It is a real shame nothing was invented by these guys though. All they have done is taken a product from Japan, attached patriotic anti-terrorism fear marketing and ripped of stuff from the real manufacturers website.
I do not believe they even make the tubes. They stole graphics and other things from NEC Lighing's website, who does make tubes as described. Either they are buying them and re-branding them or have stolen web content and tech from another company.
The green end tubes (ones often called mercury free) do in fact contain mercury. Just so little of it that you are allowed to dispose of them in normal trash. I have found no one making mercury free tubes.
The only place I have found it is in some emergency exit signs, It may be possible to pay the makers of these to make something like a Glowring (item I'd love to get my hands on).
Current compact fluorescent are the same size as a light bulb. However, IMO it's best to buy a replacement fixture that uses a circline or u shaped bulb (some are compact fluorescent) style bulb.
Forget "glow in the dark" specific items. Just fire up a black light near a TV. Instantly charges the phosphors so when you turn the black light off it looks like you just turned the TV off (that residual slight glow).
I must be one screwed up EN_US user as saying one hundred four seems wrong. When I write out checks or tell someone a number like that, I use "and" in it. It does not sound right to me without that.
I'd read more of them if people like BMG would actually print them. Thats why I quit BMG. I hate not haing lyrics (in a readable font, no handwriting BS that is indiciferable) or production notes.
Stealing $400 is not the same as stealing a penny, there are degrees to these things as you said.
Notice I said the theft in question, not some theoretical bread for staving people theft. The specific act in question. Maybe if you were not so busy flying off the handle, with the flaming and the assumptions and wild assertions (glaven) you would not have missed that and half of this would not be necessary.
Stealing a $400 video card for playing games never (well I suppose a starving family could steal a card for their kid to play in a tournament he breaks into and wins could) ever puts bread on a family table so it isn't the same. It also wont stop terrorism or AIDS. How hard is it for you to read and understand? We are not talking a penny or bread for starving people or stopping terrorism. It's theft for personal gratification, not the greater good or whatever you think helps people in need (besides those in "need" of $450 luxury items).
The kids life was not ruined. Sure he should have bitched him out, insisted he own up and give the money back or get busted. He was under age and from what the poster said received a "slap on the wrist" probably community service and not much else as I am sure the money was long gone. This did not result in a felony(according to the poster), jail time, and he will have no criminal record so he isn't going to miss out on his chance to earn a million dollars (I think he should set his sights higher then that).
Sure differences in degrees, but you seem to fail to grasp the actual degree of what went on. For instance his life has not been ruined unlike your assertions to that end.
You are quite hung up on earning lots of money in corporate jobs for someone who is so anti-corporation.
Again he isn't screwed out of his life, he didn't go to jail, have something put on some permanent record or get killed. Again how exactly was this persons life ruined?
Is it compassionate to let someone turn into a criminal and as an adult later end up getting caught in a felony offense that does ruin ones life?
Is it friendship to let friends self destruct? I don't know if he did but he should have seriously talked to him and tried to get him to see the illegality of his action.
Is it compassionate to let someone commit a crime and watch as someone else suffers from his benefit? By this I mean whoever bout the low grade card he put in the box, whoever bought that will probably be blamed for the product substitution. If you walked into the store and bought said video card and got home, found it to be not the product that is supposed to be in the box, would you be thinking "Awesome someone screwed Best Buy and I wasted money and gas to get this old VGA card!". If best buy claimed you switched the product when you tried to return it, and you were out $450 would you be alright with it?
See it's not just that he screwed some faceless corporation and investors. It would appear you plan on never having any retirement savings, investments, or anything later in life, again I hope that works out for you.
He screwed another human being who might have been saving up all year for an upgrade. Not some big money hungry corporation who won't notice it (it's always felt by the people lower int he company). Think of the Children! (you did mention them) Imagine if this had been purchased as a gift for someone. Yeah lot of joy spread there.
Thats why it's better not to life life as a contest to screw as many people as possible, because most of the time you think you are screwing some big faceless (so you don't have to worry about conscience or morals) company, you also are screwing one or more "real people" who are just like you, but not raving assholes.
The funny thing about the whole screwing everyone mindset you are praising is that it's the same one the corporate evil "subhumans" have, and used the same way. It does no good or justice, only occasionally vengeance and it does tend to hit bystanders who did nothing to you. But I guess as
It took me a few re-reads to clear out the few insults I dished back, too bad you couldn't be civil enough to do the same in your posting.
You think a corporation (even with overpaid execs) does not contain people, be they managers or lowly workers? Are the investors not people? How does this not do harm to people? Corporations like Enron and Worldcom are not faceless entities, there are real people behind the fraud they committed and they screwed a lot of people, that does not give you the right to screw your local power company on your electric usage. By pulling the shit you claim is justified in your special self centered case, you do not hurt the people who have harmed others, you are hurting the innocent who are just trying to live most of the time. If everyone does it to the company who screwed anyone who is in the wrong now (seeing as a company can only screw so many people and there are far more people able to screw the company)?
Sure murder is not theft, air is not water. Both are illegal and the other two are elements. Care to explain how the theft in question is ever outside of the black side of the shades of grey or white?
