Considering who owns Mega, I wouldn't trust it further than I can throw that blob.

With MJ? Yeah. Sure. MDMA? Umm... maybe. Crack? No effin' way!

People who want to enjoy drugs are not necessarily insane...

Well, to his credit, he was a pretty good actor. It's not his fault that the writers turned his character into an annoying little self-righteous, one dimensional sphincter.

To run a C64 emulator on a PC emulator on a Mac emulation on an Amiga of course. Duh.

Hand in your geek card on your way out.

I'm your shareholder. And I have a zero tolerance for drunk bozos who drive the company into the ground that I own.

Pack your shit and jump out the window. Without the usual parachute.

That's something that nobody ever managed to answer me: What makes you think that a lot of people will start doing a drug just because it's legal. Why would someone go "Gee, it's Tuesday and colder than outside, I'm gonna try Crack"?

Would you?

Then why do you think others would?

There is a difference between the various substances and how they're perceived. All misinformation included, there are certain "absolutes". Seeking the thrill is something you'll do with stuff like psychedelics and stimulants. MJ, MDMA, LSD, various othre three-to-six-letter chemicals. Sure, some say they're harmful, some say they might be dangerous, but "I know what I'm doing".

Crack and Heroin or insane shit like Krok is a different matter. You don't reach for that for a thrill. When you're going down that road, you know that you don't come back. And you really don't plan to.

Sorry, I have my principles. I don't eat what I fuck.

While I generally agree, there's little a financial fine would do to a business. If it's low, it's not a matter for legal but one for cost accounting and risk management. If it's high, the company is sent into bankruptcy and the assholes running it simply continue.

Because two wrongs don't make a right.

Sorry, but the day I copy the harebrained crap a Rep dreamed up, I hand in my socialist card.

1000 bucks silly high? Ask the average CEO and he'll wholeheartedly disagree.

And he doesn't even pick anything!

Yeah, dammit, we can't exploit the niggers anymore...

Umm... then I guess it's those illegal workers that create jobs like crazy?

Well, if history tells us one thing for certain, then that if someone WANTS to get H, he WILL get H. Simply that.

On the other hand, why do you think addiction rates would go up. Would you go "gee, H used to be so expensive, now it's cheap, let's shoot my brain into orbit!"? Would you?

Why do you think anyone else would?

A friend of mine is a social worker. So I get far more insight into the whole shit than I really would like to. And there is one thing all H addicts have in common: They reached the bottom of the barrel. H is usually "end of the line", along with crack (which, fortunately, so far has not reached our areas in quantity). By far not everyone gets "that low". I know quite a few people who do MJ or MDMA occasionally, and they do manage to hold down jobs (one of them being the Vice-CISO of a rather important company, another one a very successful lawyer, for some curious reason specialized in cases concerning drugs...).

In a nutshell, by far not everyone who tried drugs will end up shooting H up his veins. Not even people who do other drugs regularly do. H is something you reach for when you already hit rock bottom. These people FULLY KNOW what they get into, even before they start. They KNOW they will be fully addicted and they know that this stuff will kill them. They are at the point of no longer giving a shit.

And no law on the planet could change that either way. It's like trying to stop suicide terrorists with laws. Why the fuck does anyone think someone who pretty much gave up on himself cares about a law?

Yes, but it's one of the few instances where you actually can't argue that you need to cut freedoms in the name of safety, because BOTH freedom AND safety are on the same side of the equation this time.