(not so)HO, in every way, pot is a better anti-anxiety than benzodiazepines. It is less physically addictive, and it does not make you as clumsy as it does.
~
I am generally so angry about the US's anti-drug policy that it is indeed hard to evaluate things objectively. The US Government has been lying to its people for so long on about drugs it will be hard for any rational person to believe anything, case in point: Reefer Madness.
When people lied and said that pot was always terribly addictive and so was heroin, those people who saw the truth that pot is not so addictive, and they thought that heroine was not addictive, and so they tried it.
I also remember during Regan's rein, when he tightened the borders. Drugs like pot became rare and expensive. Pot was $20 for a half-ounce before that and cocaine was expensive and scarce. In just a few years, pot became scarce and cocaine was plentiful. The people in the inner cities might not ever became familiar with harder drugs if it was not for the Drug War, the war on people. Why? Back when domestic sensimilla was still an "exotic" there was a lot of inexpensive Mexican and Columbia pot. Tightening the borders created a condition where only the smallest and most valuable drugs were moved through. The drug war made crack almost as cheap as pot.
True or not, the test will probably become a weapon in the conservative drug war. Even if the test is true, pot is much safer than driving a car, which claim more teenage lives than anything else.
Please remember that in the US, an anti-rave act was passed with a fouled test. The test was supposed to represent MDMA, but instead it was meth. The funny thing is: lots of people take meth as adderall. (I have seen what meth does to people, and I don't like it.)
In the US, we have other issues: we as country, think that alcohol, the blood of Christ is the only drug that should be allowed. There's are so many people making money from the war against drugs, that stand to lose that we cannot see things in a rational way. Anhieser-Bush and Phillip Morris tobacco were members of a Drug Free America. Pot was made illegal to control Mexican Americans. To me, the war on drugs is the war on US Citizens.
Pot smoking led to computer use and it has made me intolerant the drug war : )
It appears that Gnome was sabotaged from the inside.
The current administration removed feature after feature until what remained could neither run on a tablet nor shut down a full sized computer. What could have been the best, was instead the worst of both.
Desktop users need to be able to use computers too. Gnome 3's only saving grace was a hot spot in the upper leff-hand corner. There is no reason that desktop user could not have had a functional launch bar. Nautilus needed work.
What remains of Gnome is not as useful as what it was, so, if not for the users, who did the changes in Gnome serve?
A user needs to keep a history for sync ability breaks; this is sub optimal for anyone on the go. The data needs to live elsewhere. In Windows, the user still cannot uninstall plugins and all extensions. Disabled is not enough.
A few minor peeves are the length of time before restart, and the psudo random folder names. I believe in using meaningful names.
On the positive, I use quite a few extension: scrapbook, youtube downloaders, grab page to drag, a translator, flashblockers, and cookie managment.
On the odd side, the home screen page; I do not use it. I do not need it.
This struggle has been going on for a long time, but now we are privy to it. Before Wikipedia money changed hands and the truth is decided. --Brenda Make
Not all music is the same. Pop songs are made to get attention and sell records. Music such as chill, techno, and drum and bass are often composed with little in the speaking frequencies as well as having few lyrics. This is better to work with, and may even improve work.
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Almost every day, you see Syria in the major news, as if it were the greatest problem this country has. They're beating the wardrums again, so get out your wallets. They say, never mind the povery, the joblessness, and fuel and energy shortages, just jump into another loosing conflict. Regardless of sad stories what the news sites tell you, the war mongers want to go over there because they sent soldiers to fight against us.
As far as the Stinger missiles, they are top shelf tech that shouldn't be sent as care packages. While they are not that complicated, I am sure that they could be modified to be used against the U.S. Their parent system, the Redeye, is not all that different, and was available in the 1960s. Aside from what the news tells you, the stingers battery/cooling canisters could easily be rebuilt giving years of dangerous enjoyment.
Will the Syrian rebels turn on us, just like they are with the did with their own?
What better thing to shoot an airliner down?
Although, it is a roundabout thing, I use coffee to focus.
The solve the problem, you must first turn the FTC into an organization that also looks out for the individual and the consumer, which it does not appear to do.
IMHO, the problem is: the FTC doesn't really want to keep people from getting calls, so they are just throwing up their hands, and saying that they can't do anything. It's hardly a matter or priorities.
The FTC did not take down of Microsoft's illegal monopoly because they are corrupt.
The FTC does not care about people--only economy stimulus.
If the cell phone companies would be forced to pay for spam calls, it would be stopped, but that is not going to happen because there are too many lobbyists in Washington D.C. looking out for commercial interests.
