"By the age of 25, this addiction is cemented in the brain and it becomes very difficult -- almost impossible -- to quit," State Rep. Greg Smith, R-Heppner, told KGW.
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If 25 is the age that the addiction gets cemented into the brain then why did they only raise the limit to 21? Of course I'd like to know where they got this age of 25 from. Shouldn't it also apply to alcohol?
Of course I'd rather see a total ban on smoking as it doesn't have any good purpose at all. Smokers should be responsible for their own health care costs that are the result of their smoking if they are under a certain age (say 45) unless they are actively trying to quit. They will have free access to smoking cessation help, gum, patches, etc. It's going to take a lot of nicotine gum to cost more than the treatment for lung cancer or a lengthy stay in hospital for emphysema.
Doesn't matter what the salary is in the US if they can't get the visa to work there because of the bigoted policies put in by the current administration.
There are bigger problems than voter fraud in the US. Mainly the gerrymandering of ridings (districts) and creation of laws to disenfranchise certain groups from voting. The fact that politicians are allowed to set their own districts is so baffling to me. In Canada ridings are determined by an independent body. They have to follow a set of rules such as trying to create the simplest shape (or at least it can't go and try to pick out separate blocks or houses) and should try to use boundary lines such as rivers, major highways, and railway lines.
Having impartial people draw up your districts instead of the politicians would go a long way to making your elections more fair.
If I break the screen on my iPhone given how it's built it's easier and less expensive(?) to go out and buy a new iPhone. If the battery stops holding the charge I need to get a new iPhone because the current one is glued in. The point is that the phones and other items like it should be manufactured so that if something goes wrong to a component like one of those then it should be easy to take the phone in to be repaired. It would be nice to be able to upgrade your storage after purchasing a phone but they aren't even calling for that.
If there was something wrong with anything on the motherboard then you would just take out the board and replace it with an new one. Even that is a lot better than replacing the whole phone. But it's hard to do when manufacturers use special screws and slather glue everywhere.
Maybe it's a Roman Catholic thing but that's how I was taught when going to the Catholic high school. But that's why they have the no condom rule. The only reason you are supposed to be having sex is to procreate so why would you be using a condom.
That was a fucked up school. More kids carrying knives than the public school I switched to after a couple of years.
If you only want to have a couple of users at most there are a few places that offer free email hosting and let you use your domain. I'm currently with Zoho.com and use my domain for mail. Only had one problem with them in a few years. They have a feature that you can assign one user to act as a catch all for any email addresses in the domain that aren't set up instead of having them being returned as no such user. I use it because I sign up to every site with a different email address in order to tell which sites have had leaks or sold my info. For some reason this option got turned off in an update and I lost some emails because they were returned as no such user. But for free they have been very good other than than.
There's no challenge to it. I have my own domain up at Zoho.com for free to accept and send messages but at home I have a Synology NAS which has a mail server as a package. Turn it on, answer a few easy questions, and you are running. I use that one to store all of my messages that I want to keep.
I have my email client configured with the public (currently Zoho.com but it can change easily) and my private. If there's a message I want to keep I just drag it over to a folder that's on my private server or for some things such as email lists I just have a rule that moves it over automatically.
I've had problems in the past with my mail provider so I just get a new one. I switch the DNS entries over myself (I host it with freedns.afraid.org). I still have access to the mail even after the switch so I move everything over to my private server and after a week I tell them to close my old account down.
I don't send any mail out using the server on the NAS. It's just there to store messages. It doesn't receive any messages either. I have it behind a firewall which I haven't opened the ports because I don't need to access the messages away from home. If I know that I will need an email I'll just leave it on what I'm calling my public server. Basically the server on the NAS is an archive.
My setup probably won't work well for everyone but it meets my needs perfectly.
It's bad enough that in the winter I have to take a glove off to unlock the phone and use it. Now I'll have to take whatever I have keeping my face/ears warm off to unlock the phone and then my glove off to use it. Of course I'll still be use my 5s whenever this comes out because I refuse to pay full price for phones that have reduced feature sets. For example the SE doesn't have all of the touch screen features of the existing models when it was introduced. Apple just didn't want to sacrifice sales of their larger phones.
