Or buy the Xbox but not the Live part. Single player games are more fun anyway with better story vs. online with teeny boppers and a gamethat goes forever with no real point. Like FF elevn.
>>>Anybody who thinks China isn't 'the enemy' is smoking something good
Uh huh. You probably think Iran is developing a nuclear weapon too. (Hint: They aren't.) As someone above said China would not attack us, because it would destroy their economy... they'd have no one to sell their products to.
Why else would they build this thing to fight an enemy that doesn't even exist. Most likely it will be a trillion-dollar blackhole like the F-22 Fighter debacle. Do the politicians not care that the national + state debt is almost 19 trillion dollars? (almost $190,000 per household). Guess not.
>>>if a federal law and a state law contradict each other, the federal law trumps the state law.
FALSE. Case in point: Federal Law attempted to force states to install nuclear disposal sites for spent fuel, while State Law still said the fuel should be stored in the power plant. The Federal Law did NOT trump the state law...... instead the SCOTUS ruled, per the 10th, that the regulation of these belongs to the states not the feds.
Congress' power is limited to ONLY the powers enumerated in the Constitution and nothing more. All other powers are reserved to the People and the States.
Duh. You're a fucking idiot who believes Congress can do whatever the hell it pleases. An idiot who believes the State governemnts can be razed to the ground, because they are no longer need. You would have the Cognress as the absolute ruler over us, ordering us in every little thing we do. You fucking traitor. HATER of liberty. Go move to fucking communist China you fucking lover of tyranny.
>>>the real solution is to stop buying stupid light fixtures that trap heat.
Yeah I'm really going to spend $1000 in new fixtures and $3000 in labor for an electrician to come-in, rip out my ceiling, and install new fixtures. Not! (No wonder mot environmenaists are working at walmart. They are fucking idiots with no sense in their brains Fuck you and fuck yoru damn CFLs aup the sjhithole. Duickeer.)
>>>LED bulbs, which don't have most of the issues [of CFLs]
Incorrect. LEDs share exactly the same problems, because like CFLs they are dependent upon electronics that are damaged by heat (enclosed or upside-down fixtures), frequent on/off cycles, and power spikes.
My parents paid cash for me (and then I paid them back once I had a job). ~$80,000 really isn't that much money if you learn to SACRIFICE and save you money instead of throwing it away on Comcast cable, Verizon cellservice, and other shit that you really (to be brutally honest) do not need.
And yes a lot of college degrees are worthless. They ask students, "Do you have a job?" and usually they do..... at Walmart. Or maybe a temporary job with the college itself. NOT an actual job in the degree studied.
If I was a lawyer I'd look at this as a Great opportunity to file a class-action lawsuit. As the summary states the colleges are not owed any money, therefore they hve Zero grounds to hold hostage the record of the students 4-5 years. They are committing a crime (charged money but did not provide the final document promised in the contract).
That's assuming that every advertising dollar comes from your pocket. More likely it's 10% from you and 90% from within the company. Some of the cost is added to the price of whatever item you are buying (Coke, Ford car, etc) and the other half is coming out of the pockets of middle managers and stockholders through lower wages.
The odds of death by terrorist are lower than death by a spacerock falling from the sky & hitting you on the head. Stop being afraid of unlikely events.
"Don't check your customers for IDs. Just sell them and we'll track the criminals across the Mexican border." - This policy resulted in many, many deaths that could have been prevented by not encouraging stores to break gun laws and sell to criminals.
>>>Stop buying the cheapest CFL that are made in China.
There's no such thing as a non-China or non-India CFL. And besides I bought a Philips..... it's supposed to be high-quality German engineered product, but alas that turned out not to be the case.
>>>made in the USA
Lights of America? Those are trash too. Same flaws (slow warmup time, don't live any longer than the old incandescents)
Now here's some REAL math based upon real world experience (almost 20 years of CFL usage).
