And since all this process requires are the stalks, then for all intents and purposes, yes. It is the same plant.

The buds, which have recreational and medicinal uses aren't being used. The key word there is lignin. They're using the long, fiberous material not the buds.

Senator Leland Yee is proof that the vast majority of elected officials are useless buffoons. They are in excess of humanity's requirement survive and therefore redundant except as raw material to create soylent green.

The idiot does not realize that to do so would require sales enforcement to regulate the sale of servo motors, items that contain servo motors, all-thread rod, timing belts, gears, bare circuit boards, solder...

The list is endless. Such a person should also consider banning libraries since I can use one to learn the procedure to produce nitro-cellulose. And let's not forget that we must also permanently incarcerate all of the specops guys since they could train everyday citizens to become insurgents.

The best use for politicians is to fill abandoned mine shafts.

Oh, lord, that was good. I wish I could give you an up-vote or something.

Would you accept this old hotel swipe card as a token of my esteem? It should work in any ATM.

Probably not.

Unless a person is willing to become a Darwin Contestant, they won't use it. I sure as hell won't. Fingerprint biometrics are barely reliable in a lab situation. I can't imagine anyone putting up for this sort of crap going out to do some work. It's just more feel-good bullshit from someone who's never pulled the trigger for real.

Agile development is an excuse for developers to ignore the basics of documented what they are doing and why they did it in that manner. It make repeatability almost impossible and make reuse of code and processes harder.

I first read that passage just after first Tet in '68. It was true when RAH penned it, and remains true today.

The only thing wrong with the government is the government.

What a fucked up place. Long, long ago, I was a proponent of "My country, right or wrong."

As I grew older that changed to distaste and then disgust with home and foreign policies.

Of late, it's become a cancer eating at my soul. What the fuck happened to America?

When I went off to the military I was so damned naive that I wish I could bitch slap my younger self.

I am activating my ace in the hole, which is a dual-citizenship courtesy of my immigrant parents (yes, they arrived with residence visas in-hand and obtained green cards).

There's nothing here worth saving.

Sign me up when you find them!