"If you love a game of golf but are bored of your usual club, this rather unusual 19th hole could be just the thing you've been looking for. Located at the top of Mount Currie in Whistler, Vancouver, the lofty site is situated 8,000ft above its nearest competitor, the Big Sky Golf Club in the Pemberton Valley. The site of the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Mount Currie is 8,000ft above the Big Sky Golf Club in the Pemberton Valley. If you take up the £290 offer, you'll be flown to the top of the mountain by the Four Seasons Resort to practice your drive with biodegradable golf balls.
PR officer Samantha Geer says: 'It's a great attraction that has brought a lot of interest and a different experience to our guests.
'It takes around 20 minutes from the Big Sky Golf Course to reach the tip of Mount Currie - and the views are magnificent!'
Don't delay in booking your spot, though, because the 19th hole is only offered from May to October." - Cee Bee
via Bookmarklet
Thanks for shining the bright light of truth and justice, Allen! "First, let's begin with a number of disclosures. Something that you would think the $100 million-valued Huffington Post would require of their authors but apparently that's not the case. Calacanis' company Mahalo has received funding from Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk. In addition, Jason's brother-in-law and Mahalo investor Ryan Scott is also a Tesla Motors investor. Boy that's something the readers of the Huffington Post piece should know, right?" - Daniel J. Pritchett
“"One of the reasons that Prohibition ended 75 years ago was the urgent need for tax receipts during the Great Depression. As we enter another major collapse, the US government could (should) consider legalizing and taxing other popular vices such as marijuana, cocaine and prostitution."”
from Richard Russell: continues. "... like they tax alcohol and cigarettes. Of course we would also save the unbelievable amounts of money we throw away trying to stop people from engaging in these vices, usually making the activity more dangerous in the process. - Thomas Hawk
"selling is legal, and sex is legal, so why isn't selling sex legal?" George Carlin - Thomas Hawk
"Over the past 10-15 years, despite interventions at every point in the supply chain, cocaine and heroin consumption has been rising, prices falling and drugs have continued to reach users. Government interventions against the drug business are a cost of business, rather than a substantive threat to the industry's viability." -- Tony Blair - Thomas Hawk
Good idea, but I think there would be a significant uphill battle with the religious lobby against legalizing any of these activities or substances. - Jeff P. Henderson
Prostitution in particular seems like a no brainer. As long as it is kept safe and all participants are adults I fail to see how it will harm anyone, or effect anyone who is not involved. - Jeff P. Henderson
Legalized prostitution seems to be working quite well in Nevada. - Jeff P. Henderson
How about a national lottery? The prize: Foreclosed on homes! - Jason Kaneshiro
Definition of gambling: "A tax on those who don't understand money." But sure, online gambling ought to be legal and taxed too. - Thomas Hawk
Or photography, a vice if ever there was one. - Tom Kimmerer
@Tom, last time I checked, Photography was legal ;-) - Jeff P. Henderson
Oh please. You'd just buy over the internet to evade sales taxes anyway. - Jake Rome
good point Jake. I suppose that they could figure out a way to tax it though. Aren't alcohol and smokes still taxed if you buy them on the internet? - Thomas Hawk
+1 Joey - studies have shown the US Gov. could collect $3 BILLION on taxes on online gaming if it's regulated and taxed. Instead the US Gov. is attempting to ban it by forcing the struggling banking industry to block 'unlawful internet gambling' - but they don't define what 'unlawful internet gambling' is!! - Ken Gidley
Many places can't even receive alcohol through the mail. It's super annoying for wine in many states. - Chris White
Yes they are, Thomas. My father sells cigars and he's responsible for paying all tobacco taxes on his product, not the consumer. In fact, tobacco products cannot be sold until the tax has been paid on them. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
I would be all for this, IF some of the money was also designated to treatment on demand for those who need it. IT is a sorry state that we are in now, where you have to wait months for treatment, but you can go to jail right away for using. - Beth K
