Sure it works. The reason prohibition didn't work with alcohol is because it's easy to make. Tobacco can theoretically be grown at home but good luck with that. It's a notoriously finicky plant.
It really shouldn't be up to the government in the first place...ESPECIALLY the Federal Govt.
I"m still trying to find in my copy of the Constitution one of the few enumerated powers and responsibilities of the federal govt to regulate what I ingest voluntarily.
They don't need to be telling people, grown adults what they can or cannot eat, smoke, snort, inject or rub into their bellies........
The government was not established to be your conscience or nanny....and I cannot fathom why we continue to go further down that rabbits hole of having the government rule your life rather than let you do as you wish with your body and live with the consequences.
Yeah....I've actually been waiting for someone to throw the 'racist' card down on this new ban.
In my experience, the predominant menthol smokers I've ever known, and observed over my many years, were blacks.
I'm not saying they're the only ones smoking menthol, but over my many years of anecdotal experience, most people I've ever been with or observed that were menthol cigarette (real ones) smokers, were black.
The emotions it gives me, after hearing about its existence, was one of light nausea and apprehension.
It's bad enough Google is tracking you all around as it it.....why would anyone want to give them PHOTO evidence of what they looked like, pictures of people associated with them and locations????
You saw it much more prevalent in the earlier days of TV and it lasted till about the 70's....
I've seen YouTube replays of the old Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, where during the middle of the show, Ed would do a Budweiser or dog food commercial without a "station break".....you saw this thing quite often in the middle of shows on TV in the earlier days.
This type of thing is only new due to the podcast being a relatively "new" media outlet.
The storm fucking STALLED....and hence dropped a lot of rain on Houston and surrounding areas.
And, while it did hit category 4 which is very strong, it weakened quickly....and the most damage was due to it stalling out and dumping rain with feeder bands just training over Houston and the surrounding area.
If you had a strong tropical storm hit and stall for almost a week, you'd see about the same damage.
If Harvey had kept moving like most hurricanes do....it wouldn't have been close to the damage or water amounts.
And I don't see climate change as the reason a storm stalled.....they just sometimes do.
First thing came to my mind, with their reputation, WTF does any type of high level routing or anything concerning internet traffic have Nigerian control???
By using the airplane mode button. The one which shows up on the lock screen.
I must have turned that off on my iPhone, along when I turned off all notifcations on the lock screen so that messages, etc don't show up there where anyone could read them.
I'd have to think other people might think of that too?
About the only reason left for manual is the "fun factor," which is only really fun in long stretches of empty road, stuck in traffic it just adds to the stress
Actually, I find it fun all the time, I like it in city driving too......
I'd really not want a sports car without a manual transmission, it takes something away from it.....
Sonarr watches for new episodes of TV shows I tagged then tells Transmission to download it. Transmission puts it on the NAS when done that Sonarr notifies Kodi to re-scan the content and update its database.
I come home, turn on TV, select what ever show I want to watch and enjoy.
Just curious...at what level of fidelity is the video and audio you are snagging this way?
Is it full HD? Is the audio the same quality as broadcast?
Its interesting if it is, but if it is way over compressed or shrunk down to 720p or less, I'd not be interested.
I didn't buy really nice OLED tvs to watch crap level content.
I don't have a problem paying a reasonable amount of money, for quality entertainment with the best visual and audio quality I can get.
Hmm, I'm not sure what the problem is...unless you just HAVE to have every channel on the planet as an option for you at any given time?
Likely if you do, that is more TV than you can watch.
I cut the cord....I got an amazon FireTV unit (not usb fob)....and I got Playstation VUE, that takes care of pretty much ALL my stations I ever watched on cable. It has most of the local stations, and FX, TCM, all the various cable news channels, cooking...and during college football season, I do enjoy all the ESPN channels...I know they raised the rates awhile back, I think its about $40-$45/mo.
but that covers 99% of my live tv watching.
I have amazon prime, because I have PRIME. I didn't buy it for movies, but for shopping a long time ago, and will keep it for the foreseeable future, so I don't count that one as extra. However, it is a nice bonus that it comes with the Video and audio streaming, and free online kindle books each month, and photo storage, etc.
