There were "Occupy" activists that were pepper sprayed, and some were jailed. It was because they were involved in rioting, trespass, resisting arrest, or some other crime or disturbance, not because of the particular political reforms they were championing... when they could manage coherence on the question.
Could you expand on the nature of this "tight grip" over the free world, and the impact it has had? How do you think your freedom has been limited?
So what are these rights of your that you think America is violating as you sit in your bedroom listening to cracked DVDs on your computer? Do you think the US will invade because of it?
WW2 and the Iraq war weren't fought over DVD pirating.
Almost like this plan except now with more bacony goodness!
Dupe.
I know its a fun conspiracy theory and all but I don't think the double standard is deliberate, even if it does exist.
The only real double standard is that the government is rapidly advancing its UAV technology while keeping private industry from doing so. Notice how Greenpeace floated a blimp over the NSA data center? Good for publicity but not the most efficient way to gather the photos they did.
Amazon shouldn't be calling them drones, though - drones kill Pakistani children, aerobots save puppies.
They better act fast if they want to skirt the law with yeast, while there's still a law to break.
It's still a good idea if you want pure chemicals - yeast can produce chemicals faster (to both grow and purify) than plants. Companies like the one Gov. Johnson is heading up would probably be very interested as a supply source for their refined products.
The trick is medicinal cannabis has something like 250 active compounds. A few years ago everybody assumed that it was only THC that did anything (marinol, for instance). Now they know that CBD is the most active medicinally and Johnson is now talking about CBG as well. There's still more unknown about the others than there is known, so focusing on just a couple pure chemicals might miss out on benefits. Human bodies do a lot of signalling with various cannabinoids and here's this one plant that happens to also grow most of them. It should be a biotech bonanza, except for the crapitalistic reasons politicians try to keep it off the market.
But, um, yeah, get high on THC beer if you want. It would actually probably be a net-benefit for society since people will be satisfied with being less drunk. As a user of the road monopoly, I'd strongly support THC beer on the market.
Since when? Last Tuesday? Denied dessert were you?
Other sources have it as 'increase'.
Hey, knock off that fact-checking - people are incensed here!
You don't seem to be acquainted with the concept of sovereignty. Law contains rights and responsibilities, but in general any body of law is limited to the territory of the sovereign government that created the law. American law governs America. Canadian law governs Canada. Finnish law governs Finland. Canadian law doesn't govern Finland, Germany, or America. Finnish law doesn't govern Italy or Cuba. The law of the sea is a special case. (I wouldn't be surprised if you are a pirate even if you don't sail the seas looking for mischief.)
If the legal protections of your country apply to Americans, why aren't lawyers from your embassy assisting Americans accused of crimes? Where are the social welfare payments? Do you suppose it is possible that the rights of citizens or residents of your nation don't apply to Americans in America?
If America truly does threaten your freedoms I assume you must be doing something unsavory and special.
If it did start a war it would almost certainly be short. I'm inclined to believe that Martians would immediately surrender under a bombardment like that.
'We want to open up the opportunity to the entire world to participate in our mission to Mars by sending a certain payload to the surface of Mars.'"
Justin Bieber? Miley Cyrus?
If there's one thing Mars doesn't have enough of, it's Legos.
I thought it was Moms it was out of? Better idea, though: let's find some of the A/C's here and see if they fit.
Anything coming out of the U.S. is a threat to everybody else's national security.
That sort of absolutist anti-American rant is ever popular on Slashdot, but it is nonsense, rubbish. It is like listening to a teenager chafing under parental authority complain that his parents are worse than Hitler when it is with practical certainly not true.
The US has helped keep the free world free since the end of World War 2, and some people resent that and the failure of their preferred ideology.
HELP!!!! I'm being held prisoner in /usr/games/lib!
