Esau.

ICP @ Barney Danson Theatre - date tba.

In my opinion, the same reason they aren't going directly after the makers of the cigarettes or even go after the sellers/stores of the cigarettes in terms of tighter controls, taxes, even bigger fines for selling underage or licenses to sell revoked for selling to underage etc. Just not enough money to be made from it. Just last year the gov't gave tax breaks to a Quebec tobacco company (GVA) even though they owed over 20 million in outstanding excise tax. The gov't was working out a deal on that owed tax money so GVA could remain operating (they owe almost every province money btw) - later GVA used the money they saved to lower their prices. (like mentioned above in Velvet's post) They have no interest in stopping smoking, in youths or adults.

36 posts in a thread about free burgers and only one mention of bacon.

I only celebrate Saints born prior to 300 A.D.

Sony paid $60 million for over 80 hours of Jackson unreleased rehearsal footage(video/audio) made before his death. I'm guessing that Sony puts a hefty price tag on that stuff alone. I mean, we all know (for the most part) when a label states "unreleased material" that doesn't always mean previously unavailable material. At least on the internet.

http://www.wired.com/2012/03/sony-music-hack/

#canpoli #cdnpoli

Agreed. But to what end though? I mean, I get it and I imagine it worked to a degree. But now I believe it's failing. Those who are still smokers regardless of the prices, restrictions, health warnings or numerous other issues attached to smoking are obviously unaffected by these laws in terms of quitting. Meanwhile corporations get more tax cuts and incentives from the government. While lobby groups burn money and time simply fighting the smokers. In my opinion, like the war on marijuana it's an exercise of futility accomplishing nothing except more laws and restrictions which are almost always abused in the name of protecting one thing or another. Yep. Not too mention income generated from taxes on import/exports and again at point of purchase. Fact is the government will always be more then happy to collect even more cash from the people via fines all through more restrictions on the people, requested by the people. They got to love shit like that. I guess I no longer see the advantage of simply creating more laws instead of working at fixing the problem at the source. I see it like using a bilge pump to empty an over flowing bathtub instead of pulling the plug and turning off the tap. Costly with no real results. Anyway, I'm pretty much wandering off topic here....

As a smoker (working on quitting now) I've never really had much issues with the smoking bans. In fact I was rather happy when the indoor ban (eg: bars) came into effect. I'm a conscious smoker in terms that I pay attention to my surroundings and light up in appropriate areas, or distances from others. I don't have any complaints about doing that. But it seems that the non-smokers are really only focused on the smokers instead of the source of all these issues - the tobacco industry. Instead of stacking law upon law onto the Canadian people until we live in a complete nanny state afraid of sneezing in public for fear of someone calling foul, perhaps focus should be directed at the tobacco industry, the source of the issue. One could even argue the government (all parties) who are more then happy to collect taxes while making more and more laws would be worth focusing on as well. I mean, the direction this seems to be going is to ban smoking in public, period and restricting smoking to private. Correct? So, just do it. As many may already know, unless you own or have permission from the owner of a home/apt/condo etc where you reside, smoking can and/or is on many occasions banned in rental properties. Owners have that right and I agree. But, considering the laws applied to smoking in a vehicle with children and the rental possibilities of smoking bans I just mentioned, it's safe to speculate that in the future we'll hear about banning smoking in private homes that have children. All the signs seem to point in that direction at least. It would be naive to think smoking will only be legal for home owners with no children, so again, why bother? - just ban smoking outright in Canada and save the money, time and bullshit wasted on enacting laws that will no doubt have funny little loopholes allowing government more intrusive powers then they already have and are lobbying for currently. I plan on being smoke free in the future so I'm not complaining about the bans per se, just the ever growing acceptance that more laws, restrictions and intrusions from government are the best way to deal with these issues. Again, if an outright ban is the desired end result, just do it. Lobby the gov't to shut down the tobacco companies, stop taking money from them (taxes, contributions or otherwise) and ban smoking period. Done and done.

The Most Perfectest Hamburger in the World Makes My Mouth Orgasm Seeing Chef Maxime Bilet talk about how the Modernist Cuisine created the most ultimate hamburger in this entire world makes me cry happy meat tears. Everything was scientifically considered, from the fluffy bun and lab made cheese to the sous-viding and cryofrying process

How Much Would it Cost to build the Death Star?

Otis Taylor - Contraband (02/12)

I found the easiest way to salvage data off a laptop HDD was buying the kit that makes the laptop's HDD an external HDD. Hooks & powers up via USB. Not much bigger then a large pack of smokes. Bought mine at factory direct or tiger direct (I forget) for less then $20 (case,cable and (faux)leather case cover) - still works great, doesn't get hot either and you'll have a nice external/travel HDD for future use for a couple bucks. Mine is similar to this.

Just saw this on the CMW website. If it's already posted I missed it. http://www.cmw.net/jeff-beck-canadian-music-week-cancelled/

Not sure Todd, I hadn't even checked until I read your post and your right, ticket info is no existent. Even on Dan's own site I couldn't find info. My OP was a cut and paste from the email I received over the weekend, and I just assumed it would be up.

I'm disgusted by any man who beats a woman. As for the Grammys, no surprise there. Playing to the lowest common denominator is always cash cow.

http://gizmodo.com/5885792/taco-bell-has-an-85-million-taco-shell-reserve-prepared-for-doritos-onslaught

Safe journeys Gary. Fuck cancer.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/1970s-rock-stars-parents-reveal-humble-roots-childhood-homes

I've used this site a few times. http://eztv.it/ [edit to add] Here's an article regarding btjunkie, it also mentions (or links) that pirate bay will be switching over to magnetic links only soon. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/torrent-search-engine-btjunkie-voluntarily-shuts-down.ars