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Journal Journal: Legal pot will have a big problem 1

It will have virtually no market value whatsoever. The only reason the profit margins are so high is due to its prohibition. The market demands scarcity. Prohibition provides exactly that. So, is the government going to continue spending millions on the eradication of wild plants? And unlike any other drug we consume, it requires almost no infrastructure to cultivate and process. Look, it's a weed, dammit! It will grow almost anywhere. Who's going to invest in a huge distribution network that will never be needed when all I have to do is throw some seeds onto the ground? There will be a small market for the "kind" brands, but those seeds will spread also. Those expecting a tax base from this will be greatly disappointed. The only way it will take off is if Monsanto can pollute the world with "terminator" seeds. This is indeed a possibility, given their history.

Star Wars Prequels

Journal Journal: Dom? Who? What?

Dom sets out, with Hrsh-Hgn (his tutor, a swamp-dwelling phnobe), Isaac (his robot Man Friday) and Ig (his pet swamp ig) in tow, on a picaresque adventure to find the Jokers' world....

Transportation

Journal Journal: Denied!

Obama "killed" the Z28! To think, there's only Ford and...Chrysler. What's to become of us?

Well Damn, GM! Why don't you make the thing into an electric like some kind of Van de Graaff/Tesla hybrid thing. And if you wanna make lots of cool car noises, you can put speakers and make good use of that 10,000 watt stereo you got there. Don't forget the decals and lights. They'll make it go twice as fast.

User Journal

Journal Journal: Bagged one! My first...

Should I mount it on the wall? Or make it into a rug?

Looks like journaland is much more exciting than genpop. Welp, time to gas up the landrover and head back out to the savanna.

Spam

Journal Journal: Attention Slashdot Shoppers

Please stop spamming us with your amazon(and other product placements) links in your posts. Not all of us have bank accounts, much less credit cards. Information that we can't access is absolutely useless. And makes your posts even more so.

Clean up in Aisle 8...

The Military

Journal Journal: Surrender Monkeys?

Yeah, right!

France is the only country so far to have intervened successfully for attacked yachts, having used commando type operations to release two previous yachts without any loss of life of the hostages. - emphasis mine

And the container ship companies are saying that liability insurance for arming their crews is more expensive than the ransom they pay out. Personally I think they have found some political advantage to playing the helpless "victim". I haven't figured out their game yet, but something's afoot. Since when has the right to protect yourself from real threats, as opposed to the phony ones the Americans dream up, become such political fodder? Christ! If someone is shooting at you, shoot back! I suppose I should check into who's hiring the pirates, but that doesn't mean that people shouldn't defend themselves in the meantime. Politics is weird.

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