Again, no conclusive answers; "research on cannabis as a risk factor continued", "published data suggesting", "added to the risk theory".
As to kids younger than 15, that's possible, I know few who started much younger than 18. But as I said, that's a reason for legalization. I maintain that kids shouldn't be taking ANY psychoactive substance; the brain is not yet fully developed.
I'm afraid your link is firewalled off here: "politics/opinion". An OPINION piece is worthless.
I don't know WTF you're talking about or responding to. Do you know how to use the Internet? What a totally worthless attempt to dismiss a fact - one that everyone already knew about, (that is, Monsanto's "former" executives taking over agencies in charge of regulating them).
You posted a link to a blog that was firewalled off. Do you have a reading comprehension problem? I asked for a link to a legitimate news site and you say "everybody knows that?" What the fuck, dude?
The pollution around Sauget caused by Monsanto was bad (even if your assertions were wrong), but the clean up started before the clean air and water acts. Because the PEOPLE that were LOCAL had a problem and started to do something about it.
Absolute bullshit. I FUCKING LIVED THERE. Sorry, this discussion is at an end. You are living in a right-wing fantasy world. I suggest you get professional help for your mental problems.
The army used Stranglehold against the Iraquis in the first Iraq war. They showed them on TV, the gunners firing their cannons with huge speakers blasting out the evil Nugent. And if your house gets in my way baby, you know I'll burn it down...
Your other choices, though... I don't know. Eve of destruction? That was an anti-US establishment, anti-war song. DSOM was also anti-war "Forward!" He cried from the rear, and the front rank died. The general sat, and the lines on the map moved from side to side
As someone else pointed out, Born in the USA was about the downfall of the US after Vietnam.
in quantum mechanics, there are neither particles, nor fields, as we imagine them. The 'objects' behave like fields in certain conditions and like particles in different conditions.
Could it be that a "particle" is where two waveforms intersect?
I could craft a Table cell-by-cell but why should I when I can get a simple tool to do it for me
because your simple tool will produce code that's hard to parse. A table? Jesus, dude...
<table> <tr><td> With, of course, any attributes you want in the TR/TD code. Copy and paste the <td> as many times as you need for a row, close the row, copy the line and paste as many times as you need for the number of rows, close the table. Then put your values in the cells. It takes less time than your "simple tool" and your code is readable.
Buy your music from independant artists and labels, not the RIAA goons and their "artists". You can support music without supporting the RIAA.
Pirating RIAA music doesn't hurt anyone, but buying non-RIAA music hurts the RIAA. They aren't really against piracy, they full well know that piracy doesn't cost them anything. Their faux battle against piracy is because file sharing is the independants' means of getting their music in front of the public. The RIAA has radio, they don't. The fight against piracy is really a battle against their competetion. If you buy two indie CDs, that's money you don't have to buy an RIAA CD.
I didn't RTFA, but these devs seem clueless. If they're going to pirate rather than paying a buck, either they're all dirt-poor (unlikely) or the legit version is in some way inferior to the paid-for version.
Giving it away "because of piracy" when some have actually PAID for a few is absolute idiocy. That said, Apogee made a similar mistake when they put DN1 and DN2 bundled with DN3D. I was pissed off, and wrote them abouut it. I'd already paid for 1 and 2! I was getting less value than those who hadn't bought 1 and 2.
It's easy to blame piracy, piracy makes a good scapegoat for poor sales of a crappy product, or poor sales after you've angered your paying customers.
I don't know, the VA insisted on prescribing Cialis to a friend, and Cialis just didn't work for him. They refused to give him Viagra, so he just sells the Cialis on the black market and buys his Viagra the same way.
If you tell your private doctor a certain medication isn't working, (s)he'll find something else. If you ask for a certain type of medication (Viagra rather than Cialis) (s)he will usually go with your wishes.
I know a lot of vietnam vets, those guys need a LOT of medical attention, and all of them have horror stories about the VA.
Odd me talking like this, because I'm a universal health care booster and would like to see a system like Canada has. Listening to the vets, I start to get a feeling why some folks are so scared of "gub mint health care". Plus, I was in the USAF, and most of the doctors I ran across in the service were barely competent (they used to say "NCO stood for 'No Chance Outside'", and even though the doctors aren't noncoms it fits).
