A controversy ensued upon publication of the second issue of the magazine. Parents called in to complain to the magazine's office that the cover, featuring Castlevania II: Simon's Quest with an image of Simon holding the severed head of Dracula, frightened their children and had resulted in many of them having nightmares. For a long time following, Nintendo Power steered clear of cover artwork that features such graphic imagery and instead now place it inside the magazine. This trend may be ending, however, as on the milestone issue No. 200, a picture of a gruesome zombie from Resident Evil: Deadly Silence was shown on the cover.wiki
I guarantee you that if it was classical or elevator music being mixed, it would only be couple of deputies to arrest the, presumedly, white guy.
Let me correct that for you
I guarantee you that if it was classical or elevator music being mixed, the presumed white guy would have gotten a letter.
i know thats why i threw in the lil hehe, i dont give a fuck really if i get modded off topic i got pleanty of karma to burn read the sig guys...read the sig
this is taken from the NiH (its from my research, so i dont have the NiH link)
The US National Institute of Health has found that chemicals in cannabis can reduce the extent of damage during a stroke, at least in rats.
Experiments with rat nerve cells, and then with actual rats, suggest that THC and cannabidiol, both compounds found in marijuana, can protect cells by acting as antioxidants, and could be useful in the treatment and prevention of stroke, heart attacks, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Researchers are investigating how cannabidiol and other antioxidants can reduce the severity of damage from "ischaemic strokes", in which blood vessels in the brain become blocked.
During ischaemic strokes, which make up 80% of all strokes, free radicals are released into the bloodstream. These harmful molecules are believed to cause stroke damage, such as paralysis and loss of speech and vision. Cannabidiol has potent anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, so it can neutralize free radicals and limit their damage.
Meanwhile, an Israeli pharmaceutical company called Pharmos is conducting human clinical trials using a synthetic, injectable version of cannabidiol, which they have dubbed Dexanabinol.
Dexanabinol's creator is Professor Raphael Mechoulam of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, who discovered THC in 1964, and has been studying cannabis for over thirty years.
Dr William Beaver, who chaired a panel assembled last year by the US National Institute of Health to review the medical uses of marijuana, called Dexanabinol "the most medically significant use ever made of marijuana."
The human clinical tests began in 1996 with 67 patients in Israel's neurotrauma centres. About 1000 patients will be involved in the next phase, at a cost of $15 million over two years. According to US medical investment analysts, Dexanabinol showed no serious side effects when administered to healthy volunteers.
Aside from the five million people worldwide who suffer a stroke or head trauma each year, there's another huge market for Dexanabinol, the US Army. US military tests on rats have shown that those exposed to Dexanabinol were 70% less likely to suffer epileptic seizures or brain damage after being exposed to sarin and other nerve gases. Dexanabinol is effective as both a preventative measure and as an antidote.
The military's greatest concern seems to be whether Dexanabinol possesses the same psychoactive and enlightening properties as THC and some other cannabinoids. Although THC and cannabidiol both provided equal defense against cell damage, cannabidiol doesn't have significant psychoactive effects.
Of course, the obvious corollary to this is that if synthetic Dexanabinol can prevent brain damage, then organic marijuana does so as well. So the next time grandpa has a stroke, try and get him to take a few bong-hits before the ambulance arrives. Better yet, give him a hash brownie each evening before he has that stroke. You might just save his life.
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Yeah, how can a conspiracy of this scale stay unnoticed, without someone leaking? You would need at the very least ONE programmer to make the actual change. How on earth can they keep something of that scale quiet?
Here's a thought, not everybody thinks like you. That poll-following, contradictory ass named Kerry was just as much of a monkey, but at least people knew where Bush stood and what he planned to do. People also liked the tax cuts that have contributed to the roaring economy and low unemployment we have right now.
ok so where does bush stand? lets send more people to Iraq! all bush stands for is bush and friends. After the elections he said he planned on listening to the new democratic congress, and just yesterday i saw him make a statement that they are going to go through with their plan to send in more troops regardless of what congress says....
