As an investor (GE, various other firms) I can tell you that LEDs will have the majority of market share by 2020 and should fairly cheap by 2015.
CFLs are just a bridge technology that will be phased out. The oil spikes will take care of that, with energy price jumps and the CFL 1/8th energy usage can't compete with volume-produced LEDs 1/20th energy usage. They're already ramping up the production factories for multiple firms worldwide.
So, you'd be better off reducing your usage of oil-guzzling cars and trucks, IMHO, if you really are an "activist". Move closer to where you work and live in an efficient city, or your impact is between 2 and 20 times as much (suburbs and rural areas have the worst impact, due to transportation, water, efficiency, and energy use).
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Half your impact is heating, cooling and most of the rest is transportation.
the main problem seems to be helicopter gun ships. For those, a simple rpg solution usually works best, or a wire spindle device.
the locals recently took control of a local AFB in Libya next to Tripoli and found the air crews there helped them once they realized they were being lied to - my guess is we'd be best just making sure Gaddafi doesn't get any ammo resupply and that should solve most of the problem. Communications and surprise is what wins battles, anyway, especially when you have a looney tunes dictator shooting and bombing his own people.
I'd limit any "aid" to food, first aid, communications, and maybe maps to where the signal jammers were located and let the Libyans themselves retake their own country. They can get arms from the local police and military who have already defected.
If we actually wanted to restore comms to Libya, we'd be better off sending a shallow skiff with some satellite phones to the Eastern 2/3 of Libya that's already free.
None of this jamming stops satellite phones from working, at least not the directional ones, if you stand behind a building or shield the phone/antenna with foil.
Nidi62 is correct. Just ask Canada how much it paid for Out Of The Box contracts for military helicopters that could work in snow - ended up costing ten times as much with all the mods they asked for, when most were practically useless from a Canadian military snow operation viewpoint.
It's not the chassis that costs, it's the unneeded chrome, like why we're still stuck on stupid in Afghanistan and Iraq when al-Qaeda left half a decade ago, but we need an excuse to justify budgets we in the US can't afford and the resulting massive budget deficits.... but that's just the opinion of this ex-Sergeant...
Both the US Social Security Number format and the Canadian Social Insurance Number nine digit formats have the last digit as a check flag and the first digits as a region/base code.
If you get young kids, you can ask them where they were born - and if it's local you have the first three digits of the SSN or SIN and with the last 4 SSN you have all but 2 digits - since the last is the check digit, you can extrapolate the full SSN with a simple brute force check digit run to narrow it down and try a login sequence at Social Security or Employee Verify to get confirmation.
In Canada they only trap the last 3 digits not the last four XXX-YYY-ZZZ (that's Zed not Zee) so it's a bit harder.
I used to program mil and civilian databases that had check routines for SSN and SIN verification...
NEVER EVER GIVE SSN OR SIN TO ANYONE WHO IS NOT PAYING YOUR PENSION.
I have about 100 FB friend requests and the main prob is that a number, especially women, who I do in fact know, don't post pics or send an FR but don't have enuf info on the wall to be able to tell if it's really them or what.
And some recent local events made it so I didn't really want certain friends who weren't already FB friends to know what I was doing in the newsfeed until after I defeated their tunnel, so I left them in Pending status.
Then you get the spam fake ones and since I'm kind of known on the Net, I can't tell if they're real (and my other friends got suckered into approving the FR) or just know "of me" - I get fans in Canada and Japan and so on, which is really puzzling.
The problem with FUD attacks on wikileaks is that the people doing the FUD don't get how fast information flies in the Twitter and Facebook age - and how we in America support Freedom and Democracy worldwide with the beating fire in our hearts.
But wikileaks is showing people what I knew when I had a SECRET clearance - most classified information is over-classified and highly boring.
I'm sorry, but that Lancet article was proven to be a Fraud.
Three of my colleagues actually work in autism research, and quite a few of my friends actually work in fields involving climate - not TV metorologists, actual scientists doing earth and ice cores.
Myths won't help you avoid the harsh reality of what is happening in our world.
(please note: I personally have energy investments, including in firms that mine and use coal and other materials, and I know where the money for the climate denial is coming from)
Back when we literally created video games in the 70s and 80s, to run on mini and mainframes, we were not very good on documenting what we did.
