Sure they could, if the tax was on nicotine itself rather than the delivery method. I'm not saying it's a good idea, but it's certainly not a difficult one to implement.
Another medicinal use is the temporary relief of headaches. I don't normally consume nicotine in any form beyond a one-cigar-a-year level, but if I find myself getting a sinus headache and it's coming on too fast for normal medication to catch it (because the trick is to keep it from getting entrenched, rather than trying to evict it once it takes up residence), a quarter of a cigarette or even less is the difference between relief and a minimum of one unpleasant hour. This is such a tiny amount of smoking that there would be very little health benefit to using a vape, and all I need in the way of equipment is one cigarette and a lighter.
I had a girlfriend that was trying to quit, and wanted to separate the nicotine from the habit of smoking. She tried Quest nicotine-free cigarettes, and was bitterly disappointed that she had bought TWO packs of them, as she couldn't even get through the first one. I tried one myself and it was like smoking pencil shavings. You are no worse off for not having these in your area.
I have no problem with people wanting to treat it legally the same as smoking. While it's true that the sphere of influence of a vape cloud is much less than that of smoke, it's still not zero, so enough people doing it in one place will be as bad as the smoke of fewer people.
Vaping mostly has the problem of taking forever. I have to take four huge rips from a vape pen (each of which takes about a minute -- 30 seconds hitting, 30 holding) to equal one good bong rip. It does have many advantages though.
I don't have to go outside. Merely blowing out the window (with a straw if convenient) when I exhale is enough to keep any residual off me and my surroundings. Blowing it off inside is not good -- while it may not smell much, it's still oil and it will still tend to coat the surfaces it lands on and make them sticky.
It's small enough to carry around wherever.
I never have the problem that it's too windy to use a lighter.
It doesn't make me smell like weed, even if I am less than diligent about not standing in my own cloud.
It's actually cost-efficient. For every cartridge I buy, I can generally refill from syringes of pure oil twice before it clogs up to the point of not functioning and has to be replaced. If I didn't do this, it would cost about the same as smoking normal dispensary OG, but since I do, it works out about 20-25% cheaper.
The Rove brand cartridges are an exception to all this as they're built differently (and require thinner oil). They don't tolerate refilling because they need a bit of solvent (propylene glycol I believe) to keep them flowing. This negates any cost benefit, but it also eliminates the problem of having to take four hits instead of one because they both deliver more and have much better airflow.
Or just spell things in 1337 or like "a møøse once bit my sister". These are still detectable, but should drift from one meme image to the next, which means that instead of one large group, they'll fall into many small groups, which should make them harder to associate. "Fly under the radar" as it were.
Use a cylinder, then declare the side landings to be "heads". You have a three-sided coin, and by shortening or lengthening the cylinder, you can make it less or more likely to land on its side. No aerodynamic trickery is required, so this "three-sided coin" will work anywhere it has a flat, level surface to fall onto.
But wait, that's not the same thing as messing with climate.
If you can't distinguish between a heads landing and a side landing (they somehow look the same from outside), then it starts to look more similar. Maybe the analogy breaks here, or maybe there is a "middle state" in the climate which gathers more events with the input of more energy. These events would have happened anyhow, but they would not have had the energy -- evaporation, tracking speed, angular momentum -- to get as big, go as far, or do as much damage.
We're messing with the length of the cylinder. Some people insist on being surprised that it matters, because they assume we're flipping coins and want so badly for their simple understanding to work that they would rather watch the world burn than play the percentages.
The bottleneck for two-way communication is generally the return channel of the mobile device. Is this going to help with efficiency at that end, or is this inherently a one-way process? It would seem to me that the process inherently includes an opto-isolator, which makes the process irreversible. It will still help by pushing the noise floor down on the receive end, but if we're still stuck with the same old transmit antennas we have now, this design isn't going to make phones any smaller since it can't replace the existing antenna(s).
What I meant by "across three time zones" is that we have business between the coasts that are three hours apart, and we do that business much of the day. The volume of business conducted with Hawaii and Alaska is fairly minor by comparison, and everything else is smaller still.
I know someone who unfortunately bought into the recruiting bullshit of the BPD that they were looking for "new blood to change the culture" and signed on with them as his first police job. He's stuck there for a couple years if he doesn't want to look like a job churner, which would be bad for his future hopes of working for the FBI.
How the hell do you enforce reform if nobody watches the watchers?
In the U.S. we deal with this all day, every day, across three time zones. There are a fair number of people crossing the border between Eastern and Central time to go to or from work every day, which would be directly analogous to the Irish situation, but we have the effect magnified and things still more or less function. A one hour offset between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland would be a nuisance but not a major problem in the grand scheme of things, and shouldn't be a high priority in the decision-making process.