This is the reason a lot of people don't like liberals--their incredibly condescending, hateful tone. If you disagree with them, you must be a stupid idiot, or better yet, a "Nazi" or "neocon." It's like the passion of an Apple fanatic combined with the closed-mindedness of a Windows user...
So its ok for Hannity and Rush and friends to call liberals stupid and whatnot. You cant give 1/2 the argument and leave out the other half there buddy. Have you heard some of the things the conservitives have been sayin about the liberals? Of course not because it just goes in one ear and out the other, yet when its your precious republicans on the recieving end, you all go ape shit. I personally listen to both Hannity Rush as well as Air America radio.
Bush talks about following the path and sticking to the plan... I dont know about you but if my plan not working (which the iraq plan is obviously failing) I would ADMIT I WAS WRONG AND FIND A NEW SOLUTION!!!! Not stick to the plan that doesnt work and claim anyone who opposes is a flipflop or whatever. Being a good leader means admiting when your wrong and correcting it, not sticking to the plan that is an obvious failure.
this is just my day... I point out the flamebait and get modded flamebait you guys are too funny.
And yes I know this is off topic thank you very much, dont waste a mod point on me. give it to someone who deserves it
i think we are arguing 2 different points unfortunately, it seems like we agree however i never said anything about socialism yet you keep tying to point that way. plus you left out my point about moderation. Ill bite though
It IS possible to have socialistic views but not be socialist in economics. Your points seem to go along the lines that just because something is legal everyone is going to be doing it. It is legal for me to go around wearing womens clothes, doesn't mean that I do it.
What is the difference in treating a heroine user or locking him up, it still costs the state money(about 64K per inmate per year in 2002)Vs rehab costs (i don't have figures but they HAVE to be a portion of lockup for the obvious reason, no need to feed, clothe maintain the person:out patient I'm talking:
Being locked up solves nothing for the person. Jail is a glorified school for criminals. OTOH with rehab the person at least has an OPPORTUNITY to get back into society.
Ill try to be serious. what does this prove other than the chances of it being a legitimate kidnapping are a little off
FTFA:
Authorities charged Michael Devlin, 41, a pizza shop worker who moonlights at a funeral home, with one count of kidnapping but revealed little of what they know. Publicly, they marveled at the rescue of two teenagers kidnapped four years and 40 miles apart, one of them all but given up for dead.
Also in the article it said the parents did all the talking, so ATM we don't know if he was kidnapped or ran away. Its just to difficult to believe that one can be held yet be allowed to roam free, ride his bike, and play with friends. i got a feeling we will be seeing alot of interesting info turn up on this case.
Someone has it out for me here I swear hehe, any other person posting this comment would get a funny, yet I seem to always get off topic, time to change my sig to "offtopic king"
gonna start looking through Xbox live users. You know for all the terrorist suspects and pedofiles (well you might find some of these type but) I can see it now
bush -------- "halo is being used as a training device for the terrorists, we need access to the user database. NukeDukeum1987 has been posting terrorist threats - You are so Ded you think your 1337? bring it im gonna blow up your whole city than kidnap your son and make him my bitch- If we cant monitor these people, they have already won."
Any of the official myspace pages for bands are set up well. Why is that? Because someone who knows more than "fill out this box" and your done is setting it up. Some band sites out there look really well, easy to read, flashy but not tacky and the info you want is usually right there.
I only wish they would stop the autoload on the music the embedded music is the biggest problem IMO with load time
*note* I am talking about the 1/2 of the sites maintained by bands, not the 1/2 made by fans
This is no different than a pilot drinking before a flight
But where does the medical care come from? Mr. Kucinich is not a doctor, so to ensure that someone gets treatment he needs to either:
(a) Force a doctor to go to work that day, meaning that he denies the doctor the ability to use recreational drugs This is not saying that he cannot use them, all it is saying is he can not use them and do doctor duties at the same time, you wouldn't want a drunk doctor giving you surgery either, yet its legal.
