and now the articles in the news focus on THC content, yet again.

There is a PHd chemistry professor at my school, young guy, who didnt even know cannabidiol was from cannabis. CBD. You know, the anti cancer neuroprotectant miracle drug?

Yea. Current research and the US PATENT on the substance say we have been misled. Where is gupta on this EASY to find information?

FUck.

Please spread the word. The sin of omission is the greatest of all.

California is a Liberal utopia and it is on the verge of bankruptcy.

Detroit. Controlled by Democrats since 1961 and now bankrupt.

Liberals destroy societies by over taxing and taking from others.

North Carolinia is doing just fine with out Bill.
The RDU area has the have the highest concentration of PhD's per capata of any part of the US.

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@Jerykk said "gross generalisations based on no evidence and a complete lack of understanding of how society currently works (or, in this case, does not work)."

The mentally ill: I live in Switzerland and, while our politics are far from perfect, you will not see mentally ill homeless people because they are cared for and given work by social institutions. If the mentally ill are homeless, it is society's fault.

The uneducated: almost unequivocally poor as well; it is the responsibility of any self-respecting, "civilised" society to make sure their entire population gets proper education. This doesn't mean everyone should have a PhD; learning a trade is also an education (& no useful job a human can do should be denigrated).
The way you say it, it's as if you're blaming uneducatedness on the uneducated, but would you know anything about how our societies work, you'd know that is completely illogical.

The irresponsible: considering what you follow up with, you basically mean here "the poor/uneducated", and you regurgitate the Fox News cliché of the dumb and reckless poor person wasting money and making all the wrong decisions. Yes, people with limited-to-no education (see above) will be easier to dupe into debt, bad credit/mortgages, etc, and they will also be less likely to know of (or accept the use of, you asshole Christianity) contraceptives, nor be able to afford abortions should they need one.

Second chances and recidivism: there's an interesting quote from an article on recidivism (taken from the Wiki): "Former criminals rose to become some of America's greatest leaders in law, industry, and politics. This possibility seems to be narrowing as criminal records become electronically stored and accessible."
The fact that, the more you treat a person who has committed a crime as a criminal, during and after hir internment, the more that person will have hir choices narrowed to exactly that. Especially when, on leaving detention during which nothing was learned (countries with the lowest recidivism have their inmates work and learn trades), society still brands them as criminal and refuses to let them survive in a legal fashion. Not to mention the ridiculously out-of-proportion rates of incarceration in the US, and for a number of non-crimes as well; what a great way to harden and anti-socialise your youths.

Are there lazy moochers and irreconcilable criminals out there? Definitely, but they are not the norm.

@messenger @BicycleRepairMan

I want to share this video with you because it really gets to the heart of the issue. It shows how the conception of deep time came about, the history of it, the experiments that supposedly proved it, and the minds that contributed to it. It is presented by a PHD in Geology, a former atheist and professor who has published many papers and was involved in the scientific community before going into creation science. It can get pretty indepth and some of it was over my head. All in all, it is very interesting, even if you don't agree with all of the conclusions:

My PhD supervisor always advised it better not to make statements where you can say the opposite and it rings equally true.

Costs will tend to go up and quality will tend to go down as long and as much as profit-driven corporations are involved in the business of education.

Profit-driven corporations mostly benefit from a passive conformist populace, they're a lot easier to rule over and exploit.

This sums up my views almost entirely. I will be doing my phd on it from a meta-ethical point of view focusing on how we justify such violence on an individual and collective level.

Great vid.

I liked the overall look and feel of the unaired pilot. The apartment that Lenard and Sheldon share is an academic's dream in my opinion; dark, cluttered with books and papers, a compact and sparsely furnished social area, a fireplace that adds character to the room and walls adorned with numerous thought structuring white boards. The apartment in the ongoing show struck me as very bright and open; I generally don’t like bright and open, though it does provide more room for physical comedy. The character development was touch and go but in the end I believe Lenard needs no improvement in either the unaired pilot or the ongoing show. I believe that Sheldon's character would benefit from a combination of traits from both the unaired pilot and the current show, most notably the social openness balanced by his high levels of humorous narcissism. I don't believe there is a way to improve on the lead female role, I don't particularly care for either Katie or Penny and find the presence of a female character that is so overly ditzy insulting. What is needed is a smart (PhD level) female character that possesses a keen knowledge of both her field (possibly Anthropology, History or Psychology) and popular culture. This would serve to distinguish her from both the Katie/Penny character and also Amy and Bernadette; both characters that have seemingly no knowledge or an air of condescension concerning popular culture.

>> ^direpickle:

>> ^Payback:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos
The "Big Mistake of '08" would be a black hole that dropped into the earth.

In no way are the Hyperion novels "shit scifi!" I will fight people!


I didn't notice that criteria until after I answered. I retract Mr. Simmons' work.

In reply to this comment by shveddy:
Obviously I'm joking, but brownie points if anyone can tell me which shit scifi novel I read in high school put the idea of internally orbiting black holes destroying the earth in my mind.

I remember that being a plot complication in James Hogan's Thrice Upon A Time.

>> ^Payback:

>> ^shveddy:
See! See! I knew it! They're making mini black holes that are going to end up in long parabolic orbits through the earth, gobbling up a bit more of the earths mass with each passing until there is nothing left but a hollow shell. Aah, stop playing God!
Obviously I'm joking, but brownie points if anyone can tell me which shit scifi novel I read in high school put the idea of internally orbiting black holes destroying the earth in my mind. I can vividly recall it being a very important plot point to some book I've read, I just can't remember where I got it from.
Love these PHD comics, keep posting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos
The "Big Mistake of '08" would be a black hole that dropped into the earth.


In no way are the Hyperion novels "shit scifi!" I will fight people!

>> ^shveddy:

See! See! I knew it! They're making mini black holes that are going to end up in long parabolic orbits through the earth, gobbling up a bit more of the earths mass with each passing until there is nothing left but a hollow shell. Aah, stop playing God!
Obviously I'm joking, but brownie points if anyone can tell me which shit scifi novel I read in high school put the idea of internally orbiting black holes destroying the earth in my mind. I can vividly recall it being a very important plot point to some book I've read, I just can't remember where I got it from.
Love these PHD comics, keep posting.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos

The "Big Mistake of '08" would be a black hole that dropped into the earth.

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