Without those seats and safety belts there's no such thing as being overbooked! Just cram them on like a Tokyo subway. It'll only help during turbulence.
Considering the number of stories that keep coming out of the US about people who find stupid ways to kill themselves with guns maybe you shouldn't make that assumption.
Yet how often do they publicly come out against these type of actions? Unrelated, when there's a mass shooting all they usually say is that if there was a good guy with a gun then less people would have been killed. If the NRA wants to be taken seriously then it needs to promote the safe use of weapons and come out against the improper use of them.
That only works when the people are good at separating recycling and compost from the stuff that can't be. You don't want to have people just dump stuff into the recycling in order to avoid the fee. All it takes is one person to do that and you can ruin a truck load of recycling. It depends on the sorting capabilities at the depot and what the people at the truck do on how much recyclable materials get thrown out.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's a good idea to get people to reduce the amount of stuff they throw out.
What does the location have to do with anything? The story is the same everywhere. Company screws up, upper management collects bonuses, and the customers pay for it. The only questions are how are and how many regular employees who were just doing their jobs going to be hurt for the mismanagement of the CxOs.
That's what they want you to think. Once it was confirmed the Moon was made of blue cheese the cheese lobby from Wisconsin to cover it up and cap funding for NASA. Why do you think the US has never wanted to go back to the Moon? Obama wanted to send people to an asteroid instead of the Moon. The Moon mission would be easier, faster to get go the objective, easier on the astronauts, and able to start permanent base yet Obama went for the asteroid.
And can't do it now which makes it really pathetic. The terrible thing is the US did it to themselves. They have very good people who are more than capable of going to the Moon and staying. It's a political problem. The politicians are more concerned about playing politics than space or even the state of the country. NASA gets its mandate changed every two to four years and major decisions are seemingly based on how many jobs can be spread out across the nation.
With focus, some investment, and a bit of tolerance of risk humanity could have already had a base on the Moon to serve as a test bed and launchpad to reach further out into the solar system. But the politicians have been playing their games and we have all lost out because of that.
They are lining the tunnel as they proceed but we're still getting sinkholes including one that turned into a popular meme (at least around here). Of course the mayor says it's just part of the work which makes me dislike him as a mayor even more. (I have no opinion as a person because I don't know him.)
But they've been working on phase 1 for a few years now and it won't be open for almost another year and they are already lining up phase 2 work to start right away. We have no idea how well it's going to work but let's spend another $3B on LRT for the hell of it. The company running it might be a disaster or people just might not take the LRT and turn to their car but let's double down. It's only taxpayer money after all.
They are putting in a tunnel in my city for an LRT system. For many years before they were drilling core samples to know what they were going to be drilling through. Even then we've had 3 sinkholes caused by the tunnelling and it's only been luck that nobody has been hurt.
One does not just decide to make a tunnel through a downtown core without years of preparation and approval. Tunnelling causes a lot of the ground to shift which can cause damage to buildings and the sinkholes. While Musk can afford to pay for the damages the city can't if it's found out that due diligence wasn't done and they permitted this to go ahead.
Microsoft has always been more concerned about backwards compatibility than anything else. They won't put in a new sane security model because it will break that compatibility. The problem is the do put something out with better security but it's alongside with a version that's completely compatible with all of the other software so users are going to choose the version that lets them use the most applications. Microsoft needs to eventually bite the bullet and change the internals knowing that it's going to break a lot of programs. They'll have to provide some way to run them like Apple did like Rosetta when Apple switched processors. Until then Windows is going to be very insecure no matter how many band-aids get applied.
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"By the age of 25, this addiction is cemented in the brain and it becomes very difficult -- almost impossible -- to quit," State Rep. Greg Smith, R-Heppner, told KGW.
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If 25 is the age that the addiction gets cemented into the brain then why did they only raise the limit to 21? Of course I'd like to know where they got this age of 25 from. Shouldn't it also apply to alcohol?
