"Phillip Sherman of Arkansas learned that lesson after he left his phone behind at a McDonald's restaurant and the photos ended up online. Now he and his wife, Tina, are suing the McDonald's Corp., the franchise owner and the store manager." - Tad, TV's Patrick Duffy
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That's what you do when you're mad and have to sue someone... - Lindsay Donaghe
@Tad -- because the phone was lost and found on McD property and McD employees acted totally inappropriately when they put the photos online. Either McD and/or the restaurant have no policy in place to ensure their customers' privacy in cases like that, or they failed to properly supervise their employees. Either way it's not unreasonable to hold them responsible. Now, whether that's really worth 3 million bucks is a different questions... - Ray Metzen
Ahh, just read the article... yeah, if the employees found in at promised to secure it, then they have good cause to sue. - Lindsay Donaghe
Yeah, McD's deserves to be sued in this case. Just because the guy forgot his phone doesn't give them the right to look on it and especially not to post the pictures that were on it. - Jason Huebel
"Two burly detectives with nearly 60 years' experience between them broke down in tears on finding Shannon Matthews. Detective Constables Paul Kettlewell and Nick Townsend described the emotion of recovering the missing child from Michael Donovan's flat after she had been missing for 24 days. The two policemen, with many of their colleagues in the West Yorkshire force, had thought Shannon was dead. So they could hardly believe the little girl was now sitting in the back seat of their police car. Looking at each other, they shook hands and cried "tears of joy" at the unbelievable recovery of the nine-year-old." - RAPatton
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249. But that's with my formal. I'll try "Katie" in a minute. - Katie
Yup, just like I thought, I'm the ONLY one. :D - Haggis (Sean)
19 with my first (really it's my middle) and last name. Pfft, surely there are more than that! - Carmen
There are 41 of me. Thankfully, I am not the most famous (columnist for the Chicago Sun0Times has my same name). Ego searches do nothing for me. :) - Dave
Ha! I guess it's good I go by Katie and not Katherine. There are only 90 as opposed to 249. - Katie
Wow! It told me that: More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Ian are male. Hey! Shoot... let's get this clear... I am not the 0.1% OK? - Ian May
"1 or less" people with my name, no big surprise there! - Nicholas Kreidberg
" There are 1 or fewer people in the U.S. named <MY NAME>. The estimates for one or both names are not absolute. There may be fewer people with this name, or none at all." - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
OMG!!! "There are fewer than 1,529 people in the U.S. with the first name Stupid." "There are fewer than 336 people in the U.S. with the last name Blogger." - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
There are 1 or fewer people in the U.S. named Matthew Ernisse. -- I sure hope the or fewer evaluates to false... - matthew john ernisse
@ Tina I would not be surprised to find out that those 1529 are all employed by the government in some way... Oh, and there's 26 of me out there - Mark VandenBerg
Only one of me in America (and I would say in the whole world) - klecu
Only one of me as well - you can all count your blessings! =) - ilene
653. (And one of them lives two blocks down the street.) - John Craft
There are 8,291 people in the U.S. named Andrew Smith... Do I win :) Oh, and I'm in Canada. - Andrew Smith
Can u believe there are only 19 people with my name Sheryl Grimes in the US!! I thought way more - Sheryl
There are 1,397 people in the U.S. named Robert Patton. - RAPatton
I'm the only one with my real name according to this site and Google. - Logical Extremes
There are 25 people in the U.S. named Adriana Reyes.-- Hmmm... kind of like that =) - Adrianne.AER
Estimated "4 or fewer" - so along with the most famous of our set, now living in London I believe, and one in Sydney Australia I know of, there might be three more in Us alone? Come out, come out where ever you are... - David HC Soul
There are 148 people in the U.S. named Thomas Hawk. - Thomas Hawk
There are 37 people in the U.S. named Deborah Schwarz. And yes, it looks like Andrew Smith is the reigning champion so far for the most common name amongst us. - David Cook
... really good at scraping up bacon and LOLCAT images. ;-) - Chris Baskind
I have a new slogan. FriendFeed, free crowdsourcing at its finest! - Mark Krynsky
Increasing the number of people doesn't necessarily make the selection of material better. Plus, you also end up with a lot of duplication. - Morton Fox
Morton: heh, the repetition tells me it's important! :-) - Robert Scoble
Morton, with the new grouping feature, the duplication just bubbles the story up again. This promotes the "importance" angle while complimenting the "freshness". - Rob Diana
Jason: here's the deal, though. I have 4,800 smart people reporting to me. I've hand picked them all. No stupid people allowed. And even there I've taken the best and put them in a separate list of only 200 people. I'm getting news that never makes it to Techmeme. - Robert Scoble
The CEOs of GM, Ford and Chrysler are back on Capitol Hill asking for loans and trying to undo damage they did during the previous auto bailout hearings. - Jason Shultz
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Ford and GM have since announced they would sell their jets. And all three CEOs have agreed to cut their pay to $1 a year if they get the federal help they are seeking. - Does this mean they won't cut it if they DON'T get the help they need? - Jason Shultz
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The three automakers are now asking for up to $34 billion in federal loans, up from their earlier request for $25 billion in assistance. - Jason Shultz
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"You say you want my trust and
Told me you were leavin'.
