People think this is funny because it's disgusting, no it's funny because it's like mitt romney saying he'll bet $10k in cash on a whim.
You might want to re-calibrate your worldview. Talking about gamers smoking pot isn't "demonizing." Ooooh scary drug use.
I personally know a few people who have been busted for possession and it's going to be on their criminal record for the rest of their lives. Heck, even having a stoner friend accidentally leave a tiny "baggie" in your car can easily turn into an expensive legal nightmare if a cop notices it before you do. The "world view" may be different but here in the USA, there's still a war on drugs here and the law will happily fuck your life up without giving it a second thought.
You also just lumped those of us who enjoy marijuana in with murderers and rapists. Are you trolling, or just really sheltered?
You missed the entire "correlation does not imply causation" point behind that statement. By the way, I don't see any tigers here, so my iPhone must be working great!
Could it be the case that playing video games are simply the most likely recreational activity a stoner is going to feel motivated enough to perform? Honestly, how many people get stoned and then go hiking, running, playing football or whatever?
It's bad enough that some people believe video games cause violent behavior, but now drug use too? Next we'll be demonizing food, since every murderer, stoner and rapist ate food regularly during their lives.
Couldn't they just centrifuge death row convicts off this mortal coil? Supposedly, it's fun like a theme park ride, right up until you pass out and die from lack of blood flow to the brain. The only change they'd have to make to go from "fighter pilot training" to "execution" is to stay at maximum speed until the condemned is dead.
Nothing motivates sales of electric vehicles quite like the promise of expensive gasoline. Time to invest in Tesla stock, mark my words.
The students who excel at math will go on to become engineers, scientists, statisticians, etc. and the ones who sit in class all day drooling will get a job digging ditches. You want to see the average math scores go up? Let kids who hate math choose between a trade or college bound course schedule for highschool. God forbid parents actually admit their special little flower isn't college material.
I've often wondered why the public education system spends four years hammering this shit into people who have no interest in learning it. Replace it with one class explaining how you do math on an iPad, should the need arise and that's good enough. Sure, there's always the argument that if society goes to hell in a handbasket that there won't be iPads around to do math on, but let's be realistic - in a hypothetical post-apocalyptic zombie ravaged wasteland, basic survival skills will be more useful than being able to solve a quadratic equation in your head. Last I checked, they still don't teach marksmanship, water purification, shelter construction and gardening in public school, so they're clearly not worried about what would happen in a world where every computer suddenly disappeared.
Is the FBI really turning away applicants that, aside from being potheads, meet all the mental and physical requirements? Every pothead I've ever known could barely hold a job, wasn't in the best of shape and didn't think highly of law enforcement. Sure, that's just my anecdotal evidence, but it logically stands to reason that if you're successful and in decent physical condition, you probably prefer real world outdoor stimulus over getting high, sitting on dirty couch, playing Xbox and stuffing your face full of cheesy poofs.
Fuck plot, let's move the camera so much that the audience gets motion sickness!
Every Hollywood blockbuster is going to follow the same basic formula because that's what sells tickets. Rehashing The Hero's Journey isn't exactly new, either.
Disney didn't buy the rights to Star Wars so they could make a 3 hour space opera - they are making a Summer blockbuster to get a return on their investment. You can be sure that means a Hero's Journey based plot and lots of explosions. If you think that looks like shit, no one's forcing you to watch it. No one's taking away the multitude of indie movies where the characters swear at each other for two hours and everyone dies from AIDS at the end.
On the other hand, "shaky camera" needs to die and never come back. JJ Abrams and Michael Bay both should be locked in a room and forced to watch portrait video shot on an iPhone by a hyperactive 6-year-old until they learn the value of proper camera work.
And that's being generous as hell, because I remember a 1995 big mac and it puts today's cheap piece of crap to shame.
Also don't forget to look at the monetary base: http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/04.11/images/stl-monetary-base.jpg
Ok you don't like gold, let's try something simlar to your items.
In other words the dollar has lost 50% of it's purchasing power.
If a 6600 used paper tape instead of core memory, it would use up tape at about 30 miles/second. -- Grishman, Assembly Language Programming