I'd trust wiki on console gaming, tabletop or standalone game machines, but not on what we did back then. Coding Lunar Lander and Star Trek variants for example. A lot of what we did back then used punch cards to run, and we would hand code PUSH POP instructions and do LSHIFT and RSHIFT on the literal registers of the CPU. The best we had for archive was tape - cassette tape, and most of us couldn't afford magnetic drums and maybe used bubble memory storage at most.
While technically copyright existed, we mostly ignored it, and we'd get our source code from various magazines - I remember BYTE coming out was a big deal.
This is way before PC games came out. Until the mid-80s gaming was something that we hobbyists did for fun. And we'd write the games ourselves. I remember writing my first RAM drive to speed up game ops from my first Apple II+ by loading the game program code (which I wrote) from the dual floppy drives so it would execute 1000 times faster, using a 128k (yes, K not MB) RAM board I stuck in there and how shocked all my neighbors were at how fast it ran.
Virtually none of this was written down or "published".
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Just use the HDMI port - seriously, did you miss that it's the 21st Century already?
I heard Evil Steve Jobs say that users will never need more than 640 GB of memory.
As an investor (GE, various other firms) I can tell you that LEDs will have the majority of market share by 2020 and should fairly cheap by 2015.
CFLs are just a bridge technology that will be phased out. The oil spikes will take care of that, with energy price jumps and the CFL 1/8th energy usage can't compete with volume-produced LEDs 1/20th energy usage. They're already ramping up the production factories for multiple firms worldwide.
So, you'd be better off reducing your usage of oil-guzzling cars and trucks, IMHO, if you really are an "activist". Move closer to where you work and live in an efficient city, or your impact is between 2 and 20 times as much (suburbs and rural areas have the worst impact, due to transportation, water, efficiency, and energy use).
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Half your impact is heating, cooling and most of the rest is transportation.
the main problem seems to be helicopter gun ships. For those, a simple rpg solution usually works best, or a wire spindle device.
the locals recently took control of a local AFB in Libya next to Tripoli and found the air crews there helped them once they realized they were being lied to - my guess is we'd be best just making sure Gaddafi doesn't get any ammo resupply and that should solve most of the problem. Communications and surprise is what wins battles, anyway, especially when you have a looney tunes dictator shooting and bombing his own people.
I'd limit any "aid" to food, first aid, communications, and maybe maps to where the signal jammers were located and let the Libyans themselves retake their own country. They can get arms from the local police and military who have already defected.
If we actually wanted to restore comms to Libya, we'd be better off sending a shallow skiff with some satellite phones to the Eastern 2/3 of Libya that's already free.
None of this jamming stops satellite phones from working, at least not the directional ones, if you stand behind a building or shield the phone/antenna with foil.
China is vetoing action.
They're worried that they'll be next in 3-6 months, and they've already had at least four cities launch Net-instilled protests for freedom.
NATO could act alone, but won't due to the oil dependency of the EU players.
even a HARM is fairly expensive. A standard JDAM (originally JATO) would suffice.
I'd say just airdrop some Russian plastique and let the locals take em out - maybe put the coords on a map with the case.
once again Nidi62 is correct. Seriously, don't try to tell ex-mil like us that the MIC works, when we worked within the system.
I've had colleagues I worked with and soldiers I trained bite it in Afghanistan and my son's uncle is there right now.
And it's clusterfvck city, if you know what I mean, only used to justify out of control weapons programs we can't afford and never could.
Nidi62 is correct. Just ask Canada how much it paid for Out Of The Box contracts for military helicopters that could work in snow - ended up costing ten times as much with all the mods they asked for, when most were practically useless from a Canadian military snow operation viewpoint.
It's not the chassis that costs, it's the unneeded chrome, like why we're still stuck on stupid in Afghanistan and Iraq when al-Qaeda left half a decade ago, but we need an excuse to justify budgets we in the US can't afford and the resulting massive budget deficits. ... but that's just the opinion of this ex-Sergeant ...
Both the US Social Security Number format and the Canadian Social Insurance Number nine digit formats have the last digit as a check flag and the first digits as a region/base code.
If you get young kids, you can ask them where they were born - and if it's local you have the first three digits of the SSN or SIN and with the last 4 SSN you have all but 2 digits - since the last is the check digit, you can extrapolate the full SSN with a simple brute force check digit run to narrow it down and try a login sequence at Social Security or Employee Verify to get confirmation.
In Canada they only trap the last 3 digits not the last four XXX-YYY-ZZZ (that's Zed not Zee) so it's a bit harder.
