I've knows schitophrenics, and all of them did indeed smoke pot. But you are confusing corelation with causation; I don't think the pot triggers the schitzophrenia (which runs in families, there is obviously a genetic component) but rather the onset of symptoms trigger pot (and other drug) use.
All the schitzophrenics I've knows also drank heavily, but I don't see anybody pointing out a causation there.
Whether or not a drug is "hard" or "soft" depends not on how high it will get you, but how much it screws up your life. Alcohol will get you a lot more intoxicated than even bud that will knock you out, AND in some individuals (alcoholism runs in families too) it will ruin your life. There are people who shouldn't smoke pot, but all the ones I've known who had problems with it started smoking it before adulthood.
Would you outlaw sugar because it may trigger diabetes in some people?
A little googling found this and more reliably this. The last link is from opensecrets.org, which reports that over half of all contributions to him came from businesses. I found this bit of ABC News mudslinging by Clinton to be interesting:
"Sen. Obama has some questions to answer about his dealings with one of his largest contributors Exelon, a big nuclear power company; apparently he cut some deals behind closed doors to protect them from full disclosure of the nuclear industry," she said. <snip> Obama's spokesperson, Bill Burton, however did return fire.
"Leave it to Senator Clinton to attack Barack Obama for a bill that she actually co-sponsored and supported. Instead of playing the same Washington games that people are sick of, she should prove how fully vetted she is by finally releasing her tax returns so that voters can see where the millions of dollars she's dropped into her campaign are coming from," Burton said.
McCain, the Republican nominee, is a Republican. At least the Republican wing of the Corporate Republicrat Party is honest about who holds their leashes.
In that particular case the extra "o" completely changed the meaning of the sentence he was trying so unsuccessfully to communicate. An old blues song says "if you lose your money please don't lose you mind" but if you loose your mind you'll probably come up with something creative. If you loose your dog he may run away and you may lose him.
Funny how there are illiterates at a site with the motto "news for nerds". Maybe it should change to "dyslexics news stuff, for matters that." Or perhaps "wee don knead two no how too spill, wee half spill chuckers!"
Exactly the same thing; "Allah" is the muslim word for what Christians call "God" and Jews call "Jehovah" and athiests call "random chance" and agnostics call "hell if I know".
Well, he's not going to get elected, is he? Have you seen any of his views aired in the mainstream media? Me either, CNN and Fox treat him like a joke, and most American cows follow right along.
I voted for him in the primaries, but I'm afraid I'll either be voting Libertarian or Green in the general election.
Thank you. The only two explanations I can think of for that modding are that one of slshdot's religious fanatics (athieism, the athiests here are the most fanatical of all) got his panties in a bunch because I dared quote the dreaded book, or it's one of my freaks.
I got one of those "reletionship change" messages from/. that said "[some asshat] has made you his foe." I looked at the guy's user page, and he had no comments, no journals, no fans, no freaks, the only indication he had ever been at slashdot at all was his "foes" list, with only one name - mine. Prabably had something to do with my Whore Journals.
The metamods will take care of the idiot who modded that as flamebait. Meanwhile another slashdotter's sig comes to mind: "Karma excellent. Try again, modboy!"
Yes, it does, and I can't for the life of me figure out why anybody could stand having more than one. I met a man who had been married twelve time, and I thought to myself, "and I thought I was a fool!"
Windows 2008 (recently discussed on Slashdot) will have GUI-less installs and be fully scriptable, that they've opened up their communication protocols for non-commercial usage
Sounds like DOS 3.1 to me! Will it run KDE or Gnome?
No, let's hope it isn't. I'm not saying I think wikileaks should be shut down. I'm saying that I loathe the notion that what it takes to get it back up is "muscle". I hope the wikileaks suppression order is rescinded because of sound legal arguments.
You must be new here.
Not to slashdot, but to THIS PLANET. Here, we follow the Golden Rule: he who has the gold, rules. The US Constitution, the Magna Carta, all those other lovely documents all over the world were written with one purpose in mind - to give you the illusion of freedom while your collar remains firmly around your neck and chained to the grindstone so you can generate more wealth for the people that actually matter. The Gatses and Ellisons and Hiltons and Trumps own and rule the world, and if you believe otherwise you've bought into the illusion they want you to keep.
Make no mistake about it, the laws you must abide by can be safely ignored by them. They can change those laws if they want to; you never will. They own the media and the governments and they will convince you that the boot on your head is a good thing and you will clamor for another stomping from them.
