It sounds ludicrously domestic, but I visited a co-worker's house once where they had central vacuum and it was cooler than shit. Little air outlets peppered around the house (on the stairs! Brilliant!) you plug a headed hose into and vacuum away. Filter in the basement gets cleaned out monthly.
If I had such a thing in my house, I'd live a much cleaner existence.
I tell you what, I quit smoking with vaping back in 2011 on gear that's now laughably obsolete. If I could send an inexpensive, modern rig back in time to myself to make the switch even easier, I'd send a 20-watt eLeaf iStick with a Nautilus Mini tank, and 24mg juice (to start) of a good, non-tobacco flavor.
The iStick is versatile, small, simple, and inexpensive. The Nautilus tank performs great, is simple to use and maintain, and looks pretty good sitting on top of an iStick. You may think the taste of tobacco is essential to converting but it really really isn't. There are no convincing tobacco vapes, they all fall into the close-but-no-cigar (pun intended) category. You won't miss the taste once you're getting all your other smoking fixes satisfied with banana pudding or mountain dew or whatever you end up with, and when your nose and tastebuds really come back to life in a week or two, you'll be amazed at how disgusting burning tobacco actually tastes and smells. You'll also find, unfortunately, that the rest of the world pretty much stinks as well, but it's still a great tradeoff.
This setup will cost you less than 70 bucks in total online, and less than a hundred if you buy at a local vape shop. It's not pen shaped, but it's efficiently sized for the amount of battery life you can pull out of it. Fits well in the hand and the pocket, and can be used while it's recharging which isn't the case with most pens.
Once you have a good rig with enough power and juice with enough balls, you'll find the vape is actually preferable to the smoke in every way imaginable, and switching becomes a matter of just not wanting to take a backwards step towards burning plants in front of your face again. Easy peasy.
The reality is that governments are addicted to the tax income. 11 billion a year in Australia.
Oh, it's not just tax income. Consider the hit to social programs and public services if all the smokers (10-20% of the population, generally) stopped dying early. Having a significant percentage of the population suddenly living 10 years longer gets really expensive really fast.
If the FDA wasn't so damn corrupt, smoking would be a thing of the past. Vaping works. Harm reduction works. It's only because the FDA's overlords, Big Pharma, can't compete with the technology that it isn't approved and pervasive in our society.
Openly accepted electronic cigarettes could make smoking as niche as, say, religious snake handling in a decade, but noooo. Gotta protect that status quo and the pharmaceutical industry's pocketbooks.
Yeah, this. Everything I've read up to this point says that the Hobbit will never come off, since the labor issues are now personal instead of business.
Actually, there were $90 videotapes, that was often the selling price of a movie that was only available as a rental. A lot of movies were $90 until the tape got re-released to the general public.
Sometimes, the rental movies never made it to general release, which is why my first copy of Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh cost $90. Totally worth it, though!
I had always heard about it, but wasn't a big enough fan of the whole Trek thing to justify going - it is, after all, Next Gen based, and I'm a TOS kinda guy.
When I heard it was closing down a couple of weeks ago, I went because I'm not one to pass up a once-in-a-lifetime (or, last-in-a-lifetime) experience. Pictures (some in 3-D!) are available here.
Not only wouldn't I participate in a 'pay what you like' scenario with Metallica because of their previous position, but their music just flat out sucks now.
What a dumb reason to bash Gygax. A much better one is that he stole the credit for everything that made D&D great, and only begrudgingly granted co-creator credit to settle a lawsuit.
On topic - I hope Mauler comes back. That bot never realized its potential. It fucking atomized bowling balls, just couldn't ever really get it together on the competition floor.
It's pretty simple. If you can't even tell the difference between infringement and theft, no argument you give on the subject has any worth.
If someone isn't willing to buy a ticket to see a movie, but is willing to view a copy of it, the movie has not lost any money. There never would have been a sale in the first place. There is no loss.
Provide content people are willing to pay for, and you make money. Release crap that most won't pay to see, and you don't make money.
Yeah, $100 DVD+receiver+speaker configurations with $550 worth of projector outfit sure beats the cinema! On mars?
Considering the creature comforts of home, yes, yes it does. Try smoking during a movie. Watching Salma Hayek while in your underwear chugging on a quart of gin. Shouting obscenities at the screen.
I'll take my $1k home theater over most movie theaters, yeah.
What's happening with the RIAA/MPAA is more like someone is making booze that people want but they don't like paying for the bottle, so they're stealing drinks right off the keg.
Yeah, no. Stealing a drink off the keg means one less drink in the keg. Not the case with duplication. You fail.
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When we upgraded my CoCo to 16k we got to swap out the button on the top of the case. It was a magical moment. Back then 16k was TUFF STUFF.
Cynicism is just a fancy word for pattern recognition.
Keeps your character movement to a single space in Rogue.
It sounds ludicrously domestic, but I visited a co-worker's house once where they had central vacuum and it was cooler than shit. Little air outlets peppered around the house (on the stairs! Brilliant!) you plug a headed hose into and vacuum away. Filter in the basement gets cleaned out monthly.
If I had such a thing in my house, I'd live a much cleaner existence.
