If you plan on doing anything better with your cash than investing in LED lighting products, the break even will NEVER, EVER happen -- at least for a homeowner.
Bunk. The concern isnt with the burnt old-tech bulbs. But with the energy consumption. One 22W bulb puts out the equivelent of a 200W incandescent bulb.
I have 4 bulbs in the soffits of my brownstone townhouse. I will be buying these bulbs.
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I hear the a lot but frankly the people I know that worked in unionized places hated the unions. Funny, I work a Salary job in the heart of Canada's Auto Production center; Windsor. I work in an iron foundry. We cast blocks and crank shafts. Very serious working conditions, high stress, dangerous, dirty (to the point of damaging your health), loud, stinky - terrible.
The people in our union stick together. They understand the roll their union plays in keeping them employed, safe and properly compensated.
They love the union. They understand and appreciate its roll. They dont 'hate the union'.
What people do not seem to get is the reason union membership is going down in the US is many workers do not want to be in a union
Union membership is decreasing because their is a very sophisticated propaganada war being wadged against the working classes. They are being led to believe that "if they work hard they will get ahead. Your labour value is a determined by the market. If you raise wages, or demand better conditions from your employer, you endanger your employment." All ideas that Unions were created to thwart.
The all work is valueable. Workers need to be reminded that they have power in a Union -- without it, they, their community and their families *will* be robbed by the Railroad Barrons.
The USA is a plutocracy, and saying so gets you branded a Communist... you dont want to be called a Communist do you?
Its time the left begun to communicate the problems America's working class are having to face at the hands of the Capitalist Oligarchy.
Working young programmers to the bone should be made illegal. EA can damn well pay them for the true value of their work. That would be everything that the company produces is borne of their work. They are the company.
because only hippy liberals would have a problem with the US polluting the planet with their nuclear-tipped weapons... hell, i bet he would be unhappy with ANY weapons!
hell, he's certainly unamerican. Call the Dept. of Homeland Security.
Wait.. I thought the purpose of government was to prevent things from getting done This is only true in nations who are governmnet-phobic. Most of the world views their governments as usefull and capable tools of fostering and growing civilization.
McCarthyism is alive and well. Any exercise in Government direction is believed to be in competition with the Capitalist Oligarchy. This Oligarchy dosnt like to be challenged. The Economy is to be the sole means of organization, in this way their power is maintained.
Blanket Anti-Gummint rhetoric is usually aspoused by ignorant tools.... even propagating this nonsense meme under the guise of humour gives the meme strength.
Please stop it. Yes I do have a sense of humour, but I am very sensitive to the implications this meme has on the American Public to make purposefull and fundemental change in their government, and Do The Right Thing.
I am very scared that the American People *likes* having a corrupt and ineffective government.
Besides which, wind turbines are very dangerous to wildlife, they're noisy, ugly, and present a safety risk to humans too
You can BARELY hear a windmill standing beneath it. Ive done it - have you?
They are not ugly when compared to cancer.
What safety risk to humans? That they will fall over? A greater risk is posed by slippery-tubs - im sure your not worried about that are you.
As for the rest of your comment, Im sorry, im not buying. The fact remains that radioactive waste is a massive management undertaking. With enormous cost.
The public does not need to fund these massive, centralised, dangerous facilities.
So, The public is hysterical over its concern for nuclear accidents and waste-issues?
It is not hysteria pal. They are real risks. When these risks are included in the price, nuclear gets very expensive.
Only when the public is willing to be un-compensated for this risk -- nay, actually *PAY* (via taxes) to subsidize energy companies -- does nuclear become a 'viable' option.
Wind. Solar. They are the only economical choices. Even coal, gas and oil are more than Wind and Solar when their associated costs are correctly included.
The Left dosnt 'oppose' anything. The left is not a single, uniform group -- with a single opinion.
Further, I am of the left. I oppose nuclear energy. Why? Risk. Why would I willingly accept the risk of a nuclear accident? Why would I welcome the cost of handling nuclear waste?
