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That's a rubbish idea while ever we're surrounded by so many hybrid regimes and failed states. :rolleyes: The reserves are already essentially 'conscriptable' due to a change Howard made to legislation in 2000, so I think the government should be aiming to increase the current capacity of the...

18 terabytes probably isn't that hard to achieve in a supercomputer now or in the near future. But I doubt any single node would have all 18 thousand of those gigabytes, so I guess it won't be a problem for a while. Edit: oh wait, 18 exabytes, not 18 terabytes. Yeah, we're safe for a while.

No, what I actually said, before you dishonestly added and removed various words, was: This clearly says I was bewildered by the status of certain drugs under current legislation. It was not an argument of any sort, Neb. It was an opinion and a reaction. That's why I'm calling your claims a...

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Fair enough, but I'm still wary of that argument because it often simply entrenches people further in the safety of knowing the government agrees with them so they don't feel they need to prove anything. It might make them stop posting in the thread perhaps (and I guess in that sense the...

I'm sorry we can't all be extremist militant Libertarians like you, Dom. No, the burden of proof is generally on those wanting to change legislation. Get used to it, stop whining about it, and just get down to business and produce that proof when challenged or you'll never get anywhere.

Of course. But they already do that now for tobacco and alcohol It's not like legalisation means "GET HIGH AT SCHOOL, SMOKE WEED IN THE SUPERMARKET, TWEAK WHILE DRIVING". Many of the existing laws for alcohol and tobacco use could easily be adapted for other drugs.

You're a fool who thinks his opinion is law, that's all. I have not done that once. I have urged people to confront the hypocriisy of current drug legislation by answering the question: "Why are nicotine and alcohol legal when demonstrably less harmful and addictive drugs are not?" No shit...

- Pollbludger on the latest Newspoll I'm just going to put this out there and if you don't like it just throw it right back to me: Turnbull made a slight mistake.

Thinks for the input resident terrorist supporter. Unfortunately for you, I have no "side", and even if I did I would hardly take image tips from somebody who quite openly and sincerely posted in support of the Mumbai terrorists while lamenting that they didn't target more Jews. I simply desire...

As I said, I don't know what his leaning is - he's just the guy who seems most likely to replace Turnbull, especially given his behaviour of late (though he's careful to support Turnbull 100% in public). I've been known to visit it when Poll Bludger hasn't updated in a while and I'm rather...

Hockey. I don't know if he's got a chance but he certainly wants it. Look at, for example, how much effort he spent distancing himself from every aspect of this whole scandal - from attacking Rudd/Swan to defending Turnbull. I don't really care though. I don't think even the Liberal leader after...

So it might lower the overdose rate (nowhere near all overdoses are due to misjudgement), but it would do nothing to reduce the large social, criminal and individual harm of certain drugs (IV and smoked stims/opiates specifically)?

I would like you to answer this question, Dom. In certain cases it's bewildering that the drug isn't already legalised (e.g. non-addictive drugs with a lower social and individual harm than alcohol or nicotine, such as marijuana, ecstasy, or GHB).

Is it possible to buy an iPhone for use with any network, without a plan?

I think such a disdain is a pretty common and normal feeling. It ties into human valuation of potential, worth, and waste. People generally hate seeing somebody waste their life (whatever that means), and while what the definition of a 'waste of a life' is is very debatable, seeing somebody...

The main benefits of harm minimisation are, depending on the methods used (I'm gonna assume we're mostly talking about shit like heroine): - clean drugs (no dangerous impurities) - exact dosages and monitored dosages (far less chance of overdose) - clean needles (no HIV, etc) - less drug-induced...

Fuck you're such a gronk. Always militantly opposed to those who may potentially disagree with you, or who simply do not phrase things in a way that you might deign to be acceptable.

No she didn't you. Re-read her posts. She did make a mistake in her first post where she accidentally added a negative qualifier but it sounds very much like Katie understands and begrudgingly supports the logical basis of harm minimisation.

Definitely harm minimisation. The benefits of it are intuitively obvious (but have been backed up by studies, which is why the UN supports it) and the disadvantages of zero tolerance should be equally obvious. Thankfully Obama supports harm minimisation, so maybe we'll start to see some tangible...