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The ones I got are called "Instead", written in Iron Maiden font for some reason. They sound pretty similar to what you're using.

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OK, so what I've been experiencing is normal (I've been doing the 3 or 4 drops on the cotton filter thing). Great to know.

Thanks again for the tip by the way. When I finally decide to get down to business and quit, I know these things are gonna work.
 
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I hate to tell ya, but that model sucks. I have one. Pretty much useless, imo. Some people like them but most feel there's better models.

Get this one with the PCC: http://www.happyvaper.com/Happy_510_On_The_Go_Kit_p/510onthegokit.htm

And email the info address and ask for Jack - this guy is incredibly helpful and will answer any questions you have.

Did you check out this forum: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/

Absolutely everything you need is there, including discussions of the different models.
 
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Ahhhh for ****'s sake ahaha. I didn't do much research on them (asked for it as a xmas gift), and it looks like that was a mistake. The Iron Maiden font should have tipped me off.

Thanks, I'll look into it.
 
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Because it's so new, there's a lot of trial and error. Almost everyone buys one they don't like. At least yours was a gift.

I don't think you'll go wrong with the 510 model.
 
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zeke said:
Zeke is now sub-200lbs for the first time in years, after topping out at 215lbs at the end of last summer.

Zeke is officially 2 weeks smoke-free.

2010 = the year of Zeke
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good job Zeke. Give you are now into your 30s, you need to trim down if you still want to pull in early 20s skanks
 
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/feb/21/religion.highereducation

A growing number of science students on British campuses and in sixth form colleges are challenging the theory of evolution and arguing that Darwin was wrong. Some are being failed in university exams because they quote sayings from the Bible or Qur'an as scientific fact and at one sixth form college in London most biology students are now thought to be creationists.

Earlier this month Muslim medical students in London distributed leaflets that dismissed Darwin's theories as false. Evangelical Christian students are also increasingly vocal in challenging the notion of evolution.

In the United States there is growing pressure to teach creationism or "intelligent design" in science classes, despite legal rulings against it. Now similar trends in this country have prompted the Royal Society, Britain's leading scientific academy, to confront the issue head on with a talk entitled Why Creationism is Wrong. The award-winning geneticist and author Steve Jones will deliver the lecture and challenge creationists, Christian and Islamic, to argue their case rationally at the society's event in April.

"There is an insidious and growing problem," said Professor Jones, of University College London. "It's a step back from rationality. They (the creationists) don't have a problem with science, they have a problem with argument. And irrationality is a very infectious disease as we see from the United States."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/28/australian_censors/

The proposed Australian Government clampdown on smut just got a whole lot broader, as news emerged of a ban on small breasts and female ejaculation in adult material.

The end result of this widening of the censor’s net could be the addition of millions of websites to the internet filter now being proposed.
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Breasts came under the spotlight a year ago, as Senators Barnaby Joyce and Guy Barnett commenced a campaign against publicly available porn. Rounding up magazines from corner shops and filling stations, Senator Joyce claimed that publications featuring small-breasted women were encouraging paedophilia.

The result of this campaign is now visible in the decisions being made by the Australian Classification Board, which is beginning to apply RC (refused classification) categories to such material, as opposed to the previous X-rating. According to Fiona Patten, Convenor of the Australian Sex Party: "We are starting to see depictions of women in their late 20s being banned because they have an A cup size.
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Fusion has eternally been a technology that is "only a generation away"

It seems possible that is about to change....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8485669.stm

A major hurdle to producing fusion energy using lasers has been swept aside, results in a new report show.

The controlled fusion of atoms - creating conditions like those in our Sun - has long been touted as a possible revolutionary energy source.

However, there have been doubts about the use of powerful lasers for fusion energy because the "plasma" they create could interrupt the fusion.

An article in Science showed the plasma is far less of a problem than expected.

The report is based on the first experiments from the National Ignition Facility (Nif) in the US that used all 192 of its laser beams.

Along the way, the experiments smashed the record for the highest energy from a laser - by a factor of 20.

Star power

Construction of the National Ignition Facility began at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1997, and was formally completed in May 2008.

The goal, as its name implies, is to harness the power of the largest laser ever built to start "ignition" - effectively a carefully controlled thermonuclear explosion.
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"The bottom line is that we can extrapolate those data to the experiments we are planning this year the results show that we will be able to drive the capsule towards ignition," said Dr Glenzer.

Before those experiments can even begin, however, the target chamber must be prepared with shields that can block the copious neutrons that a fusion reaction would produce.

But Dr Glenzer is confident that with everything in place, ignition is on the horizon.

He added, quite simply, "It's going to happen this year."
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The Thorium reactor is on the verge of revolutionizing nuclear energy production....and this would make Thorium obsolete before it ever got off the ground commercially.
 
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news like this is another reason why i think the global warming scare is overblown. i am very confident in technology. within 50 years, i think we are going to develop energy sources that are going to replace combustion and we'll be fine.
 
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theREALkoreaboy said:
news like this is another reason why i think the global warming scare is overblown. i am very confident in technology. within 50 years, i think we are going to develop energy sources that are going to replace combustion and we'll be fine.
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The thing is, even if were were to come up with an ultimate power source this minute, it'd still be a LONG time before enough ships, cars, powerplants, trains, etc. were converted to make it a non-issue. If someone invented a perfectly clean and renewable energy, supply and demand would likely mean it would be beyond the means of most individuals and most 3rd world governments for a long time.
 
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Tony Blair facing the Chilcott inquiry today regarding his conduct and the justification in taking Britain to war in Iraq.

No doubt he'll squirm out of this one.
 
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johnunit said:
The thing is, even if were were to come up with an ultimate power source this minute, it'd still be a LONG time before enough ships, cars, powerplants, trains, etc. were converted to make it a non-issue.
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are you serious? do you you honestly believe that 50-100-200 years of human activity is going to have a catastrophic effect on a planet that is 4 billion years old?

human beings will have burned fossil fuels for MAYBE 500 years before the technology is surpassed. i think the planet will do just fine, thank you.
 
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theREALkoreaboy said:
are you serious? do you you honestly believe that 50-100-200 years of human activity is going to have a catastrophic effect on a planet that is 4 billion years old?

human beings will have burned fossil fuels for MAYBE 500 years before the technology is surpassed. i think the planet will do just fine, thank you.
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The planet as a rock spinning round the sun could survive plenty. I'm not worried about that. I'm worried about it surviving as a place we can live in. That we can end pretty easily.

We've already made large portions of the world uninhabitable with desertification, strip mining, smelting, etc.

Or for the ultimate proof that humans can create chemical reactions which would make the world utterly uninhabitable to humans:


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theREALkoreaboy said:
are you serious? do you you honestly believe that 50-100-200 years of human activity is going to have a catastrophic effect on a planet that is 4 billion years old?

human beings will have burned fossil fuels for MAYBE 500 years before the technology is surpassed. i think the planet will do just fine, thank you.
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since when has the planet had to deal with the equivalent of millions of massive forest fires burning every day for the past 100 years?

anything that significant is usually followed by a mass extinction event.

naturally, the earth will balance out, one way or another. the same can't be said for biodiversity however.
 
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