You never read my journals, I see. I know crack whores (and caution readers never to let one in their home and always use a condom). Perhaps it's psychological, but some of them are so strung out they become ill without the drug.
Granted, I never heard of anyone like this using powdered cocaine. I knew a lot of those people in the early 80s, and the only symptom I saw in those cocaine abusers was that they all turned into complete and utter selfish assholes.
Well, if Guiness polls you about beer, you have a point. But if the University of East Saskachewan polls you about beer, then it's probably genuine research. A university can't risk its reputation on bogus polls, while a corporation must.
In other words, this is a scare tactic with nothing to back it up, pure and simple.
I'm wondering "how thay can threaten their customer?" Who do they think they are, the RIAA and that New Jersey is a mom on food stamps?
But perhaps they can. This cynical old man thinks there's a lot more here than meets the eye - Sequoia may surreptuously funnel cash to the campaigns of some of the high ranking New Jersey goons, er, excuse me, lawmakers/bureaucrats.
Rich powerful people don't play nice. You don't get to be a rich, powerful man by giving a rat's ass about anyone or anything except your money and power.
Politics in the state, particularly Chicago machine politics, have been famous for highly visible corruption cases, as well as for crusading reformers such as governors Adlai Stevenson (D) and James Thompson (R). In 2006, former Governor George Ryan (R) was convicted of racketeering and bribery. In the late 20th century Congressman Dan Rostenkowski (Dem) was imprisoned for mail fraud; former governor and federal judge Otto Kerner, Jr. (D) was imprisoned for bribery; and State Auditor of Public Accounts (Comptroller) Orville Hodge (R) was imprisoned for embezzlement. In 1912 William Lorimer, the GOP boss of Chicago, was expelled from the U.S. Senate for bribery, and in 1921 Governor Len Small (R) was found to have defrauded the state of a million dollars.[58][27][15]
I agree with you (and others answering my comment). The fact that there are too many men on death row who are proven innocent is one reason why I'm personally against execution.
Another is moral: Humans do not have the right to kill humans.
A third is vengeful: We're all under a death sentence. When I die, it will almost certainly be a horrible death. It will be heart disease ("It was like an elephant sat on my chest" as some survivors say), cancer, falling and breaking a bone in th enursing home, car wreck, etc. Why should someone convicted of murder be painlessly euthanized like a beloved pet when you and I will die horribly? Let 'em rot in prison for sixty years. I'm willing for my taxes to go for that.
Sorry to break it to you, but he's not the only major candidate running this year to have his own brand of beer. A brewery in Kenya, home of Barack Obama's father, is brewing Obama Beer [observer.com].
Obama isn't running for the Senate, he's already a Senator running for President. But ok, he's running. Steve Novick is the only candidate with his own brand of beer that doesn't have a hate filled racist preacher!
A white man voting for Obama is like a black man voting for a candidate whose preacher is in the KKK. I've been to his church's web site, its fugly and by that I'm talking about the rhetoric, not the looks. Racism is wrong no matter what your race. I don't see how his preacher can even call himself a Christian. There should not be any such thing as a "black church" or a "white church". If everyone in your church's congregation is the same color, maybe you should join a Christian church!
This is a day late, guys. St. Patrick's day was yesterday (that link does not lead to "St. Patrick's Day" but instead links to an IRA terrorist drink. Cheers;)
You have your politicians mixed up. The House is supposed to be accountable to the people, the Senate is a check against the Tyranny of the majority". That's why there are different numbers of Representatives (from the HOUSE of REPRESENTatives) depending on a state's population, while the Senate has two members per state.
When are you running for President? We need someone with a sense of humour in office.
What's this "we" shit? You're British! But don't feel bad, as I live in Ill inois instead of Oreogon I can't vote him into the Senate either.
However, if I was rich I could buy the sucker, and it would be legal, thanks to our insane laws that allow bribery as long as you bribe both major party candidates before the election and call your bribes "campaign contributions".
If I was Bill Gates I wouldn't even bother voting. I would have no need to!
