I get to sleep in a little bit tomorrow... then I think I'll do some laundry and go for Pho...
I have to be at work early in order to make a conference call with all the company IT folks.
It'll be nice to hear first hand the plans and thoughts and objections to upcoming things - there are some things happening that have me somewhat skeptical, so hopefully they make more sense verbally... hopefully.
As it is they make no sense at all, and I don't like them.
Too much "all your eggs in one basket" going on for my liking. I can just hear the giant collective splat right now, and it's frightening.
It amazes me the audacity of people that think legislating against things people do is going to stop people from doing them...
pot... oral sex... abortions...
whatever.
it doesn't matter whether they're legal or not, thye'll happen. At least when they're legal you can keep them in the open (at least discussion of...), where both the actions and the consequences are much easier to control. Making something illegal doesn't stop it from happening, it simply turns your citizens into criminals - seems kind of counterproductive. Why worry about pot-heads and rape victims doing what they want with their own bodies (not saying don't worry about rape victims... saying don't force them to bear the bitter fruit of that evil, should they be victimized in that way) when prisons are too full already, and murderers need a place to stay. People who steal need a place to sleep away from society.
Take away the laws agains pot, the sex laws, several other meaningless laws that do nothing but restrict your freedom to do thing with yourself and/or a consenting partner - it'll free up a hell of a lot of prison beds currently holding people only a threat to themselves, put pot dealers out of work (as well as massively reducing their opportunities to upsell stoned people to hard drugs, which should indeed be illegal... although I think it should be mandatory for everyone to write an essay influenced by either an LSD or Psylocibin trip in order to pass high school)
Basically, organized crime would lose a very major revenue source, as well as a very large market, and government would turn a negative (black market drug abuse) into tax revenues, and mostly harmless criminals (potheads) into law abiding citizens... not to mention the serious benefits to terminal patients, victims of MS (pot has been clinically proven to reduce or reverse the physical deterioration caused by MS).
All this, and I don't touch the stuff.
Personally, I think pot sucks - but I also think it should be legal for adults to decide that for themselves, as with alcohol... and as with alcohol, it's already been proven. Prohibition is a failed concept.
Ban cigarettes... they serve no real purpose but to addict, and to relax addicts - non smokers don't need smokes to relax, because not smoking doesn's stress them out
Of course - cigarettes are a huge revenue stream for government. Huge is an understatement... hypocrites.
I have to be at work early in order to make a conference call with all the company IT folks.
It'll be nice to hear first hand the plans and thoughts and objections to upcoming things - there are some things happening that have me somewhat skeptical, so hopefully they make more sense verbally... hopefully.
As it is they make no sense at all, and I don't like them.
Too much "all your eggs in one basket" going on for my liking. I can just hear the giant collective splat right now, and it's frightening.
It amazes me the audacity of people that think legislating against things people do is going to stop people from doing them...
pot... oral sex... abortions...
whatever.
it doesn't matter whether they're legal or not, thye'll happen. At least when they're legal you can keep them in the open (at least discussion of...), where both the actions and the consequences are much easier to control. Making something illegal doesn't stop it from happening, it simply turns your citizens into criminals - seems kind of counterproductive. Why worry about pot-heads and rape victims doing what they want with their own bodies (not saying don't worry about rape victims... saying don't force them to bear the bitter fruit of that evil, should they be victimized in that way) when prisons are too full already, and murderers need a place to stay. People who steal need a place to sleep away from society.
Take away the laws agains pot, the sex laws, several other meaningless laws that do nothing but restrict your freedom to do thing with yourself and/or a consenting partner - it'll free up a hell of a lot of prison beds currently holding people only a threat to themselves, put pot dealers out of work (as well as massively reducing their opportunities to upsell stoned people to hard drugs, which should indeed be illegal... although I think it should be mandatory for everyone to write an essay influenced by either an LSD or Psylocibin trip in order to pass high school)
Basically, organized crime would lose a very major revenue source, as well as a very large market, and government would turn a negative (black market drug abuse) into tax revenues, and mostly harmless criminals (potheads) into law abiding citizens... not to mention the serious benefits to terminal patients, victims of MS (pot has been clinically proven to reduce or reverse the physical deterioration caused by MS).
All this, and I don't touch the stuff.
Personally, I think pot sucks - but I also think it should be legal for adults to decide that for themselves, as with alcohol... and as with alcohol, it's already been proven. Prohibition is a failed concept.
Ban cigarettes... they serve no real purpose but to addict, and to relax addicts - non smokers don't need smokes to relax, because not smoking doesn's stress them out
Of course - cigarettes are a huge revenue stream for government. Huge is an understatement... hypocrites.
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rin:
what's different in the walmart edition?
cuteshutterbug:
I thought you wanted a kitty?