I use CFLs for my outside porch lights. In rainy Florida the water doesn't bother them. I have old fixtures with no globe, just the bare bulb pointing down. A wet incandescent will blow immediately when wet, CFLs last for years. I also use one in my drop light, bump a hot incandescent and it will blow, a CFL wont.
Too bad all those poor people can't vote. A nearby city is $20 million short on its budget. I guess they don't have enough poor people. My property tax is $400 a year, $200 for garbage pick-up and $200 for everything else. 1500 sq ft home on 13 acres, 350 sq ft apt building, 600 sq ft garage. No high speed internet, you can't have everything.
Ancient man felt insignificant and believed gods created the earth. Science has an explanation for how the universe came into being but not from where what made it came from or what over 90% of it is. As a Christian, I say God. But keep trying guys, everything you say makes sense and I await your next discovery. However celestial objects came into being, the photos are awesome.
That is the plan. We can not have modern civilization without fossil fuels. If you look for any plan to continue without them all you can find are some vague suggestions about solar panels, conservation and maybe composting and organic farms. Great for a few hundred million healthy people. What are the other seven billion going to do?
If Florida adapts Australian standards my power bill triples to $600, one third of my income. I guess I could cancel my internet service, TV cable, cell phones, and insurance on my cars. Or just quit eating.
I'm was late morning person. Most of my life I was self employed so I could work around it. Then I had to get jobs that started at 7: am. My last job required that I get up at 4:00 am but was 4 tens so every weekend I slept in so by Sunday night I couldn't go to sleep until 2:00 am and went to work on two hours sleep. After 15 months of that I had a physical breakdown and after being unable to work for two years was placed on disability. I was 60. I have to take a sleeping medication now or I can only sleep after being awake for 36 hours.
Twenty years ago I had a job laying TV cable. I was using a shovel and could do 200 ft in an hour. I got $20. Any farther than that and they got a guy with a power trencher. A 1000 ft roll of RG11 is $150. Should cost about $300 to do that job. One time I had an easy 300 ft install. The utility company had used an industrial trencher to install the electrical service underground to a new house. I just dropped my cable in the five ft deep trench. An easy $30.
Aquarium supply houses carry ampicillin in the same dosage capsules as a pharmacy (for fish use only, wink, wink). They even guarantee potency for a year. Not that I think of taking a few if I developed another abscessed tooth mind you.
Being a bus weighs 10 times as much as a Tesla and a Tesla battery weighs 1000 lbs you would need a 10 thousand pound battery. Standard lead acid batteries for electric forklifts ( about a cubic meter) weigh 4000 lbs and can be swapped out in a few minutes with a roller equipped charging station. Doubling the size of that system would be no problem.
I pulled out my 1988 copy of The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary. The definitions of subsidize and subsidy only mention use of public money for a benefit. Paying less than a maximum tax is not listed. After searching over ten web sites I found one listing a tax break as a subsidy. Kind of like the school bully taking everyone's lunch money. One day he only takes half of yours. All the others now claim the bully is subsidizing you.
We have been brainwashed into thinking all money belongs to the government so anyone keeping any is being subsidized by everyone else.
So why haven't the "other" countries of the world sanction the US? Don't sell us anything or buy anything from us. And tell me, how many coal plants are still running in China and Germany?
Aside from a few simplistic slogans very little has been done by anyone to stop climate change. The only way is to start a war on fossil fuels, the kind where millions die to protect the rest. Without that kind of commitment it will be business as usual for the next 50 years, then billions die.
Actually I found the book on Free e-Books.net, their download button linked to the cnx.org site. Thanks for the link. You can't have to many free sources.
Watched a documentary about a poor, African village. No electricity, no running water, but almost every child had a cellphone with reception inside their hut. But yes, the REA and breaking up AT&T was good for the country. For a country to provide the best life for its citizens some socialism is needed.
Just last night I downloaded an anatomy textbook from cnx.org, an education site partially funded by the Gates foundation. The PDF of the 1337 page textbook is clear and bright. Free beats several hundred dollars and not an ad in sight.
It's one of those First World problems. I pay $80 a month for 17 GBs of satellite internet and am glad to pay that. I live in northeast Florida but time is passing my little rural spot by.
