You might go back and check your calculations. What exactly is the efficiency of a heat pump when the outside air temp is below 20F like it is in the upper midwest this week?
Resistive heat, by definition, has a COP (coefficient of performance) of 1.0.
The average heat pump has a COP of about 3.0 at 47F and only gets down to 1.0 around 0F.
A modern heat pump with a variable speed compressor like the Carrier 25VNA should have a COP of roughly 1.5 at 0F.
Modern heat pumps are expensive and cranky of maintenance.
Bullshit. They are no more problematic than a regular A/C unit.
But you don't heat your entire house with incandescents - the idea is that the 90% waste isn't 'waste' it's being utilized effeciently
No. The choice is between running the efficient heat-pump a little bit more or running the light-bulb and paying 10x more for the marginal increase in heat.
As of 2013 there is still no way to get a light bulb that combines the low cost and high quality of an incandescent
Correction. Low up front cost.
At the national average of 12c/kwh a typical LED bulb will pay for itself in 2.5 years and last well over 5 years. In other words, they are already cheaper than incandescents if you aren't as short-sighted as the typical wall-street broker.
Also, Philips makes a good $10 bulb too. Cree isn't the only one in the game.
I live in Wisconsin, seriously, that "waste" heat is NOT wasted! It's freaking cold outside!! I'm an American, I want to be free to choose!
I suspect that Poe's Law is at work here. But I'll play it straight and point out that a heat-pump is a lot more efficient than simple resistive heating like the waste heat from a light-bulb. Modern heat-pumps work even in sub-freezing temperatures like a Wisconsin winter.
Right. The real problem here is the use of the word racist instead of bigot. He totally deserved to be called a thick fuck for mixing up two faces of the same coin. The actual bigotry, that's not a problem.
If say 30 -50% of them profess their loyalty to the pope before the country then do you profile them?
That's not comparable. The "ummah" isn't a person or even an institution, it means "community." What the racist fuck has lost his head over is the equivalent of someone saying he's 'loyal' to his fellow christians no matter what country they live in.
It is far simpler than all of that. They did it to try to retain the moral high ground in the PR war.
Unlike people here, the broader population is much less convinced of the narrative that the NSA bad and Snowden good. Offering Snowden amnesty (no matter how bogus of an offer) makes it seem like the NSA are the good guys because in the simplified world of the average unaware citizen bad guys don't offer amnesty, they just execute their enemies like North Korea just did.
To read this single off-handed comment about amnesty as anything more than political posturing is silly. Posturing is all the government has done since Snowden made the leak, they keep throwing random ideas at the wall hoping something will stick. This amnesty thing was just one more random idea they floated to see what the public reaction would be, nothing more.
This comment shows such a massive ignorance of the subject matter at hand. The Nazi's rise to power was in absolutely no way aided by any kind of limitation on free speech.
Wow, so many ACs who keeping making the same ignorant point. The nazis didn't start seriously implementing their bad shit until they had instituted all kinds of censorship. They got a toe-hold on power and used that to start in with the censorship.
The difference between that and a place like the US where freedom of expression is a god given right is that when we get raging bigots in office (and we get them often enough) they can't force critics to shut up, so they never get very far past that first toe-hold.
oh, that's bullshit. or you missed the point. why skip the full word, why hide behind a substitute ?
For the exact same reason they skip the full word for other offensive terms - the audience doesn't want to hear it.
or, as louis ck put it, why try to plant it in the listeners' minds
Hah. I've seen that bit before. The problem with you citing it is it disproves your own theory -- he says nigger in the first 15 seconds. The day Louis CK is prevented from saying nigger is the day you'll have a point.
Of course it did. The entire abolitionist movement could not have existed without freedom of expression. Don't make the mistake of believing imperfection equals failure.
Ever heard of the Weimar republic? They had freedom of expression... The Nazis started there,
Yeah, they started there, just like the KKK started in the US. The difference is that KKK members who got into government were unable to pass laws silencing criticism - e.g. David Duke who became politically toxic for his views after a successful election.
The Weimar Republic had free expression on the books, but not as a cultural norm. When the nazis got into office they passed all kinds of censorship laws which is part of what enabled them to go about implementing their evil plans without criticism. As I said earlier, they weren't running the gas chambers until long after censorship was wide-spread.