-mcgrew (The McGrew on this page is an imposter. He doesn't even have the first name spelled right, the illiterate buffoon! It's spelled like the guy in the bible that got stoned.)
Normally you'd expect companies and the people who run them to have enough of a moral backbone that they don't need external input on things like this
You must be new to Capitalism. There is nothing more evil than passing up money or turning down profit from any source. Wealth is worth any price. Monetary gain trumps everything. It doesn't matter who dies or how miserable people are, so long as you're making a profit.
Christianity isn't America's national religion like some Christian preachers claim, Capitalism (the worship of money) is. The phrase "if a man asks for your coat, give him your cloak as well" is, to the Capitalist, a supremely evil statement.
When it affects your life negatively. Your wife is complaining that you're on the computer all the time? You're late for work because you're checking your mail? That's too much.
Everything is a disorder. We need medicine for everything. People cannot make changes in their life without medication.
Everything is NOT a disorder. Obsessively and uncontollably doing a thing IS a disorder. If you have ghonnorea, you're not going to make changes in your life without medication (pennicillin).
If you have a few drinks on Friday night you're ok. If you drink every morning as soon as you get up you need help and possibly medication (antabuse).
I don't know how such an ignorant comment got modded "insightful". I guess like you, the mods have never met anyone with a true mental illness. I'd rather have the clap than bipolar disorder, and so would the crazies I know.
The new definition for the word "addiction" is the same as the old word for "habituation". OK, what is the new word for physical addiction, like with heroin or alcohol, where you can die from not getting your drug?
If you take away my reefer or my internet or my writing I may be agitated and unhappy, but I can still function. Take away my coffee and I get headaches and can't do my job because I can't think straight. Take away Amy's booze and she sees snakes and thinks there's bugs crawling on her skin. What do you call THAT these days?
You can't get addicted to the internet, or evercrack, or your crackberry. Internet habituation sure sounds like an obsessive compulsive disorder, and in some cases may need treatment, but it's not a true addiction.
Like homosexuals purposely changed the word "gay" to no longer mean "happy and carefree", anti-drug zealots (NOT health care professionals) have changed the meaning of the word "addiction". But physical addiction is still a curse to those addicted to certain substances, like heroin, alcohol, tobacco, etc.
I'm not negating the power of habituation. When I gave up cigarettes in 1999 I was amazed that the habit was as strong as the physical withdrawal from that deadly awful drug.
The anti-drug monsters waging their "war on (some) drugs" are doing no favors to addicts or those in danger of addiction. IMO they are a far greater menace to society than the drugs and addicts they hate.
Judging from the cuts in staff, cuts in schedule time and content shift seen in news programs, I'll stand by my assertion
You're talking about entertainment network news (Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, etc), not MSNBC or CNN. Do you have links to sources that back up the assertation that CNN has cut schedule time and shifted content?
Why on earth would someone tune to CNN for entertainment? (Of course, I can't see why anyone would tune in to a soap opera, but that's just me)
Sounds like somebody's mommie needs to give them a nappie. Nighty night mr coward. I don't know why I bother even reading AC posts, let alone responding to them.
"Do you agree that it is OK to mistakenly execute an innocent person?" alternatively they could ask:
"Should serial killers remain a burden on the tax payer for the entirity of their natural lives?"
Both are blatantly dishonest questions. That's why you need to see the raw data to make a determination of whether it's a legitimate scientific poll that seeks to desciver, or whether it's a PR sham. The honest way of asking the question would be "do you believe murderers should be executed?"
A good poll asks the same question in different ways, and the researcher studying the results can get a far better picture. All three versions would be asked, plus one or two more, and a lot of other questions that may or may not even have anything at all to do with what you're studying.
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Enjoying a little beer tonight, are we?
Are you buying?
But maybe you didn't RTFA.
Of course not. You must be new here!