When you add the costs of the risk (which is currently handled by the government (not by private entities paying for insurance (not that they could 'afford it'))) and the cost of handling the waste, nuclear energy gets very VERY expensive.
Why would i want expensive energy (when the formally externalized costs are included)?
There are better, simple, more-sustainable, cleaner, cheaper alternatives: Reduction in Demand is the first one. I am not willing to accept the risk/cost of nuclear so that people can waste energy. As long as the costs are externalized, people will not conserve.
If a conservation effort were mounted, and it was taken seriously, you could save alot of oil.
If people refuse to conserve -- or pay the true cost of energy (even oil/coil based energy enjoys externalizing costs of increased health care costs, pain/suffering, pollution, etc).
Truely renewable sources are far and away the cheapest energy. Wind and Solar, when full-cost accounting is used, is by-far the cheapest energy.
The warmongers in washington are pursing a policy of war to extend american power.
There is no 'honour' in what your doing there. The 1000 dead are tools - and your delusional. Where did you get the idea that this was a Nation Building exercise...? I thought it was about OBL and WMD?
The apathy of the electorate, in *not* demanding better candidates from the major parties, has gotten us into a mess. yes. The fact that the Republicrats only have to play to the center means you must have an uninspired candidate with uninspired ideas. Gotta play to the middle.
Want democratic reform in the USA? Switch to Instant Runoff Voting. Keep the electoral college (to appease the american-democracy-is-religion masses) and Watch the Sparks Fly.
The parties have no interest in *really* fixing things, because a fixed government is..
A fixed or 'constant' or 'unchanging' Government isnt much of a Democracy. The Republicrats conspire to exclude all opposition. You yanks are in a terrible rut, and breaking the Republicrat Logjam could be an terrific "american democracy is great" bi-partisan opportunity for substantive democratic reform.... it has to come from the rank-file of each base.
one that doesn't need to give handouts. But the handouts are what buys the votes of the uneducated/ignorant/lazy.
This is ignorant nonsense. This is pure anti-gummint trash. Are you suggesting that your entire system is corrupted by simple gummint-citizen payola? I think this underestimates the issue by a order of magnitude.
This might also mean that your the pot calling the uneducated/ignorant/lazy-kettle black..? Youve reduced the problem to such simplicity because it reenforces your worldview. Its a trap.
Tell that to the slope-foreheaded thugs at the Abteilung der Heimat-Sicherheit.
What business do these brown-shirts have in such affairs anyway?
The fact that Intellectual Property Law (or, ownership of ideas) is being "Defended" by the UberPatriots is the fucking point.
Because, not surrendering to the might of the Capitalist Oligarchy is Unpatriotic, No? Didnt you hear? Whats Good for GM is good for USofAmerica. Do you disagree? Filthy Terrorist!
"With the iPod dominating the digital portable market" Funny, ive know many people with mp3 players, not one owns an ipod.
Why is/. accepting this ipod dominance meme? Sure its a fine player, but it does not overwhelm its competitors to the point some suggest. There are plenty of very fine players, the ipod is simply one of them.
The only thing worse than seeing grown men wearing helmets is attending your buddy's uncle's funeral because he took a terrible spill from a road bike and cracked his head open like a mellon.
What is with you idiots who try and suggest helmets are unfashionable enough to endanger yourself -- how fucking ignorant can you be?
In fact, this article is dribble. Yes, the rates 'went up' -- but who cares? Big deal? They are still *way* down since Bush came to office. Further, trying to suggest a trend -- from a single uptick -- is statistically meaningless.
*AND* This article didnt mention two very important issues: A) Inflation and B) The Value of the US Dollar.
A) The inflation has been relatively low. Meaning prices in the marketplace are much the same.
BUT:
B) Your dollar has taken a shit-kicking. Pre Bush the USD was worth far more than today. Have a look here. The US Dollar was worth $1.12 Euros on Jan 6th 2001. Today, the US Dollar is worth $0.88 Euro. The US Dollar was worth $1.58 Canadian on Jan 6th 2001. Today, the US Dollar is worth $1.28 Canadian.
