Heroin isn't physically addictive. Sure, you'll go though hell with withdrawl symptons, but it won't kill you like alcohol, barbituates, or benzos will.
I do strongly agree that society is way too messed up in its view of addiction, and mental and physical health in general. Instead of treating the root cause, all too often it's, oh you're worried about X, have some pills, a bit overweight, have some more pills, not very happy, well it couldn't be that you lost your job or you're too stressed out, better see a shrink. Unfortunately, at least hopefully, most of the people who view this as the correct solution think that the best intentions make up for making fucked up decisions that can ruin the lives of others, forgetting the whole "The road to hell..."
Ok, I give up. After all, my arguement based on facts can in now way compare to your mystical expertise at economics. You do nothing but provide more ad homiem attacks and glib interpretations of the evidence I provide, while having absolutely no support for what you claim. I suppose I shouln't be suprised, I'm just some evil capatalist looking to exploit the workers. I guess I should repent and learn the joys of the Marxist-Leninist theory, and convert others so that we can all live in a glorious paradise like the USSR.
>Most of the places we've been involved in the last 100 years have been strictly for american corporations, often going directly against the democratically elceted govts whey they told us off.
Major US conflicts 1905-2005
WWI: stopping german agression
WW2: stopping german agression
Korean War: stopping communist agression
Vietnam: fixing France's screwup/stopping communist agression
Gulf War: stopping Iraqi agression
>The mess south of the boarder is directly our doing! "our" dictators have killed more people than the "commies" dictators have
13 million killed by Stalin, 11 million by Mao
http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html
As I said in the original post, the US has tried being isolationist, and it has failed in 1917, 1939, and god knows what would have happened if we'd tried being isolationist against communism. It's nice to know that on slashdot you still don't need facts, you can just use emotional agruements.
What evidence do you have for DPRK's nuclear program? Did you defect, are you in the intelligence community? Are you an international arms dealer? Are you an eccentric billionaire that's salvaged a nuke off the sea and sold it to them? It's quite a difficult task to create weapons grade uranium/plutonium so extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.
I only meant Bush as powerful as he was more powerful than Kerry, I'd prefer we had some 200 year old federalist dug up to rule for us. Also, I like opiates. Very much so.
The "bloodthirsty" US tried being isolationist and letting the rest of the world do what they want, but that didn't quite work out, so now if we want to live peacefully, we have to fix the problems caused by others. (specifically, europe as in most all of africa, vietnam - the french, stopping germany's attempts at world domination, stopping the soviets)
If you have an arguement that convincingly makes war unnecessarily and is pragmatic, I would be glad to hear it. I did wear a costume peace sign though two years of high school.
Informative? Man, I gotta get the name of the moderators brand of crack. It took 3 years of the most devistating attack on a city (Stalingrad) by the most powerful army ever to kill 2 million. North Korea barely has power to light all of its people, Germany is the second largest economic power. How exactly is the DPRK going to do anything of note in history?
Do you even know with a certain confidence based on facts that DPRK has nukes? The science and engineering to design one is easy, it's the actual production of weapons grade uranium and plutonium. I think that the government would be doing all it can to prevent such an unstable regime from building nukes. Not to mention that there are at least 51 missiles lost at sea that could be salvaged, as well as buying one off the black market from Russia. The reason I want Bush as president is because the US needs a leader with a powerful image. The USSR and every corrupt regime will only negotiate with countries that they think are strong, and the only corrupt regimes existing today could be destroyed a thousand times over by America's stockpile, so nukes are just a political negotianting tool.
I do not complain, I stated a fact. The links were not in front of me, and after reading said links, all I saw were 2 charts, with no analysis. If you read the responses to the link http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=145518&cid=121 87185 you'll find that the comment is worthless, and if you check http://www.corporatism.netfirms.com/pay.htm#int visually, it's easy to see the correlation,
furthermore, here are some links to show you how the minimum wage is harmful to employees in a free market system. http://www.lao.ca.gov/ballot/2005/050143.htmhttp://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa106.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wagehttp://www.ncpa.org/hotlines/min/pd082100a.html
Let me guess, you're a democrat who's still whining about how your party has no ideas besides we're not republicans. Here's a joke for you: A Republican and a Democrat were walking down the street when they came to a homeless person. The Republican gave the homeless person his Businesscard and told him to come to his office for a job. He then took 20 bucks out of his pocket and gave it to the homeless guy.
The Democrat was very impressed , and when they came to another homeless person , he decided to help.