Chrome's on the same path, they announced it a couple months ago.
I tell you what, I quit smoking with vaping back in 2011 on gear that's now laughably obsolete. If I could send an inexpensive, modern rig back in time to myself to make the switch even easier, I'd send a 20-watt eLeaf iStick with a Nautilus Mini tank, and 24mg juice (to start) of a good, non-tobacco flavor.
The iStick is versatile, small, simple, and inexpensive. The Nautilus tank performs great, is simple to use and maintain, and looks pretty good sitting on top of an iStick. You may think the taste of tobacco is essential to converting but it really really isn't. There are no convincing tobacco vapes, they all fall into the close-but-no-cigar (pun intended) category. You won't miss the taste once you're getting all your other smoking fixes satisfied with banana pudding or mountain dew or whatever you end up with, and when your nose and tastebuds really come back to life in a week or two, you'll be amazed at how disgusting burning tobacco actually tastes and smells. You'll also find, unfortunately, that the rest of the world pretty much stinks as well, but it's still a great tradeoff.
This setup will cost you less than 70 bucks in total online, and less than a hundred if you buy at a local vape shop. It's not pen shaped, but it's efficiently sized for the amount of battery life you can pull out of it. Fits well in the hand and the pocket, and can be used while it's recharging which isn't the case with most pens.
Once you have a good rig with enough power and juice with enough balls, you'll find the vape is actually preferable to the smoke in every way imaginable, and switching becomes a matter of just not wanting to take a backwards step towards burning plants in front of your face again. Easy peasy.
The reality is that governments are addicted to the tax income. 11 billion a year in Australia.
Oh, it's not just tax income. Consider the hit to social programs and public services if all the smokers (10-20% of the population, generally) stopped dying early. Having a significant percentage of the population suddenly living 10 years longer gets really expensive really fast.
If the FDA wasn't so damn corrupt, smoking would be a thing of the past. Vaping works. Harm reduction works. It's only because the FDA's overlords, Big Pharma, can't compete with the technology that it isn't approved and pervasive in our society.
Openly accepted electronic cigarettes could make smoking as niche as, say, religious snake handling in a decade, but noooo. Gotta protect that status quo and the pharmaceutical industry's pocketbooks.
So THAT'S what the caps lock key is for.
All others count as 2/3 of a packet.
Yeah, this. Everything I've read up to this point says that the Hobbit will never come off, since the labor issues are now personal instead of business.
Actually, there were $90 videotapes, that was often the selling price of a movie that was only available as a rental. A lot of movies were $90 until the tape got re-released to the general public.
Sometimes, the rental movies never made it to general release, which is why my first copy of Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh cost $90. Totally worth it, though!
Whoever downmodded this needs to read some Niven and Pournelle.
>> OK, since you got a copy you can "share" it with me.
can != will
It's just as likely that a police station is a front for drug dealing. Better alert the DEA.
Never heard of the cue cat? And you call yourself a geek?
Hmph.
I had always heard about it, but wasn't a big enough fan of the whole Trek thing to justify going - it is, after all, Next Gen based, and I'm a TOS kinda guy.
When I heard it was closing down a couple of weeks ago, I went because I'm not one to pass up a once-in-a-lifetime (or, last-in-a-lifetime) experience. Pictures (some in 3-D!) are available here.
Not only wouldn't I participate in a 'pay what you like' scenario with Metallica because of their previous position, but their music just flat out sucks now.
What a dumb reason to bash Gygax. A much better one is that he stole the credit for everything that made D&D great, and only begrudgingly granted co-creator credit to settle a lawsuit.
On topic - I hope Mauler comes back. That bot never realized its potential. It fucking atomized bowling balls, just couldn't ever really get it together on the competition floor.
Precisely why I stopped buying any EA games. Monopolizing bastards. I still play NFL 2K5 when I need my fake football fix.
It's pretty simple. If you can't even tell the difference between infringement and theft, no argument you give on the subject has any worth.
If someone isn't willing to buy a ticket to see a movie, but is willing to view a copy of it, the movie has not lost any money. There never would have been a sale in the first place. There is no loss.
Provide content people are willing to pay for, and you make money. Release crap that most won't pay to see, and you don't make money.
Yeah, $100 DVD+receiver+speaker configurations with $550 worth of projector outfit sure beats the cinema! On mars?
Considering the creature comforts of home, yes, yes it does. Try smoking during a movie. Watching Salma Hayek while in your underwear chugging on a quart of gin. Shouting obscenities at the screen.
I'll take my $1k home theater over most movie theaters, yeah.
What's happening with the RIAA/MPAA is more like someone is making booze that people want but they don't like paying for the bottle, so they're stealing drinks right off the keg.
Yeah, no. Stealing a drink off the keg means one less drink in the keg. Not the case with duplication. You fail.
Of course you did have to spend thousands of dollars to get the home projector and surround sound system, but hey.
Hundreds. DVD/stereo/surround systems, 100 bucks and up. LCD projectors, 400 bucks and up. 8 foot screen, 150 bucks and up.
3 years ago, you'd be talking thousands. Today, they're incredibly affordable.
prohibitions on the spread of false information....
Like the existence of WMD's?