I have a friend who is a reformed felon. He would like to own a gun to protect his family but is prohibited. I told him about black powder revolvers. You can get.44 special performance out of an Army model black powder revolver and pretty good reliability.
These are guns for people who don't like guns or the people who like guns.
They're ridiculously expensive and why in the hell would I want a gun that can be remotely disabled? Lest we forget, the people that are the reason why we (in the USA) have the second amendment are the very people who would be able to remotely disable such a device. No thank you. Do not want. No bueno!
In the context of a steel mill, "Carbon" usually means either the element as it is contained in liquid iron/finished steel or the graphite that you get when you blow out with the liquid oxygen.
For those in on the environmental monitoring side of things; CO2 is sometimes called "Carbon", informally.
Just because that's the only reason you can think of for banning smoking doesn't mean it's the reason everyone else wants to ban smoking.
I didn't say it was the "only" reason. I'm talking about why anti-smoking agitprop is being used against vaping.
Flying (yes, they used to allow smoking in the sealed metal tubes with recirculated air that we call airplanes) was absolutely miserable
You're not the only old guy here. I remember the days before the complete ban on smoking. I remember when they phased it in, at first it was on flights shorter than 4 hours.
I've flown from Pennsylvania to California and back on jets where people were smoking. It suuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked.
You're right, this is not definitive but it should act as a big, flashing, red neon arrow with a sign that says "DO MORE STUDY HERE!"
Cold turkey didn't work for me. Xyban didn't work for me. Chantix gave me better results but still didn't work. Nicotine gum helped but I still couldn't kick the habit. Mostly, these methods led to me becoming depressed, irritable and unpleasant to be around.
Vaping has allowed me to dial back my addiction. I started with a much higher nicotine content than I currently use. I still have a cigarette here and there but I crave them less frequently. I'm certain that it's not harmless but it can't possibly be as bad as smoking. If it helps me to quit on my own terms, I'll continue to do it.
There's a certain kind of mentality that drives some people to see vaping as just another form of smoking, which they also consider to be evil. It's why we see these attempts at laws, particularly under the "think of the children" banner.
That these people group vaping in with smoking shows that they really don't care about health. If these things help with smoking cessation, and they don't carry the passive smoking risks, then why are we being told to go stand with the smokers? I'm actually trying to avoid smoking, yet I'm having to go stand in an area that exposes me to the risks of passive smoking.
Such things are driven by emotion and ideology rather than any serious concern for health.
I think that these people got so used to fucking with smokers that they feel cheated by vaping.
They have been working for 50 years to demonize smoking (and smoking should be demonized) in all facets of life. They've been making great progress. When I was a kid, people could smoke virtually anywhere. People could smoke in hospitals. People could smoke in movie theaters. People could smoke in department stores. People could smoke in supermarkets. Now, people can't smoke in any of those places. There is even talk of prohibiting smoking in private automobiles if children are present. There was even once a proposal that could have forbade smoking in private homes if someone else was there to perform work. Somewhere along the way, it stopped being about health and became about fucking with smokers. It stopped being about demonizing smoking and became about demonizing smokers. People who vape just side-stepped them. People who vape get to continue their enjoyment of nicotine while not making everything stink like smoke.
They've been feeling smugly superior to smokers for so long that they're now addicted to that feeling and they don't want to give it up yet.
Trans people can definitely do work in the tech sector. I might be interested in what "Tech Leaders" have to say about trans people in that setting. I don't care about what they have to say about this.
My fiancè's grandparents have agreed to donate their bodies for scientific research after they die and to the best of my knowledge, neither of them has had and kind of TBE.
Some people do it because they want to make the world a better place.
If you aren't anonymous to a TLA, then you aren't truly anonymous.
I would say that it's probably still possible to be truly anonymous online, but it would take a LOT of work, both in the initial setup, and in the maintenance of it.
For a one-and-done kind of situation, you can probably remain anonymous to a TLA but for sustained two-way communication, the NSA can find you, if they're sufficiently motivated.
