You do realize that AirDroid it an app, right? As in, not part of Android, but something a third party wrote that some people install, not something that comes bundled as part of the OS. To clarify, it's not Android. Care to try that again?
Why, yes, every time you have food delivered to your mother's basement, you are also a surveillance victim. Oh, and if you think Mom isn't rummaging through your shit while you sleep, you're fooling yourself. She knows all about your hentai collections, it disgusts her, and she hasn't decided whether or not she should bring it up.
When you mount as a regular flash drive, the disk must first be unmounted by the phone; Android used to have it as an option (and some manufacturers hack it back into their ROMs), but it does necessitate closing any apps which are currently running off the disk and does prevent any apps which are using that disk from continuing to do so until you unmount it from your computer.
Yes, this does affect Blackberry as well. You simply can not have two devices directly accessing the same filesystem on the same disk; at least, not with any filesystem supported natively by Windows or OS X. It has certainly affected every Blackberry I ever owned; and I've been using them since long before they included a built-in SMB server.
Additionally, as most Android phones now use EXT-based filesystems (most commonly EXT4, but also often EXT2), your typical Windows PC or Mac wouldn't be able to mount them anyway.
MTP gets around both of those issues; though it does bring about its own flavor of suck, so I don't use it. I do, however, run an SMB server when I need to sync files.
One of the things that makes a drug a gateway drug is the dealer connection you have to develop to get your hands on it. It's the primary reason marijuana is no longer considered a gateway drug in localities where it has been made legal; the place you go to get marijuana only sells marijuana, they don't sell harder drugs and aren't incentivized to get you hooked on them. If MDMA were suddenly made legal (again) and available over the pharmacy counter, with a prescription (again), you wouldn't have to deal with some back-alley dealer who also sells cocaine, crack, herion, and a slew of other illegal drugs.
Yes, a pharmacist is effectively a regulated drug dealer; they must also account for every single pill, so they're not exactly going to be pushing Adderall, like the back-alley guy. Your doctor, on the other hand...
Every trade that occurs within a given interval (I think 1 second is too short still, maybe a minute... or 1/4 hour, since that's often how long quotes are delayed for the average trader) trades at the same price for a given transaction type. The net effect on the market would be the same, we just wouldn't have, for example, two people placing SELL orders for a million shares of something at $100/share and one of them getting $190/share while the other only gets $10/share, which does currently happen.
It would seem you are correct (read on before you let that go to your head) regarding heroin existing before the morphine ban (they were, in fact, banned at the same time); however, when Bayer brought commercial synthetic herion to market is irrelevant, as it was commercially available in its processed-from-nature form in Germany in 1874, and in the US shortly thereafter. Its creation was, in fact, no accident, and both it and morphine were not banned until 46 years later.
Looks like we both learned something today.
Ever since 1920, with the inception of the Dangerous Drug Act, however, the pattern I stated above has held true. The pattern began with replacements for herion, rather than with heroin itself; it's been more than a few years since I researched this topic, so you'll have to forgive the foggy details in my initial post.
Yes, and the process for growing and cultivating the correct strain of poppy and processing it into heroin is also complex and expensive. Does that mean we don't restrict heroin? No. So why should it mean we don't restrict tobacco?
Here's a hint: we also shouldn't restrict heroin, nor the drugs we restricted that lead to the development of heroin as a medicinal replacement to those drugs.
Why?
Another hint: if the drugs herion was developed to replace were still legal, we wouldn't have developed herion. Yet, we made those drugs illegal and developed something worse than the drugs it replaced, only to make it illegal and develop worse drugs to replace it, only to make those illegal and develop more new and worse drugs to replace those.
Are you seeing the pattern, yet?
Every time we ban a drug, we create a new drug to replace it and that drug, almost without fail, is worse that the one that came before.
Ah, see (and I think you do see; this is for the studio audience and those playing along at home), there was a disconnect between our definitions of "good". Just as with and other drug, for those who use it legitimately to treat a condition and do not abuse it, it is intrinsically good; for everyone else, it is either bad or, at best, neutral.
The same can be said for water, even. It's good, and you won't find anyone who'll disagree, until you drink a couple gallons in an hour or so and end up in the hospital or morgue.
we are particularly squeamish about handing out legal medicine that works on brain chemistry.
Tell that to my wife, whose psychiatrist lets her choose her own drugs and dosage levels. Mind you, this has ultimately worked out for her since she's been doing so under my guidance rather than his (and he has acknowledged the improvement, as well), once he got her to try the wrong dosage of the right drug and I worked with her to find the correct dosage. She went from note being able to get out of bed without hours of coaxing to running a successful print shop in less than 3 months.
