I don't think so; they didn't look like the photo in your link; they were oblong capsule shaped, but solid. And I think I would have recognized the name "marinol" on the bottle.
I agree with the gist of your post, however we need to put it into perspective.
Terrorism is a real threat to the US and the "western" world.
There were fewer than 3,000 people killed by terrorists on American soil this century. Far more Americans were killed in combat in the Iraq war. In 2005 alone 4082 people were murdered by friends or acquaintences.
Half a million Americans die of cancer every year, another half million die of heart disease. Personally, I'd like to see some of the "homeland security" money going to guard rails and cancer research (I'll probably be killed by the terrorists who own the tobacco companies; even though I gave up tobacco over eight years ago, I smoked cigarettes for thirty years and will likely die of lung cancer).
In Grandpa's day it was "we have nothing to fear but fear itself". Today it's OMG!!1! TEH TERRORISTS!!! WE MUST GIVE UP OUR RIGHTS!!!
The reason for bureaucracy and red tape is because we the people insist upon it.
And we insist on it because people try (and very often succeed) to game the system. The rules and regulations and red tape are there to try (often unsucessfuly) to keep people from getting what they're not entitled to get.
Nobody wants to see a woman get out of a new Escalade and buy food with food stamps. When you see this happen, you can be pretty sure that it isn't her Escalade; it's her neighbor's, or her friend's, or her dad's, or her pimp's.
Or it's her Escalade but not her Link card; "her" link card and its PIN number was sold to her by a drug user for half its value, and she's probably the Link card owner's drug dealer.
THIS is why we have bureaucracy and red tape.
It's even worse when you have rich people and corporations in the mix; they're far better at gaming the system than poor or middle class people.
This fellow needs to make sure that the local authorities are smacked down. HARD.
Yeah, and the next time he has a run-in with the authorities they'll find out he's a drug dealer. because you don't have to sell or aven posess drugs for the cops to find them on you.
When something you can plant is illegal, anybody can go to prison, no matter how innocent they are.
My dad took my chemistry set away when I almost blew the house up. But this 4th of july my old friend Mike's seventeen year old son showed me a brand new way of blowing stuff up; it's in one of my NSFW journals. Anyway, put a little "Works" toilet bowl cleaner in a plastic bottle, but a strip of aluminum foil in it, screw on the cap, shake it, toss it down and walk away and it waill react violently and noisily, louder than a shotgun blast.
But apparently that is not something you'll let stop you from having opinions on it?
Why does that seem apparent? I'm ignorant of Tibetians, and gave no opinion of Tibetian Bhuddism, but I'm not ignorant of Thai Bhuddists.
And just because a religion teaches righteous behavior, that is no guarantee that those ideals will actually be followed
That's true, but the Bhuddists I knew did in fact follow those ideals, although I'm sure there were a lot who didn't; I just didn't witness it. I wrote a K5 diary entry about one particular encounter with a devout Bhuddist.
As to power corrupting, I'm not sure if that's accurate. I think power attracts the corruptable. That said, Pat Robertson has converted more Christians to athiesm than all the athiests at slashdot combined. People often do use religion for their own gain, even if they don't believe iin its teachings.
Translation: "better start donating to our campaigns."
Cynical? Yeah, I'm cynical. You don't get as old as me without being either stupid, cynical, or both. My bet is the legislation will either die in committee, or be watered down to the point of meaningless, or voted down.
The test is a probe they touch your eye with; it appears that these lenses are a miniature version. The probe used by eye doctors connects to a kleenex box-sized device with an LCD readout. You will be given this test before and after cataract surgery and vitrectomy surgery.
Your pressure should be between 10 and 20 (10 and 20 what I don't know). After my vitrectomy surgery (NSFW) my occular pressure was 35, very dangerously high. I wasn't prescribed reefer, but rather some large, expensive orange pills.
But the article IS related. You can't separate human evolution from dating rituals; evolution is mostly about sex. An organism that doesn't have sex is an evolutionary dead end. A woman who says "no" when she means "yes" isn't as likely to reproduce as one who will say "yes" when she means yes, and even less likely to reproduce than one who almost always says "yes".
If the article were about Linux I would agree with you, but it is about evolution.
I congratulate you on your sucessful journey to the center of your mind. I've taken such journeys, although it was long before you were born (I clicked your homepage, you look like one of my daughter's friends).
Don't go there too often, though. I have friends who stepped over the edge, never to return. I haven't seen my friend Dave for a long time, he's a great guitar player but the voices in his head won't let him leave his mother's house (he is probably older than your parents).
You try to give it away, sell it, kid yourself that you'll find "some use" for it some day.
