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Offline Newby

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Contraband Product Ratings
« on: October 24, 2006, 11:19:41 pm »
http://www.havocscope.com/products.htm

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/41190936/article.pl

#1 = marijuana
#7 = pirated software
#16 = pirated movies
#20 = pirated music

So apparently piracy isn't that big a deal, really. Sure, it's up there, but it ain't the biggest problem, and considering those statistics were given by the MPAA/RIAA, they are probably hyperbolic as it is!

(And apparently it made /. now! Damn me for not checking my RSS feeds earlier.)
« Last Edit: October 25, 2006, 12:23:13 am by Newby »
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I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: Contraband Product Ratings
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2006, 03:51:57 pm »
Apparently I've been in the wrong business all along!  I should be pirating software not trafficking humans!
And like a fool I believed myself, and thought I was somebody else...

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Re: Contraband Product Ratings
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2006, 06:55:13 pm »
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Re: Contraband Product Ratings
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2006, 08:55:30 pm »
Wtf? Counterfeit Batteries?!?
LOL!
Who does that!?

Pot is a $141 billion/yr business, dang...I should get in on that!

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Re: Contraband Product Ratings
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2006, 01:07:57 am »
I believe if the government stopped wasting millions (billions?) of dollars of tax money on sending people associated to Marijuana into prison, legalized it, and taxed it, the world would be a much better of place than giving all of that money to drug dealers and gangs.
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Re: Contraband Product Ratings
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2006, 02:09:20 am »
I believe if the government stopped wasting millions (billions?) of dollars of tax money on sending people associated to Marijuana into prison, legalized it, and taxed it, the world would be a much better of place than giving all of that money to drug dealers and gangs.

You honestly think that's a trivial task?

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Re: Contraband Product Ratings
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2006, 02:17:57 am »
You honestly think that's a trivial task?

Yes.

People caught driving under the influence of marijuana can and already are prosecuted under the same DUI laws as alcohol.

Companies will become the manufacturers and distributors of marijuana.  Think people will scorn them?  Nah.  Philip Morris, one of the largest US cigarette manufacturers, also owns Kraft Foods, Kool-Aid, Nabisco, Oscar Meyer, and Maxwell House (among others).  These same companies already have a large distribution infrastructure.

The government will get free money and will save millions a year on infrastructure costs by letting the potheads (the ones in jail just for using/posession) will be let out.
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Re: Contraband Product Ratings
« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2006, 02:32:12 am »
You honestly think that's a trivial task?
The government will get free money...

That's pushing it

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Re: Contraband Product Ratings
« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2006, 03:15:23 am »
People caught driving under the influence of marijuana can and already are prosecuted under the same DUI laws as alcohol.

Are you saying that this shouldn't be the case?

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Re: Contraband Product Ratings
« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2006, 09:49:31 am »
People caught driving under the influence of marijuana can and already are prosecuted under the same DUI laws as alcohol.

Are you saying that this shouldn't be the case?
I think MyndFyre is saying that everything is already setup for it.  We use the same laws to punish the pot-DUIers as the booze-DUIers, no new laws needed for stuff like that.  Only new laws needed would be in regards to regulation of the substance.

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Re: Contraband Product Ratings
« Reply #10 on: October 26, 2006, 11:16:00 am »
I think MyndFyre is saying that everything is already setup for it.  We use the same laws to punish the pot-DUIers as the booze-DUIers, no new laws needed for stuff like that.  Only new laws needed would be in regards to regulation of the substance.

Which is easier said than done.  How much of the pot on the streets is actually pot?  Tons of it comes laced with other crap.  I think the governments would still have to punish sellers, which is still a lot of work and a lot of cells in prison.

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Re: Contraband Product Ratings
« Reply #11 on: October 26, 2006, 06:30:55 pm »
If selling it becomes legal, then it will be sold by companies who will probably not only sell it for less, yet not lace it with crap. There will be absolutely no point for a person to sell drugs anymore. Even if there was, the government would be sending a lot less people to jail as they'd only be sending the dealers into prison vs the users.
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Re: Contraband Product Ratings
« Reply #12 on: October 26, 2006, 07:26:54 pm »
Haha, do they actually throw users in jail down there?  Wow..

Here, they don't give a rat's ass about users, they only care about people selling it.

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Re: Contraband Product Ratings
« Reply #13 on: October 26, 2006, 07:54:58 pm »
If selling it becomes legal, then it will be sold by companies who will probably not only sell it for less, yet not lace it with crap. There will be absolutely no point for a person to sell drugs anymore. Even if there was, the government would be sending a lot less people to jail as they'd only be sending the dealers into prison vs the users.

The dealers will be very capable at selling at lower prices.

Haha, do they actually throw users in jail down there?  Wow..

Here, they don't give a rat's ass about users, they only care about people selling it.

No.  There's a fine, but that's about it.  I'm sure they'll throw you in jail under some special circumstances (ie, it's the 10th time they've caught you, you were driving or in a position that put people in danger), but I don't think I've known anyone who went to jail for posession.

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Re: Contraband Product Ratings
« Reply #14 on: October 26, 2006, 08:59:15 pm »
Pirating music is only as bad as illegally fishing. :)
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.