Well modded. To the cowardly parent, if you don't have the balls to sign your pseudonym (let alone your real name) why should I hive a zit about your offensive opinion?
Only the most hard core Ron Paul fans would even know he still had a presidential campaign.
I voted for him in the primary, and it's news to me. And I'm a nerd. Ergo, it's news for nerds (although since McCain has the delegates to win, it is no longer "stuff that matters").
This stuff belongs on your personal blog, not a site billed was "news for nerds".
As to the topic itself, my initial reaction was "WTF????" He's just now suspending his nomination, long after all the Ron paul yard signs are gone and McCain has enough delegates that no one else can run as a Republican in this race?
I voted for him in the primaries, but seeing this I'm glad he lost. To continue to camaign after losing is brain dead.
As to the parent comment, I must not be a social conservative.
I don't know if a blastocyst is human, but I do know that since I am not a physician, if the fetus doesn't have my DNA then its abortion is none of my business, and it's not my governmnet's bueiness, either. I would prefer to conserve the values that my nation was founded on - he government should leave me the hell alone unlesss I'm harming someone else.
Killing is wrong. The "life for a life" goes directly against the "big ten" that Moses brought down; "thou shalt not kill". I am greatly offended that humans are murdered in my name by my government. Plus, we are all under sentence of death. When I die it will not likely be pleasant; bloody accident, cancer, or other terrible agony. I won't be humanely put to sleep like a beloved pet, why should a murderer? Keep the bastard alive as long as you can, let him suffer arthritis, blindness, deafness, dementia like the rest of us. Execution is far too good for murderers. It is NOT my government's right to kill people.
I am neither Morman nor Jew, though I worship the same God. My savior preached forgiveness above all else. I don't see how any Christian can be for the death penalty; killing is an unChristian an act as there is.
I see no reason to sanctify "civil unions". There is no discrimination - I can no more find a suitable woman to marry than if I could if I were gay.
The morality of cock sucking and butt sex (I refuse to use polite terms for impolite actions) doesn't come into play. Although I find it personally disgusting (the fact that I find it disgusting is evolution at work, BTW) it isn't my business. And it isn't one of Moses' commandments, either - just following those ten is too much for most imperfect humans.
If you want to fuck your sister that's ok with me, too. Buit I'm against letting you marry her. If you are for letting men marry men, how can you be against incest? Pretty much of a double standard if you ask me.
That goes for your cocker spaniel and your sheep, too. If you want to fuck them, fine, but I don't want my government letting you marry them.
After smoking pot off and on since 1971 with no ill effects whatever, I'm not very damned likely to believe anything the government says about ANY drug.
Like the illegality itself, everything the government does concerning drugs is counterproductive.
I've already answered, in detail. Here are the links: Police State: In USSA, cops hassle YOU! about my personal experience with the fourth amendment's complete lack of respect by the police forces both local and Federal, and the earlier Liberty? What liberty? that discusses each bill in the bill of rights with examples of how they are broken by an out of control government.
That was published on the web. But not everything is
Everything the author wants to be widely read "just to get his ideas out there" is. Charging for information is NOT the best way to dissiminate it. If he wants to make a buck there's nothing wrong with that and more power to him, but he should at least be honest about it.
Information doesn't want to be free, but when it isn't neither are you.
There is one class of drugs I would like to remain illegal, and that's antibiotics. It's bad enough that ill informed mommies take junior to the doctor when he has a virus and demands an antibiotic (doc, give 'em placebo).
But if you make antibiotics over-the-counter it won't be long before none of them work. Even needing a prescription for such drugs there are already way too many sntibiotic-resistant bacteria.
You should have the right to fuck your life up any way you want, but you damned sure shouldn't have the right to fuck mine up by making antibiotics useless. Legalizing them would do just that.
But he's never going to leave, because we just love our incumbents here
That goes for every Senator and every Representative in every state. Once they're been in long enough to get their way with the other congressional sleazebags, they get the pork. No voter with a brain is going to vote out a politician who has more money flowing in from the feds than flowing out.