Scientists' Success Or Failure Correlated With Beer
Oddly enough, that finding carries over to Hookers, as well
But not Governors
You never read my journals, I see. I know crack whores (and caution readers never to let one in their home and always use a condom). Perhaps it's psychological, but some of them are so strung out they become ill without the drug.
Granted, I never heard of anyone like this using powdered cocaine. I knew a lot of those people in the early 80s, and the only symptom I saw in those cocaine abusers was that they all turned into complete and utter selfish assholes.
Well, if Guiness polls you about beer, you have a point. But if the University of East Saskachewan polls you about beer, then it's probably genuine research. A university can't risk its reputation on bogus polls, while a corporation must.
I'm wondering "how thay can threaten their customer?" Who do they think they are, the RIAA and that New Jersey is a mom on food stamps?
But perhaps they can. This cynical old man thinks there's a lot more here than meets the eye - Sequoia may surreptuously funnel cash to the campaigns of some of the high ranking New Jersey goons, er, excuse me, lawmakers/bureaucrats.
But then I'm in Illinois where the last Democrat Governor went to prison, and the last Republican Governor then went to prison. I'm thinking if a Republican wins the next Governor election, Blago will join Ryan in a cell.
Rich powerful people don't play nice. You don't get to be a rich, powerful man by giving a rat's ass about anyone or anything except your money and power.
-mcgrew
(background on Illinois Politics):
I agree with you (and others answering my comment). The fact that there are too many men on death row who are proven innocent is one reason why I'm personally against execution.
Another is moral: Humans do not have the right to kill humans.
A third is vengeful: We're all under a death sentence. When I die, it will almost certainly be a horrible death. It will be heart disease ("It was like an elephant sat on my chest" as some survivors say), cancer, falling and breaking a bone in th enursing home, car wreck, etc. Why should someone convicted of murder be painlessly euthanized like a beloved pet when you and I will die horribly? Let 'em rot in prison for sixty years. I'm willing for my taxes to go for that.
-mcgrew
Maybe we should ride cows?
PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals! Yum!
Sorry to break it to you, but he's not the only major candidate running this year to have his own brand of beer. A brewery in Kenya, home of Barack Obama's father, is brewing Obama Beer [observer.com].
Obama isn't running for the Senate, he's already a Senator running for President. But ok, he's running. Steve Novick is the only candidate with his own brand of beer that doesn't have a hate filled racist preacher!
A white man voting for Obama is like a black man voting for a candidate whose preacher is in the KKK. I've been to his church's web site, its fugly and by that I'm talking about the rhetoric, not the looks. Racism is wrong no matter what your race. I don't see how his preacher can even call himself a Christian. There should not be any such thing as a "black church" or a "white church". If everyone in your church's congregation is the same color, maybe you should join a Christian church!
-mcgrew
Most Americans are Pilsners, although some American Pilsners try to pass themselves off as Lagers.
This is a day late, guys. St. Patrick's day was yesterday (that link does not lead to "St. Patrick's Day" but instead links to an IRA terrorist drink. Cheers;)
-mcgrew
You have your politicians mixed up. The House is supposed to be accountable to the people, the Senate is a check against the Tyranny of the majority". That's why there are different numbers of Representatives (from the HOUSE of REPRESENTatives) depending on a state's population, while the Senate has two members per state.
-mcgrew
universal health care, by its very nature, is an abuse
I see all today's mods are from the US, the only industrialized nation in the world without universal health care!
-mcgrew
When are you running for President? We need someone with a sense of humour in office.
What's this "we" shit? You're British! But don't feel bad, as I live in Ill inois instead of Oreogon I can't vote him into the Senate either.
However, if I was rich I could buy the sucker, and it would be legal, thanks to our insane laws that allow bribery as long as you bribe both major party candidates before the election and call your bribes "campaign contributions".
If I was Bill Gates I wouldn't even bother voting. I would have no need to!
-mcgrew
(The McGrew on this page is an imposter. He doesn't even have the first name spelled right, the illiterate buffoon! It's spelled like the guy in the bible that got stoned.)
Two wrongs don't make a right
Maybe not, but three lefts do.