You can send me my $50,000 now.
I am tried of Unity, which all but killed Ubuntu.
I am tired of hearing Unity as described as "controversial." Nuclear war is controversial; Unity is just bad.
I grow weary of being told that removing useful features, such as a dual-pane mode in Nautilus file manager makes it somehow cleaner.
I am tired of form over function. Gnome 3 looks great, but the command bar should be persistent, and not hot cornered.
I am tired of being told I should spend money storage that I should have locally. I use big files, and unless someone fronts me a T1, I am not going to be doing my graphic stuff and video editing in the cloud.
I am tired of people joining open source projects, just to build interface into them, or monkey-wrench them.
rant{ /current/ Tegras being 1/10 as fast as a desktop chip,
With Apple gaining market share, threatening the open hardware market it feeds from,
With Android not having the capability to use heavy-hitter applications,
With Nvidia's
With AMD doing badly,
With Intel laughing in their sleep and selling 10 month-old processors for only $10 less,
With the near demise and total whoring of Ubuntu,
With Mint still not being strong enough,
With Nvidia crippling the GTX kepler gpu's just when GPU computing just when it was catching on,
With marketing people totally overrunning the computer industry, telling everyone what we need,
We need change.
}
I still don't see the pure Gnome version of Ubuntu yet. If they don't do it well, perhaps Ubuntu should die off, and all Linux desktop users should all switch to Mint.
What do you work for Oracle?
whOracle bought a company, and could have had their name well in the brainshare of the world, but instead, they were greedy, and that greed and disrespect for the open source community has come home to roost. Instead of trying to shake a well-earned bad reputation, I think that OpenOffice should climb on the bring out your dead cart.
I am not so sure whOracal should be inhibit the Librieoffe steering committee, because that cannot be trusted, and they will wedge proprietary technology into it.
Cat fur hides edges. It keeps heat in, as generally only the eyes, ears, and a little of a cat paw is warm on IR. Cat fur helps absorb Radar. I probably soaks up ultrasonic sound as well. What more can you ask for in stealth?
Darpa wants driverless cars so we can comb the desert looking for adversaries. What Darpa wants, Darpa gets, but who wants to be the first lucky person to be killed by a driverless car. Do you want your kids to die, just so we have the capability to go into another country and kill their kids?
Release after release, Mozilla has taunted us with the ability to remove unwanted plugins, but that promise has never been realized. Why?
For Firefox to be secure, it should never allow a plug to be added and activated without the users's permission.
Please fix this!!!!
It makes me furious how are few people decide to make cowards of us all!
In the end it will not matter which method a terrorist uses, because they have already won. We destroying American values because we are supposed to live in fear and paranoia, because that's what the bastards in charge tell us what to do. They say:be afraid, give your liberties up, believe blindly in our authority. Be a coward like George W, who ran from the White House with his tail between his legs during the 911 attacks. The US. Constitution means nothing now, so everyone who laid down their lives--did it for naught.
It is inevitable that terrorist attacks will happen. We will stop some, but not all. To paraphrase James Burke said, "There is nothing to stop some nutcase from setting this thing off in any major city in world." In the end, we will not stop desperate people from doing desperate things. There is not authority capable from protecting us from overwhelmingly bad political decisions.
It's heartbreaking to watch the fall of ones country.
It is totally baffling why the user can't take out plugins; it's even more baffling on Windows that any company just can add a plugin to your browser. Not Secure!
AMD's Integer core idea was novel, but perhaps adding another FPU core to each unit would have made a difference in Cinebench. They need work of their scheduler as well.
Almost everything MS has done to Windows since 2000 has been a mistake.
First the exceptions: 48Bit HD Addressing, 64 Bit Computing, and Cleartype.
Just off of the top of my head, here are a few things that went wrong with XP and W7.
XP's Melted plastic interface.
XP's and forward has different sized windows controls.
Visa/7's has huge memory footprint, too large for a phone, and delayed services.
W7's Computer logs are slow as molasses on my 3.4 2600k, with 16GB ram. It takes a minute to open and check the hardware log. Some logs cannot be cleared by the user through the UI.
The W7 small start button orb is too large for the rest of the bar, but otherwise the bar is good, that's why they will be changing it in W8.
Personal menus were a waste of user time. Menus are faster to use if they don't change.
In W7 many file properties like filesize are more tedious to retrieve.
Vista and W7 take a long time to boot.
Briefcases were a nice idea, but they crashed and were never fixed.