How am I to know that you won't do it to me?
You're tellin' me it's different
But what the hell is different
If you cheated on him you'll do it to me." - Ginuwine - Shey
I think it depends on the degree of severity. If they did it one time, 10+ years ago, regret it a lot, etc. that would be different than someone who has done it in every single relationship, doesn't think it's a very big deal, etc. It would be case-by-case situation for me, rather than an automatic yes/no thing. - Rochelle
Just remember . . . not everyone admits to it. Who's to say you won't find someone that has and will never tell you. - Lindsey
In the past, I would've said HELL TO THE NO, but my ex boyfriend cheated on his ex gf but he never cheated on me. Bottomline: depends. - Mona N.
Past performance is not necessarily a guarantee of future results. - Jason Shultz
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But if they have cheated on EVERYONE they have dated, then no way - Shevonne Polastre
I would, because I've been that person. There's a big difference between mid-20s Jon in NYC and 21-year-old Jon living in Italy for a couple years. 5 years isn't huge time-wise, but can contain huge personal growth. I would give a person the benefit of the doubt and let him/her fuck it up later. - Jon Anderson
Might be a good think if they've cheated. It's out of their system and they know the aggro it causes. - Sofia Gkiousou
I would, but I would probably be a bit cautious and guarded for a bit. And like others have said, it would also depend on the degree/quantity/timeframe of when the past offense(s) occurred. - Amanda H.
Plus you should only say "no" if you never cheated in your life. Not once. Never. Not even a peck. (Which I can safely assume is not the majority of the population, even if its not admitted amongst the nouveau puritans) - Sofia Gkiousou
I haven't considered dating since I got married. - Glen Campbell
I only cheated once when I was 16 and never did it again. I think sometimes people cheat once and they feel so much guilt that they jut can't imagine causing that hurt to someone again. However, in the case of my ex..... - Shevonne Polastre
Having been the victim of someone who was cheated on, and looking back on that experience, I'd be open-minded enough to let someone who would share that info with me have a chance. But looking back at my POS ex who was just a small, small man (pun intended), I feel for whoever he ends up dating. - Derrick
There is a difference between someone who cheats and someone who has cheated. Usually, someone who cheats will do it again and probably has other red flags going on. I'm usually willing to give the benefit of the doubt to someone who has cheated, but cheaters never prosper. - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★
If you're just going to hang, then it shouldn't matter. If you are looking for an actual relationship with this person, then hell no. But then again, I'm in Glen's corner. Haven't dated since I got married, either. ;) - Helen Sventitsky
I've done it, so it would be lame of me to punish someone for doing what I'd already done.... - Iain Baker
Simple. No. They're clearly going to jump ship if they get a little horney or get a better offer. - Toby Graham
Toby I beleive you're thinking about it the wrong way round. you should be thinking "there is no better offer out there so if they go it's their loss". Ego has a lot going for it in situations like these. :-) - Sofia Gkiousou
This whole conversation is why I don't do closed relationships. Human sexuality is fluid and everyone is a lot happier when they can screw around (with certain relationship-specific boundaries) and not get in trouble for it. - Sparky
Sofia and Sparky showing me the error in my ways! - Toby Graham
I don't think I would no. Once a cheat always a cheat from my experience. - Kol Tregaskes
Toby :-) funny. we all deal with stuff like that in different ways. It's interesting to see how different - Sofia Gkiousou
I think it will be quite difficult to find anyone who has never ever cheated on any partner... Of course that doen't mean we have to like the fact, but guess we have to accept it. - Peter Efland
It depends on if they have accepted responsibility for their role in it. If they're trying to excuse it by blaming their partner or whoever they cheated with for encouraging it - then it seems likely there'd be a repeat in the future. - ilene
just because they were stupid once, does not mean they will be again. may have learnt from their mistakes - Stephanie Pickett
The United States has done too little to fight the spread of weapons of mass destruction, U.S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden said on Wednesday, as he got a congressional report warning of their pressing threat. - Jason Shultz
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"REDMOND, Wash. — Dec. 1, 2008 — Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system kicked off the holidays with record-breaking console sales on one of the biggest shopping weekends of the year in the U.S. Retailers reported Xbox 360 console sales over the Black Friday weekend were on pace to beat previous years, outselling the PlayStation 3 by a three-to-one ratio and estimating a 25 percent increase from Xbox 360 Black Friday sales figures from 2007." - Thomas Hawk