BTW, from my discussion with Americans, it seems that it is expected that using the word "nigger" within earshot of a black man will get you killed. Sounds bizarre to me,
You need to have more discussions with Americans. People say that all the time and they don't get killed. The difference is that the ones who won't say it are aware of the cultural history it embodies and think black people don't need any more of that shit. It isn't about worrying for their own personal safety, its about worrying about a fellow human's well being.
You can also play games with your browser sessions. Both firefox and chrome support multiple browser sessions running simultaneously. I have one just for google searches, another just for youtube, another just for banking, etc. That keeps your cookies and other fingerprinting information like extensions, browser history, etc unique to each task.
If you run firefox with these arguments it starts up with a picker that lets you choose which profile to run:
firefox --ProfileManager --no-remote
I give each profile a different theme and change the titlebar to start with a prefix (like "GOOGLE: xxx" or "BANK: xxx") with the customize_titlebar add-on to make it easy to visually distinguish between different sessions.
I also use the user-agent switcher extension to give each browser session a different user-agent. I usually set them to say the OS is Windows (I'm on linux) to blend in better with all the other Windows users and then each one is set to report a slightly different version of firefox (like 25.0 or 25..0.1 or 24.0 etc).
It is not just about hiding yourself it is about polluting their databases. Switching the user-agent isn't 100% -- some javascript can figure out the browser version via other means. But it is low-hanging fruit because the user-agent gets transmitted with every single http request your browser makes, so anyone passively sniffing the wire will get whatever you set it to.
For firefox you have to make an additional change in about:config in order to have your user agent stick permanently because java gets confused on startup if it is spoofed. Create a new preference 'useragentswitcher.reset.onclose' and set it to false.
they don't say it because they are afraid. whether they are afraid from corporations or govt makes little effective difference.
Woooooosh! They don't say it because they know their audience doesn't want to hear it. Same reason they don't talk about crazy-ass conspiracy theories, dress up like clowns and dance around spraying seltzer water. The audiences who want that stuff can find it on other programming. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from criticism for your speech.
Back in the 1950's you would have had a point because the FCC had a practical monopoly on broadcasting. But that hasn't been true for a very long time.
There weren't any laws preventing anti-Semitic speech in Weimar Germany (or Tsarist Russia for that matter) and yet it did get to "those proportions" there.
You miss the point. Freedom of speech must flow both (all) ways. Long before the gas chambers were built the nazis implemented stringent speech controls regarding criticism of government policies. You can't have an argument if one side is muzzled.
look: it's easy for americans to grandstand and showboat on this issue, because they didn't have something happen in the usa within 80 years ago which consumed the lives of millions of people because of a hateful, racist ideology.
Ever think the reason we didn't have that happen is because of freedom of expression? That the worst that's happened here never got to those proportions because people were free to talk about it both to blow off steam and to have their hate publicly refuted?
The one thing that the US does better than any European state is cultural integration. Freedom of expression is a big part of that, we air our dirty laundry right out there in public for all to see, to duke it out in the marketplace of ideas. It ain't pretty at all, but there is no pretty solution, only varying degrees of effectiveness and they are all ugly. We let those assholes have public freak-outs so that the people on the fence can hear the response from the sane ones.
When you censor speech it doesn't go away, it only goes underground where there is no voice of reason to point out the flaws. The cure for bad speech is good speech, not silence.
Same reason they don't say "fuck" or "asshole" or "cunt." Because they don't need to use offensive language in order to communicate the news. Now go to some political comedian like Bill Maher and he's happy to use any of those words in the right context.
Europe has some rather strict hate crime laws because of a certain incident that happened during the 30s and 40s.
Seems like they didn't learn from their experience. Just look at how common neo-nazis are in Germany and Austria today.
The lesson Europe should have learned isn't that hate-speech enabled hitler, it was that hitler put words to what a great deal of people already believed. The hate speech wasn't the cause of the problem, it was a symptom. Make it illegal and all they accomplish is to make it harder to diagnose the problem in the future.
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Eh, I use noscript, didn't have any problems.
Forget about sharing gaming videos.
What really matters is which one is better for sharing video of your drunk naked wife.
Wow, you really do fail to understand the word "typical." I was just being snarky, but turns you are an idiot!
You cannot claim that without knowing the duty cycle of the bulb. What if it is installed in a closet, and is powered for 5 minutes per month?
What part of "typical" do you fail to understand?
Lol.
They currently run around 1-2 grand and weigh 1-4 tons.
HVAC tonnage is just another unit for BTUs, has nothing to do with the weight.
You might go back and check your calculations. What exactly is the efficiency of a heat pump when the outside air temp is below 20F like it is in the upper midwest this week?
