For many years I have been perplexed with why I ran off a canyon road while trying to dip my Burger King french fries in a ranch tub balanced on my knee, the mystery has been debunked. Who would of thought that not paying full attention to what the fuck you're doing could compromise that task.
I see this debate every so often and laugh at both sides as they tout the demise of the other. A simple fact when dealing with 2 different objects that interject and have pros and cons; is that you need to focus on just that. Consoles are cool because you hook them up straight to the TV and power box and they just work. If you want to game that is what you do and nothing else, this is good for simple people. If you are a computer lover you enjoy the fact that your rig can do that and so much more, thats what you paid for. There will always be those that just want to game and nothing else and those that love computers and want to also use them for cutting edge gaming, these are two markets and they will always exist. I don't see a demise of either one because they exist for different reasons, as the market evolves one will get stronger and the other will get weaker as far as games are concerned, but never will we see one completely dying, it will just adapt. They both serve a purpose and thats how it will always be, end of story.
P.S. how many offices are still completely drowned in paper even though digital is everywhere?
P.S.S. how many people still have landlines even though cell phones are abundant?
P.S.S.S. how many people still use windows even though Linux is free? just kidding
It all serves a purpose and each one has its benefits, they're still there for a reason.
This situation is nothing more than a manifestation of human behavior. Learning to embrace the truth about humans rather than sidestep it, is the first step towards a practical solution.
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
Lord Acton
Police are humans and without adequate regulation will run outside their proper boundaries unchecked. I find it appalling that a website like this has been met with such hostility, it seems so neccesary. Despite it's inherent flaws I think its deeply unjust for it to be thrown out because its not perfect, nothing is, at the end of the day if it does more good than bad, I say support it.
GM manufactures vehicles that get horrible gas mileage. Back when gas was $1 a gallon nobody cared, but now the trend is shifting towards foreign vehicles that get better gas mileage. GM has lost billions in the last few years because of this. By the way, oil companies are not evil or price gouging. They reap an amazing 10 cents of profit per gallon of gas sold, however the part that they love is that when the cost of oil per barell goes up they simply pass the cost onto the consumer and keep their 10 cents per gallon profit no matter what the price is. The reason they are making so much money is because consumption just keeps growing and growing.
P.S. They're evil, just as evil as most every other company in this world, they're just better at it.
"Shift the belief that global warming is theory rather than fact" LoL
Won't somebody please think of the children. If they can get to just 'one' person, it will all be worth it. To punish 1000 innocent for the sake of 1 guilty, its a sacrifice we all must endure to further our control gods will. I for one welcome our not-even-close-to-new overlords to rape the good at will rather than those that deserve it for SOMEBODY MUST PAY. When money is involved never ever wonder why.
I'm so sick of seeing this shit. Lets look at this from a different angle... suppose violent video games really are causing a significant amount of increased aggressiveness in children/teens. Shouldn't violence statistics show a massive increase in reported cases of violence in youth? If violent video games are as bad as drugs then shouldn't we see a clear epidemic? Introduce a bunch of meth into a small town where there wasn't any and within months it will be no secret the town has gone to hell. Where the hell is the evidence other than these "studies" that say it is happening??? Do some research and look at violence statistics, they are almost universally going down in every category, dramatically since the early 90's. So if there really is a violent epidemic caused by video games then it would have to be offset by an even more enormous non-violent epidemic being caused by...? what? I dunno, video games?. I think the kids are too busy to kill their friend in real life because they're too busy doing it in virtual life. PLEASE GOD WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN
You responded with something I was thinking myself. That to curb erroneous use it would be handy if every time a cop used a taser he had to put it on paper, file a report, go through the same steps as if you fired a gun. I think it would help a lot before a cop used his taser if he knew every action he took would be scrutinized to see if it met qualifying conditions. Did you fear for your safety or that of others? Was there no other option available to neutralize the threat?
If you look at those 2 questions and apply it to some of these big hitting taser videos it almost seems rediculous. If 5 guys aren't able to subdue a 120 pound college student with an attitude...
Nah of course that didn't happen to me, it was an exageration to amplify the point that it is sometimes used excessively and needlessly. It has been used as a general purpose control tool that has found to be deadly and often unjustified. Their argument is... "well the guy had a heart condition we didn't kill him we just finished him off". And sadly I'm not exagerating there just stating the truth.
