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261  Other / Off-topic / Re: Are house cats useful? on: July 01, 2014, 02:50:11 AM
cats clean up all the pests around your house  Wink

I wish, all the stupid cat does around my house is eat, sleep, and shit.  That and throw up all over the driveway when it gets outside.  Damn thing can't even catch mice properly.  It catches them, brings it in the house, and then plays with it.

Remember, never trust anything that expects you to keep a box of their shit in your house.
262  Other / Off-topic / Re: Are house cats useful? on: July 01, 2014, 02:27:26 AM
Some cats are apparently just evil.  Heard about this story a few months back now.  The family had to call 911 after the cat attacked and they locked themselves in a room to get away from the cat, LOL!

Thought it was all a load of crap and a complete overreaction, but the cat has done it again with a new family.

Here is the original story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2577997/Father-calls-911-help-enraged-cat-attacks-baby-bails-family-including-DOG-bedroom.html

Here is the recent story where it attacked again: http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/index.ssf/2014/06/portlands_911_cat_lux_and_my_c.html#incart_river_default

263  Other / New forum software / Re: Downvote / Dislike button on: July 01, 2014, 01:42:30 AM
It would be cool if something like 10 hero members downvote it, then it gets hidden, or the size of the title decreases.

That way the community can work with the moderators.

I like this idea. I would think that hero members would be far less likely to abuse the system. As you mention, a trial run of it couldn't hurt.  Not sure if I would like to see it totally hidden though, it's always nice sometimes to take a look at it to see why it was down voted so much.
264  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The war on drugs killed my daughter on: June 29, 2014, 10:49:58 PM


The war on drugs killed my daughter

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/22/mother-fights-against-war-on-drugs-anne-marie-cockburn-martha-fernback

<< Martha Fernback, 15. died from taking 91% pure ecstasy. Anne-Marie Cockburn is campaigning for drug legalisation to spare others her ordeal. >>




So the war on drugs is to blame how? Newsflash, drugs are dangerous and can kill you.  That's the risk you take, that's why they are illegal in the first place.  I used to do cocaine from time to time, I knew the risk I was taking.  Now they are apparently cutting it with fentanyl.  No more cocaine for me, not worth the risk.

Even if legalized and regulated, there is no way to know how it would affect her.

I don't see how the war on drugs is to blame on this one.  Sounds like the same type of people that blame McDonald's for making them fat.
I agree, I think the mother is placing the blame on the wrong person. The article says that her daughter was researching the drug online prior to buying, so she should have been well informed that the more pure the drug was the stronger and more dangerous it is.

If we stopped the war on drugs then many more people would die from overdosing and even more people's lives would be ruined by drugs

Yep, and in reality, the problem would sort itself out.  Darwin would win many rounds.  I don't have much sympathy for people who become addicts.  I've seen first hand how it can ruin lives and the lives of the people around them.

People want them legalized, fine.  But if thats what they want, then I don't want my tax dollars to fund their medical care or their social assistance checks.  i also want the firearms laws changed so I can take out a drugged out idiot on my property if they're trying to break into a vehicle, out build, and/or my house.

Down in Vancouver they have a safe injection site, needle exchange, crack pipe vending machine, etc. It's become a drug haven for addicts.  They claimed it would create less drug addicts. Quick walk down a few streets in the Down town east side proves the opposite.
265  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The war on drugs killed my daughter on: June 29, 2014, 10:39:41 PM
I used to do cocaine from time to time, I knew the risk I was taking.  
No you didn't. You probably 'knew' the basic assumptions that most people tended to know as a result of hearsay and anecdote, but did you know at the time that consuming cocaine and alcohol creates the cardiotoxic substance cocaethylene in-vivo? Cocaine is rarely consumed without alcohol, but most people assume the risk is in the cocaine, when it is far more harmful when used in conjunction with alcohol.

Now they are apparently cutting it with fentanyl.  No more cocaine for me, not worth the risk.
Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and call bullshit on this claim. That's like the absurd claim that marijuana is sprinkled with [insert far more expensive drug here] in order to increase it's weight and potency.

