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From: T Wake on 30 Nov 2006 12:42 "Ken Smith" <kensmith(a)green.rahul.net> wrote in message news:ekmr3e$prs$1(a)blue.rahul.net... > In article <6f64d$456af1d5$4fe771a$31908(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, > unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > [...] >>The druggie problem is usually a dual one. The largest >>percentage resort to crime to acquire the funds with >>which to purchase. Long term incarceration tends to reduce >>the crime rate. > > This could be an argument for simply giving them the drugs. It would be a > lot cheap than jail. A few countries have tried this and as far as I know > the sky hasn't fallen. > > [...] > >>This is one realm where studies help. The government used to >>put out a triennial report on drug addiction. I haven't seen >>the last two or three. > > I think after saying "it isn't getting any better" many times they got > bored. There does seem to be a trade of roles in terms of which drug is > the worst. I used to claim that you could tell where the CIA was up to > something by looking at which drug got declared the worst problem. I > can't make crystal methamphetamine fit the theory so maybe it was just > coincidence. > Depends if you have a tinfoil hat on at the time :-)
From: T Wake on 30 Nov 2006 12:45 "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message news:a653d$456f0f75$49ecf2e$29962(a)DIALUPUSA.NET... > Lloyd Parker wrote: >> In article <95d74$456dc13c$4fe7752$20089(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, >> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >> >>>Lloyd Parker wrote: >>> >>> >>>>In article <485af$456c7009$4fe7665$9791(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, >>>> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Lloyd Parker wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>In article <ekhdog$8qk_001(a)s1016.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, >>>>>> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>>>But again, what you get doesn't depend on your ability to pay. >>>>> >>>>>>>Huh? >>>>> >>>>>>In a pure socialistic system, you'd receive what you need without >>>>>>regards >>>> >>>>to >>>> >>>>>>ability to pay, right? That's how the military works. >>>>> >>>>>In the military physical performance is required and >>>>>routinely tested. Inability to perform results in >>>>>separation. >>>> >>>> >>>>But you get ahead without regard to wealth. Your ability to pay doesn't >>>>affect your advancement, as it does with a capitalistic system. >>> >>>Performance is the only currency deciding advancement, >>>which isn't socialist at all. >> >> >> Sure it is. > > Nope. > >> While everyone gets what they need to stay alive and healthy, the best >> advance. > > That's no advance, that's status qou. > >> However, wealth isn't a consideration in advancement as it is under >> capitalism. > > If a soldier has a heart attack they're discharged from > military service. Under socialism they'd be cared for and > returned to duty, lighter duty as necessary. The US military retains the services of soldiers who are wounded or injured (obviously depending on the severity of the injury). Most western militaries have a variety of light duties states in which ill, injured, recovering (etc) soldiers can carry out tasks.
From: T Wake on 30 Nov 2006 12:47 <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:ekmifn$8ss_002(a)s886.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <MPG.1fd79bef70af1ed3989d3d(a)news.individual.net>, > krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote: > <snip> > >>It's not a "3" it's "=3F" (the code-point for the apostrophe). I'm >>not sure what I did (it just happened recently). If someone has an >>idea how to fix it I certainly will! > > Did your system get hexed? Maybe sacrificing a chicken will change the codepage...
From: unsettled on 30 Nov 2006 14:05 T Wake wrote: > "Ken Smith" <kensmith(a)green.rahul.net> wrote in message > news:ekmr3e$prs$1(a)blue.rahul.net... > >>In article <6f64d$456af1d5$4fe771a$31908(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, >>unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >>[...] >> >>>The druggie problem is usually a dual one. The largest >>>percentage resort to crime to acquire the funds with >>>which to purchase. Long term incarceration tends to reduce >>>the crime rate. >> >>This could be an argument for simply giving them the drugs. It would be a >>lot cheap than jail. A few countries have tried this and as far as I know >>the sky hasn't fallen. >> >>[...] >> >> >>>This is one realm where studies help. The government used to >>>put out a triennial report on drug addiction. I haven't seen >>>the last two or three. >> >>I think after saying "it isn't getting any better" many times they got >>bored. There does seem to be a trade of roles in terms of which drug is >>the worst. I used to claim that you could tell where the CIA was up to >>something by looking at which drug got declared the worst problem. I >>can't make crystal methamphetamine fit the theory so maybe it was just >>coincidence. >> > > > Depends if you have a tinfoil hat on at the time :-) He missed the fact that meth labs are generally local so the CIA doesn't have any involvement. News reports today says that Meth has become more of a problem on the US eastern seaboard. It used to be predominantly a midwestern and western US problem. There's a case to be made for the CIA historically having involved themselves in illegal activies in other countries. We don't know for a fact its true or not, but there was some pretty substantial evidence for it at one time.
From: mmeron on 30 Nov 2006 14:07
In article <ekmi15$8ss_001(a)s886.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com writes: >In article <cknbh.6$45.98(a)news.uchicago.edu>, mmeron(a)cars3.uchicago.edu wrote: >>In article <MPG.1fd798efddba3542989d3c(a)news.individual.net>, krw ><krw(a)att.bizzzz> writes: >>>In article <456DB20A.590A3EF1(a)hotmail.com>, >>>rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says... >>>> >>>> >>>> unsettled wrote: >>>> >>>> > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>>> > > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> > > >>>> > >>You simply can't make these analogies with small start ups. >>>> > > >>>> > > How do you think the large companies got started? >>>> > > >>>> > > It occurred to belatedly that you are a teenaged boy. That >>>> > > would explain a lot of the bizarre things you have written >>>> > > and your ignornance of how stuff works. >>>> > >>>> > "On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the Wright Flyer >>>> > became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve >>>> > controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard." >>>> > >>>> > http://www.nasm.si.edu/wrightbrothers/ >>>> > >>>> > Small start up company. >>>> >>>> I'd like to see that happen now ! >>> >>>Google? >>> >>Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, Marth Stewart, Pixar, ... >> >>Would be interesting to go over the list of Fortune 500 companies and >>find how many didn't even exist 30 years ago. > >It would also be interesting to go over that list and see >if those, who were listed, are still in the same business >and if they have acquired other kinds of businesses. > Yes, of course. Mati Meron | "When you argue with a fool, meron(a)cars.uchicago.edu | chances are he is doing just the same" |