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blacksheep said:
It's not meant to be disrespectful of her. It's just not the manner in which I expected her to die. Most people addicted to drugs or booze or both die from that. (Winehouse). Crack cocaine especially. But it appears it might be possible that in this case, Houston simply took too many prescription relaxants and fell asleep in the tub. Unexpected.
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I was referring to calling her a crack whore. That, I assume was intended to be disrespectful.

By all means be as disrespectful as you please, and I'll call you on it when I feel the urge.
 
MindzEye said:
Just for accuracies sake. Whitney wasn't a crack whore. See, that would suggest that she was a crack addict who had sex for money with the express purpose of funding her crack habit.

She was simply a crackhead or more literally, a crack addict.

Or to put it the way I usually would. Blacksheep, stop being a moron.
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Exactly.
 
MindzEye said:
Just for accuracies sake. Whitney wasn't a crack whore. See, that would suggest that she was a crack addict who had sex for money with the express purpose of funding her crack habit.

She was simply a crackhead or more literally, a crack addict.

Or to put it the way I usually would. Blacksheep, stop being a moron.
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Ah, I see the misinterpretation, now.
When I said "crack-whore," I meant that she was a whore to crack - not that she would have sex with anybody just to earn cash for another hit. My faux-pas.
In any case, it's not the manner in which I expected a crack addict to die.
 
Pronger84 said:
But thats just it she apparantly did die from overdosing on presciption pills in the bathtub, that is dying from drugs. Wasn't Winehouse sober at the time of her death?
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... but not dying from an ADDICTION to drugs.
And Winehouse's autopsy concluded that she died of alcohol poisoning, so no, she wasn't sober. However, they are going to re-open her investigation because the doctor who performed the autopsy was questioned on his credentials, and abruptly quit. So stay tuned.
 
blacksheep said:
... but not dying from an ADDICTION to drugs.
And Winehouse's autopsy concluded that she died of alcohol poisoning, so no, she wasn't sober. However, they are going to re-open her investigation because the doctor who performed the autopsy was questioned on his credentials, and abruptly quit. So stay tuned.
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Actually I'd say it's fair to say Whitney died from her addiction... but she didn't OD.
 
http://blogs.webmd.com/breaking-new...h-is-prescription-drug-overdose-to-blame.html

According to this report there is a strong possiblity she overdosed on Xanax. If the autposy confirms this, then YES she did die from a drug overdose. Just because she had an addiction to coccaine, doesn't mean she didnt have an addiction to other drugs as well, its possible she was addicted to prescription pills as well.

A friend of my Mom's has a cocaine addiction, and she is also addicted to tyleonal, marijuna as well as morphine. So yes people can be addicted to more then one type of drug.
 
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http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jo...ar-store-locations-reveal-about-america/1115/

"We are awakening to a dollar-store economy," proclaimed The New York Times Magazine this past summer.

Long popular among the poor, the Great Recession has been a boon to dollar stores, bringing in a whole new wave of customers. "Same-store sales, a key measure of a retailer’s health, spiked at the three large, publicly traded chains in this year’s first quarter - all were up by at least 5 percent," the Times article noted.

Dollar stores have been proliferating in cities in recent years. A couple of weeks ago, Dollar General announced plans to create 6,000 new jobs and build 625 new stores; Family Dollar will open 300 new branches.

It's not poverty that's driving the boom, but anxiety. Though 42 percent of the stores' customer base earns less than $30,000 per year, Dollar General notes that 22 percent earn $70,000 or more. Much has been written about how post-crash consumers are dialing back their spending, paying down their debts and increasing their savings - a "new normal" in which conspicuous frugality replaces conspicuous consumption.

But what of the geography of dollar stores: What does their location tell us about the evolving economic geography and the geographic disparities at work across America?
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Interesting read with graphs, charts, maps, etc
 
To any conservative here who bought that line of bullshit during the long form census shite, that the Conservatives were really concerned with your privacy...kindly go **** yourself.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...-with-the-child-pornographers/article2336889/

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Tories on e-snooping: ‘Stand with us or with the child pornographers’
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Canada’s privacy commissioners will be surprised to hear it, but the Conservatives are accusing anyone who opposes their bill to give police new powers to monitor the Internet of supporting child pornography.

A similar comment might have cost Stephen Harper the 2004 election. But with the next election years away, it’s hard to know whether or when Public Safety Minister Vic Toews will change his tune.
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Mr. Toews will introduce Lawful Access legislation, as it is commonly called, into the House of Commons Tuesday. Previous versions of the bill failed to make it through minority parliaments, but now that the Conservatives have a majority it is almost certain to pass.

The bill will require Internet service providers to store and to make available to the government and police forces information on the Internet activity of their customers.

Police will require a warrant to obtain that information. But the bill would also permit them to obtain IP addresses (which identifies someone on the Internet), email addresses, mobile phone numbers and other information without any warrant.

Ann Cavoukian, Ontario’s privacy watchdog, is fiercely opposed to the legislation, which she calls “surveillance by design.” Federal Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart and other provincial privacy commissioners have also raised concerns.

But when Liberal MP Francis Scarpaleggia attacked the Conservatives for “preparing to read Canadians' emails and track their movements through cellphone signals” – which does appear to be a severe distortion of the bill’s powers – Mr. Toews’s counterattack was fierce.

“As technology evolves, many criminal activities, such as the distribution of child pornography, become much easier,” he told the House. “We are proposing to bring measures to bring our laws into the 21st century and to provide police with the lawful tools that they need.

“He can either stand with us or with the child pornographers.”
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don't worry ME, that's just your phone and internet use in minute detail. It's not anything personal like how many people live in your house or how much you make.
 
There is a problem in this country with enforcing child-porn laws, and being able to catch the ****ers red-handed and be able to use the evidence. The net is obviously a breeding ground for the low-lifes, and we do need to find a way to not just catch them, but make the charges stick long enough to get them into the general population.
They they are a problem no more.
 
The exchange of child pron is a really huge problem and the trade exists almost exclusively on the internet.

I don't like blanket statements from Towes but there should be a balance between total internet anonymity and police having greater powers to catch child predators.
 
I know cops in the child-crimes division, and the amount of times they have to wade through that shit, catch somebody and watch them go free on a technicality is just wrong.
 
Can you imagine what the shelf life is for those cops? I mean they must cap the term just so that these guys don't literally go crazy.
 
what the hell? 'you're either with us... or the child pornographers'.

what a ridiculous statement.

the child porn issue is a bit of a strange one. it's one of the few things that the moralists can hold on to today and continue to pursue, because people are basically unanimous in their distaste for child porn (and rightfully so).

but i'm not sure that these crack downs do much of anything. the problem isn't the distribution of photos/videos, it's their production, and i don't think that this does anything to curtail their production.
 
You're wrong.

The problem isn't just the production. There wouldn't be production if there wasn't demand. We need to hunt down and jail all of the people involved in the trade of child porn.
 
It's a fricken epidemic right now, and it seems to only be getting worse. so ****ed up.

it's getting to the point where I'm starting to support the idea of more government intrusion.
 
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