Not only can the government make money on taxes on these things, they can save money by not having to pay to incarcerate people. The savings alone would make it worth it. - April Russo
Between the human costs (lives destroyed, families wrecked), the direct cost of imprisonment (highest incarceration rate in the world), the cost of kneecapping the potential economic productivity of those convicts, the law enforcement costs, the opportunity costs of lost law enforcement resources, *and* the failure to utilize a potential tax base, the war on drugs is our most disastrous and financially ruinous failed war. - Eric P
Eric, I agree, so then where are the politicians out there promoting this? Other than comments made earlier this year by failed Democratic Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel, I've heard very little from any politician on these matters. Why isn't Obama talking about this? - Thomas Hawk
Interesting note: The 21st Amendment to the Constitution, which repealed prohibition, was ratified in 1933, and the state that cast the deciding vote in ratifying this amendment was—of all states—Utah. - Jason Shultz
Utah, where you still can't homebrew... at least they got ratification of the 21st Amendment right, I guess. - Bob M. Montgomery
via twhirl
Glad it wasn't Tumblr - I never liked Pownce anyway. - Mark Bean
Chris: sure, but why go through the lengths of acquiring the talent's company? If the talent needs a job, why not get a job like anyone else? - Mark Trapp
my hunch is acquisition price is pretty close to "we hired them to work here and guarantee them jobs" - Jeremy Toeman
guess FF will be removing their Pownce support shortly then, along with ping.fm, and others... - Nathan Chase
@nathan - yeah this will have ramifications with quite a few services that were connected to it. friendfeed, fire eagle, etc. likely not a huge deal, but interesting when a service so tapped in to others disappears -- in two weeks no less. - MG Siegler
I never found it of enough use to overtake my use of Twitter. Can't say I'll miss it. I hope those involved made some decent change from the sale. - Jim Goldstein
from home page (have never managed to make acct there) -- "Join Pownce Today!
Join Pownce!
Don't have an account yet? No worries, you'll be sending stuff to your friends in moments.
Pownce is a way to keep in touch with and share stuff with your friends. Send people files, links, events, and messages and then have real conversations with the recipients." - silpol
@Andrew - sold for? peanuts would be the answer - Dave Hodson
Wow! Anyone have any idea how many users are affected? - Peter Kelley
Peter - probably not a whole lot, but mostly developer types and the Pownce technology is pretty cool - so we'll see what they do at 6A! - Marshall Kirkpatrick
"NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Consumer spending is likely to decline as the nation's largest credit card lenders cut customers' credit lines over the next year and a half, which could hurt revenue and profit for the banks and slow an economic recovery, according to one analyst. Credit card issuers could pull as much as $2 trillion in credit in the next 18 months, Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Meredith Whitney wrote in a research note late Sunday. Currently, consumers have access to about $5.5 trillion via credit cards, using about $800 million, she said." - Thomas Hawk
via Bookmarklet
If you are counting on your credit card unused balance as your "safety net" or for upcoming purchases, watch out. Credit limits on cards are going to start getting cut -- just in time for the Holiday shopping season. - Thomas Hawk
This is just going to cause people to spend even less, on top of that, as they try to hold on to their cash... as a safety net. - Joel Tanner
"Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush said history will judge whether his administration’s decisions on the financial crisis, including a bailout of insurer American International Group Inc., were correct. “The one thing I don’t want to have happen is people say this thing is in a financial meltdown and we didn’t do anything,” he said. “I’m sorry it’s happening, of course,” he said in an interview on “World News with Charles Gibson” on ABC. “Obviously I don’t like the idea of people losing jobs, or being worried about their 401(k)s.” The president described as an “uh-oh moment” being told by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke that “bold” action was needed to avoid another Great Depression." - Thomas Hawk
via Bookmarklet
Someday soon, a Rickroll killer will emerge, hunting down anyone who continues to perpetrate this stale prank, and even those who still think it's funny - Chris White
