>>>huge hulk of oil-gobbling pollution-spewing metal
(hugs 80mpg hybrid) It's okay baby. He didn't mean it.
>>>don't complain about gas tax increases or other driving charges to pay for your highways
I don't. In fact I think gas taxes should increase, in order to fix all the bridges that are on the verge of collapse (see the Minneapolis bridge). As for my exurb I get to look out my window and see trees and cows (in the distance) and other wildlife like birds, squirrels, chipmunks, etc. Moving to the concrete hell of the DC or Baltimore city would mean giving that up, and I don't want to cut myself off from nature.
>>>There is one thing that the election in 2010 taught me: if someone campaigns on vague promises and commits to nothing
Sounds familiar. (cough) US 2008. Hopefully the European Union courts will come to the rescue and enforce the constitutional rights enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty. Ex-post facto laws are supposed to be unconstitutional, and ditto suppression of speech, press, and expression.
Yeah the folks in India have this "compressed city living" down pat. AKA slums. But we Americans and Europeans don't want to live that way. - City planners never account for quality of life. While your vision may be cheaper, I'd still sooner commute from a exurb of DC (home) to another exurb of DC (work), then have to actually live inside DC and walk/bike. I would feel like I had been sent to hell. (I don't like tight spaces or concrete.)
People have more leisure time then they've ever had. When they were farmers they worked 6 days a week (minus sundays) and often from sunup to sundown. Now they work just 5 days a week and 8-10 hours a day. Hence they have free time to watch TV in the evenings, or to travel to the beach on the weekend, something our pre-1930s ancestors never dreamed of.
If driving has hit a plateau since 2000, maybe it's because people simply don't want to. I know I have no desire to hop in my car and drive to the store, when I can just click netflix.com to watch a video, or shop amazon.com and have it delivered to me. I don't even visit the bank now - I just do it all on the internet from the comfort of my chair.
If I didn't have to buy food, I'd probably never leave the house.
I notice you have not provided an alternative solution for "dealing with the system" or warrantless searches. All you're doing is telling me I did it wrong, without explaining a better way. You are a critic, not a solver.
Really? Did EU threats also result in the self-organization of the Underwriters Laboratory or IEEE or ISO standards organizations several decades ago? No. The invisible hand of the free market resulted in their invention. \
The invisible hand self-organized a Standards committee which mandated the use of the mini-USB for cellphones, and which most manufacturers are now following. It's the same way that the invisible hand self-organized committees to standardize on PCI and PCI-express for desktops.
>>>he courts have agreed to treat any stop within that territory as being equivalent to a search at the border,
False. The Supreme Court has ruled, multiple times, that they cannot search without warrant unless you've actually crossed the border. They've also ruled that cops are not allowed to stop every single car but can only pull-over cars if they have articulable cause to do so ("I heard a scream for help"). Of course as we've seen the cops ignore what the justices say.
I don't understand what the big deal is about Cellphone plugs?
Every appliance I own has a different plug. My Panasonic radio and my RCA radio use different plugs. Ditto my Sony TV and Sears TV. And my two laptops. What is so special about cellphones that government politicians getting paid $200,000 in taxpayer dollars have to mandate a "standard plug" while all the other appliances use a wide variety of shapes and styles.
The libertarian dream is not about wealth. The libertarian dream is about ownership of self, and protection of one's rights from harm by another (such as the government or a boss locking you inside a burning factory). China does not respect either of those philosophies.
- resist warrantless searches (as if my right by the Supreme Law of the land) - act like the japanese Americans did in 1942 and calmly walk into a prison camp where I will spend the next 4 years of my life. They too were innocent of any crime, and if they had resisted arrest they would have had a trial and been freed, but instead they cooperated with the cops and lost their property, their money, and their freedom.
The lesson of history is that cooperation with cops sometimes leads to bad things... imprisonment or even death. Better to resist now, rather than have regrets later as you stew inside a prison or are lead to a gas chamber.
>>>There were no drugs on the car or on its occupants so the dog didn't indicate
Sometimes cops will kick the dog in the balls to make it bark. They call that "probable cause". If you refuse and deny having any drugs, the cops will beat you, as happened to a christian pastor in Arizona.
"The developers of Monkey Island 2 made using the Amiga version's 11 floppy disks relatively smooth,[9] but also noted that installing the game on a hard drive is recommended." -wikipedia. And I thought Dragon's Lair on 6 disks was a lot! DL had full-motion video..... why did Monkey Island need so much disc space?