Edibles mean bad times for me; I only throw up and have a hangover if I've had edibles. If I had to guess, it's because they're usually made with shake from the day's cuttings, so they contain strains I am definitely not compatible with.
I say this as someone who experiences no psychoactive effects when using Durban Poison to treat migraine; to the point that my wife doesn't even notice unless she sees me doing it or I tell her. Of course, I use wax and a very efficient vaporizer, so there is no smell, otherwise I fully expect she'd know the moment I lit up.
Wait until you meet a lot of people addicted to heroin, and see how the drug almost unequivocally, end up messing up with their lives, and you will have a very different outlook about drugs.
Look at the history of heroin. Learn how it came to be in the first place. Without prohibition of safer drugs that came before it, there would be no heroin.
This I can agree with; it's why I use a portable convection vaporizer and wax concentrates; I only heat what is needed to treat any symptoms I may be facing at the moment, the vaporizer gives off no fumes or vapor aside from what I am inhaling and, even then, only puts out what my lungs are going to absorb; when I exhale after a draw, there is nothing in that breath that is going to reach anyone who isn't already sitting uncomfortably close to me (in which case, their right to occupy space ends where my right to personal space begins, so we're even if they get my vapor). Even at that, while I do carry it with me everywhere, I've had to use it in public one time in the past year, when I felt a migraine coming on; and I use it only medically, to treat migraine and pain from nerve damage and an inoperable herniated disc. And I'll be damned if someone's gonna tell me what I can do in my own home (provided it stays in my home).
Of course, I do understand that I am firmly in the minority and that most users let smoke billow out of their apartments and/or blow it in peoples' faces for kicks. It pisses me off to no end when I step outside and smell my neighbors' pot.
For therapeutic use, it's often recommended to use concentrates or edibles, specifically because burning it is (in addition to being wasteful) likely unhealthy. If you want to question whether it's good or not, find my post above.
In fact, because I've been following your posting here and know you're a level-headed and reasonable guy and you'll, most likely, actually read it, I'll just link to the post and save you the trouble of searching for it. Do note the caveats at the end, as well.
Of course, real studies are needed and anecdotes like mine don't hold much weight, but I truly fear the day I lose legal access to the once-or-twice-a-month cure for what ails me.
Here, here! I keep a couple strains of wax extracts around for my specific symptoms and load them into a portable vaporizer in varied ratios based on how often I've been having each symptom recently. The alternative is to either have one vaporizer for each symptom (at over $300 a piece, including accessories, a lot of wasted money with that option), or clean out the vaporizer every time I need to change strains (a lot of wasted time and wax there).
The end result is that I draw from that vaporizer once, maybe twice per month. The recommendation I got last year expires today; I only bothered to renew it so I can legally keep my equipment and materials in case I should ever truly need them again.
My symptoms include migraine, which I've suffered since age 5, an inoperable herniated L3, nerve damage in my left hip that causes a (quite painful) feeling of tightness through my entire left leg, and sciatic nerve damage. I use 3 different strains to control these symptoms and have seen exceptional success in the (literally, to the day) year I've been doing so.
I used to be prescribed strong hallucinogens for my migraines, which are marked not only be headache, but also by sensitivity to light and sound, as well as auditory and visual effects, inability to think clearly, poor logic and decision making abilities, and a slew of other negative effects; basically, my migraine symptoms include every negative effect I've ever heard someone attribute to marijuana, but I've had them for 29 years longer than I've been using marijuana. When I felt one coming on, I had a choice between riding it out for a few days or popping a pill and tripping balls for that same amount of time, or longer; it got to the point where I actually was more productive if I didn't medicate for my migraine and just suffered through it, so I stopped the medication, which I needed once or twice a month at the time. Over a period of years, the frequency and intensity of my migraines increased to the point where I had, at best, 3 or 4 days out of any given month where I could function semi-normally. Then, a year ago, I discovered how effective pot is at controlling these symptoms. I can count, on my fingers, the number of migraines I've experienced in the past year; two in January as I worked out which strains actually help with my symptoms, one in February and one in March as I adjusted to the use of concentrates (eventually settling on wax and crumble), and one each month, as a result of increased workload (and the resulting poor sleep schedule), since August. I actually went 4 months without symptoms! To start, I was using daily (trying different strains, different delivery methods, etc), then weekly, and now it's as needed.
