If given before the first contact with nicotine it will cause the "nicotine high" to never apear and consequently will prevent the dependency from developing. I am not really convinced on this claim. Is the "high" the real reason that kids take up smoking? If so, how come virtually no one over the age of 18 takes up smoking? Presumably us old farts would enjoy the high every bit as much as the teenagers, no?
Kids start smoking to: 1) rebel, by doing something that they are not supposed to -- biggest reason 2) look cooler 3) look older 4) fit in with their friends
I have smoked nicotine before (but never cigarettes). It was only in a social setting as a nice way to sit around and hang out with friends. Of course, this was after age 18, so I wasn't being a rebel, and consequently, never did it enough to get addicted.
Mostly because anything on the TV, Jon Stewart included, is designed to put you into enough of a trance to mindlessly watch advertising. This is what 99% of the TV-viewing public fails to understand.
To put it another way: Most consumers are used to being just that--consumers. They go around making simple transactions, buying products from producers. But in the TV "transaction", the viewer is not the consumer at all. The ad purchaser is the consumer, and the viewer is the product. Few consumers can wrap their heads around the fact that they are the product, not the consumer.
This is why the networks care about the viewers in about the same way the butcher cares about the cattle he slaughters. He wants to make the steak look nice, just like the networks want to make their viewing demographics look nice. This is why you see so much airtime given to the JonBenet Ramseys of the world. Not because JonBenet was so important, interesting, or compelling. It's because of the disposable income of the demographic of the viewer who will watch the story.
Those media companies getting rich selling journals, like the ACS, don't like it, but everyone else will. That comment sure came out of the blue. The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization.
Isn't the idea of being a nonprofit, you know, I mean, like, not getting rich?
Perhaps I am behind the times. What is a minicity link? I found myminicity using google, but what, does he get a referral bonus for people clicking or something? Or is it a shock site?
In the end, cherish your selfish users. They are a PITA, but they are honest and they will spare no expense to tell you what they think. Great idea! I'll see if they accept my selfish users' opinions at the grocery store checkout counter. Maybe my ISP will accept them, too!
Well, hopefully you aren't doing too much downloading of Debian.isos after the initial download because you should be upgrading using apt.
Anyhow, I've downloaded many legitimate files via bittorrent. Openoffice.org, knoppmyth, and eclipse come to mind. And yes, even Debian once. It just happens to be a very efficient way to download large files. Kind of, like, you know, what it was designed to be.
I'm not going to put my hand over my eyes and pretend that most bittorrent traffic is legit, obviously. I'm just saying that whenever I want to download a large file, I'm thankful to have the option of using bittorrent.
And people wonder why tourism is down, even though European buying power has skyrocketed in recent months. Nobody is wondering why tourism is down.
Tourism fell after 9/11/2001. Hopefully you can figure out why. It has been steadily climbing since, and 2006 was the first year in which international tourism has increased beyond pre-9/11 numbers.
But please don't let the facts get in the way of your argument.
The constitutional Right To Privacy, to the extent that it exists at all, applies only to govenment agencies. And even then, there is a big, gaping hole in that right to privacy related to, you guessed it, child abuse.
The defendant might try bringing a civil action. This will go nowhere. Anyone, doctors, teachers (who are, of course, government employees), and even circuit city employees are required to report child abuse or even suspected child abuse to the authorities. To NOT report would open themselves up to civil and even criminal liability. Further, the reporter is given absolute immunity from prosecution or civil action for reporting suspected child abuse, as long as that report was given in good faith. (In other words, knowingly creating a false report is not permitted.)
Personally, I think that policy is fucking nuts, and I've got two kids. Every so often, you read in the papers about some parent who flies off the handle and injures his child, but does not seek medical attention for the child because the doctor is required to report the abuse, and parent doesn't want to go to jail. So the child suffers or ultimately dies, depending on the extent of the abuse, in a manner that was completely preventable if doctors were required to just render medical care and not act as agents of the state.
Oh yeah, FYI marijuana doesn't have withdraw. Or deadly overdose. Or even physiological dependence. Marijuana is definitely prone to compulsive use. That there are no withdrawal symptoms is irrelevant. Serious stoners will never stay away from the bong for long.
Marijuana "addiction" is more like sex "addiction", or potato chips "addiction". Sure, there are no withdrawal symptoms, but that doesn't stop people from their compulsive behavior.
I know plenty of people who had to go to group therapy in order to stop smoking up compulsively. There is more to compulsive behavior than withdrawal symptoms.
As for me, I used to smoke occasionally as well, and quit cold turkey when I got bored of it. I've never had a craving either, but I've seen its effects on others. You are definitely understating it.
