Another method of hiding it with a hated, but long lasting material, is to built it with taped re-runs of
"Highway To Heaven". That show never goes away, and nobody likes it!
So...like...if this passes, will the next step be to apply laws like this to vehicles, appliances, and whatever else? Can you imagine, "pay us $x or we'll shut down all schoolbuses!" Better yet "so what do you think about your pacemaker now?"
Oh yeah, I'm not a troll; I'll prove it.
My point is, often, the worst thing about a bill or a law, is not its direct affect, but the gateway it becomes for many other things to happen. Once we define legalities on the issues in UCITA, we can go from software to...many more things. Right now I don't see that being a possibility, too much of a shock (the frog in the bioling pot analogy comes to mind). But in twenty years...who knows?
My roomate smokes, and a few times I've had to open up her PC to change a card or whatever. I've never noticed anything...unusual, just the usual muck that gets collected in there.
I suppose it depends greatly on the location of the computer, and where the smoke is being exhaled. In a still room, its likely that even the fan within the PC will cause a mini-vaccum drawing in larger amounts of air. The real cause of cigarette smell, though, is the placement, and cleansing, of the ash tray. I've lived with a smoker for two years, and unless she just finished, it never smells like smoke. Part of that is because she always vents the room, but a lot of it has to do with the fact that she always keeps her ashtrays clean. You want to avoid a smoke filled room? Clean the ashtrays, that's where a majority of the smell originates.
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Another method of hiding it with a hated, but long lasting material, is to built it with taped re-runs of "Highway To Heaven". That show never goes away, and nobody likes it!
Oh yeah, I'm not a troll; I'll prove it.
My point is, often, the worst thing about a bill or a law, is not its direct affect, but the gateway it becomes for many other things to happen. Once we define legalities on the issues in UCITA, we can go from software to...many more things. Right now I don't see that being a possibility, too much of a shock (the frog in the bioling pot analogy comes to mind). But in twenty years...who knows?
I suppose it depends greatly on the location of the computer, and where the smoke is being exhaled. In a still room, its likely that even the fan within the PC will cause a mini-vaccum drawing in larger amounts of air. The real cause of cigarette smell, though, is the placement, and cleansing, of the ash tray. I've lived with a smoker for two years, and unless she just finished, it never smells like smoke. Part of that is because she always vents the room, but a lot of it has to do with the fact that she always keeps her ashtrays clean. You want to avoid a smoke filled room? Clean the ashtrays, that's where a majority of the smell originates.