Do you seriously believe that switching to LED bulbs and driving a car that gets only 29mpg (which is terrible gas mileage in reality, only relative to your other gas guzzler does it seem reasonable) will achieve anything?
It achieves more than just grousing and blaming.
The real waste is at the front end, where power is generated, and the only fix for that is "top down" legislation to force the providers to do something about the emissions and inefficiency.
Among other things wrong with that, legislation cannot effect magic. And presidential edicts are not legislation.
So, you guys ready for nuclear yet? No? Then chill out. Nobody is giving up modern life and energy, you included. So save the "moral" outrage.
9 months of the year here, you're heating at night. 7 months of the year, you're heating 24x7. Much of the rest of the year, A/C isn't a biggie.
Saving here means cooler, not hotter. Likely the same for the Northern 1/2 of the US too.
Of course it varies by climate and time of year. TFA is talking about AC, so I'm assuming summer and hot.
I'm in the northern US, and we've had a cool couple of years, and that doesn't change anything I said. The bean counters want to have the thermostat at 75F (or higher) to save money in the summer, and 68F (or lower) in the winter, to save money.
I'll go for late seeing as this information is at least 30 years old if not older.
And yet we still think that just blaming 1. Republicans, and 2. people who aren't me, is a better overall strategy, over finding reasonable and workable mitigation measures.
Because all the 1.2% savings that can be made add up to make a large difference. If we find eight ways to make 1.2% savings across different areas then that is nearly a 10% reduction in the human generation of greenhouse gases. The human race isn't limited to finding just one method to solve the climate change problem. If we make small savings across the board with cost-effective, manageable solutions then we don't have to solve the problem with a single grand gesture that ends up costing a lot of money.
What, you mean behaving reasonably might work better than just demonizing political opponents? You may be on to something there.
There's a bunch of other ways clipboards suck, and a bunch of ways the clipboard-replacements suck, but the former tends to suck a lot more than the latter.
All of which are solvable problems. With scale EVs eventually could be cheaper than gas cars since they have fewer parts. There already are EVs with range competitive with gas cars (see the Model S) and they are only getting better. As for apartment dwellers, eventually apartments will end up providing charging infrastructure though I fully expect this to happen late in the game because the cost isn't trivial.
Electric vehicles will probably reach a tipping point when either A) recharge times get to less than 15 minutes with a 200 mile range or B) EVs with a 500+ mile range are developed and economically feasible.
So in other words, when the problems are solved, there won't be problems. I see.
... after all, think of the chimp's longing for love, waking up to an empty pillow every day? We can't let the fact that he's not actually a human stand in the way.
Are employers looking at Facebook also mostly a social thing?
The problem isn't embarrasment, it's judgmental people with the power to affect your live.
Yeah, we'll get right on that. I'm sure that decision makers with no judgment will become a thing. Much better if they go by what you copied into your resume than by what you actually did in public.
... it's almost like we should have a society that teaches people not to do stupid things in public. Or maybe even private. And start teaching them early.
But I'm sure some government regulations commanding websites around the world to do free labor can reverse the fact that we threw out may good things about civilization.
But it would be nice if we could somehow rewind back to the 80s in which every computer came with a simple programming language so that if I wanted to throw together some code to do a simple task for my own benefit, I could do so quickly and easily.
I've only worn glasses since I was thirty. Two years ago I had to get a second pair for distance. And this year I had to get a third pair for close up.
For me it was since 42 or so, though I needed them LONG before that (my wife finally convinced me). At first I got away with mild reading/computer glasses, which I could leave on for anything but driving. Since then I've needed more power, and the amount per eye diverged, so I got the progressives.
I seriously almost handed them right back in the optical place. The effect was so crazy. My brain had to get used to them, but once it did, loved 'em. I can bring things into focus at any distance. Read a book, use a computer, walk around, and drive all with the same pair. (I did get a single vision computer pair later - more of a luxury; the progressives are fine for the computer but the single vision are just a bit nicer.)