CFLs and LEDs don't live any longer than incandescents because of many factors. Simply put: The electronics are sensitive to heat, electric spikes, or frequent on/off cycles by the users. These factors lead to early death. In my experience CFLs don't live any longer than incandescents... and in some annoying cases, actually die sooner (within days). Therefore assuming equal lifespans across all these bulbs:
LED == 1000 hours times 20 w == 20 kWh or $2 plus $60 initial cost == very very costly
CFL == pretty much the same: $2 electricity + $4 initial cost
BUT the math is not done yet. Next you need to add in the cost of transport. Incandescents are built right here, and they can be thrown into any trashbag or landfill, so transportation costs are neglibile. BUT CFLs and LEDs are only built in China, and only recycled in China, so you need to add ~20,000 miles of fuel usage. (And also consider that in China, they just dump the mercury-laden bulbs on the ground. They don't care about the environment.) Plus the extra expense of driving the dead CFL to the landfill because you can't just throw it away & the garbage truck refuses to take them. Bottom Line:
I'm sticking with incandescents, until the U.S. or EU outlaw them (2014?).
>>> takes about 10 minutes to reach full brightness
Ditto. And it's a Philips! Why are we "upgrading" to bulbs that are actually inferior to the incandescents we used before? They take too long long to light, don't live any longer in real world use, can't be used in enclosed or upside down fixtures (trapped heat kills CFL electronics), and have to be shipped across ~20,000 miles from China (and back) whereas the incandescents were built right here.
For me my experience with CFLs is as bad as my experience with Vista. I downgraded to incandescents and XP. Sometimes the older tech really is the better one.
Oh and yes the price it outrageous. I have a 60 watt LED "bulb" in my amazon cart that only costs $15. Buy two and you have your 100+ equivalent for half the price.
AND it uses less power (7 watts not 23). Philips really laid an egg with their new bulb. WORSE: They were paid millions of dollars in OUR money to produce this rotten egg.
>>>I've got a couple of fixtures in my house that burn through them like crazy, even after replacing the switches (finally just put a incandescent back in them and they do fine).
Exactly. CFLs are the biggest scam the megacorps ever came-up with, and they used the power of Congress or the Parliament to force us into it. (By gradually outlawing incandescents.) I know I've saved NO money using CFLs because they burn-out just as fast as incandescents..... and they certainly aren't reducing pollution when they have to be shipped-in from China and then shipped-back for recycling (where the mercury is released).
I've never seen a study but I suspect if one was performed, we'd discover Incandescent bulbs are actually more "green" than CFLs. In the same fashion that AEEE.org discovered a Honda Insight at 70mpg, or Lupo at 88mpg, are actually cleaner than the pure electric Volt and EV1 cars (scored the same as a Prius).
Perhaps but I agree with the first post. Going through and simply looking at all the JPEGs or MPEGs is probably the only way to tell if a file is corrupted (I wouldn't trust the CPU to do an accurate job). Also gives you a change to erase a lot of stuff you really don't need anymore. I dumped 300 gig off my drive simply by going through everything... took awhile but it was worthwhile to get rid of old shows/movies I'll likely never watch.
Hyperbole? She wrote a ~20 page scientific paper on the topic of labeling climate deniers as mentally ill. And got applauded for it. This wasn't just some off-the-cuff remark.
Hoping Obama fails is no different than hoping Mussolini fails back in 1930. (Unfortunately he didn't fail, and very successfully turned Italy into a corporation-run state.... just like Obama is doing now.)
>>>>>Well, what do you call people who make up their own reality which can not be penetrated by facts? >> >>I call them Republicans
I call them Obama voters: - "He has assasinated 3 americans, started two new wars w/o permission from the People (via Congress), called Bush's debt presidency to be "unpatriotic" and then added almost 5 trillion himself, signed the ACTA, asked Congress to add the indefinite jailtime w/o trial provision, et cetera."
And their reply: No he didn't. Obama's doing the best job he can. It's all Bush's fault and you're just racist. (Yes this is an actual quote from my facebook.) Perfect example of a person who can't wake-up to reality.
To be honest I hope Obama DOES win re-election. I want the next four years to destroy anything left of his legacy.
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My kids get the older consoles. The ninety nine dollars went to a PStwo not any of the newer units. Also they play older N64 and GameCube games.
Sacrifice. That is what you are talking about. Nobody in America wants to hear that. They want to spend spend spend.
Or buy the Xbox but not the Live part. Single player games are more fun anyway with better story vs. online with teeny boppers and a gamethat goes forever with no real point. Like FF elevn.
>>>Anybody who thinks China isn't 'the enemy' is smoking something good
Uh huh.