I think #1 is the key. Rather than try to squeeze more data on each disk, manufacturers are now focusing on keeping the same size (1/2 to 1 terabyte) but shrinking the size of the drive to fit inside phones and iPads and laptops.
Yep. My Commodore Amiga 2000HD and 500 have a tiny 20 megabyte hard drive. That was considered a huge step-up from booting the OS off a floppy. Of course it didn't take long to fill that space, so most of us still used floppies to store all our musics and vids and demos.
In this case the topless daughter was not just a random object. She was the primary suspect the detective was questioning. Her partial nudity was because she had been in bed, sleeping, and didn't bother to put on a shirt when her mom demanded she come out. I also suspect it was a way to show her "don't care" attitude, although I admit I stopped reading the subtitles, and lost the storyline.;-)
Which has nothing to do with my original point:
- VirginMobile claimed to be losing money on the $15 unlimited texting plan, so they eliminated it. But if texting costs nothing, then Virgin lost nothing. They were lying.
>>>If NYC were to break off of the union and become an independent free city
They would quickly bankrupt themselves. And companies that are currently receiving huge US subsidies to set-up shop in NYC, would no longer get those handouts, and move somewhere else like Philly or Boston. In short order NYC would resemble Rome City after there was no longer an empire to support it (services collapsed, people fled the city, and its population plummeted from 5 million to 100,000).
>>>it goes into producing photons of visible light instead of waste heat.
It helps if you read: "the light itself eventually converts to heat when it strikes the walls." Also you didn't read the part where I said even a CFL is not very efficient. An incandescent has a luminous efficiency of around 2%. A CFL... 6%. The remainder is heat, so there is only 4% difference in heat output for these two types of bulbs. Not a major difference. . >>>Sometimes they are enclosed in a plastic shield that looks like a light bulb
Yeah those are the ones that died within 6-9 months in my upside-down fixtures. They became hot, the heat rose up into the ballast, and killed it. I know you environmentalists like to assume I'm lying but I'm not (or stupid although my two EE degrees prove otherwise). *In my experience* CFLs are about as unreliable as a computer made by e-machines - they too die within months.
And for what purpose? It's not as if switching form reliable Incandescents to 10x more expensive CFLs will save much energy. We're talking about less than 1% of residential energy burned. We should be focusing on the big ticket items like Heaters and Refrigerators.
I'm against what I experienced in Texas when the Homeland Gestapo demanded to search my trunk. I refused because they had no warrant. Had there been a judge there he could have issued a warrant on the spot, but he wasn't there, so instead the jack-booted thugs made me stand in the hot summer sun for an hour. I felt like a Black man circa 1950. Or Japanese american in 1942. Or German Jew in 1934. Not attacked- just intimated and treated like a rat by the cops.
Translation: "You are lying c64_love." - Well contrary to what you believe CFLs are *not* perfect. They have flaws. I've SEEN the CFLs die within 6-9 months when used in my upside-down kitchen and bathroom lights. That is no longer than a standard bulb lives! And when I open them up, yes, they died from heat (the caps are swelled and leaking). But since you think I'm "full of nonsense" try reading these 20,000 posts from other people who had the same experience: ----- "Recessed or enclosed fixtures. It is not recommended that you use CFLs in an enclosed indoor ceiling fixture" - www.michigan.gov - "Do not use standard CFLs in recessed cans and air-tight enclosed fixtures. CFLs are more sensitive to heat than ordinary bulbs" - seattle.gov - "Places that you frequently turn the light on and off or use for only short bursts at a time - like closets - are not ideal for CFLs. Frequent on and off cycling can reduce the life of CFLs"
Here's an engineer that actually took time to TEST the CFLs inside enclosed fixtures, and discovered that it gets VERY hot inside. Note in the picture the damaged cap..... the ones in my bulbs looked far worse than that. http://sound.westhost.com/articles/incandescent.htm#exist
>>> have never run into a case where the bulbs did not provide enough light to get around within a second of being turned on.
Well "yay" for you.:-) I've got two types of CFLs. One type flickers for 2 seconds before turning-on at full brightness, which is not bad. I can wait two seconds. The second type appears to be the most common in stores right now. It starts as a dim orange glow, then gradually changes to a yellowish light, and finally achieves full "hot white" appearance. This process takes 3-4 minutes. They are made by the German company called Philips... not some fly-by-night manufacturer.