I've had a partially detached retina in one eye - will that affect progressive lens? (I was told it stops me from wearing contacts)
That I do not know... you'll have to ask your doctor.
Part of the aging process of the eye also makes it stiffer, producing presbyopia (Far sightedness). I wonder if these drops will also affect that as well. Now that I'm on the high side of 40, I've noticed this in my own eyes, and it is quite irritating.
If you haven't already, get progressive lenses. You'll hate them for several weeks, and then you will likely love them.
well there's this thing called communication, it's really helpful in situations like that
Well, some do believe that after "communication" that the "obvious" "right" answer will just be believed by everyone. The real world rarely works out like that.
(Dang, I'm going to need to buy more scare quotes.)
if you have two people doing the same and one is grossly underpaid, he or she will not sit back and take it as bosses dish it out. What is so surprising about this?
The problem comes when one just thinks they are doing "the same" job.
Prices for everything else in the world should be set by supply and demand,
The whole concept of supply and demand only works if the suppliers and the demanders can communicate amongst themselves. Otherwise it's captive markets.
We do communicate among ourselves. The cry here is to do that communication now on the street corner.
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Do you seriously believe that switching to LED bulbs and driving a car that gets only 29mpg (which is terrible gas mileage in reality, only relative to your other gas guzzler does it seem reasonable) will achieve anything?
It achieves more than just grousing and blaming.
The real waste is at the front end, where power is generated, and the only fix for that is "top down" legislation to force the providers to do something about the emissions and inefficiency.
Among other things wrong with that, legislation cannot effect magic. And presidential edicts are not legislation.
So, you guys ready for nuclear yet? No? Then chill out. Nobody is giving up modern life and energy, you included. So save the "moral" outrage.
Saving money? Guess it depends on locale.
9 months of the year here, you're heating at night. 7 months of the year, you're heating 24x7. Much of the rest of the year, A/C isn't a biggie.
Saving here means cooler, not hotter. Likely the same for the Northern 1/2 of the US too.
Of course it varies by climate and time of year. TFA is talking about AC, so I'm assuming summer and hot.
I'm in the northern US, and we've had a cool couple of years, and that doesn't change anything I said. The bean counters want to have the thermostat at 75F (or higher) to save money in the summer, and 68F (or lower) in the winter, to save money.
72F is fine. Some like it hotter, some cooler. Gotta pick something, and 72F is a decent average.
They are just looking for reasons to save money. And be "green".
(And you wouldn't be so cold if you put on, you know, clothes. But that is "sexist" of me, so never mind ...)
If you look at the raw temp data for the U.S. we have been in a cooling trend for the past 115 years
Of course the US covers less than 4% of the Earth's surface so that's a relatively meaningless statistic even if it were true.
OK, if we're so small and meaningless, then we'll just not take any mitigating measures and let the rest of the world deal with it.
I'll go for late seeing as this information is at least 30 years old if not older.
And yet we still think that just blaming 1. Republicans, and 2. people who aren't me, is a better overall strategy, over finding reasonable and workable mitigation measures.
Because all the 1.2% savings that can be made add up to make a large difference. If we find eight ways to make 1.2% savings across different areas then that is nearly a 10% reduction in the human generation of greenhouse gases. The human race isn't limited to finding just one method to solve the climate change problem. If we make small savings across the board with cost-effective, manageable solutions then we don't have to solve the problem with a single grand gesture that ends up costing a lot of money.
What, you mean behaving reasonably might work better than just demonizing political opponents? You may be on to something there.
There's a bunch of other ways clipboards suck, and a bunch of ways the clipboard-replacements suck, but the former tends to suck a lot more than the latter.
Fair enough.
... this measure doesn't involve:
So how is that any fun, I ask you?!?
What was so bad about clipboards again?
Can emotion be reduced to a few simple formulas, some generic algorithms?
I'm not convinced.
Maybe with the same magic wand that reduces thought to a few simple formulas, some generic algorithms?
