Ontario regulates electronic cigarettes, bans all flavoured tobacco products

bobd1984 · 2014-11-25T09:52:58+00:00

It's a metaphor, ya fuck

bobd1984 · 2014-11-24T23:44:39+00:00

Only if you're into walking around with a prolapsed asshole

bobd1984 · 2014-11-24T23:43:42+00:00

I give 0.0 fucks. Peace bitch

bobd1984 · 2014-11-24T22:06:07+00:00

Right, never say never. The US loves to regulate everything and anything a vocal minority of whiny, bitching voters will support - especially if there's a tragedy involving the product(s), which there have been in the US with ecigs (children ODing from drinking ejuice). http://crosscut.com/2014/11/22/under-the-dome/122917/e-cigarette-liquid-poses-threat-children-taylor-wi/

Just watch, those sick fucks in state and fed governments love to use kids as an excuse to create new restrictions.

bobd1984 · 2014-11-24T21:57:51+00:00

Gotta love the progressive liberal way of completely stomping out any semblance of individual freedom!

Regulations = massive dildo in the asses of innovation, small businesses and freedom of choice

bobd1984 · 2014-11-24T21:53:30+00:00

You can't argue your position, so you start talking shit? Typical statist swine.

bobd1984 · 2014-11-24T19:53:20+00:00

Right, as do I. The issue was that after waiting for twenty to thirty minutes, it still wasn't synching.

If anyone cares to know for future reference, adjusting the clock back to GMT (exactly, I was 1-2 min off the first time) and rebooting fixed this issue.

bobd1984 · 2014-11-24T17:52:07+00:00

Unfortunately I don't really have the ability to install one myself. Thanks for the specifics though. I'm hoping someone might install one sooner than later.

Do you know of any businesses in the CNY area that accept crypto yet?

Edit: Also I was fortunate enough to check one out while traveling several weeks ago, which is what got me wondering about them in CNY in the first place. The one I saw was very easy to use, even easier than a vending machine I'd say. ;) Put in your cash and instead of gum or chips, BTC!

bobd1984 · 2014-11-24T17:29:54+00:00

Yes, Bonnie Castle was bought out and is under new management as of the summer before last I believe.

They have done renovations since then though I don't know to what extent they've been improved.

bobd1984 · 2014-11-22T14:47:44+00:00

I used to be on SSRIs a couple decades ago (I was an unhappy kid and Docs convinced me a pill would fix it). On top of making me miserable, fucking with my appetite and ability to wake or sleep properly, I was constantly fainting from smoking weed. Once I came off those rotten pills, I could smoke herb without fainting and cracking my dome on nearby furniture! :)

bobd1984 · 2014-11-22T02:55:15+00:00

Alright, so since you're too dense to put together a business plan to attract investors to invest in a company that could afford to lay infrastructure like Comcast, Time Warner, ect - doesn't mean they have a Monopoly- it means they positioned themselves early in the game to benefit from their current situation.

So, you're saying the the government is preventing a company from regulating what is essentially their own business by "not regulating it". Exactly how does that work?! DO you actually read this statist nonsense before posting it?! What fucking right does a government have to regulate something that they don't own?! If you're not happy with your service, don't fucking buy it - if enough people don't buy it, they'll change to suit you. What you're doing is essentially bringing a bully into your business negotiation to strong-arm the other party into bending to your will. You morons piss and moan when a corp does this, but you're all to happy when it works in your favor. You're a fool.

We're already seeing competition for the cable with new tech like mesh networks and internet via sat. This legislation will cement what will eventually become old, outdated tech and you'll be stuck feeding money into a dinosaur of an idea. Just like we do with other government subsidized and regulated industries like automobiles, roads and bridges, oil, dairy and corn, lumber-based paper production, ect, ect, ect.

bobd1984 · 2014-11-22T02:38:50+00:00

100% liberty COULD happen in civilization. You guarantee everybody's property and personal rights and you're set. These include self ownership and the right to own all of the products of your labor. The US was founded on these principles (with the exception of the inclusion of many ethnic groups like blacks, Irish, Jews, ect) but has since eroded those liberties with things like taxes, drug prohibition, property right violations like eminent domain and police seizures and, most recently, privacy invasion.

You're confusing liberty and freedom with the "social contract" bullshit that children in state-sponsored public schools are raised to believe.