He walked over to the homeless guy and gave him directions to the welfare office. He then reached into the Republicans pocket and gave the homeless person 50 bucks.
Now you understand the difference between Democrats and Republicans.
Adding on this, it's not even known whether atoms are collections of point mass particles (protons, neutrons and electrons), so as the parent poster said, "seeing" in the conventional sense doesn't really mean anything. Another way to observe atoms is using scanning tunneling microscopes, as in these pictures http://www.almaden.ibm.com/vis/stm/stm.htmlhttp://www.almaden.ibm.com/vis/stm/gallery.html Large molecules like proteins and DNA are better seen with X-ray diffractions.
From the article: http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/04132004_bb_sapph ire.html
Charles Gibson/Good Morning America: "It looks like water, but it's not."
Well, Gasoline is a clear liquid, so it looks like water, I guess it must put out a fire!
Also, can I get modded up cause I made a link?
You're in pretty big trouble, most of the oxygen molecules probably are under 10 years old, much less if you live away from a city. Even wore, those CO2 molecules are only a few seconds old, you sick bastard! And then those Argon atoms, I've heard of guys liking older women, but a few billion years is just too much.
Ah, more ad homiem attacks! I must request you stop helping me prove my point. I must also inform you that evidence requires citing links/books etc etc. Your "feelings" do not count as "backing up" your claims. Have a nice day.
Thanks for proving my point. I ask for a well thought out arguement, you provide statements not backed up by anything. You've provided no proof, making claims without any evidence besides I said so. I wave my economics textbook because that is what is thought to be the case by nearly all economists, much the same I would wave Schiff's QM book if we were talking about physics. As it stands you're just some know it all hypocrite who can't get over the fact that he's just delusional. Have the last word, it'll only further prove my point.
Slashdot Mirror
Wait a minute, Statue of Liberty--that was our planet! You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! Damn you all to hell!"
As someone who's at UIUC right now, the top students here are comparable to MIT/Caltech, but the other 90% are mediocre.
Heroin isn't physically addictive. Sure, you'll go though hell with withdrawl symptons, but it won't kill you like alcohol, barbituates, or benzos will.
I do strongly agree that society is way too messed up in its view of addiction, and mental and physical health in general. Instead of treating the root cause, all too often it's, oh you're worried about X, have some pills, a bit overweight, have some more pills, not very happy, well it couldn't be that you lost your job or you're too stressed out, better see a shrink. Unfortunately, at least hopefully, most of the people who view this as the correct solution think that the best intentions make up for making fucked up decisions that can ruin the lives of others, forgetting the whole "The road to hell..."
No, What's on second.
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor4.shtml
It should've been a six part trilogy.
What didn't you like about it? I thought it was great 30's Buck Rogers scifi. I mean, the producers weren't going for Shakespeare level drama.
Funny thing about Feynman is he was the descendant of Russian and Polish Jews. http://www.britannica.com/nobel/micro/207_91.html
Radius of Earth = 6 378.1 kilometers, circumfrence of the Earth = 40054 km. 35,787 kilometers = 1.12 times the circumfrence of the earth.
Where in god's name are you going?
Are you a moron? Have you looked at gasoline? It's colorless, i.e. clear.
Ok, I give up. After all, my arguement based on facts can in now way compare to your mystical expertise at economics. You do nothing but provide more ad homiem attacks and glib interpretations of the evidence I provide, while having absolutely no support for what you claim. I suppose I shouln't be suprised, I'm just some evil capatalist looking to exploit the workers. I guess I should repent and learn the joys of the Marxist-Leninist theory, and convert others so that we can all live in a glorious paradise like the USSR.
>Most of the places we've been involved in the last 100 years have been strictly for american corporations, often going directly against the democratically elceted govts whey they told us off. Major US conflicts 1905-2005 WWI: stopping german agression WW2: stopping german agression Korean War: stopping communist agression Vietnam: fixing France's screwup/stopping communist agression Gulf War: stopping Iraqi agression >The mess south of the boarder is directly our doing! "our" dictators have killed more people than the "commies" dictators have 13 million killed by Stalin, 11 million by Mao http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html As I said in the original post, the US has tried being isolationist, and it has failed in 1917, 1939, and god knows what would have happened if we'd tried being isolationist against communism. It's nice to know that on slashdot you still don't need facts, you can just use emotional agruements.
What evidence do you have for DPRK's nuclear program? Did you defect, are you in the intelligence community? Are you an international arms dealer? Are you an eccentric billionaire that's salvaged a nuke off the sea and sold it to them? It's quite a difficult task to create weapons grade uranium/plutonium so extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence.