Do you know what that means? That yes, the salaries have 'gone up', but you are far *FAR* worse off.
Not only are you (over the term) making less. BUT what you *are* making is actually worth less!
This slide in your dollar is the most alarming aspect of your economy that you USofAmericans arent really noticing -- i dont know why.
This is incredibly dangerous territory for you Yanks. Your balloning budget deficits results from tax cuts are helping to cause this weakened dollar. And a slower stock market. All this wants to increase inflation -- this reduces consumer confidence... and really reduces buying power.
Add it all up and people cannot buy as much with the money they do have, nor do they want to, because of a slowed economy.
Put two and two and two and two together and you get a recession... or worse.
You guys are in far worse trouble than you think -- and never mind this nonsense "salary increase" PR. In fact, your salaries have been SLAUGHTERED in the last 3 years.
This empty-headed, libertarian free-market dogma astounds me.
Which mccarthyite is going to claim that government involvement == waste? Who? Which private enterprise advocate is going to suggest that waste doesn't exist in *all* enterprise.
Large organizations have chaos. Chaos == waste. No private entity is without chaos.
Trying to suggest that organizing to implement a mandate that embodies the will of the public (ie: Government program) is wastefull is idiotic.
In spite of what that the predominantly US audience of this website believes (in error), the world is populated with many MANY social democracies. Many societies that are (easily) arguably superiour in MANY aspects to USofAmerican culture (i know you are find that notion alarming, but trust me, there are many nations with higher standards of living, better educated, better health care, better environments, better X, Y, Z)
ONLY in the USA is the free-market dogma so entrenched. Your precious free market is A) Fiction and B) Impossible. There is and will never be a completely Free Market -- trying to achieve one (which is unnatural) will require all kinds on nonsense contortions that breed stupidity like this article's lead-in above.
If you believe that that blind adherence to McCarthyism is going to lead the USA out of its present hell-bound trajectory, I'd suggest you reconsider.
Its time you Americans stop and consider that maybe someone else might have happened upon a good idea. One of those good ideas happens to be not mistrusting government prima facie. Further, the selfish suburbanite middle-class, in their cushy houses and SUV parking lots had better wake up: The middle class only exists as a result of the Welfare State. Remove the involvement of Government in protecting Workers rights to a fair living (ie: middle-class lifestyle) and you get a polarization of wealth that existed in the times of Railroad tycoons. Beware, this is exactly what you have been asking for.
Mistrusting USAmerica's Plutocratic government is a good idea for the masses -- buying their dogma (anti-government/anti-cooperation) is suicide. Believing the libertarian fantasy that free markets == freedom -- that ordinary people would be more prosperous with "less government interference" -- is the point where I can do nothing more than shake my head.
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Im sure the war on CopyrightAbuse will be as affective as the War on Drugs and the The War on Terra.
The McCarthyites have won. Your Government has been reduced to assuring corporate profit OVER delivering services to its citizens.
This is amazing.
Nevermind that Palm schtuff. Have a look at this badboy; RIM's Blackberry 7100
Not clunky and slow *at all*. Crisp. Slick. Sweet.
Its the best PDA/Phone on the market bar none, hands down.
If you plan on doing anything better with your cash than investing in LED lighting products, the break even will NEVER, EVER happen -- at least for a homeowner.
Bunk. The concern isnt with the burnt old-tech bulbs. But with the energy consumption. One 22W bulb puts out the equivelent of a 200W incandescent bulb.
I have 4 bulbs in the soffits of my brownstone townhouse. I will be buying these bulbs.
I hear the a lot but frankly the people I know that worked in unionized places hated the unions.
Funny, I work a Salary job in the heart of Canada's Auto Production center; Windsor. I work in an iron foundry. We cast blocks and crank shafts. Very serious working conditions, high stress, dangerous, dirty (to the point of damaging your health), loud, stinky - terrible.
The people in our union stick together. They understand the roll their union plays in keeping them employed, safe and properly compensated.
