Posts by Whoops
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Great post, great reporting, and awesome google bomb I'm sure.
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With my shonky eyes, I first read this:
The answer to the ennui of life is not soma.
as
The answer to the emu of life is not soma.
Which in some ways made more sense.
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rofl... national radio has just had an interview with a hydroponic lettuce grower... he commented that in some prisons around NZ, hydroponic gardening is taught to the prisoners.
Life skills.
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Is is it better to buy your poison from a nice hippie in the Coromandel -- or a booze multinational that sells alcopops to kids?
This could go on for hours...but two wrongs don't make a right.
(to answer your question - the hippie, every time)
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Actually, I think the concerns you've been expressing have almost all been arguments for legislation. If you want traceability and regulation, you can't get there without legalisation.
Yep. Fully agree, and have no issue at all with the idea of legalisation... just that one call bugs the hell out of me.
Also agree on the "clearer... than most", though 'clearer' /= clear.
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victim, crime, sandwiches etc...
In many cases I know of, the smokers are certainly not victims. In a few, they are (parasitic drug dealers). I'm not refer (haha) ing to the end user.
However... even for those cases where the smoker is not a victim, it seems probable - in some if not many situations - that there will be a link along the chain to a crime in which there is a victim.
Do YOU know where your next joint has come from?
I think a full traceability regime is called for.
If you consider 'cannabis' is a victimless crime... and you're referring to the cannabis industry - from grower, to dealer, to smoker... that there's no victims directly caused by the cumulative financial impact of the demon weed then I'm fairly sure you'll be wrong.Don't mis understand me... I'm not against it, just find the hypocrisy bugs the hell out of me. Toke away, but don't pretend there are no indirect consequences or victims. Plenty of better arguments for legalisation than that old hippie refrain.
Diffuse culpability? Sure, and damn right alcohol is a far bigger problem.
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For those of you saying that Cannabis is a victimless crime... please prove this. Any chance (Nick) of a link between that delayed-fingerprint-burglary you're complaining about and someone's drug habit?
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further to my lonely rant on the science topic...
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Scientists are stupid.
Yes. I said it.
Hunter's quote you opened with is a perfect example of the problem faced. Watch closely;A direct quote from the RSNZ;
"...Science has not proved [that] human activities are changing the climate..."
QED, it's all bullshit and we should carry on burning dinosaurs.
Awesome, eh?.
One of the most furious blogger on the topic (Romm) notes that it's a street fight... and in my opinion the scientists' mouthpieces (generally) are still using the Queensbury rules.Get some media training, and if you feel your science is correct, and the ramifications are serious enough - kick ass. Gluckman's dead right - scientists' aren't equipped... but this is a PR war, not a 'public elucidation' effort. Shouldn't be that way, but it is.
This is needed, even in NZ, to combat the woeful 'fair and balanced approach of (most of) the media - still. e.g. the continuing Garth George / Rodney Hide school of 'making shit up because you know you won't be called on it - or if you are you can move on faster and make more shit up before the too-polite scientists find a way to meekly contradict you in some obscure publication or corner of the msm''
Good program. Thanks Russell. -
re: PS3 and playtv... PLEASE let it be that.
Ondemand is pretty cool, but freeview is what I want, and what Sony promised years ago.