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I saw a guy buying 6 Wii Fits two weeks ago from the grey market. In India. Wow. - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
I have to say wandering around Best Buy on black Friday, it was impressive to see two full aisles of stuff for the XB360. - Phil Glockner
the XBox 360 is Microsoft's trojan horse towards taking over the living room of tomorrow. Just you watch. They are positioning it to be so much more than a game machine. This will all unfold in the next few years as the cable/satellite industry gets crushed. Stage one is to get as many of them into the hands of the general public as possible. - Thomas Hawk
XBoxes make great little webservers, once you install Linux on them. ;-) - April Russo
Thomas, I have to agree with you. They have already made big strides toward taking away any reason why someone would want to hack the XB360 for additional features. A web browser and/or YouTube (or even Hulu) support is a miss, but otherwise it supports media center, DivX, uPNP, DVD, rip music and games to HDD, the works. Oh, and now NetFlix streaming. - Phil Glockner
I just bought a used one from a tech friend (price was way right, clean unit), installed it last night, and I was blown away at how great it looks over HDMI. Not only that, but the movie and TV offerings was exactly how I got it passed by the 'finance committee' :D - Bob M. Montgomery
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LOL Matt. Price and, I would add, MS has not announced a new version and the current line is still good for, at least, another year. - Robert Miller
I love that I can hook up my Zune to my Xbox 360 - Shey
Shey, not only does a Zune work great, but it even controls an iPod with ease, after installing a tiny free download. - Phil Glockner
You know, I'd give up my PS3 and switch to XBOX 360 if it could play Blu-Ray discs. Those movies in 1080P and non-compressed audio are just a blast. - Odi Kosmatos
Nothing can touch how useful the Live! compenent of the 360 is... its simply awesome. - Soulhuntre
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I agree - the 360 is great on a multitude of levels. Can't say I've ever used a PS3, but I also can't say I ever regretted getting a 360. I use it to listen to music while I do things around the house, I use it to show photos to friends, I use it to watch video from my computer on the big screen, now I get to use it for watching streaming Netflix movies... and of course I use it to school chumps in Halo. - Tom Harrison
@Tom Harrison , how has the Netflix + 360 experience been? worth the Live Gold membership? - Joel Tanner
XBOX 360 absolutely rocks online.. its what makes it soo much fun! Me and my friends still have the 360 vs PS3 argument, but I just cant justify buying one just to get the typical sony bulls&&t - Jez Arnold
@Thomas. The noise that the damn thing makes will put most people off using it for anything but games. I bet most consumers don't even realise that it can be used as a media player. - Paul Grav
Paul, the new units are far, far, quieter than the original ones. Interestingly, when I sent my two original units in for repair, MSFT returned 2 new ones to me that were *far* quieter than the original units. I think they've got the noise problem down now. - Thomas Hawk
The last one I just received from repair is way way quieter. you don't even notice it running now. - Jason Shultz
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Also, the new desktop OS lets you rip a game to the hard disk, so it's faster and doesn't activate the DVD drive while playing, which results in a lot less noise and heat. - Kevin Fox
I bought one yesterday, for the game Lips. ;) - Paul Whitaker
@Joel Tanner $7.99 for Gold + $8.99 for Netflix, I would say that's a fine price for watching streaming movies instantly on my TV. That is especially considering I frequently buy PPV movies from cable, which I won't do anymore. The Netflix video quality is very good, and I've watched 3 movies so far without getting any buffering or lag. My only complaint is that there are many, many, many movies that are not available for streaming. - Tom Harrison
I remember back when On Demand channels came out - it was quite apparent "on demand" is the future of entertainment (except of course for things such as sporting events, to which there is a significant draw to watching live). Netflix and Microsoft are absolutely on the right track with this. I'd cancel cable TV if I wasn't the only one in the house. - Tom Harrison
I'd cancel my cable but crappy AT&T forces me to buy TV from them if I want their high speed fiber UVerse internet service. Somehow that seems wrong to me. - Thomas Hawk
I know. I totally don't want their TV service but am essentially paying for it anyways because I value faster internet that much. I think that they should let me cancel the TV service and just pay for the internet. - Thomas Hawk