They love the union. They understand and appreciate its roll. They dont 'hate the union'.
What people do not seem to get is the reason union membership is going down in the US is many workers do not want to be in a union
Union membership is decreasing because their is a very sophisticated propaganada war being wadged against the working classes. They are being led to believe that "if they work hard they will get ahead. Your labour value is a determined by the market. If you raise wages, or demand better conditions from your employer, you endanger your employment." All ideas that Unions were created to thwart.
The all work is valueable. Workers need to be reminded that they have power in a Union -- without it, they, their community and their families *will* be robbed by the Railroad Barrons.
The USA is a plutocracy, and saying so gets you branded a Communist... you dont want to be called a Communist do you?
Its time the left begun to communicate the problems America's working class are having to face at the hands of the Capitalist Oligarchy.
Working young programmers to the bone should be made illegal. EA can damn well pay them for the true value of their work. That would be everything that the company produces is borne of their work. They are the company.
because only hippy liberals would have a problem with the US polluting the planet with their nuclear-tipped weapons... hell, i bet he would be unhappy with ANY weapons!
hell, he's certainly unamerican. Call the Dept. of Homeland Security.
Wait .. I thought the purpose of government was to prevent things from getting done
This is only true in nations who are governmnet-phobic. Most of the world views their governments as usefull and capable tools of fostering and growing civilization.
McCarthyism is alive and well. Any exercise in Government direction is believed to be in competition with the Capitalist Oligarchy. This Oligarchy dosnt like to be challenged. The Economy is to be the sole means of organization, in this way their power is maintained.
Blanket Anti-Gummint rhetoric is usually aspoused by ignorant tools.... even propagating this nonsense meme under the guise of humour gives the meme strength.
Please stop it. Yes I do have a sense of humour, but I am very sensitive to the implications this meme has on the American Public to make purposefull and fundemental change in their government, and Do The Right Thing.
I am very scared that the American People *likes* having a corrupt and ineffective government.
Second, iTunes is one if the good guys, we don't wanna kill that!
Why is apple 'one of the good guys'? Closed hardware? the fact that they have a closed interface ontop of a community-supported BSD?
i cannot fathom why apple fan-boys feel they are cheering for anything other than a corporate monolith. silly.
Law enforcement is sometimes done for good reasons?
Its in your best interest to shutup and roll over.
I know that's hard for a whacked out hippy to understand, since all they know about police is that they want to take their drugs away.
Cops are good m'kay.
But think about it, WTF would any investigator unseal the records of an ACTIVE INVESTIGATION!!!
If they tell you the charge, you will just defend yourself -- ummm duh!
If that were the case you may as well legalize murder, because you'll NEVER put anyone away with that sort of disclosure.
What? Please, everyone, re-read the above statment. Give me +1 Funny for making sure you didnt miss this gem.
Besides which, wind turbines are very dangerous to wildlife, they're noisy, ugly, and present a safety risk to humans too
You can BARELY hear a windmill standing beneath it. Ive done it - have you?
They are not ugly when compared to cancer.
What safety risk to humans? That they will fall over? A greater risk is posed by slippery-tubs - im sure your not worried about that are you.
As for the rest of your comment, Im sorry, im not buying. The fact remains that radioactive waste is a massive management undertaking. With enormous cost.
The public does not need to fund these massive, centralised, dangerous facilities.
public anti-nuclear hysteria
So, The public is hysterical over its concern for nuclear accidents and waste-issues?
It is not hysteria pal. They are real risks. When these risks are included in the price, nuclear gets very expensive.
Only when the public is willing to be un-compensated for this risk -- nay, actually *PAY* (via taxes) to subsidize energy companies -- does nuclear become a 'viable' option.
Wind. Solar. They are the only economical choices. Even coal, gas and oil are more than Wind and Solar when their associated costs are correctly included.
(a) the left opposes nuclear energy,
Thats quite a doozy of an assumption.
The Left dosnt 'oppose' anything. The left is not a single, uniform group -- with a single opinion.