There are those that will take cocaine with an opiate, commonly known as a speedball, which can lead to the longer-lasting effects of the opiate, at a dose that was previously tolerable while the short-acting cocaine was stimulating the central nervous system, becoming one that is fatal. But no dealer would ever simply cut cocaine with a powerful and expensive opiate drug.

I don't see how the war on drugs is to blame on this one.
Because it is just as equally a war on knowledge and information about drugs. Objective, unbiased and educational information, not ignorant indoctrination.

You demonise drugs equally, telling children the usual misinformation and lies, you end up with them trying something relatively benign (not entirely harmless but, certainly, proven to be less harmful than alcohol or tobacco), such as marijuana and, when their world doesn't fall apart and they have a giggly time being stoned, they believe they are being lied to about all drugs.

So how do you expect them to then listen to valid warnings about opiate or stimulant drugs if they know they have already been lied to about cannabis?

The girl in this tragic case died, not because she intentionally wanted to take a dangerously high amount of MDMA, but because she couldn't easily gain access to an information resource that would have informed her doses in excess of 120mg were too large and why.

Young people aren't generally stupid and they tend not to want to actually do things which might kill them, so if you let them be educated about the neurochemistry and physiological aspects of drug use, they will be able to see the realities of the situation and judge it for the facts, not the useless scaremongering.


LOL! Yeah I know all about how mixing cocaine and alcohol creates a third chemical.  I've read up a lot about cocaine over the years. So yeah, I knew the risks.

As for calling bullshit on the cocaine and fentanyl, there was a recent spike of cocaine overdoses in a city close to where I live.  They apparently tested it, and they found that it was mixed with fentanyl. Same with heroin, spike in overdoses and found it was mixed with fentanyl.

You bring up speedballs like I'm some kind of clueless idiot about drugs.  I lost a friend some years ago from overdosing on a speedball combo.  I live near the city of Vancouver, which has the poorest postal code in Canada.  Drug use is rampant.  Was at The Queen concert last night.  Got to watch a guy shoot up in his neck down a back alley, good times.  Been down around there on and off for 18 years.  My sister was a heroin addict and lived on those streets for years. Seen and learned a lot down there over the years.

Yes, young people generally are stupid.  This had nothing to do with not having access to information.  Basic rule of thumb.  You risk taking harder drugs, there is a chance it can kill you.
266  Other / Meta / Re: what is the benifit of total time logged in? on: June 28, 2014, 12:55:38 AM
Is there any benifit of total time logged in?

Nope, it can be a sad reminder of how much time some of us waste on here though.   Cheesy

I signed up roughly 6 months ago and have been logged in just over13 days, 5 hours.

 Shocked
267  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The war on drugs killed my daughter on: June 28, 2014, 12:44:50 AM


The war on drugs killed my daughter

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/22/mother-fights-against-war-on-drugs-anne-marie-cockburn-martha-fernback

<< Martha Fernback, 15. died from taking 91% pure ecstasy. Anne-Marie Cockburn is campaigning for drug legalisation to spare others her ordeal. >>




So the war on drugs is to blame how? Newsflash, drugs are dangerous and can kill you.  That's the risk you take, that's why they are illegal in the first place.  I used to do cocaine from time to time, I knew the risk I was taking.  Now they are apparently cutting it with fentanyl.  No more cocaine for me, not worth the risk.

Even if legalized and regulated, there is no way to know how it would affect her.

I don't see how the war on drugs is to blame on this one.  Sounds like the same type of people that blame McDonald's for making them fat.
268  Other / Off-topic / Re: How vaccines cause autism. on: June 28, 2014, 12:27:10 AM
Vaccines do cause autism, Jenny McCarthy said so.

I mean, who can dispute these facts: http://www.jennymccarthybodycount.com/Anti-Vaccine_Body_Count/Home.html

 Grin
269  Other / Off-topic / Re: Pizza! on: June 27, 2014, 01:34:06 AM
Had some Pizza last night that was absolutely amazing!  I forgot the place existed.  My buddy and I were having a few beers and he just went ahead and ordered it.  He got a meat lovers with thick crust.  Wasn't expecting much, but it came with a dough ball in the middle of the pizza. Forgot how much I enjoyed them, LOL!