Resistive heat, by definition, has a COP (coefficient of performance) of 1.0.
The average heat pump has a COP of about 3.0 at 47F and only gets down to 1.0 around 0F.
A modern heat pump with a variable speed compressor like the Carrier 25VNA should have a COP of roughly 1.5 at 0F.
Modern heat pumps are expensive and cranky of maintenance.
Bullshit. They are no more problematic than a regular A/C unit.
But you don't heat your entire house with incandescents - the idea is that the 90% waste isn't 'waste' it's being utilized effeciently
No. The choice is between running the efficient heat-pump a little bit more or running the light-bulb and paying 10x more for the marginal increase in heat.
As of 2013 there is still no way to get a light bulb that combines the low cost and high quality of an incandescent
Correction. Low up front cost.
At the national average of 12c/kwh a typical LED bulb will pay for itself in 2.5 years and last well over 5 years. In other words, they are already cheaper than incandescents if you aren't as short-sighted as the typical wall-street broker.
Also, Philips makes a good $10 bulb too. Cree isn't the only one in the game.
I live in Wisconsin, seriously, that "waste" heat is NOT wasted! It's freaking cold outside!! I'm an American, I want to be free to choose!
I suspect that Poe's Law is at work here. But I'll play it straight and point out that a heat-pump is a lot more efficient than simple resistive heating like the waste heat from a light-bulb. Modern heat-pumps work even in sub-freezing temperatures like a Wisconsin winter.
> A religion != a race, you thick fuck.
Right. The real problem here is the use of the word racist instead of bigot. He totally deserved to be called a thick fuck for mixing up two faces of the same coin. The actual bigotry, that's not a problem.
If say 30 -50% of them profess their loyalty to the pope before the country then do you profile them?
That's not comparable. The "ummah" isn't a person or even an institution, it means "community." What the racist fuck has lost his head over is the equivalent of someone saying he's 'loyal' to his fellow christians no matter what country they live in.
Why else go public and suggest "amnesty"?
It is far simpler than all of that. They did it to try to retain the moral high ground in the PR war.
Unlike people here, the broader population is much less convinced of the narrative that the NSA bad and Snowden good. Offering Snowden amnesty (no matter how bogus of an offer) makes it seem like the NSA are the good guys because in the simplified world of the average unaware citizen bad guys don't offer amnesty, they just execute their enemies like North Korea just did.
To read this single off-handed comment about amnesty as anything more than political posturing is silly. Posturing is all the government has done since Snowden made the leak, they keep throwing random ideas at the wall hoping something will stick. This amnesty thing was just one more random idea they floated to see what the public reaction would be, nothing more.
Everyone's guess as to why they don't drop the N bomb on TV are just simply wrong. They are charged a fine by the FCC
That's technically true, but irrelevant - see the last sentence above in my post where I mentioned the FCC
The FCC has no jurisdiction on cable TV. Yet you don't hear them saying it on CNN or even Fox News.
There's a reason nothing of any worth comes out of Boston.
Except, you know, the internet.
But yeah, nothing of any real worth.
This comment shows such a massive ignorance of the subject matter at hand. The Nazi's rise to power was in absolutely no way aided by any kind of limitation on free speech.
Wow, so many ACs who keeping making the same ignorant point. The nazis didn't start seriously implementing their bad shit until they had instituted all kinds of censorship. They got a toe-hold on power and used that to start in with the censorship.
The difference between that and a place like the US where freedom of expression is a god given right is that when we get raging bigots in office (and we get them often enough) they can't force critics to shut up, so they never get very far past that first toe-hold.
oh, that's bullshit. or you missed the point. why skip the full word, why hide behind a substitute ?
For the exact same reason they skip the full word for other offensive terms - the audience doesn't want to hear it.
or, as louis ck put it, why try to plant it in the listeners' minds
Hah. I've seen that bit before. The problem with you citing it is it disproves your own theory -- he says nigger in the first 15 seconds. The day Louis CK is prevented from saying nigger is the day you'll have a point.
Free speech did not stop slavery
Of course it did. The entire abolitionist movement could not have existed without freedom of expression. Don't make the mistake of believing imperfection equals failure.
Ever heard of the Weimar republic? They had freedom of expression ... The Nazis started there,
Yeah, they started there, just like the KKK started in the US. The difference is that KKK members who got into government were unable to pass laws silencing criticism - e.g. David Duke who became politically toxic for his views after a successful election.