The NXE with Netflix streaming is the best thing to happen to the Xbox in a while. I'm getting so much more use out of it now.. and Rock Band 2 is awesome. The starting price of $200 for the Xbox 360 Arcade must have opened a lot of eyes this holiday season. - Rodfather
I've heard you can get a u-verse package, then cancel the TV and keep the internet. Haven't been willing to try it myself though. - invariant
I'm not surprised...I've played both and I love my Xbox 360 even with the latest goofy update that 'Wii-ified' with silly avatar crap...which I ignore. I think Sony just blew it, plain and simple, with that launch. - Rich Harris
A group of teenagers working at a Minnesota nursing home abused and sexually humiliated elderly residents suffering from Alzheimer's disease and dementia, prosecutors allege. - Jason Shultz
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"Gap in performance particularly wide among girls, study show. Children who are left-handed or ambidextrous perform worse at school than right-handers, according to a study of national curriculum test results. Left-handed girls fare worse than boys: while left-handers from both sexes start off performing worse, girls fail to catch up with their right-handed peers during later school life. Those who are ambidextrous from both sexes also fail to bridge the gap in performance, according to the study carried out by researchers from the University of Bristol for the Economic and Social Research Council. The researchers, who looked at the results of more than 10,000 children, reveal that left-handers perform less well in IQ tests and tests for 11- and 14-year-olds." - RAPatton
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"There is one bright spot on the horizon for left-handed boys: the research indicated there are more boy geniuses amongst left-handers than right-handers. Left-handed boys dominate the top and the bottom of the ability range." - RAPatton
I think every left-handed person I've ever known has been incredibly smart. Both girls and boys. - Jandy Stone
I'm a left-handed girl who did incredibly well at school. I was ambidextrous until the age of 7. Until my mother stopped trying to force me to be right handed and I adopted my left-handedness with ease. - Melissa
my oldest is a lefty; as a I child I was ambidextrous, but was taught to use the right - RAPatton
@RAPatton I was also forced to use my right, but when I play sports, I use my left - Shevonne Polastre
When I write on a chalkboard or any board... I use my right. I can't use my left for some reason. I guess I'm still a bit ambidextrous. - Melissa
Mel, I write right handed, but can write on a chalkboard with my left. And when I play basketball, I shoot left-handed. Go figure. - Derrick
generalizations only go so far, President Elect is a lefty... - Ruth Ferguson
When my sister was in kindergarten she wrote left handed, and the teacher forced to use her right hand. My mom was livid and swears to this day that her teacher is the reason why her penmanship is so terrible. - Michelle Martinez
I'm ambidextrous but dominant right. My dad was ambidextrous but should have been left handed--he was required in school to write right-handed. - Abigail (Hε₫§εhσ§ ĺﺃβ)
I don't know about this. Three of the smartest folks I know are lefties - and they did just fine. Two of the three are ambidextrous. - Abby Martin
In Panama, if you were left handed, people thought you were dumb and handicapped. This is why my parents forced me to write with my right, but now they regret it. Might be why in the beginning of my school career, I had a few issues. - Shevonne Polastre
I'm a female lefty and I am still here. - Tamar Weinberg
I'm left handed, female, smart and bad ass. Heh, heh. I play sports right-handed but do everything else left-handed. - Michelle Jones
Remember your Latin. Dexter = right handed. Sinister = left handed. - Pete Delucchi
my oldest daughter is primarily left handed and she's done very well in school. i guess she's setting the bar. :) - Jason Shultz
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If the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, left handed people are the only ones in their right minds. - Jared B. Luther
I'm a lefty with a high IQ and I did exceptionally well in school. Where in the hell did they get their sample population from? We all seem to be flying in the face of their research and we're just random people on the internet... - Amanda H.
the spread for the ability range of boys is to fill up the two extremes regardless of handedness. Seems we naturally tend towards either total uselessness or utter brilliance with a noticably lower number of averages compared to females. Oh, and left handed male here who has always been too smart for his own good - my family used to call me born again when I was iccle as they were sure I had been here before. - alphaxion
Yeah, as a left-handed female, I am a dismal failure ... ivy league education, multi-lingual, stellar career .... you know, sometimes, the "news" is just dumb. :P - Nadine Schaeffer
Nadine, you should be ashamed for being such a failure. Tsk. :P - Amanda H.
