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by rick888 16y ago
It sounds good in theory: the more eyes there are on the code, the less bugs there will be in the future. The reality is that a good percentage of the people using the app will never actually fix or report any bugs (or even look at the sour
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by rick888 16y ago
This is why I will never vote for the legalization of MJ. Proponents will never admit that there are negative effects of the drug and when someone tries to mention it, they are immediately attacked and silenced. A very small percentage of
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by rick888 16y ago
"I'm just trying to find out if it coffee makes me more anxious, but right now I'm just sleepier." I quit caffeine a year ago and I went through the same symptoms. I slept for 10 hours a night for 3 or 4 days and then my sleep cycle went b
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by rick888 16y ago
"I'm not advocating any kid or anyone try anything or be told they should. I'm advocating a policy of drug legalization based on facts, not fear or the assumed "common sense" of the current prevailing religious hedegmony. In any case you ar
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by rick888 16y ago
it's the entitlement defense. He feels that it's his right to watch the movie in any way that he sees fit and because it's so easy to just download it, there isn't much incentive to wait for it to come out on legally.
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by rick888 16y ago
similarly. if you create the best web app on earth, but don't spend any time marketing it and nobody sees it, chances are it will fail.
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by rick888 16y ago
"This is not what is meant by legalization. There would not be a black market because doctors would not prescribe these drugs, you would be able to buy them at your local, licensed convenience store (with proof of ID)." The community kind o
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by rick888 16y ago
"You must be a heck of an outlier." Haha, the beauty of NOT smoking pot and fucking up your life.
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by rick888 16y ago
I love the bias on HN. Anyone that has anything negative to say about your precious weed gets down voted. If you really believe in this, you need to come to terms with the fact that there are negative health effects to smoking weed.
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by rick888 16y ago
"The real argument is, "If we believe something is benign enough to make partaking in it legal, it is yellow-bellied inconsistency to make providing it illegal."" Most of the proponents will never admit that smoking pot has adverse health e
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by rick888 16y ago
"Tough love is not generally the first step, and every single case is different and must be treated as such. Please remember this." If you look at any documentary about addicts (or hear real doctors talking about it), it's the step families
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by rick888 16y ago
"Perhaps, dear sir, you could recognize that there is an entire spectrum of possibility that falls outside of the choices "coddle them" and "stomp on their necks with boots until they stop"." The only way people ever stop is when they hit "
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by rick888 16y ago
Tell that to the gangs in Mexico and the Philippines. I have a feeling that if drugs were legalized, and these did increase, proponents would blame it on something else.
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by rick888 16y ago
"f you're using Vicodins legal status (requires prescription) as a comparison then pot and cocaine are already legal." Right..so why fight for other forms of it then? Also, it didn't stop people from selling it on the black market (like so
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by rick888 16y ago
"P.S. My comment about corruption was not meant to address the "corruption" of individuals who join gangs, rather it was meant to describe the corruption of the criminal justice system, society, and the political process that prohibitions c
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by rick888 16y ago
"Nope. There are many other possibilities. The law could be that bad, but enforcement could be inconsistent. The law could be that bad, but certain classes might be relatively immune. And so on." Nope. Intervention is on national televisio
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by rick888 16y ago
"In school we were told of the many supposedly devastating effects marijuana use had but I see now that was clearly a misinformation campaign designed only to scare us from trying it." It's not a good idea for any kid to try marijuana. It'
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by rick888 16y ago
"Smoking cigarettes?" If it means you will be blowing smoke around and potentially having a negative effect on me or my family, lots. "Being HIV positive" If you don't tell your partners and spread it around, it could have devastating effec
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by rick888 16y ago
"Just make sure all the dangerous stuff can only be administered in licensed venues by trained professionals." Has that stopped dealers from selling Vicodin? Extacy was also legal at one point and it didn't stop anyone from using it as a c
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by rick888 16y ago
"Look at the history of opium as well." You mean the fact that it was legal in China about 500 years ago and it nearly created an entire country of addicts? Vicodin (another form of heroin) is legal, yet there is still a black market for it
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by rick888 16y ago
"That distinction has become meaningless. Anyone who gets caught with more than the "intent to distribute" threshold (which apparently isn't a lot) is simply presumed to be a dealer." It's more than just quantity: "Anyway, several things c
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by rick888 16y ago
"Legalization should go hand-in-hand with education and healthcare reform. If you get those elements right, you'll have a much more functioning society. Fewer drunk drivers, fewer overdoses, and no drug cartels to speak of." What healthcare
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by rick888 16y ago
"Consider how many people are stuck in cages for no good reason over this. If some organization other than the government were kidnapping that many people, solving that problem would be a high priority." Consider how much money the governme
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by rick888 16y ago
"They would not be able to compete with regular businesses if the price weren't artificially high due to prohibition. We stopped seeing gangsters like Al Capone in the liquor business when Prohibition ended." If we make all drugs legal and
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by rick888 16y ago
"But you are paying, for drug enforcement and imprisonment. Plus increased taxation, because people who are incarcerated generally aren't working steady jobs, but are stamping licence plates or something stupid like that." Generally, those
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by rick888 16y ago
"I think that people who think this way tend to smoke pot, not the other way around. There are plenty of fully functional pot smokers without conspiracy theories." Smoking pot makes many people paranoid. This is fact. It's not that far of
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by rick888 16y ago
"Personally, I think the solution is to legalize all drugs, and to put the money that we're spending on the war on drugs into medical treatment and education. It's obviously a difficult situation, but I'm glad to see that we're making progr
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by rick888 16y ago
"If you want to fix the alcoholic parent problem, create a society that reacts to them in a compassionate manner instead of throwing people in prison." Why, so we can continue to enable them? If you coddle someone and are compassionate, pe
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by rick888 16y ago
"If someone wants to buy marijuana, then it only makes sense for there to be someone who sells it. Otherwise you still have a problem." Should we legalize child porn (there is a demand)? There are many things that have demand, but shouldn't
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by rick888 16y ago
"Compassion and understanding and freedom will lead to a better world. Prisons and prohibition perpetuate suffering." I'm all for drug legalization as long as I, as a taxpayer don't ever have to pay (if we do ever have a public health care

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