The US and European union could reduce our carbon output to post Civil War levels and global carbon dioxide levels will still increase because we can't stop China and India from using more coal and oil and we can't keep the Amazon forest from being cut down. But a few individuals can attempt geoengineering. Mostly I suspect it will be business as usual until it's way to late to do anything else.
At that that time they thought Jesus was coming back any minute so they sold all their possessions and got together to wait. After a while the money ran out so they had to get jobs. Some people just wanted to sit around and eat and that is when Paul made the rule that he who didn't work couldn't eat at the communal table.
Christianity is not about communism, they were wrong to do what they did. They were supposed to be out sharing Christ's teachings. Why do you think Christians went back to the Jewish tithe?
Remember the Star Trek episode with all the alternative universes where the Borg were taking over and one frantic Riker in a burning Enterprise pleading that he couldn't go back, it's horrible? That is how potato farming in the South would be without herbicides. We harvest spring potatoes in May just as weed growth hits full stride. Wrestling potatoes out of weed choked soil makes fighting the Borg look like a picnic. As a young man forty years ago we just fought the war but no one wants to go back. Today the harvester just cruises up and down the field sifting potatoes out of clean soil instead of clogging up every few hundred feet.
Now if you want to put people back to work put a bunch of tractors out there pulling cultivators and people hand pulling, then mow the field before you drag a digger through it that just plops the tubers back on the ground like my grandfather did. Me, I staying here, I'm not going back.
Peanuts Charlie Brown, "AWWWG". There is no FAIR! The US's seventeen trillion dollar economy can sustain itself. There is no need to force American workers to compete for jobs with an Ugandan subsistence farmer. Remember, multinational corporations make the profit from fairness, not the worker.
My idea of fairness is probably different from yours. Castro's idea of fairness was different from many Cubans. Pol Pot's idea was different from many Cambodian people's idea. Are you willing to kill to enforce your idea of fairness?
Today's front wheel drive econo boxes are just uninspiring transportation. You need something like the 327 68 Impala I drove in high school to get your blood pumping.
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How do you balance low taxes, few social services, and no minimum wage? Wouldn't the full safety net areas be flooded with new recipients?
I use CFLs for my outside porch lights. In rainy Florida the water doesn't bother them. I have old fixtures with no globe, just the bare bulb pointing down. A wet incandescent will blow immediately when wet, CFLs last for years. I also use one in my drop light, bump a hot incandescent and it will blow, a CFL wont.
Too bad all those poor people can't vote. A nearby city is $20 million short on its budget. I guess they don't have enough poor people. My property tax is $400 a year, $200 for garbage pick-up and $200 for everything else. 1500 sq ft home on 13 acres, 350 sq ft apt building, 600 sq ft garage. No high speed internet, you can't have everything.
Ancient man felt insignificant and believed gods created the earth. Science has an explanation for how the universe came into being but not from where what made it came from or what over 90% of it is. As a Christian, I say God. But keep trying guys, everything you say makes sense and I await your next discovery. However celestial objects came into being, the photos are awesome.
I to love the poetry of the Bible.
That is the plan. We can not have modern civilization without fossil fuels. If you look for any plan to continue without them all you can find are some vague suggestions about solar panels, conservation and maybe composting and organic farms. Great for a few hundred million healthy people. What are the other seven billion going to do?
If Florida adapts Australian standards my power bill triples to $600, one third of my income. I guess I could cancel my internet service, TV cable, cell phones, and insurance on my cars. Or just quit eating.
I'm was late morning person. Most of my life I was self employed so I could work around it. Then I had to get jobs that started at 7: am. My last job required that I get up at 4:00 am but was 4 tens so every weekend I slept in so by Sunday night I couldn't go to sleep until 2:00 am and went to work on two hours sleep. After 15 months of that I had a physical breakdown and after being unable to work for two years was placed on disability. I was 60. I have to take a sleeping medication now or I can only sleep after being awake for 36 hours.
Twenty years ago I had a job laying TV cable. I was using a shovel and could do 200 ft in an hour. I got $20. Any farther than that and they got a guy with a power trencher. A 1000 ft roll of RG11 is $150. Should cost about $300 to do that job. One time I had an easy 300 ft install. The utility company had used an industrial trencher to install the electrical service underground to a new house. I just dropped my cable in the five ft deep trench. An easy $30.
Aquarium supply houses carry ampicillin in the same dosage capsules as a pharmacy (for fish use only, wink, wink). They even guarantee potency for a year. Not that I think of taking a few if I developed another abscessed tooth mind you.
