the drug itself, not psychological factors, not social factors, nothing else except the chemistry of the drug itself, is the causative effect of the addiction

why are you so ignorant about this subject yet still speaking on it?

"fear you can't control yourself if the government doesn't tell you how to live"

hard drug addiction is a real biological effect. i am not afraid. i am simply apparently better educated than you on this subject

"Your weakness is yours alone."

i was not aware the pharmacology in all of those textbooks was just about my biology alone

why are you so blatantly ignorant on this subject yet still registering an uneducated opinion on it?

every single problem you can find with fighting hard drugs is smaller than the negative effects of hard drugs themselves (heroin, cocaine, meth)

we can of course find bad tactics in fighting hard drugs, and we should

but what we can't do is say there should be no fight. and we won't

addiction to hard drugs destroys lives. this is the primary and ultimate problem. if you don't understand that problem as the root cause of everything else, you're an idiot on the subject matter

i have no problem with criticisms of various malformed social reactions to drug problems

i have a very big problem with idiots who think these bad reactions are somehow the real problem

no, the hard drugs are the real problem

we can of course compare and find bad tactics in fighting drugs, and we should

but what we can't do is say there should be no fight

you really should educate yourself before you register an uneducated opinion on a subject

you really wish to represent your opinion that all substances have the same addiction potential? or inebriating effects? there's no difference? you think this intellectually dishonest know nothing approach tells us anything except something about you?

the problem was the drug addiction. the policy was a reaction to that. then the drug merchants force it further on your society, and steal some of your land

again, i simply don't understand people who think the social reaction the drug addiction, however malformed, is somehow worse than the drug addiction itself

the addiction is the root of the problem. not the social policy

right

the simple biochemistry of addiction and inebriation to substances like heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine is a lie

that's not true

meth, heroin, and coke are for more addictive than alcohol

so it's as hard to quit as nicotine, but as inebriating as alcohol. meaning you can't quit, like nicotine. but unlike nicotine, which actually enhances concentration, on meth/ heroin/ coke, your focus is for shit. so you can't hold a job/ maintain a relationship

that's why society outlaws drugs

not because society is hysterical killjoys. but because highly addictive hard drugs really do destroy lives. just the drugs: not social attitudes, not personal psychological, the actual chemicals. no one is immune to basic biochemistry, no willpower is stronger than the pharmacology of addiction

marijuana, the hallucinogens, etc., they should be legal: not highly addictive + highly inebriating at the same time like hard drugs

and addicts should get treatment, not jail

but legalize meth? heroin? coke?

no, never

because even with the negative prohibition effects (funding drug cartels, etc), drug addiction itself to highly addictive HARD drugs, is still more harmful to society than prohibition

the war on hard drugs is not new. and will never end. it's just a maintenance function of civilization. no, we'll never get rid of hard drugs completely. but that's not the point. the point is just to minimize the negative social effects of drug addiction by minimizing the addict population. we're also never going to completely stop rape, murder, robbery. so we give up fighting that too?

we just need better tactics: portugal for example has a better attitude than the usa. but the war on drugs still goes on in portugal. dealers are still criminals in portugal. in fact, addicts are still criminals: they just get treatment instead of jail, as it should be in the usa

it didn't start with reagan. and the war has been going on every since we noticed droog would spend all day eating fermented fruit at the caveman campsite instead of helping with foraging and hunting. why does islam prohibit alcohol? too many useless wasted human shells on the street. why did the usa even experiment with prohibition? it wasn't just busy body prudes. because alcohol really does destroy lives

study the opium wars:

http://www.sacu.org/opium.html

the drug dealing british weakened and defeated china, and won hong kong, just so it could keep pushing drugs on china, destroying chinese society. something which china is still humiliated about, and gave rise to the boxer rebellion and the revitalization of modern china against imperialism. but the foundation of the rebirth of chinese pride and nationalism was a reaction was against imperial and colonial enforced drug addiction by british drug dealers. like fire water on native americans. drugs themselves are the actual problem. drugs are the tool of destruction

it was a problem then. it's a problem now. it always will be a problem. like war, slavery, racism, etc., drug addiction is just one of those timeless tragedies of the human experience

how we handle hard drug addiction? yeah, we need to change that. we need better tactics, absolutely

but the war on hard drugs will never end

it's just a maintenance function of civilization

Google DDoSed those hotmail accounts too yesterday?

I think Google should send someone over and do that for him.

As well as other general levels of groveling.

This guy has a real case against Google in the court of public opinion. He doesn't have to go legal. The simple PR value here is enough for Google to make a giant public act of contrition and gift the guy with something large, to make up for the troubles they caused him.

Hey... here's an idea: send over a high level Google engineer as this guy's personal lowly tech support guy for a month.

Heck, that sounds like it could be a sitcom, a Youtube web series.

Google: you can turn lemons into lemonade here, make it happen.

When you are being DDoSed by motherfucking Google .

Even though they've already lied about the range of their activities, their scope and depth, their capabilities, their intent, and their mandate.

Of course, this is spy stuff, you're supposed to lie about that.

Which is exactly why no one believes your assurances NSA.

You have too much power. No transparency, no oversight, no limits. You will destroy our country with Edward Snowdens who are not virtuous, but motivated by corruption and other agendas: political, mostly. You can't say that won't happen, it *always* happens, to every institution of your size and breadth, because you're made of fallible human beings. Proof: Edward Snowden. You think he is the last? You think the next one will be motivated by noble principles?

That is why you must be decimated and pried into and monitored. Hopefully, legislatively and via execute order. And soon. For the sake of the legitimacy of our government, which your dealings cast into doubt.

how did those emails and texts get to the media?

i'm not saying the NSA did it. but how easy would it have been for it to do so?

i'm not even saying the NSA would be pursing this as policy. the NSA is not an iron machine, it's composed of people. there's greed and corruption everywhere. for every virtuous edward snowden, there's another guy like edward snowden who knows a political operative and would do what snowden did, but for the motivation of cash instead. sell this kind of info for six or seven figures

that's how dangerous the NSA is to democracy. infiltrate the NSA, abuse its powers as an employee, destroy the legitimacy of our government with the leaks and manipulations you are now capable of

we live in a world where the NSA can decide presidential elections, or any elections. right now. everyone has dirt on them. focus on the candidates you want to weed out, get dirt like this bridge fiasco on them, leak it to the media, and voila: you decide elections

this is why the NSA has to be curtailed. it is incompatible with democracy. the NSA will destroy this country, make everyone believe their government is fake

the NSA must be made transparent, congressional oversight bolted on, its scope of powers severely reduced, etc. secret courts? what the fuck? no! not acceptable

which rich people?

silicon valley elite, sure

plutocrat class based on manipulating rules?

does not apply

you can build rockets for hitler, or you can build rockets for truman. they're both still rockets. you can test the rocket, make sure it works, you can separate the creator of the tech from the tech

but security is not like that. it's an ongoing trust relationship. you have to trust the people involved

and if your previous job was secretly sabotaging all security to a govt, this is probably not someone you want to trust your company's security to. when the NSA breaches your system, they have an ally already inside your system. if you didn't have a problem working for the NSA before, you probably still don't have any problems with their behavior, the defilement of our foundational rights