I tried to put one of these bulbs in the basement steps, but they were so dim I could barely see where I was walking and I got tired of having to wait for the bulb to grow bright enough to see. So I swapped out the CFL for an instant-on, fully-bright incandescent. - I also have them in my reading lamp which is equally frustrating because I have to sit and wait 3-4 minutes before I can start reading the my book. If I hadn't spent ~$3 for each of these bulbs I'd throw them in the trash, but I don't like to waste money.
Sorry if my post offends you. I'm just sharing my honest experiences.
>>>I'm pretty sure that a fluorescent that uses 100w will still generate significantly less heat because the newer electronic ballast design is so efficient.
Not really. 100 watts consumed is 100 watts consumed. The heat has to go somewhere whether it's a 100 W incandescent or a "400 watt equivalent" CFL (100W true) or a 100W computer. (Plus the light itself eventually converts to heat when it strikes the walls.) Besides CFLs really *aren't* that efficient. Only about 5% of the energy goes to light production - the rest is wasted as warmth.
>>>fluorescents, particularly the kind that are made for enclosure
Never seen any of those. Not at Walmart anyway. Every CFL I put in an upside-down fixture died just as quickly as a standard bulb (i.e. within 6-9 months) due to heat killing the capacitors (they literally swelled up and leaked).
I don't understand why T&A is "complicated". It consists of four round globes, two front and two rear that men find irresistibly attractive (and thus procreation happens).
Oh okay. I'll be serious. Back in my old hourly days, I was handed a card. I swiped the card through the reader when I walked in the door and swiped it again when I walked out. If I worked in a different department I would "badge out", type in the new department number, and then badge in again. That seems like a very simple method to me, and ensures nobody can cheat. .
>>>The problem with T&A in government...
There is no problem. Interns in government are hot. See? (holds up Girls of DC issue)
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>>>huge hulk of oil-gobbling pollution-spewing metal
(hugs 80mpg hybrid) It's okay baby. He didn't mean it.
>>>don't complain about gas tax increases or other driving charges to pay for your highways
I don't. In fact I think gas taxes should increase, in order to fix all the bridges that are on the verge of collapse (see the Minneapolis bridge). As for my exurb I get to look out my window and see trees and cows (in the distance) and other wildlife like birds, squirrels, chipmunks, etc. Moving to the concrete hell of the DC or Baltimore city would mean giving that up, and I don't want to cut myself off from nature.
>>>There is one thing that the election in 2010 taught me: if someone campaigns on vague promises and commits to nothing
Sounds familiar. (cough) US 2008. Hopefully the European Union courts will come to the rescue and enforce the constitutional rights enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty. Ex-post facto laws are supposed to be unconstitutional, and ditto suppression of speech, press, and expression.
Yeah the folks in India have this "compressed city living" down pat. AKA slums.
But we Americans and Europeans don't want to live that way.
- City planners never account for quality of life. While your vision may be cheaper, I'd still sooner commute from a exurb of DC (home) to another exurb of DC (work), then have to actually live inside DC and walk/bike. I would feel like I had been sent to hell. (I don't like tight spaces or concrete.)
Disagree.
People have more leisure time then they've ever had. When they were farmers they worked 6 days a week (minus sundays) and often from sunup to sundown. Now they work just 5 days a week and 8-10 hours a day. Hence they have free time to watch TV in the evenings, or to travel to the beach on the weekend, something our pre-1930s ancestors never dreamed of.
If driving has hit a plateau since 2000, maybe it's because people simply don't want to. I know I have no desire to hop in my car and drive to the store, when I can just click netflix.com to watch a video, or shop amazon.com and have it delivered to me. I don't even visit the bank now - I just do it all on the internet from the comfort of my chair.
If I didn't have to buy food, I'd probably never leave the house.
I notice you have not provided an alternative solution for "dealing with the system" or warrantless searches. All you're doing is telling me I did it wrong, without explaining a better way. You are a critic, not a solver.
Really? Did EU threats also result in the self-organization of the Underwriters Laboratory or IEEE or ISO standards organizations several decades ago? No. The invisible hand of the free market resulted in their invention.
\
The invisible hand self-organized a Standards committee which mandated the use of the mini-USB for cellphones, and which most manufacturers are now following. It's the same way that the invisible hand self-organized committees to standardize on PCI and PCI-express for desktops.