Ah, I was thinking of Leningrad, my mistake.
I only meant Bush as powerful as he was more powerful than Kerry, I'd prefer we had some 200 year old federalist dug up to rule for us. Also, I like opiates. Very much so.
The "bloodthirsty" US tried being isolationist and letting the rest of the world do what they want, but that didn't quite work out, so now if we want to live peacefully, we have to fix the problems caused by others. (specifically, europe as in most all of africa, vietnam - the french, stopping germany's attempts at world domination, stopping the soviets)
If you have an arguement that convincingly makes war unnecessarily and is pragmatic, I would be glad to hear it. I did wear a costume peace sign though two years of high school.
Hoping to hear from you.
That's Chilean sea bass, there's the only kind that are ill-tempered enough,
Informative? Man, I gotta get the name of the moderators brand of crack. It took 3 years of the most devistating attack on a city (Stalingrad) by the most powerful army ever to kill 2 million. North Korea barely has power to light all of its people, Germany is the second largest economic power. How exactly is the DPRK going to do anything of note in history?
Do you even know with a certain confidence based on facts that DPRK has nukes? The science and engineering to design one is easy, it's the actual production of weapons grade uranium and plutonium. I think that the government would be doing all it can to prevent such an unstable regime from building nukes. Not to mention that there are at least 51 missiles lost at sea that could be salvaged, as well as buying one off the black market from Russia. The reason I want Bush as president is because the US needs a leader with a powerful image. The USSR and every corrupt regime will only negotiate with countries that they think are strong, and the only corrupt regimes existing today could be destroyed a thousand times over by America's stockpile, so nukes are just a political negotianting tool.
In regards to your sig, what about discrete mathematicians?
I do not complain, I stated a fact. The links were not in front of me, and after reading said links, all I saw were 2 charts, with no analysis. If you read the responses to the link http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=145518&cid=121 87185 you'll find that the comment is worthless, and if you check http://www.corporatism.netfirms.com/pay.htm#int visually, it's easy to see the correlation,
furthermore, here are some links to show you how the minimum wage is harmful to employees in a free market system. http://www.lao.ca.gov/ballot/2005/050143.htm
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa106.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage
http://www.ncpa.org/hotlines/min/pd082100a.html
Let me guess, you're a democrat who's still whining about how your party has no ideas besides we're not republicans. Here's a joke for you:
A Republican and a Democrat were walking down the street when they came to a homeless person. The Republican gave the homeless person his Businesscard and told him to come to his office for a job. He then took 20 bucks out of his pocket and gave it to the homeless guy. The Democrat was very impressed , and when they came to another homeless person , he decided to help. He walked over to the homeless guy and gave him directions to the welfare office. He then reached into the Republicans pocket and gave the homeless person 50 bucks. Now you understand the difference between Democrats and Republicans.
Adding on this, it's not even known whether atoms are collections of point mass particles (protons, neutrons and electrons), so as the parent poster said, "seeing" in the conventional sense doesn't really mean anything. Another way to observe atoms is using scanning tunneling microscopes, as in these pictures http://www.almaden.ibm.com/vis/stm/stm.html http://www.almaden.ibm.com/vis/stm/gallery.html Large molecules like proteins and DNA are better seen with X-ray diffractions.
From the article: http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/04132004_bb_sapph ire.html
Charles Gibson/Good Morning America: "It looks like water, but it's not."
Well, Gasoline is a clear liquid, so it looks like water, I guess it must put out a fire!
Also, can I get modded up cause I made a link?
You're in pretty big trouble, most of the oxygen molecules probably are under 10 years old, much less if you live away from a city. Even wore, those CO2 molecules are only a few seconds old, you sick bastard! And then those Argon atoms, I've heard of guys liking older women, but a few billion years is just too much.
Ah, more ad homiem attacks! I must request you stop helping me prove my point. I must also inform you that evidence requires citing links/books etc etc. Your "feelings" do not count as "backing up" your claims. Have a nice day.
Thanks for proving my point. I ask for a well thought out arguement, you provide statements not backed up by anything. You've provided no proof, making claims without any evidence besides I said so. I wave my economics textbook because that is what is thought to be the case by nearly all economists, much the same I would wave Schiff's QM book if we were talking about physics. As it stands you're just some know it all hypocrite who can't get over the fact that he's just delusional. Have the last word, it'll only further prove my point.