Sorry - new build machine, didn't mean to AC... In this order I have become addicted to the following on a pretty much full time basis: Tobacco, Alcohol and the 60mg Prozac I have to take a day to deal with life. Before anyone comments on the Prozac/Drugs cycle - I've suffered depression forever, long before I tried anything I 'shouldn't have'.. But I have no regrets on the whole - but weirdly alcohol takes responsibility for 99.9% of those regrets I truly do. Yes less drugs over the years may well have made a difference, but too late to know for sure now. Putting that aside.. E? Can't really handle the stuff. Love it, but I've embarrassed myself on more than one occasion as more than one or at most two pills is too much for me. I end up trying to tell peoples ankles how much I love them. Tried Ketamine a couple of years ago. I suspect I did too much at the time (it being my first and all) but I won't give that a second chance. 'Being in the closet talking to God' is the most accurate description I've heard of anything, ever. Cocaine? Had a bit of a fling with it around 2005-2006, but got over that. Just in time, I think. Still like the odd nosebleed but always end up with a porn bill. Could smoke pot for the UK Olympic team, but then I don't smoke skunk anymore. LSD? Never had a bad trip personally and I swear it has unlocked parts of my mind that would never have been accessible otherwise. I genuinely feel a more rounded person for the times I've taken it (maybe 15 times over the past 23 years?) I drink and smoke every day. Now tell me what is the most damaging drug? I wake up every day hacking my lungs up due to 'light' cigarrettes, ans surely at 20 a day I'd hardly be considered heavy, even by today's standards. Having said that, it's always horses for courses. If it wasn't, Slashdot probably would have burnt itself out through too much agreement a long time ago. I find it hard to get LSD nowadays but I would trip for the next week if it meant giving up the crap I currently find myself spending too much on and really actually damaging my health with.

FYI, in marketing, it's called a 'corner case'.

Nor, apparently overdose on it as I was once told a long time back. By a teacher of mine. Anyone know if I was told the truth?

Not obvious - just one scenario amongst many.

Very much so - but no points to mod you up I'm afraid. Some will adapt and survive, some will die, alternate strategies or not. And there will be some players in future we don't know of yet thriving too. We need to get used to this idea - no corp ever lasts forever, the most interesting question is who will live and who will die? Short term arguments about patents are trivial - who do we think is really going to be around in 100 years in anything like their current guise? Love to know

Don't mean to troll here but maybe decaf doesn't taste so good because as you swig, the caffeines not there to light the 'taste' up?

Yes. similarly, I have 5-10 cups of tea a day (Brit here - what ho!). It's not caffeine that keeps me awake. Nothing keeps me awake (other than class 'A's). Horses for courses, YMMV, my 2p etc etc..

Good for you. Well done.

Thanks. I really would like to hear more people comment on this.

The world we live in at the moment is broken and bereft of moral values - if you're a religious type or not, we all have our own personal values (or ' morals') and with the population of the world leading to intellectual entropy I'm not sure opinions will ever converge unless we all go and live in North Korea. We all discuss it on-line, everyday, but we will never come to a majority judgement or solution on any topic, will we? I love the internet in so many ways, and it is fascinating to hear everyone's opinion - this is a subject important top me as the father of a five year old - But not the point I want to make right now. We need discussion, absolutely (and free speech too), but does anyone else on /. just feel a little bit more than helpless about anything any more? I don't mean to offtopic, but I wasn't going to submit this to /. as an 'Ask Slashdot' - Maybe I should? Genuine question - are you weeping for the future?