>>>he courts have agreed to treat any stop within that territory as being equivalent to a search at the border,
False. The Supreme Court has ruled, multiple times, that they cannot search without warrant unless you've actually crossed the border. They've also ruled that cops are not allowed to stop every single car but can only pull-over cars if they have articulable cause to do so ("I heard a scream for help"). Of course as we've seen the cops ignore what the justices say.
I don't understand what the big deal is about Cellphone plugs?
Every appliance I own has a different plug. My Panasonic radio and my RCA radio use different plugs. Ditto my Sony TV and Sears TV. And my two laptops. What is so special about cellphones that government politicians getting paid $200,000 in taxpayer dollars have to mandate a "standard plug" while all the other appliances use a wide variety of shapes and styles.
The libertarian dream is not about wealth. The libertarian dream is about ownership of self, and protection of one's rights from harm by another (such as the government or a boss locking you inside a burning factory). China does not respect either of those philosophies.
I figure I have two choices:
- resist warrantless searches (as if my right by the Supreme Law of the land)
- act like the japanese Americans did in 1942 and calmly walk into a prison camp where I will spend the next 4 years of my life. They too were innocent of any crime, and if they had resisted arrest they would have had a trial and been freed, but instead they cooperated with the cops and lost their property, their money, and their freedom.
The lesson of history is that cooperation with cops sometimes leads to bad things... imprisonment or even death. Better to resist now, rather than have regrets later as you stew inside a prison or are lead to a gas chamber.
>>>There were no drugs on the car or on its occupants so the dog didn't indicate
Sometimes cops will kick the dog in the balls to make it bark. They call that "probable cause". If you refuse and deny having any drugs, the cops will beat you, as happened to a christian pastor in Arizona.
"The developers of Monkey Island 2 made using the Amiga version's 11 floppy disks relatively smooth,[9] but also noted that installing the game on a hard drive is recommended." -wikipedia. And I thought Dragon's Lair on 6 disks was a lot! DL had full-motion video..... why did Monkey Island need so much disc space?
I think #1 is the key.
Rather than try to squeeze more data on each disk, manufacturers are now focusing on keeping the same size (1/2 to 1 terabyte) but shrinking the size of the drive to fit inside phones and iPads and laptops.
>>>when just a few megabytes was considered large
Yep. My Commodore Amiga 2000HD and 500 have a tiny 20 megabyte hard drive. That was considered a huge step-up from booting the OS off a floppy. Of course it didn't take long to fill that space, so most of us still used floppies to store all our musics and vids and demos.
In this case the topless daughter was not just a random object. She was the primary suspect the detective was questioning. Her partial nudity was because she had been in bed, sleeping, and didn't bother to put on a shirt when her mom demanded she come out. I also suspect it was a way to show her "don't care" attitude, although I admit I stopped reading the subtitles, and lost the storyline. ;-)
Which has nothing to do with my original point:
- VirginMobile claimed to be losing money on the $15 unlimited texting plan, so they eliminated it. But if texting costs nothing, then Virgin lost nothing. They were lying.
>>>If NYC were to break off of the union and become an independent free city
They would quickly bankrupt themselves. And companies that are currently receiving huge US subsidies to set-up shop in NYC, would no longer get those handouts, and move somewhere else like Philly or Boston. In short order NYC would resemble Rome City after there was no longer an empire to support it (services collapsed, people fled the city, and its population plummeted from 5 million to 100,000).
>>>it goes into producing photons of visible light instead of waste heat.
It helps if you read: "the light itself eventually converts to heat when it strikes the walls." Also you didn't read the part where I said even a CFL is not very efficient. An incandescent has a luminous efficiency of around 2%. A CFL... 6%. The remainder is heat, so there is only 4% difference in heat output for these two types of bulbs. Not a major difference.
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>>>Sometimes they are enclosed in a plastic shield that looks like a light bulb
Yeah those are the ones that died within 6-9 months in my upside-down fixtures. They became hot, the heat rose up into the ballast, and killed it. I know you environmentalists like to assume I'm lying but I'm not (or stupid although my two EE degrees prove otherwise). *In my experience* CFLs are about as unreliable as a computer made by e-machines - they too die within months.
