Lawless President, lawless DOJ - what do you expect. First they came for Dotcom...

Uh, no. Reagan would be vilified by the RINOs in the same way Ted Cruz is.

If you look closer at the conclusions made from the study, essentially it's the same thing as having someone swallow a teaspoon of wine so it registers in their blood, and then saying "Drivers with alcohol in their blood are perfectly safe to drive". While they flaunt dosage dependence from alcohol, it is conveniently omitted from marijuana. Disappointing to see a supposed intellectual community like Slashdot post this without examination. There IS such a thing as being "too stoned to drive". It is a common observation and also rational to assume that increasing the dose of the drug will create increased impairment. Here are some studies which came with far less politically correct conclusions. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...

After being suggested by two unrelated acquaintances to look into it, I've gone to many Aspergers meetups only to find out that everything horrible that happened to me from early childhood to early 20s matched 1:1 the lives of people with Aspergers. I've come to understand these people deeply and they feel to me closer like family. The reason things changed after my mid-20s was because of Aikido. Now I can actually withstand crowds to a certain extent, and have realtime spontaneous reactions to people. It also changed how I walk - my walking actually looks human now, and so do other physical movements. This is how it happened:
One of the key factors in an Aspergers' person's life is patterns. They usually attach to patterns and become greatly disfressed during major life changes.
This happens because normal people have a main-purpose CPU for processing everyday information, and a specialized GPU for adaptive realtime behavior, such as mingling in crowds fluidly, partnered dancing, just spontaneity in general. The main CPU's emulation mode of this GPU is very very slow - it's no substitute. This truth I've ran into not only with myself, but with many Aspergers people I met in person.
And so, a person with Aspergers will spend 2 weeks pre-caching their possible reactions for a social occasion with their CPU, because their GPU is inaccessible. They cannot generate them in realtime, so they pre-cache as many possibilities as they can. If-then, if-then, if-then... And after it ends, they will spend a ton of time analyzing gathered information because it could not be done in realtime. Going over every potential mistake, and adding it to the if-then pile, for the FUTURE...
There is a way, however, to regain access to the GPU. Maybe not for all Aspergers people, but for many. There's a lever by which it can be operated, and that lever is adaptive physical movement.
Aikido is ideally suited for this, because it is a structured Japanese art which limits social interaction (a plus), is usually non-confrontational (another plus), very friendly to newcomers, and, most importantly, Aikido techniques don't work at all until you activate the GPU, and sense what's happening in your training partner's structure NOW. It FORCES your brain to restructure and reach out where you previously didn't know you could, into that unseen area where decisions are made without conscious processing. Eventually you learn to trust your GPU, just like a neurotypical human does.
Considering that Aspergers frequently comes with co-morbid conditions like PTSD from bullying, and depression, Aikido also addresses those. It has been used to treat PTSD in war veterans, because its movements retrain how we perceive conflict on a deeper level. It certainly eliminated PTSD flashbacks I had from high school after walking into every single social faux pas known to man and becoming the laughingstock of the class, that weird dude on whom you'd test your reflexes...
#Aikido4lyfe

I'm well aware of necessity of government in a civilized society, thanks. Capitalism cannot exist without government, and regulations are there for a reason. However, a government can exist without capitalism. I lived in such a place. Government can effectively suck the life and color out of everything around you, remove opportunity, freedom of transportation, everything. This is why I find the notion of "government can solve all problems" to be both incredibly naive and dangerous. A uniquely limited and balanced-against-itself government is what made America great. The country's been losing that by leaps and bounds in 20th century alone, and now we have young whippersnappers who worship the idea of government. The brainwashing of Daily Show and Colbert Report, plus the incestuously Leftist education system makes them think themselves really clever, the "smart new generation", while actually not having developed ability for a single critical thought. In USSR I was one of such people, we were called "pioneers".

Your reply was in defense of the claim that "government can solve any problem". It was clearly indicated as such, the nature of your reply supported it, and no amount of backpedaling will change that. The prior context of that exchange also reveals your intent. You put too much stock in the government. I am trying to get through to you and people like you, that this very mentality is the beginning of decline. Even entertaining the notion of this idea among the masses, is going to create irreparable damage to a country in which they reside. "Calling libertarians on their bullshit"? Why don't you look up the definition of the term you're attacking. Government has an important function. It is not, however, to be leaned on, because it will bloat and eat your future. It produces nothing. It takes from the producers - their money and freedom. Slowly, over many years, but irreversibly. Don't you go visiting my education. I have lived things you skimmed over in history books and will never fully comprehend. People like you, who think they're the voice of reason, the middle-of-the-road, the intellectuals, all the while the current of Jon Stewart-caliber Leftism runs in your head, you are a sad sight to see. In modern age, you're the kind that overtly supports Statist leaders like Obama. In beginning of 20th century, Lenin called you "useful idiots". Historically, the Leftist radicals ride your support until they can't anymore, and then you're thrown into the same trash pile as everyone else. Go spin your tales of how rational and intellectual you are to a fellow reader of "Pravda" - sorry, I meant "Daily Kos". We're done here, komrad.

Having grown up in USSR, it's always alarming to see Americans defend the idea of Statism so fervently. Depressing and frustrating, really. The government alone is NOTHING. Without a capitalist system providing the basis of material wealth for everyone, in USSR we had a horrific "government" healthcare system, and terrible subpar goods, houses, clothes, everything in constant deficit - manufactured on State-controlled factories. Our technology was 20 years behind civilized countries, ambulances took 3 hours to arrive if at all, teeth were drilled without anaesthetics, needles re-sterilized, and so on. Don't sing praise to the government. It's a necessity, but it is a very dangerous mistake to elevate government into a virtue in and of itself. It will grow, and suppress and consume and dry the wealth from everyone until everyone is equally miserable. Equality for all! Komrades.

Oh dear.

It's easy to spot a demagogue when they strawman those who insist on having the concept of _borders_, into an "anti-immigration" crowd. I'm a legal immigrant to the United States who has become a citizen. I am pro-immigration, because it refreshes the gene pool and makes this country an amazing melting poit. However, legitimizing people who get here illegally without any filtering process, is exactly the same as erasing the concept of borders. This would've worked if my former homeland erased its border, because nobody wants to migrate to a country without toilet paper. However when it's done in a country which has an easily abused system of infinite handouts, attracting people like honey, it is self-destructive and insane. So before we start any arguments on "programming", let's filter out intellectually dishonest trolls like Paul Graham.

It's amazing, seeing the Left reference critical thinking, when they completely fail to recognize that Obama is an both an incompetent failure and a shameless pathological liar and junior-league demagogue. It is also funny seeing them reference "far-right media" while they get their news from Obama's court jesters on Comedy Central. But most of all it is sad seeing human stupidity at such profound levels. Sad, and frightening. This is Eloi-level stupid.

Not sure if serious.

Finally a voice of sanity in this thread. I was starting to lose hope.

If it's all the same to you, please go live in the Middle East. Oh... wait... it's... not really the same, is it. Oh...

Such comments are made by modern equivalents of Eloi, who have never seen the Murlocs up close. In fact, they haven't seen any true hardship up close. And other Eloi upvote them.

For your own sake, you really should not go on.