People don't usually go to websites for "trendy and cool", they either go for content or because they want to buy something. In either case, it should be uncluttered, clean, and pleasing to the eye. Of course, it depends on target audience -- an emo site should be dark and gloomy, a kid's site should be colorful and happy, etc.
But most of the crap web designers do to impress people simply annoys them -- e.g., toolbars at the top that don't scroll with the page, flashy crap that distracts from the content, and so forth.
As to engineering, a web page is not a dress, and is more than meets the eye. A dress fits one size of woman, a web page may be viewed in different aspect ratios, different orientations, screens sized from an inch square to five feet wide, in color or in black and white. A web page is not a piece of paper, and the rules for designing for the web are vastly different than designing for paper.
Too bad most web devs don't understand this, which is why most sites blow donkeys. Simple is usually best.
Nevertheless, it was true. iOS can get trojans -- any OS can. But Windows is (I should say "was"?) the only OS you could get infected just from viewing an email or a web page. Every other OS requires you to do something stupid to get infected.
Everyone expects some piracy, but when 90+% of your "sales" are piracy you cannot support any app - especially so if there is any server component, or any support load at all.
If your game is being pirated but not sold, your game just sucks. People are installing it, making a face, and getting rid of it.
Piracy helps sales of a quality product, and hurts sales of crap. If piracy hurt publishers, the public library would have put bookstores out of business long ago, and iTunes would have been a flop.
I'm not curmudgeonly enough to work purely in a CLI environment,
Are there still CLI-only OSes? The only time I ever see a command line is if I forget the root password and have to start in recovery mode. Which is almost never. Well, once in a while somebody will bring me an old XP computer that they've forgotten the admin password to, I'll use a Linux boot disk and reset the XP password from the tool. Oh, I have to use a CLI on the mainframe at work once in a while... usually (again) resetting a user's mainframe password.
Damn, I guess I use a CLI more than I thought!
I don't want my OS to look pretty, I want it to run applications, preferably faster and more stably than it's previous iterations on the same hardware.
I agree completely. Some people equate "pretty" with "useable", which seems pretty dumb to me. Windows is far less useable than KDE, but Windows is prettier.
Imagine trying to program the software you use in machine code, without any tools to aid?
I've done it. Granted, it was 30 years ago and the computer was so slow and had so little memory that machine code (assembled by hand since there was no assembler for the platform) that it was the only way to go.
But the difference is, a modern executable can contain millions of machine instructions. It's simply not feasable to write a big program in assembly. But HTML? HTML and javascript are child's play. There's little an HTML generator can do that's not dirt simple to do by hand -- and the hand coding will be cleaner, smaller, and faster.
What website designers are forgetting is that we're back to primitive machines -- cell phones. Fancy code for a website is stupid these days, since most folks will be looking stuff up on their phone while on the bus. I just shake my head in wonder at the stupidity of people who can't code a web page that looks good on a computer and still works on a phone.
I've been building computers since I was your age, I'm 60. But the problem is how stuff is made these days. Take cars, for example. When I was young, I'd work on my own. Now? I'd have a hard time changing the spark plugs. When my battery died, I had no clue where the damned thing was. Turns out it's inside the front passenger wheel well, it took a trained mechanic 45 minutes to change, you have to remove the wheel, fender, and wheel well to change the battery. THAT'S what the problem is.
Ever try to take a laptop apart? Pain in the ass, I won't work on laptops any more. Same thing.
I'm running kubuntu 11.01 on a ten year old Dell. I'll have to downgrade to 10.04 though, Flash won't work on it with the updated OS (probably not enough memory).
To answer your question, because newer OSes have more and better features, often are faster (I've never seen that in Windows but I have in Linux) and why throw perfectly good hardware away? I hate wastefulness! If it's still useful, use it. If it will run a newer OS acceptably, slap a newer OS on it.