And for what purpose? It's not as if switching form reliable Incandescents to 10x more expensive CFLs will save much energy. We're talking about less than 1% of residential energy burned. We should be focusing on the big ticket items like Heaters and Refrigerators.
>>>search my trunk
I'm talking about my car here, not a suitcase. Cops still need to have a warrant to search cars.
I'm not against DUI checks.
I'm against what I experienced in Texas when the Homeland Gestapo demanded to search my trunk. I refused because they had no warrant. Had there been a judge there he could have issued a warrant on the spot, but he wasn't there, so instead the jack-booted thugs made me stand in the hot summer sun for an hour. I felt like a Black man circa 1950. Or Japanese american in 1942. Or German Jew in 1934. Not attacked- just intimated and treated like a rat by the cops.
>>>>>Enclosed fixtures (the heat kills compact fluorescents) Upside-down fixtures (ditto)
>>
>>Nonsense
Translation: "You are lying c64_love." - Well contrary to what you believe CFLs are *not* perfect. They have flaws. I've SEEN the CFLs die within 6-9 months when used in my upside-down kitchen and bathroom lights. That is no longer than a standard bulb lives! And when I open them up, yes, they died from heat (the caps are swelled and leaking). But since you think I'm "full of nonsense" try reading these 20,000 posts from other people who had the same experience: ----- "Recessed or enclosed fixtures. It is not recommended that you use CFLs in an enclosed indoor ceiling fixture" - www.michigan.gov - "Do not use standard CFLs in recessed cans and air-tight enclosed fixtures. CFLs are more sensitive to heat than ordinary bulbs" - seattle.gov - "Places that you frequently turn the light on and off or use for only short bursts at a time - like closets - are not ideal for CFLs. Frequent on and off cycling can reduce the life of CFLs"
Continued: http://www.google.com/search?q=enclosed+fixtures+kill+CFLs
Here's an engineer that actually took time to TEST the CFLs inside enclosed fixtures, and discovered that it gets VERY hot inside. Note in the picture the damaged cap..... the ones in my bulbs looked far worse than that. http://sound.westhost.com/articles/incandescent.htm#exist
>>> have never run into a case where the bulbs did not provide enough light to get around within a second of being turned on.
Well "yay" for you. :-) I've got two types of CFLs. One type flickers for 2 seconds before turning-on at full brightness, which is not bad. I can wait two seconds. The second type appears to be the most common in stores right now. It starts as a dim orange glow, then gradually changes to a yellowish light, and finally achieves full "hot white" appearance. This process takes 3-4 minutes. They are made by the German company called Philips... not some fly-by-night manufacturer.
I tried to put one of these bulbs in the basement steps, but they were so dim I could barely see where I was walking and I got tired of having to wait for the bulb to grow bright enough to see. So I swapped out the CFL for an instant-on, fully-bright incandescent. - I also have them in my reading lamp which is equally frustrating because I have to sit and wait 3-4 minutes before I can start reading the my book. If I hadn't spent ~$3 for each of these bulbs I'd throw them in the trash, but I don't like to waste money.
Sorry if my post offends you.
I'm just sharing my honest experiences.
>>>I'm pretty sure that a fluorescent that uses 100w will still generate significantly less heat because the newer electronic ballast design is so efficient.
Not really. 100 watts consumed is 100 watts consumed. The heat has to go somewhere whether it's a 100 W incandescent or a "400 watt equivalent" CFL (100W true) or a 100W computer. (Plus the light itself eventually converts to heat when it strikes the walls.) Besides CFLs really *aren't* that efficient. Only about 5% of the energy goes to light production - the rest is wasted as warmth.
>>>fluorescents, particularly the kind that are made for enclosure
Never seen any of those. Not at Walmart anyway. Every CFL I put in an upside-down fixture died just as quickly as a standard bulb (i.e. within 6-9 months) due to heat killing the capacitors (they literally swelled up and leaked).
I don't understand why T&A is "complicated". It consists of four round globes, two front and two rear that men find irresistibly attractive (and thus procreation happens).
Oh okay. I'll be serious.
Back in my old hourly days, I was handed a card. I swiped the card through the reader when I walked in the door and swiped it again when I walked out. If I worked in a different department I would "badge out", type in the new department number, and then badge in again. That seems like a very simple method to me, and ensures nobody can cheat.
.
>>>The problem with T&A in government...
There is no problem. Interns in government are hot. See? (holds up Girls of DC issue)