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Haha,

Hey at least it's a start. Maybe in ten or twenty years, when the current bureaucrats who run it are dead or retired, we might get another new design certified.

Ohh the SOPA is an evil set of laws that will end free speech on the internet. It was specifically written so that any commercial entity could shut down smaller entity's without governmental involvement. All that is required is the bigger commercial send a piece of paper to a service provider. No am...

If on Venus, better would be to create floating city's high in the atmosphere. The air is so dense that floating would be easy, this also takes care of the temperature problem. Could use remote robotics to mine the surface for materials. Only issue is you'd have to make the entire skin of the habita...

This is one of those times that I wouldn't trust anything on Wiki. It's open for anyone to edit, including people with an agenda fueled by billions of USD. There is simply too much money involved here, both in scientific funding and realized industrial profits for there to be an even and unbiased st...

You should definitely go with unobtainium.

Sorry couldn't resist :p

It make sense, biological things tend to adapt over time and build resistance to external attackers. The immune system is a perfect example, another is micro-evolution. I'm not a physicist and am barely qualified to speak on such matters, but the concept of "no safe level of exposure" doesn't sound ...

ll very fine and well, but since it's been explained to you that this discussion is about legalizing ALL DRUGS, including the worst possible one's you can imagine, do you still feel it is a reasonable idea to allow the unregulated sale of Heroin, Crack, Meth, PCP, LSD, etc. ? First, no, I do not fe...

A classic libertarian argument runs into trouble with many "hard" drugs, and even some "soft" drugs. Drugs impair your judgement, and some of them tend to make you violent. Although alcohol became legal again, in recent decades we've seen a big push against drinking and driving - because the drunk ...

That is a chilling thought for many Americans, including this one. They may be nutbags and stupid, but unless they are known to be doing something illegal, I would rather put up with them then such an intrusive police system. I think that this is the right thing to do, though. You dont want these p...

Apparently the Dutch intend to limit the THC content of cannibas in coffee shops to 15% or they have the license yanked. They say over 15% makes it a hard drug. Well at least their taking steps to standardize and categorize it. It should be treated like Alcohol, have to be over a certain age to buy...

a) quantify the number of people on hard drugs, and the costs, not just to health and life, but economically, and collaterally to family members b) quantify how much of (a) is due to prohibition and how much is due to the impact of the drugs themselves (and this varies from drug to drug, LSD is far...

Apparently the Dutch intend to limit the THC content of cannibas in coffee shops to 15% or they have the license yanked. They say over 15% makes it a hard drug. Well at least their taking steps to standardize and categorize it. It should be treated like Alcohol, have to be over a certain age to buy...

And before you continue your tirade, remember we already have historical documentation on what happens when you use prohibition. Ethyl hydroxide was legal for production, distribution and sale, as was THC. US Government decides to outlaw the production, distribution and sale of Ethyl hydroxide, THC ...

As I've already said, proof exists today of exactly what will happen. When the alcohol prohibition ended there wasn't sky rocketing "addiction" to alcohol. THC doesn't form a physical addiction, it's actually less addicting the nicotine and alcohol. Proof exists today? Only if you say that the effe...

When comparing alcohol and other mind altering drugs for addiction, keep in mind that unlike most mind altering drugs ethanol doesn't bind to neural receptors. Given that change in activity I'd not be surprised to find a vast difference in addiction profile. True, except the one I'm comparing it to...