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  1. Re:Whisky on Power In Scotland From Tides and Whiskey · · Score: 2, Informative

    Maker's is actually a Jim Beam brand. The spelling is probably just a marketing thing, but who knows.

    It appears that is correct now, but that has only been the case since a late 2005 acquisition.

  2. Re:Whisky on Power In Scotland From Tides and Whiskey · · Score: 1

    No it's not, it's bourbon.

    Jack Daniels is definitely not bourbon. It is a Tennesee Whiskey.

    Bourbon is made is barley, corn and water and Jack Daniels is indeed made with corn. Jack Daniels is Bourbon Whiskey. Whiskey is barley and water (note, no corn).

    You are incorrect. http://www.straightbourbon.com/faq.html#6

  3. Re:Rational on Marijuana Could Prevent Alzheimer's, New Study · · Score: 1

    0.08 BAC == impaired

    By the legal definition, yes, but 0.08 BAC is an excessively low delimiter that was forced on the public by neo-prohibitionist crusaders.

  4. Re:Rational on Marijuana Could Prevent Alzheimer's, New Study · · Score: 1

    a level equivalent to that of a 0.8 bac.

    If 0.8 BAC were the limit, everyone would die before getting a DUI. That said, the 0.08 BAC is absurdly low.

    Personally, I'm of the opinion that all driving while intoxicated laws are inappropriate. Either you're driving recklessly or not. If you are, go to jail. If not, go home and sleep it off.

    Agreed. The same can be said of all these ridiculous anti-cellphone laws. The existing driving laws adequately address the issue.

  5. Re:Switching to Windows on Virus Infection Hits UK's Ministry of Defense, Including Warships · · Score: 5, Informative

    Let me ask you a question: if someone was born on 01.01.0 how old would he/she get at the 01.01.2000?

    There is no such person. There is no year zero.

  6. Re:Expected on Woman Claims Ubuntu Kept Her From Online Classes · · Score: 1

    ...many people have voluntarily decided to stop thinking on the day of their graduation.

    And many more people have voluntarily decided to stop thinking earlier than that!

  7. Re:If only... on Breathalyzer Source Code Ruling Upheld · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Mod parent up.

    Even Candice Lightner, who founded MADD (the major force behind US drunk driving laws), left the group in 1985 because it had become a collective of neo-prohibitionists.

  8. Gigabit Zune? on Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide · · Score: 1

    Microsoft 30Gb Zune

    Gb = Gigabit

    GB = Gigabyte

    You can turn in your nerd card at the end of the hall.

  9. Re:Taxation without representation on Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 1

    Taxing the traveler is how they pay for all those "Come visit New Jersey!" ads.

    And here I always thought it was the enthusiastically paid exit tolls!

  10. Re:Who says what SPAM is on CAN-SPAM Act Turns 5 Today — What Went Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Political speech, asking for a petition to be signed, telling someone about your faith, selling door knobs.

    You can't break into my house and spray paint it on my walls, which is what you advocate when you endorse spamming.

  11. Re:More enforcement would help on CAN-SPAM Act Turns 5 Today — What Went Wrong? · · Score: 1

    the U.S. government can't seem to figure out which companies are responsible for the SPAM

    Everybody knows that Hormel is responsible for the delicious SPAM lunchmeat.

    Oh, you meant the spam. Nevermind.

  12. Re:shrooms not acid on Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? · · Score: 1

    I agree wholeheartedly with just one caveat, lets substitute Psilocibin mushrooms (magic mushrooms) for LSD. It provides the same basic effect (there's nothing that happens on labratory made hallucenogens that doesn't happen on 'shrooms) but it is natural and controllable.

    When using 'shrooms you always know they are pharmacologically safe (relatively speaking) but LSD, even if it was legalized, is too unstable to be used widely, IMHO.

    I've known more than a few people who took too much acid and experienced permanent brain damage. With shrooms I have not seen any long term physiological problems.