Personally, I believe that the issue is the USA's tax rates are too high on these companies so they are being encouraged to do business overseas instead of in their home country to shelter themselves from the tax rates in the USA.
Do you honestly believe if the USA's tax rates would be lower that they would pay US taxes? They do what they do because they can, plain and simple.
Yes. That's the entire point. They have paid every dollar of taxes that they are required to pay by the law. They're businesses, not charities, why would they bring that money here where it will be taxed and they will receive no benefit? If they did, the shareholders would remove any officers who was involved.
The FDCPA has been updated a time or two since then and there are other things that I left out for the sake of brevity but WA were boned. They knew they were boned and just took it on the chin because they were never going to see that money.
When I was 18, I acquired a ridiculous long distance telephone bill.
I made the calls and I owed the money but there was shady business going on.
When I was away at college, we all got long distance calling cards for RCI via the school. These cards had a $100 limit on how much they would allow you to accumulate before they were shut off. I used mine for months, occasionally hitting the limit and getting shut off until I paid. After a few months, they allowed me to make $200 in calls before shutting me off. I paid. The last straw was when they allowd $570 in calls before shutting off the card. I didn't pay right away because I didn't want to keep racking up charges and I didn't trust myself to have the discipline to not use the card if it was available.
The semester ended and I went home. I got a collection letter from Windham Associates, listing my debt and listing a $200+ collection fee. I called up immediately and expressed my desire to not pay $200+ to them in addition to the money that I rightfully owed. They wouldn't budge and they continued to call me until I agreed to send $50 per month until the debt was settled. Immediately after I hung up the phone, I felt outraged that they were successful at making me feel bullied into paying them money for doing virtually nothing. I went and dug out one of the old RCI bills and wrote a check to RCI for the full amount of the bill but NOT the collection fee.
I avoided Windham Associates' calls until after I received the cancelled check in the mail. Once I had that check, I accepted one of their calls. Robert C. from Windham Associates had an edge to his voice because I hadn't sent them any money after agreeing that I would. I smiled big and wide as I explained to him that I had already settled the debt with RCI. I sent them a check for the full amount that I owed them, they cashed the check, I was holding the canceled check and I would be giving him nothing. I could almost hear his face hit the floor when he realized that the easy windfall he was expecting wasn't coming.
I owed the money, it had always been my intention to pay it but that collection agency taught me a valuable lesson. Never pay what they initially ask you to pay. Always find a way to settle the debt for less.
Also, if liking windows 7 is "being an old guy" then what does that say about 90% of slashdot users, a fair amount of which, i'm guessing, stood in line to get windows 95 when it came out and/or red hat linux for that brief moment in the 90's where linux was popular with consumers for some reason.
I'm comfortable being an old guy. I go back to the days of the TI-99 and Apple ][. My first GUI OS was Apple's System 6 on a Mac Plus. I still have some 800k floppies stored away somewhere.
I have been feeling like an old guy for years. When Microsoft eliminated the plain old start menu in 8, I decided that they'd have to drag me kicking and screaming away from 7. I'm still using 7. I have even decided to forgo an upgrade to Ryzen because I do not want 10.
Hopefully, enough old guy nerd rage will convince Microsoft that they made a mistake (like with Vista) and that they should do something to fix it.
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I have a friend who is a reformed felon. He would like to own a gun to protect his family but is prohibited. I told him about black powder revolvers. You can get .44 special performance out of an Army model black powder revolver and pretty good reliability.
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These are guns for people who don't like guns or the people who like guns.
They're ridiculously expensive and why in the hell would I want a gun that can be remotely disabled? Lest we forget, the people that are the reason why we (in the USA) have the second amendment are the very people who would be able to remotely disable such a device. No thank you. Do not want. No bueno!
LK
The primary useful thing about smart guns is that they prevent your toddler from finding your gun and killing you, themselves, or each other.
That's what safes are for.
I have children and guns. I keep my guns locked up.
LK
In the context of a steel mill, "Carbon" usually means either the element as it is contained in liquid iron/finished steel or the graphite that you get when you blow out with the liquid oxygen.
