Sigh. This is the short-sighted, disconnected view of drug abuse that seems to typify the "legalize drugs now" crowd. Nothing happens in a vacuum.
Right.
When somebody busts out the window of a car to steal a stereo to sell so that they can buy drugs with which to overdose
Doesn't seem to happen for alcohol. Why? 'Cause it's cheaper and legal.
Look, legalization isn't going to make drug abuse go away, but 30 years of wars on drugs hasn't either. And at best, the drug laws simply push most potential abusers to alcohol. Are teetotallers going to suddenly start mainlining heroin if it were no longer outlawed? I don't think so.
But legalization does get rid of many of the side effects of drug laws. Seagrams' distributors rarely shoot it out with the Johnny Walker guys. We aren't spending billions on imprisoning beer sellers. Alcohol dealers have an incentive not to sell to the underage. And the guy who drives the Budweiser truck isn't flashing his dough around the projects, making beer-selling look like a glamorous role to those with poor prospects.
I just got a thing about a class action agreement in the mail. The lawyers get $6.9 mil. If I can find proof of purchase and purchase date on my five-year-old TV, I can get a $15 or $25 off coupon good towards another RCA TV. Woo hoo!
(Not, mind you, that I deserve anything, since I haven't had the problem claimed in the complaint; I'm just not in favor of enriching lawyers for what seems like a non-existent problem.)
What is going on in the athletes and sports trainers minds? Some day people are going to be testing for these "enhancements."
If a particular regimen has no side effects, should it be tested for? If I can have access to gene therapy that has been found safe and will give me better muscles, I'm going to take advantage of it. I want fewer aches and pains from the rigors of normal life, and I'll be d---ed if I'll be deprived of it just so sports can remain "pure."
Also, the difference between me and Barry Bonds in terms of baseball ability is not just muscles. Give me BB's physique, and I still won't hit over.200. (For our international audience, give me Ronaldo's physique, and I still won't play for Real Madrid.) And all Michael Jordan's talents didn't make him a MLB-caliber baseball player.
Oh please. As the documents revealed in 2000 showed, the CIA worked to undermine Allende's government from the moment he won the election. Given that, it's hard to blame Allende's economic policies for the destablization.
Take, for example, this cable from CIA headquarters to Henry Heckscher, CIA station chief in Santiago, Chile on October 16, 1970:
It is firm and continuing policy that Allende be overthrown by a coup. It would be much preferable to have this transpire prior to 24 October but efforts in this regard will continue vigorously beyond this date. We are to continue to generate maximum pressure toward this end utilizing every appropriate resource. It is imperative that these actions be implemented clandestinely and securely so that the United States government and American hand be well hidden. . . . Please review all your present and possibly new activities to include propaganda, black operations, surfacing of intelligence or disinformation, personal contacts, or anything else your imagination can conjure which will permit you to press forward toward our (deleted) objective.
I may drop a quarter now and then to play a good racing game in an arcade. I'm not going to drop a hundred bucks for a steering wheel/gear shift/pedal set for my PC/console.
Especially for consoles. If you get a good one for the PC, it may last a long time. But if you get one for a console, it may not work for the next generation of that console, and almost certainly won't work with other consoles.
The consoles do have the advantage, however, that the input device almost certainly works properly with the racing games for that system; I can't say the same for PC controllers.
NASA has the unfortunate habit of framing everything in terms of firsts and records, as if space exploration was some sort of spectator sport.
Let me ask, though: would "Spirit finds even more rocks" or even "Spirit finds some slightly different rocks" have gotten accepted as a slashdot story? If not, would as many of us be thinking about the li'l fella today?
NASA tells of new feats because it works. Lowest common denominator attention is better than no attention at all.
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One of my favorites was a girl (who I worked with at the time) who said that if *her* (hypothetical) boyfriend asked her to marry him, he'd better have at least a 2-carat ring for her or she'd break up with him immediately.
I'dlike to pull a Churchill on her. Tell her you don't have a diamond ring, but you would give her $50 to sleep with you once. "We already know what kind of girl you are, we're just haggling over the price."
And yet, before movies, they show commercials with some lighting or grip guy telling how piracy is hurting his income. I would think moving production to cheaper locales would have rather more of an effect...