The fact that Paul is against environmental regulations shows that he is in fact a corporate tool -- he's old enough to know how incredibly BAD the environment was before the EPA he wants to abolish came along. Who benefits from pollution? Corporations, to the detriment of everyone else. A true libertarian would be FOR environmental regs, because "your right to swing your fist stops where my nose begins".
And yes, Gore is a hypocrite too, preaching the dangers of global warming while having a personal carbon footprint bigger than a hundred 99%ers. If he'd get rid of the mansions and jet planes he'd have a lot more credibility, but as it is, he has none.
I agree. Those tools have limited utility in a small number of cases. One of the few examples would be making a page with a map, where clicking on a state brings up a page on that state -- but I'd use the tools to create the map, just because it's a royal pain to do it without the tools. I'd copy the tool-generated code into the hand-written page.
But for the most part, I agree with the submitter's kid -- visual editors are only for extreme beginners and create non responsive, non compliant sites.
Perhaps things have changed since I last used one of those tools (it's been a decade) but I really doubt they've gotten much if any better.
Yes, there is a link, but causation has not been shown. The liklihood is that schitzophrenia makes one more prone to smoke marijuana. From your own link:
The self-medicating theory was also raised â" that the men were taking the drug to alleviate their symptoms. This theory became more popular as further research found that schizophrenic patients often report that cannabis makes them feel better. One of the chemical ingredients of cannabis, cannabidiol, has even been investigated as a treatment for schizophrenia.
However, kids shouldn't be using any psychoactive drug, which is another reason it should be legalized and regulated like alcohol. You can buy marijuana in any high school but you're not likely to find a bottle of bourbon in a high school. It's easier for a teen to buy pot than an adult, since the adult could be an undercover cop. The dealer is safer selling to a kid!
I'm not saying the CEO's job is worthless, or that investors are worthless. It's pretty obvious that they (and accountants and lawyers and bankers and others who create no wealth) are necessary. I'm just pointing out that the flow of wealth is the opposite of trickle down.
The people building those offices, studios, factories, restaurants, and mines put their lives at risk. Money at risk? Christ, man, your priorities seem a bit skewed to me.
Sugar is not addictive, caffiene is. Sugar can be habituating, as can anything. There are no physical withdrawal symptoms with sugar or marijuana, there are with caffiene and tobacco.
One can be habituated to anything. If someone slaps you upside the head every morning for five years, if it stops suddenly you will miss being slapped upside the head!
I just want to point out that you are either not a regular user of marijuana or have never tried to stop taking it for a full month
Incorrect. I've been smoking it for 40 years, when I could afford to. I've never had any problem at all when I couldn't afford it. Yes, I wished I had some, but I paid my bills rather than putting the bills off to buy pot. But coffee? I'm useless without my coffee! I will delay paying a bill if it's a choice between putting the bill off or doing without coffee.
Giving up cigarettes was the hardest thing I've ever done. And you're right, I didn't do it because of my health, I did it because they cost too damned much and I was trying to raise a family.
Thaks for the link, that was informative and interesting.
I'm afraid your link is firewalled off here: "politics/opinion". An OPINION piece is worthless. The FACT is that 50 years ago the air in front of the Sauget, IL Monsanto plant burned your lungs. The FACT is that it no longer does; nowdays the worst is an occasional hint of a whiff of bleach. Vegetation there has gone from brown in the '60s to healthy green today. The FACT is that rivers and streams no longer catch fire. The FACT is that things started improving shortly after the enactment of the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act (signed into law by Republican President Nixon).
That is not opinion, that is fact. Can you offer any other explanation besides regulation that changed things? If I throw an egg on the wall and the wall is sticky, there's little argument as to what caused what -- effect does not come before cause except in a time travel science fiction story.
1. California has stable electricity 2. California deregulates 3. California has brownouts
You're saying that deregulation had nothing to do with it? Give me a link... NOT a link to some right-wing blog, a link to a reputable news source like the NYT or even Fox if you must. Don't throw me a link to some drug-addled sex tourist right wing blabbermouth on the radio, or dumbasses like him. At least offer a coherent explanation as to why the deregulation had no effect on the brownouts, and it will have to be more than "It's the corporate / administrator elites working together to screw the rest of us"; they're ALWAYS working together to screw the rest of us.