Further, I am of the left. I oppose nuclear energy. Why? Risk. Why would I willingly accept the risk of a nuclear accident? Why would I welcome the cost of handling nuclear waste?
When you add the costs of the risk (which is currently handled by the government (not by private entities paying for insurance (not that they could 'afford it'))) and the cost of handling the waste, nuclear energy gets very VERY expensive.
Why would i want expensive energy (when the formally externalized costs are included)?
There are better, simple, more-sustainable, cleaner, cheaper alternatives: Reduction in Demand is the first one. I am not willing to accept the risk/cost of nuclear so that people can waste energy. As long as the costs are externalized, people will not conserve.
If a conservation effort were mounted, and it was taken seriously, you could save alot of oil.
If people refuse to conserve -- or pay the true cost of energy (even oil/coil based energy enjoys externalizing costs of increased health care costs, pain/suffering, pollution, etc).
Truely renewable sources are far and away the cheapest energy. Wind and Solar, when full-cost accounting is used, is by-far the cheapest energy.
Why even consider nuclear?
Over 1,000 of our troops have died in the last three years in part to bring free and open elections to Iraq and Afghanistan...and of the braaave.
Spare us the ignorant jingoism.
The USA is killing people in Iraq and Afghanistan for two reasons; enrich the Capitalist Oligarchy and further American Imperialism.
Have you heard of The Project for a New American Century?
The warmongers in washington are pursing a policy of war to extend american power.
There is no 'honour' in what your doing there. The 1000 dead are tools - and your delusional. Where did you get the idea that this was a Nation Building exercise...? I thought it was about OBL and WMD?
it doesnt have a linux kernel does it?
The apathy of the electorate, in *not* demanding better candidates from the major parties, has gotten us into a mess.
yes. The fact that the Republicrats only have to play to the center means you must have an uninspired candidate with uninspired ideas. Gotta play to the middle.
Want democratic reform in the USA? Switch to Instant Runoff Voting. Keep the electoral college (to appease the american-democracy-is-religion masses) and Watch the Sparks Fly.
The parties have no interest in *really* fixing things, because a fixed government is..
A fixed or 'constant' or 'unchanging' Government isnt much of a Democracy. The Republicrats conspire to exclude all opposition. You yanks are in a terrible rut, and breaking the Republicrat Logjam could be an terrific "american democracy is great" bi-partisan opportunity for substantive democratic reform.... it has to come from the rank-file of each base.
one that doesn't need to give handouts. But the handouts are what buys the votes of the uneducated/ignorant/lazy.
This is ignorant nonsense. This is pure anti-gummint trash. Are you suggesting that your entire system is corrupted by simple gummint-citizen payola? I think this underestimates the issue by a order of magnitude.
This might also mean that your the pot calling the uneducated/ignorant/lazy-kettle black..? Youve reduced the problem to such simplicity because it reenforces your worldview. Its a trap.
Tell that to the slope-foreheaded thugs at the Abteilung der Heimat-Sicherheit.
What business do these brown-shirts have in such affairs anyway?
The fact that Intellectual Property Law (or, ownership of ideas) is being "Defended" by the UberPatriots is the fucking point.
Because, not surrendering to the might of the Capitalist Oligarchy is Unpatriotic, No? Didnt you hear? Whats Good for GM is good for USofAmerica. Do you disagree? Filthy Terrorist!
"With the iPod dominating the digital portable market" Funny, ive know many people with mp3 players, not one owns an ipod.
Why is
Hahahah Freedom of Choice wins the day. Nice to see yankee Freedom dogma hasnt overcome your ability to think.
Oh, and a sincere fuck-you too.
If you can ride this thing to work, you could already be riding a bike.
it would be A) cheaper, B) better for the environment and C) you'd get some exercise.
the segway (and this 4x) is useless except for those with more money than brains.
The only thing worse than seeing grown men wearing helmets is attending your buddy's uncle's funeral because he took a terrible spill from a road bike and cracked his head open like a mellon.