    You are actually full of shit. There is no guarantee that shrooms are safe. Being purely organic, they are actually harder to control the dose. Properly made LSD from a lab would be much more predictable. You are just forcing your ignorant "plant drugs are natural and can't hurt me" view on everyone. It is ignorant and dangerous. Lest you forget, cocaine comes from the coca leaf, and heroin from the opium poppy, and yes, even Albert Hoffman's problem child is derived from the ergotamine fungus that grows on rye. All are natural enough, so please pull your head out of your ass, and don't try to con us with that "it cam from a plant, it has to be safe" horseshit. Can I interest you in an large hit of datura or salvia? Those are both plants.

    and for the love of God...legalize marijuana

    Well, duh. In over 20,000 years of human use, it has *never* killed anyone, and never will. That is more than can be said for alcohol.

  13. Re:Elimitate upselling on Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? · · Score: 1

    I admit that I'm not particularly knowledgeable about drug culture, but I always had the distinct impression that the people you bought marijuana from were not the type of people who would be selling other drugs.

    You are right. You know nothing of drug culture.

    It's a fairly distinct culture where marijuana is generally sourced from a network of friends, not some dealer on the street corner who isn't going to risk his hide for something as unprofitable and unaddictive as marijuana.

    You can get marijuana on the street, and you can get hard drugs from friends. You are right: you know nothing of drug culture.

  14. Re:I wouldn't hold my breath on Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? · · Score: 1

    As someone with an addictive personality, I disagree with you. Imagine being a recovering drug addict, walking into Walgreens to get aspirin for a headache, as you are paying for it, you see behind the cashier "ICE BRAND METH $40". You didn't walk into the store to buy meth, but your old addiction starts tempting you. It would be sooo easy to say "and can you grab me some of that meth too". You hesitate... but in a moment of weakness, you buy the meth.

    What if $20 or $30 of that $40 went to treatment programs that you could attend courtesy of the the state?

    You are now again a meth addict.

    No. Actually, you never stopped bing a meth addict, but thanks for trying to make your problem everyone else's responsibility. Quit looking to everyone else to take your blame. You want an easy out? Darwin will hook you up. You want a pity party? Call your friends. You need a support group? Call NA! After that, leave the rest of society out of it, you lily-livered sonofabitch.

    That is me every time I walk into a convenience store, except with Black and Milds (cigars), instead of meth. The ONLY thing that prevents me from actually buying black and milds, is that it isn't worth it. 2 minutes of escape isn't enough to justify the health consequences. However, if it was meth, and the promise was 8 hours of escape, who the hell knows what I would do. I am just lucky I was exposed to pot and tobacco instead of meth when I was 14.

    Drug prohibition is an unfortunate response to human nature. Some people do not get addicted to things. They do not need to escape reality. These are people that drink one beer, play WoW/XBOX live 6 hours a week, etc. But some people are incapable of controlling themselves when it comes to escaping reality. These people will binge and binge and binge on drugs until they die, and cause some really bad things to happen in their communities.

    Making drugs readily available is a bad idea. If I wanted to find meth, it would probably take me weeks, or months. I don't even know where to start.

    What a pathetic loser! Seriously, you need to learn to apply yourself. The drugs are right in front of you for the taking. Your confession that you are a cigar junkie and not a speed freak shoots your argument to hell. If tobacco was banned tomorrow, you would find yours in your moment of desparation, Walgreens or not. If you are smoking cigars in two minutes, you have a serious problem, and probably should switch to meth.

  15. Re:So which box are you on? on Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms · · Score: 1

    Seen lots of soap boxing at NRA conventions.

    Seen no ballot boxing, jury boxing or ammo boxing by NRA types. How far do liberties have to be eroded before you kick into another gear?

    I am a lifetime NRA member who has been summoned to jury duty. One of the times I was summoned, I was empaneled as a juror. I also vote regularly in both primary and general elections. I would respectfully request that you lose your vitriol and self-righteous indignation, as it is completely unwarranted.

