Logically, if tobacco and alcohol are legal, there’s no health-related reason for marijuana to be illegal. Both alcohol and weed impair your judgement, and both smoking tobacco and smoking weed are harmful to your lungs. Everything else about alcohol or tobacco vs weed is worse. And giving criminals easy ways to make money is a bad idea.
So, as another response said, legalize it, regulate it, tax it.
GM is also used in GURPS, but the 5 guys here who have used it already know that.
And if they want someone to join them, they can always DM me.
They’re wrong, but it happens.
I’m not sure why you would buy an open-source company/product, particularly a GPLv3 one, if you didn’t understand or agree with the premise. It’s probably the stupidest decision he made. I’m not saying I agree with his other decisions, but most of them made some kind of business sense. With this one, he would have saved a lot of time and effort and received the same value if he’d just spun OO.o off ASAP. The linked timeline kind of says it all.
You’re talking the CEO of a company who sued Google on the premise that header files, a descriptor file for what commands can be used and what parameters they took, should be copyrighted? The CEO who poisoned the OpenOffice community so thoroughly that the fork, LibreOffice, was founded by the leaders of OpenOffice and became the de facto standard instead of the original, and it happened overnight? That guy?
Which isn’t a bad philosophy if the rewards match. If they don’t, why would you do more than the minimum?
That is needlessly vague. I not only think protests should occur at some schools, notably universities, I think it should be encouraged. I don’t believe an institution occupied primarily by adults who are mostly healthy and mobile should be considered vulnerable. (No mention about whether schools included universities was in the article, but those are the only schools with Pro-Palestine protests that I heard about.) I also question whether certain streets should be precluded from protest routes, as opposed to stationary picketing, due to certain institutions being there, e.g., I’m against protests operating in front of abortion clinics for hours, but I don’t think protests about non-abortion issues should be prevented from having a march on a route that includes an abortion clinic or hospital.
Oh, I agree. “Let’s factor in this one externality on the more responsible choice while we ignore all the externalities on the alternatives.”
Road wear is a 4th power formula to weight. So for a car that weighs 1.25 times the average, it would do 2.44 times the damage. These formulas may be fair. They would be vastly different if you included the damage from burning fuel in populated areas, though.
I had a cat with similar habits, but it was always empty balloons. She’d even try to catch them out of the air. I’d try to throw it in such a way that she would have to do flips to catch it, and I did get a few full flips. This was mostly a morning game while I was lying in bed. It ended when we moved and she had access to birds instead of objects vaguely like birds. It was also way less fun for me when she would bring the dead birds to our bed.
I have to kind of laugh at the idea of a bunch of right-wing Albertans having to choose between Poilievre and Bernier. Would love to see a split vote make them both lose.
We can do a number of things, but dealing with the root causes for a number of societal issues will lead to better results than sweeping actions to stop things that are only hurting a tiny minority in any significant way.
Here’s an example. Every study that has been done shows that alcohol use causes harm. People tend to enjoy it, however, to the point where they will break the law to have it. This makes it more difficult to diagnose and treat, and provides sources of income for organized crime if we ban it. So instead, we restrict its use to adults, heavily fine people who sell to minors, provide awareness campaigns, etc. Because sometimes a simple, heavy-handed solution creates new, larger problems.
Completely off topic, but your username made me look up a Latin translation site. Joe Haldeman fan?
Ah, nice. Another step on my quest for my dream portable console. Thank you for this, and everything else you’ve shared. 🙂
That sounds like typical very formal language everywhere. I have employees calling me sir and it always throws me for a loop. I don’t think I’ve called called someone sir in my entire life. I have used ma’am when trying to get the attention of a woman I don’t know, and that’s about as formal as I’ve been.
You will still have to deal with CBP when returning to the US, just as I had to deal with CBSA when returning to Canada.
I went to the States for work (training) in 2000 with only my drivers license for ID. I had no trouble getting into the States, and had to fill out a two-page form to get back into Canada. That hasn’t been possible since 9/11. I suspect paperwork will be a much bigger issue now than it was even last year.
If you could mobilize 1000 people to achieve your goals instead of 10000 people, why would you mobilize the 10000? And if the 1000 doesn’t work, trying only costs you 10% more than not trying and then having to go with the more expensive option. And coming in before the result that would delegitimize your claim is simply pragmatic.
The same as Hitler, Trump won’t need an excuse, but why would he choose the more expensive option? Now we’re talking about Trump, so well thought out plans aren’t the norm, but he does like to save a buck…
Travel to the US has dramatically decreased, to the point where WestJet is canceling routes. I also heard somewhere of some snowbirds getting rid of their winter homes. There was one person I know who was in the medical field that sold ther Florida property and bought in Vancouver not long after the COVID pandemic began.
Just because not everyone is doing it doesn’t mean no one is doing it, or whether the impact will be significant.