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#3076
Creative Common / Re: Map of Mega City One.
18 June, 2014, 09:10:25 AM
It's been a wee bit of a wait, but now mimikeke can apply her skills to make this project truly interesting. Any info you need mimikeke e-mail/pm me Z. :thumbsup:
#3077
Other Reviews / Re: 2000AD Sci-Fi Special 2014
17 June, 2014, 10:56:20 PM
Same with the Star Lord annuals. The 78, 79 + 80 2000ad's were filled with stuff like 'Phantom patrol and space shuttle/NASA filler. Still ok though! Z
#3078
Off Topic / Re: The Political Thread
17 June, 2014, 09:35:11 PM
Tordel of course try and do something as an individual, that is what being a participative member of society is all about.  You are, I'm sure, more than aware that this positive participation will be no easy thing in the sense that the people you are trying to help and reach will have problems much seeper than the addiction issues.
Society today is ill divided and in my view getting progressivly more so and the 'end product' you see now may well be a different end product in a few years timen by which I mean people further up the reletive poverty scale. Unhappily yours. Z
#3079
Off Topic / Re: The Political Thread
17 June, 2014, 09:14:07 PM
If you extripate the revenue stream yes possibly. The risks involved in other illegal activities are high and the returns considerably lower. Z
#3080
Off Topic / Re: The Political Thread
17 June, 2014, 08:40:26 PM
Sorry shark I was replying to Tankie. Z
#3081
Off Topic / Re: The Political Thread
17 June, 2014, 08:39:08 PM
Not really, but it begs the question on public policy, health etc. Should the Government be legalising something which has an adverse effect on public health. The move over the past few decades has been away from this.
#3082
Off Topic / Re: The Political Thread
17 June, 2014, 06:33:36 PM
Fair point, it is also the case that the addiction epedemic is caused by deep rooted societal problems which drive people to become addicts. I am of course subject to correction but I find it hard to believe anyone actually takes heroin of Crack Cocaine as a lifestyle choice.
Anyone who sniffs coke up their nose is just an arrant, got up dick of course. Z
#3083
Off Topic / Re: The Political Thread
17 June, 2014, 06:23:16 PM
What Napamkev!! Zenarcade  screams, throwing his can of special brew at the computer screen and burning the carpet with his dropped fag in horror!!!
#3084
Off Topic / Re: The Political Thread
17 June, 2014, 05:53:28 PM
A desperately sad and troubling subject. We generally see only the end 'product' in a process riven with heartache and horror all the way through. If we look at the passage drugs sucha s Heroin or Cocaine. Take them from initial production, cocaine from South and Central America the Mexico drug war (a truly beastial affair) or the many other nations blighted with this problem; Heroin from Afghanistan (another disaster zone) through the banking laundering of proceeds through to the addiction and endemic criminality to 'feed' habits. There is an endless process of murder, rape, intimidation, theft etc.
There are two general approacher to dealing with the issue:
1. Law enforcement to interrupt at source; to interdict the transmission and to arrest and punish/rehabilitate the end users. This hasn't worked. It has fueled oppression in the producer states/failed states. It ignores the investors and launderers and as TordelBack has attested to, signally fails to deal with the domestic results in the West.
The other potential solution is legalisation. Many states especially in South America have moved towards this and it is constantly put forward by politicians/law enforcement officials and others domestically.
To my mind prohibition has not worked in any manner and the latter option should be put forward internationally (it will not work piecemeal). The process should be subject to regulation and oversight and at least tried out. Z
#3085
Help! / Re: Bagging and boarding?
16 June, 2014, 09:06:37 PM
Same here, I retreived my old 2000ads from my dads attic which had been bagged and left there since late '95 . They were grand. Z
#3086
Is it J J or Jar Jar Abrams?
#3087
It is the endlessly recurring tragicomedy played out every 4 years. A barely veiled dislike of Johnny foreigner counterpointed by excoriating self recrimination when things go wrong. Oh well it could be worse, you should see some of the RTE commentry.
#3088
General / Re: 2000 AD Where are you in Smiths?
15 June, 2014, 11:50:21 PM
Drokk!
#3089
General / Re: 2000 AD Where are you in Smiths?
15 June, 2014, 11:25:30 PM
No summer special then?
#3090
Brian Juninio; Brian shearer; Brian Lennon and Brian Lineker are lining up for tonights comment fest.