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The Clinton gun ban has expired!
patrickl:
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--- Quote from: shmokes on September 27, 2004, 10:50:01 pm ---What the hell? You'll disect Hunky_Artist point by excruciating point, but you won't give my post a go?
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Ha, at least he responded to some of my dumb automated Eliza responses :P I guess you are just too clever for him to even dare to respond.
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(sound of penny dropping in background). patrickl, you were way too subtle!! i only just got what you were doing!
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Heh yeah, I'm such a nerd. I love turing tests 8) I was wondering if people would notice my replies were even dumber than my usual random drivel (I did give a link to Eliza though), but in current company I doubt it's hard to post the dumbest replies of the lot. MUHAHAHAHAHAH ;D
ps (GGKoul, sorry for replying yet again, but I think this thread is funny)
DrewKaree:
STOP IT WOULDJA?!? GG's working on something here.
:P
NIVO:
ok seeing as how this thread has gone wild in everyway, its over. :-X
JustMichael:
Since I haven't had a say, here is mine:
Does banning or making something illegal stop people from obtaining it?
No. You just make the item more profitable for people to sell/smuggle. A prime example would be "prohibition". There were more places to drink alcohol during prohibition than before or after because of the profitability.
Take a look at the "war on drugs". The higher they make the penalties, the more people make/sell/smuggle them. It is the law of supply and demand. The less supply, the more you can charge because of the demand.. I would rather see many of the drugs now called "illegal" be regulated by the government. Have "free" treatment centers for those who wish to quit. The treatment centers could be paid for with taxes on the drugs. Make it illegal to operate machinery/moving vehicles/etc. while using the drugs. People who have "accidents" while under the influence of said drugs should be "nailed to the wall" as an example to others.
Put very simply, if you take the profitability out of the illegal item by making it legal and regulating it then people aren't going to be selling/smuggling it because there isn't the high profitability any more. It is the profit that drives people, not whether the item is legal or not.
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