Of course I'd rather see a total ban on smoking as it doesn't have any good purpose at all. Smokers should be responsible for their own health care costs that are the result of their smoking if they are under a certain age (say 45) unless they are actively trying to quit. They will have free access to smoking cessation help, gum, patches, etc. It's going to take a lot of nicotine gum to cost more than the treatment for lung cancer or a lengthy stay in hospital for emphysema.
Doesn't matter what the salary is in the US if they can't get the visa to work there because of the bigoted policies put in by the current administration.
Even worse when they spend all that money and have a @gmail.com email address.
If you know who the people are and when they vote your gerrymandering of the districts can get a whole lot more effective. Just saying.
There are bigger problems than voter fraud in the US. Mainly the gerrymandering of ridings (districts) and creation of laws to disenfranchise certain groups from voting. The fact that politicians are allowed to set their own districts is so baffling to me. In Canada ridings are determined by an independent body. They have to follow a set of rules such as trying to create the simplest shape (or at least it can't go and try to pick out separate blocks or houses) and should try to use boundary lines such as rivers, major highways, and railway lines.
Having impartial people draw up your districts instead of the politicians would go a long way to making your elections more fair.
If I break the screen on my iPhone given how it's built it's easier and less expensive(?) to go out and buy a new iPhone. If the battery stops holding the charge I need to get a new iPhone because the current one is glued in. The point is that the phones and other items like it should be manufactured so that if something goes wrong to a component like one of those then it should be easy to take the phone in to be repaired. It would be nice to be able to upgrade your storage after purchasing a phone but they aren't even calling for that.
If there was something wrong with anything on the motherboard then you would just take out the board and replace it with an new one. Even that is a lot better than replacing the whole phone. But it's hard to do when manufacturers use special screws and slather glue everywhere.
Maybe it's a Roman Catholic thing but that's how I was taught when going to the Catholic high school. But that's why they have the no condom rule. The only reason you are supposed to be having sex is to procreate so why would you be using a condom.
That was a fucked up school. More kids carrying knives than the public school I switched to after a couple of years.
If you only want to have a couple of users at most there are a few places that offer free email hosting and let you use your domain. I'm currently with Zoho.com and use my domain for mail. Only had one problem with them in a few years. They have a feature that you can assign one user to act as a catch all for any email addresses in the domain that aren't set up instead of having them being returned as no such user. I use it because I sign up to every site with a different email address in order to tell which sites have had leaks or sold my info. For some reason this option got turned off in an update and I lost some emails because they were returned as no such user. But for free they have been very good other than than.
There's no challenge to it. I have my own domain up at Zoho.com for free to accept and send messages but at home I have a Synology NAS which has a mail server as a package. Turn it on, answer a few easy questions, and you are running. I use that one to store all of my messages that I want to keep.
I have my email client configured with the public (currently Zoho.com but it can change easily) and my private. If there's a message I want to keep I just drag it over to a folder that's on my private server or for some things such as email lists I just have a rule that moves it over automatically.
I've had problems in the past with my mail provider so I just get a new one. I switch the DNS entries over myself (I host it with freedns.afraid.org). I still have access to the mail even after the switch so I move everything over to my private server and after a week I tell them to close my old account down.
I don't send any mail out using the server on the NAS. It's just there to store messages. It doesn't receive any messages either. I have it behind a firewall which I haven't opened the ports because I don't need to access the messages away from home. If I know that I will need an email I'll just leave it on what I'm calling my public server. Basically the server on the NAS is an archive.
My setup probably won't work well for everyone but it meets my needs perfectly.
It was actually a reference to the turtle in Logo.
Turtles!
But they don't have hands. Really! It's an animated show FFS. Draw them some hands.
It's bad enough that in the winter I have to take a glove off to unlock the phone and use it. Now I'll have to take whatever I have keeping my face/ears warm off to unlock the phone and then my glove off to use it. Of course I'll still be use my 5s whenever this comes out because I refuse to pay full price for phones that have reduced feature sets. For example the SE doesn't have all of the touch screen features of the existing models when it was introduced. Apple just didn't want to sacrifice sales of their larger phones.
