Comments on: Open Thread http://www.drugwarrant.com/2009/10/open-thread-205/ by Pete Guither Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:54:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: teplvladimir http://www.drugwarrant.com/2009/10/open-thread-205/comment-page-1/#comment-8036 teplvladimir Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:00:43 +0000 http://www.drugwarrant.com/?p=4585#comment-8036 Continent Telecom предлагает прямые номера телефона в 6000+ городах мира. Переадресация виртуальных номеров на любой мобильный или стационарный телефон, переадресация на SIP или Skype бесплатна. Высокое качество, низкие цены. Continent Telecom предлагает прямые номера телефона в 6000+ городах мира. Переадресация виртуальных номеров на любой мобильный или стационарный телефон, переадресация на SIP или Skype бесплатна. Высокое качество, низкие цены.

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]]> By: DdC http://www.drugwarrant.com/2009/10/open-thread-205/comment-page-1/#comment-4409 DdC Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:25:52 +0000 http://www.drugwarrant.com/?p=4585#comment-4409 No wonder we have wars... this is what I said... Hello tam Welcome to DWR, you have landed on Pete's couch and I haven't a clue how to speak Russian, but google does... this is what translated... Hi there Welcome to the DWR, you have landed on the sofa, Pete and I have no concept of how to speak Russian, but Google does ... No wonder we have wars…

this is what I said…

Hello tam
Welcome to DWR, you have landed on Pete’s couch and I haven’t a clue how to speak Russian, but google does…

this is what translated…

Hi there
Welcome to the DWR, you have landed on the sofa, Pete and I have no concept of how to speak Russian, but Google does …

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]]> By: DdC http://www.drugwarrant.com/2009/10/open-thread-205/comment-page-1/#comment-4406 DdC Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:38:48 +0000 http://www.drugwarrant.com/?p=4585#comment-4406 Привет там Добро пожаловать на DWR, вы приземлились на диване Пита и у меня нет понятия, как говорят на русском, но <a HREF="http://translate.google.com/?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en#" rel="nofollow">Google</A> делает ... Привет там
Добро пожаловать на DWR, вы приземлились на диване Пита и у меня нет понятия, как говорят на русском, но Google делает …

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]]> By: Addicejilleno http://www.drugwarrant.com/2009/10/open-thread-205/comment-page-1/#comment-4400 Addicejilleno Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:42:19 +0000 http://www.drugwarrant.com/?p=4585#comment-4400 somebody speak russian? -------- <a href="http://nikogotam.net/z/hello.php?r=www.drugwarrant.com" rel="nofollow">tam nikogo</a> somebody speak russian?

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tam nikogo

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]]> By: jackl http://www.drugwarrant.com/2009/10/open-thread-205/comment-page-1/#comment-2962 jackl Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:23:40 +0000 http://www.drugwarrant.com/?p=4585#comment-2962 @Wendy Do you have a link to the topiary photos? :-) @Wendy

Do you have a link to the topiary photos? :-)

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]]> By: Wendy http://www.drugwarrant.com/2009/10/open-thread-205/comment-page-1/#comment-2928 Wendy Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:24:39 +0000 http://www.drugwarrant.com/?p=4585#comment-2928 jackl and everyone - another artistic creation of the Topiaries in the Garden of Montreal were sent to me today. It does help to look at the world's artistic and exuberant love of art and expression in order to relieve some stress of this war on humanity. Pete - I like BIG LOGO. Commendations to You Sir! jackl and everyone – another artistic creation of the Topiaries in the Garden of Montreal were sent to me today.

It does help to look at the world’s artistic and exuberant love of art and expression in order to relieve some stress of this war on humanity.

Pete – I like BIG LOGO. Commendations to You Sir!

