Are you sure you aren't hacking in and reading his IP address? No - you're using his 'writing style' to identify him? So you have this super-ability, but neither Mike nor the other commenters can use this on you? hah!
You could have said all this as a Southern slave-holder to a northern anti-slaver and said the identical thing with as much sliminess and inhumanity.
When the laws are immoral and wrong (and possibly actually unConstitutional) and support companies who regularly screw those who produce the work they peddle and try to control, who are you to whine about being called out on your amorality?
Yes, there's a famous incident in roleplaying (can't remember if it is an actual game, or from a gaming comic) where a players is told there is a gazebo nearby, and proceeds to think it's a strange creature, asking the game master all sorts of daft questions as if it's alive.
Add that to the "you are eaten by a grue" nethack meme and... ;)
So why do 'soh-shul-ist' countries like the UK actually have national Health Services that actually want to help people? It's a genuine wish that runs through our NHS. We'd far rather people acted and were healthy than want to 'control' them - we also know that you can't, and shouldn't control them on issues like this - which is why people are 'discouraged' using high taxes and unattractive packaging/smoking environments.
No-one is saying that they only smoke because of the packaging, but it can have an effect on which you choose, or even if you want to be seen with it. If you made a law that said that boys could only smoke from pink cigarette packets, they'd really not want to be seen with them... especially teenage boys.
Smoking is a serious public health nuisance which affects many other people. Whilst banning it outright may be a tempting idea, Prohibition shows that is unlikely to work. However, gradually making it more and more socially unacceptable and unappealling does seem to work and helps a lot.
Anyone who feels they have some god-given right to smoke around others should be made to sit next to someone with a boombox and a pack of stinkbombs, and then see what they feel their 'rights' are. In their own homes, on their own lungs be it.
So what you are saying is that marketing is utter voodoo and has no effect whatsoever on sales of products? Quick, let the multi-billion-dollar industry know!
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Why not just get an account? It's not like you couldn't use a disposable email address or anything. Seriously, it's like the content controllers jumping around doing mad DRM schemes and convoluted Ultravacuous technology instead of just doing the simple and straightforward thing!
And spending half her profits just to 'convince' some nebulous potential partners still seems a bit extreme. Better to spend 10%, and write it off as marketing...
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I really hope that Google publish more stuff or take over some media company, because then they would be 'Big Media' instead of just 'Big Search', and your head would assplode from the (increased) cognitive dissonance...
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I think you meant 'etymology' ;)
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When the laws are immoral and wrong (and possibly actually unConstitutional) and support companies who regularly screw those who produce the work they peddle and try to control, who are you to whine about being called out on your amorality?
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Add that to the "you are eaten by a grue" nethack meme and... ;)
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Smoking is a serious public health nuisance which affects many other people. Whilst banning it outright may be a tempting idea, Prohibition shows that is unlikely to work. However, gradually making it more and more socially unacceptable and unappealling does seem to work and helps a lot.
Anyone who feels they have some god-given right to smoke around others should be made to sit next to someone with a boombox and a pack of stinkbombs, and then see what they feel their 'rights' are. In their own homes, on their own lungs be it.
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