There is little evidence that prohibition is a deterrent, in fact there is some evidence that prohibition makes illicit drug use more attractive to some people
Some say that the end of prohibition proved that prohibition kept people from drinking, but my teetotaling grandmother who was a young adult during the flapper/prohibitionist era (my great aunts had tattoos, kids, just like you youngsters do) says otherwise.
prohibitionists note that the rate of drinking nearly doubled from before-prohibition levels after it was lifted. Grandma sais yes, but not for the reasons they put forth.
Before prohibition, most women never visited salloons. Salloons were "men only" and the only women who went to salloons were disreputable types. Women who drank did it secretly, at home.
Prohibition changed that when it introduces the "speakeasy". Unlike the per-prohibition salloons, the speakeasy hosted both sexes.
Prohibition got the women drinking, according to Grandma.
I had to google "'roid" to find out that you weren't talking about hemroids! What would a nerd know about steroids? Do you know any musclebound nerds? Most of us are either way too fat or way too skinny.
Another fun fact about steroids: they cause cataracts, as I found out after getting steroid eyedrops prescribed for an eye infection. I'm now a cyborg, click the sig for details (although I haven't been "three eyes" for quite a while, I haven't been using the one contact lens)
A study using one test subject that has been running since 1971 shows that marijuana can be psychologically habituating, but not physically addictive and has NO withdrawal symptoms whatever.
I am that subject. There have been periods in my life (lika bakc when Jeff was growing some KILLER hydro) that I smoked daily and heavily. These days I can barely afford the shit. I have never experienced any withdrawal symptoms whatever. When I was smoking it daily and gave it up I missed it, but less so than I missed Pepsi after quitting the drive in theater where the Pepsi was free.
Cigarettes, now, they were a fucking BITCH to give up.
Of course, if you had actually dug into the details you would have found out that it was a small study that really wasn't best run, and that these people had smoked a minimum of 5 joints a day for 10 years.
Also that the shrunken areas are parts like the amygdala that are responsible for fear, anger, and aggression.
My latest journal entry is actually on topic here, as it concerns the noble weed.
I wonder where this is coming from as there aren't a lot of IP-based industries in Michigan
Which is why I keep saying that it should be illegal to accept a bribe; er, excuse me, "campaign contribution" from anyone who isn't eligible to vote for you. I shouldn't be able to contribute to Conyers and neither should Hollywood. My company's CEO should be able to contribute to Durbin (provided he lives in Illinois and is registered to vote) but neither my union nor the company I work for should be eligible to contribute to ANYONE'S campaign.
Hienlein said in a short story I read (don't remember which story but the protagonist drove a Camaro and internal combustion engines wre against the law abd the cops were always after him) "there are four boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, the ammo box, and the soap box."
Copyright infringement as a criminal act - that's just wrong. And scary.
First they came for the gamblers, but I was not a loser so I said nothing. Then they came for the whores, but I was not a hooker so I said nothing. Then they came for the drug addicts, but I was not a junkie so I said nothing. Then they came for the potsmokers, but I was not a hippie so I said nothing. Then they came for the copyright infringers, but I was not a pirate so I said nothing. Then they came for me, but there was nobody left to speak up.
The above intellectual pooperty was blatantly stolen =P
If there's any law I've seen recently that qualifies as police state, this is one.
You haven't been paying attention. Here are three more: drug laws, gambling laws, prostitution laws. At least they can lie that the Intellectual Pooperty laws have a "victim", even though they really DON'T have a victim.
No victim, no crime. Otherwise you have a police state.
Calling it property masks the real issue, which is putting arbitrary restrictions and repercussions on what people can do with what they know. That's the reason it's so offensive to/. regulars who's worlds revolve around knowledge, not because we want to download Britney's latest MP3.
Information doesn't want to be free, but when it isn't neither are you.
Only at slasdot will you find men who are more terrified of woman than sabertoothed beasts!
Now, for the occasional normal person who doesn't understand the nerd's fear of woman, nerds fear women because we're generally a bit more intelligent than normal men.
Because of that we realise something most men don't: a man or a beast can punch you, hit you, kick you, bite you, claw you, stab you, cut you, shoot you, break your bones - but only a woman can truly hurt you.
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Ron Paul did!
Well modded. To the cowardly parent, if you don't have the balls to sign your pseudonym (let alone your real name) why should I hive a zit about your offensive opinion?
Only the most hard core Ron Paul fans would even know he still had a presidential campaign.