And that is called paying the Dane-geld; But we've proved it again and again, That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld You never get rid of the Dane.
Simple searches are never going to solve the problem. They simply have no situational awareness. One of my favorite examples would be when 8chan was in the midst of the exodus from 4chan, and someone thought it would be funny to word filter all instances of "moot" into "cuck". I discovered this when one of myposts had the word "smooth" changed into the non-word "scuckh". I wasn't the only one to figure it out, and very quickly people were evading it by using a Cyrillic "o" instead of a Latin "o". This led to much hilarity as some people complained loudly that they were being filtered while others were not. It got to the point where people were putting a lookalike "moot" into posts simply to bait n00bs into thinking the filters no longer existed.
This was pretty harmless, but it demonstrated quite well why defining some regexps is never going to solve a social problem, and introduces many of its own.
I ordered one (though 128 GB) and experienced the connect/disconnect problem immediately. It appears to affect about 50% of them, and I didn't want to roll the dice over a few dollars of difference in price, so I went with the Samsung Fit the second time around. The Samsung proved to be slightly faster in every way: 150+ MB/s sequential reads, sequential writes vary by the amount of power the host is willing to throw at them but it's about 45 MB/s on the Chromebook, and 130 MB/s on the desktop which will happily give it all the current it wants. Holy shit does it get hot when doing sustained 130 MB/s writes, but it doesn't disconnect when it takes cooldown breaks the way the SanDisk does. It just slows to almost zero speed for a second or two.
The reason I recommend the Fit is its physical size. It's small enough that you never have to remove it unless you need that USB 3 port for something else (hopefully a hub). Anything larger has to be removed when putting the laptop in a bag for travel, and risks catching it on something the rest of the time. To me, any flash drive that can't be left in all the time without exposure to damage is for sneakernet and cold storage only.
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Sure they could, if the tax was on nicotine itself rather than the delivery method. I'm not saying it's a good idea, but it's certainly not a difficult one to implement.
Then he would have been tossed out, and probably ticketed.
Another medicinal use is the temporary relief of headaches. I don't normally consume nicotine in any form beyond a one-cigar-a-year level, but if I find myself getting a sinus headache and it's coming on too fast for normal medication to catch it (because the trick is to keep it from getting entrenched, rather than trying to evict it once it takes up residence), a quarter of a cigarette or even less is the difference between relief and a minimum of one unpleasant hour. This is such a tiny amount of smoking that there would be very little health benefit to using a vape, and all I need in the way of equipment is one cigarette and a lighter.
The USB charging thing isn't really a problem. A fifteen minute charge can be enough to last multiple days.
I had a girlfriend that was trying to quit, and wanted to separate the nicotine from the habit of smoking. She tried Quest nicotine-free cigarettes, and was bitterly disappointed that she had bought TWO packs of them, as she couldn't even get through the first one. I tried one myself and it was like smoking pencil shavings. You are no worse off for not having these in your area.
I have no problem with people wanting to treat it legally the same as smoking. While it's true that the sphere of influence of a vape cloud is much less than that of smoke, it's still not zero, so enough people doing it in one place will be as bad as the smoke of fewer people.
Vaping mostly has the problem of taking forever. I have to take four huge rips from a vape pen (each of which takes about a minute -- 30 seconds hitting, 30 holding) to equal one good bong rip. It does have many advantages though.
I don't have to go outside. Merely blowing out the window (with a straw if convenient) when I exhale is enough to keep any residual off me and my surroundings. Blowing it off inside is not good -- while it may not smell much, it's still oil and it will still tend to coat the surfaces it lands on and make them sticky.
It's small enough to carry around wherever.
I never have the problem that it's too windy to use a lighter.
It doesn't make me smell like weed, even if I am less than diligent about not standing in my own cloud.
It's actually cost-efficient. For every cartridge I buy, I can generally refill from syringes of pure oil twice before it clogs up to the point of not functioning and has to be replaced. If I didn't do this, it would cost about the same as smoking normal dispensary OG, but since I do, it works out about 20-25% cheaper.
The Rove brand cartridges are an exception to all this as they're built differently (and require thinner oil). They don't tolerate refilling because they need a bit of solvent (propylene glycol I believe) to keep them flowing. This negates any cost benefit, but it also eliminates the problem of having to take four hits instead of one because they both deliver more and have much better airflow.
Or just spell things in 1337 or like "a møøse once bit my sister". These are still detectable, but should drift from one meme image to the next, which means that instead of one large group, they'll fall into many small groups, which should make them harder to associate. "Fly under the radar" as it were.