You seem to be one of those young "Screw everyone I got mine" types from what I see, and more power to you, just remember that you get what you give.
Can you explain how I am supposedly responsible for ambulances not being allowed to speed? Ambulances can exceed the speed limit, this is a fact, By how much is set from state to stat as far as I can tell. I notice you dodge the fact and go off on some tangent about manslaughter due to accidents (this has happened) but is as useful a fact as they come in various colors including red white, yellow, and blue. They certainly do not always speed and plenty of time transport non critical patients at normal speeds without L&S (Lights and Sirens). When a patient is critical or the hospital they need to get said critical patient to is far away (due to the type of injury) they can and will use L&S and exceed the posted limit and there are laws defining the rules for all this. Do you get up every day looking to be this wrong or do you go to classes for it?
No one is claiming morality is black or white (wow your powers of claravoiance must win you a lot of poker games), but buying a product and then putting a lesser or broken out of warranty product in the box and returning it is THEFT no matter how you slice it and not in any way ever in a grey area. If your precious PS2 dies after warranty ends you need to take SONY to task for making a shit product that does not last. Committing that level of fraud can never be justified that way.
You don't know who has screwed who for more or when. Frankly the best way to live is not to screw people, but it looks thats way to far above your level of comprehension. I'm glad you are such a machine (to use your words) you can never feel anything about all the people you screw in getting your selfish gratification at the expense others.
I take my initial statement back. You are a tool. You wouldn't know slack if it fell on you. I like you high horse "I know you and can analyze your entire existence from my made up assumption based on what I think I know about you" thing, I hope that works out well for you also.
Maybe you should sue SONY in small claims court for making a defective product that does not last as long as other comperable (and older) optical based console systems. If enough people had done that years ago when it became obvious the PS2 was shit in design and manufacture maybe sony would have fixed it and we wouldnt have to buy a new one every year or two.
Even simpler would be to have the computer system used for returns flash up images of the product, model numbers and where to fin dthem when the item is scanned in. That way anyone with functional eyes and hands can likelt spot most frauds.
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It is a real shame nothing was invented by these guys though. All they have done is taken a product from Japan, attached patriotic anti-terrorism fear marketing and ripped of stuff from the real manufacturers website.
It looks to me (and others) that by Colorado firm they mean NEC Lighting of Japan.
I do not believe they even make the tubes. They stole graphics and other things from NEC Lighing's website, who does make tubes as described. Either they are buying them and re-branding them or have stolen web content and tech from another company.
That only leads to cursing the glare.
The green end tubes (ones often called mercury free) do in fact contain mercury. Just so little of it that you are allowed to dispose of them in normal trash.
I have found no one making mercury free tubes.
In the home, they are useful everywhere but where you sleep or maybe entertained by electronic devices.
The only place I have found it is in some emergency exit signs, It may be possible to pay the makers of these to make something like a Glowring (item I'd love to get my hands on).
Current compact fluorescent are the same size as a light bulb. However, IMO it's best to buy a replacement fixture that uses a circline or u shaped bulb (some are compact fluorescent) style bulb.
Forget "glow in the dark" specific items. Just fire up a black light near a TV. Instantly charges the phosphors so when you turn the black light off it looks like you just turned the TV off (that residual slight glow).
Buy the ones with green ends, they are low murcury.
Also dont huff the tubes.
Some do now come with a protective sheath (non removable) around them, you can also buy plastic slip on covers with plastic ends that are effective.
A simple bit of "hot" glass (UV blocking) would be all thats needed.
I must be one screwed up EN_US user as saying one hundred four seems wrong. When I write out checks or tell someone a number like that, I use "and" in it. It does not sound right to me without that.
I't is clear to this American, but I read a bit of European writing so I might just be used to differeing styles.
I'd read more of them if people like BMG would actually print them. Thats why I quit BMG. I hate not haing lyrics (in a readable font, no handwriting BS that is indiciferable) or production notes.
So they are living in what we would call "the projects"?
There is a list of titles that do not work.
I cant seem to find the official one from SONY.
Few games if any hit a full single layer DVD in size, even fewer (I think 1 or 2) use a full dual layer DVD.
Stealing $400 is not the same as stealing a penny, there are degrees to these things as you said.
Notice I said the theft in question, not some theoretical bread for staving people theft. The specific act in question. Maybe if you were not so busy flying off the handle, with the flaming and the assumptions and wild assertions (glaven) you would not have missed that and half of this would not be necessary.
Stealing a $400 video card for playing games never (well I suppose a starving family could steal a card for their kid to play in a tournament he breaks into and wins could) ever puts bread on a family table so it isn't the same. It also wont stop terrorism or AIDS. How hard is it for you to read and understand? We are not talking a penny or bread for starving people or stopping terrorism. It's theft for personal gratification, not the greater good or whatever you think helps people in need (besides those in "need" of $450 luxury items).
The kids life was not ruined. Sure he should have bitched him out, insisted he own up and give the money back or get busted. He was under age and from what the poster said received a "slap on the wrist" probably community service and not much else as I am sure the money was long gone. This did not result in a felony(according to the poster), jail time, and he will have no criminal record so he isn't going to miss out on his chance to earn a million dollars (I think he should set his sights higher then that).
