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    Black wings

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    I have about 20 years worth of nic, but the women in my family tend to live forever. I’ll need twice that much, I bet. My mom is 88 and still lives on her own.
    I hope other avenues open up like here. But better safe than sorry. Also if you ladies live long lives, the men folk may need more nic, I remember my mother in law, lol.
    We where restricted to 2ml tanks and nic levels limited to 20mg max and juice containing nic must be sold in 10 ml bottles.
    Luckily the government has implemented the European laws but minimized enforcing them.
    It hit the juice manufacturers the hardest as every flavour at every nic level has to go through expensive testing. We lost a lot.
    On the plus side it did weed out a lot of chancers.
    Sadly the shortfill market (which allows 50ml bottles supplied with a separate 10ml nic shot) undermined those juice makers who invested in full testing as the shortfill juices don't require testing.
    I always recommend buying from companies like manabush, prime vapes, dinner lady, cheap thrills ect as they put all juice through testing, no matter the bottle size.
     

    NolaMel

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    I was saying I must be related to Anna's family as for all the other health problems I have its likely a heart attack to be what kills me dead, as last time I was in the doctors office (this last Monday) my BP was 208/133 which almost gave my doctor an attack which resulted in my husband now watching me take my blood pressure medicine because he has something against me keeling over dead.. (don't know whats wrong with him.. lol)

    To which I noted that I'm sure should I keel over dead of a heart attack, that there will be a long line of people wanting my nicotine stash.. which was intended as funny (which it was.. if I may say so myself)

    But then I decided the whole thing bordered on tmi, as no one wants to hear all that (except you now but only because I said something that you can't see.. lol) and so I deleted it!

    :sigh: thats it..
    I have plenty of nic, so, I vote for you not to keel over. Plus, we’d miss you
     

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    I think its funny they copyrighted it. It is clearly a copy of the one I released back in 2016.
    One cannot copyright an idea, only the particular expression/embodiment/implementation of that idea. Your implementation was in the form of a spreadsheet. Theirs is likely PHP.

    I would also suppose that the "Vaping Community Calculator © 2018" is at the bottom just a standard footer since it also appears on other pages of their site.
     

    mikepetro

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    One cannot copyright an idea, only the particular expression/embodiment/implementation of that idea. Your implementation was in the form of a spreadsheet. Theirs is likely PHP.

    I would also suppose that the "Vaping Community Calculator © 2018" is at the bottom just a standard footer since it also appears on other pages of their site.
    Makes me no nevermind, just think its funny how folks will copy stuff and then take credit it for it themselves. A little link back credit would be nice.
     

    sofarsogood

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    The Luna by AsModus has protection circuitry and no screen..
    Thanks for the tip. Too pricey. I've got a few Pico Squeeze now at the right price for the stash. I'll get one or two tube mods with protection where inexpensive replacement boards are available. I have a front runner. Hopefully then there will be no reason for me to get more mods. My vape is as good as it needs to be. I was ready to sit tight with original Picos until my concern the OLED screens might go bad on the shelf. I've already had pixels droping out on two of the ones I use.

    On the nic topic, I'd like to have a 10/20 year supply when the axe falls. I mix for a younger brother and store enough for him as well. He might inherit my stuff and hopefully enough nic to see him through if it comes to that. I need to get him rebuilding. He's pretty typical of the apathetic majority of vapers.
     
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    DeloresRose

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    Thanks for the tip. Too pricey. I've got a few Pico Squeeze now at the right price for the stash. I'll get one or two tube mods with protection where inexpensive replacement boards are available. I have a front runner. Hopefully then there will be no reason for me to get more mods. My vape is as good as it needs to be. I was ready to sit tight with original Picos until my concern the OLED screens might go bad on the shelf. I've already had pixels droping out on two of the ones I use.

    $50 on vapor range and free shipping, but I have no idea how much Picos are.
     

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    Thanks for the tip. Too pricey. I've got a few Pico Squeeze now at the right price for the stash. I'll get one or two tube mods with protection where inexpensive replacement boards are available. I have a front runner. Hopefully then there will be no reason for me to get more mods. My vape is as good as it needs to be. I was ready to sit tight with original Picos until my concern the OLED screens might go bad on the shelf. I've already had pixels droping out on two of the ones I use.

    I don't have anything with the screen going out...

    Those were supposed to be good for a long long time I thought... hmmm..

    Maybe I should get a couple of those squeeze's...
     
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    Opinionated if yours was the last nic stash in the world and I was next in line, well, it wouldn't even be a question.

    I MEAN.... I'm not saying it wouldn't be a TOUGH CHOICE and one involving a lot of prayer, but hey, we're dealing with an ADDICT here.

    Man I just sat here PICTURING that moment (thanks so much, FDA) and it made me want to just BUST OUT my flaming sword!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I really do have one to brandish about it is GIGANTIC but sort of... well, it's ornamental but I bet things can be sharpened, etc. My stepdad had it for some reason and my kid (at some point, most definitely not now) admired it, so he gifted it to him (along with his blend tech blender :lol::lol: the kid kept that) so now it is MINE.

    It is almost 3/4 as tall as me. it's heavy. Now all I need is some rags and gasoline.

    Well, and a horse. That's not an easy journey to like, Washington DC but I am REAL close to Mexico so the question is how much Mexican nicotine can I shove in various orifices and still look innocent? They really GO THROUGH your car, or so I hear,,

    You are welcome @CMD-Ky . YOU brought this on I claim NO responsibility. None.

    Anna
     
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    I'll get one or two tube mods with protection where inexpensive replacement boards are available. I have a front runner. Hopefully then there will be no reason for me to get more mods. My vape is as good as it needs to be. I was ready to sit tight with original Picos until my concern the OLED screens might go bad on the shelf. I've already had pixels droping out on two of the ones I use.
    When I realized that our screens might wear out, I went for mods with potentiometers (VV, 2 batteries, no screen). I already have plenty of the old style mods from before VV came along and plenty of mech mods. But, I prefer to keep my variable mods.
     

    sofarsogood

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    When I realized that our screens might wear out, I went for mods with potentiometers (VV, 2 batteries, no screen). I already have plenty of the old style mods from before VV came along and plenty of mech mods. But, I prefer to keep my variable mods.
    A partial saving grace for the original Picos, if you run arctic fox firmware all the settings can be done via a pc. That's far from perfect but better than nothing. So far I've had a couple of screens fading but still useable.
     

    englishmick

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    A partial saving grace for the original Picos, if you run arctic fox firmware all the settings can be done via a pc. That's far from perfect but better than nothing. So far I've had a couple of screens fading but still useable.

    I've got quite a few Picos. The screen on one of them is starting to go and it's not one of the earliest I picked up. It's dimming out here and there all over the screen, though it's still readable. Just gone down to half brightness. The Pico is the only mod I've had that happen on. I've got an iStick 40 that's over 4 years old now and the screen is fine. I've heard quite a few stories about Pico screens going bad, wonder if they used some kind of cheapo screen. I guess it's possible the chip isn't feeding it enough power or something.

    Arctic Fox could be useful for sure. I never adjust anything on them. The only real inconvenience would be not knowing how much battery was left, or whether you accidentally pressed the power up / down buttons on the bottom.

    The battery cap seems to be another weak spot with the Pico. Probably not a good idea to rely on them for the long term. Maybe it would be best to have a bunch of different mods and hope some of them last well.
     

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