If that's what it takes to kill off Comic Sans for good, then let's get to it.
1-800-382-5968.
(That's FUCK-YOU to those who didn't learn to text on telephone keypads.)
Yeah. Because you should always run a control on a second planet, or it's not science!
Use a cylinder, then declare the side landings to be "heads". You have a three-sided coin, and by shortening or lengthening the cylinder, you can make it less or more likely to land on its side. No aerodynamic trickery is required, so this "three-sided coin" will work anywhere it has a flat, level surface to fall onto.
But wait, that's not the same thing as messing with climate.
If you can't distinguish between a heads landing and a side landing (they somehow look the same from outside), then it starts to look more similar. Maybe the analogy breaks here, or maybe there is a "middle state" in the climate which gathers more events with the input of more energy. These events would have happened anyhow, but they would not have had the energy -- evaporation, tracking speed, angular momentum -- to get as big, go as far, or do as much damage.
We're messing with the length of the cylinder. Some people insist on being surprised that it matters, because they assume we're flipping coins and want so badly for their simple understanding to work that they would rather watch the world burn than play the percentages.
Chances are, he didn't build the production environment at all. He just has to use what has already been purchased and made available.
Yeah, because reviews by infatuated wash-out daters and exes are going to be so impartial.
The bottleneck for two-way communication is generally the return channel of the mobile device. Is this going to help with efficiency at that end, or is this inherently a one-way process? It would seem to me that the process inherently includes an opto-isolator, which makes the process irreversible. It will still help by pushing the noise floor down on the receive end, but if we're still stuck with the same old transmit antennas we have now, this design isn't going to make phones any smaller since it can't replace the existing antenna(s).
I'm pretty sure you don't know him, as the person I know was born and raised in Puerto Rico.
What I meant by "across three time zones" is that we have business between the coasts that are three hours apart, and we do that business much of the day. The volume of business conducted with Hawaii and Alaska is fairly minor by comparison, and everything else is smaller still.
I know someone who unfortunately bought into the recruiting bullshit of the BPD that they were looking for "new blood to change the culture" and signed on with them as his first police job. He's stuck there for a couple years if he doesn't want to look like a job churner, which would be bad for his future hopes of working for the FBI.
How the hell do you enforce reform if nobody watches the watchers?
In the U.S. we deal with this all day, every day, across three time zones. There are a fair number of people crossing the border between Eastern and Central time to go to or from work every day, which would be directly analogous to the Irish situation, but we have the effect magnified and things still more or less function. A one hour offset between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland would be a nuisance but not a major problem in the grand scheme of things, and shouldn't be a high priority in the decision-making process.
Have some Kipling.
How are you going to stop a gasoline powered car from drinking? There's 10-15% ethanol in the fuel! This must be dealt with immediately!
If you insist on eating the seed corn, don't be surprised when the next generation looks elsewhere.
Simple searches are never going to solve the problem. They simply have no situational awareness. One of my favorite examples would be when 8chan was in the midst of the exodus from 4chan, and someone thought it would be funny to word filter all instances of "moot" into "cuck". I discovered this when one of myposts had the word "smooth" changed into the non-word "scuckh". I wasn't the only one to figure it out, and very quickly people were evading it by using a Cyrillic "o" instead of a Latin "o". This led to much hilarity as some people complained loudly that they were being filtered while others were not. It got to the point where people were putting a lookalike "moot" into posts simply to bait n00bs into thinking the filters no longer existed.
This was pretty harmless, but it demonstrated quite well why defining some regexps is never going to solve a social problem, and introduces many of its own.
I ordered one (though 128 GB) and experienced the connect/disconnect problem immediately. It appears to affect about 50% of them, and I didn't want to roll the dice over a few dollars of difference in price, so I went with the Samsung Fit the second time around. The Samsung proved to be slightly faster in every way: 150+ MB/s sequential reads, sequential writes vary by the amount of power the host is willing to throw at them but it's about 45 MB/s on the Chromebook, and 130 MB/s on the desktop which will happily give it all the current it wants. Holy shit does it get hot when doing sustained 130 MB/s writes, but it doesn't disconnect when it takes cooldown breaks the way the SanDisk does. It just slows to almost zero speed for a second or two.
The reason I recommend the Fit is its physical size. It's small enough that you never have to remove it unless you need that USB 3 port for something else (hopefully a hub). Anything larger has to be removed when putting the laptop in a bag for travel, and risks catching it on something the rest of the time. To me, any flash drive that can't be left in all the time without exposure to damage is for sneakernet and cold storage only.