    Perhaps you can find the answer to your question of when the citizens will take up up arms against the government by looking within yourself. Apparently you have not found it necessary to take up arms over all of the injustices being committed by the US government, so who are you to accuse anyone else of not firing the first shot? As long as the population is fat, dumb and happy there will be no violent uprising over infringement of civil liberties.

    Here's some food for thought on why those that champion firearms and liberty aren't as eager for bloodshed as you seem to paint them. Today's firearms activist is more intelligent and diverse than you are willing to acknowledge, because it sabotages your stereotype of the NRA member as a drunken, homicidal, cousin-humping redneck.

    Just because I haven't had to break open the ammo box yet doesn't mean I should surrender it. How many household fires in your home have required a fire extinguisher? Yet you probably still keep one, don't you?

    Perhaps you should put as much effort into expressing your ideas as you put into your ad hominem attacks.

  16. Give Obama a chance... on Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms · · Score: 1

    I think Lincoln raped our constitution pretty hard with regard to interpretation the voluntary nature of statehood, state sovereignty, 9th & 10th amendments, and eminent domain to just name a few.

    I agree -- he and FDR were the worst presidents with regards to federalism/states' rights.

    Obama has at least 4 years to to try to break Lincoln & FDR's records.

  17. Re:Clock can run in reverse. on National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit · · Score: 1

    That is a great story, but your attribution is erroneous according to Snopes.

  18. Re:My best mileage is around 55 mph on Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've got a Honda Civic Hybrid. And have I ever gotten to love the mileage!

    Your mileage may be great, but your smug emissions are off the charts.

  19. Who would buy that? on Ghostbusters Is First Film Released On USB Key · · Score: 1

    You can get one or both of the DVDs for a lot less than half that!

    Ghostbusters

    Ghostbusters 1 & 2

  20. You have got to be kidding! on Cost-Effective Server Room Air Conditioning? · · Score: 1

    If $600 - $1000 is too large of a budget for your project, then you should just shut your server room down, as you aren't making enough money from having a server room.

    Seriously, relocate your servers to colocated hosting, or pay up for the requisite climate controls. Beyond that...fuck off.

    Someone else said it nicer in another post.

  21. Re:My stance on WGA and Vista on Black Screens For Unauthorized Copies of Windows · · Score: 1

    I say we got ripped off and piracy is our legitimate right.

    Not quite. However the following is viable:

    "The package said requires Windows 95 or better, so I installed Linux."
    -unknown

  22. Re:In a word... on Psystar Will Countersue Apple · · Score: 1

    Apple's development efforts.

    You mean Apple's closed source source layer on top of an open source core, ala TiVo?

    Piss on them. Apple does more harm than good and laughs all the way to the bank.

  23. Re:Finally! on FTC Bans Prerecorded Telemarketing Drivel · · Score: 1

    the endless calls to my work number (it's on the DNC list, but is too new to have propagated) by machines wishing to inform me of my vehicle's possible "out-of-warranty status" need to end.

    The vehicle "out-of-warranty" callers do not use the DNC list anyway. They appear to be boiler-room operations, and you can expect them to operate in a similar manner to Grim Reaper Gutters.

  24. Re:The Dark Side of the Greed. on Internet Radio's "Last Stand" · · Score: 1

    I see entirely too much light from Master Jobs to consider him a paragon of the dark side. He's more balanced per se (Like Master Windu), since we do still see continuos innovation coming out of his company.

    The light you see coming out of Master Jobs is projected by highly paid marketing droids. The force is weak in you that you do not recognize that light for the for the fiction that it is. Slapping a proprietary layer on Open Source is not innovation. Apple is not the Jedi savior you mistake it for. They just happen to be more skillful masters of the Sith than their rivals in Redmond.

  25. Re:Exactly on Internet Radio's "Last Stand" · · Score: 1

    They'll claim that there will still be "radio" on the internet offered from regular radio stations.

    That claim is easily invalidated by the fact that the advantage internet radio provided was that the independent stations weren't forced to suck by Clear Channel or some other other corporate overlords. How is another distribution outlet for more of the same suckage even remotely competitive?

    Fuck legislated conformist bullshit.