If we assume, for the sake of argument, that ALL drug violence was caused only by prohibition... then that means the drugs themselves were bad enough to ban them even when there was no associated violence. Hmm.

Not necessarily. You're making the assumption that the ban was enacted in order to prevent violent crime. Nothing as such has been said. I believe it is far more likely that the ban is mainly ideological in nature.

No. It makes perfect sense if they're accepting the arguments used in for example Sweden to criminalize cartoon child pornography. I paraphrase (seeing that I can't find the accurate translation of "kränkning"):

"This is a violation of not an individual child but all children as a group".

That line of thinking leads to cases like this one.

Also people writing "would of won" or "couldn't they of been more considerate?" and so on and so on... You can't throw a preposition randomly into a verb phrase...

I'd rather my neighbour be a convicted and released rapist than someone convicted and released for gang-related crime.

Aha. Porn is a gateway drug to child pornography. Yeah. Right.

No. I want to you to deliver some hard evidence how
A: Pornography can lead to child pornography, and how
B: Pornography can take away from intimacy

The problem is that once we have a single supplier of everything we have a situation in which one person essentially owns everything, and that smells awfully close to communism.

"Porn should not be shown to kids."

Why not?

I mean where exactly is the problem?

Well the catch is that social healthcare is necessary but security theater isn't.

Location: Sweden

So at the end of this summer I bought the Orange Box in a local gamestore near my home where I stay during summer. I return back to my dorm room soon after (before having had time to install the game) and once I get back here I do... But... It does not work. No. The game box was definitely new and unbroken (also in plastic wrap) yet for some reason the installer tells me "This serial code is already in use". I could not return the game because the store was 3 hours away by car.

Shit.

I contact steam support and I'm told to take a picture of the note with the serial number on it and the receipt. I do.

Now they give me a unique code. I am to write that code on the same paper and take another picture and send them. I do.

Now they tell me they can't do anything, because the game was obviously bought used. The store in question actually does sell used games, which can be seen on the reciept too. Shit.

So what do I do?

I write something like this: "You have seen the receipt already so you know the game was bought at full retail price. If I knew the game was used I would not pay that much money for it. Certainly not for a game utilizing online serial code validation. Secondly, this game was purchased in Sweden. If the game was owned by someone else who sold it to that store it seems likely that whoever did that was also Swedish or had installed the game while in Sweden. You could perhaps take a quick look and see if the serial code is registered to a Swedish steam account."

A few hours later: "We've transferred the serial to your account. This is, however, not standard procedure."

Me: "Thanks!"

Steam is not without its faults. Thank god there are some sensible people working in their support.

Assuming the button doesn't work, how do you actually get to cross the road?

If the button doesn't work then it means that the streetlights cannot turn red (for car traffic) and that means that there will be vehicle traffic indefinitely. Is there some kind of automated system that stops traffic at regular intervals to allow for pedestrians to cross?