(b) Force enough other people to go to work that day to produce enough stuff to offer the doctor so that the doctor wants to go to work that day
If he chooses B, that means those people better do a good enough job to convince the doctor to go to work, so maybe we shouldn't let them use drugs that day either?
If you just pick one industry, you can diffuse (or should I say obfuscate?) the cost over enough people that maybe everyone can be high and still convince at least one doctor to help at least one person. I guess the rest of the people can just wait in line, but they shouldn't worry because they have a life-long right to health care. So, if you just start granting entitlements in one industry, you can have a quasi-socialism that results in some of those people being able to do drugs and some people getting medical care by a sober doctor. this logic makes it seem as if EVERY doctor as going to be drugged up at any given moment, which would not be the case.
However, if you apply the same principles to other industries, you run out of places to hide the costs and you end up needing to tell people they can't use LSD, because the government promised someone that they'd get something, and they need you to deliver it.
this should read you you end up needing to tell people they can't use LSD so many hours before work/durring work
This is for the company to decide as it is mostly now. It isn't illegal to go to work drunk now, but I guarantee that 99% of jobs will fire you for coming to work drunk, the same principal applies, I only used pilots as they provided a good visual aid.
The point still remains that drug use != drug abuse. moderation is key whether its drugs, tv, video games etc. It is pretty obvious that recreational drugs and work do not go together, but if one wants to work all day and go home to enjoy a nice fatty or eat some shrooms in his home....wheres the dammage??? If hes too impaired to work the next day there will be consenquences. Now where in this whole hypothetical situation does the government NEED to get involved?
BTW the ONLY known negative effects of marijuana are incurred when smoking it, if one bakes or vaporizes the pot, there are no known detrimental side effects.
Yeah, I know. I just didn't want 50 links to someone who breathes more pot smoke than they do air getting lung cancer when they're 50. I've always thought that pot really stands out from other drugs in that regard. Can you name a drug with a lower risk of, well, anything? I haven't even heard of an overdose, or even a bad drug interaction. I mean, seriously, if people didn't enjoy it, there would be no way to even know that there is a drug in there somewhere!
REAL education is the key, not suppressing reports when the find the opposite is true of what they wanted to find out (sorry cant find the link ATM, look for the marijuana study of 79 from NiH) By lying to our students that something such as pot is bad, you are making is so that they distrust everything you tell them, which I find to be the real detriment to society
It's actually easier to legalize drugs when people face the consequences for the resulting poor health (unless you're just talking about pot, in which case there aren't many known health consequences). And what if the doctors want to do LSD before surgery? If you're entitled to surgery, shouldn't you also be entitled to sober surgery?
This is no different than a pilot drinking before a flight, its quite obvious that you would not be entitled to do such a thing. The point remains that what one does in the privacy of his own home is his and no one including the governments business.
BTW the ONLY known negative effects of marijuana are incurred when smoking it, if one bakes or vaporizes the pot, there are no known detrimental side effects.
The definition of political terms such as "democrat" and "republican" have changed alot over the years. IMO he is the definition of the modern day libertarian.
I could be, and probably am wrong but years ago the repubs were about small government and fiscal responsibility.... We have seen that go out the window.
So like I said, to me personally, he is the modern day libertarian, help the people, not police them.
I wont claim to be an expert in Kucinich Politics, but I have been following him since about 1999. He is a very libertarian candidate who wants more power to the people.
but seriously think of the possibilities, you go out camping and you bring your printer with you and TADA, you got a roof over your head in the middle of no where
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but does anybody remember this
A controversy ensued upon publication of the second issue of the magazine. Parents called in to complain to the magazine's office that the cover, featuring Castlevania II: Simon's Quest with an image of Simon holding the severed head of Dracula, frightened their children and had resulted in many of them having nightmares. For a long time following, Nintendo Power steered clear of cover artwork that features such graphic imagery and instead now place it inside the magazine. This trend may be ending, however, as on the milestone issue No. 200, a picture of a gruesome zombie from Resident Evil: Deadly Silence was shown on the cover.wiki
That won it worst cover of nintendo power ever.
as long as the damn snakes keep boarding planes, there wont be any more problems
i mean there hasn't been any terrorist attacks since snakes on planes right?