Who should you vote for next election? It doesn't matter, all the candidates are owned by the same people. None of "your" representatives actually represent you.
The only thing I can't figure out is why they let the internet happen. Seems like a really bad move on their part; now I have a voice.
I know a girl who is a big time tax nerd.. natural born bureaucrat, wildly successful.. wears a lot of suits.
You have a funny idea of what a "nerd" is. What, exactly, is your definition of a nerd? I never met a nerd bureaucrat, or a tax nerd, or a nerd who wore lots of suits.
My definitions come from the traditional places you find out what things are. The dictionary says:
nerd also nurd (nûrd) Pronunciation Key n. Slang 1. A foolish, inept, or unattractive person. 2. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.
nerd'y adj.
Word History: The word nerd, undefined but illustrated, first appeared in 1950 in Dr. Seuss's If I Ran the Zoo: "And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo And Bring Back an It-Kutch a Preep and a Proo A Nerkle a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!" (The nerd is a small humanoid creature looking comically angry, like a thin, cross Chester A. Arthur.) Nerd next appears, with a gloss, in the February 10, 1957, issue of the Glasgow, Scotland, Sunday Mail in a regular column entitled "ABC for SQUARES": "Nerd--a square, any explanation needed?" Many of the terms defined in this "ABC" are unmistakable Americanisms, such as hep, ick, and jazzy, as is the gloss "square," the current meaning of nerd. The third appearance of nerd in print is back in the United States in 1970 in Current Slang: "Nurd [sic], someone with objectionable habits or traits.... An uninteresting person, a 'dud.'" Authorities disagree on whether the two nerds--Dr. Seuss's small creature and the teenage slang term in the Glasgow Sunday Mail--are the same word. Some experts claim there is no semantic connection and the identity of the words is fortuitous. Others maintain that Dr. Seuss is the true originator of nerd and that the word nerd ("comically unpleasant creature") was picked up by the five- and six-year-olds of 1950 and passed on to their older siblings, who by 1957, as teenagers, had restricted and specified the meaning to the most comically obnoxious creature of their own class, a "square."
Note that the protagonist in that book, the one who ran the zoo that had a nerd in it, was named after me two years before I was born! Yay me!
Wikipedia says before talking about the mcgrew nerd again:
Nerd is a term often bearing a derogatory connotation or stereotype, that refers to a person who passionately pursues intellectual activities, esoteric knowledge, or other obscure interests that are age inappropriate rather than engaging in more social or popular activities. Therefore, a nerd is often excluded from physical activity and considered a loner by peers.
And finally, my favirite reference, the Uncyclopedia. Its entry was surely written by a nerd, as it has Mr. T at the very top of the page:
I PITY THE FOO' THAT DOESN'T FIX THIS CRAP!" Someone help this sucka of a page by rewriting it. And make it drink its milk too. Only then can it join The A-Team
Whoops! Maybe you were looking for HowTo:Get Laid?
"Roses are #FF0000, Violets are #0000FF, All my base are belong to you!" ~ Some Male Nerd on How to pick up female nerds
"Lemme in through ur tunnel frm de undrgrond, aka ur C drive:P, alrite, l8r." ~ An Average Male Nerd on How to pick up your nerdy friends computers
"In Soviet Russia, nerds hate YOU!!" ~ Russian reversal on nerds
A nerd (homo intelligencia, floro sapiens, virginus nerdius, or "homo supa smarcia") is a member of an odd species known for its love of 'puters, bad fashion sense, and inability to communicate with members of the opposite sex. While some lucky individuals are born nerds, the rest of us have to make an effort to evolve into nerds.
All of these fine scholarly references have more, except that lameass dictionary.
Why, given its history, that its come back in fashion I do not understand.
Becuase the US manufacturing economy is laying in a coffin and all its workers are in the service industry.
A black suit, IMO, shows that a person put less thought into getting dressed than a person who wears sock/sandals and a big Hawaiian shirt.
I went to a punk rock concert with my daughter and her fiancee and saw the Dangerous Toys, the Hardons, the Queers, and three other very good punk bands a year or so ago. She bought me a Queers T-shirt that says "The Queers" and "fuck you" on the front, with a funny cartoon about drinking on the back.
I love wearing that shirt to Farley's. Farley's is right next door to a gay bar - here in Springfield we do our trolling offline!
Back in the early eighties I was in a job I hated (the hours were good but the actual minutes were pretty lousy*) working for Disney. Disney had (has?) a dress code that included military style short hair. Before working there I'd worn a ponytail that went most of the way down my back and hadn't used a razor in years. I've always been more comfortable in jeans and T-shirts than anything else.
