Goldmarble

So... let's get serious again. - Drug Laws?

Simple: Legalize them. All.

Why? What has prohibition given us? It drives people to illegal means to pay for their vice, it gives casual street thugs an easy access to absurd amounts of money, it funds gangs which cause much of the violence in the major cities of both America and Canada, these gangs export millions to Cartels, outside of our countries.

On top of that, there are thousands of non-violent, and otherwise "good" people who have had their lives destroyed, by being thrown in jail for possession.

The final thing I can say about prohibition is: It does not work. Is it working now? No. There is no case in which anyone can state that Prohibition has worked, ever. The intention of Prohibition is to stop people from using a substance. People have not stopped using these "illegal" substances, and no law will ever change that.

I have often heard from people who support Prohibition, that if everything was made legal, more people would want to start abusing a drug, or that people would start shooting up their heroin in public, or that all of a sudden, we'll have more people "under the influence" crashing and killing people in cars, etc. As if none of this happens already. I live in a small city, on a public bus, I have seen people doing heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, acid, to mushrooms. I have been passed walking on the sidewalk by people smoking weed, and seen people huddle in doorways doing crack and heroin. This is in the small city of Victoria, B.C. Canada. If it happens here, it happens in every goddamn city. Stop pretending it doesn't. People already get arrested for driving under the influence of narcotics. People already crash while under the influence of narcotics.

Oh, it will happen more often because now that it's legal, thousands are going to start doing heroin or crack? Really? Are you going to start doing Heroin, Crack, and E, just cause they're legal now? I'm not. Most aren't. Some will. But with legalization, comes education. Educate people to make more informed decisions.

Legalize them, regulate them, tax them. Above all however, educate people on the effects and risks.

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Dislike "queen", comes across as pompous.
Raidne bothers me on how to pronounce it: Raid-knee? Raid-nah?

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Recognizable, not obnoxious, lost points for lacking creativity (that I just now learned of)

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The World said
Horra. That doesn't work so well with large files that then lose quality or with non square photos. Basically I'm just asking for the avatar system to be like it was before the shutdown.

.......
Wait...
What?

Are you...REALLY?

Seriously, you're trying to tell me that purpose built programs like GIMP and Photoshop, or single-use utilities are going to provide WORSE scaling than anything Mahz could implement with a forum?

Secondly is, the link function I mentioned? Is to keep the same damn aspect ratio as the original image. You take the largest side, put "128" into the box. Hit okay, and holy shit! It keeps the image in the same proportions!
Fast Image resizer is a tiny bit more complicated, using math skills you have to have learned by now: Take image you want to resize. Get pixel dimensions, then find aspect ratio (largest size divded by smallest size). Then take 128, and multiply it by the previous answer: Bam, there's your new width or height. Call me what you will, but I think it is mighty assholish to beg someone to implement something so goddamn easy to do yourself.

Thirdly, the hell are you trying to use massive bloody images that lose that much quality when shrunk to 128x128, as an avatar for anyways?

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Interesting, easy to identify.

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natsumehack said
Oh gear grinding.

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The World said
Yeah.This place is like tumblr, if you aren't really specific people will ruin your shit. Auto resizing is what I meant, not having huge avas on the screen.

Am I the only one who doesn't give a shit about having to resize a bloody picture? It takes all of 1 minute to open GIMP or Photoshop (including the loading of the damn program), hit image > resize image > set 128, link dimensions > Okay >export and done.

Oh, 1 minute is too long for you? Well here you whining, sniveling cupcakes: http://adionsoft.net/fastimageresize/

There, now you can use those 30 seconds I just saved you to go cry to your mom about how some asshole in the internet is lording over you the fact that he can operate a goddamn computer with some efficiency.

I should stop here.

AVATARS BACK WOOOOOO!

I feel like I just crawled back into a warm bed.

So, there is a propane shortage in the South

Hank said
If that's the kind of weather you're after, move to a maritime climate. In the summers it rarely gets warmer than 35C here and this winter I haven't seen a single snowflake. It hasn't frozen It's very temperate.

Idle, come to Canada, where it's WARM! :P

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Blitzkrieg said
Keep bitching.Please.

The fuck you complaining for? I'm in Canada! Look at these unseasonable temperatures! They're horrifying! (3C = 37.4F, 7C = 44.6F) Yes, that is tonight's temperatures where I live.

Get on my level bitches! :D