Uhhh I don't think anyone is defending taser use against seriously dangerous people. What we're tired of is seeing someone argue with a cop and get tased 5 times. Do you really think if a person is being uncooperative they deserve to be shot? The use and misuse of this weapon is the real issue. If it kills 1 out 100 people that would have been shot instead I'd say thats pretty awesome considering the alternative.
Good now maybe it will affect police department policy reguarding them. Remember back when tasers were first issued they were praised as being a non lethal way to stop a dangerous person. Instead of having to shoot a rake wielding drunk you could tase them instead. Now look at it's use today, if you even look at a cop wrong his hand travels towards it. So far removed from its initial purpose I hope this helps bring it back toward it's proper applications.
I knew this story would draw out the tinfoil hat crowd. OMG "what if" terrorists get ahold of it! OMG "what if" it unintentionally disturbs other equipment that is critical to LIFE. OMG "what if" the crook loses control of his vehicle. Calm down, it will be ok. If it proves unwieldy to use it will never see the light of day... (probably).
Imagine back in the day before automobiles, imagine the internet was around, and so was the tinfoil hat crowd. "Automobiles" were announced and the threads were thumpin. OMG "what if" another driver going the opposite direction is distracted and comes into my lane and KILLS ME! OMG "what if" a crazed crackhead gets ahold of this 2 ton machine of devastation and runs over old lady's on the side of the road!!!
Shit happens, we gain some new functionality we lose some safety. This has been going on for many many many years. Yet everytime something new comes out people behave as though it is somehow different than all the other dangerous shit we live with every day.
Relax, it will (probably) be ok.
You guys keep quoting this over and over and correcting it...
The US dollar has real value, i.e., it represents tangible wealth, such as gold securely stored at Fort Knox.
He was speaking as an ignorant average citizen that falsely believes that to be true........ RTFA
Referring to...
One not so minor flaw is, for example this statement "The US dollar has real value, i.e., it represents tangible wealth, such as gold securely stored at Fort Knox."...
He was speaking as though he was the average ignorant citizen that thinks thats how it works. That's what that entire paragraph was about.
Drink more Kool-aid.
This is a topic I've been curious about for a few years now. From about the age of 14 till I was 23 I've racked up many misdameanors and felonies as I went through life doing drugs and being a loser. I'm 26 now and have cleaned up since I was 23. I'm a student right now wondering if when I go for an interview or fill out an app if I should lie about my past or put down the truth and hope I'm given a chance. In the past I've lied and gotten many jobs, but its mostly construction, labor, grunt work that nobody ever does a background check on. I actually work in a factory that makes anti-theft boxes for vehicles. And I lied on the app for the temp staffing company that got me a permanent job there because they do not accept felons of any kind. It actually said on the app STOP if yes to question #12. From experience I've found that telling the truth is 99% guaranteed to have your app thrown in the trash. However from what I read here they actually do backgrounds checks and I've seen that in the hire ads at monster, dice, etc. For anybody that knows, should I maybe have low hopes for getting a job in IT because of this?
Should I lie and hope I slip through the cracks and hope some more my past is never revealed? Should I tell the truth and burn gas to the next interview hoping I'll find somebody open minded?
My record is burglary, theft, dui. Nothing violent or job-related.
Yeah I know I brought this on myself but if I'm never given another chance am I supposed to do manual labor making 9 dollars an hour the rest of my life as punishment?
BTW, at my current job, I see "clean" employees steal things, yet I never do.
After reading the article it seems like a bad IT education is the smallest of their problems. It sounds like their "hierarchy" and culture doesn't lend itself well to functioning in a college environment whatsoever. I know very little about Indian culture but from what the article covered there are limitations and fuckups all the way through the system regardless of having anything to do with IT or college.
On the subject of not being properly educated in school; thats more about the student than the college. I took a semester at a local college/trade school covering beginning networking, beginning linux, core hardware/software and found it absolutely lackluster. Rather than sink into the cesspool of low performance and time wasted I took what little they offered and learned 90% of the material on my own. I read the books, I researched the internet, I played with the hardware while the other students and teacher screwed off and I ended up learning a lot, it was worthwhile. If these students don't have access to what I did then I feel bad for them but if they do and its a life or death situation like the article said then they have nobody to blame but themselves. If you need somebody to spoonfeed you and hold you by the hand the whole way through then maybe its not for you in the first place. When you get hired you certainly aren't going to be handheld so why should college be any different?
