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Having heard your thoughts on the cons of legalized medical marijuana (MMJ). I'd like to hear your thoughts on the pros of MMJ.

I can ask literally anything?

BamaBettie wrote:Having heard your thoughts on the cons of legalized medical marijuana (MMJ). I'd like to hear your thoughts on the pros of MMJ.

Well my answer the other day was more of a middle ground the basis was "Legalize it when we have the proper laws and regs in place to deal with it as a society"

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So I would not say I'm personally against it. I just want to ensure a good handling of it. For sake of your question the case for legalizing it right now is primarily based upon the comparisons to other substances. The thing is MJ doesn't have near as many ill health effects as cigarettes which are legal at 18 or alcohol which is legal at 21. It has minor mind altering effects compared to the potential alcohol posses and is used in many more recreational situations such as in the home which correlates to less risk in general from public substance abuse. Not to mention the sheer tax revenue the gov could benefit from by legalizing it. Considering we have significant debt and have to fight for increased taxes across the board this could make huge differences. Essentially there is not too much of a comparative downside to legalizing it and the economics are not realy debatable as we have data and research to pull from.

tritrekker wrote:I can ask literally anything?

Pretty much, obviously nothing personal or insensitive. But within the realm of decency; yes.

Why Physics?

I don't understand the question...

Crash 'n Burn wrote:crashthompson:: why did you pick physics as a career choice? What about it appeals to you so much

(From IRC)

Well physics isn't my career, unlike tp here who is a master in physics (majored/ing in it) I just had to take some physics classes for my EECS. I do enjoy it quite a bit however, as it's easy to tell. The main reason is I love learning how things work, how the universe functions and behaves is governed by physics. Physics is the key to understanding this and it is infinitely fascinating. The great thing about physics is it has such a huge range to draw from: quantum mechanics governs the micro; the small particles like the different kinds of quarks that make up electrons or protons. Similarly astrophysics deals with the vast subject of space and how we can use gravitational slingshots on rockets and such. Basically I find physics so neat because of how much I like to learn about the how and why things work, also because I am a dreamer at heart. I don't expect everyone to love it but the concepts (no math) are interesting enough, mix in the math to describe things if you want and worlds of astounding things open up.

I am not expert in physics and in actuality am not that smart or versed in them. I just enjoy indulging myself in physics.

twisted-pixel wrote:I don't understand the question...

I get that a lot actually.

What would be the most effective way to invade the American continent?

Why invade, most of it is for sale anyway? However, a few well placed EMP bombs and it's lights out America.

Has America given up the high ground to the Russians? I have heard that Putin -who strangely reminds me of Benito- has denied America use of their launch vehicles, will the Russians drop rocks on us from the ISS?

that wont happen until 2020, by then we should have a replacement

General Cornrow Wallace wrote:What would be the most effective way to invade the American continent?

Franklin Stone wrote:Why invade, most of it is for sale anyway? However, a few well placed EMP bombs and it's lights out America.

Has America given up the high ground to the Russians? I have heard that Putin -who strangely reminds me of Benito- has denied America use of their launch vehicles, will the Russians drop rocks on us from the ISS?

Most of it for sale? No, I mean we do want to weaken the dollar to push for more investment here from abroad and up our GDP. But it's not for sale...

Not so simple as a few EMPs, getting them in the right places, and set up is hard. Also everything important is either shielded or has redundancies. Traditional invasions are less of the game now, but if you were going to, going through Canada and Mexico would be the best. Mexico would be much easier with all the violence and such. With Canada you would really have to be covert about it. Two pronged strike, you would need to push hard and fast for the capitol. Though you would really need alot of inside people to help. It would not be like any traditional invasion as there is so much tech, intel gathering, etc you would need to keep it all quiet and would need people inside as the second you attacked the president is gone, and we lock down. From there it would be hell as while the US doesn't lead in much our National Defense and pride are way high. Plus the US is a major world power and if our economy died so would global economy so outside intervention would be massive. Essentially there is no good way for a traditional invasion. Terrorists try to take us down through more subversive tactics.

Unlike the 1812 war we're not a smaller country with part of the continent. We stretch sea to shinning sea, and have a large well trained and prepared military. Invading us, while it would cost us, would not be successful in the end.

We haven't given up any high ground. We have backed out of space to some extent however the IIS is, by definition, International. Russia won't be dropping anything on us anytime soon. And we're certainly not handicapped. Remember there is a lot you're not read in on as its classified and as citizens we might not know exactly what is going on DARPA is always working hard on tech and the AF runs space operations a lot. Not to mention we have NORAD and many other agencies and orgs working for us here. Just not public.

Explain a scenario in which Dragons could have existed with the last of them dying off in the recent past, like just before photography was developed? (the traditional European medieval dragon, as opposed oriental dragons)