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So we should never try to eliminate waste when we identify it? Oh, yes. The black market for alcohol really took off after prohibition. :confused:

That's the prospective entrepreneur's problem, isn't it? Besides, why wouldn't the current illegal suppliers of today simply become the legal suppliers of tomorrow's post-legalization world? For example, the Colombian cartels continue to sell their gear, only now they do it legally. What...

[/b] Hapaboy, the two obviously aren't related at all. Most people instictively recognise that that the only thing "wrong" with drug use is that it is illegal, not that only thing it exists for is to harm other people (as opposed to murder). And as far as being illegal being a detterant, I...

Seems to me the greatest restistance to legalization comes from people that just don't like the idea of taking drugs, usually because of the image they attach to drug users. Okay, fine; no one's forcing you to like it. I don't like it, can't stand the shit. But does "I don't like it...

Why wouldn't others (besides you and I)? Because drugs are currently not prohibitively expensive. Like I said, virtually everyone who would want to do drugs is already doing them. As for the 'social message' being sent, that's kinda bad luck there for you, isn't it? I mean, let's face...

I don't think that's his complete position though. I think it's more like, If God doesn't exist then nothing matters and everything is meaningless. A position based on the illogic that if something doesn't ultimately matter it doesn't matter at any point along the way. (How about its...

WTF??? Did Maverick tell you that one?

Hapaboy, I agree that drug use can cause significant social problems. There is an important point that perhaps you don’t realize; that all the people who want to do drugs are already doing drugs. The drug war is a complete failure in restricting supply to those that want drugs, a complete...

I did try to look it up. Not surprisingly, since the notion is so utterly absurd, I turned up nothing. I highly, highly doubt that it was even the case during communist era.

Well, you apparently. Or do you endorse the legalization of drugs regardless of the effect (which you overstate) it will have on your insurance premiums? And just to add my .02, fuck man, this 'war' is just soooooo fucking stupid it boggles the mind. It's not even working for fuck's...

What??? Maaaaaverick....been hitting the 'wacky tobacky' have we?

Well, so what? One trade was gonna do exactly what for your trading career?

Sure, but starting out Joe? Are you for real? Even if they had $200k starting cap, you and I both know that expecting to make anything over 40% on your capital per annum is really pushing it. So, they make their 80k, in this ideal example, and obviously they need about 40k of that to live on...

Has anyone really defended the decision to day trade as a 'wise' choice, yet? What do you think? I mean, you 'love the markets', cool (so do I!), but why day trade? On what basis is a better choice than longer term trading? I can't think of any. (I can think of plenty that I used to...

Who knows hap? Let's not forget that Arafat was for the longest time a fully fledged terrorist who almost certainly held and helped spread the view that nothing but 'ultimate victory' would be acceptable to the arabs; so could even be something as simple as 'pride', in not wanting to go down in...

Lol. Bull-fucking-shit. To compare the actions of the Israelis then to the Palestinians now is absoutely ludicrous. This isn't the first post you've made covering up for the idiocies of palis and fundie muslims with paper thin logic. Do you really think anyone besides yourself is buying it?

I wouldn't go as far as claiming a 'Bad Boy' redux, but god damn they sure layeth the smack down.

Living in the 21st century is a little bittersweet, I must admit. (So will the 22nd and maybe 23rd and 24th, too). I mean, we are so close, we can imagine all sorts of wonders that the future might hold....but our lives are going to be snuffed out before we ever get there....(I mean...

I don't even think money is going to matter anymore...in the sense that your only hope for a quality life is to get it (heaps of it)...

Oh shit yeah, I've wondered about that stuff heaps of times. You're right that it's just unimaginable what life would be like then. I mean, look how far we came in just the 20th century, and the party's just getting started and there's no reason to think it's going to end any time soon...