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And once again, we will continue to turn a blind eye to Israel's violation of international law UNSC resolutions. Nothing blind about these eyes - nothing in international law says you have to wait to be nuked before launching a preemptive attack. The only crime in the Syrian attack is the lack of penalty for their illegal weapons development. So you believe we can legally use force against sovereign countries without evidence of them posing any danger? What evidence do you have that Syria's was a weapons program and not an energy program? BTW, nice job changing the subject to Syria. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

In other words, we have no proof. We are merely trying to give the perception that Iran are the bad guys. That was abandoned from US foreign policy long ago. How do we know without evidence? And once again, we will continue to turn a blind eye to Israel's violation of international law UNSC resolutions. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

How about signing a treaty promising not to develop them, and then proceed directly to doing so? I guess that's not so much hypocrisy as outright lying. Just show us the treaty signed by Iran in which they pledged to not develop nuclear energy. Or how about showing us evidence that their nuclear programs are weapons oriented rather than energy oriented. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

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That applies to both legal and illegal drugs. However, we know that, since nations with less restrictive drug laws have lower rates of drug addictions, it is not unreasonable to hypothesize that the drug laws make your above scenario more likely. I'm confused. This line is inconsistent with the rest of your scenario. It doesn't matter, though, since your scenario is not exclusive to illegal drugs. Only worse. Largely, but not absolutely, true. However, drug use does not imply drug addiction. People can use drugs responsibly. Not everyone who drinks is an alcoholic. Not everyone who sniffs cocaine id a coke addict. Not everyone who uses heroin is a junkie. Some illegal drugs even have a very low likelihood of user addiction, such as Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, aka ecstasy), Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD, aka acid), and Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC, found naturally in Cannabis sativa andCannabis indica), to name just a few. And it doesn't matter whether their drug of choice was legal or illegal, meaning it isn't a relevant point. That's true, but it is an awfully big step in the right direction. There also needs to be education about drugs. I know a lot of people who, upon finding that some of the claims regarding the dangers of drugs were complete BS, abandoned all the claims regarding drugs made by the government. The source lacked credibility on the topic. Some other organizations, such as Partnership for a Drug Free America, also lost credibility when caught passing lies as facts. Harm reduction, not abstinence, is the best way to approach recreational drugs. Some people are going to use them, regardless of their legality, so those people should have credible, accurate information readily available so they can make educated decisions. Tell us, Max, what makes illegal drugs different from legal, regulated drugs, aside from Congress? What is the defining characteristics of a substance that indicate it should be made illegal? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

If this Congress doesn't charge Rove for contempt of Congress, could the next Congress do it (after Bush leaves office)? Or, do the charges have to be made by the Congress against which the offense was made? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

The American experiment has shown that the drug war is counter-productive. I was reading in the news recently how the US has a higher rate of drug abuse than countries with more lenient drug laws. Prohibition did not work the first time, either. Unfortunately, collectively, we Americans are too stupid to learn from our mistakes. Many studies have shown that marijuana intoxication has only a minimal affect on driving ability, on par with cold medications taken as directed. It's been discussed extensively on here before. That productivity falls because so much time is consumed seeking out more of the drug. Legalization takes care of that by making the drug available and affordable to those who choose to use it. So have I. I've also seen functional alcoholics, functional nicotine addicts, functional caffeine addicts (a group to which I belong), functional food addicts, functional sex addicts, functional adrenaline addicts, etc. Most people have their vices, and those vices are often not conducive to healthiest conditions. However, it is as individuals that we should decide in which activities to participate. Again, we are not doing everything we can to stop the problem as long as we maintain the war on drugs. Until we end that, we are contributing to the problem, not working to stop it. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

You would be incorrect in doing so. I've lost a lot of friends over the years to a lot of different causes, drugs, alcohol, automobile accidents, skydiving, … Perhaps we should make all of those illegal, also. The two deadliest common recreational drugs are alcohol and tobacco. Your argument is the one that holds no water. It does work. When was the last time you saw one convenience store owner shoot another convenience store owner over the exclusive right to sell cigarettes in the area? Tobacco is just as addictive and deadly as any common illegal drugs. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