Put yourself in his situation, you are being an uncooperative person... out of the blue your ass is tasered, his screams were real and if you've ever seen someone tasered there is a real effect. He may not have been physically injured but mentally they escalated the situation. Again in his shoes, you're pissed off and behaving badly, your ass becomes a light bulb for a few seconds, either you give up due to fear of more pain or you flip out... this was neccessary for what reason? If they had just kept him subdued and let the situation pan out what would have happened? Would he have hurt somebody? Probably not unless the officers were too ill equipped to handle a human body when there 5 of them. So where was the need to do this? Are they so busy they need to electrify him so they can handle other more important calls? If so then we need to spend more money on the police force.
If you want to view this at an extreme angle why not just have cops walk into the room and when somebody doesn't comply hit them with a double tap... why not? Because the person didn't deserve it... so at the other end of the extreme why not let this person cause a disturbance and idly watch as they put other people at risk?... because police officers are supposed to enforce safety... so... why not just subdue the mother fucker... yeah they did within a few seconds... story over... except that they felt they needed to tase his ass.
Its beaten to death, what is the role of officers? Are they here to dole out punishment or here to resolve a situation for further review? If you look at that its pretty obvious they were out of bounds.
I read a post above that claimed the student involved loved to make trouble. And what I saw from the video would lead me to believe that is likely true. However it shows just how primitive the police force at the scene was. They were led into "abusing" the student and took it hook line and sinker. You could classify the person as mentally ill by definition he obviously was making bad choices that would only further his situation. Yet the tough pigs thought force would fix the problem. I blame both sides, a disruptive irrational person got the best of the police force. There was no need to injure him; a professional team would have kept him subdued and safe from escalating the situation and waited for time to let him calm down until he could quietly leave the area. Instead they strutted their big balls and made the situation worse. If they don't have training in this then I really do wonder if the next time I'm upset and the cops show up I'll take a few slugs for behaving badly. What makes me blame the police is their unprofessional handling of the situation. They're supposed to be "peace officers" but obviously they chose to turn this into an aggressive situation in which the hammer won. From the moment they arrived, many of them, they had physical superiority, there was no weapon, there was a person that wouldn't stand up. God forbid they seek other options instead of harming the individual to cement their power over them.
For those that don't know, this is very far from unordinary. I've hung with "bad" people and the police act like this all the time. They have the gun, they have the badge, in court they are a credible witness. Go up against them and you WILL LOSE without proof. Even with proof you are unlikely to win unless they kick the shit out of you while you stay absolutely motionless, even then you better hope your arm didn't move more than 2 inches cuz if it did you were attempting to violently assault an officer. I am exxagerating a bit but if you think this is uncharacterstic of police behavior you are ignorant (meaning that you just don't know).
Officers obviously need more training on how to handle a non dangerous situation. This comes up every time Joe Blow Black man with a rake is capped. They need to understand that having a gun, having control, does not mean using it to expedite the situation. If they have to spend 2 hours trying to calm the man down so be it. That's what they are payed to do, to keep everyone safe. Force should only be applied when NECCESSARY, and that is the downfall of this whole situation.
An 1/8th Oz. of Marijuana goes for atleast 20 dollars. And if you think there is no money to be made at the low level... you can make thousands a day on the corner selling crack, but it comes with the risk of the cops getting you, or some hard thugs robbing you. Its a high risk game where you risk death or prison for making a grand a day. Look at Snoop Dogg's story, he was pushing carts at a supermarket and found out he could make in ONE day the same money he made in 6 weeks pushing carts. He was tempted and took it, then he found himself serving 9 months in jail. The myth that drug dealers are all rich is what you see in MTV video's and DEA drug profiles. The majority are mostly broke supporting their own drug habit scraping by to make rent on their $300 shit trailer. Don't believe the hype, unless you're a drug dealer in a high risk crazy area you're not making a thousand dollars a day. And if you are you might be dead tomorrow or in prison for a very long time.
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Wow they took a 400,000 by 13,000 pixel image and compressed it to a 200x200 jpeg to wow us net folks, stellar.
For many years I have been perplexed with why I ran off a canyon road while trying to dip my Burger King french fries in a ranch tub balanced on my knee, the mystery has been debunked. Who would of thought that not paying full attention to what the fuck you're doing could compromise that task.
