"Honey, I shrunk the registry"
Posted on 01/10/2007 7:41:19 PM PST by HAL9000
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PITTSBURG, Calif. - A senior editor for PC World Magazine was shot to death in his home in what police described as a drug-related attack, authorities said Wednesday.Rex Farrance, 59, the San Francisco-based magazine's senior technical editor, was shot in the chest after four masked men broke into his home in a suburb east of the city around 9 p.m. Tuesday, Pittsburg police said.
The assailants also pistol-whipped Farrance's wife, Lenore Vantosh-Farrance, 56, a registered nurse. She called 911, but the attackers fled before officers arrived.
"We have substantial reason to believe that the victim and his wife were involved in the possession and, potentially, the distribution of illegal narcotics," said Pittsburg police Inspector John Conaty, who declined to specify what type of drugs were involved.
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Nope: George Miller
My favorite is MaximumPC too, but I did get my PC World in today's mail.
PC Magazine is a much better pub.
Marijuana has never killed anybody directly, even the DEA admits this.
The drug laws are far more of a danger to all of our lives and the American way of life than the drugs themselves, at least in the case of marijuana.
-ccm
I've got two reasons to disagree with you, but I'm sure you'd agree that the last thing FR needs is another pointless "drugs" thread.
"Honey, I shrunk the registry"
Pittsburg is in the East Bay. That's George Miller's district, another Communist who has been in the House for 32 years. They're more violent over on that side of the bay.
It isn't pointless to debate the efficacy of drug laws. We either get tougher, which means death penalties for dealers and hard time for casual users, or we legalize the stuff and let people deal with it in their own way. At some point, we may find that people are actually able to deal with it. Then, all those people spending their lives in an underground economy will have an incentive to open some more legitimate business, and the people that do drugs won't have to steal my iPod or my laptop or my car to keep up their habit. Conservatives are, after all, for less government, and drug laws are not a very good example of less government.
No, I said it was pointless to have another pro/anti-WOD thread on FR, which ends up nothing but flamebait. I am familiar with your viewpoint, and have seen it endlessly stated on this forum for over 8 years. Problem is, I, and many others take exception to it. Do I favor harsh penalties for dealers, I very much do. For "users", I favor one of two options, treatment or jail. A society has a right to have basic health and safety (nevermind moral) standards, and there is no one in this nation that can make the argument that they have a need to engage in casual usage. To say it isn't harmful is absurd. Unless you're by yourself on some deserted island, it IS going to have a negative impact on others.
As for the property crime aspect, that too is a bogus argument. Even if it were legalized entirely, you'd have to go so far as to have the government financially subsidizing users to perhaps prevent some property crime to pay for habits (but then, some of that property crime may also simply be done for "kicks", as one isn't often in their right mind when they're on drugs). I'm sure that would go over really well amongst Conservatives. As for violent crimes, I believe under legalization, it would explode beyond belief. Without a moral or legal stigma, many countless more adults and children would get hooked. That would be a disaster of epic proportions, and the costs of dealing with it far greater than the current problem.
I disagree. I have found PC Mag to be much more blatantly biased in their analysis. Even when AMD was kicking the snot out of Intel, it was hard to find much in the way of positive remarks for AMD in PC Magazine. It was either cheerleading for Intel, or uncomfortable silence, AFAICT.
That said, I have always liked John C. Dvorak's column.
And how long ago was that?
+Technical Excellence - Best Component (Hardware Category), PC Magazine, November 1999
+Best Overall Product of the Year, PC Magazine (UK), December 1999
+Best System Design - Processor, PC Magazine (UK), December 1999
Up until Intel released the Core2 architecture, IIRC.
it killed this guy!
It remains unclear what lured the thieves to the Pittsburg home of Rex Farrance, 59, on Tuesday night, but an investigator said a large quantity of drugs was seized from the house. Detectives are trying to determine if narcotics were being dealt from the residence.
Police declined to say what was seized, but Farrance's son, 19-year-old Sterling, told investigators that his parents weren't involved in drug sales. The son said he had a doctor's recommendation to use medical marijuana, which he grew at his parents' home.
Colleagues at San Francisco-based PC World, where Farrance started in the mailroom and worked his way up to become senior technical editor, recalled him as a warm-spirited, socially conservative fitness buff -- hardly the profile of a drug dealer.
Horse s**t. The drug laws killed this guy. Just as Chicago gangs no longer fight tommy-gun wars over illegal alcohol sales, nobody would have been trying to rip him off if the stuff were decriminalized and fifty times cheaper.
The DEA has admitted that nobody has EVER, in all of recorded history, died of an overdose of marijuana.
Drug laws kill. They kill WAY WAY WAY more people than drugs.
If you support the drug war, you're no conservative. You are a damn fool, a fascist, or you're filling your rice bowl by destroying the lives of harmless pot smokers. And I say you are destroying the American way of life. Every one of our ancient Saxon freedoms is under attack because of this puritanical idiocy.
Decriminalization is inevitable. As soon as the Greatest Generation and the older baby boomers die off, it will be an accomplished fact, and vast armies of cops and prison guards will have to find new careers.
-ccm
Thank you. Excellent rant. You hit many fine points in quick succession. Concise and irrefutable. Wish there were more of you around here. Please post more often!
BUMP!
BUMP!
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