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I'm betting that the multi-skill Shilo update will be a flop, but the banking update sounds glorious.

If alcohol tasted good it would be even more dangerous than it already is. We all have our vices, no need to take the high road.

Sometimes it helps to vent your problems. I'm sure she is looking for feedback, but the process of typing that whole thing up was probably a little relieving as well. And besides, seeing a psychologist multiple times = $$. Tip.it's OT forum = free.

Jesus I hope you're being sarcastic. You just insult my views because you don't have solid facts to disprove them. ;) Don't make me start adding [/sarcasm] tags. :razz:

Jesus I hope you're being sarcastic.

A wall is most definitely not the answer. I know hundreds of illegal immigrants that work on the dairy farms back home in WI for dirt wages but they don't care because it's better than life was before they came here. There needs to be punishment not for the immigrants, but for the businesses that hire them.

I was to the point of pushing the post topic button this morning when I read it. I was too lazy to type an opening post that would warrant discussion. On topic...I think this is ridiculous, privatized prisons are a very lucrative business and should be shut down in my opinion.

Every time a band that I enjoy listening to comes to the Twin Cities, I'll go see them live. That's how I make up for some of the pirating I do.

Exactly. The lawyers are having a hey-day over this anti-piracy crap and are raking in loads of money from it. I'm sure they won't mind at all if more sites and methods of sharing media arise.

That's kind of the whole idea of the grindhouse style. The gore is supposed to be very over the top.

University of North Texas's Jazz Studies program :thumbsup:

What's your opinion on the IPIP NEO? Better I assume? Like Jimmy said, people will answer what they want themselves to be whether they are using a self evaluation or being evaluated by a psychologist. I don't like personality tests because they place people in categories and where there is separation, there is inevitably inequality.

Warning: video contains a high level of violence and moderate coarse language http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640459/ Whether or not this is Hollywood's ploy for a return to cult horror films or not, I am so excited for this movie especially since it stars Rutger Hauer. Anyone else??

I honestly don't know if this is sarcasm or not. If it is: I lol'd If it isn't: SO don't take it seriously. But allow others to. These tests only serve the purpose of putting people into cookie-cutter personality types. It pains me to see people believe this crap. You are who you believe yourself to be, not what a personality test tells you. That's all I have to say on the matter.

These tests are ridiculous and I wish people would stop taking them and if they do take them, to stop taking them seriously.

You just described how my pants are set up. Thank you very much. :thumbsup: Question: Is this the standard setup for most people? It's exactly how I do it as well. Who cares if it's standard, it's right ;)

You only feel your wallet for the first day or so you put it in your back pocket. After that, your right butt-cheek gets quite used to the company.

I absolutely HAVE to have things the right way in my pockets: Front right--Cell Phone, Burt's Bees, and any other small, pocketable items I could be carrying at any time Front left--Keys ONLY Back right--Wallet Back left--Nothing ever

I could list a whole boatload of great movies that make you think, but if I had to pick one it would easily be Do the Right Thing. It is the one movie I believe everyone should see.

Are you really asking that question on a forum like this? There was a massive (and maybe still is) Zombie Apocalypse thread on OT. I smell some bait....who's gonna take it?

Today, I turn 21. Tomorrow morning it's kegs and eggs :)

Here's a quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise that I've always enjoyed. "Don't let yourself feel worthless; often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your 'personality' as you persist in calling it; at 15 you had the radiance of early morning, at 20 you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 P.M" You can have a fresh start whenever you like, that's the beauty of life and free-will. You only have to choose to do so.

Clearly you do not understand the addiction of drugs like crack/meth/heroin. If you did, you would not be making the comparison to video games, gambling, and pot. Yes, those activities are habituating but they do NOT cause addiction on the level of hard drugs. I doubt you have ever been truly addicted to anything in your life judging by the statements you make. That being said, I am an advocate for usage of drugs as a means of relaxation, meditation, or recreation and if you can handle your high, by all means go for it, but I am also realistic at the same time. Sure, there would be people that would use dispensaries for what you are claiming their purpose would be, but for those that are severely addicted, people who's entire being is consumed by their need to use drugs, it would be a huge failure. "Guns, pills, nicotine, alcohol, lottery, and pornography" are all very affordable items. Do you know what the street price is for hard drugs? Hell, even pot is worth more than gold ounce for ounce, but I doubt you considered any of those factors when you made your argument. I know that the street price would not be the same as the dispensary price, but if you look at the price of pot on the street and in a dispensary, they are still comparable. I would like to think any other drug would be the same. And yes, that is an assumption. Our posts are quickly de-railing this topic so unless they can be tied into a discussion on Four Lokos, I will be quietly exiting stage-left.

You're ignoring the fact that those drugs are addictive and that an addict will stop at nothing to get his or her fix. You'd have to be off your rocker to say that a crack/meth/heroine dispensary would ever be able to operate safely.

I agree. I think the idea of throwing people in prison for the mere possession of drugs is quite silly. Not really. Meth/crack/heroine (as used as an example by No_99) are all extremely addictive, leading users to give up everything in their lives for a drug habit. We could debate endlessly on whether or not the accomplishments that are deemed positive by society are worthwhile or not. Which would lead to the point that a drug habit is not good or bad, it only is. What we cannot deny, though, is the damage caused by drug trafficking. The marijuana drug market is a child's play area compared to the hard drug market, especially when you go higher up the chain (no pun intended). Massive amounts of cash and loads of weapons to protect their investments. And remember, most of these drug lords are users themselves (Tweeking with a weapon? Yikes.) So to sum it up...the individual user may not always be causing harm to others, but it is impossible to deny that the trafficking of those drugs does. Since those drugs remain illegal and never will become legal, it is not "silly" to put them in prison.