"The car accelerates to 150 mph in the city's suburbs"
I don't know why but I burst into uncontrollable laughter when I imagined that in my head. Sounds like a wild ride.
I see this debate every so often and laugh at both sides as they tout the demise of the other. A simple fact when dealing with 2 different objects that interject and have pros and cons; is that you need to focus on just that. Consoles are cool because you hook them up straight to the TV and power box and they just work. If you want to game that is what you do and nothing else, this is good for simple people. If you are a computer lover you enjoy the fact that your rig can do that and so much more, thats what you paid for. There will always be those that just want to game and nothing else and those that love computers and want to also use them for cutting edge gaming, these are two markets and they will always exist. I don't see a demise of either one because they exist for different reasons, as the market evolves one will get stronger and the other will get weaker as far as games are concerned, but never will we see one completely dying, it will just adapt. They both serve a purpose and thats how it will always be, end of story. P.S. how many offices are still completely drowned in paper even though digital is everywhere? P.S.S. how many people still have landlines even though cell phones are abundant? P.S.S.S. how many people still use windows even though Linux is free? just kidding It all serves a purpose and each one has its benefits, they're still there for a reason.
Didn't Microsoft already do "proof of concept" on howto use a Terabyte of RAM when they booted up Vista?
http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3266&p=5/
This situation is nothing more than a manifestation of human behavior. Learning to embrace the truth about humans rather than sidestep it, is the first step towards a practical solution.
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
Lord Acton
Police are humans and without adequate regulation will run outside their proper boundaries unchecked. I find it appalling that a website like this has been met with such hostility, it seems so neccesary. Despite it's inherent flaws I think its deeply unjust for it to be thrown out because its not perfect, nothing is, at the end of the day if it does more good than bad, I say support it.
TIHSLLUB ERUP
GM manufactures vehicles that get horrible gas mileage. Back when gas was $1 a gallon nobody cared, but now the trend is shifting towards foreign vehicles that get better gas mileage. GM has lost billions in the last few years because of this. By the way, oil companies are not evil or price gouging. They reap an amazing 10 cents of profit per gallon of gas sold, however the part that they love is that when the cost of oil per barell goes up they simply pass the cost onto the consumer and keep their 10 cents per gallon profit no matter what the price is. The reason they are making so much money is because consumption just keeps growing and growing. P.S. They're evil, just as evil as most every other company in this world, they're just better at it. "Shift the belief that global warming is theory rather than fact" LoL
Won't somebody please think of the children. If they can get to just 'one' person, it will all be worth it. To punish 1000 innocent for the sake of 1 guilty, its a sacrifice we all must endure to further our control gods will. I for one welcome our not-even-close-to-new overlords to rape the good at will rather than those that deserve it for SOMEBODY MUST PAY. When money is involved never ever wonder why.
I'm so sick of seeing this shit. Lets look at this from a different angle... suppose violent video games really are causing a significant amount of increased aggressiveness in children/teens. Shouldn't violence statistics show a massive increase in reported cases of violence in youth? If violent video games are as bad as drugs then shouldn't we see a clear epidemic? Introduce a bunch of meth into a small town where there wasn't any and within months it will be no secret the town has gone to hell. Where the hell is the evidence other than these "studies" that say it is happening??? Do some research and look at violence statistics, they are almost universally going down in every category, dramatically since the early 90's. So if there really is a violent epidemic caused by video games then it would have to be offset by an even more enormous non-violent epidemic being caused by...? what? I dunno, video games?. I think the kids are too busy to kill their friend in real life because they're too busy doing it in virtual life.
PLEASE GOD WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN
Watch this video if you want to see what the real issue is... http://youtube.com/watch?v=IMaMYL_shxc Enough said.
You responded with something I was thinking myself. That to curb erroneous use it would be handy if every time a cop used a taser he had to put it on paper, file a report, go through the same steps as if you fired a gun. I think it would help a lot before a cop used his taser if he knew every action he took would be scrutinized to see if it met qualifying conditions. Did you fear for your safety or that of others? Was there no other option available to neutralize the threat? If you look at those 2 questions and apply it to some of these big hitting taser videos it almost seems rediculous. If 5 guys aren't able to subdue a 120 pound college student with an attitude...