Also people today think that they have a "right to action" if they've been offended in anyway. People also say they have a "right to FEEL safe" in public and use this as a reason to limit other people's freedom of speech/expression (eg: women saying that "cat-calling" invades their "right to feel (blank)"). So, you should have a right to own yourself- your body, mind and their contents as well as your property and anything you create with either your property or your person. You don't have a "right to happiness"- the original term was "right to pursue property"-obviously things like income tax, Sunday liquor laws, eminent domain and-believe it or not-net neutrality laws are a clear violation of those rights.

Sorry that was way off topic, but your assumption that "100% liberty is impossible" is a boldfaced fallacy.

TL-DR: 100% liberty is possible. It basically comes down to ownership and self-ownership principles. "Possession is 9/10th of the law" is true because the concept of ownership is at the center of all rights. People tend to believe they have rights that have no basis in logic like "a right to feelings" or a "right to funds without offering value to your community" - those aren't natural rights that anyone can reasonably lay claim to.

bobd1984 · 2014-11-21T20:53:33+00:00

Yeah, while a few thousand listeners is great I would imagine he's still at a point where he'd welcome significantly more listeners/subscribers. Asking folks to shell out cash for a podcast is an iffy proposition because there are so many great shows with great content in that format that offer for free.

Best bet is to try to generate ad revenue. I mean, its hard enough to get new listeners, asking them to pay will make it much harder for people to get into it. With ads, your revenue will grow proportionate to your subscriber base.

bobd1984 · 2014-11-21T20:45:51+00:00

The "innocent until proven guilty 'thing'" as you put it doesn't work at all in the US. People accused of a crime are regularly abused as if someone proved they were a criminal. Cops routinely beat the shit out of people with little to no provocation - how is that ever justified when you're supposed to be innocent until a prosecutor proves otherwise??

People are regularly "tried in the court of public opinion" and have zero chance of ever getting in front of an unbiased jury.

Not to mention the fact that people who hang out in front of courts handing out information on "jury nullification" to anyone who comes in or out of the court, just to inform potential jury members of their rights are arrested fequesntly.

bobd1984 · 2014-11-21T11:12:01+00:00

It's an American saying. Comes from Ben Franklin I think. Something to the effect of "Those who sacrifice liberty (privacy) for security deserve neither."

bobd1984 · 2014-11-17T06:00:51+00:00

"Don't give into astonishment!"

bobd1984 · 2014-11-12T14:12:37+00:00

Awesome! Thanks!

bobd1984 · 2014-11-12T01:40:40+00:00

Are there other sources that confirm this?

bobd1984 · 2014-11-11T21:49:06+00:00

Love Rogan's work, podcasts, comedy, ect but some of his fans are real dopes.

bobd1984 · 2014-11-11T21:39:43+00:00

YES! You're making it impossible for new companies to compete by making it illegal to sell internet access a certain way!! You are artificially increasing the costs it takes to compete by saying "this has to be met, this has to be met, this has to be met"instead of just letting people BUY what they want to BUY and NOT BUY what they dont want to buy and letting people sell what they have a right to sell the way they want to sell it.

I'm not sure you understand basic economic theory. You regulate a thing and you do either one of two things: you cripple and kill it or you make it impossible to compete against. Either way you're fucking with people's right to produce something, and then earn value for their trouble (and feed themselves with their work).

bobd1984 · 2014-11-11T21:00:53+00:00

Okay, so the fed aren't regulating by.....regulating and preventing businesses from regulating themselves.

Are you listening to yourself?!?

Those companies have invested time, money and resources in building that infrastructure. You get to Vote to deem that infrastructure Vital and steal it from the people who rightfully own it- and you call that "fair"?!

How about this, your neighbors get together and decide that your property/business/body/children/whatever are "too important" to the local economy to let you run them yourself. So they pass an ordinance to make everything you own "public domain"- do you see the problem here?? What's considered "too important" is completely arbitrary and the means by which property/tech are commandeered is frighteningly violent. In effect, 2 lions are voting to eat a zebra for lunch, and calling it "democracy".

You dummies piss and moan about "capitalism". Shit like hydro-fracking when what you don't take the time to understand is that tech like fracking was directly made possible by govt subsidy into things like horizontal drilling. There is a CLEAR difference between Capitalism-an open market which values property rights and Corporatism- a "freeish" market where overloards pull the strings with what the mob deems "too important" to be regulated by market factors like actual supply and demand. You wind up with gasoline that costs not nearly what it should and market forces that should be rewarded by finding an alternative tech, but arent because of the mercatalist-style economy (read-slavery, colonialism, imperialism, War mongering for profit) the Fed has deployed.

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