I am, I hang my head in abject shame ... oh, if only I had been born right-handed ... - Nadine Schaeffer
Well - if they're using IQ as the measurement tool then this is all junk. IQ has been thoroughly dismissed by both the scientific and academic communities as a genuine measure of "intelligence" - it is a highly questionable methodology that privileges certain types of ability over others. - V for Veselka
Totally. I must say, knowing my IQ doesn't make me feel any better at life than others. If anything, I've always felt a bit pigeonholed because it creates an unreasonable level of expectation. It's just one more way in which we try to shove people into boxes. - Amanda H.
My mother said I started out ambidextrous. My pediatrician told her to encourage me to pick a hand and stick with it. I'm not sure if I chose the right hand, or if I was helped along. I was not attentive in school. I think I did well in college primarily because I spent so much time in my mother's classrooms on days when I didn't have school (she taught Biology; I majored in Biology); it certainly had nothing to do with my developing good study skills, because I didn't. I'm sure the car bribe helped! - MiɳiMagɘ (AlwaysMiniMage)
Another case of lies, damn lies, and statistics and another good reason to home school your children if you're capable. - Internet Strategist
You can say that again! I'm a lefty! HA! actually, I just had a problem with authority. - Anna Lynn M.
For the "are you fucking kidding me?" file, Ford announced its "return to profitability" bailout plan today, featuring this, umm, battery-electric van that no one will buy. - Anthony Citrano
I understand the allure of an efficient kitchen only clogged with tools one absolutely needs. I get it. Most things can be done with a few basic tools. Yeah, I know. But unless I go psycho and decide to slice by hand, no knife is going to give me crinkle cut fries. - Derrick
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OK, WTF? Why do I see all the food stuff all of a sudden when I'm hungry....? - Live4SoccerVacations
Rochelle isn't down with the crinkle cut. I don't know how I live with such a heathen. - Akiva Moskovitz
This is why I <3 mandolines. You still can't get crinkle cuts, but you can get super-thin potato slices for chips/crisps, and some give you a waffle-fry tool, too. Yum! - Ladybug Heather
yeah, grounds for divorce Akiva...the anti-crinkle crowd makes me ill - Live4SoccerVacations
Not liking the crinkle cut is very Un-American, if I do say so myself. - Michelle Martinez
Am I gonna have to go to the market? I think my savory taste buds are slowly making their presence felt. I'll try my best to not judge Rochelle in the meantime. ;) - Derrick
Anna, I'll take that as a gentle 'poke' gesture. I'm looking forward to that as well. - Derrick
What is it about the crinkle cut that kicks the shoestring's ass? The size? (Steak fries can be the same size); The little waves to catch choice of condiment? Thoughts? - Derrick
the crinkle in the fry helps trap more of the seasoning...plus, it closely resembles shape of bacon... - Live4SoccerVacations
I like waffle fries. Crinkle, I can take it or leave it. - Jauder Ho
Crinkle cuts make the best cheese fries. Cook them, lay them out on a baking sheet, cover with shredded cheddar, and top with chopped green onions and crumbled bacon. Stick in the oven until the cheese melts, and then OM NOM NOM. - Ladybug Heather
Good lord, Heather, that sounds good. Sounds like something I should make...to take *photos* of course. I'd never eat it. Nope. *licks fingers* Never. - Derrick
501's or Dickies are part of my uniform, but when it's time to relax, I put on my kick-its: elastic waist track pants, complete with racing stripes. - Derrick
"Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult," - Jason Shultz
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“"One of the reasons that Prohibition ended 75 years ago was the urgent need for tax receipts during the Great Depression. As we enter another major collapse, the US government could (should) consider legalizing and taxing other popular vices such as marijuana, cocaine and prostitution."”
