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response 180 of 230:
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Sep 10 16:06 UTC 2003 |
<chuckle>
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flem
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response 181 of 230:
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Sep 10 16:43 UTC 2003 |
If you really think that sales of (insert your drug of choice here) help
suppoort terrorism, here's something you can do to help foil those nasty
terrorists: Work towards legalization. Seriously, if marijuana were legal
in the US, you can bet that completely legitimate corporations would drop the
bottom out of the market and terrorists wouldn't make any money from it any
more.
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bru
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response 182 of 230:
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Sep 10 17:11 UTC 2003 |
yeah! then all we gotta do is hire more cops and arrest those who drive under
the influence.
Why is it the same people who promote drug use get all paranoid at the idea
of a government supplied drug like soma...
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flem
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response 183 of 230:
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Sep 10 17:16 UTC 2003 |
Maybe we could retask some of those cops who search cars for drugs at the
border.
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happyboy
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response 184 of 230:
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Sep 10 17:44 UTC 2003 |
bruse, you are an idiot. the computer industry does more to
(unwittingly) support terrorism than all of the potgrowing
crackers up in b.c. combined do...if you are really against the
support of terrorist groups you, and you alone, should stop
using a computer.
take a bath, smelly christian.
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lynne
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response 185 of 230:
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Sep 10 17:45 UTC 2003 |
Huh? I've never heard of soma. And I've particularly never heard someone
on this system getting all paranoid about it. Anyway, if your main argument
is needing to arrest more people that are driving under the influence, then
you're *really* grasping at straws.
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tpryan
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response 186 of 230:
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Sep 10 17:50 UTC 2003 |
What about Toledo Windowbox or Cheddar WoWWie? Homegrown
helping someone whose job was taken away by a foriegn job.
So....
Bussinesses that use overseas labor (service or manufactoring)
are supporting terrorism!
(Is this still the humor item?)
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happyboy
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response 187 of 230:
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Sep 10 18:00 UTC 2003 |
yeah...but it's no longer *funny ha-ha*
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carson
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response 188 of 230:
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Sep 10 18:02 UTC 2003 |
[(it never was the humor item.)]
re #185: (soma is a muscle relaxant.)
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goose
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response 189 of 230:
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Sep 10 19:38 UTC 2003 |
We really should move this to another item....but I'm still waiting for that
evidence Bruce.
On topic: I saw user cme, Evan Corcoran, over the weekend. We were going to
hook up with tod, but no one had a car to get anywhere. He;s on his way back
to Poland in less than a week. Seattle was sunny, not a drop of rain the
whole time I was there...until I got on the plane to return home....
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bru
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response 190 of 230:
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Sep 10 20:55 UTC 2003 |
sorry cannot hand you the proof. Ypu will have to go look it up yourself if
you cannot accept my word.
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anderyn
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response 191 of 230:
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Sep 10 21:18 UTC 2003 |
In defense of Bruce's, ah, oddly-formatted text, I must say that part of it
is due to our equipment at home -- it's often not easy to see if you've erased
far enough back or if what you've typed actually is appearing the way you want
it to. I have real trouble with that, myself, and I am hyper-vigilant about
typos and oddly-formatted text, because of my job (and I've fixed about twelve
typos in this post alone, which I could not have done if I were at home --
I have fat fingers and type faster than I can see, anyhow...)...
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scott
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response 192 of 230:
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Sep 10 21:32 UTC 2003 |
(Soma is more well-known as the official drug of the city folks in "Brave New
World")
My understanding of marijuana is that it does not significantly worsen driving
skills.
Combat terrorism by reducing oil use! Every SUV driven sends movey through
Saudi Arabia to Osama himself.
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lynne
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response 193 of 230:
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Sep 10 22:00 UTC 2003 |
I've never noticed significant typos in anderyn's post. They're a standing
theme in bru's.
I have a lot of new freckles from slightly excessive sun exposure in
Yellowstone last week (not sure how that happened, as I was wearing SPF 45).