I think its a good deal.
I do have Netflix, and I'm debating keeping it...they just don't have enough of the real movies coming there as much anymore and I'm not a huge fan so far of the Netflix produced stuff.
But over that...can't imaging needing anything more.
I'm not sure how other streaming hardware units do (roku, etc),....but when I search across the FireTV...it shows results on Prime and Netflix, so it is like searching just one place, not having to jump all over.
The other thing I did, was to ensure I get ALL local stations, which most streaming does not seem to cover.
I set up Tivo OTA and that DVRs local and PBS channels and streams to all rooms of the house, where I also have FireTV units.
So, I pay one stream for 99% channels, I stream Netflix...and that may go soon. I don't really count Prime since I'd have it anyway....and the OTA stuff.
I can't imagine needing Hulu, and the coming Disney one and whatever else is out there.
Was that before states started tightening their child labor laws to shut out children under 16 from more and more duties?
Well, I started out pretty young, mowing neighborhood yards, and baby sitting....and when 16yrs, I got my first W2 job, washing dishes at a medium upscale restaurant, and worked my way up from there.
I've pretty much had a job since then all through HS, college, grad school...etc.
Actually the 60's -90's you got one job and stayed with it until you died.
I grew up through those years, and you are wrong...at least from my experience, and all of my friends i grew up with along the way (and along the moves).
We didn't really settle in one place for a LONG period of time, till I was starting about 6th grade or so.
I myself moved for schooling and jobs for most of my younger years...till about age 35 or so....
I want to live where you live. In every city that I know of, they designed the roadways for less than half of the current traffic load. Almost everywhere, there is a traffic jam twice a day.
I"ve live all over the south east and south central areas of the US mostly, but also in other states, some out west.
Sure, there is rush hour, but I've never been stuck in traffic for an hour or more as a normal thing.
Most of my commutes have been in the 10-15min range each way avg.
I did have one job, that had a 35min commute each way, but that was not due to traffic, but the job was a good one that was a bit farther than usual to where I lived, but it wasn't too bad, I'd just throw on some tunes and jam down the road...I bought my first corvette for that one, so I got there and back pretty fast.
On the plus side my car is nearly 50 years old, stick shift, and fun as heck to drive. So the drive can be by the seat of your pants which can be pretty enjoyable. There is about a three mile stretch where the road curves back and forth several times that most people don't like to take. That stretch alone is a joy to take at 10-15 mph above the speed limit. On the way home there is about a 1 1/2 mile street that is straight as an arrow with no lights or stop signs and very little traffic, ie pure fun to rake the shifter through.
Sadly, for some reason, a lot of people, particularly the younger ones, don't think of a car as something that can be 'fun' or 'exciting'...it is merely a commodity, or necessary evil to get from A->B.
Not me...I've owned nothing but 2 seat sports cars all my life...I worked and saved before HS so I could get one in HS, and have saved and traded up since then (kinda like I did with my stereo)....
I too love to hit the gas and down/up shift on stretches of road when no one is around.
But sadly, not as many people appreciate that anymore.
Hell, it is getting nigh impossible to find a new car with a manual transmission anymore.
...and we wouldn't be able to move without uprooting our kids and selling our home.
Well, this is nothing new. People have had to uproot and move to jobs for most modern days.
And heck, in the 60's - 90's...it was a bit more difficult as that no internet, you had to manually let everyone know where you'd moved, etc.
And there was no such thing as working remotely, which is more and more becoming an option today.
But really, no one in several decades assumed they were entitled to stay at one job, in one city, and not have to move a bit to where better jobs were. My family did it as I was growing up, as that Dad moved us when better jobs were to be had for the family. This was for Electrical Engineering.....but yes, we started renting, but then bought houses, and part of life was selling house and moving to a new town.
So, this isn't something new....families have done this for longer than I have lived.
In my case I need it to not be anonymized. I'm working on an inner join of voter data against death certificates to see if anything interesting comes up. I doubt it will, but I'd like to put the old "Cemetery votes for the incumbent" adage to rest.
Well, you'd still not need live voter info it they voted or not.
Just simply scan for voter with dead....as that no one that is dead should even BE on the active voter list, you know?