When I fucked up my back in December 2014, my pain scale (you know, when the doctor asks you to rate your pain on a scale of 1 to 10) was completely redefined. The worst pain I had felt before then, I rated at a 7; that 7 became a 3. They gave me Norco and a muscle relaxer (I forget which) and, much like the Dilaudid they gave me at the hospital, it did nothing for my pain, but it did render me stupid and useless for a few hours. When I threw it out again in November 2015, the new #10 pain I had discovered the previous December was redefined as a 4; things that I used to find excruciatingly painful (paper cuts, stubbing my toe, getting my finger or hand slammed in a door, taking a punch) now don't even register on that 1 to 10 pain scale. That's when a friend recommended marijuana, and that's when I got my recommendation and started MMJ therapy. In that time, I've gone from needing two crutches to walk on flat ground and seeing a chiropractor weekly to being fully mobile with minimal (and manageable) pain and seeing a chiropractor once every 4-6 weeks for maintenance. I've, since, moved to a 3rd floor walk-up and have no trouble with the stairs; I even carry my own groceries up and, a few months back, managed to get a 130lb box up those stairs with no help and no hand truck. I've gone from treating daily to
Oh? Well, I guess that && makes your statement technically correct; but, what if you didn't need to patent it in order to make those trillions? Ask Philip Morris how that's working out, seems to be going well enough for them.
I can't speak for other drugs, though I would assume it to at least be a similar situation, but they used tax law for marijuana. They created a tax stamp for the manufacture (growing) and sale of pot, then never issued any. Our tax laws are, as I understand it (and I'm no constitutional lawyer, so... grain of salt and all that), constitutionally prevented from being applied to anything that does not represent the will of the people (taxation without representation), but we let them get away with it anyway; not just with pot, but with a great many things.
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Quite often, that's how adoption works, don'cha know?
At least you know who your daddy is, Son. Usually, you dumb kids take a while longer to learn who your superiors are.
You do realize that AirDroid it an app, right? As in, not part of Android, but something a third party wrote that some people install, not something that comes bundled as part of the OS. To clarify, it's not Android. Care to try that again?
Why, yes, every time you have food delivered to your mother's basement, you are also a surveillance victim. Oh, and if you think Mom isn't rummaging through your shit while you sleep, you're fooling yourself. She knows all about your hentai collections, it disgusts her, and she hasn't decided whether or not she should bring it up.
When you mount as a regular flash drive, the disk must first be unmounted by the phone; Android used to have it as an option (and some manufacturers hack it back into their ROMs), but it does necessitate closing any apps which are currently running off the disk and does prevent any apps which are using that disk from continuing to do so until you unmount it from your computer.
Yes, this does affect Blackberry as well. You simply can not have two devices directly accessing the same filesystem on the same disk; at least, not with any filesystem supported natively by Windows or OS X. It has certainly affected every Blackberry I ever owned; and I've been using them since long before they included a built-in SMB server.
Additionally, as most Android phones now use EXT-based filesystems (most commonly EXT4, but also often EXT2), your typical Windows PC or Mac wouldn't be able to mount them anyway.
MTP gets around both of those issues; though it does bring about its own flavor of suck, so I don't use it. I do, however, run an SMB server when I need to sync files.
One of the things that makes a drug a gateway drug is the dealer connection you have to develop to get your hands on it. It's the primary reason marijuana is no longer considered a gateway drug in localities where it has been made legal; the place you go to get marijuana only sells marijuana, they don't sell harder drugs and aren't incentivized to get you hooked on them. If MDMA were suddenly made legal (again) and available over the pharmacy counter, with a prescription (again), you wouldn't have to deal with some back-alley dealer who also sells cocaine, crack, herion, and a slew of other illegal drugs.
Yes, a pharmacist is effectively a regulated drug dealer; they must also account for every single pill, so they're not exactly going to be pushing Adderall, like the back-alley guy. Your doctor, on the other hand...
This.
Every trade that occurs within a given interval (I think 1 second is too short still, maybe a minute... or 1/4 hour, since that's often how long quotes are delayed for the average trader) trades at the same price for a given transaction type. The net effect on the market would be the same, we just wouldn't have, for example, two people placing SELL orders for a million shares of something at $100/share and one of them getting $190/share while the other only gets $10/share, which does currently happen.
So, then, why not link back to that discussion, so I don't have to post my full reply twice? Because you're only half right.
You know, I'm going to [citation needed] myself here.
