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Comment Re:Rate of use (Score 1) 328

The argument isn't, or shouldn't be, whether alcohol consumption is worse than marijuana use for drivers. Alcohol is a legal social drug imbibed by many who choose to drive. We can all agree this has turned out poorly.

Marijuana is transforming into a legal social drug. Is it a good idea, based on this one interpretation of one study, to condone toking and driving as a safe practice?

What say you?

Comment Re:Smells like Skunk-scented Bias (Score 1) 328

The tone of the article: absorb these statistics with a grain of logic as this is not causality.

The tone of the summary: Yah! Driving stoned is safe!

The zealous presentation of the evils of alcohol (commonly understood, mind you) at the end of TFS only serves to reveal the author's bias, rather than clarify his argument. It's like arguing, "Punching someone in the nose is okay, because murdering them is so much worse."

Comment Re:Rate of use (Score 2) 328

There is a collective difference in one's ability to cope with the effects of a marijuana high as an everyday user versus that of an occasional user. The same can be said of alcohol use.

It is an impossible distinction to make when attempting to determine who is a hazard on the road under the influence, and who is not.

It is "much more difficult to get pinched smoking a doobie while driving around". Hogwash. As a regular smoker, you are probably not aware how long the smell lingers inside your vehicle and on your clothes, but you should be aware that you are quite vulnerable to random search by LEOs in your vehicle driving down the road.

Comment Smells like Skunk-scented Bias (Score 2) 328

The alcohol drink-to-intoxication levels are misleading... they appear to assume no time lapse in the consumption of alcoholic drinks. If it takes you two hours to have the four drinks, assuming your liver is in proper working order, two of those drinks are processed out of your system.

Whenever inaccuracies are reported as fact, it makes the rest of the information less credible.

FWIW, I condone neither drunk nor stoned operation of a motor vehicle. Sober drivers are distracted enough with ubiquitous cellphone use, eating and talking, putting on makeup, turning around to correct backseat children, et al.

Comment Re:Good for other things than tats? (Score 4, Funny) 164

If the macrophages do this with tattoo ink, they no doubt do it with other things, as well.

I wonder if using this cream to remove ALL the dead-macrophages-loaded-with-junk from the skin will result in effectively "younger" skin?

If your hypothesis is proven accurate, the new product will remove ink and years off your appearance.

Cha-ching!

The only pharmaceutical product imaginably more profitable would be a weight loss cream that makes your dick hard.

Comment Re:Nuclear plants don't like sudden shutdowns (Score 1) 311

Absolutely. Entergy has multiple options to power the grid, and this was a sane, safe way to react to another bout of record snowfall.

But hell, if you put it like that, there's no controversy.

FWIW, I an a big fan of renewable power generation too, but I recognize that we're not there yet for reliable grid electricity generation. The nuclear option should not be off the table.

Comment Re:Trace the Transfers? (Score 1) 131

How the hell do they get the actual money OUT?

Bypass encryption from a Country not beholden to cooperate with the U.S. Sadly, the list is growing.

Here's the craziest part of the whole story. One of these banks may not have cashed a check I had, made out to me... by my employer ... who rented office space out of the same building, simply because I was one shy of three IDs.

$Tens of millions U.S. leaves out in the night without any real-time human authentication.

Comment Is nothing Hackproof? (Score 2) 131

Is it likely that defenses employed by banks (and other market segments) will need to be downgraded to hacker-resistant in the same vein that things are now fire-resistant instead of fireproof?

It became clear to me years ago that I could only make something fool-resistant, since as soon as I imagined foolproof had been achieved, they kept making a better fool.

My takeaway: The most devilishly clever security system, devised by the most gifted programmers, in a scenario where money was no object, can still be compromised because of the human user element in the implementation of the system.

Comment Some folks are not quitters. (Score 1) 365

If the previous list of causal links to disease and the degradation of the quality of life were not enough incentive,

it seems unlikely a longer list will cause cigarette sales to plummet.

"I was okay with heart disease and lung cancer, but shit Mabel, now there claiming links to kidney and intestinal problems!"

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