Mod points in the wrong hands = bad karma
I guarantee you that if it was classical or elevator music being mixed, it would only be couple of deputies to arrest the, presumedly, white guy. Let me correct that for you I guarantee you that if it was classical or elevator music being mixed, the presumed white guy would have gotten a letter.
i know thats why i threw in the lil hehe, i dont give a fuck really if i get modded off topic i got pleanty of karma to burn read the sig guys...read the sig
Smoking pot makes you stupid. Get over it.
wheres your proof????
this is taken from the NiH (its from my research, so i dont have the NiH link)
The US National Institute of Health has found that chemicals in cannabis can reduce the extent of damage during a stroke, at least in rats.
Experiments with rat nerve cells, and then with actual rats, suggest that THC and cannabidiol, both compounds found in marijuana, can protect cells by acting as antioxidants, and could be useful in the treatment and prevention of stroke, heart attacks, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Researchers are investigating how cannabidiol and other antioxidants can reduce the severity of damage from "ischaemic strokes", in which blood vessels in the brain become blocked.
During ischaemic strokes, which make up 80% of all strokes, free radicals are released into the bloodstream. These harmful molecules are believed to cause stroke damage, such as paralysis and loss of speech and vision. Cannabidiol has potent anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, so it can neutralize free radicals and limit their damage.
Meanwhile, an Israeli pharmaceutical company called Pharmos is conducting human clinical trials using a synthetic, injectable version of cannabidiol, which they have dubbed Dexanabinol.
Dexanabinol's creator is Professor Raphael Mechoulam of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, who discovered THC in 1964, and has been studying cannabis for over thirty years.
Dr William Beaver, who chaired a panel assembled last year by the US National Institute of Health to review the medical uses of marijuana, called Dexanabinol "the most medically significant use ever made of marijuana." The human clinical tests began in 1996 with 67 patients in Israel's neurotrauma centres. About 1000 patients will be involved in the next phase, at a cost of $15 million over two years. According to US medical investment analysts, Dexanabinol showed no serious side effects when administered to healthy volunteers. Aside from the five million people worldwide who suffer a stroke or head trauma each year, there's another huge market for Dexanabinol, the US Army. US military tests on rats have shown that those exposed to Dexanabinol were 70% less likely to suffer epileptic seizures or brain damage after being exposed to sarin and other nerve gases. Dexanabinol is effective as both a preventative measure and as an antidote.
The military's greatest concern seems to be whether Dexanabinol possesses the same psychoactive and enlightening properties as THC and some other cannabinoids. Although THC and cannabidiol both provided equal defense against cell damage, cannabidiol doesn't have significant psychoactive effects.
Of course, the obvious corollary to this is that if synthetic Dexanabinol can prevent brain damage, then organic marijuana does so as well. So the next time grandpa has a stroke, try and get him to take a few bong-hits before the ambulance arrives. Better yet, give him a hash brownie each evening before he has that stroke. You might just save his life.
Yeah, how can a conspiracy of this scale stay unnoticed, without someone leaking? You would need at the very least ONE programmer to make the actual change. How on earth can they keep something of that scale quiet?
This is why we hold the second amendment so dear
Bush does give us all hope though
if HE can be president, anyone can... Im TOTALLY CEREAL YOU GUYS!!!
I wasnt gonna post... but this made me
Here's a thought, not everybody thinks like you. That poll-following, contradictory ass named Kerry was just as much of a monkey, but at least people knew where Bush stood and what he planned to do. People also liked the tax cuts that have contributed to the roaring economy and low unemployment we have right now.
ok so where does bush stand? lets send more people to Iraq! all bush stands for is bush and friends. After the elections he said he planned on listening to the new democratic congress, and just yesterday i saw him make a statement that they are going to go through with their plan to send in more troops regardless of what congress says....