It will be interesting to follow the lawsuit news on this one. If someone gets squeezed hard enough, we might see a movement toward good engineering praxis as a result.
For "mission-critical" software, sure. I just don't see it affecting most commercial or most open source software.
That's because (in a gross generalization) Americans eat poorly and don't excercise.
Many European countries have a higher percentage of smokers than the U.S., including France at 35% smoking daily. And obesity is rising all around the first world.
I think the hubble's time is up too, but I don't think it should be allowed reentry until we have another visible light telescope in place.
Can't visible light be well-served by proposed ground-based telescopes like OWL? Given a choice between keeping Hubble going a couple more years or building an even higher-resolution, ground-based scope that can be maintained/improved, I'll go for the ground-based one.
Let's first iron out the bugs and establish features, and then lets worry about integration!:)
It could be argued that doing this integration first makes it easier for people to test the app, and thus helps with the bug catching. I've tried and failed to transfer my Mozilla mail to Thunderbird, for example, so I don't use the T-bird for my main account.
That's what I was thinking. Am I a horrible parent for not prohibiting my kids from playing games with such warnings?
As a P.S.: make sure you are aware of ketogenic diets (google it.) Hopefully medical providers have become reaquainted with this, but the idea of a special diet that was better for epileptics was nearly lost.
I have one much like their panoramic rear view, but it does have the problem that it tends to block the sun visors. I wish they'd make the larger width standard in cars. However, even such mirrors don't cure all your blindspots.
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Sigh. This is the short-sighted, disconnected view of drug abuse that seems to typify the "legalize drugs now" crowd. Nothing happens in a vacuum.
Right.
When somebody busts out the window of a car to steal a stereo to sell so that they can buy drugs with which to overdose
Doesn't seem to happen for alcohol. Why? 'Cause it's cheaper and legal.
Look, legalization isn't going to make drug abuse go away, but 30 years of wars on drugs hasn't either. And at best, the drug laws simply push most potential abusers to alcohol. Are teetotallers going to suddenly start mainlining heroin if it were no longer outlawed? I don't think so.
But legalization does get rid of many of the side effects of drug laws. Seagrams' distributors rarely shoot it out with the Johnny Walker guys. We aren't spending billions on imprisoning beer sellers. Alcohol dealers have an incentive not to sell to the underage. And the guy who drives the Budweiser truck isn't flashing his dough around the projects, making beer-selling look like a glamorous role to those with poor prospects.
I hear you.
I just got a thing about a class action agreement in the mail. The lawyers get $6.9 mil. If I can find proof of purchase and purchase date on my five-year-old TV, I can get a $15 or $25 off coupon good towards another RCA TV. Woo hoo!
(Not, mind you, that I deserve anything, since I haven't had the problem claimed in the complaint; I'm just not in favor of enriching lawyers for what seems like a non-existent problem.)
What is going on in the athletes and sports trainers minds? Some day people are going to be testing for these "enhancements."
.200. (For our international audience, give me Ronaldo's physique, and I still won't play for Real Madrid.) And all Michael Jordan's talents didn't make him a MLB-caliber baseball player.
If a particular regimen has no side effects, should it be tested for? If I can have access to gene therapy that has been found safe and will give me better muscles, I'm going to take advantage of it. I want fewer aches and pains from the rigors of normal life, and I'll be d---ed if I'll be deprived of it just so sports can remain "pure."
Also, the difference between me and Barry Bonds in terms of baseball ability is not just muscles. Give me BB's physique, and I still won't hit over
I have to look at context, myself, because my first reaction to POS is "piece of $#!+"...
Liability? What liability? This is the government; they get to choose whether or not they can be sued.
Oh please. As the documents revealed in 2000 showed, the CIA worked to undermine Allende's government from the moment he won the election. Given that, it's hard to blame Allende's economic policies for the destablization.
Take, for example, this cable from CIA headquarters to Henry Heckscher, CIA station chief in Santiago, Chile on October 16, 1970:
It is firm and continuing policy that Allende be overthrown by a coup. It would be much preferable to have this transpire prior to 24 October but efforts in this regard will continue vigorously beyond this date. We are to continue to generate maximum pressure toward this end utilizing every appropriate resource. It is imperative that these actions be implemented clandestinely and securely so that the United States government and American hand be well hidden. . . . Please review all your present and possibly new activities to include propaganda, black operations, surfacing of intelligence or disinformation, personal contacts, or anything else your imagination can conjure which will permit you to press forward toward our (deleted) objective.