If they're dead, they should not be on the voter list to begin with.....eh?
It seems going forward to have any hope of privacy not being tracked, I'm gonna need silly walks from Python, and a scramble suit from A Scanner Darkly....
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Or course they do, but in all my years, the predominate smokers of menthol cigarettes have been black folks. Just factual observation....
Just because you observe something common amongst a race doesn't make it racial or polarizing, it is merely an observation.
I notice that most basketball players in the NBA are black too....same damned observation and level of factuality.
Quit being so snow-flaky about any time some mentions an observation. It happens and can be true.
It really shouldn't be up to the government in the first place...ESPECIALLY the Federal Govt.
I"m still trying to find in my copy of the Constitution one of the few enumerated powers and responsibilities of the federal govt to regulate what I ingest voluntarily.
They don't need to be telling people, grown adults what they can or cannot eat, smoke, snort, inject or rub into their bellies........
The government was not established to be your conscience or nanny....and I cannot fathom why we continue to go further down that rabbits hole of having the government rule your life rather than let you do as you wish with your body and live with the consequences.
In my experience, the predominant menthol smokers I've ever known, and observed over my many years, were blacks.
I'm not saying they're the only ones smoking menthol, but over my many years of anecdotal experience, most people I've ever been with or observed that were menthol cigarette (real ones) smokers, were black.
Oh...hahaha....hehe...oh man, you ALMOST had me there till I read that part.
Good one!! Funny.....
It's bad enough Google is tracking you all around as it it.....why would anyone want to give them PHOTO evidence of what they looked like, pictures of people associated with them and locations????
No thank you.
I"m too busy watching TV or streaming a movie over netflix on the dash.
I've seen YouTube replays of the old Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, where during the middle of the show, Ed would do a Budweiser or dog food commercial without a "station break".....you saw this thing quite often in the middle of shows on TV in the earlier days.
This type of thing is only new due to the podcast being a relatively "new" media outlet.
Seriously?
Who the fuck can even bear to listen to more than 30 seconds of that crap??
High pitch clanging....man, just hurt my ears.
I guess it is some form of music, but wow...that is just weird and bad.
Maybe someone needs to go to India and turn them onto the blues or something more akin to real music.
The storm fucking STALLED....and hence dropped a lot of rain on Houston and surrounding areas.
And, while it did hit category 4 which is very strong, it weakened quickly....and the most damage was due to it stalling out and dumping rain with feeder bands just training over Houston and the surrounding area.
If you had a strong tropical storm hit and stall for almost a week, you'd see about the same damage.
If Harvey had kept moving like most hurricanes do....it wouldn't have been close to the damage or water amounts.
And I don't see climate change as the reason a storm stalled.....they just sometimes do.
First thing came to my mind, with their reputation, WTF does any type of high level routing or anything concerning internet traffic have Nigerian control???
I must have turned that off on my iPhone, along when I turned off all notifcations on the lock screen so that messages, etc don't show up there where anyone could read them.
I'd have to think other people might think of that too?
Actually, I find it fun all the time, I like it in city driving too......
I'd really not want a sports car without a manual transmission, it takes something away from it.....
Just curious...at what level of fidelity is the video and audio you are snagging this way?
Is it full HD? Is the audio the same quality as broadcast?
Its interesting if it is, but if it is way over compressed or shrunk down to 720p or less, I'd not be interested.
I didn't buy really nice OLED tvs to watch crap level content.
I don't have a problem paying a reasonable amount of money, for quality entertainment with the best visual and audio quality I can get.
Likely if you do, that is more TV than you can watch.
I cut the cord....I got an amazon FireTV unit (not usb fob)....and I got Playstation VUE, that takes care of pretty much ALL my stations I ever watched on cable. It has most of the local stations, and FX, TCM, all the various cable news channels, cooking...and during college football season, I do enjoy all the ESPN channels...I know they raised the rates awhile back, I think its about $40-$45/mo.
but that covers 99% of my live tv watching.
I have amazon prime, because I have PRIME. I didn't buy it for movies, but for shopping a long time ago, and will keep it for the foreseeable future, so I don't count that one as extra. However, it is a nice bonus that it comes with the Video and audio streaming, and free online kindle books each month, and photo storage, etc.