This is the reason a lot of people don't like liberals--their incredibly condescending, hateful tone. If you disagree with them, you must be a stupid idiot, or better yet, a "Nazi" or "neocon." It's like the passion of an Apple fanatic combined with the closed-mindedness of a Windows user...
So its ok for Hannity and Rush and friends to call liberals stupid and whatnot. You cant give 1/2 the argument and leave out the other half there buddy. Have you heard some of the things the conservitives have been sayin about the liberals? Of course not because it just goes in one ear and out the other, yet when its your precious republicans on the recieving end, you all go ape shit. I personally listen to both Hannity Rush as well as Air America radio.
Bush talks about following the path and sticking to the plan... I dont know about you but if my plan not working (which the iraq plan is obviously failing) I would ADMIT I WAS WRONG AND FIND A NEW SOLUTION!!!! Not stick to the plan that doesnt work and claim anyone who opposes is a flipflop or whatever. Being a good leader means admiting when your wrong and correcting it, not sticking to the plan that is an obvious failure.
this is just my day... I point out the flamebait and get modded flamebait you guys are too funny. And yes I know this is off topic thank you very much, dont waste a mod point on me. give it to someone who deserves it
why was the zune thrown in there???? to start a flame war of course, no other reason, i mean whats a /. article without some micro bashing
Anyone noticed the draw of the Microsoft Zune becoming stronger?
.......no
i think we are arguing 2 different points unfortunately, it seems like we agree however i never said anything about socialism yet you keep tying to point that way. plus you left out my point about moderation. Ill bite though
:out patient I'm talking:
It IS possible to have socialistic views but not be socialist in economics. Your points seem to go along the lines that just because something is legal everyone is going to be doing it. It is legal for me to go around wearing womens clothes, doesn't mean that I do it.
What is the difference in treating a heroine user or locking him up, it still costs the state money(about 64K per inmate per year in 2002)Vs rehab costs (i don't have figures but they HAVE to be a portion of lockup for the obvious reason, no need to feed, clothe maintain the person
Being locked up solves nothing for the person. Jail is a glorified school for criminals. OTOH with rehab the person at least has an OPPORTUNITY to get back into society.
Ill try to be serious.
what does this prove other than the chances of it being a legitimate kidnapping are a little off
FTFA:
Authorities charged Michael Devlin, 41, a pizza shop worker who moonlights at a funeral home, with one count of kidnapping but revealed little of what they know. Publicly, they marveled at the rescue of two teenagers kidnapped four years and 40 miles apart, one of them all but given up for dead.
Also in the article it said the parents did all the talking, so ATM we don't know if he was kidnapped or ran away. Its just to difficult to believe that one can be held yet be allowed to roam free, ride his bike, and play with friends.
i got a feeling we will be seeing alot of interesting info turn up on this case.
Someone has it out for me here I swear hehe, any other person posting this comment would get a funny, yet I seem to always get off topic, time to change my sig to "offtopic king"
gonna start looking through Xbox live users. You know for all the terrorist suspects and pedofiles (well you might find some of these type but) I can see it now
bush -------- "halo is being used as a training device for the terrorists, we need access to the user database. NukeDukeum1987 has been posting terrorist threats -
You are so Ded you think your 1337? bring it im gonna blow up your whole city than kidnap your son and make him my bitch-
If we cant monitor these people, they have already won."
Any of the official myspace pages for bands are set up well. Why is that? Because someone who knows more than "fill out this box" and your done is setting it up. Some band sites out there look really well, easy to read, flashy but not tacky and the info you want is usually right there.
I only wish they would stop the autoload on the music the embedded music is the biggest problem IMO with load time
*note* I am talking about the 1/2 of the sites maintained by bands, not the 1/2 made by fans
This is no different than a pilot drinking before a flight
But where does the medical care come from? Mr. Kucinich is not a doctor, so to ensure that someone gets treatment he needs to either:
(a) Force a doctor to go to work that day, meaning that he denies the doctor the ability to use recreational drugs
This is not saying that he cannot use them, all it is saying is he can not use them and do doctor duties at the same time, you wouldn't want a drunk doctor giving you surgery either, yet its legal.