As I was perusing the want ads looking for a less sucky job, I ran across an ad looking for a 6802 (IIRC, I've slept since then) programmer for Scott Adams' adventure games. I'd figured out that my degree in art and design was worthless, and had been learning programming and had just learned to program that chip, so I called up. Mr. Adams called back and I had a very nice conversation with him. It looked like I was going to get the job of my dreams.
I remembered my mother's injunction to "dress nice" when looking for work, so I put on my only pair of slacks and one of my two dress shirts and went down there.
Everyone was in jeans and T-shirts and beards. I'm convinced that the short hair, shaven face, slacks and dress shirt cost me that job.
When I worked at Dinsey in the early '80s the tax structure sucked, "bracket creep" was so bad that I'd turn down overtime, because if I worked overtime my takehome pay went down. I was essentially paying to work.
Sometimes management doesn't understand that the little things are more important than the money.
Telling a PHB (or a lot of slashdotters even) there is anything more important than money is like telling a Muslim there is something more important than Allah.
Slashdot Mirror
I've knows schitophrenics, and all of them did indeed smoke pot. But you are confusing corelation with causation; I don't think the pot triggers the schitzophrenia (which runs in families, there is obviously a genetic component) but rather the onset of symptoms trigger pot (and other drug) use.
All the schitzophrenics I've knows also drank heavily, but I don't see anybody pointing out a causation there.
Whether or not a drug is "hard" or "soft" depends not on how high it will get you, but how much it screws up your life. Alcohol will get you a lot more intoxicated than even bud that will knock you out, AND in some individuals (alcoholism runs in families too) it will ruin your life. There are people who shouldn't smoke pot, but all the ones I've known who had problems with it started smoking it before adulthood.
Would you outlaw sugar because it may trigger diabetes in some people?
In that particular case the extra "o" completely changed the meaning of the sentence he was trying so unsuccessfully to communicate. An old blues song says "if you lose your money please don't lose you mind" but if you loose your mind you'll probably come up with something creative. If you loose your dog he may run away and you may lose him.
Funny how there are illiterates at a site with the motto "news for nerds". Maybe it should change to "dyslexics news stuff, for matters that." Or perhaps "wee don knead two no how too spill, wee half spill chuckers!"
Exactly the same thing; "Allah" is the muslim word for what Christians call "God" and Jews call "Jehovah" and athiests call "random chance" and agnostics call "hell if I know".
If you two don't knock it off I'll huff this kitten. So help me, I will!
Now you two go outside and finish doing whatever you're good at.
Damned kids. Get off of my lawn!
Well, he's not going to get elected, is he? Have you seen any of his views aired in the mainstream media? Me either, CNN and Fox treat him like a joke, and most American cows follow right along.
I voted for him in the primaries, but I'm afraid I'll either be voting Libertarian or Green in the general election.
Too bad your comment was posted too late for the +5 insightful it deserves. I agree completely.
Thank you. The only two explanations I can think of for that modding are that one of slshdot's religious fanatics (athieism, the athiests here are the most fanatical of all) got his panties in a bunch because I dared quote the dreaded book, or it's one of my freaks.
/. that said "[some asshat] has made you his foe." I looked at the guy's user page, and he had no comments, no journals, no fans, no freaks, the only indication he had ever been at slashdot at all was his "foes" list, with only one name - mine. Prabably had something to do with my Whore Journals.
I got one of those "reletionship change" messages from
The metamods will take care of the idiot who modded that as flamebait. Meanwhile another slashdotter's sig comes to mind: "Karma excellent. Try again, modboy!"
Again, thanks for the support.
It did a hell of a lot better than under Carter, who was President right before him.
Yes, it does, and I can't for the life of me figure out why anybody could stand having more than one. I met a man who had been married twelve time, and I thought to myself, "and I thought I was a fool!"
BTW grape juice that isn't boiled and kept sterile will invariably turn to wine or vinegar
Actually, if it isn't drank the grape juice will first turn to wine, then vinegar.
Too bad that insightful comment was posted too late for the mods to see.
This message is brought to you by the DNA ( National Dyslexic Association )
And the DAM (Mothers Against Dyslyxia) not to be confused with the DAMM (Drunks Against Mad Mothers).
Headline on a newspaper in one of the Police Squad movies: "Dyslexia for found cure!"
Sadly, I think it's more than 25%.
Windows 2008 (recently discussed on Slashdot) will have GUI-less installs and be fully scriptable, that they've opened up their communication protocols for non-commercial usage
Sounds like DOS 3.1 to me! Will it run KDE or Gnome?
