Except Obama's universal health care system just subsidizes insurance. So you end up with all the problems of crappy insurance companies, COMBINED with all the problems of universal health care. It's really a terrible plan if you stop and think about it.

Originally posted by Gorair

Originally posted by Draq

Clearly we really aren't free. We are, in fact, ridiculously expensive. That's why I'm voting for Obama, so I can get someone else willing to work harder to insure myself against damage.

 

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Being born into fortune and letting interest accumulate isn't work.

I don't see why trickle up economics is any less valid than trickle down.

Originally posted by Tyres100

This will ultimately give us another Republican for Pres again because of this elitist asshole called Obama. He is so stupid now that I think about it he is a George in disguise.

Wouldn't that mean he'd win?

Clearly we really aren't free. We are, in fact, ridiculously expensive. That's why I'm voting for Obama, so I can insure myself against damage.

 I make about $35,000 a year. I would prefer to save $872 instead of $113, given the choice. That's of course using the logic of ME ME ME ME ME ME ME. I'll wait until I'm a multimillionaire before voting for another bush tax cut.

From a point of view that requires a functioning brain cell, Obama gives 60% of Americans a significant increase in available capital (to stimulate the economy) at the expense of the top 1% of taxpayers while at the same time keeping the government's tax income at a level suitable to support the war on terror. This is what leadership is about. It's not about making everyone happy (because you can't), it's about knowing who to throw into the volcano when the time comes.

Originally posted by xDarc

How did drilling even become an issue?

It's estimated that at best we'd be able to get about 3 billion barrels of oil by 2030.  As we use somewhere around 20 million barrels a day that would last of all of 3 years.  Well whoop-dee-shit.

It's as pointless as corn ethanol.

FIFY. Corn ethanol is a waste, and is only supported by lobbyists for Big Corn, but ethanol from other sources such as hemp and soybeans can produce significantly higher yields without crippling livestock farmers.

Agreed. MMO companies need to learn that gamers want more than just killing in a game.

It's a beautiful game with great sound, it just isn't any fun to play. It seriously took me 2 hours to get a class.  And because they haven't imped such simple concepts as wasd movement or click and hold movement, that's 2 straight hours of clickspam.  The non-skippable tutorial even requires random drops, which is a huge NO because nobody wants to go through a tutorial, ever.  And there' s no excuse, even in an open beta (which asian imports can barely even count as considering the product has already been created and released in at least one other region) for the client crashing when you add a skill, or for areas not even loading. Oh yeah, and the auction house either doesn't work or requires the other person to be signed on. Which is dumb.

Anyway that's it for my review.

Well now that's getting into a whole new topic. Let's get to the heart of it. Before anyone argues why pot should be illegal, attempt to finish this sentence:

"But alcohol doesn't/isn't..."

Where the end of that sentence would be some reason why pot should be illegal.

The fact remains though, no matter what's right or wrong, it's a crime to sell or possess (but not use, interstingly enough) marijuana now. And I somehow doubt she was on some kind of moral crusade against the ebil government.

Honestly if it were up to me, I'd burn all the tobacco fields, lock up all the smokers and kick them in the nuts til they stopped craving nicotine. There are just so many things that land could be better used for. Tobacco is just a horrible product that should never have been made and serves no useful purpose. And yet...it's legal. Even if all the same things can be said about marijuana, why isn't it legal?

Dark Elves are just black guys who happen to also be Elves.

I'm waiting for an MMO to make "Black Guy" a race.

Pot contains THC and tar. Pot smokers ingest 3-5 times the amount of tar and carbon monoxide than regular tobacco smokers. Probably because they hold the smoke in their lungs for a while.

Yeah that's PROBABLY it. Sorry but I don't buy "probably". Get back to me when you're damn sure.

 

Sorry, but it is a drug, a gateway drug at that, and part of the disgusting and destructive drug culture.

Gateway drugs are a myth. People will only go as far down the rabbit hole as THEY want. smoking a joint every now and again, or growing a few plants out of your basement isn't normally going to lead to working for Columbian drug cartels. You might as well say the exact same thing about alcohol. Except that doesn't lead to anything different, just more alcohol. And guess what? That's legal.

 

Actually according to the OP she got caught with hard drugs too. She wasn't some harmless pot smoking hippie. If you get anything from this article it should be that. She was clearly in over her head.

Six pills doesn't count for anything and you know it. She probably bought those for personal use.



To be clear, I don't really care about this girl. I didn't know her, I could give a crap what the circumstances are. I'm just trying to clear some of the ignorance about marijuana out of here, cause god knows DARE loves to spread it to everyone they can.

 

The goverment can use YOUR cell phone, ANY cell phone, to listen in on everything nearby.

"Everything nearby" meaning "My balls". Because unless there's a secret microphone 100x more powerful than the one I use to talk, that's all they're going to hear. Also why are you watching Fox News? Shame on you. This is old news, and also, NOT every cell phone: http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/cell_phones/ . You should be more worried about those subcutaneus tracking chips they're implanting in everyone at birth.

Originally posted by Gazenthia

 

Um, she was a drug dealer, doing what she usually did. Drug dealers kill each other and innocent people all the time[/b]. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.

 

No. Bad monkey. Stop that.

This was POT. And clearly a small amount of it. She was small time, just making some cash on the side. Pot isn't something people typically get killed over, because just about every dealer is small time. It's something you can easily grow in your basement, it' s not addictive, and people aren't usually killing eachother to get their next hit. It's a world away from harder drugs like coke.
 

I have a brother who smokes pot for over 14 years now.....he looks like shit.

And you're either ignorant or a bad liar. Likely both. I had a roommate who smoked more pot in a day then you'll ever see and has been doing it for the past 5 years. He's in better shape than I am. Pot contains no nicotine, so that automatically makes it less dangerous in that it's not addictive. You also smoke much less of it to feel the effect, so the basic smoke inhalation risks are about the same as standing in line at a barbeque. There are no additives (unless you've got a bad dealer who "enhances" their goods), no tar, and no link to any sort of smoker's disease.

In conclusion, please learn wtf you're talking about before spewing crap all over the internet.

This topic makes me sad. Why have none of you mentioned...

1.  Mega Man 9
2.  Hero's Journey
3.  Tales of Vesperia
4.  Armored Core For Answer
5.  Dragon Quest 9
6.  Dragon Quest 4 DS
7.  Disgaea 3
8.  Mana Khemia 2
9. Smash Bros 4 (You know they're gonna make one)
10. Sonic Unleashed

Naught means Zero.

Now hold on. Before we take your word as canon, who are you, why should we believe you, and what 'talks with simu' are you talking about?

Maybe they're waiting for  Aeroones.

I was going to say "because he isn't black enough" but that'll do too.

He's also a well known techno artist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cZC67wXUTs&feature=related

Yeah I'm curious about alcohol too. Of course I just found out today the hard way that a diet will make you far more vulnerable to the affects of alcohol. Rather embarrassing I can get drunk after only 4 shots of vodka. But does the occasional shot or five have a significant impact on your fitness goals?