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I looked up some numbers for Colorado that covers the past year that it's been recreationally legal. They officially achieved 60 million in taxes and license fees, a drop in the bucket, but one of the stipulations the voters put on it is that the first 60% must go towards the school systems statewide and that includes drug awareness along with other preemptive programs. But, previously, Colorado was spending $148 million on marijuana arrests and prosecutions alone out of their state budget that was freed up for police/courts to use elsewhere. That does not include the costs to house th

It should be noted that the helpful part of the plant for most things is the cannabinoids for which we have receptors for in our brains that are useless for anything else. The extraction of those from the base plant can remove a staggeringly high percentage of the THC and be further concentrated to be medically viable. This research was (is) barely possible under Federal regulations, but Colorado has been cutting edge for the past year in working to do this and it has yielded great results medically. This is proven fact that using these extracts can treat a wide range of medical conditions

In my late teens I watched as one of my best friends die of an inoperable tumor on his brain stem over an 18 month period. His body started shutting down from the aggressive chemo therapy alone. 12 months before he died he looked like a survivor taken out of a concentration camp. At about that time his father contacted someone in California and risked everything to get a shipment of high grade weed for his dying son. Over a two month period my friend, smoking it, put back on about half the weight and became functional again, as it worked better that most of the anti-seizure meds he was on,

Yes I was using that point in your comment as the starting point for what I wanted to say. I wasn't attempting to educate you personally, nor diminish what you had to say.

The folks over at BroadbandReports website have been making hay of this for an untold number of years now. Yup it's copper, always been, most likely always will be. In the markets where Fiber were run to the home by the baby bells the technology was dropped because of the expense of install, both on the Bells and customer, and maintenance costs. And even today, in many cases, folks stuck with the fiber to the home (on AT&Ts network) are relegated to the same speeds that they signed on with over a decade ago because AT&T refuses to pony up the cash for any Fiber to the Home equipment up

My great-grandmother moved to Florida for her retirement back in the 80's. She moved from a nice house in Decatur, that was in a quickly declining neighborhood, to a water-front property. When they were building the home down there she had the house plans changed to remove a walk-out balcony off her bedroom in order to make it a hindrance for anyone seeking to get into her bedroom to rape or rob her. She was fond of repeating why she moved from Atlanta, because the darkies were after her and/or her money. Currently, my mother watches WSBTV news in the afternoons and evenings. She's convinc

Firstly, Uverse is ADSL2+ technology, it's just newer equipment (in their outside provider boxes) than what powers older legacy DSL and the old is being phased out for homogeneity across their networks, plus it's a good bit faster depending on your distance from their equipment. Secondly, your actual Plain Old Telephone Service will be deactivated and your phone lines will be hooked into their Uverse modem (in your home) where you'll be then using Voice Over IP. If you opt for this service then from an end-user standpoint you'll still be able to pick up your old phones and dial out or have fol

I used to know who owned this house, but been so long ago wouldn't know if it was still in the same family. Place was old.

That's been the crux of the problem for the entire existence of our governing figures here in Paulding. One may even describe it as the Underwear Gnome phenomenon: 1. Build it. 2. ???? 3. Profit. The step 2 would of course be a feasible business plan, if only they could be bothered. Because once the decision to build it has been reached, for them it becomes an issue of what family members own land they can sell to build it upon, or who do they know that can buy the land that cannot be directly traced back to them, or which buddies business should the contracts go to. Step 3 is, of

Actually, they just discovered it's not a carving at all. It's a man who waited so long for his wife to come out of Apollinia's Secrets that he petrified.

That's undoubtedly the truest and most succinct summation regarding the current state of customer service ever written. Even places that were, in the past, so good with customer service have dropped any pretensions of being customer oriented if they don't have anything to upsell.

Kinda like the USB wired unit I bought 4 years ago along with a 5volt USB adapter?

The money Microsoft makes from selling their OS has always been chump change compared to all their other lines of income. When you go buy a pre-built PC from a retailer the cost of the OS in that box has averaged around a dollar for years now. In the desktop space the fear for years has been the "What if Microsoft gives it away for free", which with mobile computing dwarfing that now, makes it much less of a real threat. It's been long known that Windows 7 would never see a service pack 2 (update roll together) so the problems sticking with that is the time spent installing the OS on a new

Minecraft is what.. 5 or more years old now. I paid for it very early on in it's development and spent $5 and spent maybe all of 5 hours of playing around with it. The game itself is an open world, survival lite, crafting game, that relies more on imagination than providing an "on rails" game experience. Basically, it's 3D LEGOS. But it's much much more. The most interesting part of it all is how a game programmer went from being broke to having (tens of?) millions of dollars making this game. He programmed it, marketed, and sold it for a good number of years all on his own (and using

Black crewcab truck (Chevy or GMC) towing a trailer pulled out in front of a red Dodge pickup. Everyone was out of their vehicles walking around right after it happened.

I had heard the new State Patrol office was to be on Macland at that site. It's possible in the interim they decided to swap if that's the case since they moved the Water Dept from BCP for accessibility reasons

They moved out of their current building because of the road construction going on on Bill Carruth Pkwy. The entrance is being used so big trucks can get off the road and work on getting the 2nd bridge up for the widening of the road. Plus that is right where the road has been shifted. If they're going to move them somewhere else I haven't heard. But moving them out of there for the duration was for safety reasons with the road construction.

If you're using your own modem on Comcast make sure you aren't paying their "modem fee" that they charge for using THEIR modem. They've been known to slip that in there for folks who've bought their own.

Homeowners is debatable, but Flood insurance in coastal Florida? It's either impossible to qualify for OR excessively prohibitive in price, and I mean jaw-dropping, heart-stopping prohibitive in any coastal areas. And that's just the installers.. *rimshot* Thanks, I'll be here until the New Year, be sure to tip your waiters. Easiest solution, leaf blower. Walk around the house with the business end blowing up into the soffitt. See if this improves the situation. Secondly, depending on the age of the home, insulation compacts over time and loses R value,

Only trick I've ever been told is to stop them about 3/4 of the way through the drying process when they're still damp but getting hot, then hang them up separated and not touching.

I don't participate much here any longer but upon viewing your topic I can say I understand your frustration. I've done PC cleanup jobs since Win9x days and just recently had to tackle my parents desktop and laptop PC's both. Both PC's were running Malwarebytes and Avast Free Anti-Virus and the current OS install on the desktop was salvageable, the laptop was not and had to be restored it to it's "new out of the box" state.. Unfortunately malware (virus etc) has matured to the point that you need more than just download a few programs and let them do their thing to clean them up, and many infe

Just be ready for sticker shock... For Urban/Suburban properties, what would be a 100-150k home here goes for 300-400k up there, on a property a quarter of the size, and taxes that will make you need to take heart meds. Rural properties are more affordable depending on how much land you want, but all that I've looked at tend to have non-upgraded 100 yr. old homes, or mobile/modular homes that aren't worth the selling prices. Even looking at large tracts of land for cheap they tend to be V shaped in topography with a small amount of flat usable property. And I'd LOVE the Pacific Northwe

Clemenceau once said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

From Shannon MAC is the subject. and of course it's nothing but a link in the email I was able to look up about and match about a third of the "contact" names in the email with names on the Pcom member list. Most are low/no post name/accounts, and are from 2010 and earlier. I'm wondering if it's some old version of the name/email database that was grabbed in the past at this point.