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US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012
Engadget has noted a report in the New York Times that that the US has "passed a law barring stores from selling incandescent light bulbs after 2012. 'Course, the EU and Australia have already decided to ditch the inefficient devices in the not-too-distant future, but a new energy bill signed into law this week throws the US into the aforementioned group. Better grab a pack of the current bulbs while you still can — soon you'll be holding a sliver of history."
If the free market cured all ills then we wouldn't need government at all. This is one place where government, not the free market you money worshipers think is the end all and be all to all problems, is badly needed.
I don't need government (conservatives telling me not to smoke dope or liberals telling me not to eat meat) to protect me from myself. I need government to protect me from you. You're (not you specifically, the plural "you". Maybe I should fall into redneck mode and say "yall") are too fucking stupid and cowardly to give up that artificial dick* called an "SUV" and are too stupid and stubborn and short sightedly a cheapassed bastard to trade your hot bulbs for twirley bulbs.
But your SUV and your hot bulbs are fucking up the planet my yet to be born grandchildren will be living in.
You're too god damned stupid and selfish to trust with my welfare. I don't need government to protect me from me, but I need it to protect me from you.
-mcgrew
*One of the ladies I'm "familiar" with tells me her BF, who drives one of those bigassed Ford pickup trucks you almost need a ladder to get into, has a little dick. So the stereotype is correct in at least one instance. How big is your vehicle?
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
How does it make sense to ban a functional technology? I prefer the light given off by an incandescent bulb. If it uses more energy, it's my prerogative to pay for it. I don't see why the government should have a hand in deciding what kind of bulb I buy. The free market should dictate that.
CFLs don't yet have as complete and warm a spectrum
What PUSSIES you kids are! Jesus H Christ what WHINERS. People lived with candles and shit (literally; many of the ancients burned dung) for thousands of years. Did they whine about "spectrum?" A candle's color is so "warm" it's like sunset.
Not that I'd want to live in my great grandparents' time but come on! You're willing to FUCK THE PLANET UP FOR YOUR GREAT GRANDCHILDREN for the sake of the color spectrum of your fucking LIGHT? Do you even CARE how goddamned selfish you sound?
I'd mod the parent flamebait because I just deleted the flame I almost replied with. Fucking goddamned spoiled rich brats...
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
WTF?! An "EXACT replacement" is "perfection," dumbass!
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