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Game Console Energy Usage Comparison
Broadband writes "Modern gaming consoles consume more and more power, dissipate more and more heat and cause a lot more noise with their cooling systems compared to their brethren a decade ago.
While it's obvious that an Xbox 360 would have higher energy demands then a Playstation 1, the curious question is by how much? Even more importantly is the question of whether your console might be costing you money while you sleep. Preposterous you say? Actually quite the opposite!
We put every console in our lab through rigorous testing to find the answers to these questions and see who the energy hogs really are. "
I also had this to add in the above post but I reached the hard coded post length limit:
For a case study, let us examine China, the best known country for reducing its population growth. At the beginning of the century, the population of China was approximately 2.5 the size of Germany. Due to Mao's imbecilic ideas (including encouraging everyone to have more children), the population of China skyrocketed. All the while, Mao's economic policy lowered the average standard of living (also see Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution). Today, China's population stands at 15 times that of Germany. It was only once the one child policy was implemented (even though it is not implemented as well or as throughly as people tend to think) and the market was liberalized (freed), that the standard of living started improving. Huge increases in population are beneficial mostly if one is interested in fighting wars or creating empires (and thereby increasing the resources at your disposal). For increasing standards of living, huge, rapid, increases in population sizes as is happening in the developing world do not tend to work very well. Of course, you don't want to depopulate your population rapidly or considerably either, as is currently happening in the West, especially if you want to run a socialist system such as social security, which requires the current generation to directly support the previous, instead of having the previous support itself through its own investment. In fact, the need for workers (in my case highly skilled) to offset the rapid decline in population and maintaing social programs is why I am living where I am (and perhaps you as well), and why Western Europe, Australia, Canada, and the US are experiencing huge surges in immigrant populations.
I had some more stuff to add, but I suppose this shall suffice.
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The fat cats in Hollywood mostly produce money, which gets used to plan the next project, build houses, buy cars, buy food, and throw parties.
They don't produce money (unless they are illegally printing currency). They are performing services which people for some reason value, and give them money in exchange. Hollywood does not produce energy, and is therefore a net consumer thereof.
Most of these activities consume some miniscule amount of electricity,
For very large values of "minuscule." You are concerned about energy loss on PS2s but don't care about the gluttonous and grotesque waste of energy going on in Hollywood, while they hypocritically preach how the plebeians should consume less? Tell me, how many private jet flights from Los Angeles to New York does it take to waste as much energy as is required to power all PS2s in the world in standby for one year? What percentage of the world's PS2s could be powered in standby for one year with the amount of energy wasted by a prominent Hollywood member in one day? Do you even know? Do you even care?
People in third world countries rarely produce twelve children, as they have limited ability to access modern medicine and birth puts the mother at some risk to her life.
I have already addressed this point (as well as many of the others, and others still) here.
Desire for large families are the norm in third world countries, but so are high rates of infant mortality, death by treatable disease, and death by industrial / farming accidents.
All that human suffering, all that human waste, and for what? Because some adults have not been educated or are unwilling to practice safe sex. I addressed the point in more depth in the post that I linked to above. Please read it.
In the end, we haven't seen Africa outnumber China even though China has a governmental imposed limit on child birth and Africa does not impose such limits.
The standard of living in (most of) China is better than in (most of) the third world.
As for government limits on child birth in China, China went from having approximately 2.5 times the population of Germany at the beginning of the century to 15 times the population of Germany today. The one child policy was implemented in China in 1979. Furthermore, there is much disinformation about the one child policy in the West; for example, you can simply pay a fine and have another child. The fertility rate in China today is 1.8 which is still a lot higher than Europe, Australia, or Canada. Supporting link.
Birth in a third world country doesn't require the use of electricity,
Electricity? We were talking about energy in general, not electricity specifically. Anyways, the food required to support the ever increasing number of people in developing countries definitely does require a lot of energy and electricity. A human being anywhere consumes a lot of energy and resources.
even if electricity is used for child birth, it would hardly be considered wasted electricity, unless you have become so detached from humanity that you consider 3rd world inhabitants such non-people that they should be tabulated like cattle or sheep.
I don't understand your logic. "Tabulated like cattle of sheep"? Because I want people in developing countries to engage in protected sex so that they have less children so that the children that they have have more resources at their disposal so that they live better lives? I am such a bastard...
No, my friend, it is you who is detached. Detached from the reality that the Earth cannot support an ever increasing population at high standard of living. Ever done one of those tests where you are told how many Earths would be required if all of today's population were to have the same standard living that you enjoy? My parents only had one child. They used all the resources at thei
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The Nazis thought as you do.
The Nazis? What the devil? Can you address any of the points that I made instead of engaging in pejoratives and puerile ad hominem attacks?
It's pretty clear where you stand: "crapping out children" is what you think of 3rd world nations.
If two adults have more children than they can provide for, I consider that cruel and irresponsible, and I would certainly refer to it as I did. If they can provide for them, that is another matter altogether, now, isn't it.
Now, since you claim that it is clear to you from my post that I am a member or supporter of the National Socialist German Worker's Party (Nazi Party) perhaps you could point to where in my post I advocate any of the policies specific to the National Socialist German Worker's Party. It should be fairly easy to do since it is so clear and obvious to you. I'll start you off with some of their platform:
1) Genocide
2) Internal Strife
3) Total War
4) Totalitarian control over the economy
5) Totalitarian control over the individual
6) Racial Purity
7) Racial Warfare
8) (Ironically enough) Relegating the majority of women to the primary role of breeders, to crap out little Germans to die in the War
Go on now. I expect your well documented reply, demonstrating that I support those policies listed above. After all, "it's pretty clear where [I] stand," so it should be rather easy to prove these points.
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