Without those seats and safety belts there's no such thing as being overbooked! Just cram them on like a Tokyo subway. It'll only help during turbulence.
Considering the number of stories that keep coming out of the US about people who find stupid ways to kill themselves with guns maybe you shouldn't make that assumption.
Yet how often do they publicly come out against these type of actions? Unrelated, when there's a mass shooting all they usually say is that if there was a good guy with a gun then less people would have been killed. If the NRA wants to be taken seriously then it needs to promote the safe use of weapons and come out against the improper use of them.
That only works when the people are good at separating recycling and compost from the stuff that can't be. You don't want to have people just dump stuff into the recycling in order to avoid the fee. All it takes is one person to do that and you can ruin a truck load of recycling. It depends on the sorting capabilities at the depot and what the people at the truck do on how much recyclable materials get thrown out.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's a good idea to get people to reduce the amount of stuff they throw out.
What does the location have to do with anything? The story is the same everywhere. Company screws up, upper management collects bonuses, and the customers pay for it. The only questions are how are and how many regular employees who were just doing their jobs going to be hurt for the mismanagement of the CxOs.
I wish astronomers would stop pulling these shitty theories out of Uranus all of the time.
Or a reminder of how powerless the President is, at least compared to how much power people tend to think the position holds.
That's what they want you to think. Once it was confirmed the Moon was made of blue cheese the cheese lobby from Wisconsin to cover it up and cap funding for NASA. Why do you think the US has never wanted to go back to the Moon? Obama wanted to send people to an asteroid instead of the Moon. The Moon mission would be easier, faster to get go the objective, easier on the astronauts, and able to start permanent base yet Obama went for the asteroid.
And can't do it now which makes it really pathetic. The terrible thing is the US did it to themselves. They have very good people who are more than capable of going to the Moon and staying. It's a political problem. The politicians are more concerned about playing politics than space or even the state of the country. NASA gets its mandate changed every two to four years and major decisions are seemingly based on how many jobs can be spread out across the nation.
With focus, some investment, and a bit of tolerance of risk humanity could have already had a base on the Moon to serve as a test bed and launchpad to reach further out into the solar system. But the politicians have been playing their games and we have all lost out because of that.
Did they get a wiretap order for a call centre that one of the suspects worked at or something?
They are lining the tunnel as they proceed but we're still getting sinkholes including one that turned into a popular meme (at least around here). Of course the mayor says it's just part of the work which makes me dislike him as a mayor even more. (I have no opinion as a person because I don't know him.)
But they've been working on phase 1 for a few years now and it won't be open for almost another year and they are already lining up phase 2 work to start right away. We have no idea how well it's going to work but let's spend another $3B on LRT for the hell of it. The company running it might be a disaster or people just might not take the LRT and turn to their car but let's double down. It's only taxpayer money after all.
They are putting in a tunnel in my city for an LRT system. For many years before they were drilling core samples to know what they were going to be drilling through. Even then we've had 3 sinkholes caused by the tunnelling and it's only been luck that nobody has been hurt.
One does not just decide to make a tunnel through a downtown core without years of preparation and approval. Tunnelling causes a lot of the ground to shift which can cause damage to buildings and the sinkholes. While Musk can afford to pay for the damages the city can't if it's found out that due diligence wasn't done and they permitted this to go ahead.
Microsoft has always been more concerned about backwards compatibility than anything else. They won't put in a new sane security model because it will break that compatibility. The problem is the do put something out with better security but it's alongside with a version that's completely compatible with all of the other software so users are going to choose the version that lets them use the most applications. Microsoft needs to eventually bite the bullet and change the internals knowing that it's going to break a lot of programs. They'll have to provide some way to run them like Apple did like Rosetta when Apple switched processors. Until then Windows is going to be very insecure no matter how many band-aids get applied.