Hello my name is Alfred. I have been writing online for a very long time. I have been writing for so long that now my hands hurt if I type too long. Today I decided to look into speech recognition software. I am so glad that I did. I have created this document using the new vista speech recognition software and I am happy to report that it works even better than expected.
Everyone has an opinion on Microsoft software but I must be honest to tell you that I’m impressed with how well the speech application works. I look forward to using this new speech recognition software to conduct more of my writing business so that I can spare my hands the cramps and endless pain of typing with my fingers. It looks like I will be speaking to my computer more often.
For those of you who have Microsoft vista I suggest you take a look at just how easy it is to set up this intuitive software simplify your online life as well. If I could just get this thing to write HTML code my life would be so much easier offer now have to take the fact that it’ll crank out a couple hundred words in under a minute.
I came across this article this morning and of course the title caught my attention. When I started reading I had no idea I was about to experience the absolute best argument ever made for the legalization of marijuana that I have ever seen.
It’s a straight forward no bullshit assessment of our current economic condition and a viable solution to California’s budget crisis. The time is now to embrace the decriminalization of marijuana and move past the “War on Drugs”. Have we not had enough war in this lifetime? Smoke a fricking joint and relax for the sake of our economy
Really now, could there be a better time to decriminalize/fully legalize pot? Or, more fully, to decriminalize pot, and then spread respectable pot shops and vending machines and dispensaries far and wide, instill quality control and decent oversight and then tax the living hell out of the glorious, stress-reducing goodness, as we stop wasting billions fighting its grand ubiquity and instead sink into profitable pools of warm, hazy progress? Don’t you already know the answer?
Don’t be a Hator. Go Gator!
I’m not much of a sports fan but I do consider myself a Florida Gator fan. When I was in high school in Ocala Florida the football rivalry was between the Florida Gators and the Georgia Bulldogs and for me the choice was easy.
If the sound of the current typically comes before the actual crash of the waves, the Florida Gators couldn’t help but hear it all week.
How the stakes of a national championship semifinal would create a fourth-quarter classic instead of another Gators blowout. How playing Alabama wasn’t simply about stats or execution but about who could impose their will in the most physical nature. How special players always prevail.
That’s when wide receiver Carl Moore got a feeling about his quarterback.
“I knew [ Tim Tebow] was going to step up big time, I just knew it,” said Moore, who caught the first touchdown pass of Florida’s 31-20 win over Alabama. “Everyone in our locker room knew that he was going to win this for us at the end of the game.”
O.J. Simpson was convicted and sentenced to 15 years. This is the saddest brother in the whole world. This man got away with the crime of the century as it has been called and he ends up screwing it all up in Lucky 13 years. How funny is that?
I saw the family of Ronald Goldman, the boyfriend O.J. killed with his wife Nicole, on the news boasting about how they had hounded him into this. Seems a recent book deal he had set that they were able to shutdown was the last straw and financially he was done.
He orchestrated a robbery that he claimed was an attempt to recover his own personal effects and the people he brought along had guns and held a sports dealer in a hotel room in Vegas. The judge cut him some slack and could have easily sentenced him to much more. He faces a maximum of 33 years and is eligible for parole in 9.
O.J. spent a fortune to hire the dream team of lawyers who were able to manipulate evidence and the jury into an acquittal on a case with DNA evidence. I might start writign to him in jail because I just have to hear what happened and how he didn’t see he was being setup.
They found some 2700 year old herb in a tomb in China. What does it all mean? This guy had a friend bury him with some pot for the afterlife. Seems like a friend with weed is a friend indeed.
OTTAWA – Researchers say they have located the world’s oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China.
The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly ”cultivated for psychoactive purposes,” rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany.
The 789 grams of dried cannabis was buried alongside a light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian man, likely a shaman of the Gushi culture, near Turpan in northwestern China.
The extremely dry conditions and alkaline soil acted as preservatives, allowing a team of scientists to carefully analyze the stash, which still looked green though it had lost its distinctive odour.
“To our knowledge, these investigations provide the oldest documentation of cannabis as a pharmacologically active agent,” says the newly published paper, whose lead author was American neurologist Dr. Ethan B. Russo.
Remnants of cannabis have been found in ancient Egypt and other sites, and the substance has been referred to by authors such as the Greek historian Herodotus. But the tomb stash is the oldest so far that could be thoroughly tested for its properties.
The 18 researchers, most of them based in China, subjected the cannabis to a battery of tests, including carbon dating and genetic analysis. Scientists also tried to germinate 100 of the seeds found in the cache, without success.
The marijuana was found to have a relatively high content of THC, the main active ingredient in cannabis, but the sample was too old to determine a precise percentage.
Researchers also could not determine whether the cannabis was smoked or ingested, as there were no pipes or other clues in the tomb of the shaman, who was about 45 years old.
The large cache was contained in a leather basket and in a wooden bowl, and was likely meant to be used by the shaman in the afterlife.
“This materially is unequivocally cannabis, and no material has previously had this degree of analysis possible,” Russo said in an interview from Missoula, Mont.
“It was common practice in burials to provide materials needed for the afterlife. No hemp or seeds were provided for fabric or food. Rather, cannabis as medicine or for visionary purposes was supplied.”
The tomb also contained bridles, archery equipment and a harp, confirming the man’s high social standing.
Russo is a full-time consultant with GW Pharmaceuticals, which makes Sativex, a cannabis-based medicine approved in Canada for pain linked to multiple sclerosis and cancer.
The company operates a cannabis-testing laboratory at a secret location in southern England to monitor crop quality for producing Sativex, and allowed Russo use of the facility for tests on 11 grams of the tomb cannabis.
Researchers needed about 10 months to cut red tape barring the transfer of the cannabis to England from China, Russo said.
The inter-disciplinary study was published this week by the British-based botany journal, which uses independent reviewers to ensure the accuracy and objectivity of all submitted papers.
The substance has been found in two of the 500 Gushi tombs excavated so far in northwestern China, indicating that cannabis was either restricted for use by a few individuals or was administered as a medicine to others through shamans, Russo said.
“It certainly does indicate that cannabis has been used by man for a variety of purposes for thousands of years.”
Russo, who had a neurology practice for 20 years, has previously published studies examining the history of cannabis.
“I hope we can avoid some of the political liabilities of the issue,” he said, referring to his latest paper.
The region of China where the tomb is located, Xinjiang, is considered an original source of many cannabis strains worldwide.
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