How We Protect At-Risk Kids.

[AFK]

Why not try giving the piece of shit the one thing he doesn't want? He doesn't come here for thought provoking conversation, or because he likes any of us, he comes back to be a disruption because he's a spiteful child who doesn't just take his ball and go home, he comes back without it and makes everyone miserable, because he hasn't had enough attention.  Roger had it right, he's just BH with an obsession over a different method of control.

Just stop giving him that attention.  Stop trying to get the last word in.  Stop trying to make him feel bad - it might be working, but it might also be giving him vindictive pleasure and all the reason he needs in his own mind to keep this bullshit up.  BH eventually went away nd then was banned recently for outing a troll?), this moron will too if you just leave it alone.  Don't be all "pledge!", either (see what happened last time), just DO it.

For me, it has become all about the fact that he spends an inordinate amount of time here, which means he's not doing anything "productive" for his employer. Well, he did proofread a document yesterday, so I guess that's something. Something that should probably have been an intern's job, but still something.

I'm salaried, which means:

A). My job isn't confined to the normal 8-5 business day.  I do a lot of work at night and on weekends as well
B). I'm not confined to a 40 hour work week.  I'm usually doing about 50 hours of work a week
C).  I'm damn good at my job. I am one of the most productive people in my line of work which is why people come to me for advice on how to get stuff done.

[AFK]

...none of y'all have produced any kind of data or evidence that legalization would be completely benign. 

That is the threshold.  Until you can meet it, you will be unsuccessful.

You are insane. You can't seriously not do something just because it itsn't a Paretto Improvement. You would never get anything done!

It's not only an insane demand, it's also a hypocritical one. He certainly can't provide any evidence that criminalization is completely benign, and if that's the threshold, it should clearly not be criminal.

That isn't the way it works.  The law is already the law.  We're talking about changing law.

[AFK]

He's still frantically searching the internet for ANYTHING to support his claims that isn't "because we say so".

When he finds some tenuous link, he's going to triumphantly return to post it along with some story about how he had to go to a meeting or was yanked away by some other important Policymaker™ obligation.

No, I was busy proofreading one of the other staff person's news articles after the MPH she went to told her she'd be better off coming to me.

The MPH is right, that would have been a waste of her precious time.

I was proofreading for content as well, which was outside of the expertise of the MPH.

[East Coast Hustle]

Why not try giving the piece of shit the one thing he doesn't want? He doesn't come here for thought provoking conversation, or because he likes any of us, he comes back to be a disruption because he's a spiteful child who doesn't just take his ball and go home, he comes back without it and makes everyone miserable, because he hasn't had enough attention.  Roger had it right, he's just BH with an obsession over a different method of control.

Just stop giving him that attention.  Stop trying to get the last word in.  Stop trying to make him feel bad - it might be working, but it might also be giving him vindictive pleasure and all the reason he needs in his own mind to keep this bullshit up.  BH eventually went away nd then was banned recently for outing a troll?), this moron will too if you just leave it alone.  Don't be all "pledge!", either (see what happened last time), just DO it.

For me, it has become all about the fact that he spends an inordinate amount of time here, which means he's not doing anything "productive" for his employer. Well, he did proofread a document yesterday, so I guess that's something. Something that should probably have been an intern's job, but still something.

I'm salaried, which means:

A). My job isn't confined to the normal 8-5 business day.  I do a lot of work at night and on weekends as well
B). I'm not confined to a 40 hour work week.  I'm usually doing about 50 hours of work a week
C).  I'm damn good at my job. I am one of the most productive people in my line of work which is why people come to me for advice on how to get stuff done.

Wait, so being salaried means that you're good at your job?

[AFK]

Hello Requia

[The Good Reverend Roger]

...none of y'all have produced any kind of data or evidence that legalization would be completely benign. 

That is the threshold.  Until you can meet it, you will be unsuccessful.

You are insane. You can't seriously not do something just because it itsn't a Paretto Improvement. You would never get anything done!

It makes no sense to make a policy change that worsens conditions.

Stopping prosecutions over marijuana improves conditions.  Your stantard is bullshit.

[AFK]

More kids using worsens conditions.

Your standard sucks.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

More kids using worsens conditions.

Your standard sucks.

Kids with ruined lives over a bit of pot sucks.

You are a monster.

[Junkenstein]

The main reason take-back programs rely so heavily on the environmental argument is because, really, it's the ONLY compelling argument that can be made for them - which RWHN, if he actually keeps up on the available evidence, surely knows.

http://healthland.time.com/2010/09/24/will-the-governments-drug-take-back-do-anything-to-reduce-misuse/
http://www.drugfree.org/join-together/prescription-drugs/more-research-needed-on-drug-take-back-programs-report-concludes
the study they're talking about there --> http://www.carnevaleassociates.com/takebacks

Your characterization is incorrect.  I run the most successful take back program in the state.  Our messaging is on the environment, drub abuse, AND elder safety.  And we know our program works.  We have more and more people regularly cleaning out medicine cabinets making more and more homes more safe and cutting down on the amount of drugs available for diversion.  We have documented behavior change which is what you want to see in any public health effort.

Documented, you say?

Let's see it.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

He's damn good at proofreading.

Hmm, 50 hours a week... what's that break down to, about $14/hour?

[AFK]

More kids using worsens conditions.

Your standard sucks.

Kids with ruined lives over a bit of pot sucks.

Doesn't happen

[AFK]

He's damn good at proofreading.

Hmm, 50 hours a week... what's that break down to, about $14/hour?

Not even close.

Thank you again for paying your taxes.

[East Coast Hustle]

He's damn good at proofreading.

Hmm, 50 hours a week... what's that break down to, about $14/hour?

I bet he's one of those people who describes himself as "making good money for Maine".

Which is what we say in Maine when we know we're not really making shit.

[East Coast Hustle]

Hello Requia

So you are saying that the bit about being good at your job was a non sequitur that you just threw in because you'd gone 4 or 5 posts without bragging about something? Because I really wouldn't have put it past you to actually believe that attaining a salaried position was a sign of your success and importance. Sort of like how I was when I finally got a salaried position as an assistant manager for Godfather's Pizza when I was 20.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't judge people's value by their income, I just love that he's all "I'm such a bigshot and way above all of you plebes because of my big important salaried job" and you know that if we actually use that barometer he isn't going to come up looking very impressive.