What is with you idiots who try and suggest helmets are unfashionable enough to endanger yourself -- how fucking ignorant can you be?
A) Most 4wheelers are gas, not electric. Making them loud, stinky and polluting.
B) these are for built-places (city), not cross-country.
dorks are people who have smashed their head on sidewalks and pavement.
us cooool dudes always were our helmets -- i dont really want to crack my mellon open.
That is most uncool.
Have you ever heard of the trade deficit?
Yes, your buying power has been slaughtered.
Nice Try CPT. Republican.
In fact, this article is dribble. Yes, the rates
'went up' -- but who cares? Big deal? They are still *way* down since Bush came to office. Further, trying to suggest a trend -- from a single uptick -- is statistically meaningless.
*AND* This article didnt mention two very important issues: A) Inflation and B) The Value of the US Dollar.
A) The inflation has been relatively low. Meaning prices in the marketplace are much the same.
BUT:
B) Your dollar has taken a shit-kicking. Pre Bush the USD was worth far more than today. Have a look here. The US Dollar was worth $1.12 Euros on Jan 6th 2001. Today, the US Dollar is worth $0.88 Euro. The US Dollar was worth $1.58 Canadian on Jan 6th 2001. Today, the US Dollar is worth $1.28 Canadian.
Do you know what that means? That yes, the salaries have 'gone up', but you are far *FAR* worse off.
Not only are you (over the term) making less. BUT what you *are* making is actually worth less!
This slide in your dollar is the most alarming aspect of your economy that you USofAmericans arent really noticing -- i dont know why.
This is incredibly dangerous territory for you Yanks. Your balloning budget deficits results from tax cuts are helping to cause this weakened dollar. And a slower stock market. All this wants to increase inflation -- this reduces consumer confidence... and really reduces buying power.
Add it all up and people cannot buy as much with the money they do have, nor do they want to, because of a slowed economy.
Put two and two and two and two together and you get a recession... or worse.
You guys are in far worse trouble than you think -- and never mind this nonsense "salary increase" PR. In fact, your salaries have been SLAUGHTERED in the last 3 years.
This empty-headed, libertarian free-market dogma astounds me.
Which mccarthyite is going to claim that government involvement == waste? Who? Which private enterprise advocate is going to suggest that waste doesn't exist in *all* enterprise.
Large organizations have chaos. Chaos == waste. No private entity is without chaos.
Trying to suggest that organizing to implement a mandate that embodies the will of the public (ie: Government program) is wastefull is idiotic.
In spite of what that the predominantly US audience of this website believes (in error), the world is populated with many MANY social democracies. Many societies that are (easily) arguably superiour in MANY aspects to USofAmerican culture (i know you are find that notion alarming, but trust me, there are many nations with higher standards of living, better educated, better health care, better environments, better X, Y, Z)
ONLY in the USA is the free-market dogma so entrenched. Your precious free market is A) Fiction and B) Impossible. There is and will never be a completely Free Market -- trying to achieve one (which is unnatural) will require all kinds on nonsense contortions that breed stupidity like this article's lead-in above.
If you believe that that blind adherence to McCarthyism is going to lead the USA out of its present hell-bound trajectory, I'd suggest you reconsider.
Its time you Americans stop and consider that maybe someone else might have happened upon a good idea. One of those good ideas happens to be not mistrusting government prima facie. Further, the selfish suburbanite middle-class, in their cushy houses and SUV parking lots had better wake up: The middle class only exists as a result of the Welfare State. Remove the involvement of Government in protecting Workers rights to a fair living (ie: middle-class lifestyle) and you get a polarization of wealth that existed in the times of Railroad tycoons. Beware, this is exactly what you have been asking for.
Mistrusting USAmerica's Plutocratic government is a good idea for the masses -- buying their dogma (anti-government/anti-cooperation) is suicide. Believing the libertarian fantasy that free markets == freedom -- that ordinary people would be more prosperous with "less government interference" -- is the point where I can do nothing more than shake my head.