I think its a good deal.
I do have Netflix, and I'm debating keeping it...they just don't have enough of the real movies coming there as much anymore and I'm not a huge fan so far of the Netflix produced stuff.
But over that...can't imaging needing anything more.
I'm not sure how other streaming hardware units do (roku, etc),....but when I search across the FireTV...it shows results on Prime and Netflix, so it is like searching just one place, not having to jump all over.
The other thing I did, was to ensure I get ALL local stations, which most streaming does not seem to cover.
I set up Tivo OTA and that DVRs local and PBS channels and streams to all rooms of the house, where I also have FireTV units.
So, I pay one stream for 99% channels, I stream Netflix...and that may go soon. I don't really count Prime since I'd have it anyway....and the OTA stuff.
I can't imagine needing Hulu, and the coming Disney one and whatever else is out there.
How many streams can you need?
Well, I started out pretty young, mowing neighborhood yards, and baby sitting....and when 16yrs, I got my first W2 job, washing dishes at a medium upscale restaurant, and worked my way up from there.
I've pretty much had a job since then all through HS, college, grad school...etc.
I grew up through those years, and you are wrong...at least from my experience, and all of my friends i grew up with along the way (and along the moves).
We didn't really settle in one place for a LONG period of time, till I was starting about 6th grade or so.
I myself moved for schooling and jobs for most of my younger years...till about age 35 or so....
I"ve live all over the south east and south central areas of the US mostly, but also in other states, some out west.
Sure, there is rush hour, but I've never been stuck in traffic for an hour or more as a normal thing.
Most of my commutes have been in the 10-15min range each way avg.
I did have one job, that had a 35min commute each way, but that was not due to traffic, but the job was a good one that was a bit farther than usual to where I lived, but it wasn't too bad, I'd just throw on some tunes and jam down the road...I bought my first corvette for that one, so I got there and back pretty fast.
Why is it impossible?
Basically, you move with the person that makes the most money, right?
It's the golden rule: "He who makes the most gold, makes the rules".
But seriously, whichever one makes the most $$....if they have to move, then you do.
Is it easy? No.
Is it convenient? No.
Is it doable...and pretty much required in modern life to advance? Yes.
Sadly, for some reason, a lot of people, particularly the younger ones, don't think of a car as something that can be 'fun' or 'exciting'...it is merely a commodity, or necessary evil to get from A->B.
Not me...I've owned nothing but 2 seat sports cars all my life...I worked and saved before HS so I could get one in HS, and have saved and traded up since then (kinda like I did with my stereo)....
I too love to hit the gas and down/up shift on stretches of road when no one is around.
But sadly, not as many people appreciate that anymore.
Hell, it is getting nigh impossible to find a new car with a manual transmission anymore.
Well, this is nothing new. People have had to uproot and move to jobs for most modern days.
And heck, in the 60's - 90's...it was a bit more difficult as that no internet, you had to manually let everyone know where you'd moved, etc.
And there was no such thing as working remotely, which is more and more becoming an option today.
But really, no one in several decades assumed they were entitled to stay at one job, in one city, and not have to move a bit to where better jobs were. My family did it as I was growing up, as that Dad moved us when better jobs were to be had for the family. This was for Electrical Engineering.....but yes, we started renting, but then bought houses, and part of life was selling house and moving to a new town.
So, this isn't something new....families have done this for longer than I have lived.
Are they only polling places like D.C, L.A. , Houston?
Well, you'd still not need live voter info it they voted or not.
Just simply scan for voter with dead....as that no one that is dead should even BE on the active voter list, you know?
If they're dead, they should not be on the voter list to begin with.....eh?
A joke ceases to be funny...if you have to explain it is a joke.
Any reasonably intelligent person would know that it was outlandish and therefore , a joke.
It seems going forward to have any hope of privacy not being tracked, I'm gonna need silly walks from Python, and a scramble suit from A Scanner Darkly....
I would argue that it is....
But more importantly, there ARE limits to what you discuss and share with anyone, even a spouse.
As an individual, you are allowed to have your private thoughts and opinions and actions like voting.