from Richard Russell: continues. "... like they tax alcohol and cigarettes. Of course we would also save the unbelievable amounts of money we throw away trying to stop people from engaging in these vices, usually making the activity more dangerous in the process. - Thomas Hawk
"selling is legal, and sex is legal, so why isn't selling sex legal?" George Carlin - Thomas Hawk
"Over the past 10-15 years, despite interventions at every point in the supply chain, cocaine and heroin consumption has been rising, prices falling and drugs have continued to reach users. Government interventions against the drug business are a cost of business, rather than a substantive threat to the industry's viability." -- Tony Blair - Thomas Hawk
Good idea, but I think there would be a significant uphill battle with the religious lobby against legalizing any of these activities or substances. - Jeff P. Henderson
Prostitution in particular seems like a no brainer. As long as it is kept safe and all participants are adults I fail to see how it will harm anyone, or effect anyone who is not involved. - Jeff P. Henderson
Legalized prostitution seems to be working quite well in Nevada. - Jeff P. Henderson
How about a national lottery? The prize: Foreclosed on homes! - Jason Kaneshiro
Definition of gambling: "A tax on those who don't understand money." But sure, online gambling ought to be legal and taxed too. - Thomas Hawk
Or photography, a vice if ever there was one. - Tom Kimmerer
@Tom, last time I checked, Photography was legal ;-) - Jeff P. Henderson
Oh please. You'd just buy over the internet to evade sales taxes anyway. - Jake Rome
good point Jake. I suppose that they could figure out a way to tax it though. Aren't alcohol and smokes still taxed if you buy them on the internet? - Thomas Hawk
+1 Joey - studies have shown the US Gov. could collect $3 BILLION on taxes on online gaming if it's regulated and taxed. Instead the US Gov. is attempting to ban it by forcing the struggling banking industry to block 'unlawful internet gambling' - but they don't define what 'unlawful internet gambling' is!! - Ken Gidley
Many places can't even receive alcohol through the mail. It's super annoying for wine in many states. - Chris White
Yes they are, Thomas. My father sells cigars and he's responsible for paying all tobacco taxes on his product, not the consumer. In fact, tobacco products cannot be sold until the tax has been paid on them. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
I would be all for this, IF some of the money was also designated to treatment on demand for those who need it. IT is a sorry state that we are in now, where you have to wait months for treatment, but you can go to jail right away for using. - Beth K
Not only can the government make money on taxes on these things, they can save money by not having to pay to incarcerate people. The savings alone would make it worth it. - April Russo
Between the human costs (lives destroyed, families wrecked), the direct cost of imprisonment (highest incarceration rate in the world), the cost of kneecapping the potential economic productivity of those convicts, the law enforcement costs, the opportunity costs of lost law enforcement resources, *and* the failure to utilize a potential tax base, the war on drugs is our most disastrous and financially ruinous failed war. - Eric P
Eric, I agree, so then where are the politicians out there promoting this? Other than comments made earlier this year by failed Democratic Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel, I've heard very little from any politician on these matters. Why isn't Obama talking about this? - Thomas Hawk
Interesting note: The 21st Amendment to the Constitution, which repealed prohibition, was ratified in 1933, and the state that cast the deciding vote in ratifying this amendment was—of all states—Utah. - Jason Shultz
Utah, where you still can't homebrew... at least they got ratification of the 21st Amendment right, I guess. - Bob M. Montgomery
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Something tells me this isn't even on Obama's economic team's radar. My cynicism tells me the pharmaceutical and religious industrial complexes would never allow this to happen, but my idealism is holding out hope for at least decriminalization. - Pete Delucchi
@Thomas: Because it's unpopular. No politician - least of all a Democratic one, wants to be seen as "soft of crime" (whatever the hell that means). It's an issue that seems obvious to rational thinkers, but to the vast majority of the population, ending the war on drugs is tantamount to the government teaching first graders how to use crack cocaine. We're making baby steps towards marijuana legalization, but the general public just isn't there for "hard" drugs. - Eric P
In short, if we want it to change it'll take a massive grassroots effort and a campaign to educate the public on the folly of treating drugs as a criminal rather than medical problem, and minimally reach the point where the public doesn't punish politicians who might call for an end to this war. - Eric P
We'll run out of money, and then we'll have to start letting people out of jail. Marijuana users and sellers will probably come out before rapists and murderers. - Chris White
at the very least, I simply don't understand why Prostitution is still illegal in the US. - Duncan Riley
they did legalized prostitution in Germany, tho not sure whether they thought it well -- one might find himself unemployed, only to face stark choice between cut-off unemployment benefits and going to now-legal-and-moral-by-law job offered... - silpol
There are plenty of good reasons for keeping prostitution illegal, on a moral level, for instance, it is simply the case the legal or illegal, prostitution is a pretty terrible profession, with a ton of potential for abuse. It may be inevitable, that doesn't mean we have to like it. - Jamelle
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