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Comment Re:Free speech? (Score 0) 467

I don't get it. If congress can't set a federal drinking age how can they outlaw drugs? If the feds needed a constitutional amendment to prohibit alcohol how come one wasn't needed for the war on drugs?

Little known fact: The constitution was repealed by FDR shortly after Pearl Harbor. Prohibition was before, the war on drugs was after.

Comment Re:Better technology (Score 4, Insightful) 342

This obviously means that we are going to need better technology. We'll need technology that will be able to give us a full color representation of your completely nude body, but only if you're a hot chick. - Your Friendly local TSA Agent

Even better, implement beer goggle technology into these full body scanners, so no matter how the passenger really looks, the TSA agent will never need eye bleach at the end of his or her shift.

How about reverse beer goggles. No matter how hot the people going through the scanner are, the agents that see the scans will want to gouge their eyes out with a spoon.

Comment Re:Blue-eyed Jesus (Score 0) 474

...Is a blue-eyed-Jesus supported Biblically?

No. Just like the devil's pitchfork that started this all. Not to mention large chunks of the remainder of christian beliefs. But when has that ever stood in the way of christians believing what they want?

Comment Re:I work with 2 of the authors (Score 1) 575

If you'll recall, Crematoria had a dawn, as that was what they were running from in the movie; tide-locked planets can't have a dawn. I suspect extremes like on Crematoria (which happen to a lesser extent on the moon, btw - 100-390K at the equator according to wikipedia) are from two primary factors: first, being much closer to the sun, and second, less of an atmosphere (ozone in particular) for thermal regulation.

Comment Re:Agenda? (Score 1) 790

What is their agenda? (other than to promote lung health, which no reasonable person could criticize)

When their agenda includes banning a legal product because they think it sends the wrong message, then they've crossed the line. They've done noble work over the years, but they're becoming as bad as those fools from the Center For Science In The Public Interest. If you want to convince someone to change habits, more power to them. If you're trying to ban a legal product because, well, you just know what's good for them, then ALA can go pound sand.

Note: I don't even smoke. Never have. But ALA is just being a nannying busybody here.

It wouldn't make much sense pushing to ban an illegal product, now would it?

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