There is a strange negativity in this country (the UK) that i'm not sure exists anywhere else (i could be wrong). When people are having a pretty shitty time of it be it lack of finances/lack of employment/shitty weather/ your lot not quite as good in life as you would like it to be ect. Rather than wish better for themselves and aspire to better things/hope for better times ahead and such and such. they much prefer instead to kick out at those in worse off positions than themselves. Theres no jobs lets pick on the foreign workers that are doing the jobs im not qualified to do in the first place. Im struggling to pay escalating cost of living ill start on asylum seekers/unemployed who although are getting less are still getting or im a non smoker who is sick of smokers stinking up my air with their legally purchased (and taxed) products lets ban them from everywhere lol
Ok rant over iv actually bought one of these e cigarettes. I can hear the non smokers now....he can legally smoke anywhere he likes right in front of me and he hasnt even the decency to get cancer and die? the selfish bastard lol
sorry non smokers and even ex smokers who had to quit the hard way. I apologise in advance for having my cake and stuffing my face silly with it. But as of four days now i have been entirely free of conventional tobacco products and on the whole have not missed them at all. As someone who was used to hand rolling tobacco from the age of 15 the only small issue i had was knowing what to do with hands that were used to rolling my own cigarettes. Surprisingly enough that small psychological issue passed within 2 days of me giving up.
For anyone not aware of e cigarettes (where have you been hiding) they are essentially nicotine suspended in a liquid that is heated with a coil via a battery when inhaled which vapourises the liquid filling your lungs with a white cloud of cancerless smoke (vapour) that can be legally used anywhere in a public place much to the annoyance of self righteous non smoking tosspots. Admittedly i wouldn't presume e giggs to be to every smokers taste. I have used e cigarettes before but at that time i was using them to supplement my smoking habits purely to stick one to the man who says i cant smoke on public transport or in pubs. This time i am using it as a simple alternative with the end game of eventual quitting (ok so now iv probably pissed off some smokers as well lol)
elites ecigarette
As said earlier i have been smoking for well over half my life (actually i said since i was 15 which kinda gives an indication of my age but hey ho) and to cut out cigarettes completely says more for the effectiveness of an e cigarette than it does for my willpower. Any smoker that does feel pissed off and persecuted for not being able to smoke in public spaces and transport would definitely benefit from supplementing their conventional means of smoking with one (hey who knows you might even switch fully) and for smokers concerned with health issues that society likes to hang round your neck for the purposes of creating a big sack of guilt they are most certainly a useful and less damaging alternative.
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My only real issue with e ciggs so far is that trading standards needs to bitch slap the manufacturers for their over exaggerated claims about just how many cigarettes equivalent a single cartridge contains (40 ciggs my arse). Not that trading standards would probably give 2 shits about the consumer rights of a social pariah (smoker) but still something to bare in mind when thinking you are getting more ciggs than you are. a cheaper alternative to getting over the counter e giggs fom supermarkets would be to invest in e liquid which is essentially what they contain and vaporise. this would push the price (which in my view is still too fucking expensive) down and some over the counter e ciggs can actually (although they wouldn't like you knowing) be refilled. The brand im currently using is called elites (one of the popular over the counter brands) and a quick search on youtube will throw up vids of just how easy i is to pop the top off a spent cartridge to replace it with a cheaper alternative eliquid rather than forking out the eight quid a pop for 2 carts in the shops.
E cigarettes aren't
for everyone but for me they work and it does give me a smug sense of self satisfaction knowing i can use these fuckers in direct line of sight of self righteous non smoking tossers
First things first. I'm in no way saying that piracy (internet piracy in particular) isn't harming the movie industry. Within a few days of the biggest blockbusters debuting on the big screen you can pretty much guarantee a simple google search along the lines of "Watch (insert Movie name here) free online will throw up a crapload of choices of exactly where you can watch that movie for the small cost of absolutely bugger all. In 50% of the cases the movie is of good enough quality as to be barely distinguishable from its big screen counterpart. And in a few cases the movie itself can sometimes be seen way before it even hits the big screen (no i have no idea how either) The Life of Pi is a prime example of how a movie was available online a good 4 months before its cinematic debut and before anyone had even knowledge of its existence. At the time of writing and only one day after its big screen debut you can even now download a crappy spanish dubbed copy of The Man of Steel. And i can pretty much guarantee before the day is out an English version will be made available.
So exactly what are governments around the world doing to stop such open and prolific copyright infringement? The honest answer is not as much as they seem to think they're doing. Ok its not their fault its kinda the equivalent of the image of that little boy with his finger in a dyke (giggidy) trying to stop it from breaking and flooding his beloved town. The moment he plugs one leak two will instantly spring up. And where as anyone from anywhere in the world has enough fingers to not only post a video almost instantly online but have enough fingers left over to comfortably flip the bird to their countries government. That government in itself has precious little fingers to do fuck all about it.
And that in a nutshell is the truth. You as most people with net access might have noticed an effort to curb your viewing of movies that you would otherwise be paying top dollar for by way of nice pages saying this website is blocked in your country due to some copyright bullshit imposed upon it from the (insert country government here). I have noticed this myself coming across nice little blocked messages when accessing previously viewable sites such as piratebay or kickasstorrents. or even link channels who post links to streamed movies themselves. Do note link sites don't actually break copyright law themselves so much as provide you with links to sites that do as does every search engine that has ever existed since the dawn of the internet itself. The problem here that the powers that pretend to be seem to be oblivious to is that every time they create a brick wall in the guise of a blocked site all average joe net surfer has to do is spend 5 seconds on a search engine to discover the new way to get to the previously blocked site that was probably posted up before the ban even came into effect. Pirate bay goes down welcome proxy bay the same was also true for kickasstorrents until their new link was also blocked from viewing from the UK. And guess what? go on guess. 5 seconds later this author was back on kickasstorrents. Iv just this second noticed that google's own auto correct recognised kickasstorrents as one word. The biggest search engine and tax dodger in the world gives recognition to the open practice of copyright theft itself. And that is the problem pirates are no longer small groups of individuals stealing master copies of movies in order to knock out a few thosand video tapes to sell at the local oot fair for profit. the distinction of good and bad in this area has been slightly blurred by the fact that a large monority (if not majority) of people on this planet earth have either uploaded material they do not own the copyright for or have and continue to watch material they do not own the copyright for. In this way its pretty much 1 small puny government versus the entire population of planet earth. Last time i checked my country was still considered democratic and it was the will of the people that dictated how shit went down. No offence people who were voted in to represent us but the will of the people wills free movies on demand.
As i said before though piracy in any form does harm the movie industry less cash in the pockets of movie type makers equals less money spent on making movies and a drop in special effects that could otherwise have made a decent movie look even better (probably)
Im not here to justify the actions of anyone who chooses to either upload or watch copyrighted material. I can however say the chances of any government no matter how well funded they are of being able to stop the tide from coming in is slimmer than a bulimic ethiopian