Normally you'd expect companies and the people who run them to have enough of a moral backbone that they don't need external input on things like this
You must be new to Capitalism. There is nothing more evil than passing up money or turning down profit from any source. Wealth is worth any price. Monetary gain trumps everything. It doesn't matter who dies or how miserable people are, so long as you're making a profit.
Christianity isn't America's national religion like some Christian preachers claim, Capitalism (the worship of money) is. The phrase "if a man asks for your coat, give him your cloak as well" is, to the Capitalist, a supremely evil statement.
I have lost roughly 65 weeks(not an exaggeration) of sleep in the past 8 years due to the Internet, and me missing it when I sleep! Who do I sue?
Why, CowboyNeal, of course!
What do you care who I mod?
Well, so long as you're not on this list I guess it's ok...
But how many emails a day is "too much"?
When it affects your life negatively. Your wife is complaining that you're on the computer all the time? You're late for work because you're checking your mail? That's too much.
Everything is a disorder. We need medicine for everything. People cannot make changes in their life without medication.
Everything is NOT a disorder. Obsessively and uncontollably doing a thing IS a disorder. If you have ghonnorea, you're not going to make changes in your life without medication (pennicillin).
If you have a few drinks on Friday night you're ok. If you drink every morning as soon as you get up you need help and possibly medication (antabuse).
I don't know how such an ignorant comment got modded "insightful". I guess like you, the mods have never met anyone with a true mental illness. I'd rather have the clap than bipolar disorder, and so would the crazies I know.
The new definition for the word "addiction" is the same as the old word for "habituation". OK, what is the new word for physical addiction, like with heroin or alcohol, where you can die from not getting your drug?
If you take away my reefer or my internet or my writing I may be agitated and unhappy, but I can still function. Take away my coffee and I get headaches and can't do my job because I can't think straight. Take away Amy's booze and she sees snakes and thinks there's bugs crawling on her skin. What do you call THAT these days?
You can't get addicted to the internet, or evercrack, or your crackberry. Internet habituation sure sounds like an obsessive compulsive disorder, and in some cases may need treatment, but it's not a true addiction.
Like homosexuals purposely changed the word "gay" to no longer mean "happy and carefree", anti-drug zealots (NOT health care professionals) have changed the meaning of the word "addiction". But physical addiction is still a curse to those addicted to certain substances, like heroin, alcohol, tobacco, etc.
I'm not negating the power of habituation. When I gave up cigarettes in 1999 I was amazed that the habit was as strong as the physical withdrawal from that deadly awful drug.
The anti-drug monsters waging their "war on (some) drugs" are doing no favors to addicts or those in danger of addiction. IMO they are a far greater menace to society than the drugs and addicts they hate.
-mcgrew
Judging from the cuts in staff, cuts in schedule time and content shift seen in news programs, I'll stand by my assertion
You're talking about entertainment network news (Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, etc), not MSNBC or CNN. Do you have links to sources that back up the assertation that CNN has cut schedule time and shifted content?
Why on earth would someone tune to CNN for entertainment? (Of course, I can't see why anyone would tune in to a soap opera, but that's just me)
Sounds like somebody's mommie needs to give them a nappie. Nighty night mr coward. I don't know why I bother even reading AC posts, let alone responding to them.
Go away, troll.
You would offer a needle full of heroin to a junkie
Yes.
Only blatantly dishonest ones.
"Do you agree that it is OK to mistakenly execute an innocent person?"
alternatively they could ask:
"Should serial killers remain a burden on the tax payer for the entirity of their natural lives?"
Both are blatantly dishonest questions. That's why you need to see the raw data to make a determination of whether it's a legitimate scientific poll that seeks to desciver, or whether it's a PR sham. The honest way of asking the question would be "do you believe murderers should be executed?"
A good poll asks the same question in different ways, and the researcher studying the results can get a far better picture. All three versions would be asked, plus one or two more, and a lot of other questions that may or may not even have anything at all to do with what you're studying.