Anyone else like a dough ball in the middle of their pizza?
270  Other / Off-topic / Re: One Of My Best Freinds Passed Away Today At Home on: June 27, 2014, 01:29:07 AM

If there is an afterlife, I hope he is driving a V-12 American La France at 100 mph all day long with his Dalmation by his side!

Thank you for your kind post.

Been gone for a while due to health issues but everything is OK now.

Just kind of took a break from the madness of crypto!

Glad to hear your health issues are better. 

I'd like to think my Dads up there somewhere bombing around in his beat down old Chevy with his German Shepard in the back, LOL! Likely listening to anything from The Beatles to Metallica.
271  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: BitFury Group wants to be listed on NYSE or NASDAQ on: June 27, 2014, 01:24:57 AM
Great idea as far as I can see, as long as they do well on the market.  It will bring a lot more positive exposure to bitcoin.  With BitFury being on the stock market, more people will see bitcoin as a legitimate investment hopefully.
272  Economy / Services / Re: [PrimeDice] [Highest Paid Signature] Earn Bitcoins Simply By Posting on: June 26, 2014, 11:24:05 PM

www.PrimeDice.com

Claim the free BTC faucet every minute and receive 10,000 satoshi for the next hour!

Simply go to PrimeDice.com and click the claim button. Once you reach 50,000 satoshi's you may cashout! This is the quickest way to make profit!


1 hour limited special Tongue

Best of luck all!

Again I was 2 hours too late  Cry
Maybe next time then, or not Tongue

Just a heads up, it's still active. Just did the free BTC thing, got 10000.

It wasn't for me  Shocked
I tested it when I write that post...

Very strange, then again, I was only able to do it once.  I was curious to see if it would work, the last bonus I was able to take advantage of went on longer than an hour
273  Economy / Services / Re: [PrimeDice] [Highest Paid Signature] Earn Bitcoins Simply By Posting on: June 26, 2014, 08:27:35 AM

www.PrimeDice.com

Claim the free BTC faucet every minute and receive 10,000 satoshi for the next hour!

Simply go to PrimeDice.com and click the claim button. Once you reach 50,000 satoshi's you may cashout! This is the quickest way to make profit!


1 hour limited special Tongue

Best of luck all!

Again I was 2 hours too late  Cry
Maybe next time then, or not Tongue

Just a heads up, it's still active. Just did the free BTC thing, got 10000.
274  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Do you sometimes think Bitcoin will fail? on: June 26, 2014, 07:34:13 AM
Depends on what day and what mood I'm in, LOL! Sadly, it looks like there are far more people that want it to fail, than prosper, and for no real reason. Except for the fact they like to see something fail.

Then there is the fact that the central banks are so powerful that they could crush it like a bug.  Someday, I think that it can't be crushed because it's taken off too far to kill it completely. Personally, I don't know anymore.

I want to support bitcoin, but these days it doesn't keep the lights on. I can make more money investing in the stock market than I can with bitcoin these days. i will continue to mine on a small scale and hold my coin in the hope that it will one day take off, but for now, there are better investments out there.
275  Other / Off-topic / Re: Decalcifying your pineal gland on: June 26, 2014, 06:15:21 AM
Many will jump all over Dank on this, well, just because.  But I've been hearing about this more and more. What harm is there in decalcifying your pineal gland?  Now, I'm not about to stare into the sun, LOL! But I hear there are other ways to do it.

Still though, pay your debts Dank, at least put in the effort to do so.  People around here might take you more seriously.
276  Other / Meta / Re: hillariousnco banned? on: June 26, 2014, 05:32:46 AM
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Thanks, and again, exactly. I've never made any 'simple-minded' or just 'I agree' posts anywhere on this forum, and when I state that I agree with what someone has said I'll usually write a few sentences why I do. But I'd just ignore this guy. He's just another user lying and exaggerating to suit their own petty agenda without any evidence. And his entire contributions to this community seem to be exclusively trying to sell his gift cards, and half of those posts seem to be just masses of bumps.