I voted for him in the primary, and it's news to me. And I'm a nerd. Ergo, it's news for nerds (although since McCain has the delegates to win, it is no longer "stuff that matters").
This stuff belongs on your personal blog, not a site billed was "news for nerds".
Slashdot IS my personal blog, you insensitive clod!
I was goping to rebut your comment, until I remembered both the illegal Rastafarians and the illegal indigineous American religions.
Like the Rastafari, I see marijuana as a religious sacrament (although that's about all I agree with them on)
I voted for him in the primaries, but seeing this I'm glad he lost. To continue to camaign after losing is brain dead.
As to the parent comment, I must not be a social conservative.
I am neither Morman nor Jew, though I worship the same God. My savior preached forgiveness above all else. I don't see how any Christian can be for the death penalty; killing is an unChristian an act as there is.
The morality of cock sucking and butt sex (I refuse to use polite terms for impolite actions) doesn't come into play. Although I find it personally disgusting (the fact that I find it disgusting is evolution at work, BTW) it isn't my business. And it isn't one of Moses' commandments, either - just following those ten is too much for most imperfect humans.
If you want to fuck your sister that's ok with me, too. Buit I'm against letting you marry her. If you are for letting men marry men, how can you be against incest? Pretty much of a double standard if you ask me.
That goes for your cocker spaniel and your sheep, too. If you want to fuck them, fine, but I don't want my government letting you marry them.
After smoking pot off and on since 1971 with no ill effects whatever, I'm not very damned likely to believe anything the government says about ANY drug.
Like the illegality itself, everything the government does concerning drugs is counterproductive.
Actually, IINM the word "queer" meaning "homosexual" originated in the homosexual community itself.
Now the word "gay" is used as an insult. They fucked up a perfectly good Chrismas carol for nothing!
Extortion IS theift no matter how you sugar coat it. Unpaid overtime is extortion; it is theift.
I've already answered, in detail. Here are the links: Police State: In USSA, cops hassle YOU! about my personal experience with the fourth amendment's complete lack of respect by the police forces both local and Federal, and the earlier Liberty? What liberty? that discusses each bill in the bill of rights with examples of how they are broken by an out of control government.
That was published on the web. But not everything is
Everything the author wants to be widely read "just to get his ideas out there" is. Charging for information is NOT the best way to dissiminate it. If he wants to make a buck there's nothing wrong with that and more power to him, but he should at least be honest about it.
Information doesn't want to be free, but when it isn't neither are you.
There is one class of drugs I would like to remain illegal, and that's antibiotics. It's bad enough that ill informed mommies take junior to the doctor when he has a virus and demands an antibiotic (doc, give 'em placebo).
But if you make antibiotics over-the-counter it won't be long before none of them work. Even needing a prescription for such drugs there are already way too many sntibiotic-resistant bacteria.
You should have the right to fuck your life up any way you want, but you damned sure shouldn't have the right to fuck mine up by making antibiotics useless. Legalizing them would do just that.
You guys have GOT to stop reading my journal! Next thing you know slahdot will be have stories about hookers...
But he's never going to leave, because we just love our incumbents here
That goes for every Senator and every Representative in every state. Once they're been in long enough to get their way with the other congressional sleazebags, they get the pork. No voter with a brain is going to vote out a politician who has more money flowing in from the feds than flowing out.
There is little evidence that prohibition is a deterrent, in fact there is some evidence that prohibition makes illicit drug use more attractive to some people
Some say that the end of prohibition proved that prohibition kept people from drinking, but my teetotaling grandmother who was a young adult during the flapper/prohibitionist era (my great aunts had tattoos, kids, just like you youngsters do) says otherwise.
prohibitionists note that the rate of drinking nearly doubled from before-prohibition levels after it was lifted. Grandma sais yes, but not for the reasons they put forth.
Before prohibition, most women never visited salloons. Salloons were "men only" and the only women who went to salloons were disreputable types. Women who drank did it secretly, at home.
Prohibition changed that when it introduces the "speakeasy". Unlike the per-prohibition salloons, the speakeasy hosted both sexes.
Prohibition got the women drinking, according to Grandma.
Actually "wired" means (or at least used to mean back in the stone age, aka "the 70s") high on amphetamines, cocaine, meth, or other speed.
