Perfect case of having too much coffee in the morning. You're an addict bird, go home. Oh, it did, all is well then. =)

...Was that supposed to be poignant, or just an extremely obscure inside joke?

Anyway, this "debate" was a bit ridiculous. Howard Samuels was, as others have already pointed out, very clearly straw manning - at no point was it suggested that opposing party thought marijuana should be legalized for recreational use by big companies.

It should also be noted that while Samuels runs a rehab center and in fact has a personal history of fighting addiction, this also has a negative effect on his ability to form an opinion on this situation. For him, extreme vulnerability to addiction is the norm. He himself is probably very prone to addiction, and he exclusively works with other individuals who are also extremely prone to addiction. I would say that the only people for whom marijuana can be seen as a gateway drug is the sort of people for whom alchohol, caffeine, nicotine, adrenaline or really anything that could possibly be abused could be seen as a "gateway drug."

These are the sort of people who always go too far. They drink too much coffee, they take too many risks, they smoke too much and they are always that one guy who gets embarrassingly drunk at parties because he just doesn't know how to limit himself.

But these people shouldn't be seen as the norm because honestly, they simply aren't.

And because Samuels apparently does think that these people define the norm, his view cannot be seen as being comprehensive. He's only looking at the extreme ends of the spectrum, and even then, he's really only looking at the potential negative extremes, because that is where he used to be, and it's where the people he now tries to heal are stuck.

>> ^spoco2:

I just watched this on my right monitor while having a couple of programming IDEs open on the left one.
Is my shit tight too?
Or have I just been drinking too much coffee?

Damn straight!

Too much screen real estate is like too much money, it can potentially be a problem but the vast majority of people don't have near enough to worry about it.

I just watched this on my right monitor while having a couple of programming IDEs open on the left one.

Is my shit tight too?

Or have I just been drinking too much coffee?



Also, Putin is funny.... funny Putin

Ghost had too much coffee.

I also don't like when people say "of-T-en" without the silent T as it should be pronounced. Again, very trivial but try the following:

Say: "often"

Did you silence the T? Why or why not?

Say: "soften"
Say: "listen"
Say: "fasten"
Say: "glisten"

Did you silence the T? Why or why not? DURRRRRRR dont pronounce the T in "often" motherfucker!!! I hate how people have fucked up that word for so long that it's now part of the language.

Although, maybe I just had too much coffee today. Probably just leftover stress from ChrisT-mas. ;-)

Too much coffee can be a bad thing. Who knew?

I think Silver City is what Santa Fe apparently used to be like. Only, Silver isn't close enough to anything for it to ever get "big".
(Can you tell it's a bitterly cold day out there and that I'm stuck in the house keeping from getting bored and drinking entirely too much coffee? I thought so.)

^ No one needs to talk to anyone to know that alcohol is a drug, but you may want to talk to RS as to what belongs in the drugs channel. I believe the intent of the drugs channel is for more illicit substances.

I haven't thrown up, but gotten very queezy from too much coffee/caffeine. I was also very jittery.

Uh, I don't have to talk to anyone to know that alcohol is a drug, thank you. And when you show me someone throwing up in a toilet because they had too much coffee, then I'll gladly be as consistent as you like, pally.

Ahoy! I replied (in a rather surly way, for some reason... too much coffee?) to your comment!

Cheers!
- bamdrew

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
I don't understand why they're so popular. In my personal opinion, their compositions are all ridiculously bland. The drumming lacks any sort of zest at ALL. I generally expect a "professional musician" to display a lot more skill than that. Be creative, etc. Seriously, she seems like she's totally incapable of focusing on more than three parts of the set at once.

Too much coffee today moonsammy? A little on edge? Take a nice deep breath.. :>