You probably think Iran is developing a nuclear weapon too. (Hint: They aren't.) As someone above said China would not attack us, because it would destroy their economy... they'd have no one to sell their products to.
Why else would they build this thing to fight an enemy that doesn't even exist. Most likely it will be a trillion-dollar blackhole like the F-22 Fighter debacle. Do the politicians not care that the national + state debt is almost 19 trillion dollars? (almost $190,000 per household). Guess not.
>>>you just saved yourself $10 worth of harddrive space and [enjoyed watching a ton of TV shows/movies during the process]
Fixed that for you.
$5 for an LED bulb? Please show me where to buy one of those.
Those of ye who have long-lasting CFLs or LEDs probably don't have "bad" fixtures that trap heat. It's the heat that kills most of my bulbs.
>>>if a federal law and a state law contradict each other, the federal law trumps the state law.
FALSE. Case in point: Federal Law attempted to force states to install nuclear disposal sites for spent fuel, while State Law still said the fuel should be stored in the power plant. The Federal Law did NOT trump the state law...... instead the SCOTUS ruled, per the 10th, that the regulation of these belongs to the states not the feds.
Congress' power is limited to ONLY the powers enumerated in the Constitution and nothing more. All other powers are reserved to the People and the States.
Duh. You're a fucking idiot who believes Congress can do whatever the hell it pleases. An idiot who believes the State governemnts can be razed to the ground, because they are no longer need. You would have the Cognress as the absolute ruler over us, ordering us in every little thing we do. You fucking traitor. HATER of liberty. Go move to fucking communist China you fucking lover of tyranny.
Burn in hell.
>>>the real solution is to stop buying stupid light fixtures that trap heat.
Yeah I'm really going to spend $1000 in new fixtures and $3000 in labor for an electrician to come-in, rip out my ceiling, and install new fixtures. Not! (No wonder mot environmenaists are working at walmart. They are fucking idiots with no sense in their brains Fuck you and fuck yoru damn CFLs aup the sjhithole. Duickeer.)
>>>LED bulbs, which don't have most of the issues [of CFLs]
Incorrect. LEDs share exactly the same problems, because like CFLs they are dependent upon electronics that are damaged by heat (enclosed or upside-down fixtures), frequent on/off cycles, and power spikes.
My parents paid cash for me (and then I paid them back once I had a job). ~$80,000 really isn't that much money if you learn to SACRIFICE and save you money instead of throwing it away on Comcast cable, Verizon cellservice, and other shit that you really (to be brutally honest) do not need.
And yes a lot of college degrees are worthless. They ask students, "Do you have a job?" and usually they do..... at Walmart. Or maybe a temporary job with the college itself. NOT an actual job in the degree studied.
If I was a lawyer I'd look at this as a Great opportunity to file a class-action lawsuit. As the summary states the colleges are not owed any money, therefore they hve Zero grounds to hold hostage the record of the students 4-5 years. They are committing a crime (charged money but did not provide the final document promised in the contract).
Go for it Mr. Lawyer.
Rape the bastard colleges.
That's assuming that every advertising dollar comes from your pocket. More likely it's 10% from you and 90% from within the company. Some of the cost is added to the price of whatever item you are buying (Coke, Ford car, etc) and the other half is coming out of the pockets of middle managers and stockholders through lower wages.
The odds of death by terrorist are lower than death by a spacerock falling from the sky & hitting you on the head. Stop being afraid of unlikely events.
"Don't check your customers for IDs. Just sell them and we'll track the criminals across the Mexican border." - This policy resulted in many, many deaths that could have been prevented by not encouraging stores to break gun laws and sell to criminals.
Now it sounds like DHS is trying the same stupid strategy. Read more here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2011/09/28/fast-and-furious-just-might-be-president-obamas-watergate/
>>>Stop buying the cheapest CFL that are made in China.
There's no such thing as a non-China or non-India CFL. And besides I bought a Philips..... it's supposed to be high-quality German engineered product, but alas that turned out not to be the case.
>>>made in the USA
Lights of America?
Those are trash too.
Same flaws (slow warmup time, don't live any longer than the old incandescents)
Now here's some REAL math based upon real world experience (almost 20 years of CFL usage).
