They are one of those few groups who shouldn't get any healthcare at all. Even when their problem is seemingly unrelated to smoking.
same as car and motorcycle drivers, factory workers and owners, smartphone and computer users, meat and processed food consumers, etc., right?
to finish university on schedule, get a job right out of university, take up guitar and fencing, and buy a house while resisting the bank's push for me to get a bigger loan than I was comfortable with.
dear little evil, you seem very proud of all that. have my sincere compliments and keep it going. however, let it not happen that you ever wake up to see all of that squandered, disappearing, vanishing in one single unexpected turn of life. that day, however, you will understand why they called you stupid. best of lucks.
Only on Slashdot would some one compare heroin to alcohol and tobacco.
The difference is that you can use alcohol and not be addicted.
funny, because i snorted plenty of heroin and cocaine in my youth but never got addicted to it. i am, however, fully addicted to tobacco now, and not quite sure about alcohol.
the point is, casual heroin (cocaine, whatever) use without addiction is entirely possible, and not at all uncommon. it's always about the person and the circumstances, not about the substance.
I'm all for helping people who are addicted. Just don't expect me to help them AND feel sympathy.
that's just fine, who wants your sympathy?
If they somehow manage to mentally and physically heal and no longer require painkillers but continue to do so, then it's a choice.
see? you are making very bold statements over somethng you have no idea about, you don't even understand what addiction is.
Why did they "have" to start taking drugs in the first place?
suffering from PTSD (not their fault)
if they got it after 1945 then it must be their fault. us troops haven't served on any legitimate conflict ever since, so if they got PTSD we could indeed paraphrase GP: "why did they rush for blood adn excitement in the first place?"
If you are snorting cocaine on your yacht for fun, yeah that's on you and if you die I'm not going to cry a river for you.
so it's eithere war veterans or rich motherfuckers on yachts? ever heard about poverty? analphabetism? marginalization?
Please actually cite scientific or statistical evidence to back up your purely anecdotal claim.
The concept of a gateway drug has been known for decades.
if you mean "well known" as "never scientifically backed hypoteses" tossed around for decades, then yeah.
Don't make outrageous claims without substantial proof.
again, there isn't substantial proof that "gateway drugs" exist at all. even so most backers of this weak idea seem to accept that such a drug would be most predominantly "alcohol", which is what GP just stated. uh, and that there's much confusion between correlation and causation in all this, which is evident. possibly even deliberate confusion, i might add.
The real problem was, if you didn't vote for Obama, you'd be voting for the sockpuppets the GOP put up against him. That's the reason they lost, and Obama won, and thank goodness. Imagine where we'd be if Palin were president.
it would be the same. how is obama not a sockpuppet? it wouldn't make a difference if you had a bread toaster for president. otherwise you wouldn't be allowed to vote for a president.
loved every single part of the surgery
pervert!
It's impossible to properly engineer a product when you don't even know what the product is in advance.
actually it is, if your agile allows for enough iterations and your stuff is testable and refactorable, you should have no problem. well, you'll have a lot if you get too much pressure or simply cut short on shedule.
agile is very good provided the goal is not completely clear and there is time. many problems are not in this category but are thrown into it regardless just because it's a lot easier not to spec, and let the scrummies figure it out later, and take responsibility. and because it has become a business mantra.
its more process than it really needs to be, and the quality is STILL NOT THERE
this nails it.
the fuzz about different languages, i don't see that. it's actually refreshing. and the problem with COBO^H^H^H^H java isn't the language, it's the illustrated monkey environment built around it. no wonder it's the industries' preferred platform.
You're the problem with the software industry
software industry broadly just sucks. because it's driven mostly by shortsighted greedy morons and perception is often more important than substance. that's unless you happen to be in very specific environments (and those typically don't last for long). the guy is right. and he being good or bad at coding doesn't change the situation so your rant is uncalled for.
When animals lose a limb, they learn to hobble remarkably quickly.
Right, I'll do you for that!
It's just a flesh wound.
stop trying to occupy Israel, stop trying to steal Jewish land, stop trying to expell the Jews "into the sea" etc.The Arab and Muslim polulations of the world have 99% of the land in the middle east but they cannot have peaceful and successful societies without that little sliver of land that holds the one Holy site of the Jewish faith.
no wait a moment. we're talking about people dying here. let me first make it perfectly clear that i personally shit on your Holy site with capital letters. ok? IF you have anything to discuss rationaly then please keep your personal fantasies, against which i have absolutely nothing, for yourself. i can't possibly take you seriously if you put them in front of your argument. it means you have no valid argument (*) and you are just making a jerk of yourself.
I will develop some smattering of sympathy for the Palestinan civilians when they disassociate themselves from Hamas and Hezbollah and their stated goals to destroy Israel and kill all the Jews. I will develop more sympathy for them when they allow at least as much freedom
i don't think palestinians actually need your fucking sympathy. i guess they would be more than happy if you simply stopped robbing, expelling and killing them. thank you.
i hit 50 last sunday and been a developer since i can remember, and i still love my profession but the "guild" has changed an awful lot, from once being a peculiar bunch to the herd it mostly is today. most of my colleagues are much younger than me and
sign'o'times, i guess. i can perfectly believe many of those sheep will cheerfully allow you to strap an eyetracker on them to check their nominal productivity.
no apology required because there was no actual insult, as the term "antisemite" has long been rendered meaningless by the sheer abuse by israeli propaganda. calling you "antisemite" is the same as calling you "terrorist". you can't possibly feel insulted by that because media has shown that anyone can be called that without the slightest ground. next time any zionist stooge calls you "antisemite" just politely ask him to explain it with other words, because you don't know what "antisemitism" means, and even less so in the context of the current discussion.
it's a downside of language perversion: vocabulary erodes slowly away.
Extreme would be to drop a nuke on them. See? Isn't it fun using strawmen to argue your point.
may be i'm a bit picky, but i'd say robbing their land, expelling them, denying access to water and healthcare, imprisioning them indefinitely with no warrant, and killing them at will or bombing them with white phosphor is quite extreme.
That does not compute.