Experienced teachers are already paid pretty well. Everyone who complains about teacher salaries is complaining about starting teacher salaries.
The biggest reason for the teacher shortage is not a lack of qualified people who want to teach, it's the degrading, morale-busting treatment that they get from their administrations.
Which linux distros have no/minimal ports open by default? I don't really pay attention, because I've never put an unupdated Linux box on the open Internet, but I'd be curious to know.
As other have pointed out, XP/SP2 has the personal firewall enabled by default.
That adage is complete crap. Effectively passing knowledge on to students in a way that results in them actually learning something is nontrivial. I think you missed the whole point of the quotation.
No one is denying that being an effective teacher is nontrivial. The point of the quote is to express exasperation with the dearth of effective teachers.
Until we regard teachers as being as important as police or firefighters the public schools will continue to deteriorate. Do you really think that the schools can afford to compete for talent based on price?
Even if they could, I wouldn't want them to. I remember the dot.com days of huge salaries attracting a tidalwave of incompetent buffoons to the profession. We can't afford to have that happen with teachers.
Sorry if your mortgage servicer doesn't like that answer.
I agree that the court order to start logging IP's was inappropriate, but in this case TorrentSpy was actively hiding logs that already existed. Why is it inappropriate? TorrentSpy's normal business practice was to log IP addresses. They stopped logging in order to subvert the discovery process. The judge merely told them to turn logging back on, in accordance with their regular business practice.
Instead of complying, they posted a bunch of misleading blog entries about how the judge was an idiot for asking them to log RAM. Well, they aren't laughing anymore now, are they.
There were no IP logs From TFA:
TorrentSpy also failed to provide the MPAA with full IP addresses of its users, testifying under oath that they were not available. Conversations on the forums between the moderators paint a different picture, however. A March 2006 conversation between a couple of moderators showed that users could be banned by IP address, and moderators testified that full IP addresses were logged until April 2007. Care to revise that "no IP logs" statement? Or are you still arguing for the sake of arguing?
According to TFA, they actually did keep IP logs and had them when the discovery process started. It was only then that TorrentSpy decided to quit logging and delete old logs.
I'm sorry, but that is destruction of evidence, and it is little wonder that they were sanctioned for it. TS left the judge no choice.
I've always thought that if I DoD wiped all my disks, obviously that would leave no evidence, but could you actually get in trouble for doing that? Do they send you documents telling you that kind of thing is illegal? What if I just took out my data drives, hid them in the attic and cleaned out my logs and MRU data with Adaware? Is it really that hard to react to these kinds of things for the average consumer or am I missing a great deal? As a legal matter, yes if you destroyed evidence that was under subpoena, that would be a problem. As a practical matter, however, if it was just your private machine, it would be a little hard for your adversary to prove that you, say, "rm -rf/movies" and then overwrote your free space.
The problem with TorrentSpy, is that other admins knew that the log files used to be there but the logs went poof-gone! and they testified as such. So if only one admin knew of the logs, and he wanted to rm -rf them, he probably could have gotten away with "Logs? We don't keep logs. We never kept logs."
As it was, the admins tried destroy evidence, but they did a slipshod job trying to cover it up. I mean, discussing it in public forums? Great idea.
Teacher doesn't know all things about all things, makes request for perfectly reasonable action from child under his/her supervision. That's precisely this "teacher's" attitude toward the student. This "teacher" probably also wonders why she does not have the respect of the "children" (and I use air quotes on the word "children", because the student in question was 17 years old).
As a parent, I'll let you know that by middle school, that My Way or Detention attitude loses its sway but quick. For older students, respect is earned.
Perhaps the "Bus. Ed. Career Project Teacher" would have more luck in early-elementary education, where Respect Me Because I'm a Grown-Up And You're Not actually works.
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I'm glad it worked for you. It works for many people. For others it does not work.
I'm not the one who dismissed any data that disagreed with my own personal anecdote as "Obviously FUD generated by the tobacco industry".
Nice story, but the plural of "anecdote" is not "data".
Kids start smoking to:
1) rebel, by doing something that they are not supposed to -- biggest reason
2) look cooler
3) look older
4) fit in with their friends
I have smoked nicotine before (but never cigarettes). It was only in a social setting as a nice way to sit around and hang out with friends. Of course, this was after age 18, so I wasn't being a rebel, and consequently, never did it enough to get addicted.
To put it another way: Most consumers are used to being just that--consumers. They go around making simple transactions, buying products from producers. But in the TV "transaction", the viewer is not the consumer at all. The ad purchaser is the consumer, and the viewer is the product. Few consumers can wrap their heads around the fact that they are the product, not the consumer.