Too much indexing going on in the background. I cannot belief that W7 defaults to reading through every file you have.
Windows update should have never been done in a web browser. What were they training people for?
W7 needlessly removes all but 2 power schemes.
W7 audio is abyssal, with huge lag and delay recording anything with preview.
System restore takes up too much space on large drives. 10% of 3TB is too much. I patch windows to fix it.
Windows 7 updater is so stupid it won't even take the service pack first.
Desktop gadgets failed and died.
The idea that you would separate 32 and 64 bit programs into 2 folders was just plain messy.
Local, Roaming, LocalLow gave too many places to look for stuff.
W7 backpadaled meaning we still have the word "My" in front of everything.
W7 networking is slow out of the box.
In W7 deleting or copying files is slower than XP or 2000.
W7 hangs all the time in odd places, such as when opening "My computer"
They removed Regclean for the sake of registry cleaning companies.
They made the defrag less informative and stopped freespace optimization for the sake of defrag companies.
Anyway, from what I have seen of W8 is W7+W7phone. Windows 8 looks like quite the pigeon-rat. It's too large to be a phone OS and too limited to be a desktop system. I feel bad that I have an expensive CAD program as well as Photoshop, and have only this crap of Apple's walled in garden of weak hardware to choose from. Maybe they will fix Gnome 3, and add the dual pane back into Nautilus. Perhaps they will bring back the minimize button.
I am very disappointed with Microsoft, Apple, Android, Ubuntu, and Gnome, and there is no where else to turn : (
I would think that if Gnome got rid of hot corners, un-dumbed Nautilus, and brought back multi-pane windows, it would be the best of the above.
I am not chattin, texting, and facebooking all day. I write books, whole 110,000 word books, and sometimes, I actually have more than open at once! I edit large photoshops documents, once again, more than one open at once.
The thing of it is: we need to work on these computers!
There is more computer to be had for less money. Intel Integrated graphics are still crap.
I'll feel as bad as I did for SCO or whOracle.
It does not seem that they are acting in the the best interests of the citizens of the United States.
I am sick and tired of people trying to bury personal computers. Just because smarphones sell, and there is a lot of money to be pried from their users, does not mean that we should abandon computers that we can actually get work done on!
I own a tablet, but I use a laptop for word processing. I use a desktop for CAD and video editing. Because devices are small, they can be a marvel, but I remember when computers were much more useful with less hardware. Business did not want to spend the money for a 386DX 33MHZ, but if they did,they could run their whole business on it; smarphones are tablets are much more powerful and their are relegated to playing angry birds and small applets. People are amazed if they can write a single page of text on a smartphone, but were angry if they couldn't lay out a whole book on a 1GHZ desktop computer.
RISC processors might be the way of the future, but my laptop is still 10x faster than my tablet, for now, and there is no reason to make them faster if we don't expect better software. AMD's failure in the marketplace means that intel has gone dormant like a sleeping bear--stagnating the desktop market. Microsoft is trying to wall-in the open PC garden. Ubuntu screwed up by trying "Unity." Gnome screwed up by turning its back on desktop users, and for removing too much usefulness.
I like that people network more and can collaborate on projects more easily, but we have grown too dependent on single points of failure. To some, Google is the internet; that scares me. We are building too many card houses, and sooner or later, they will fall.
All the old terminals are buried now.
We have page-up and page down, and home, and arrow keys, and insert, and home...
We have standardized keys for cut copy and paste, too.
In the last incarnation of Gnome, I've seen a user interface stripped of usability. Yes, the new interface looks good, but usability has taken a backslide. I feel that Gnome has stripped the desktop to the usefulness of a tablet. We need power, to move files, start programs, reboot the computer. I don't agree on making Gnome a testbed for whatever fanciful bimbo flash-in-the-pan UI experiment, they dream up.
Get back to the basics. Save on mouse clicks. Don't bury things. Don't hid things. Don't remove things. Don't dumb it down for people who should never use computers in the first place. We want a usable interface the power of a desktop computer.
Gnome.org is just not listening to anyone anymore. They are are an organization completely out of touch with the people who use their GUI.
In spite of its name, Unity divided the Linux landscape.
Gnome foundation leaders, here is your chance to strut your stuff by making a better desktop, also usable as a desktop, or face impeachment.