My wife would first google Google so she could do a web search. Technologically challenged doesn't begin to describe her.
Being a bus weighs 10 times as much as a Tesla and a Tesla battery weighs 1000 lbs you would need a 10 thousand pound battery. Standard lead acid batteries for electric forklifts ( about a cubic meter) weigh 4000 lbs and can be swapped out in a few minutes with a roller equipped charging station. Doubling the size of that system would be no problem.
I pulled out my 1988 copy of The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary. The definitions of subsidize and subsidy only mention use of public money for a benefit. Paying less than a maximum tax is not listed. After searching over ten web sites I found one listing a tax break as a subsidy. Kind of like the school bully taking everyone's lunch money. One day he only takes half of yours. All the others now claim the bully is subsidizing you.
We have been brainwashed into thinking all money belongs to the government so anyone keeping any is being subsidized by everyone else.
So why haven't the "other" countries of the world sanction the US? Don't sell us anything or buy anything from us. And tell me, how many coal plants are still running in China and Germany?
Aside from a few simplistic slogans very little has been done by anyone to stop climate change. The only way is to start a war on fossil fuels, the kind where millions die to protect the rest. Without that kind of commitment it will be business as usual for the next 50 years, then billions die.
I gota ask, my Hughesnet 1.5 Mbps satellite connection cost $79 dollars a month for 475 MB a day. Do you have some kind of slow but unlimited service?
Actually I found the book on Free e-Books.net, their download button linked to the cnx.org site. Thanks for the link. You can't have to many free sources.
Watched a documentary about a poor, African village. No electricity, no running water, but almost every child had a cellphone with reception inside their hut. But yes, the REA and breaking up AT&T was good for the country. For a country to provide the best life for its citizens some socialism is needed.
Just last night I downloaded an anatomy textbook from cnx.org, an education site partially funded by the Gates foundation. The PDF of the 1337 page textbook is clear and bright. Free beats several hundred dollars and not an ad in sight.
It's one of those First World problems. I pay $80 a month for 17 GBs of satellite internet and am glad to pay that. I live in northeast Florida but time is passing my little rural spot by.
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The US and European union could reduce our carbon output to post Civil War levels and global carbon dioxide levels will still increase because we can't stop China and India from using more coal and oil and we can't keep the Amazon forest from being cut down. But a few individuals can attempt geoengineering. Mostly I suspect it will be business as usual until it's way to late to do anything else.
At that that time they thought Jesus was coming back any minute so they sold all their possessions and got together to wait. After a while the money ran out so they had to get jobs. Some people just wanted to sit around and eat and that is when Paul made the rule that he who didn't work couldn't eat at the communal table.
Christianity is not about communism, they were wrong to do what they did. They were supposed to be out sharing Christ's teachings. Why do you think Christians went back to the Jewish tithe?
Remember the Star Trek episode with all the alternative universes where the Borg were taking over and one frantic Riker in a burning Enterprise pleading that he couldn't go back, it's horrible? That is how potato farming in the South would be without herbicides. We harvest spring potatoes in May just as weed growth hits full stride. Wrestling potatoes out of weed choked soil makes fighting the Borg look like a picnic. As a young man forty years ago we just fought the war but no one wants to go back. Today the harvester just cruises up and down the field sifting potatoes out of clean soil instead of clogging up every few hundred feet.
Now if you want to put people back to work put a bunch of tractors out there pulling cultivators and people hand pulling, then mow the field before you drag a digger through it that just plops the tubers back on the ground like my grandfather did. Me, I staying here, I'm not going back.
Peanuts Charlie Brown, "AWWWG". There is no FAIR! The US's seventeen trillion dollar economy can sustain itself. There is no need to force American workers to compete for jobs with an Ugandan subsistence farmer. Remember, multinational corporations make the profit from fairness, not the worker.
My idea of fairness is probably different from yours. Castro's idea of fairness was different from many Cubans. Pol Pot's idea was different from many Cambodian people's idea. Are you willing to kill to enforce your idea of fairness?
That's what motorcycles are for. That Allstate (Sears) scooter sure was fun but the Kawasaki H2 triple was dynamite.
Today's front wheel drive econo boxes are just uninspiring transportation. You need something like the 327 68 Impala I drove in high school to get your blood pumping.