I think that might have been artistic and not an attempt to increase safety.

My 1995 Trans-Am was the best car I ever owned. I sold it in 2005 with 150,000 miles on it. The current owner has placed over 40,000 of his own miles on it and the car has never needed any major repairs, aside from the usual stuff. It was also way more fun to drive than my current 2006 Mustang GT.

Sorry to reply to 2 of your posts but to help you understand that not every non-believer is an atheist, see Ignosticism which describes my position to some extent.

Keep in mid that Atheism can mean two different things which are actually quite different. From Wikipedia:
Atheism can be either the rejection of theism, or the position that deities do not exist.

There is a big difference between non belief and active disbelief. The latter position that deities do not exist does require faith, it requires faith that you as an individual are correct and in fact have the answer to an unknowable question. This type of atheist pisses me off because they are no better than the theists that they loathe. They are overrun with arrogance and pride.

I don't believe in god but I also know that I am at least partially or maybe completely wrong because like I said, it is unknowable. I also have no problem with people that believe in god, I just can't tolerate anyone that is so sure that their answer is the only true answer.

Most theists and atheists alike would jump to calling me an agnostic simply because they have a need to fit me into a neat little category. However, even though I don't believe in god while also not ruling out the possibility of a god, I am not agnostic because I do take a stand and have a position on the issue which is very simple:
Everyone is wrong!

You're doing it wrong.

Seriously, I'm so sick of people complaining about idle or even Slashdot in general. If you don't like it fuck off and go somewhere else. I for one click on idle links when they seem funny so I can get a break from serious news for a bit.

I mean come on, how pathetic do you have to be to go out of your way to click a link, read a summary and post a comment to something you profess that you will automatically hate anyway.

No kidding. I've been on a plane before that has hit very rough turbulence and seen a few people who didn't bother to put on their seatbelt rise about 2-3 feet in the air before crashing beck to the seat below them. Not to mention takeoff and landing acceleration are just a little above that of subway cars.

Yeah, I don't think the cameras have anything to do with him not being robbed. The criminals just found out the place was run by Jack Bauer and they all collectively pissed their pants and ran away screaming.

Okay, I should have said she was tired of having to walk to the back of the bus. My point is still valid. She had no intentions of battling through a court trial or starting a revolution. Sometimes, revolutions happen by accident.

Rosa Parks intentionally broke the law because she was tired and didn't want to walk to the back of the bus.

I don't mean to play down the significance of what she did, I'm just saying that court was the farthest thing from her mind at the time.

And of course anything that doesn't bring a profit isn't worth doing.

This machine doesn't make furniture, it churns out 1 piece of sunlight created functional art a day, which could easily sell for way more than the price of the machine. I'm not saying I would pay for it, but value is in the eye of the beholder.

Obviously this is not something I can site statistics on or give overwhelming assurance on, however in my experience legalizing the drug would ensure more people of driving age would use it. There is a psychology behind substance legality which comes into play. For instance, I nor a good portion of my friends smoked pot in high school, however we all drank alcohol. The difference is one is illegal outright and the other is illegal until you are considered an adult by law. Frankly, the law can not define adulthood in the eyes of a teen and therefore most teens would be more likely to bend such a law, whereas they would not break an outright illegality. Granted, some teens don't give a fuck, but they already smoke pot anyways.

Personally, once I matured I realized that to me the law is flexible where my personal rights are concerned, at least the ones that effect no one else. Which is why I feel free to use banned substances but do not do things like driving while using said substances which would endanger others.

Your argument is not necessarily contrary to mine. PSAs talking about stoned driving are a way to help ensure responsible use, at least as much as drunk driving PSAs do. The fact is, if pot were legalized, you would probably see an initial jump in the number of people using marijuana, at least I would probably initially use it more than I do now, and whether you like it or not marijuana does impair judgment.

Many people that smoke pot don't have a problem with getting in a car and driving stoned because unless they happen to reek of the smell, they feel, and likely can, get away with it if pulled over. That doesn't mean that they are safe to drive because when you're not trying to focus your mind tends to wander greatly from any task at hand, including driving.

My point is that if an officer pulls over a driver for erratic driving, a stoned driver may be able to pull it together and explain away the driving because pot does not give off the telltale signs of intoxication such as alcohol does, but that does not mean the driver is not intoxicated and safe to drive.

And by the way, whomever modded my original post as flamebait, that's just childish.

Actually, I like to partake in the pleasures of cannabis every now and again and definitely believe it should be legal, however I agree wholeheartedly with the original poster on the dangers of marijuana intoxication and driving.

First off, as someone who does smoke marijuana, I can definitely attest to levels of intoxication that would prevent me from driving coherently, and do avoid such scenarios. Second, I have been involved in a major traffic collision when a driver intoxicated on marijuana pulled out in front of me causing me to t-bone him, totaling both cars. Luckily no one was severely injured.

So yes, marijuana should be legal, however there should be ways to ensure it's use is responsible and does not endanger others. And frankly, driving is the only dangerous thing I can currently think of because I'm surely not dangerous in any other way while high.

And would someone please mod the OP out of troll hell. His comment was neither inflammatory nor fallacious.

For example, I had ALL Leukemia. One week after I was diagnosed the daughter of my dad's co-worker was diagnosed with the exact same illness but caught it much earlier and had a much better prognosis than me.

We were both of similar age and health, but I had insurance and she didn't. I was immediately admitted to the hospital and received world class treatment (my hospital bills have totaled over $750,000), while the daughter was seen in the hospital for 2 days and sent home (i was in for over a month). She then had to fly 1000 miles across the country (which is not good when you have Leukemia) to find a hospital that would admit and treat her. However, chemo is expensive and they couldn't give her the latest and greatest drugs. Two weeks later, she was dead. She was 19.

Now, correlation is not causation and all that bullshit, but you can't tell me that she wouldn't have had a better chance of survival in Canada, France or any one of the many countries that offer universal health care. Hospitals and insurance companies sentence people to death everyday because they don't have the correct or enough coverage.