This is your brain on drugs...

[haas mark]

Anyone that can play a bass guitar can play bass, and vice versa.

Wrong. Tried it once with some bass guitarists. Not one of them could handle the lack of frets.

Now, that just makes them inept. At some point, you get to know your instrument to the point where you don't need to know where the frets are.

[Durandal]

*snip*

I was in an aerospace engineering course this fall. 150 people. Roughly 10 will graduate. These are not dumb people, dumb people usually don't try to be fucking rocket scientists.

That's not surprising. Even if you have a passion for physics and science, those courses are still tedious bitches.

[Montcalm]

I think its the contrary Coke is used to make Crack

Freebase -> Crack -> Coke.

Crack is rocks, coke is powder.

But people were snorting Coke long before Crack was made.

[His Divine Shadow]

And his subsequent arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment will be a glorious victory for the War on Drugs and worthy use of government funds.

Bullet to neck and toss the corpse in the furnace, way cheaper.

[His Divine Shadow]

Tthinking you're too smart for something to happen to you isn't exactly a sign of actual intelligence.

Read a report that most people who think they are smart, aren't, it's actually quite the inverse.

[His Divine Shadow]

Tthinking you're too smart for something to happen to you isn't exactly a sign of actual intelligence.

No, just overconfidence. You might sit on your chair, away from drugs, all high and mighty, but they might wreck you in any discussion you could name on any subject you love. I've seen it happen a lot in Boca, and it's not because of stupidity. They start cuz of boredom and a sense of immortality that comes with being a teen...

Sounds like stupidity to me.

druggie scum should stop trying make excuses for stupid behaviour.

[RedImperator]

They are the same. They effect the same parts of the brain the same way, have the same molecular structure, have the same physiological effects, show up the same in a toxicology report, and have identical mechanisms of addiction. The only difference is the delivery system. Crack is cocaine deliberately mixed with impurities so a very small amount of cocaine can produce the same high as a much larger amount of powder coke. Smoking crack delivers cocaine to the brain much faster than snorting it, even faster than freebase.

Although that's true, six years of DARE -shudders- taught us that crack is still not quite coke, though they are in the same drug family. I know it's called crack cocaine, but crack is still used to make coke.

No, it's not. Your DARE officer was lying or he was an idiot. Powder cocaine is refined from the coca leaf. To make crack, it's mixed with water and baking soda. Baking soda and cocaine are both water soluable, so when you heat the water and evaporate it off, you're left with crystallized cocaine and baking soda--crack. That's all crack is. It's not in "the same drug family" as cocaine, it IS cocaine, just in such a form that it can be delivered rapidly to the brain.

It's too bad you don't have DARE anymore. You could point out to your DARE officer that he's wrong, and then ask why people caught possessing or dealing crack get more jail time than people caught with powder under most state laws.

[RedImperator]

Tthinking you're too smart for something to happen to you isn't exactly a sign of actual intelligence.

No, just overconfidence. You might sit on your chair, away from drugs, all high and mighty, but they might wreck you in any discussion you could name on any subject you love. I've seen it happen a lot in Boca, and it's not because of stupidity. They start cuz of boredom and a sense of immortality that comes with being a teen...

Sounds like stupidity to me.

druggie scum should stop trying make excuses for stupid behaviour.

Are you actually planning to contribute to this discussion on the issue, or shall I expect your usual mindless knee-jerking?

[His Divine Shadow]

Oh boo-hoo, stupid behaviour is it's own reward, the body suffers from a stupid head as they say, literally.

[RedImperator]

Oh boo-hoo, stupid behaviour is it's own reward, the body suffers from a stupid head as they say, literally.

Knee jerk it is, I see. Thank you for your prompt response. By the way, perhaps you could explain to me how "bullet to the neck, toss the corpse in the furnace" fits in with your above statement, since you're evidently unsatisfied merely with stupid behavior being its own reward.

[His Divine Shadow]

Knee jerk it is, I see. Thank you for your prompt response.

No problem, the least I could do is to act the way you wish.

By the way, perhaps you could explain to me how "bullet to the neck, toss the corpse in the furnace" fits in with your above statement, since you're evidently unsatisfied merely with stupid behavior being its own reward.

