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Comment Re:No public drug use (Score 1) 474

Drug use is not OK for many reasons, just as tobacco use is not okay. It's bad for you health, addictive, expensive, and effectively useless. It also makes people more likely to get hurt by doing stupid things like operating machinery. Concentrations of drug use will have a serious negative impact on the local community by draining it's money (people will be paying for drugs rather than for local services, etc), making the people unhealthy, putting a bad name on the community, repelling people from moving in, and making it a worse place to do any other business, due to the drainage of money.

Comment Re:Let them drink! (Score 1) 532

It actually works out. Idiots vote for people like Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio, who make laws that make them seem less idiotic, if you're following. This leads to a place tailored toward that type of person, which leads to an increase of them, which puts your back at step 1. Eventually, you get a nanny state.

Comment Re:normally id be all for this. (Score 1) 58

We might spend more money on defense than other countries (which happens to be the most important part of our budget, though I'm not saying it's not a tad large), but it helps to look at the budget as a whole. Only 16% of the said budget is spent on defense. Our problem is that the whole pie is too big ($3,900,000,000,000 or $3.9 Trillion).

Comment Re: Two languages (Score 1) 466

Enforcing style isn't a bad thing. It's not like they're telling you what type of indentation to use. If you don't indent, then you shouldn't even be writing code anyway.
What's wrong with calling the first parameter 'self'. Is that just bothersome? If you don't want to call it self, call it whatever you want. Python does not force you to name it that.
I'm not sure what categories are, so I can't refute that.
Groovy being simpler to read and write is highly subjective.

Comment Re:Annoying. (Score 1) 347

Yes, but the question is whether it's a good idea to buy out the backbone companies. Internet, which is similar to other utilities such as water and electricity, should not go down the path of those two, which are much more expensive where they have been nationalized (like where I live), both in price and government spending (taxes).

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