Learning from the bible

[eugen43]

Some times I wonder what causes me to think of stuff that I do. I had a number of thoughts clicking away in my brain among them computer hackers, what makes God happy? and problems with the economy and I came up with one solution to all those thoughts.
I really think we need to crack down on computer crime before it becomes pandemic.
I think one of the things that God likes is stoning, judging from the number of times he commanded it.
I think the government can raise more money if they provide entertainment where they can charge for participation and charge the spectators.
The government could arrest the computer criminals and sentence them to stoning. They would be taken to small towns where people could rent rocks. The local high school football field would be a convenient location and it has seats for the spectators.
We would see a marked drop in computer crime and we would make God happy too.

[The Reservoir Dog]

Another idea is that the gov. could legalize and tax marijuana which, is projected, would put us out of debt in less than five years; then get all of the hackers to smoke so they are so chill they won't want to expend the energy to hack, also god will be happy because people will be getting stoned. But seriously legalize weed and all will be well.

[necroshine]

kephas13 said:

But seriously legalize weed and all will be well.

i 2nd that. if you let the people out of jail that is in there for selling drugs and doing drugs that would free up thoundands of dollars right there. i have never seen the point in locking up people that do drugs.

[twobirds]

eugen43 said:

we would make God happy too.

Thats alot of work to make god happy ;D.

[Dragon*of*Heaven]

if you let the people out of jail that is in there for selling drugs and doing drugs that would free up thoundands of dollars right there.

Actualy try millions a year here.

i have never seen the point in locking up people that do drugs.

Well we don't lock them up for doing the drugs we lock them up for breaking the law. In essence we lock them up for disobeying the state. Which actualy is wrong. Dont bite the hand that feeds you. Its the law that needs to be changed not the fact that we punish people for disobeying it.

btw if you think that major people in church history didnt smoke weed or any other drug you are wrong.

[vertigo]

Dragon, you sound different today. I don't know what it is but I like it.

Oh wait, I know. You are making sense. I can't disagree with anything you have said in the last post. Keep it up.

[audioinput]

kephas13 said:

Another idea is that the gov. could legalize and tax marijuana which, is projected, would put us out of debt in less than five years; then get all of the hackers to smoke so they are so chill they won't want to expend the energy to hack, also god will be happy because people will be getting stoned. But seriously legalize weed and all will be well.

I always thought the best way to reduce the drug problem would be to:

* legalize marijuana

* tax the crap out of it

* use the tax money to fight all the other drugs.

Problem solved!

[necroshine]

* use the tax money to fight all the other drugs.

because that is working so well now? come on. legalize drugs. give people a save way to do this. people don't need to go to jail for drugs. its crazy. pot, coke, and the like. face facts, you can not stop drugs. alow people to get help when they want it. bottom line is what i'm saying is happing now it just that people are getting their lives ruined over small things like pot. its not right or fair. if you have the money you can get out of the charge but if you are poor you pay a lot more for the same crime.

[Unbeliever]

eugen43 said:

They would be taken to small towns where people could rent rocks.

Hey, and the stones could even be reused, cutting down on the overhead!

[snafui]

Another idea is that the gov. could legalize and tax marijuana which

This is a terrible idea... to legalize something would give it rights and protections under the law. What needs to be done is decriminalization.

I have a personal involvement in the drug war and I can tell you it is a futile attempt to pass personal moral views on others. This has happened before in history with the Opium Wars where the U.S. and the Brits were the pushers. The only way for this "problem" to be dealt with is culturally. Spending money on interdiction is a waste.

[necroshine]

Hey I’m all for decriminalization. Nothing wrong with that. But I doubt it will happen in my life time.

[Dragon*of*Heaven]

I can understand your point snafui but if we could tax it it would be very valuable and potentualy helpful to the econimy. Is this wrong?

[snafui]

Decriminalization would make a taxable good just like any other. It will be trying, as with every industry, to get cooperation from people to get it legitimately but with competition as it is in our economy that shouldn't take too long.

The error with the "sin" tax, as they childishly call it, is when you go to far it makes people bypass legitimate means and start going to the black market - this is happening with cigarettes in some states right now. A tax could be used, whatever percent could be agreed upon, to get people into treatment that need it. This is not as much of a burden as people think because not all users are addicts (as so many make that connection).

The legal distribution of drugs such as alcohol and cigarettes make a ton of money for the government. Then add the pharmacutical industry's distribution and think of the potential for the addition of a tax on now decriminalized drugs. The benefit to the ecomony is a whole different issue and would be a great joy to watch develop.

Oh, never got to this (*note to self, bookmark the thread dummy)... it could well be within our life time, I don't recall the Opium War lasting a long time (granted to a historian a hundred years is not a long time) nor did Prohibition. So, it is quite conceible to see it in our future.