Pot soda

So..there has certainly been a wave of legal forms of narcotics hitting the market of late. Here is another - pot based soda with added THC, the chemical that causes the high in pot. I'm not a drug "rights" person..but I have seen plenty of evidence that the "war against drugs" isnt working and is probably just another system designed to make government contractors and military types rich while causing enormous damage to communities vulnerable to the drug traffickers. 

The government needs to legalize and tax narcotics and stop maintaining the black market economy and the criminal culture surrounding it.

Fun facts about the new Sandy Bridge processors

I posted a story a few weeks ago that talked about the enormous size on the universe. On the other end of that, here is a descriptions of all the billions of tiny things happening in your computer's CPU.

Lap top from the top down

I've been researching a replacement for my old HP laptop and I came across this article . Long story short - only IBM, Acer, Toshiba, Twinhead and Apple actually make their own laptops. The big names (HP, Dell ect) are made by a company called Compal and everyone else is made by a company called Clevo.

New legal high : Bath Salts

Those sneaky drug dealers are at it again. First they package the chemical responsible for the high in pot as a legal incense. Now they have done it with bath salts

US dropped 4 nuclear bombs on Spain

Via the BBC and Time magazine, a story  that I hadnt heard before. Apparently we've had a few "oops" moments with our nuclear arsenal. Makes you wonder how many other oops's happened with the nuclear armed countries in the world.

It takes 10 thousand years for the radiation to "leave" exposed objects. Thats like the entire known history of human civilization.

Florida to grade parents

All I can say is its about time! Accountability! Accountability! Accountability! We need more - say it with me now - accountability in EVERY facet of our society. Lawyers, police, politicians, teachers and yes parents need to be evaluated in some meaningful fashion. Thats how people get better at what they do and we recognize the people who should be doing something else.

It doesnt sound like this law has many teeth but it will help move foward the merit pay system for teachers, allowing for some evidence that the teacher isnt totally to blame for the kids bad grades. Which should help more teachers embrace merit pay.

College money machine

There is another report out showing that college doesnt benefit the majority of attendees. Higher education has been transformed from a system that refines a professional to a parasitic money maker.
Students rarely walk out with more than they came in with; they are indenting themselves into the 100s of thousands so some other person, who hasnt worked in the field in years, if ever, can proclaim them worthy.College was conceived during a time when "advanced" knowledge was not nearly as available as it is today. Then it was pervert into a social status bar and now its just a money making treadmill/hoop to jump through. College should be about guided independent study on the information that is still rare in order to refine a professional skill. Not a revisit of 11th and 12th grade. If you need more highschool - Junior college, with its low cost, is the place for you. Or trade school, where you will learn practical skills. And if you need more time to find yourself or mature there are plenty of service programs and spiritual missions out there that dont charge 60k a year.