CFLs and LEDs don't live any longer than incandescents because of many factors. Simply put: The electronics are sensitive to heat, electric spikes, or frequent on/off cycles by the users. These factors lead to early death. In my experience CFLs don't live any longer than incandescents... and in some annoying cases, actually die sooner (within days). Therefore assuming equal lifespans across all these bulbs:
incandescent == $10 at 10 cents/KWh + 50 cents initial purchase.
LED == 1000 hours times 20 w == 20 kWh or $2 plus $60 initial cost == very very costly
CFL == pretty much the same: $2 electricity + $4 initial cost
BUT the math is not done yet. Next you need to add in the cost of transport. Incandescents are built right here, and they can be thrown into any trashbag or landfill, so transportation costs are neglibile. BUT CFLs and LEDs are only built in China, and only recycled in China, so you need to add ~20,000 miles of fuel usage. (And also consider that in China, they just dump the mercury-laden bulbs on the ground. They don't care about the environment.) Plus the extra expense of driving the dead CFL to the landfill because you can't just throw it away & the garbage truck refuses to take them. Bottom Line:
I'm sticking with incandescents, until
the U.S. or EU outlaw them (2014?).
>>> takes about 10 minutes to reach full brightness
Ditto.
And it's a Philips!
Why are we "upgrading" to bulbs that are actually inferior to the incandescents we used before? They take too long long to light, don't live any longer in real world use, can't be used in enclosed or upside down fixtures (trapped heat kills CFL electronics), and have to be shipped across ~20,000 miles from China (and back) whereas the incandescents were built right here.
For me my experience with CFLs is as bad as my experience with Vista. I downgraded to incandescents and XP. Sometimes the older tech really is the better one.
Oh and yes the price it outrageous. I have a 60 watt LED "bulb" in my amazon cart that only costs $15. Buy two and you have your 100+ equivalent for half the price.
AND it uses less power (7 watts not 23). Philips really laid an egg with their new bulb. WORSE: They were paid millions of dollars in OUR money to produce this rotten egg.
>>>I've got a couple of fixtures in my house that burn through them like crazy, even after replacing the switches (finally just put a incandescent back in them and they do fine).
Exactly.
CFLs are the biggest scam the megacorps ever came-up with, and they used the power of Congress or the Parliament to force us into it. (By gradually outlawing incandescents.) I know I've saved NO money using CFLs because they burn-out just as fast as incandescents..... and they certainly aren't reducing pollution when they have to be shipped-in from China and then shipped-back for recycling (where the mercury is released).
I've never seen a study but I suspect if one was performed, we'd discover Incandescent bulbs are actually more "green" than CFLs. In the same fashion that AEEE.org discovered a Honda Insight at 70mpg, or Lupo at 88mpg, are actually cleaner than the pure electric Volt and EV1 cars (scored the same as a Prius).
I use RAR to split the >4GB files in half. To date I'veonly needed to do that once (a DVD rip).
Perhaps but I agree with the first post. Going through and simply looking at all the JPEGs or MPEGs is probably the only way to tell if a file is corrupted (I wouldn't trust the CPU to do an accurate job). Also gives you a change to erase a lot of stuff you really don't need anymore. I dumped 300 gig off my drive simply by going through everything... took awhile but it was worthwhile to get rid of old shows/movies I'll likely never watch.
Hyperbole?
She wrote a ~20 page scientific paper on the topic of labeling climate deniers as mentally ill. And got applauded for it. This wasn't just some off-the-cuff remark.
Hoping Obama fails is no different than hoping Mussolini fails back in 1930. (Unfortunately he didn't fail, and very successfully turned Italy into a corporation-run state.... just like Obama is doing now.)
>>>>>Well, what do you call people who make up their own reality which can not be penetrated by facts?
>>
>>I call them Republicans
I call them Obama voters:
- "He has assasinated 3 americans, started two new wars w/o permission from the People (via Congress), called Bush's debt presidency to be "unpatriotic" and then added almost 5 trillion himself, signed the ACTA, asked Congress to add the indefinite jailtime w/o trial provision, et cetera."
And their reply: No he didn't. Obama's doing the best job he can. It's all Bush's fault and you're just racist. (Yes this is an actual quote from my facebook.) Perfect example of a person who can't wake-up to reality.
To be honest I hope Obama DOES win re-election. I want the next four years to destroy anything left of his legacy.