I met a rich old man once (early 1980s) who said the secret to his success was never throw anything away. A friend of his needed some cash when the Great Depression hit, to buy a couple of mules and a wagon. So he bought his friend's old Model-T ford for fifteen bucks, just as a favor. He had no use for it and stored it in his barn.
Some time in the 1950s someone saw it and paid the guy a hundred thousand dollars for it, which was quite a sum of cash back then. He invested the hundred grand and was a multimillionaire when I met him.
My main computer went titsup a couple of months ago, so I dragged an old one out of the baseement. Last weekend I finally got around to moving the hard drives from the PC with the bad power supply to the old Dell someone had given me.
The Dell had only one power cable for a hard drive; there were no spares. Looking through all my computer junk I found an old chip fan that was powered by a jumper cable with a male drive power supply on one end and a female on the other. I cut the double drive supply out of the broken computer, and spliced it to half of the supply for the chip fan.
Probably saved myself five or ten bucks, certainly it took less time than a trip to Best Buy or Radio Shack.
The next few people playing off of the original joke with their own variation are hoping to get caught up in a time-honoured slashdot tradition of karma-whoring threads.
"Funny" doesn't add karma. If someone is making an obvious joke, he isn't karma whoring.
Indeed. Smoking pot often gives me creative insights, but drinking makes me stupid. I usually give the bartender my car key when I'm still sober, because once I get drunk I'm too stupid to walk home unless I have to.
You can't be saved, only forgiven. Understanding that a person has a disability that causes him to (for example) steal makes it easier to forgive his thieft, even when it's your stuff he ripped off.
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I don't think so; they didn't look like the photo in your link; they were oblong capsule shaped, but solid. And I think I would have recognized the name "marinol" on the bottle.
If my legs were only six inches long I'd feel real bad about the fact ;)
But a Mojo Nixon song comes to mind: "I need a woman that's six feet ten, she's gotta be that tall so's I can get it all in"
I agree with the gist of your post, however we need to put it into perspective.
Terrorism is a real threat to the US and the "western" world.
There were fewer than 3,000 people killed by terrorists on American soil this century. Far more Americans were killed in combat in the Iraq war. In 2005 alone 4082 people were murdered by friends or acquaintences.
In 2003 42,643 people were killed in auto accidents.
Half a million Americans die of cancer every year, another half million die of heart disease. Personally, I'd like to see some of the "homeland security" money going to guard rails and cancer research (I'll probably be killed by the terrorists who own the tobacco companies; even though I gave up tobacco over eight years ago, I smoked cigarettes for thirty years and will likely die of lung cancer).
In Grandpa's day it was "we have nothing to fear but fear itself". Today it's OMG!!1! TEH TERRORISTS!!! WE MUST GIVE UP OUR RIGHTS!!!
The reason for bureaucracy and red tape is because we the people insist upon it.
And we insist on it because people try (and very often succeed) to game the system. The rules and regulations and red tape are there to try (often unsucessfuly) to keep people from getting what they're not entitled to get.
Nobody wants to see a woman get out of a new Escalade and buy food with food stamps. When you see this happen, you can be pretty sure that it isn't her Escalade; it's her neighbor's, or her friend's, or her dad's, or her pimp's.
Or it's her Escalade but not her Link card; "her" link card and its PIN number was sold to her by a drug user for half its value, and she's probably the Link card owner's drug dealer.
THIS is why we have bureaucracy and red tape.
It's even worse when you have rich people and corporations in the mix; they're far better at gaming the system than poor or middle class people.
I very nearly got expelled in the 7th grade for an experiment with hydrogen. These days a kid who showed that kind of curiosity would be behind bars.
This fellow needs to make sure that the local authorities are smacked down. HARD.
Yeah, and the next time he has a run-in with the authorities they'll find out he's a drug dealer. because you don't have to sell or aven posess drugs for the cops to find them on you.
When something you can plant is illegal, anybody can go to prison, no matter how innocent they are.
Does this mean that anyone who does anything except: watch TV, visit shopping malls or go to the pub is weird and so under suspicion ?
Yes, we nerds are of course under suspicion. Always.
My dad took my chemistry set away when I almost blew the house up. But this 4th of july my old friend Mike's seventeen year old son showed me a brand new way of blowing stuff up; it's in one of my NSFW journals. Anyway, put a little "Works" toilet bowl cleaner in a plastic bottle, but a strip of aluminum foil in it, screw on the cap, shake it, toss it down and walk away and it waill react violently and noisily, louder than a shotgun blast.
The kids are indeed doing chemistry.
It seems that authorities in Massachusetts have raided a home chemistry lab, apparently without a warrant
I know how he feels (NSFW)
But apparently that is not something you'll let stop you from having opinions on it?
Why does that seem apparent? I'm ignorant of Tibetians, and gave no opinion of Tibetian Bhuddism, but I'm not ignorant of Thai Bhuddists.
