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Commented on Medical marijuana restaurant opens in Denver
Sure, you can easily over-consume cannabis if you eat it, because of the delayed effect. Part of the benefit of getting your hash-lased food from an establishment like this, I hope, would be that they'd keep a tab on how...
Commented on Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
@ Takuan, No. 57: Or, soap....
Commented on Old Cutlass transformed into luxury ride with magical Chanel logo
The title in my RSS feed led me to hope for something involving curvy pirate swords. Apparently a cutlass is also a car : (...
Commented on America makes nothing except weapons -- UPDATED
I found this graph, and it's Y-axis shenanigans quite misleading....
Commented on Meeting cost ticker
Anon at @4: You should have run another clock to record how much money was spent getting you to design this!...
Commented on Elevator warning sign
Anon @ No.6, We have one of the contraptions you mention here in a tower in Sheffield. It's called the patanoster. For those who've never seen one, imagine a constant stream of openfronted lift cars riseing through the shaft, looping...
Commented on First-Person Shooter Disease
That guy needs to strafe more! Mind you, the bit trying to get through that door is top hole....
Commented on Nintendo DS glucose reader plugin for kids with diabetes
Why does it have a screen? Surely the DS has enough as it stands?...
Commented on Video: Air NZ "Bare Essentials" Air Safety Video
I was scratching my head wondering why they had stuck real heads on computer-generated bodies. I didn't realise until I read the comments that it was painted on....
Commented on The Double Tree of Grana
@ #7, TheQuickBrownFox Thanks, 'Hapaxanthic' gives me a starting point for a bit of wikitrawling....
Commented on The Double Tree of Grana
@ #4, TheQuickBrownFox After spotting some trees in a Botanical Garden in West Africa that seamed to repeatedly, enthusiastically switch between being palmish and woody-truck-and-branchish I've been dieing to find out what I was looking at. Your trees are the...
Commented on Lazyweb: turn the new version of Opera into an unstoppable grid of proxies for Iranians
Thanks, #17, CMsux....
Commented on Lazyweb: turn the new version of Opera into an unstoppable grid of proxies for Iranians
I don't know about you guys, but I see a different problem here. I don't actually know any irate Iranians with whom to selectively share the IP for my proxy or tor node or whatever. So, whilst I have spare...
Commented on British cops deliver Catch 22 to photographers: you're not allowed to know which areas you're not allowed to photograph
@ TAKUAN: Considering the police will use this situation as an excuse to hassle you wherever they choose, you will end up with a map of locations patrolled by overzealous constables on powertrips, rather than a map of super-secret buildings....
Commented on I Met the Walrus: How One Day with John Lennon Changed My Life Forever
Foolish author, everyone knows the walrus was Paul....
Commented on Fake Chinese antimalarials sold in Nigeria with "Made in India" lable
#5, MDH: ...people getting what they pay for is always funny when you read about it on the internet. Incredibly poor people buying all they can afford, in a desperate struggle against a life-threatening illness (West-African malaria is NASTY), and...
Commented on Fake Chinese antimalarials sold in Nigeria with "Made in India" lable
#7, REBDAV: Interesting question. I personally suspect that this is likely to be Chinese factories copying exactly the branding and packaging of a genuine antimalarial product without fully considering the words they are copying, rather than a cunning plot to...
Commented on Fake Chinese antimalarials sold in Nigeria with "Made in India" lable
This is no laughing matter. Putting the whole 'made in India' part of the story aside, there is a big fuss being made about these fake Chinese antimalarials at the moment. Apparently, they tend to contain trace amounts of the...
Commented on Classic Nokia games made of people
I was enjoying the video embedded in the post right up until the end, and he didn't crash into his tail....
Commented on Mister Jalopy's bike sale at Coco's in Los Angeles
The sight of all those dropped handlebars and steel frames makes my mouth water... Shame I'm thousands of miles away....
Commented on Couple finds $10 mil in their bank account, take it and run
@ #35, tyger11: I looked at your list of countries you'd not consider living in, and I have to say, I fancied quite a lot of them. Burkina Faso is particularly nice, for example....
Commented on Kadrey and Shaw Live
^ Yes, I also clicked through to make that same comment....