In 1980's, my life was pretty terrible. I lived in a poor post-industrial city where hope dwindled. I lived on a street where the bikers were fighting with the block punks. I have seen people beaten and bloodied. I have seen someone's jaw broken with a three foot stick. I have seen someone choke someone unconscious. I have seen someone seizure from a beating. I have known two people who were scarred from being dragged down the street at the end of a rope. As a teen, I knew quite a few others who were abused both brutally and sexually. It seemed that every day something was going wrong. When someone pulled a blackjack on me it took 22 minutes for the police to arrive. My house was broken into twice. I have been the victim of violence several times, including sexual.
I remember one night when all us bad youths were sitting in an old bus hulk. We were listening to "Hell is for Children" from Pat Benatar. Everyone looked elsewhere as we chanted along with the song. Yes, we were high, and perhaps because we were, we survived, I survived.
I remember when I first saw the a computer a person could actually own. Oddly, it was a Tandy Model 1. Later on, I bought a Color Computer 2, and I loved that thing. It had 256x192 graphics, in 4 colors. I love computer graphics, and started writing lots of programs for it, because that's what computer users did back then.
My point is, having been though what I have, it is doubtful that I would been able to relax enough to do that, in the environment I was in. For me, pot is a gateway drug that led to some computer programming, Photoshop use, working at dot-com, working at a major computer game company, it led to CAD, and writing a provisional patent, and some other things.
When people talk about drugs, I feel that they do not talk about the benefits. IM(not so)HO, in every way, pot is a better anti-anxiety than benzodiazepines. It is less physically addictive, and it does not make you as clumsy as it does.
~
I am generally so angry about the US's anti-drug policy that it is indeed hard to evaluate things objectively. The US Government has been lying to its people for so long on about drugs it will be hard for any rational person to believe anything, case in point: Reefer Madness.
When people lied and said that pot was always terribly addictive and so was heroin, those people who saw the truth that pot is not so addictive, and they thought that heroine was not addictive, and so they tried it.
I also remember during Regan's rein, when he tightened the borders. Drugs like pot became rare and expensive. Pot was $20 for a half-ounce before that and cocaine was expensive and scarce. In just a few years, pot became scarce and cocaine was plentiful. The people in the inner cities might not ever became familiar with harder drugs if it was not for the Drug War, the war on people. Why? Back when domestic sensimilla was still an "exotic" there was a lot of inexpensive Mexican and Columbia pot. Tightening the borders created a condition where only the smallest and most valuable drugs were moved through. The drug war made crack almost as cheap as pot.
True or not, the test will probably become a weapon in the conservative drug war. Even if the test is true, pot is much safer than driving a car, which claim more teenage lives than anything else.
Please remember that in the US, an anti-rave act was passed with a fouled test. The test was supposed to represent MDMA, but instead it was meth. The funny thing is: lots of people take meth as adderall. (I have seen what meth does to people, and I don't like it.)
In the US, we have other issues: we as country, think that alcohol, the blood of Christ is the only drug that should be allowed. There's are so many people making money from the war against drugs, that stand to lose that we cannot see things in a rational way. Anhieser-Bush and Phillip Morris tobacco were members of a Drug Free America. Pot was made illegal to control Mexican Americans. To me, the war on drugs is the war on US Citizens.
Pot smoking led to computer use and it has made me intolerant the drug war : )
Let the current Gnome be a lesson to all Open Source Projects : (
It appears that Gnome was sabotaged from the inside.
The current administration removed feature after feature until what remained could neither run on a tablet nor shut down a full sized computer. What could have been the best, was instead the worst of both.
Desktop users need to be able to use computers too. Gnome 3's only saving grace was a hot spot in the upper leff-hand corner. There is no reason that desktop user could not have had a functional launch bar. Nautilus needed work.
What remains of Gnome is not as useful as what it was, so, if not for the users, who did the changes in Gnome serve?
With a few exceptions, I love Firefox.
A user needs to keep a history for sync ability breaks; this is sub optimal for anyone on the go. The data needs to live elsewhere.
In Windows, the user still cannot uninstall plugins and all extensions. Disabled is not enough.
A few minor peeves are the length of time before restart, and the psudo random folder names. I believe in using meaningful names.
On the positive, I use quite a few extension: scrapbook, youtube downloaders, grab page to drag, a translator, flashblockers, and cookie managment.
On the odd side, the home screen page; I do not use it. I do not need it.
Thanks for working on Firefox,
BrendaEM
This struggle has been going on for a long time, but now we are privy to it. Before Wikipedia money changed hands and the truth is decided.
--Brenda Make
Not all music is the same. Pop songs are made to get attention and sell records. Music such as chill, techno, and drum and bass are often composed with little in the speaking frequencies as well as having few lyrics. This is better to work with, and may even improve work.