And just because a religion teaches righteous behavior, that is no guarantee that those ideals will actually be followed
That's true, but the Bhuddists I knew did in fact follow those ideals, although I'm sure there were a lot who didn't; I just didn't witness it. I wrote a K5 diary entry about one particular encounter with a devout Bhuddist.
As to power corrupting, I'm not sure if that's accurate. I think power attracts the corruptable. That said, Pat Robertson has converted more Christians to athiesm than all the athiests at slashdot combined. People often do use religion for their own gain, even if they don't believe iin its teachings.
Not just a better catch-all, but a better philosopy imo.
If Roger, the kid down the street when I was a kid who collected baseball cards kept him, I'm sure he's a rich man today.
My dad has pretty much the same toss/save technique as you. I doubt if my mom owne a single thing over five years old.
Translation: "better start donating to our campaigns."
Cynical? Yeah, I'm cynical. You don't get as old as me without being either stupid, cynical, or both. My bet is the legislation will either die in committee, or be watered down to the point of meaningless, or voted down.
The test is a probe they touch your eye with; it appears that these lenses are a miniature version. The probe used by eye doctors connects to a kleenex box-sized device with an LCD readout. You will be given this test before and after cataract surgery and vitrectomy surgery.
Your pressure should be between 10 and 20 (10 and 20 what I don't know). After my vitrectomy surgery (NSFW) my occular pressure was 35, very dangerously high. I wasn't prescribed reefer, but rather some large, expensive orange pills.
The motto wasn't "don't do evil", it was "don't BE evil". I would argue that doing evil makes one evil, but perhaps they disagree with me.
Indeeed. I know little of Tibetian Bhuddism, but I spent a year in Thailand while in the USAF, and Thailand is a Bhuddhist country.
The Bhuddhists worship life itself. I dont see how even an athiest could have a problem with that.
But the article IS related. You can't separate human evolution from dating rituals; evolution is mostly about sex. An organism that doesn't have sex is an evolutionary dead end. A woman who says "no" when she means "yes" isn't as likely to reproduce as one who will say "yes" when she means yes, and even less likely to reproduce than one who almost always says "yes".
If the article were about Linux I would agree with you, but it is about evolution.
I haven't bought a computer since 1987. You don't build your own?
I congratulate you on your sucessful journey to the center of your mind. I've taken such journeys, although it was long before you were born (I clicked your homepage, you look like one of my daughter's friends).
Don't go there too often, though. I have friends who stepped over the edge, never to return. I haven't seen my friend Dave for a long time, he's a great guitar player but the voices in his head won't let him leave his mother's house (he is probably older than your parents).
I say we revoke the civil rights not of the learning impaired as you suggest, but the empathy impaired; subhumans such as yourself.
You try to give it away, sell it, kid yourself that you'll find "some use" for it some day.
I met a rich old man once (early 1980s) who said the secret to his success was never throw anything away. A friend of his needed some cash when the Great Depression hit, to buy a couple of mules and a wagon. So he bought his friend's old Model-T ford for fifteen bucks, just as a favor. He had no use for it and stored it in his barn.
Some time in the 1950s someone saw it and paid the guy a hundred thousand dollars for it, which was quite a sum of cash back then. He invested the hundred grand and was a multimillionaire when I met him.
My main computer went titsup a couple of months ago, so I dragged an old one out of the baseement. Last weekend I finally got around to moving the hard drives from the PC with the bad power supply to the old Dell someone had given me.
The Dell had only one power cable for a hard drive; there were no spares. Looking through all my computer junk I found an old chip fan that was powered by a jumper cable with a male drive power supply on one end and a female on the other. I cut the double drive supply out of the broken computer, and spliced it to half of the supply for the chip fan.
Probably saved myself five or ten bucks, certainly it took less time than a trip to Best Buy or Radio Shack.
If you have room for it, keep it.
and thus is funny.
The next few people playing off of the original joke with their own variation are hoping to get caught up in a time-honoured slashdot tradition of karma-whoring threads.
"Funny" doesn't add karma. If someone is making an obvious joke, he isn't karma whoring.
In Soviet Russia, karma whores YOU!
Indeed. Smoking pot often gives me creative insights, but drinking makes me stupid. I usually give the bartender my car key when I'm still sober, because once I get drunk I'm too stupid to walk home unless I have to.
how can they ever be "saved" from sin?
You can't be saved, only forgiven. Understanding that a person has a disability that causes him to (for example) steal makes it easier to forgive his thieft, even when it's your stuff he ripped off.
A relevant 1st post?
You must be new here.
Once in a blue moon a first post is not only on-topic, not flamebait, not a troll, but modded up!