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Again, no conclusive answers; "research on cannabis as a risk factor continued", "published data suggesting", "added to the risk theory".
As to kids younger than 15, that's possible, I know few who started much younger than 18. But as I said, that's a reason for legalization. I maintain that kids shouldn't be taking ANY psychoactive substance; the brain is not yet fully developed.
You posted a link to a blog that was firewalled off. Do you have a reading comprehension problem? I asked for a link to a legitimate news site and you say "everybody knows that?" What the fuck, dude?
The pollution around Sauget caused by Monsanto was bad (even if your assertions were wrong), but the clean up started before the clean air and water acts. Because the PEOPLE that were LOCAL had a problem and started to do something about it.
Absolute bullshit. I FUCKING LIVED THERE. Sorry, this discussion is at an end. You are living in a right-wing fantasy world. I suggest you get professional help for your mental problems.
Goodbye.
The army used Stranglehold against the Iraquis in the first Iraq war. They showed them on TV, the gunners firing their cannons with huge speakers blasting out the evil Nugent. And if your house gets in my way baby, you know I'll burn it down...
Your other choices, though... I don't know. Eve of destruction? That was an anti-US establishment, anti-war song. DSOM was also anti-war "Forward!" He cried from the rear, and the front rank died. The general sat, and the lines on the map moved from side to side
As someone else pointed out, Born in the USA was about the downfall of the US after Vietnam.
in quantum mechanics, there are neither particles, nor fields, as we imagine them. The 'objects' behave like fields in certain conditions and like particles in different conditions.
Could it be that a "particle" is where two waveforms intersect?
I could craft a Table cell-by-cell but why should I when I can get a simple tool to do it for me
because your simple tool will produce code that's hard to parse. A table? Jesus, dude...
<table>
<tr><td>
With, of course, any attributes you want in the TR/TD code. Copy and paste the <td> as many times as you need for a row, close the row, copy the line and paste as many times as you need for the number of rows, close the table. Then put your values in the cells. It takes less time than your "simple tool" and your code is readable.
Buy your music from independant artists and labels, not the RIAA goons and their "artists". You can support music without supporting the RIAA.
Pirating RIAA music doesn't hurt anyone, but buying non-RIAA music hurts the RIAA. They aren't really against piracy, they full well know that piracy doesn't cost them anything. Their faux battle against piracy is because file sharing is the independants' means of getting their music in front of the public. The RIAA has radio, they don't. The fight against piracy is really a battle against their competetion. If you buy two indie CDs, that's money you don't have to buy an RIAA CD.
I didn't RTFA, but these devs seem clueless. If they're going to pirate rather than paying a buck, either they're all dirt-poor (unlikely) or the legit version is in some way inferior to the paid-for version.
Giving it away "because of piracy" when some have actually PAID for a few is absolute idiocy. That said, Apogee made a similar mistake when they put DN1 and DN2 bundled with DN3D. I was pissed off, and wrote them abouut it. I'd already paid for 1 and 2! I was getting less value than those who hadn't bought 1 and 2.
It's easy to blame piracy, piracy makes a good scapegoat for poor sales of a crappy product, or poor sales after you've angered your paying customers.
I don't know, the VA insisted on prescribing Cialis to a friend, and Cialis just didn't work for him. They refused to give him Viagra, so he just sells the Cialis on the black market and buys his Viagra the same way.
If you tell your private doctor a certain medication isn't working, (s)he'll find something else. If you ask for a certain type of medication (Viagra rather than Cialis) (s)he will usually go with your wishes.
I know a lot of vietnam vets, those guys need a LOT of medical attention, and all of them have horror stories about the VA.
Odd me talking like this, because I'm a universal health care booster and would like to see a system like Canada has. Listening to the vets, I start to get a feeling why some folks are so scared of "gub mint health care". Plus, I was in the USAF, and most of the doctors I ran across in the service were barely competent (they used to say "NCO stood for 'No Chance Outside'", and even though the doctors aren't noncoms it fits).
People don't usually go to websites for "trendy and cool", they either go for content or because they want to buy something. In either case, it should be uncluttered, clean, and pleasing to the eye. Of course, it depends on target audience -- an emo site should be dark and gloomy, a kid's site should be colorful and happy, etc.