"It was developed chiefly as a morphine substitute for cough suppressants"
It would seem you are correct (read on before you let that go to your head) regarding heroin existing before the morphine ban (they were, in fact, banned at the same time); however, when Bayer brought commercial synthetic herion to market is irrelevant, as it was commercially available in its processed-from-nature form in Germany in 1874, and in the US shortly thereafter. Its creation was, in fact, no accident, and both it and morphine were not banned until 46 years later.
Looks like we both learned something today.
Ever since 1920, with the inception of the Dangerous Drug Act, however, the pattern I stated above has held true. The pattern began with replacements for herion, rather than with heroin itself; it's been more than a few years since I researched this topic, so you'll have to forgive the foggy details in my initial post.
Yes, and the process for growing and cultivating the correct strain of poppy and processing it into heroin is also complex and expensive. Does that mean we don't restrict heroin? No. So why should it mean we don't restrict tobacco?
Here's a hint: we also shouldn't restrict heroin, nor the drugs we restricted that lead to the development of heroin as a medicinal replacement to those drugs.
Why?
Another hint: if the drugs herion was developed to replace were still legal, we wouldn't have developed herion. Yet, we made those drugs illegal and developed something worse than the drugs it replaced, only to make it illegal and develop worse drugs to replace it, only to make those illegal and develop more new and worse drugs to replace those.
Are you seeing the pattern, yet?
Every time we ban a drug, we create a new drug to replace it and that drug, almost without fail, is worse that the one that came before.
You don't want this dope head behind the wheel unmedicated with a migraine. Just saying.
Ah, see (and I think you do see; this is for the studio audience and those playing along at home), there was a disconnect between our definitions of "good". Just as with and other drug, for those who use it legitimately to treat a condition and do not abuse it, it is intrinsically good; for everyone else, it is either bad or, at best, neutral.
The same can be said for water, even. It's good, and you won't find anyone who'll disagree, until you drink a couple gallons in an hour or so and end up in the hospital or morgue.
we are particularly squeamish about handing out legal medicine that works on brain chemistry.
Tell that to my wife, whose psychiatrist lets her choose her own drugs and dosage levels. Mind you, this has ultimately worked out for her since she's been doing so under my guidance rather than his (and he has acknowledged the improvement, as well), once he got her to try the wrong dosage of the right drug and I worked with her to find the correct dosage. She went from note being able to get out of bed without hours of coaxing to running a successful print shop in less than 3 months.
Edibles mean bad times for me; I only throw up and have a hangover if I've had edibles. If I had to guess, it's because they're usually made with shake from the day's cuttings, so they contain strains I am definitely not compatible with.
I say this as someone who experiences no psychoactive effects when using Durban Poison to treat migraine; to the point that my wife doesn't even notice unless she sees me doing it or I tell her. Of course, I use wax and a very efficient vaporizer, so there is no smell, otherwise I fully expect she'd know the moment I lit up.
Wait until you meet a lot of people addicted to heroin, and see how the drug almost unequivocally, end up messing up with their lives, and you will have a very different outlook about drugs.
Look at the history of heroin. Learn how it came to be in the first place. Without prohibition of safer drugs that came before it, there would be no heroin.
This I can agree with; it's why I use a portable convection vaporizer and wax concentrates; I only heat what is needed to treat any symptoms I may be facing at the moment, the vaporizer gives off no fumes or vapor aside from what I am inhaling and, even then, only puts out what my lungs are going to absorb; when I exhale after a draw, there is nothing in that breath that is going to reach anyone who isn't already sitting uncomfortably close to me (in which case, their right to occupy space ends where my right to personal space begins, so we're even if they get my vapor). Even at that, while I do carry it with me everywhere, I've had to use it in public one time in the past year, when I felt a migraine coming on; and I use it only medically, to treat migraine and pain from nerve damage and an inoperable herniated disc. And I'll be damned if someone's gonna tell me what I can do in my own home (provided it stays in my home).
Of course, I do understand that I am firmly in the minority and that most users let smoke billow out of their apartments and/or blow it in peoples' faces for kicks. It pisses me off to no end when I step outside and smell my neighbors' pot.
For therapeutic use, it's often recommended to use concentrates or edibles, specifically because burning it is (in addition to being wasteful) likely unhealthy. If you want to question whether it's good or not, find my post above.
In fact, because I've been following your posting here and know you're a level-headed and reasonable guy and you'll, most likely, actually read it, I'll just link to the post and save you the trouble of searching for it. Do note the caveats at the end, as well.
