Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Saw Underworld at Glade last year - amazing. They had real mega mega white things floating around. (it was also suggested they may have been the bubbles from the lager lager lager).
Anyway, if you won't, I will:
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A WOMAD mini-banner just popped up.
Now, is that targetted advertising based on repeated words like "cannabis", "weed" "dak" and "pot"? Or has Russell sold the ads based on an agreed placement next to hippy-friendly editorial?
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Ok Geoff, I have 20+ years in IT. Based on casual observation (lack of dreads/track marks/dilated pupils) I'd guess that most of my customers didn't do drugs much (this obviously excludes those in the financial markets).
Do I conclude that lack of drugs makes one ignorant, short-sighted and unable to make rational decisions?
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Also:
What kind of physics or chemistry experiments are better understood with 3D video than with 2D video?
A proper experiment is one that leaves the windows cracked, glassware embedded in the ceiling and the class being evacuated coughing onto the front lawn.
Sadly, today's kids don't learn to handle energetic materials at school and are forced to rectify this attempting reductive amination by trial and error at home.
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But rather than crediting people who use the technology with its development, perhaps you should credit the people who developed the technology for its development?
Word.
But that's standard practice in this world, where people consider themselves "geeks" even though they haven't created anything original ever - just because they know which Apple product they're going to buy next and can cut-and-paste the views of Richard Stallmann with fluency.
(grumps)
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the widespread effects of wars (from Land to ongoing)
Yeah, you can see this on Courtenay Place every weekend.
Sharelle is vomiting in the gutter due to the effects of the NZ SAS deployment to Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Jarrod is taking on a bouncer as a result of the 1864 Maori victory at Gate Pa.
Obvious, really.
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Through completely unscientific methods, based on dealing with 300-400 students a year.
Indeed, there are a number of obvious flaws in assuming from your observations that cannabis use damages students progress in university:
- The students will have different levels of compliance with authority, which is likely to be reflected both in their work and in their choice to use drugs.
- The staff may (subconsciously) regard certain students as useless stoners and give them less attention than more straight-edged kids
- Only students with "problem" drug use come to your attention. There is quite likely to be a large body of drug users that do not have problems and are not perceived as being drug users at all.(I could point to the fact that nearly all the PhDs I know use drugs, as an equally unscientific sample).
Since you are supporting the restriction of personal liberty, shouldn't that be based on rigorous science?
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If we got rid of booze in supermarket shelves and 24-hour liquor stores, on the other hand, I doubt there would be a sudden proliferation of sly groggers and illegal stills.
I think you might get alcoholics buying up during opening hours. Or driving drunk to the wholesaler because they couldn't get booze at the dairy.
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I said *some* psychiatrists. I have no opinion on the correctness of that view, or of the law that relies on it.
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how someone can be a mass murderer without being mentally ill, I have no idea
- Armed political struggle (though only pacifists and those on the opposing side would consider it "murder")?
- Financially motivated crime?
- Life circumstances?
Also some psychiatrists distinguish mental illness from personality disorders.