For those in on the environmental monitoring side of things; CO2 is sometimes called "Carbon", informally.
LK
Not in regions of poor combustion.
I have worked in steel mills. CO is definitely NOT rare.
LK
Cant we start with sheep, chimpanzees or something before doing this with human embryos?
LK
Does this news make anyone else nervous?
LK
Just because that's the only reason you can think of for banning smoking doesn't mean it's the reason everyone else wants to ban smoking.
I didn't say it was the "only" reason. I'm talking about why anti-smoking agitprop is being used against vaping.
Flying (yes, they used to allow smoking in the sealed metal tubes with recirculated air that we call airplanes) was absolutely miserable
You're not the only old guy here. I remember the days before the complete ban on smoking. I remember when they phased it in, at first it was on flights shorter than 4 hours.
I've flown from Pennsylvania to California and back on jets where people were smoking. It suuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked.
You're right, this is not definitive but it should act as a big, flashing, red neon arrow with a sign that says "DO MORE STUDY HERE!"
Cold turkey didn't work for me. Xyban didn't work for me. Chantix gave me better results but still didn't work. Nicotine gum helped but I still couldn't kick the habit.
Mostly, these methods led to me becoming depressed, irritable and unpleasant to be around.
Vaping has allowed me to dial back my addiction. I started with a much higher nicotine content than I currently use. I still have a cigarette here and there but I crave them less frequently. I'm certain that it's not harmless but it can't possibly be as bad as smoking. If it helps me to quit on my own terms, I'll continue to do it.
LK
Can you suggest a brand of liquid?
Remember that many of those people who took up vaping after smoking cessation would have likely relapsed into smoking again.
LK
And watching kids blowing these huge puffs of vapor makes me sick to my stomach.
Take heart. If those "kids" weren't already smokers, those vapor clouds are most likely made with the 0% Nicotine liquid.
LK
There's a certain kind of mentality that drives some people to see vaping as just another form of smoking, which they also consider to be evil. It's why we see these attempts at laws, particularly under the "think of the children" banner.
That these people group vaping in with smoking shows that they really don't care about health. If these things help with smoking cessation, and they don't carry the passive smoking risks, then why are we being told to go stand with the smokers? I'm actually trying to avoid smoking, yet I'm having to go stand in an area that exposes me to the risks of passive smoking.
Such things are driven by emotion and ideology rather than any serious concern for health.
I think that these people got so used to fucking with smokers that they feel cheated by vaping.
They have been working for 50 years to demonize smoking (and smoking should be demonized) in all facets of life. They've been making great progress. When I was a kid, people could smoke virtually anywhere. People could smoke in hospitals. People could smoke in movie theaters. People could smoke in department stores. People could smoke in supermarkets. Now, people can't smoke in any of those places. There is even talk of prohibiting smoking in private automobiles if children are present. There was even once a proposal that could have forbade smoking in private homes if someone else was there to perform work. Somewhere along the way, it stopped being about health and became about fucking with smokers. It stopped being about demonizing smoking and became about demonizing smokers. People who vape just side-stepped them. People who vape get to continue their enjoyment of nicotine while not making everything stink like smoke.
They've been feeling smugly superior to smokers for so long that they're now addicted to that feeling and they don't want to give it up yet.
LK
THIS!
Trans people can definitely do work in the tech sector. I might be interested in what "Tech Leaders" have to say about trans people in that setting. I don't care about what they have to say about this.
LK
I prefer Kaspersky to systemd.
If Kaspersky is screwing me over, it at least has the decency to do it without ruining stuff.
LK
Can 0.3-0.6% of the population really do anything "in droves"?
LK
My fiancè's grandparents have agreed to donate their bodies for scientific research after they die and to the best of my knowledge, neither of them has had and kind of TBE.
Some people do it because they want to make the world a better place.
LK
pretty much anyone other than a TLA.
If you aren't anonymous to a TLA, then you aren't truly anonymous.
I would say that it's probably still possible to be truly anonymous online, but it would take a LOT of work, both in the initial setup, and in the maintenance of it.