I mean, since we have that magic wand (right?), might as well go for broke ...
All of which are solvable problems. With scale EVs eventually could be cheaper than gas cars since they have fewer parts. There already are EVs with range competitive with gas cars (see the Model S) and they are only getting better. As for apartment dwellers, eventually apartments will end up providing charging infrastructure though I fully expect this to happen late in the game because the cost isn't trivial.
Electric vehicles will probably reach a tipping point when either A) recharge times get to less than 15 minutes with a 200 mile range or B) EVs with a 500+ mile range are developed and economically feasible.
So in other words, when the problems are solved, there won't be problems. I see.
... after all, think of the chimp's longing for love, waking up to an empty pillow every day? We can't let the fact that he's not actually a human stand in the way.
though in terms of security, a mechanical key is hardly inherently better than a digital one.
Well, at least random Russians would have to fly over here first, and get through the INS. At least they used to have to ...
... I can use If This Then That with it! And control my home appliances with Facebook! What could go wrong?
Best Solution
How about restrict internet to 18 years or older.
You mean perhaps we shouldn't let our children just wander the streets of the entire virtual world utterly unsupervised?
You speak heresy man!
Are employers looking at Facebook also mostly a social thing? The problem isn't embarrasment, it's judgmental people with the power to affect your live.
Yeah, we'll get right on that. I'm sure that decision makers with no judgment will become a thing. Much better if they go by what you copied into your resume than by what you actually did in public.
... it's almost like we should have a society that teaches people not to do stupid things in public. Or maybe even private. And start teaching them early.
But I'm sure some government regulations commanding websites around the world to do free labor can reverse the fact that we threw out may good things about civilization.
But it would be nice if we could somehow rewind back to the 80s in which every computer came with a simple programming language so that if I wanted to throw together some code to do a simple task for my own benefit, I could do so quickly and easily.
I think they do though ... VBA? :)
I've only worn glasses since I was thirty. Two years ago I had to get a second pair for distance. And this year I had to get a third pair for close up.
For me it was since 42 or so, though I needed them LONG before that (my wife finally convinced me). At first I got away with mild reading/computer glasses, which I could leave on for anything but driving. Since then I've needed more power, and the amount per eye diverged, so I got the progressives.
I seriously almost handed them right back in the optical place. The effect was so crazy. My brain had to get used to them, but once it did, loved 'em. I can bring things into focus at any distance. Read a book, use a computer, walk around, and drive all with the same pair. (I did get a single vision computer pair later - more of a luxury; the progressives are fine for the computer but the single vision are just a bit nicer.)
I've had a partially detached retina in one eye - will that affect progressive lens? (I was told it stops me from wearing contacts)
That I do not know ... you'll have to ask your doctor.
Part of the aging process of the eye also makes it stiffer, producing presbyopia (Far sightedness). I wonder if these drops will also affect that as well. Now that I'm on the high side of 40, I've noticed this in my own eyes, and it is quite irritating.
If you haven't already, get progressive lenses. You'll hate them for several weeks, and then you will likely love them.
... in severance packages. A hostile work environment will definitely reduce personnel.
Of course the smart people who have no problem finding another job will leave first.
Business casual is a "hostile work environment"?
So, you're saying that the bees haven't rebounded?
well there's this thing called communication, it's really helpful in situations like that
Well, some do believe that after "communication" that the "obvious" "right" answer will just be believed by everyone. The real world rarely works out like that.
(Dang, I'm going to need to buy more scare quotes.)
if you have two people doing the same and one is grossly underpaid, he or she will not sit back and take it as bosses dish it out. What is so surprising about this?
The problem comes when one just thinks they are doing "the same" job.
Prices for everything else in the world should be set by supply and demand,
The whole concept of supply and demand only works if the suppliers and the demanders can communicate amongst themselves. Otherwise it's captive markets.
We do communicate among ourselves. The cry here is to do that communication now on the street corner.