Do I count as a spotted grexer? :)
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happyboy
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response 194 of 230:
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Sep 10 23:03 UTC 2003 |
re190: liar, you are a liar.
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jaklumen
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response 195 of 230:
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Sep 11 01:38 UTC 2003 |
um, I spotted no grexers today. Yeah.
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gull
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response 196 of 230:
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Sep 11 02:40 UTC 2003 |
Re #172: Yes, buying pot supports those nasty terrorists in British
Columbia...
Re #184: I dunno, about the computer industry, but I'd say you support
terrorism much more directly by buying gas than you do by buying drugs.
Re #185: I'd take the DUI argument more seriously if I'd ever seen bru
arguing for banning alcohol. (Or at least bars with parking lots.)
Re #194: I suspect DEA anti-drug commercial soundbites like "pot pays for
terrorism" are drilled into the heads of border agents as part of their
training. It keeps them from thinking about the fact that the majority of
their job is to benefit U.S. corporations by propping up artificially high
prices for various commercial items through enforcing tarrifs and
restricting imports.
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dah
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response 197 of 230:
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Sep 11 02:45 UTC 2003 |
I went to two bars in Montreal, and neither of them had parking lots, and it's
not like I did much drinking! Ahaha. not even any at one!
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slynne
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response 198 of 230:
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Sep 11 02:53 UTC 2003 |
my pot supplier? His name is God. He grows it himself or so I hear. ;)
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slynne
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response 199 of 230:
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Sep 11 02:56 UTC 2003 |
I do have a funny pot story though. Years ago when I was in college, I
lived right next to the bridge to Canada in Sault Ste Marie. There was
a huge fence around the land under the bridge so folks couldnt sneak up
onto the bridge. On that land, out of reach naturally, was a big giant
pot plant. I wish I had taken a picture. I guess someone must have
chucked their weed off the side of the bridge or something.
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bru
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response 200 of 230:
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Sep 11 02:57 UTC 2003 |
Alcohol is legal.
Not being a border agent, I do not know what gets drilled into their heads.
Customs officers don't get any indoctrination, we get training, adn we get
to use our own heads. Import specialist get to worry about propping up u.s.
corporations, All I get to do is enforce the laws at the border.
I don't make the laws.
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dah
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response 201 of 230:
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Sep 11 03:08 UTC 2003 |
But you use your head.
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gull
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response 202 of 230:
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Sep 11 03:58 UTC 2003 |
Re #200:
> Customs officers don't get any indoctrination, we get training, adn we get
> to use our own heads. Import specialist get to worry about propping up
u.s.
> corporations, All I get to do is enforce the laws at the border.
The effect of enforcing those laws is still the same, though. And it's easy
to see that the priorities are skewed to provide maximum benefit to
corporations. Hundreds of illegal immigrants get into the U.S. every day to
provide cheap labor, but try to bring too much of some grocery item across
the border and you get nailed. I expect soon bringing prescription drugs
across the border will become illegal, to prop up high U.S. drug prices, as
well.
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scg
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response 203 of 230:
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Sep 11 04:12 UTC 2003 |
Wait a minute, so legalizing pot would be bad because extra police resources
(presumably not freed up by not having to bust non-driving pot smokers) would
be needed to bust stoned drivers, but alcohol being legal isn't bad because
alcohol is legal?
It's certainly possible to have an extremely simplistic moral code and believe
that what's illegal is wrong and what's legal is ok, but deciding what should
be legal or illegal requires a bit more thought than that.
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bru
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response 204 of 230:
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Sep 11 12:14 UTC 2003 |
Legalizing pot would make my job easier. But while we have one legal drug
that causes thousands of deaths and injuries each year, why do you think
adding another would make things better?
If I ruled the world, anyone caught drunk driving would get a ban on driving
for life. The problem with all drugs, and I do mean ALL drugs, is that they
reduce your ability to make rational decisions. They give you an excuse when
you make a mistake. "Hey, sorry dude. I was stoned." (drunk, high, wasted...
take your pick.) You rationalize the result.
We cannot eliminate all drugs, but lets trynot to create another legal
loophole.
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