For a one-and-done kind of situation, you can probably remain anonymous to a TLA but for sustained two-way communication, the NSA can find you, if they're sufficiently motivated.
LK
That's mostly true but anonymity is mostly possible. It's just difficult.
Tails, free WiFi, a little OpSec, a little discipline and throw away email addresses can keep you ahead of pretty much anyone other than a TLA.
LK
Personally, I believe that the issue is the USA's tax rates are too high on these companies so they are being encouraged to do business overseas instead of in their home country to shelter themselves from the tax rates in the USA.
Do you honestly believe if the USA's tax rates would be lower that they would pay US taxes? They do what they do because they can, plain and simple.
Yes. That's the entire point. They have paid every dollar of taxes that they are required to pay by the law. They're businesses, not charities, why would they bring that money here where it will be taxed and they will receive no benefit? If they did, the shareholders would remove any officers who was involved.
LK
You do know that if you are a US citizen working abroad you still have to pay taxes in US, right? Why should it be different for Corps?
Minus the taxes that are paid to that foreign authority.
The FDCPA has been updated a time or two since then and there are other things that I left out for the sake of brevity but WA were boned. They knew they were boned and just took it on the chin because they were never going to see that money.
LK
When I was 18, I acquired a ridiculous long distance telephone bill.
I made the calls and I owed the money but there was shady business going on.
When I was away at college, we all got long distance calling cards for RCI via the school. These cards had a $100 limit on how much they would allow you to accumulate before they were shut off. I used mine for months, occasionally hitting the limit and getting shut off until I paid. After a few months, they allowed me to make $200 in calls before shutting me off. I paid. The last straw was when they allowd $570 in calls before shutting off the card. I didn't pay right away because I didn't want to keep racking up charges and I didn't trust myself to have the discipline to not use the card if it was available.
The semester ended and I went home. I got a collection letter from Windham Associates, listing my debt and listing a $200+ collection fee. I called up immediately and expressed my desire to not pay $200+ to them in addition to the money that I rightfully owed. They wouldn't budge and they continued to call me until I agreed to send $50 per month until the debt was settled. Immediately after I hung up the phone, I felt outraged that they were successful at making me feel bullied into paying them money for doing virtually nothing. I went and dug out one of the old RCI bills and wrote a check to RCI for the full amount of the bill but NOT the collection fee.
I avoided Windham Associates' calls until after I received the cancelled check in the mail. Once I had that check, I accepted one of their calls. Robert C. from Windham Associates had an edge to his voice because I hadn't sent them any money after agreeing that I would. I smiled big and wide as I explained to him that I had already settled the debt with RCI. I sent them a check for the full amount that I owed them, they cashed the check, I was holding the canceled check and I would be giving him nothing. I could almost hear his face hit the floor when he realized that the easy windfall he was expecting wasn't coming.
I owed the money, it had always been my intention to pay it but that collection agency taught me a valuable lesson. Never pay what they initially ask you to pay. Always find a way to settle the debt for less.
LK
Also, if liking windows 7 is "being an old guy" then what does that say about 90% of slashdot users, a fair amount of which, i'm guessing, stood in line to get windows 95 when it came out and/or red hat linux for that brief moment in the 90's where linux was popular with consumers for some reason.
I'm comfortable being an old guy. I go back to the days of the TI-99 and Apple ][. My first GUI OS was Apple's System 6 on a Mac Plus. I still have some 800k floppies stored away somewhere.
LK
I have been feeling like an old guy for years. When Microsoft eliminated the plain old start menu in 8, I decided that they'd have to drag me kicking and screaming away from 7. I'm still using 7. I have even decided to forgo an upgrade to Ryzen because I do not want 10.
Hopefully, enough old guy nerd rage will convince Microsoft that they made a mistake (like with Vista) and that they should do something to fix it.
LK
Day Of The Triffids did go there first but The Happening is much more inline with this.
Plants communicating with chemical signals and then developing defense mechanisms to change the behavior of their predators, in that case humans.
LK