Place your bets, next big thing in vaping?
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Someone mentioned pop-in and pop-out coils...the Fireluke Mesh has those. They suck wastewater. It leaks juice into the well constantly. Pain in the ..... Love the tank but got tired of messing with the juice leaking into the well and threw the damn thing into a drawer where it will stay.
Maybe they could make a pop-in coil that DOESN'T leak.
Maybe they could make a pop-in coil that DOESN'T leak.
Yep. Years ago, my sons & their friends used to think I was a conspiracy theorist, because I refused to use FB or LinkedIn on my phone, and wouldn't download free flashlight or poker apps that wanted permission to contacts & everything on my phone. This was before all the massive breaches over the last few years.
And I still don't understand the draw to Alexa, et al. For me, they don't offer near enough function to consider having it eavesdrop on me all the time. Still kinda creepy to me. Believe it or not, I even started putting a piece of tape over my laptop webcam after the news of that Aaron's webcam scandal years ago.
These things always remind me of Minority Report. I don't want to have my eyes cut out.
True story: A couple of months ago, Wife and I watching a movie, and I comment on a Corvette we see. She asks what year it is, and I tell her 1962. She argues that she thinks it's a later model, probably a 1967. Pull out my phone, type in ONLY 1962, and this is what pops up in the 1st screenshot below. Out of all the things 1962 that could be pulled up. Hit enter, and it shows the 2nd screen, with a 1962 next to a 1967. Maybe a coincidence, but gave me heebie jeebies.
To each their own. For me, no Alexa, tape on the computer camera, plug in the microphone space, not a smart thing in the house except my eleven year old flip phone and what is "smart" about the flip phone is the user, me.
Yep. Years ago, my sons & their friends used to think I was a conspiracy theorist, because I refused to use FB or LinkedIn on my phone, and wouldn't download free flashlight or poker apps that wanted permission to contacts & everything on my phone. This was before all the massive breaches over the last few years.
And I still don't understand the draw to Alexa, et al. For me, they don't offer near enough function to consider having it eavesdrop on me all the time. Still kinda creepy to me. Believe it or not, I even started putting a piece of tape over my laptop webcam after the news of that Aaron's webcam scandal years ago.
These things always remind me of Minority Report. I don't want to have my eyes cut out.
True story: A couple of months ago, Wife and I watching a movie, and I comment on a Corvette we see. She asks what year it is, and I tell her 1962. She argues that she thinks it's a later model, probably a 1967. Pull out my phone, type in ONLY 1962, and this is what pops up in the 1st screenshot below. Out of all the things 1962 that could be pulled up. Hit enter, and it shows the 2nd screen, with a 1962 next to a 1967. Maybe a coincidence, but gave me heebie jeebies.
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So true on Facebook. How many times has Mark Zuckerberg been dragged in front of Congress to explain data breaches, and data misuses? How many times does it have to happen before people realize their personal data is exactly what FB is selling?
On the Google thing, just for grins, I just typed in 1962 and got the same search suggestions, and I haven't said anything about corvettes or impalas yet they were the top two suggestions for me as well. So, maybe just a coincidence. That is not to say I trust Google, I don't. They will collect your data anyway they can.
If Google wants to know how many bowel movements I do in a day I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. My best friend went on a tirade in my house when he saw we had an Alexa. "They're listening to you!!", he kept exclaiming. Dude, you're a freaking boat mechanic-- We got a white male in Miami using 14mm sockets more than 12mm, call the President.
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Yeah, it's not like I'm going off the grid or anything, or not using technology. I just don't use tech blindly oblivious, like so many do.
And each individual encroachment doesn't send me over the edge. But the growing ability of tech giants to aggregate metadata and build a composite profile on my life makes me, a pretty private person, be cautious at times.
Meh, google already knows what porn I watch ... if it wants to listen in as well, what do I care?
When I decided it was a problem, was when I was watching some medical drama show on TV (I think it was House) and they were talking about some disease I had never heard of before. So I looked it up for more details. Suddenly every page I went to had ads for cures/remedies/treatments for that disease as if I had that disease. This was MULTIPLE WEB SITES, meaning some data was transmitted to a bunch of different sites that I HAD that disease. I do not want companies knowing what ailments I do have and I certainly don't want them reporting to everyone else that I have some disease that I don't just because I looked it up. Furthermore that really seems like a HIPAA violation to use personal search history to determine private health data about an individual and then use that data in a manner not in compliance with the law and without a signature of release of data from the individual.
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Today is May 1, 2019. FDA approved iQOS for sale in the US yesterday. A lot of people will try it because it's "FDA Approved". I suspect it will be as expensive as smoking so I predict it will be a gateway to vaping.
@sofarsogood, it'll probably be more expensive and readily accepted. Even though the science behind HNB seems somewhat biased.
The uforce 2 coils are great but they do screw in. Really liking the m3 mesh coil. I can leave it sitting for two days without using and no flooding or gurgling. First hit is juicy but after that normal. I'm pretty impressed honestly. Not my style as its pretty airy but it's a keeper.
You don't have to suspect. It is. Here is a post I made a while ago.
Any one headed to Toronto to buy iQOS?
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So even more expensive than cigarettes. That makes it hard to tax, a good thing. 100's of millions of dollars have been invested in this product so no surprise they'd like to earn that back. But if iQOS is taxed lower than vape products there will be cries of foul (fairly). Dr F says heat not burn is 10x less risky than cigs and vaping is 10x less risky than heat not burn. May be the FDA can use the equivalence test broadly across vaping products. I don''t see kids going to this as long as vaping is available because of cost.
Kids have disposable income, they could care less how much anything costs.
Reminds me of a couple newer people at work. One bought a brand new Mercedes and loves to show it off. But she doesn't like it when you ask her when she's moving out of her parents' home.
Well if it was my kid, she would have moved out within 30 days of buying that Mercedes. If you can afford that, you can afford your own place.
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