But most of the crap web designers do to impress people simply annoys them -- e.g., toolbars at the top that don't scroll with the page, flashy crap that distracts from the content, and so forth.
As to engineering, a web page is not a dress, and is more than meets the eye. A dress fits one size of woman, a web page may be viewed in different aspect ratios, different orientations, screens sized from an inch square to five feet wide, in color or in black and white. A web page is not a piece of paper, and the rules for designing for the web are vastly different than designing for paper.
Too bad most web devs don't understand this, which is why most sites blow donkeys. Simple is usually best.
Nevertheless, it was true. iOS can get trojans -- any OS can. But Windows is (I should say "was"?) the only OS you could get infected just from viewing an email or a web page. Every other OS requires you to do something stupid to get infected.
Everyone expects some piracy, but when 90+% of your "sales" are piracy you cannot support any app - especially so if there is any server component, or any support load at all.
If your game is being pirated but not sold, your game just sucks. People are installing it, making a face, and getting rid of it.
Piracy helps sales of a quality product, and hurts sales of crap. If piracy hurt publishers, the public library would have put bookstores out of business long ago, and iTunes would have been a flop.
The difference is, you were probably in the suburb of a smaller city, or in a small rural town. Those things aren't practical in a metropolis.
I'm not curmudgeonly enough to work purely in a CLI environment,
Are there still CLI-only OSes? The only time I ever see a command line is if I forget the root password and have to start in recovery mode. Which is almost never. Well, once in a while somebody will bring me an old XP computer that they've forgotten the admin password to, I'll use a Linux boot disk and reset the XP password from the tool. Oh, I have to use a CLI on the mainframe at work once in a while... usually (again) resetting a user's mainframe password.
Damn, I guess I use a CLI more than I thought!
I don't want my OS to look pretty, I want it to run applications, preferably faster and more stably than it's previous iterations on the same hardware.
I agree completely. Some people equate "pretty" with "useable", which seems pretty dumb to me. Windows is far less useable than KDE, but Windows is prettier.
Imagine trying to program the software you use in machine code, without any tools to aid?
I've done it. Granted, it was 30 years ago and the computer was so slow and had so little memory that machine code (assembled by hand since there was no assembler for the platform) that it was the only way to go.
But the difference is, a modern executable can contain millions of machine instructions. It's simply not feasable to write a big program in assembly. But HTML? HTML and javascript are child's play. There's little an HTML generator can do that's not dirt simple to do by hand -- and the hand coding will be cleaner, smaller, and faster.
What website designers are forgetting is that we're back to primitive machines -- cell phones. Fancy code for a website is stupid these days, since most folks will be looking stuff up on their phone while on the bus. I just shake my head in wonder at the stupidity of people who can't code a web page that looks good on a computer and still works on a phone.
I've been building computers since I was your age, I'm 60. But the problem is how stuff is made these days. Take cars, for example. When I was young, I'd work on my own. Now? I'd have a hard time changing the spark plugs. When my battery died, I had no clue where the damned thing was. Turns out it's inside the front passenger wheel well, it took a trained mechanic 45 minutes to change, you have to remove the wheel, fender, and wheel well to change the battery. THAT'S what the problem is.
Ever try to take a laptop apart? Pain in the ass, I won't work on laptops any more. Same thing.
I'm running kubuntu 11.01 on a ten year old Dell. I'll have to downgrade to 10.04 though, Flash won't work on it with the updated OS (probably not enough memory).
To answer your question, because newer OSes have more and better features, often are faster (I've never seen that in Windows but I have in Linux) and why throw perfectly good hardware away? I hate wastefulness! If it's still useful, use it. If it will run a newer OS acceptably, slap a newer OS on it.
Did Al Gore create the Internet? No. Was he one of the people primarily responsible for making it what it is today? Yes.
So rather than creating it, he ruined it. I hate what the internet has become, thanks to the greedsters.