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A better strategy would be to open the market to bring the prices down, leaving people free to choose to use drugs or not. If coffee beans were $200 per pound, do you think the coffee industry would be free of violence? How about if cigarettes cost $150 a pack? Limiting supply significantly increases the problem. And those who artificially limit supply with the war on drugs are the one who create the exploitable conditions. Stop limiting the supply artificially, and those exploitable conditions disappear. The war on drugs does more harm than the drugs do. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I did, and summarized. You said that wasn't what you were implying. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I see. So you lacked any real point then. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Oh, oh You mean like Clinton did? George H. W. Bush was so bad Clinton looked good by comparison. George W. Bush is so bad that Clinton looks great by comparison. The Bush family made a Clinton sandwich, and ended up looking like moldy bread with filet mignon. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Are you claiming that advisors in the Bush administration lack information about what is happening in the branch of government in which they serve? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

It's the drug war that causes the violence by allowing the extreme price markup. End the drug war and the violence goes away. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

There is no justice in the war on drugs. It certainly doesn't defend human rights. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I didn't look it up, but I know US humanitarian aid went to Afghanistan during the 1990s, and I believe there was an official recognition (94-95?) for their reduction of poppy crops ($200M was a number I remember reading somewhere). 2001 I can't help but wonder about the logic and wisdom that determines that fighting the war on drugs is more important than standing up for human rights. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

No, it would still be his present. Just because two people's world path's intersect at two different points and one of them travels extensively at a speed near the speed of light during the interim does not mean he traveled into the future. His world path simply contains less time between the two intersections. It doesn't suggest it's possible, either. Complex numbers and negative numbers are not the same thing, except in cases where a is negative and b is zero (i.e. the complex number is also a member of the set of real numbers less than zero). If someone were somehow able to travel at speeds greater than the speed of light, their gamma would be a complex number, with both a real component and an imaginary component. In relativity, gamma is defined as 1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2). Most things in relativity can be found by applying gamma in various ways as a coefficient to the traditional Newtonian definitions. The careful reader will notice that gamma is undefined when v=c, and is complex, not negative real, when v>c. Not all physical processes are time symmetrical. How did you come to this conclusion? Your interpretation of relativity theory allowing for time travel is incorrect. Again, how did you reach this conclusion? Since we know your conclusion based on your assumptions to be false, we can conclude that one or both of your assumptions is false, or your logic is invalid. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Actually it does, at least if you measure that present by the world around you. I could theoretically go 30 years into the future where my daughter would be older than me and my fiance about ready for her AARP subscription. I certainly would consider myself to have escaped "my present." Nope. Your world path would be different, but your minute would still pass at the same rate. Your day would still have the same number of minutes. Your world path would just contain less time if you travelled, relative to your daughter, at a velocity with a magnitude sufficiently great enough. While your daughter is in the "world around you" (i.e. moves at a very low speed in comparison to the speed of light, relative to you), you and your daughter will experience approximately the same amount of time. Relativity doesn't predict that clacks run faster or slower depending on speed. It predicts the amount of time there is to be measured relative to other frames of reference. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Well, I suppose it could be argued that al Qaeda (which translates to "the base," IIRC) didn't take their current form until the GWOT, when GWB decided it would be a good idea to help increase their recruitment. Care to tell us when the US most recently gave aid to the Taliban? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

You might try looking into history. We didn't have any formal treaties with them, but we certainly knew of their existence and their tactics. No one seemed to mind when they were fighting against the Soviets. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

You have a poor understanding of time dilation. Relativity doesn't allow anyone to escape their present. Time is fundamentally related to velocity. That doesn't mean we can travel into the future any faster or slower than anyone else can, though it may seem like it to outside observers. As far as traveling backward in time, t·(a - b·i) is not the same as -c·t. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!