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I am not comprehending your theory. I am of the opinion that drug addiction works like an infectious disease. Once initiated, if not interdicted, it spreads exponentially. What kind of "treatment" do you think is going to hold it in check? MSimon has long railed about the ineffectiveness of the dru...

Diogenes wrote:I see widespread drug addiction as an existential threat.

And the most efficient defense against this threat is awareness, regulation (not prohibition), and medical treatment. How much of that applied to China?

I dunno, you tell me? What's the "problem statement" as you see it? Maybe I misunderstood what you wrote. I'll try to explain. Your initial statement I replied to was: The only real answer is to work out technology to make everyone self-sustainable enough. The way I understand "making everyone self...

The only real answer is to work out technology to make everyone self-sustainable enough. Developing the technology is not sufficient, though. You also need everyone to have free access to it, as well as a minimum amount of land and resources per person. Resources is doable by recycling/efficiency I...

Diogenes wrote:The fact is, advocates of loose drug laws just do not like this piece of information.

Most advocates of loose drug laws aren't against treating addicts, or indeed preventing addicts. Law enforcement (the way it's currently done) just isn't the right tool.

Betruger wrote:The only real answer is to work out technology to make everyone self-sustainable enough.

Developing the technology is not sufficient, though. You also need everyone to have free access to it, as well as a minimum amount of land and resources per person.

Skipjack wrote:No, it is the situation in Austria and my description is very accurate.

My apologies. That explains the differences and also the striking similarities.

I wouldn't be pushing him to a separate household, if he is over 18 he could stay provided he worked...if he could not find a job on his on, gov would find/make one for him. Could you explain what you meant by "or he has to leave the residence"? But If goverment found itself required to find someth...

If he can't find private employment the government will find something they can do for pay. He/she may find themselves fixing potholes, sorting garbage at the waste treatment plant, picking apples on a farm, or whatever the gov finds for them to do. That's a lot of jobs to create for the government...

Taking something out of the ground isn't "using it up", it's putting more of it into the cycle. If our industrial infrastructure fails, there will be plenty of resources just lying around on the surface of this planet, waiting to be picked up by the survivors. That would appear demonstrably untrue ...

Recycling is obviously important, but why should we leave something easily obtainable in the ground and therefore leave it outside the production/consumption/reuse cycle unless its use would inevitably increase pollution? Because if we don't leave something behind that is half-easy to pull up, and ...

I fully agree. We need to stop taking anything out of the ground that we can avoid, and we need to do it now. Recycling is obviously important, but why should we leave something easily obtainable in the ground and therefore leave it outside the production/consumption/reuse cycle unless its use woul...

In the case of a superconductor a current only initiates at the contact at which you inject charge, and this charge only reaches the ejecting contact after it has passed by means of a relay race to reach the other contact. Although still at a very high speed, the time for a charge-pulse to reach th...

Again very perceptive: That is why I wrote that you must first apply the electric-field so that it stabilizes. Within the superconbductor it is exactly cancelled after stabilization. You then inject a pulse of charge using a very low external field so that the electric-field within the superconduct...

It will have to be a very fast TOF-measurement, since my models are consistent with speeds in the order of 10^5 meters/second. That would be a very high drift speed, but doesn't this basically amount to a test of signal propagation speed? As such, 1e5 m/s seems awfully low. Or am I confusing things...