The fact that Paul is against environmental regulations shows that he is in fact a corporate tool -- he's old enough to know how incredibly BAD the environment was before the EPA he wants to abolish came along. Who benefits from pollution? Corporations, to the detriment of everyone else. A true libertarian would be FOR environmental regs, because "your right to swing your fist stops where my nose begins".
And yes, Gore is a hypocrite too, preaching the dangers of global warming while having a personal carbon footprint bigger than a hundred 99%ers. If he'd get rid of the mansions and jet planes he'd have a lot more credibility, but as it is, he has none.
I agree. Those tools have limited utility in a small number of cases. One of the few examples would be making a page with a map, where clicking on a state brings up a page on that state -- but I'd use the tools to create the map, just because it's a royal pain to do it without the tools. I'd copy the tool-generated code into the hand-written page.
But for the most part, I agree with the submitter's kid -- visual editors are only for extreme beginners and create non responsive, non compliant sites.
Perhaps things have changed since I last used one of those tools (it's been a decade) but I really doubt they've gotten much if any better.
Yes, there is a link, but causation has not been shown. The liklihood is that schitzophrenia makes one more prone to smoke marijuana. From your own link:
However, kids shouldn't be using any psychoactive drug, which is another reason it should be legalized and regulated like alcohol. You can buy marijuana in any high school but you're not likely to find a bottle of bourbon in a high school. It's easier for a teen to buy pot than an adult, since the adult could be an undercover cop. The dealer is safer selling to a kid!
I'm not saying the CEO's job is worthless, or that investors are worthless. It's pretty obvious that they (and accountants and lawyers and bankers and others who create no wealth) are necessary. I'm just pointing out that the flow of wealth is the opposite of trickle down.
The people building those offices, studios, factories, restaurants, and mines put their lives at risk. Money at risk? Christ, man, your priorities seem a bit skewed to me.
No, you go to a wealthy person, one who actually controls wealth, who will pay you a tiny part of the wealth you create (or help control) for him.
Marijuana is addictive like sugar and caffeine
Sugar is not addictive, caffiene is. Sugar can be habituating, as can anything. There are no physical withdrawal symptoms with sugar or marijuana, there are with caffiene and tobacco.
One can be habituated to anything. If someone slaps you upside the head every morning for five years, if it stops suddenly you will miss being slapped upside the head!
I just want to point out that you are either not a regular user of marijuana or have never tried to stop taking it for a full month
Incorrect. I've been smoking it for 40 years, when I could afford to. I've never had any problem at all when I couldn't afford it. Yes, I wished I had some, but I paid my bills rather than putting the bills off to buy pot. But coffee? I'm useless without my coffee! I will delay paying a bill if it's a choice between putting the bill off or doing without coffee.
Giving up cigarettes was the hardest thing I've ever done. And you're right, I didn't do it because of my health, I did it because they cost too damned much and I was trying to raise a family.
Thaks for the link, that was informative and interesting.
Your cart is before your horse. That copper the miner digs out is wealth. The marketer adds value to that wealth.
I'm afraid your link is firewalled off here: "politics/opinion". An OPINION piece is worthless. The FACT is that 50 years ago the air in front of the Sauget, IL Monsanto plant burned your lungs. The FACT is that it no longer does; nowdays the worst is an occasional hint of a whiff of bleach. Vegetation there has gone from brown in the '60s to healthy green today. The FACT is that rivers and streams no longer catch fire. The FACT is that things started improving shortly after the enactment of the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act (signed into law by Republican President Nixon).
That is not opinion, that is fact. Can you offer any other explanation besides regulation that changed things? If I throw an egg on the wall and the wall is sticky, there's little argument as to what caused what -- effect does not come before cause except in a time travel science fiction story.
1. California has stable electricity
2. California deregulates
3. California has brownouts
You're saying that deregulation had nothing to do with it? Give me a link... NOT a link to some right-wing blog, a link to a reputable news source like the NYT or even Fox if you must. Don't throw me a link to some drug-addled sex tourist right wing blabbermouth on the radio, or dumbasses like him. At least offer a coherent explanation as to why the deregulation had no effect on the brownouts, and it will have to be more than "It's the corporate / administrator elites working together to screw the rest of us"; they're ALWAYS working together to screw the rest of us.