I had to google "'roid" to find out that you weren't talking about hemroids! What would a nerd know about steroids? Do you know any musclebound nerds? Most of us are either way too fat or way too skinny.
Another fun fact about steroids: they cause cataracts, as I found out after getting steroid eyedrops prescribed for an eye infection. I'm now a cyborg, click the sig for details (although I haven't been "three eyes" for quite a while, I haven't been using the one contact lens)
A study using one test subject that has been running since 1971 shows that marijuana can be psychologically habituating, but not physically addictive and has NO withdrawal symptoms whatever.
I am that subject. There have been periods in my life (lika bakc when Jeff was growing some KILLER hydro) that I smoked daily and heavily. These days I can barely afford the shit. I have never experienced any withdrawal symptoms whatever. When I was smoking it daily and gave it up I missed it, but less so than I missed Pepsi after quitting the drive in theater where the Pepsi was free.
Cigarettes, now, they were a fucking BITCH to give up.
Ohhhh. You mean in "isn't." Dude that's an APOSTROPHE. You do know what an apostrophe is, don't you? It's a HIGH comma. (I am so baked.)
So's Bob! Bob is one of my favorite cartoon characters. Every nerd should know Bob.
Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots
Destroy the Apostrophe!
Schrodinger's Fridge
Boobs (BSFW)
Dalek Shell
All the Bob cartoons
Yes, I'm an ANGRY FLOWER fanboy, I admit it...
Hydrogen Cyanide is legal; farmers use it as pesticide. If you smell almonds while driving through farm country, you're ingesting it.
Of course, if you had actually dug into the details you would have found out that it was a small study that really wasn't best run, and that these people had smoked a minimum of 5 joints a day for 10 years.
Also that the shrunken areas are parts like the amygdala that are responsible for fear, anger, and aggression.
My latest journal entry is actually on topic here, as it concerns the noble weed.
I wonder where this is coming from as there aren't a lot of IP-based industries in Michigan
Which is why I keep saying that it should be illegal to accept a bribe; er, excuse me, "campaign contribution" from anyone who isn't eligible to vote for you. I shouldn't be able to contribute to Conyers and neither should Hollywood. My company's CEO should be able to contribute to Durbin (provided he lives in Illinois and is registered to vote) but neither my union nor the company I work for should be eligible to contribute to ANYONE'S campaign.
Hienlein said in a short story I read (don't remember which story but the protagonist drove a Camaro and internal combustion engines wre against the law abd the cops were always after him) "there are four boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, the ammo box, and the soap box."
We're nerds. We usually use the SOAP box.
So we actually ARE doing something. We're tilting at windmills!
Copyright infringement as a criminal act - that's just wrong. And scary.
First they came for the gamblers, but I was not a loser so I said nothing.
Then they came for the whores, but I was not a hooker so I said nothing.
Then they came for the drug addicts, but I was not a junkie so I said nothing.
Then they came for the potsmokers, but I was not a hippie so I said nothing.
Then they came for the copyright infringers, but I was not a pirate so I said nothing.
Then they came for me, but there was nobody left to speak up.
The above intellectual pooperty was blatantly stolen =P
If there's any law I've seen recently that qualifies as police state, this is one.
You haven't been paying attention. Here are three more: drug laws, gambling laws, prostitution laws. At least they can lie that the Intellectual Pooperty laws have a "victim", even though they really DON'T have a victim.
No victim, no crime. Otherwise you have a police state.
Police State: In USSA, cops hassle YOU!
Liberty? What liberty?
-mcgrew
Calling it property masks the real issue, which is putting arbitrary restrictions and repercussions on what people can do with what they know. That's the reason it's so offensive to /. regulars who's worlds revolve around knowledge, not because we want to download Britney's latest MP3.
Information doesn't want to be free, but when it isn't neither are you.
Only at slasdot will you find men who are more terrified of woman than sabertoothed beasts!
Now, for the occasional normal person who doesn't understand the nerd's fear of woman, nerds fear women because we're generally a bit more intelligent than normal men.
Because of that we realise something most men don't: a man or a beast can punch you, hit you, kick you, bite you, claw you, stab you, cut you, shoot you, break your bones - but only a woman can truly hurt you.