I may drop a quarter now and then to play a good racing game in an arcade. I'm not going to drop a hundred bucks for a steering wheel/gear shift/pedal set for my PC/console.
Especially for consoles. If you get a good one for the PC, it may last a long time. But if you get one for a console, it may not work for the next generation of that console, and almost certainly won't work with other consoles.
The consoles do have the advantage, however, that the input device almost certainly works properly with the racing games for that system; I can't say the same for PC controllers.
Yes, my dog never gets as far as you would expect in a given time because he has to investigate things on the way.
By comparing it to a dog, are you implying that Spirit is "marking its turf" as it goes along?
NASA has the unfortunate habit of framing everything in terms of firsts and records, as if space exploration was some sort of spectator sport.
Let me ask, though: would "Spirit finds even more rocks" or even "Spirit finds some slightly different rocks" have gotten accepted as a slashdot story? If not, would as many of us be thinking about the li'l fella today?
NASA tells of new feats because it works. Lowest common denominator attention is better than no attention at all.
One of my favorites was a girl (who I worked with at the time) who said that if *her* (hypothetical) boyfriend asked her to marry him, he'd better have at least a 2-carat ring for her or she'd break up with him immediately.
I'dlike to pull a Churchill on her. Tell her you don't have a diamond ring, but you would give her $50 to sleep with you once. "We already know what kind of girl you are, we're just haggling over the price."
And yet, before movies, they show commercials with some lighting or grip guy telling how piracy is hurting his income. I would think moving production to cheaper locales would have rather more of an effect...
No, they run Linux so they can charge themselves $699 per copy, thus adding $699 each to their revenue numbers...
It will be interesting to follow the lawsuit news on this one. If someone gets squeezed hard enough, we might see a movement toward good engineering praxis as a result.
For "mission-critical" software, sure. I just don't see it affecting most commercial or most open source software.
That's because (in a gross generalization) Americans eat poorly and don't excercise.
Many European countries have a higher percentage of smokers than the U.S., including France at 35% smoking daily. And obesity is rising all around the first world.
Americans seem to forget that everyone is entitled to life. They're entitled to health.
So why does it stop at the border? Aren't Vietnamese, Namibians, Syrians, et al likewise entitled to health?
I will grant you the U.S. has a healthcare system with the efficiency of a government program and the compassion of a corporation.
Lifesaving drugs like Viagra?
You wouldn't say that if your little soldier was refusing to salute. Not that I ever have that problem.
I checked post anonymously, didn't I?
I think the hubble's time is up too, but I don't think it should be allowed reentry until we have another visible light telescope in place.
Can't visible light be well-served by proposed ground-based telescopes like OWL? Given a choice between keeping Hubble going a couple more years or building an even higher-resolution, ground-based scope that can be maintained/improved, I'll go for the ground-based one.
Couldn't roads also provide a nice thermal uplift? All those hot car engines probably produce enough heat to make a pigeon's journey nicer.
Oh you bleeding edge technology people!
After a paper cut anyway...
Yes, with frubber you get frying car instead.
Let's first iron out the bugs and establish features, and then lets worry about integration! :)
It could be argued that doing this integration first makes it easier for people to test the app, and thus helps with the bug catching. I've tried and failed to transfer my Mozilla mail to Thunderbird, for example, so I don't use the T-bird for my main account.
Lines 662-664 seem especially damning. :^)
I would expect that of line 666, myself...
That's what I was thinking. Am I a horrible parent for not prohibiting my kids from playing games with such warnings?
As a P.S.: make sure you are aware of ketogenic diets (google it.) Hopefully medical providers have become reaquainted with this, but the idea of a special diet that was better for epileptics was nearly lost.
I have one much like their panoramic rear view, but it does have the problem that it tends to block the sun visors. I wish they'd make the larger width standard in cars. However, even such mirrors don't cure all your blindspots.
Expect China to dump their protectionism about the same time the US stops farm subsidies.
I'll take that trade! Where do I sign?