I want to make almost all drugs legal, or at the very least not a jailable offense. I was just making a point about how, just because the government SAYS something is good/bad/true/false, that doesn't necessarily make it so. I'm trying to get people thinking.

Then I realized this is Slashdot, and I'm wasting my breath.

A person makes X dollars. He is determined to be "poor" or "not poor" based on Government definitions. Being "poor" or "not poor" affects what you can do, such as getting government stipends to help you out.

A person commits X act. He is determined to be "criminal" or "not criminal" based on Government definitions. Being "criminal" or "not criminal" affects what you can do, such as getting a decent-paying job.

Is this really such a difficult thing to understand?

Socialist!!!!

In similar news, Presidents Bush and Clinton both saved millions of people from poverty by simply lowering the poverty line. Everyone still made the same amount of money, but now millions more of them weren't classified as living in poverty!

He wouldn't refer me for an EEG because he didn't believe a word I was saying. I had to try for years just to get referred to a specialist, and then wait 8 months because neurologists are just REALLY busy.

Trust me, I've been there. Here's a common scenario from my teenaged years:

Me: I'm having seizures.
Doc: No, you're not.

After six years, four doctors, and one car crash, I finally get hooked up to an EEG machine.

Doc: Oh, hey, check this out. You have epilepsy.
Me: I know. I told YOU that.

I wasn't aware you were at war with the general citizens of either of those countries to the degree that no other military devices at your disposal were capable of dealing with them, should the need arise.

Because there's no-one left to nuke?

They should name it the Coulter, since the Node 3 recycles and feeds off of it's own waste products.

What confuses me is... your doctors give you contracts? To HEAL you?

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I think I've found a flaw in your medical system. In Canada, doctors give us medicine.

You replied to that article, and Lars, without using the word 'douchetruck' once. I salute you.

Doh-eth, positive it said 179... still, doesn't change the general gist of my post.

So... Yahoo basically paid out $179,000,000 to have someone do their homework assignment for them? Maybe if they applied themselves a little harder, they wouldn't be in this situation.

Can you work a tube/truck/horse analogy into it somehow? Then it will make sense to the old former-phone-company employees who run the ISPs.

There was, but it divided by zero and disappeared.