Of course, real studies are needed and anecdotes like mine don't hold much weight, but I truly fear the day I lose legal access to the once-or-twice-a-month cure for what ails me.
Here, here! I keep a couple strains of wax extracts around for my specific symptoms and load them into a portable vaporizer in varied ratios based on how often I've been having each symptom recently. The alternative is to either have one vaporizer for each symptom (at over $300 a piece, including accessories, a lot of wasted money with that option), or clean out the vaporizer every time I need to change strains (a lot of wasted time and wax there).
The end result is that I draw from that vaporizer once, maybe twice per month. The recommendation I got last year expires today; I only bothered to renew it so I can legally keep my equipment and materials in case I should ever truly need them again.
My symptoms include migraine, which I've suffered since age 5, an inoperable herniated L3, nerve damage in my left hip that causes a (quite painful) feeling of tightness through my entire left leg, and sciatic nerve damage. I use 3 different strains to control these symptoms and have seen exceptional success in the (literally, to the day) year I've been doing so.
I used to be prescribed strong hallucinogens for my migraines, which are marked not only be headache, but also by sensitivity to light and sound, as well as auditory and visual effects, inability to think clearly, poor logic and decision making abilities, and a slew of other negative effects; basically, my migraine symptoms include every negative effect I've ever heard someone attribute to marijuana, but I've had them for 29 years longer than I've been using marijuana. When I felt one coming on, I had a choice between riding it out for a few days or popping a pill and tripping balls for that same amount of time, or longer; it got to the point where I actually was more productive if I didn't medicate for my migraine and just suffered through it, so I stopped the medication, which I needed once or twice a month at the time. Over a period of years, the frequency and intensity of my migraines increased to the point where I had, at best, 3 or 4 days out of any given month where I could function semi-normally. Then, a year ago, I discovered how effective pot is at controlling these symptoms. I can count, on my fingers, the number of migraines I've experienced in the past year; two in January as I worked out which strains actually help with my symptoms, one in February and one in March as I adjusted to the use of concentrates (eventually settling on wax and crumble), and one each month, as a result of increased workload (and the resulting poor sleep schedule), since August. I actually went 4 months without symptoms! To start, I was using daily (trying different strains, different delivery methods, etc), then weekly, and now it's as needed.
When I fucked up my back in December 2014, my pain scale (you know, when the doctor asks you to rate your pain on a scale of 1 to 10) was completely redefined. The worst pain I had felt before then, I rated at a 7; that 7 became a 3. They gave me Norco and a muscle relaxer (I forget which) and, much like the Dilaudid they gave me at the hospital, it did nothing for my pain, but it did render me stupid and useless for a few hours. When I threw it out again in November 2015, the new #10 pain I had discovered the previous December was redefined as a 4; things that I used to find excruciatingly painful (paper cuts, stubbing my toe, getting my finger or hand slammed in a door, taking a punch) now don't even register on that 1 to 10 pain scale. That's when a friend recommended marijuana, and that's when I got my recommendation and started MMJ therapy. In that time, I've gone from needing two crutches to walk on flat ground and seeing a chiropractor weekly to being fully mobile with minimal (and manageable) pain and seeing a chiropractor once every 4-6 weeks for maintenance. I've, since, moved to a 3rd floor walk-up and have no trouble with the stairs; I even carry my own groceries up and, a few months back, managed to get a 130lb box up those stairs with no help and no hand truck. I've gone from treating daily to
Oh? Well, I guess that && makes your statement technically correct; but, what if you didn't need to patent it in order to make those trillions? Ask Philip Morris how that's working out, seems to be going well enough for them.
I can't speak for other drugs, though I would assume it to at least be a similar situation, but they used tax law for marijuana. They created a tax stamp for the manufacture (growing) and sale of pot, then never issued any. Our tax laws are, as I understand it (and I'm no constitutional lawyer, so... grain of salt and all that), constitutionally prevented from being applied to anything that does not represent the will of the people (taxation without representation), but we let them get away with it anyway; not just with pot, but with a great many things.
California, as an example, doesn't have legalized recreational pot
Oh?
Actually, the EPA. Corn growers lobby the EPA, the EPA lobbies Congress, Congress enacts subsidies.
I'm not... I hate loud squealing noises. Like the ones Hillary supporters are making right now.
Damn. I mean, really, they all suck.
Citation in the form of a more current source? No? Okay, then.
They are mandated by Congress...
... in response to lobbying by...