I used to program mil and civilian databases that had check routines for SSN and SIN verification ...
NEVER EVER GIVE SSN OR SIN TO ANYONE WHO IS NOT PAYING YOUR PENSION.
I have about 100 FB friend requests and the main prob is that a number, especially women, who I do in fact know, don't post pics or send an FR but don't have enuf info on the wall to be able to tell if it's really them or what.
And some recent local events made it so I didn't really want certain friends who weren't already FB friends to know what I was doing in the newsfeed until after I defeated their tunnel, so I left them in Pending status.
Then you get the spam fake ones and since I'm kind of known on the Net, I can't tell if they're real (and my other friends got suckered into approving the FR) or just know "of me" - I get fans in Canada and Japan and so on, which is really puzzling.
I hope FB dies soon so I can start fresh.
Punishment first.
Trial second.
Today, Curveball admitted he lied to start the Iraq War.
Millions dead - mostly civilians and drafted Iraqi soldiers.
Bankrupt nation - both Iraq and America.
After the war crimes trials for all three ... then they can come for Assange.
And NOT a MOMENT before.
First Tunisia.
Then Egypt.
Information - and people - just want to be FREE.
Yemen, Pakistan, Jordan or Saudi Arabia is next.
The problem with FUD attacks on wikileaks is that the people doing the FUD don't get how fast information flies in the Twitter and Facebook age - and how we in America support Freedom and Democracy worldwide with the beating fire in our hearts.
But wikileaks is showing people what I knew when I had a SECRET clearance - most classified information is over-classified and highly boring.
God never intended for us to see in color, after all.
Purists can say what they want, but the cinephiles at the Seattle International Film Fest love 3-D.
We also love black and white, Cinemascope, and whatever we can get our hands on.
So I guess that means it's even as accurate as the evening news as well.
My son loves watching original Japanese anime cause the edits and cuts they do here are major in suckage.
She does a lot of the Open Office documentation, and she's not convinced about this fork having "mindshare".
Seriously, tell Germany to meet the EU emissions targets and Kyoto accords and stop trying to fork open source projects.
Yeah, I read the pre-Davos briefing from Angela Merkel.
Massive changes are.
I'm sorry, but that Lancet article was proven to be a Fraud.
Three of my colleagues actually work in autism research, and quite a few of my friends actually work in fields involving climate - not TV metorologists, actual scientists doing earth and ice cores.
Myths won't help you avoid the harsh reality of what is happening in our world.
(please note: I personally have energy investments, including in firms that mine and use coal and other materials, and I know where the money for the climate denial is coming from)
Back when we literally created video games in the 70s and 80s, to run on mini and mainframes, we were not very good on documenting what we did.
I'd trust wiki on console gaming, tabletop or standalone game machines, but not on what we did back then. Coding Lunar Lander and Star Trek variants for example. A lot of what we did back then used punch cards to run, and we would hand code PUSH POP instructions and do LSHIFT and RSHIFT on the literal registers of the CPU. The best we had for archive was tape - cassette tape, and most of us couldn't afford magnetic drums and maybe used bubble memory storage at most.
While technically copyright existed, we mostly ignored it, and we'd get our source code from various magazines - I remember BYTE coming out was a big deal.
This is way before PC games came out. Until the mid-80s gaming was something that we hobbyists did for fun. And we'd write the games ourselves. I remember writing my first RAM drive to speed up game ops from my first Apple II+ by loading the game program code (which I wrote) from the dual floppy drives so it would execute 1000 times faster, using a 128k (yes, K not MB) RAM board I stuck in there and how shocked all my neighbors were at how fast it ran.
Virtually none of this was written down or "published".
I'm sure you also think autism is caused by vaccines.
Fact: man-made carbon pollution is exacerbating the global weather cycles to an alarming degree.
Just ask anyone in Australia.
Yet more proof that pollution has a VALUE and is worth MONEY.
Hope they hang the crooks inside a smokestack.
For having Worlds of Warriors in iCarly, one of the best mocking of WoW that I've seen.
Le sigh. In the old days we used to mock each others games by having mock characters - and we liked it.
Who cares what some fruitball who could only get community college courses to be a weather man thinks?
Just because you're on TV and Fox News doesn't mean you're right.
Fuel for one reason.
The threat of terrorism precludes space elevators and other low-cost alternatives for the most part.
Subsidies that artificially make it appear cheap by having the military provide the funding don't make it actually cheap, they just make it appear so.