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]]> By: DdC http://www.drugwarrant.com/2009/10/open-thread-205/comment-page-1/#comment-2925 DdC Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:37:52 +0000 http://www.drugwarrant.com/?p=4585#comment-2925 <a HREF="http://www.cannabisculture.com/v2/node/20301" rel="nofollow">Pot Accounts For 75% of Police Seizures</A> by Jeremiah Vandermeer Many Canadians think police don't pay much attention to marijuana, and instead focus on busting people for "hard drugs". Think again. <a HREF="http://www.cannabisculture.com/v2/node/20317" rel="nofollow">Cutting money to health services will not cut services…</A> let’s try that with jails and police? by Kirk Tousaw Re: B.C. health cuts no harm to services: minister <a HREF="http://www.cannabisculture.com/v2/node/20295" rel="nofollow">Facts and statistics that relate to police priorities</A> by David Malmo-Levine I went through the Vancouver Public Library's "Police Brutality" files a while back (I think they have been discontinued by now - budget cuts) and picked out a few quotes ... and rather than have this stuff go to waste in some corner of my archives I thought I would share it with all of you! <a HREF="http://www.cannabisculture.com/v2/content/stop-bill-c-15-phone-jam-continued" rel="nofollow">STOP Bill C-15!: PHONE JAM Continued</A> On September 14th, The International Hempology 101 Society initiated a nation wide campaign to clog the senate with messages from disenfranchised, everyday Canadians. <a HREF="http://www.indecisionforever.com/2009/10/19/the-daily-shows-best-war-on-drugs-moments/" rel="nofollow">The Daily Show's Best War on Drugs Moments</A> Oct 23 2009 Jon Stewart's Daily Show puts together a compilation of their greatest Drug War moments. (Unfortunately not available in Canada - damn you Comedy Central!) Pot Accounts For 75% of Police Seizures by Jeremiah Vandermeer
Many Canadians think police don’t pay much attention to marijuana, and instead focus on busting people for “hard drugs”. Think again.

Cutting money to health services will not cut services…
let’s try that with jails and police? by Kirk Tousaw
Re: B.C. health cuts no harm to services: minister

Facts and statistics that relate to police priorities by David Malmo-Levine
I went through the Vancouver Public Library’s “Police Brutality” files a while back (I think they have been discontinued by now – budget cuts) and picked out a few quotes … and rather than have this stuff go to waste in some corner of my archives I thought I would share it with all of you!

STOP Bill C-15!: PHONE JAM Continued
On September 14th, The International Hempology 101 Society initiated a nation wide campaign to clog the senate with messages from disenfranchised, everyday Canadians.

The Daily Show’s Best War on Drugs Moments
Oct 23 2009
Jon Stewart’s Daily Show puts together a compilation of their greatest Drug War moments. (Unfortunately not available in Canada – damn you Comedy Central!)

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]]> By: Pete http://www.drugwarrant.com/2009/10/open-thread-205/comment-page-1/#comment-2909 Pete Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:21:03 +0000 http://www.drugwarrant.com/?p=4585#comment-2909 <b>Site Update:</b> It appears that I may be having a memory issue with the site. The template I'm using is fairly heavy in code (although it's a popular wordpress template), and the equivalent of a automated memory cop at DreamHost is stopping my longer postings. The tech there has asked me to try a simpler template for a few hours to see if that is the problem. Another option is for me to switch to a private server there (which would increase my monthly costs slightly), so it wouldn't matter how much memory I used. (right now, I can also be affected by heavy use from other users on the same server) I've got a lot to do this weekend (and it's my birthday today), so I'm not going to jump in on this immediately. We'll just limp along for a bit. <b>Regarding advertising:</b> When I first started using Google ads at the old site, the ads were all pretty uninteresting at first (mostly rehab), and then they started learning. I'm hoping the same thing will happen here, but it's certainly taking a while. Right now, my ad revenue is about half what it was over at Salon.com It's possible that part of this may have to do with the site address. Before, it was blogs.salon.com, now it's drugwarrant.com. It's possible that some ads would be less likely to be served to my pages simply because of the "drug" in the URL. As far as the line of code you can add to tell google ads what kind of ads would be better for your site... I researched that, and as far as I can tell from conflicting reports, that program did exist and was by invitation only. Some people were able to successfully copy the code from those who had been invited and see an improvement, but now that unauthorized workaround doesn't work any more. If anybody has any more current info on that, I'd be happy to hear it. Site Update:
It appears that I may be having a memory issue with the site. The template I’m using is fairly heavy in code (although it’s a popular wordpress template), and the equivalent of a automated memory cop at DreamHost is stopping my longer postings. The tech there has asked me to try a simpler template for a few hours to see if that is the problem. Another option is for me to switch to a private server there (which would increase my monthly costs slightly), so it wouldn’t matter how much memory I used. (right now, I can also be affected by heavy use from other users on the same server)

I’ve got a lot to do this weekend (and it’s my birthday today), so I’m not going to jump in on this immediately. We’ll just limp along for a bit.