There needs to be no evidence because you know you spam, but I rather not go through all your posts, so I'll pick one out of the blue that happens to be on the first page of your profile.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=664016.msg7488995#msg7488995


You "think".....? Interesting, I'm glad you "think" that without having any actual knowing.  Could have actually been helpful if you knew, but you only "think". To fill up the rest of the space, you put your favorite domain type. Fantastic deep level thinking there. No simple minded replies you say? Now for yourself, go to Stunna's post and you can see (along with other members) how much you spam with your simple posts, and a lot of them being on the basis of "I agree". I admit to not being a contributor on the posting and social side of this site, but more so the economical side on the market places as I have helped numerous people from scams and such that lurk in those forums. Your contribution to this forum is absolutely nothing, zero, nada. Why? Because without the sig deals, you would not be here, nor would you post. Even with them, your posts are spam and pointless. The only thing I would give credit for is 1/4 of your posts on Stunna's thread, which of course you post on to increase your wages for the month.
Tell me, which one is more constructive. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=658484.msg7405545#msg7405545 or that? I believe hilariousandco doesn't express his feelings using that but continue to elaborate. In many occasions, I have seen him posting constructive posts, contributing his opinions. If there's no signature campaign, I doubt people would even want to post this often.

LOL! Busted!  Lets face it, we all make posts that could be construed as spam from time to time without even realizing it. Personally, the fact I'm in a sig campaign, I try to put a little more effort into posts than I do on other message boards I frequent that don't have sig campaigns. I tend to not comment on a lot of things around here that I normally would because I don't want to get suspended/banned.

I like the community and that's the main reason I post here. Without the sig campaign, I'd probably post more, but I know that we have a target on our heads because we have a sig that pays us a small amount to post.
277  Other / Off-topic / Re: One Of My Best Freinds Passed Away Today At Home on: June 26, 2014, 02:51:21 AM
I was out on errands and did not get the call to come to the house until it was too late.

That's OK, I guess; maybe this is the way it was supposed to be.

He was a retired Kansas City, Kansas Firefighter.

He was diagnosed with terminal cancer six years ago and given a month to live.

Ploease turn up your speakers for the traditional firefighter's dirge:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkLXOWimMY8

Thank you.





So sorry for you loss, my condolences to you and everyone that knew him. Strong man to be able to fight off cancer for that long.

May he RIP
278  Other / New forum software / Re: Downvote / Dislike button on: June 26, 2014, 12:47:29 AM
Because there's a 'like' button feature being requested, I really would like to see a downvote / dislike button to hide comments/threads that are rather annoying.

Discuss.

(If you don't like this idea, well, you can't downvote it because you don't have a downvote button, so ha!)

I like the idea of an upvote, but a dislike button would just get abused.  I'm on a hockey forum and they added a + and - system.  It was abused really really bad.  People would just - people for no reason and then their buddies would come in and do the same. 

They took away the - option and just left it as a + system.  It works rather well.  We only get 4 or 5 a day, so it makes it a lot harder to abuse.  We then get a rating under our account that adds them up. 
279  Economy / Lending / Re: Am about to go homeless, could use some help on: June 25, 2014, 10:58:37 PM
From my understanding, yeah he's always been a nut, it just gets more nutty the more drugs he does.

All he has to do, as Vod has stated, is sell the bike and pay back Squall.  He refuses to do so, so he'll never get an ounce of respect from anyone around here or elsewhere.

The more he talks, the more I do this:

280  Other / Meta / Re: How should new members be treated? (Personally been treated wrong) ( User Vod) on: June 25, 2014, 07:46:30 AM
Try walking into a bank and opening a new account, while you are doing that, ask them for a loan.  Lets see what kind of response you get.  You magnify that on an anonymous forum... you should be getting the idea about now.

Personally, I think new members should have to pass some kind of test to prove they've read the board rules.  Getting a little tired of new users asking about the activity rating.  If you would have read the top post stickied in this forum, you wouldn't have to ask the question.
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