They had nearly 600 new members register over the period of a few hours, so many hits the site was in-acessible... all these newbies were deleted, and because most came from AOL, they are thinking about banning AOL all-together... "most of our users are smart enough to use a real ISP" ...
As always, we don't allow discussion of said website as I was asked we not allow the URL nor any information that could lead anyone there as most of our users degrade the quality of posts over there...
As for the show - I'm sorry, those kids need to get raped 6 ways to Sunday as they spend the rest of their natural life in prison - you DO NOT VIDEO TAPE YOURSELF BUYING GLASSWARE, PRECURSORS, THEN MAKING DOPE! Talk about a slam-dunk for the prosecution... oh yeah, a detailed journal and bags full of MDMA IN YOUR LAB are not too smart...
Interesting to see many peoples theory of SciAlli being ran by Strike, though I always though he was a she... while I feel bad for his arrest, I gotta also smack him with a big sack of "DUH!" .. if you're out on parole for making MDMA, you don't RUN A CHEMICAL SUPPLY HOUSE and sell precursors, if you do, then DON'T ADVERTISE YOURSELF IN A DRUG MANUAL! Oh well... he is looking at 35 years if not more ...
I thought the special was one of Datelines better pieces - it wasn't as filled with mindless propaganda as it could have been.. they showed the video the kids made, explained what they were doing, and thats about it... yeah, the usual comments from DEA spokes-person about how "bad" drugs are, but they didn't really mis-represent as much as they could have...
Overall it was worth watching if you are fimilar with the players - if you have not been into drug chemistry, it probably wouldn't be as interesting..
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