No, let's hope it isn't. I'm not saying I think wikileaks should be shut down. I'm saying that I loathe the notion that what it takes to get it back up is "muscle". I hope the wikileaks suppression order is rescinded because of sound legal arguments.
You must be new here.
Not to slashdot, but to THIS PLANET. Here, we follow the Golden Rule: he who has the gold, rules. The US Constitution, the Magna Carta, all those other lovely documents all over the world were written with one purpose in mind - to give you the illusion of freedom while your collar remains firmly around your neck and chained to the grindstone so you can generate more wealth for the people that actually matter. The Gatses and Ellisons and Hiltons and Trumps own and rule the world, and if you believe otherwise you've bought into the illusion they want you to keep.
Make no mistake about it, the laws you must abide by can be safely ignored by them. They can change those laws if they want to; you never will. They own the media and the governments and they will convince you that the boot on your head is a good thing and you will clamor for another stomping from them.
Who should you vote for next election? It doesn't matter, all the candidates are owned by the same people. None of "your" representatives actually represent you.
The only thing I can't figure out is why they let the internet happen. Seems like a really bad move on their part; now I have a voice.
I realize they both have the same letters in them, but this seems pretty careless.
Ewe muss bee knew hear!
You have a funny idea of what a "nerd" is. What, exactly, is your definition of a nerd? I never met a nerd bureaucrat, or a tax nerd, or a nerd who wore lots of suits.
My definitions come from the traditional places you find out what things are.
The dictionary says:
Note that the protagonist in that book, the one who ran the zoo that had a nerd in it, was named after me two years before I was born! Yay me!
Wikipedia says before talking about the mcgrew nerd again:
And finally, my favirite reference, the Uncyclopedia. Its entry was surely written by a nerd, as it has Mr. T at the very top of the page:All of these fine scholarly references have more, except that lameass dictionary.
-mcgrew (if I ran slashdot...)
Why, given its history, that its come back in fashion I do not understand.
Becuase the US manufacturing economy is laying in a coffin and all its workers are in the service industry.
A black suit, IMO, shows that a person put less thought into getting dressed than a person who wears sock/sandals and a big Hawaiian shirt.
I went to a punk rock concert with my daughter and her fiancee and saw the Dangerous Toys, the Hardons, the Queers, and three other very good punk bands a year or so ago. She bought me a Queers T-shirt that says "The Queers" and "fuck you" on the front, with a funny cartoon about drinking on the back.
I love wearing that shirt to Farley's. Farley's is right next door to a gay bar - here in Springfield we do our trolling offline!
-mcgrew
"Don't kid yourself, everybody in here is wearing a uniform." -Frank Zappa to a heckler at the end of a recorded show.
Back in the early eighties I was in a job I hated (the hours were good but the actual minutes were pretty lousy*) working for Disney. Disney had (has?) a dress code that included military style short hair. Before working there I'd worn a ponytail that went most of the way down my back and hadn't used a razor in years. I've always been more comfortable in jeans and T-shirts than anything else.
As I was perusing the want ads looking for a less sucky job, I ran across an ad looking for a 6802 (IIRC, I've slept since then) programmer for Scott Adams' adventure games. I'd figured out that my degree in art and design was worthless, and had been learning programming and had just learned to program that chip, so I called up. Mr. Adams called back and I had a very nice conversation with him. It looked like I was going to get the job of my dreams.
I remembered my mother's injunction to "dress nice" when looking for work, so I put on my only pair of slacks and one of my two dress shirts and went down there.
Everyone was in jeans and T-shirts and beards. I'm convinced that the short hair, shaven face, slacks and dress shirt cost me that job.
-mcgrew
*the Vogon poetry was bad, too
In one job I had flexitime, but then we got new management in and tied a 5k GBP pay rise to loosing the flexi.
I don't get it, wouldn't you WANT the flex time to be looser? Getting looser flex time and more money would be fine by me!
When I worked at Dinsey in the early '80s the tax structure sucked, "bracket creep" was so bad that I'd turn down overtime, because if I worked overtime my takehome pay went down. I was essentially paying to work.
Sometimes management doesn't understand that the little things are more important than the money.
Telling a PHB (or a lot of slashdotters even) there is anything more important than money is like telling a Muslim there is something more important than Allah.
Or is it my rebellious attitude and pungent man-scent that's keeping me down?
--= Isn't it surprising how badly I spell ?
Shouldn't that be an "m"?