The Weimar Republic had free expression on the books, but not as a cultural norm. When the nazis got into office they passed all kinds of censorship laws which is part of what enabled them to go about implementing their evil plans without criticism. As I said earlier, they weren't running the gas chambers until long after censorship was wide-spread.
BTW, from my discussion with Americans, it seems that it is expected that using the word "nigger" within earshot of a black man will get you killed. Sounds bizarre to me,
You need to have more discussions with Americans. People say that all the time and they don't get killed. The difference is that the ones who won't say it are aware of the cultural history it embodies and think black people don't need any more of that shit. It isn't about worrying for their own personal safety, its about worrying about a fellow human's well being.
I've been looking for a list like that. Too bad its only from that particular blog so the sample size is too small.
You can also play games with your browser sessions. Both firefox and chrome support multiple browser sessions running simultaneously. I have one just for google searches, another just for youtube, another just for banking, etc. That keeps your cookies and other fingerprinting information like extensions, browser history, etc unique to each task.
If you run firefox with these arguments it starts up with a picker that lets you choose which profile to run:
firefox --ProfileManager --no-remote
I give each profile a different theme and change the titlebar to start with a prefix (like "GOOGLE: xxx" or "BANK: xxx") with the customize_titlebar add-on to make it easy to visually distinguish between different sessions.
I also use the user-agent switcher extension to give each browser session a different user-agent. I usually set them to say the OS is Windows (I'm on linux) to blend in better with all the other Windows users and then each one is set to report a slightly different version of firefox (like 25.0 or 25..0.1 or 24.0 etc).
It is not just about hiding yourself it is about polluting their databases. Switching the user-agent isn't 100% -- some javascript can figure out the browser version via other means. But it is low-hanging fruit because the user-agent gets transmitted with every single http request your browser makes, so anyone passively sniffing the wire will get whatever you set it to.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/
There is a similar add-on for chrome by a different author, haven't used it myself:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg?hl=en-US
For firefox you have to make an additional change in about:config in order to have your user agent stick permanently because java gets confused on startup if it is spoofed. Create a new preference 'useragentswitcher.reset.onclose' and set it to false.
they don't say it because they are afraid. whether they are afraid from corporations or govt makes little effective difference.
Woooooosh! They don't say it because they know their audience doesn't want to hear it. Same reason they don't talk about crazy-ass conspiracy theories, dress up like clowns and dance around spraying seltzer water. The audiences who want that stuff can find it on other programming. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from criticism for your speech.
Back in the 1950's you would have had a point because the FCC had a practical monopoly on broadcasting. But that hasn't been true for a very long time.
There weren't any laws preventing anti-Semitic speech in Weimar Germany (or Tsarist Russia for that matter) and yet it did get to "those proportions" there.
You miss the point. Freedom of speech must flow both (all) ways. Long before the gas chambers were built the nazis implemented stringent speech controls regarding criticism of government policies. You can't have an argument if one side is muzzled.
look: it's easy for americans to grandstand and showboat on this issue, because they didn't have something happen in the usa within 80 years ago which consumed the lives of millions of people because of a hateful, racist ideology.
Ever think the reason we didn't have that happen is because of freedom of expression? That the worst that's happened here never got to those proportions because people were free to talk about it both to blow off steam and to have their hate publicly refuted?
The one thing that the US does better than any European state is cultural integration. Freedom of expression is a big part of that, we air our dirty laundry right out there in public for all to see, to duke it out in the marketplace of ideas. It ain't pretty at all, but there is no pretty solution, only varying degrees of effectiveness and they are all ugly. We let those assholes have public freak-outs so that the people on the fence can hear the response from the sane ones.
When you censor speech it doesn't go away, it only goes underground where there is no voice of reason to point out the flaws. The cure for bad speech is good speech, not silence.
why do american "news" people say "n-word" ?
Same reason they don't say "fuck" or "asshole" or "cunt." Because they don't need to use offensive language in order to communicate the news. Now go to some political comedian like Bill Maher and he's happy to use any of those words in the right context.
Europe has some rather strict hate crime laws because of a certain incident that happened during the 30s and 40s.
Seems like they didn't learn from their experience. Just look at how common neo-nazis are in Germany and Austria today.
The lesson Europe should have learned isn't that hate-speech enabled hitler, it was that hitler put words to what a great deal of people already believed. The hate speech wasn't the cause of the problem, it was a symptom. Make it illegal and all they accomplish is to make it harder to diagnose the problem in the future.