This is why the networks care about the viewers in about the same way the butcher cares about the cattle he slaughters. He wants to make the steak look nice, just like the networks want to make their viewing demographics look nice. This is why you see so much airtime given to the JonBenet Ramseys of the world. Not because JonBenet was so important, interesting, or compelling. It's because of the disposable income of the demographic of the viewer who will watch the story.
Isn't the idea of being a nonprofit, you know, I mean, like, not getting rich?
Thank you for reminding me why I never respond to ACs. ;)
Perhaps I am behind the times. What is a minicity link? I found myminicity using google, but what, does he get a referral bonus for people clicking or something? Or is it a shock site?
Just curious.
Very insightful!!!11oneone
Well, hopefully you aren't doing too much downloading of Debian .isos after the initial download because you should be upgrading using apt.
Anyhow, I've downloaded many legitimate files via bittorrent. Openoffice.org, knoppmyth, and eclipse come to mind. And yes, even Debian once. It just happens to be a very efficient way to download large files. Kind of, like, you know, what it was designed to be.
I'm not going to put my hand over my eyes and pretend that most bittorrent traffic is legit, obviously. I'm just saying that whenever I want to download a large file, I'm thankful to have the option of using bittorrent.
Let me get this straight. You are complaining about obnoxious brats, yet you actually use the term "crotchfruit"?
Your parents failed you, it seems.
Tourism fell after 9/11/2001. Hopefully you can figure out why. It has been steadily climbing since, and 2006 was the first year in which international tourism has increased beyond pre-9/11 numbers.
But please don't let the facts get in the way of your argument.
Personally, I think that policy is fucking nuts, and I've got two kids. Every so often, you read in the papers about some parent who flies off the handle and injures his child, but does not seek medical attention for the child because the doctor is required to report the abuse, and parent doesn't want to go to jail. So the child suffers or ultimately dies, depending on the extent of the abuse, in a manner that was completely preventable if doctors were required to just render medical care and not act as agents of the state.
Marijuana "addiction" is more like sex "addiction", or potato chips "addiction". Sure, there are no withdrawal symptoms, but that doesn't stop people from their compulsive behavior.
I know plenty of people who had to go to group therapy in order to stop smoking up compulsively. There is more to compulsive behavior than withdrawal symptoms.
As for me, I used to smoke occasionally as well, and quit cold turkey when I got bored of it. I've never had a craving either, but I've seen its effects on others. You are definitely understating it.
Experienced teachers are already paid pretty well. Everyone who complains about teacher salaries is complaining about starting teacher salaries.
The biggest reason for the teacher shortage is not a lack of qualified people who want to teach, it's the degrading, morale-busting treatment that they get from their administrations.
If you would have stuck around, you could have learned how to do your work using only 2 lines of perl.
Which linux distros have no/minimal ports open by default? I don't really pay attention, because I've never put an unupdated Linux box on the open Internet, but I'd be curious to know.
As other have pointed out, XP/SP2 has the personal firewall enabled by default.
No one is denying that being an effective teacher is nontrivial. The point of the quote is to express exasperation with the dearth of effective teachers.
Even if they could, I wouldn't want them to. I remember the dot.com days of huge salaries attracting a tidalwave of incompetent buffoons to the profession. We can't afford to have that happen with teachers.
Sorry if your mortgage servicer doesn't like that answer.
Was that reply meant for me?
I was talking about the availability of IP logs, not the utility. I don't think the judge really cares about banning users by username or IP.
Instead of complying, they posted a bunch of misleading blog entries about how the judge was an idiot for asking them to log RAM. Well, they aren't laughing anymore now, are they.
According to TFA, they actually did keep IP logs and had them when the discovery process started. It was only then that TorrentSpy decided to quit logging and delete old logs.
I'm sorry, but that is destruction of evidence, and it is little wonder that they were sanctioned for it. TS left the judge no choice.
The problem with TorrentSpy, is that other admins knew that the log files used to be there but the logs went poof-gone! and they testified as such. So if only one admin knew of the logs, and he wanted to rm -rf them, he probably could have gotten away with "Logs? We don't keep logs. We never kept logs."
As it was, the admins tried destroy evidence, but they did a slipshod job trying to cover it up. I mean, discussing it in public forums? Great idea.
As a parent, I'll let you know that by middle school, that My Way or Detention attitude loses its sway but quick. For older students, respect is earned.
Perhaps the "Bus. Ed. Career Project Teacher" would have more luck in early-elementary education, where Respect Me Because I'm a Grown-Up And You're Not actually works.