It takes nearly three years for an LED to pay for itself in energy usage. It's ironic that these "let them eat cake" statements come from the socialists resting comfortably in the upper economic classes, while the poor people have to figure out how to amortize their purchase of a single LED over 3 years to justify having light in the bedroom over having clothes in the closet.
All right-- let's address your salient, succinctly-expressed argument.
Five years ago-- this meant CFLs only, because all the LED replacements were horribly expensive and unsuitable for any application over about 500 lumens. Most CFLs were, and still are, terrible. The color was bad, the reliability was bad, and the brightness was bad-- and you didn't know which ones are bad until you spend $2-3 apiece on them. I was lucky enough to discover Sylvania was very good early on, and Philips acceptable. GE's CFLs were horrible, and GE is probably the highest seller in the USA.
This is from someone who actually did start replacing incandescents over 5 years ago-- if you think it was easy, you have no brain.
What hatred? Did either of these people advocate violence or cruelty? And to negate the belligerence of the Slashdot censors, here is my original post:
You probably should come to grips with the fact that you are tolerant of people's politically incorrect statements, unless they come from someone who you dislike (like Robertson).
Fascism is when corporations control the government.
Ah, another internet expert. Most historians agree that Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy were models for fascist states; do you agree? If so, then please explain to me which corporations controlled the government.
Oh, BTW, here's my original statement that was censored by another internet expert:
I don't see how government gets to decide who gets married based on biological issues. We used to let the government force people to take blood tests. We know that is wrong.
I'm pretty sure they are different; by definition, they believe in different things. But to people like you, who are incapable of sustaining a logical debate and thus must rest on the ad hominem, there is no difference.
Consider this as well - long-term monogamous relationships are a medieval holdover with no more biological justification than gay-bashing
Um, monogamous marriages go back a lot longer than that. An historian, you are not. You should probably spend less time typing and more time researching.
I don't see how government gets to decide who gets married based on biological issues. We used to let the government force people to take blood tests. We know that is wrong.
One question we could have now, with the advent of same sex marriage, is why incest laws should be followed with same sex marriages.
Because the activists are not concerned with "marriage equality"-- they're just concerned about same-sex marriage. If they wanted "marriage equality", they'd call for the maximum practical exclusion of government involvement in matrimony. But they find things like incest and polygamy distasteful. They are prejudiced-- they're just differently prejudiced from their opponents.
You probably should come to grips with the fact that you are tolerant of people's politically incorrect statements, unless they come from someone who you dislike (like Robertson).
You most certainly can NOT buy an entry-level server for $1K. At least, not one I'd care to support. People who aren't Google don't need to be building servers from scratch-- because that's the only way you'll get anything useful for $1,000. Any major manufacturer server (Dell, HP, IBM) with even next-day hardware support is going to be over $1K-- with no RAM or disks (or even an FC controller so you can use a SAN) installed in the bare chassis. A RAID controller+cache can cost over $1K.
On the contrary; everyone knows that Obama, leader of the most powerful nation in the world, didn't even know what bitcoin was until October 2013. He's really on top of it now, I'm sure.
PCI compliance says you can't have an open network port available in public areas. That is, if you have a network jack on the floor where people can use it without having their specific MAC authorized, then you're non-compliant.
If Target is PCI compliant, then this is an internal breach.
You reminded me of how much internet Keynesians hate the libertarian "fetish" for gold. They usually trot out the red herring (do fish trot?) of "you can't eat gold", as if you could eat worthless paper or base metal. They act as if gold is somehow more useless than fiat currency, when it's used in electronics, jewelry, and medicine.
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It takes nearly three years for an LED to pay for itself in energy usage. It's ironic that these "let them eat cake" statements come from the socialists resting comfortably in the upper economic classes, while the poor people have to figure out how to amortize their purchase of a single LED over 3 years to justify having light in the bedroom over having clothes in the closet.
All right-- let's address your salient, succinctly-expressed argument.
Five years ago-- this meant CFLs only, because all the LED replacements were horribly expensive and unsuitable for any application over about 500 lumens. Most CFLs were, and still are, terrible. The color was bad, the reliability was bad, and the brightness was bad-- and you didn't know which ones are bad until you spend $2-3 apiece on them. I was lucky enough to discover Sylvania was very good early on, and Philips acceptable. GE's CFLs were horrible, and GE is probably the highest seller in the USA.
This is from someone who actually did start replacing incandescents over 5 years ago-- if you think it was easy, you have no brain.
Ah, another internet expert. Most historians agree that Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy were models for fascist states; do you agree? If so, then please explain to me which corporations controlled the government.
Oh, BTW, here's my original statement that was censored by another internet expert:
I'm pretty sure they are different; by definition, they believe in different things. But to people like you, who are incapable of sustaining a logical debate and thus must rest on the ad hominem, there is no difference.
You forgot Clinton... what a great Republican he was to help create the lending bubble.
I assure you that the Internet will never be short of tools.
If he did, it would sound something like, "UNGHHHHH BRAINNNNNNNNNNSSSSSS"
Um, monogamous marriages go back a lot longer than that. An historian, you are not. You should probably spend less time typing and more time researching.
I don't see how government gets to decide who gets married based on biological issues. We used to let the government force people to take blood tests. We know that is wrong.
Please stop participating in fascism.
Because the activists are not concerned with "marriage equality"-- they're just concerned about same-sex marriage. If they wanted "marriage equality", they'd call for the maximum practical exclusion of government involvement in matrimony. But they find things like incest and polygamy distasteful. They are prejudiced-- they're just differently prejudiced from their opponents.
You probably should come to grips with the fact that you are tolerant of people's politically incorrect statements, unless they come from someone who you dislike (like Robertson).
The irony is that you seem to believe you have intimate knowledge of what his intended meaning was.
You most certainly can NOT buy an entry-level server for $1K. At least, not one I'd care to support. People who aren't Google don't need to be building servers from scratch-- because that's the only way you'll get anything useful for $1,000. Any major manufacturer server (Dell, HP, IBM) with even next-day hardware support is going to be over $1K-- with no RAM or disks (or even an FC controller so you can use a SAN) installed in the bare chassis. A RAID controller+cache can cost over $1K.
Einstein never learned to drive. He thought it was too complicated to bother.
Some people are just bad at driving. They might be brilliant mathematicians, engineers, or physicians.
I bow down to your superior crustiness.
Yes, and that's called charity-- not government entitlement.
On the contrary; everyone knows that Obama, leader of the most powerful nation in the world, didn't even know what bitcoin was until October 2013. He's really on top of it now, I'm sure.
Now they can buy a few billion more rounds of ammunition!
We mean the Target based in the nation with 314 million people, not 23 million. It's the same one with a $16 trillion GDP, not $1.6 trillion.
It's both at once, until you open the box.
PCI compliance says you can't have an open network port available in public areas. That is, if you have a network jack on the floor where people can use it without having their specific MAC authorized, then you're non-compliant.
If Target is PCI compliant, then this is an internal breach.
Why are you assuming their plastic card system is attached to the internet?
I'm trying to watch this space robots video everyone's talking about, but RealPlayer is still buffering.
You reminded me of how much internet Keynesians hate the libertarian "fetish" for gold. They usually trot out the red herring (do fish trot?) of "you can't eat gold", as if you could eat worthless paper or base metal. They act as if gold is somehow more useless than fiat currency, when it's used in electronics, jewelry, and medicine.