Nah of course that didn't happen to me, it was an exageration to amplify the point that it is sometimes used excessively and needlessly. It has been used as a general purpose control tool that has found to be deadly and often unjustified. Their argument is... "well the guy had a heart condition we didn't kill him we just finished him off". And sadly I'm not exagerating there just stating the truth.
Uhhh I don't think anyone is defending taser use against seriously dangerous people. What we're tired of is seeing someone argue with a cop and get tased 5 times. Do you really think if a person is being uncooperative they deserve to be shot? The use and misuse of this weapon is the real issue. If it kills 1 out 100 people that would have been shot instead I'd say thats pretty awesome considering the alternative.
Good now maybe it will affect police department policy reguarding them. Remember back when tasers were first issued they were praised as being a non lethal way to stop a dangerous person. Instead of having to shoot a rake wielding drunk you could tase them instead. Now look at it's use today, if you even look at a cop wrong his hand travels towards it. So far removed from its initial purpose I hope this helps bring it back toward it's proper applications.
I knew this story would draw out the tinfoil hat crowd. OMG "what if" terrorists get ahold of it! OMG "what if" it unintentionally disturbs other equipment that is critical to LIFE. OMG "what if" the crook loses control of his vehicle. Calm down, it will be ok. If it proves unwieldy to use it will never see the light of day... (probably). Imagine back in the day before automobiles, imagine the internet was around, and so was the tinfoil hat crowd. "Automobiles" were announced and the threads were thumpin. OMG "what if" another driver going the opposite direction is distracted and comes into my lane and KILLS ME! OMG "what if" a crazed crackhead gets ahold of this 2 ton machine of devastation and runs over old lady's on the side of the road!!! Shit happens, we gain some new functionality we lose some safety. This has been going on for many many many years. Yet everytime something new comes out people behave as though it is somehow different than all the other dangerous shit we live with every day. Relax, it will (probably) be ok.
You guys keep quoting this over and over and correcting it...
The US dollar has real value, i.e., it represents tangible wealth, such as gold securely stored at Fort Knox.
He was speaking as an ignorant average citizen that falsely believes that to be true........ RTFA
Referring to... One not so minor flaw is, for example this statement "The US dollar has real value, i.e., it represents tangible wealth, such as gold securely stored at Fort Knox." ...
He was speaking as though he was the average ignorant citizen that thinks thats how it works. That's what that entire paragraph was about.
Drink more Kool-aid.
Article states he won with 53% vs 46%, where did you get these 20:01 odds???
This is a topic I've been curious about for a few years now. From about the age of 14 till I was 23 I've racked up many misdameanors and felonies as I went through life doing drugs and being a loser. I'm 26 now and have cleaned up since I was 23. I'm a student right now wondering if when I go for an interview or fill out an app if I should lie about my past or put down the truth and hope I'm given a chance. In the past I've lied and gotten many jobs, but its mostly construction, labor, grunt work that nobody ever does a background check on. I actually work in a factory that makes anti-theft boxes for vehicles. And I lied on the app for the temp staffing company that got me a permanent job there because they do not accept felons of any kind. It actually said on the app STOP if yes to question #12. From experience I've found that telling the truth is 99% guaranteed to have your app thrown in the trash. However from what I read here they actually do backgrounds checks and I've seen that in the hire ads at monster, dice, etc. For anybody that knows, should I maybe have low hopes for getting a job in IT because of this?
Should I lie and hope I slip through the cracks and hope some more my past is never revealed?
Should I tell the truth and burn gas to the next interview hoping I'll find somebody open minded?
My record is burglary, theft, dui. Nothing violent or job-related.
Yeah I know I brought this on myself but if I'm never given another chance am I supposed to do manual labor making 9 dollars an hour the rest of my life as punishment?
BTW, at my current job, I see "clean" employees steal things, yet I never do.
After reading the article it seems like a bad IT education is the smallest of their problems. It sounds like their "hierarchy" and culture doesn't lend itself well to functioning in a college environment whatsoever. I know very little about Indian culture but from what the article covered there are limitations and fuckups all the way through the system regardless of having anything to do with IT or college. On the subject of not being properly educated in school; thats more about the student than the college. I took a semester at a local college/trade school covering beginning networking, beginning linux, core hardware/software and found it absolutely lackluster. Rather than sink into the cesspool of low performance and time wasted I took what little they offered and learned 90% of the material on my own. I read the books, I researched the internet, I played with the hardware while the other students and teacher screwed off and I ended up learning a lot, it was worthwhile. If these students don't have access to what I did then I feel bad for them but if they do and its a life or death situation like the article said then they have nobody to blame but themselves. If you need somebody to spoonfeed you and hold you by the hand the whole way through then maybe its not for you in the first place. When you get hired you certainly aren't going to be handheld so why should college be any different?