(b) Force enough other people to go to work that day to produce enough stuff to offer the doctor so that the doctor wants to go to work that day If he chooses B, that means those people better do a good enough job to convince the doctor to go to work, so maybe we shouldn't let them use drugs that day either? If you just pick one industry, you can diffuse (or should I say obfuscate?) the cost over enough people that maybe everyone can be high and still convince at least one doctor to help at least one person. I guess the rest of the people can just wait in line, but they shouldn't worry because they have a life-long right to health care. So, if you just start granting entitlements in one industry, you can have a quasi-socialism that results in some of those people being able to do drugs and some people getting medical care by a sober doctor. this logic makes it seem as if EVERY doctor as going to be drugged up at any given moment, which would not be the case.
However, if you apply the same principles to other industries, you run out of places to hide the costs and you end up needing to tell people they can't use LSD, because the government promised someone that they'd get something, and they need you to deliver it.
this should read you you end up needing to tell people they can't use LSD so many hours before work/durring work
This is for the company to decide as it is mostly now. It isn't illegal to go to work drunk now, but I guarantee that 99% of jobs will fire you for coming to work drunk, the same principal applies, I only used pilots as they provided a good visual aid.
The point still remains that drug use != drug abuse. moderation is key whether its drugs, tv, video games etc. It is pretty obvious that recreational drugs and work do not go together, but if one wants to work all day and go home to enjoy a nice fatty or eat some shrooms in his home....wheres the dammage??? If hes too impaired to work the next day there will be consenquences. Now where in this whole hypothetical situation does the government NEED to get involved?
BTW the ONLY known negative effects of marijuana are incurred when smoking it, if one bakes or vaporizes the pot, there are no known detrimental side effects.
Yeah, I know. I just didn't want 50 links to someone who breathes more pot smoke than they do air getting lung cancer when they're 50. I've always thought that pot really stands out from other drugs in that regard. Can you name a drug with a lower risk of, well, anything? I haven't even heard of an overdose, or even a bad drug interaction. I mean, seriously, if people didn't enjoy it, there would be no way to even know that there is a drug in there somewhere!
REAL education is the key, not suppressing reports when the find the opposite is true of what they wanted to find out (sorry cant find the link ATM, look for the marijuana study of 79 from NiH) By lying to our students that something such as pot is bad, you are making is so that they distrust everything you tell them, which I find to be the real detriment to society
It's actually easier to legalize drugs when people face the consequences for the resulting poor health (unless you're just talking about pot, in which case there aren't many known health consequences). And what if the doctors want to do LSD before surgery? If you're entitled to surgery, shouldn't you also be entitled to sober surgery?
This is no different than a pilot drinking before a flight, its quite obvious that you would not be entitled to do such a thing. The point remains that what one does in the privacy of his own home is his and no one including the governments business.
BTW the ONLY known negative effects of marijuana are incurred when smoking it, if one bakes or vaporizes the pot, there are no known detrimental side effects.
The definition of political terms such as "democrat" and "republican" have changed alot over the years. IMO he is the definition of the modern day libertarian.
I could be, and probably am wrong but years ago the repubs were about small government and fiscal responsibility.... We have seen that go out the window.
So like I said, to me personally, he is the modern day libertarian, help the people, not police them.
I wont claim to be an expert in Kucinich Politics, but I have been following him since about 1999. He is a very libertarian candidate who wants more power to the people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Kucinich If you care to see the wiki on him, as the official site is most likely biased.
Less governmet
More say to the people
If wanting to implement the fairness doctrine while his party is in power, its safe to say he is taking the right path
Also he is for legalization
somebody PLEASE think of the children....
im serious One roof for every child
but seriously think of the possibilities, you go out camping and you bring your printer with you and TADA, you got a roof over your head in the middle of no where
i cant wait for the erasable ink
Sharks with frickin' lazer beams!
Its on the way in the form of total HD http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128494-pg,1/arti cle.html
I see posts like this all the time mod me off topic all you wish, just a waste of your mod points