Commented on Uglified theft-resistant camera
Jimmie, if you are developing special anti-theft poses with which to wield your camera when abroad, then officially, you are worrying too much. Also, folding out that screen to 'set up your shot' is going to be a bit of...
Commented on Electronic Police States defined, ranked
@ #3, Agile Cyborg. Firstly: Sorry this reply is so late. Better late than never. Secondly: Please note that in my original post I make no argument against these points: (1) Here in the western 'red' countries state surveillance is...
Commented on The Photographer: gripping graphic memoir about doctors in Soviet Afghanistan, accompanied by brilliant photos
Regarding the front cover of this book, it makes me sad every time I see 'Médicine Sans Frontièrs' translated into English as 'Doctors without Boarders' -- A name that somehow manages to strangle all of the emotion out of the...
Commented on Electronic Police States defined, ranked
A quick scroll through the /. comments (linked above by Cory) will give you a handful of reasons why this research is a sack of poo. My tuppence-worth, where are the unfashionable Police states never hear about? eg: Turkmenistan. The...
Commented on Death Star annihilates the Enterprise
Could anyone explain a quick method that would allow me to watch this in the UK? Apparently, this video is 'not available' in my country or domain. I had no idea youtube videos could be location-locked!...
Commented on Face Transplant Recipient Speaks Out
Assumeing that everything below the eyes is graft, where on earth did they find a face that big?...
Commented on Photos of food and their sugar-cube equivalent
It's worth noting that these figures are totals of both 'natural' sugars and added refined sugars. If you check out the fruits page for instance, you'll see plenty of sugar in an apple, and unless fruit in the USA gets...
Commented on The Mind-Blowing World of Human Chimeras
I have a chimera friend. The top half of his eyes are blue, and the bottom half brown. He has to take immune-system suppressants to stop his body rejecting various organs, so he always has a cold....

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Nash Rambler commented on Medical marijuana restaurant opens in Denver
I'm in the "objects to" camp as well; this is treating a serious movement that took a tremendous effort to create like a big party joke. The conservative majority in Colorado is already working on legal efforts to hobble the medical marijuana law in early 2010. I can't see how a themed-restaurant does anything but supply ammo to their reasoning....
Jenonymous commented on Medical marijuana restaurant opens in Denver
Buncha things: --Certain medical conditions can make one have a very adverse reaction to pot, especially certain neurological conditions. In those cases you damn well sure can OD. --I don't use, but I am all for legalizing the stuff. Having said that, it does NOT do the movement any good to constantly put forth a public image of some kind of roving Grateful Dead tailgate party. Cut the crap with the cutesy acts and make medical marijuana clinics look like every other damn healthcare office in the US--a few chairs, check-in center, magazines, and Muzak. If Grandma didn't feel out...
Artimus Mangilord commented on Medical marijuana restaurant opens in Denver
I just drove by it this morning and did a double take at the mural they have painted on the building! Within a few blocks of this location on S. Broadway, it's a conservative estimate that there are 10 dispensaries that have opened up in the months since the changes to the law. Not sure it's sustainable, but certainly helps the economy with the glut of real estate vacancies (are you listening, pols?)...
Phikus commented on Medical marijuana restaurant opens in Denver
Sorry to get back to this thread kinda late but in answer to your question, the only whitey I've ever pulled is my own. Ok, snark aside, no, I've never been reduced to a vomiting / passing out slob on marijuana alone. All instances I have ever seen of this kind of thing have involved at least a little alcohol in the mix, but I guess it's possible for a noob. I have been at parties where we collectively smoked an entire qp, with at least two fatties going around the room constantly for 5 hours and not one person...
Cowicide commented on Medical marijuana restaurant opens in Denver
Certain medical conditions can make one have a very adverse reaction to pot, especially certain neurological conditions. In those cases you damn well sure can OD. You can say that about the grass that grows on your lawn as well. Or for that matter, aspirin which has a much higher incidence of death. Actually, please direct me to anyone who has ever OD'd on marijuana and died. Please show me that record, please. I don't use, but I am all for legalizing the stuff. Having said that, it does NOT do the movement any good to constantly put forth a...

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