Put yourself in his situation, you are being an uncooperative person... out of the blue your ass is tasered, his screams were real and if you've ever seen someone tasered there is a real effect. He may not have been physically injured but mentally they escalated the situation. Again in his shoes, you're pissed off and behaving badly, your ass becomes a light bulb for a few seconds, either you give up due to fear of more pain or you flip out... this was neccessary for what reason? If they had just kept him subdued and let the situation pan out what would have happened? Would he have hurt somebody? Probably not unless the officers were too ill equipped to handle a human body when there 5 of them. So where was the need to do this? Are they so busy they need to electrify him so they can handle other more important calls? If so then we need to spend more money on the police force. If you want to view this at an extreme angle why not just have cops walk into the room and when somebody doesn't comply hit them with a double tap... why not? Because the person didn't deserve it... so at the other end of the extreme why not let this person cause a disturbance and idly watch as they put other people at risk? ... because police officers are supposed to enforce safety... so... why not just subdue the mother fucker... yeah they did within a few seconds... story over... except that they felt they needed to tase his ass.
Its beaten to death, what is the role of officers? Are they here to dole out punishment or here to resolve a situation for further review? If you look at that its pretty obvious they were out of bounds.
I read a post above that claimed the student involved loved to make trouble. And what I saw from the video would lead me to believe that is likely true. However it shows just how primitive the police force at the scene was. They were led into "abusing" the student and took it hook line and sinker. You could classify the person as mentally ill by definition he obviously was making bad choices that would only further his situation. Yet the tough pigs thought force would fix the problem. I blame both sides, a disruptive irrational person got the best of the police force. There was no need to injure him; a professional team would have kept him subdued and safe from escalating the situation and waited for time to let him calm down until he could quietly leave the area. Instead they strutted their big balls and made the situation worse. If they don't have training in this then I really do wonder if the next time I'm upset and the cops show up I'll take a few slugs for behaving badly. What makes me blame the police is their unprofessional handling of the situation. They're supposed to be "peace officers" but obviously they chose to turn this into an aggressive situation in which the hammer won. From the moment they arrived, many of them, they had physical superiority, there was no weapon, there was a person that wouldn't stand up. God forbid they seek other options instead of harming the individual to cement their power over them.
For those that don't know, this is very far from unordinary. I've hung with "bad" people and the police act like this all the time. They have the gun, they have the badge, in court they are a credible witness. Go up against them and you WILL LOSE without proof. Even with proof you are unlikely to win unless they kick the shit out of you while you stay absolutely motionless, even then you better hope your arm didn't move more than 2 inches cuz if it did you were attempting to violently assault an officer. I am exxagerating a bit but if you think this is uncharacterstic of police behavior you are ignorant (meaning that you just don't know).
Officers obviously need more training on how to handle a non dangerous situation. This comes up every time Joe Blow Black man with a rake is capped. They need to understand that having a gun, having control, does not mean using it to expedite the situation. If they have to spend 2 hours trying to calm the man down so be it. That's what they are payed to do, to keep everyone safe. Force should only be applied when NECCESSARY, and that is the downfall of this whole situation.
An 1/8th Oz. of Marijuana goes for atleast 20 dollars. And if you think there is no money to be made at the low level... you can make thousands a day on the corner selling crack, but it comes with the risk of the cops getting you, or some hard thugs robbing you. Its a high risk game where you risk death or prison for making a grand a day. Look at Snoop Dogg's story, he was pushing carts at a supermarket and found out he could make in ONE day the same money he made in 6 weeks pushing carts. He was tempted and took it, then he found himself serving 9 months in jail. The myth that drug dealers are all rich is what you see in MTV video's and DEA drug profiles. The majority are mostly broke supporting their own drug habit scraping by to make rent on their $300 shit trailer. Don't believe the hype, unless you're a drug dealer in a high risk crazy area you're not making a thousand dollars a day. And if you are you might be dead tomorrow or in prison for a very long time.