Yep, the government exists to see to our collective interests, especially when our individual interests are in conflict with the aggregate. That's kind of the whole point of governance.
I haven't gone to the movies in years, they're ridiculously overpriced. I generally just wait for the DVDs, my home theater experience is better than what I can get at any theater within 50 miles anyway. But I assume that you're talking about the previews, right? They haven't started showing commercials in the middle? Because before I gave up, I used to just call the theater to find out how long the previews ran. Most places even broke it down (previews vs ads).
There's this thing called bittorrent. Completely free shows, can save ones you like without any hassle, no commercials, use your preferred viewer, largest library of any service.
And spend enough time googling for CRI, you can learn about how much people who care about light quality think that sucks as a metric, and are worried they'll be stuck with poor quality light from 'high cri' LEDs.
If you are worried about the energy savings, just buy a bulb warrantied for longer than the earn-back period. You can quite cheaply get bulbs with a 7-year warranty.
You'll have years yet to buy incandescents for those cans. And you'll probably be able to buy high-efficiency incandescents to fill those cans forever. But LED dimmables should be a fine option for you before the ban impacts even conventional dimmables, and at a perfectly acceptable price.
If you were paying the higher price for a bulb, you really should have bought a warrantied bulb. The price difference between a 30-day warranty and a 7-year warranty (long enough to guarantee recoup of cost) on these bulbs is insignificant (less than 10% of the total price).
But it is the federal government's job to provide for our defense, which can easily be interpreted to include things like making sure that our individual actions don't add up to war, for, by example, unnecessarily using too much power and needing to import massive amounts of energy from hostile countries.
The obvious solution would be to cause the spin to force air into the gap, so that the device is self lifting when operating. Use magnetic induction to do the spin and it pretty much can't fail. (Or at least, would be less prone to failure than existing designs, which should be all anyone cares about).
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Yep, the government exists to see to our collective interests, especially when our individual interests are in conflict with the aggregate. That's kind of the whole point of governance.
I haven't gone to the movies in years, they're ridiculously overpriced. I generally just wait for the DVDs, my home theater experience is better than what I can get at any theater within 50 miles anyway. But I assume that you're talking about the previews, right? They haven't started showing commercials in the middle? Because before I gave up, I used to just call the theater to find out how long the previews ran. Most places even broke it down (previews vs ads).
There's this thing called bittorrent. Completely free shows, can save ones you like without any hassle, no commercials, use your preferred viewer, largest library of any service.
Do you have any idea how much a month's worth of Desperate Housewives episodes costs in book format?
Doesn't Hulu require watching commercials, or has that changed? I just can't endure commercials anymore.
At basically every major intersection in the country?
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20070223005120/en/GE-Announces-Advancement-Incandescent-Technology-High-Efficiency-Lamps
I'd guess they are not on shelves yet, but will be by the time the 'ban' takes effect.
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/motor1.htm
If you think there isn't a magnet inside your existing cpu cooler, you are in for a surprise.
And spend enough time googling for CRI, you can learn about how much people who care about light quality think that sucks as a metric, and are worried they'll be stuck with poor quality light from 'high cri' LEDs.
If you are worried about the energy savings, just buy a bulb warrantied for longer than the earn-back period. You can quite cheaply get bulbs with a 7-year warranty.
The ban is all about taking care of the externalities that the market has failed on.
So if it is cheaper for the defense budget to ban incandescents than to buy more tanks, which should the government do?
You'll have years yet to buy incandescents for those cans. And you'll probably be able to buy high-efficiency incandescents to fill those cans forever. But LED dimmables should be a fine option for you before the ban impacts even conventional dimmables, and at a perfectly acceptable price.
You can absolutely buy 100-watt light output equivalent incandescents. They just have to be more efficient, and use less than the hundred watts.
Mostly because the market has failed to make a transition that would benefit our national security.
If you were paying the higher price for a bulb, you really should have bought a warrantied bulb. The price difference between a 30-day warranty and a 7-year warranty (long enough to guarantee recoup of cost) on these bulbs is insignificant (less than 10% of the total price).
Prohibition was actually recently repealed, did you not hear the good news?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeal_of_Prohibition
But it is the federal government's job to provide for our defense, which can easily be interpreted to include things like making sure that our individual actions don't add up to war, for, by example, unnecessarily using too much power and needing to import massive amounts of energy from hostile countries.
How about scrapping everything and starting over?
The obvious solution would be to cause the spin to force air into the gap, so that the device is self lifting when operating. Use magnetic induction to do the spin and it pretty much can't fail. (Or at least, would be less prone to failure than existing designs, which should be all anyone cares about).
Nope.
http://ibasecretariat.org/lka_us_congress.php
http://www.epa.gov/asbestos/pubs/ban.html
Go ahead, try to find evidence that there's an actual outright ban on asbestos in the US that would prevent the manufacture of said flag.
Software isn't magic, it runs on hardware. Hardware that costs more money to have in the tv.
Burns its reputation and ensures that will remain true.
Yeah, and all those people that do their job in flame retardant suits must be flaming retards, right?
I've always assumed so.
No, 'full' is 1080p, not 1080i.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080p