Recent content by MustaphaMond

I don't drink for the stimulation, but b/c I like a nice wine with my steak or seafood. The only reason for smoking pot is for the chemical effect.

Perhaps, but it's a slippery slope.

Heh. I'm not a Mormon, but I don't drink caffeine and drink alcohol rarely. I'm a triathlete, and imho, hard exercise is countless orders of magnitude better than alchy, or other drugs. And it's real, not some fake chemical stimulant.

Of course not. And if we had been talking about prozac, aderal, and that shlt I would have said the same thing about them. I'm aware of that. But that doesn't make what he wrote in Brave New World any less prescient, or alarming.

Same difference.

It's sad that so many people want to live a dead, strung out, emotionally artificial life granted by drugs. Go read Aldus Huxley's Brave New World, figure out what the purpose of Soma is, and then tell me you still want a government that promotes such drug use.

Nifty technical trick, kudos to the hackers (in the true sense of that word) who made it work. But if you already own a PC, why bother putting Linux on Xbox other than to annoy MS (which is not necessarily a bad reason, but just not a functionally useful reason)? And if you don't already own a...