Sure differences in degrees, but you seem to fail to grasp the actual degree of what went on. For instance his life has not been ruined unlike your assertions to that end.
You are quite hung up on earning lots of money in corporate jobs for someone who is so anti-corporation.
Again he isn't screwed out of his life, he didn't go to jail, have something put on some permanent record or get killed. Again how exactly was this persons life ruined?
Is it compassionate to let someone turn into a criminal and as an adult later end up getting caught in a felony offense that does ruin ones life?
Is it friendship to let friends self destruct? I don't know if he did but he should have seriously talked to him and tried to get him to see the illegality of his action.
Is it compassionate to let someone commit a crime and watch as someone else suffers from his benefit? By this I mean whoever bout the low grade card he put in the box, whoever bought that will probably be blamed for the product substitution. If you walked into the store and bought said video card and got home, found it to be not the product that is supposed to be in the box, would you be thinking "Awesome someone screwed Best Buy and I wasted money and gas to get this old VGA card!". If best buy claimed you switched the product when you tried to return it, and you were out $450 would you be alright with it?
See it's not just that he screwed some faceless corporation and investors. It would appear you plan on never having any retirement savings, investments, or anything later in life, again I hope that works out for you.
He screwed another human being who might have been saving up all year for an upgrade. Not some big money hungry corporation who won't notice it (it's always felt by the people lower int he company). Think of the Children! (you did mention them) Imagine if this had been purchased as a gift for someone. Yeah lot of joy spread there.
Thats why it's better not to life life as a contest to screw as many people as possible, because most of the time you think you are screwing some big faceless (so you don't have to worry about conscience or morals) company, you also are screwing one or more "real people" who are just like you, but not raving assholes.
The funny thing about the whole screwing everyone mindset you are praising is that it's the same one the corporate evil "subhumans" have, and used the same way. It does no good or justice, only occasionally vengeance and it does tend to hit bystanders who did nothing to you. But I guess as
Ahh, but Tilt and Tumble does work on the regular non SP GBA AFAIK.
It took me a few re-reads to clear out the few insults I dished back, too bad you couldn't be civil enough to do the same in your posting.
You think a corporation (even with overpaid execs) does not contain people, be they managers or lowly workers?
Are the investors not people?
How does this not do harm to people?
Corporations like Enron and Worldcom are not faceless entities, there are real people behind the fraud they committed and they screwed a lot of people, that does not give you the right to screw your local power company on your electric usage.
By pulling the shit you claim is justified in your special self centered case, you do not hurt the people who have harmed others, you are hurting the innocent who are just trying to live most of the time. If everyone does it to the company who screwed anyone who is in the wrong now (seeing as a company can only screw so many people and there are far more people able to screw the company)?
Sure murder is not theft, air is not water. Both are illegal and the other two are elements. Care to explain how the theft in question is ever outside of the black side of the shades of grey or white?
You seem to be one of those young "Screw everyone I got mine" types from what I see, and more power to you, just remember that you get what you give.
Can you explain how I am supposedly responsible for ambulances not being allowed to speed?
Ambulances can exceed the speed limit, this is a fact, By how much is set from state to stat as far as I can tell. I notice you dodge the fact and go off on some tangent about manslaughter due to accidents (this has happened) but is as useful a fact as they come in various colors including red white, yellow, and blue. They certainly do not always speed and plenty of time transport non critical patients at normal speeds without L&S (Lights and Sirens). When a patient is critical or the hospital they need to get said critical patient to is far away (due to the type of injury) they can and will use L&S and exceed the posted limit and there are laws defining the rules for all this. Do you get up every day looking to be this wrong or do you go to classes for it?
No one is claiming morality is black or white (wow your powers of claravoiance must win you a lot of poker games), but buying a product and then putting a lesser or broken out of warranty product in the box and returning it is THEFT no matter how you slice it and not in any way ever in a grey area. If your precious PS2 dies after warranty ends you need to take SONY to task for making a shit product that does not last. Committing that level of fraud can never be justified that way.
You don't know who has screwed who for more or when. Frankly the best way to live is not to screw people, but it looks thats way to far above your level of comprehension. I'm glad you are such a machine (to use your words) you can never feel anything about all the people you screw in getting your selfish gratification at the expense others.
I take my initial statement back. You are a tool. You wouldn't know slack if it fell on you. I like you high horse "I know you and can analyze your entire existence from my made up assumption based on what I think I know about you" thing, I hope that works out well for you also.
Buy good wood and tools. Or equip a metal shop and buy metal. These will be more useful if we crash.
Maybe they make up for that with volume.
Maybe you should sue SONY in small claims court for making a defective product that does not last as long as other comperable (and older) optical based console systems.
If enough people had done that years ago when it became obvious the PS2 was shit in design and manufacture maybe sony would have fixed it and we wouldnt have to buy a new one every year or two.
Even simpler would be to have the computer system used for returns flash up images of the product, model numbers and where to fin dthem when the item is scanned in. That way anyone with functional eyes and hands can likelt spot most frauds.