Regarding advertising:
When I first started using Google ads at the old site, the ads were all pretty uninteresting at first (mostly rehab), and then they started learning. I’m hoping the same thing will happen here, but it’s certainly taking a while. Right now, my ad revenue is about half what it was over at Salon.com

It’s possible that part of this may have to do with the site address. Before, it was blogs.salon.com, now it’s drugwarrant.com. It’s possible that some ads would be less likely to be served to my pages simply because of the “drug” in the URL.

As far as the line of code you can add to tell google ads what kind of ads would be better for your site… I researched that, and as far as I can tell from conflicting reports, that program did exist and was by invitation only. Some people were able to successfully copy the code from those who had been invited and see an improvement, but now that unauthorized workaround doesn’t work any more. If anybody has any more current info on that, I’d be happy to hear it.

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]]> By: jackl http://www.drugwarrant.com/2009/10/open-thread-205/comment-page-1/#comment-2908 jackl Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:53:45 +0000 http://www.drugwarrant.com/?p=4585#comment-2908 @EZRYDN Re: Personalized Google Adwords content You may be talking about the feature where you click on the little "Ad words by Google" and you get a screen where you can add interests, topics etc. Tried that, but still get rehab ads exclusively on this site. Go figure. @EZRYDN

Re: Personalized Google Adwords content

You may be talking about the feature where you click on the little “Ad words by Google” and you get a screen where you can add interests, topics etc.

Tried that, but still get rehab ads exclusively on this site. Go figure.

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]]> By: DdC http://www.drugwarrant.com/2009/10/open-thread-205/comment-page-1/#comment-2905 DdC Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:02:58 +0000 http://www.drugwarrant.com/?p=4585#comment-2905 <a HREF="http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2009/10/22/keep-america-safe-a-family-affair.aspx" rel="nofollow">Keep America Safe: A Family Affair</A> <I>Declassified Blog - Newsweek.com Among those who had expressed such interest, said another coalition member who asked not to be identified talking about fundraising matters, was Mel Sembler, President George W. Bush's former ambassador to Italy and a top GOP fundraiser who also served as the executive director of Scooter Libby's defense trust. (Sembler did not return a call seeking comment and Goldfarb said the group has so far not received any money from Sembler.)</I> <a HREF="http://www.democraticunderground.org/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x393409" rel="nofollow">Rachel Maddow Exposes Dick & Liz Cheney's Funding Source</A> <a HREF="http://www.thestraights.com/poorneighbor.htm" rel="nofollow">Sembler is not a good neighbor</A> <a HREF="http://drugfreeamericafoundation.blogspot.com/2005/03/ambassador-melvin-sembler-wife-betty.html" rel="nofollow">Drug Free America Foundation, formerly known as Straight, Inc</A> <a HREF="http://forums.cannabisculture.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showthreaded&Number=1556796&#Post1556796" rel="nofollow">Anti-Drug Campaigns Dumb Down Vital Message</A> <I>Calvina Fay is the Executive Director of Drug Free America Foundation and Save Our Society From Drugs (S.O.S.) From 1976-1985 it was known as Straight, Inc. and had a reputation for abusing kids as a drug rehabilitation program. Mel Sembler and his wife Betty founded Straight, Inc. In 1985 it changed its name to Straight Foundation, Inc. in order to protect its money and its principals from civil suits. In 1995 it was changed again to Drug Free America Foundation. DFAF is a national and international drug policy think tank and provider of services for drug free work places.</I> Keep America Safe: A Family Affair
Declassified Blog – Newsweek.com
Among those who had expressed such interest, said another coalition member who asked not to be identified talking about fundraising matters, was Mel Sembler, President George W. Bush’s former ambassador to Italy and a top GOP fundraiser who also served as the executive director of Scooter Libby’s defense trust. (Sembler did not return a call seeking comment and Goldfarb said the group has so far not received any money from Sembler.)

Rachel Maddow Exposes Dick & Liz Cheney’s Funding Source

Sembler is not a good neighbor

Drug Free America Foundation, formerly known as Straight, Inc

Anti-Drug Campaigns Dumb Down Vital Message
Calvina Fay is the Executive Director of Drug Free America Foundation and Save Our Society From Drugs (S.O.S.) From 1976-1985 it was known as Straight, Inc. and had a reputation for abusing kids as a drug rehabilitation program. Mel Sembler and his wife Betty founded Straight, Inc. In 1985 it changed its name to Straight Foundation, Inc. in order to protect its money and its principals from civil suits. In 1995 it was changed again to Drug Free America Foundation. DFAF is a national and international drug policy think tank and provider of services for drug free work places.

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