Cheaper than a cell with heating and free food, unless the goverment took the advice of Chris Rock.

[Xenophobe3691]

Sounds like stupidity to me.

druggie scum should stop trying make excuses for stupid behaviour.

Maybe you should stop making Hasty Generalizations and rip those blindfolds off your eyes...

[Durandal]

HDS, either start contributing or take your parroting somewhere else.

[His Divine Shadow]

Maybe you should stop making Hasty Generalizations and rip those blindfolds off your eyes...

Oh boo-hoo, I won't condone moronic self-destructive behaviour and now I got "blindfolds", fucking priceless.

It's not my goddamn problem if you have an issue with me not accepting crap like this.

[His Divine Shadow]

HDS, either start contributing or take your parroting somewhere else.

Ofcourse, ofcourse, don't want to to run the chance of upsetting people who suck shit into their bodies and expect to be praised for it.

[His Divine Shadow]

Oh yeah that was my way of saying I leave as requested.

[RedImperator]

HDS, either start contributing or take your parroting somewhere else.

Ofcourse, ofcourse, don't want to to run the chance of upsetting people who suck shit into their bodies and expect to be praised for it.

You know, if a Trekkie pulled this kind of strawman shit in a vs. debate, you'd pull his kidneys out through his asshole, so how about you knock it off here? Nobody here says addicts ought to be praised for taking becoming addicts; perhaps the nuances are lost in an online medium, but I don't recall "overconfidence" being a positive attribute.

[RedImperator]

Cheaper than a cell with heating and free food, unless the goverment took the advice of Chris Rock.

You may feel free to justify taking any punative measures at all against drug addicts, rather than pretending the only choice is "prison or death", any time you wish.

[Bob the Gunslinger]

Plan or planned?

Both. I know quite a few cokeheads who're currently attending the college I go to. One girl's even doing well, but that's cuz she's an Art major...

On behalf of art majors everywhere, I take considerable offense to that statement.

As someone who tried the Art minor somewhere, I tell you it's true, all true!

My f---ing TA's big portfolio project was nailing 100 tortillas to a wall!
Other teacher highlights include a 3-foot-square block of chocolate (which she nibbled on as a performance piece), a tent that was graffitied with the names of the artist's former lovers, and a man having his penis pierced in front of class and colleagues (more performance art).

That's when I said "Maybe I'll stick with Math."

[Bob the Gunslinger]

On behalf of art majors everywhere, I take considerable offense to that statement.

And on behalf of all those who are actually in challenging majors, good.

Okay, you're so smart... *Hands you my double bass.* Think that's easy to play? I assure you, it isn't. You'd blister all your fingers inside five minutes. Don't start saying something's easy until you've tried it and determined that it is, in fact, easy. The skills involved are different than those required for engineering or medicine, but true mastery of an instrument is no less exacting and requires no less skill than either field.

The problem is that you claimed to be an art major, not a music major, at first.

While music may be an art form, "Art Major" is a specific term which applies to people who paint pretty things, sign toilets or fold carpet, and dip crosses into feces. And don't you tell me that it's tough or takes skill because I did it for years. I've even won a number of awards and sold some of my art for $200 a pop, which is better than most of my classmates did.

I got out because it was a useless minor and a complete waste of tuition. All they teach you is how to piss-off your peers in order to win grant money. There are very few decent jobs out there for the huge number of art majors, other than teaching art in college.


BTW, if the Comic Book industry hadn't nose-dived I would probably be working for them right now (I got offers from Image and from Marvel to Apprentice--then they started losing business, bad). Instead, I got a real education.

[Graeme Dice]

The problem is that you claimed to be an art major, not a music major, at first.

At most universities, a student will be in the College of Fine Arts and in the department of music. Thus they are definetly an art major.

[Mayabird]

The problem is that you claimed to be an art major, not a music major, at first.

At most universities, a student will be in the College of Fine Arts and in the department of music. Thus they are definetly an art major.

Oddly enough, our music department is in the College of Architecture. Of course, we don't have a music major or a "College of Fine Arts".

[RedImperator]

At Villanova, you can, technically, call science majors "art" students because the science departments are part of the College of Arts and Sciences. They get so mad when you do that.