Re: Six months for 10 plants

On Apr 22, 5:44 pm, Capt.R...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Captain Rock) wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:41:26 +0100, Martin <usen...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
> >Captain Rock wrote:
> >> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:46:18 +0100, Dr John Watson
> >> <drj...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>> Noticed at Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:34:06 +0000: Captain Rock informed
us:
>
> >>>> Throw every last one of you stoners in jail.
>
> >>> That's 80% of the USA in jail, then (and the majority of the UK
> >>> parliament, if we did it here).
>
> >> Urban myth... You druggies are fond of spreading that misinformation.
> >>
> >> Here are the real facts:
> >>
> >> # n 2000, an estimated 57% of Federal inmates and 21% of State
inmates
> >> were serving a sentence for a drug offense; about 10% of Federal
> >> inmates and 49% of State inmates were in prison for a violent
offense.
>
> >Why is it internet ****wits are not capable of responding to the point
> >made when they are single issue idiots?
> >
> >Do you comprehend the difference between locking up (illegal) drug
> >takers and what you just posted which was how many people locked are
> >drug takers?
> >
> >You totally ignored the point John was making.
> >
> >Want to try again and address the point you over looked?
> >
> >In response to some ****wit saying "Throw every last one of you stoners
> >in jail."
> >
> >John replied "That's 80% of the USA in jail, then (and the majority of
> >the UK parliament, if we did it here)."
> >
> >Have another go
>
> Once again since you are too stoned to get it....
>
> Urban myth... You druggies are fond of spreading that misinformation.
>
> Here are the real facts:
>
> # n 2000, an estimated 57% of Federal inmates and 21% of State inmates
> were serving a sentence for a drug offense; about 10% of Federal
> inmates and 49% of State inmates were in prison for a violent offense.
[etc.]

Let me help you understand the statement that every fully-literate
reader grasped days ago:

"That's 80% of the USA in jail" meant "That's 80% of the USA [that
would be] in jail [if we threw every last one of the stoners in jail]".