Daily Archives: October 26, 2004

Incarcerating the People

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Undeterred by the success of the war on drugs which led to the arrest of 951,027 people in 2003 with no apparent reduction in drug use or availibility congress and the executive branch stay the course:

President Bush signed a law on Friday banning certain steroid-like drugs, used by some athletes as performance enhancers.
The new law adds 18 substances to the list of banned anabolic steroids,
Ignoring reality senator biden exclaims:
“This new law sends a strong message about andro and other steroid precursors. We are calling them what they really are: drugs, performance enhancing drugs,” the Democrat from Delaware said.
I suspect folks who want to use this stuff will pay just about as much attention to these federal laws as any other drug user.
As Doctor Recommended notes:
It is one thing for a league, competition, team, venue, etc. to ban a set of drugs (such as the Olympics or MLB), as these are organizations that you voluntarily join and can leave if so desired, but the State is an entity which you are required to submit to (i.e., you are not given the opportunity to leave or say �no� � you must comply or else�).
If you want people to respect the law then you must write into law only what is just, necessary, and proper.

Top 101 Useful Websites

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According to PC Magazine these are the top 101 useful websites. Your mileage may vary but there are probably some here that you have not yet realized need to be on your daily rounds.
Sree Sreenivasan says:

That’s what I keep preaching: You need to expand your Web travel horizons. If you only go to the places you already know and trust, you are likely to miss out on a lot of good and/or fun stuff.
Sree complains about navigating around the top 101 list:
What I didn’t like is the internal navigation on the list. Once you click into a category on the main list page, you’re reading about an individual site and you can get to others within the category (so far, so good). But if you use the provided navigation, you cannot easily get back to the master list; instead you end up on an older section of site, with out-of-date listings. So I had to keep using my browser’s back button to get to the master list.
He would find this pretty much a non-issue if he were using a modern tabbed browser, say, Firefox.