Makes me want to stick my photos of Stonehenge up for sale "just because" and to park outside and take more photos to sell (not going in to pay the admission fee of course).
Ok so they say that sea levels are going to rise dramatically in the next 100 years, which will have a major impact on the land masses that we have today and the way we live. Instead of just using this new technology to provide water for those countries that need it, use it to pump millions of gallons of extra water out of the oceans and herlp keep the sea levels down.
The increased evaporation of water from the new lakes should increase cloud cover, increase rainfall, and lower temperatures. Also if we placed powerful enough water inlets in one location and maybe outlets in another we could generate our own ocean currents.
Just wishful thinking, but I have wondered for years why we couldn't use solar power or wave power in Africa to pump water inland. The desalination does not have to be on the coast either - the key is to pump the water inland, once there I'm sure the creation of jobs in the desalination industry would help the ecomony...
Wind powered generators on the roof are becoming fashionable. I guess they are still expensive, but if they can take some of the load off that might help. Still, as with solar power you need to have the elements in your favor (wind/sunshine) to make them work. And given the cost of implementation is it going to be cost effective - is the cost of generating your own power going to take 20 years to recuperate with the savings on your bills.
If air circulation in the server room is a problem, you might find it worthwhile to install a few cheap ($20) box fans to help circulate the air, and to also run the servers with the covers off to help keep them cool. Messy but cheap....
When you think of how much it costs to process a mail in rebate it doesn't make sense - after all they have to have a huge number of people to process the claims sent in, then to process the checks sent out, then in accounting to reconcile the differences since the checks barely last 90 days. For the most part the cost of processing far exceeds the rebate amount.
So what's the point? It can only be to con the consumer into buying something at a lower price, knowing that a good proportion of consumers will futz up their rebates or forget about them until it's too late.
So does that make it ethical? Are they deliberately offering rebates hoping that most of the consumers who buy the product are stupid?
There is no other explanation is there....
I would much rather have a lower rebate and make it instant. But I guess that would hurt the unemployment rate in places like Young America, MN (is there such a place?) where many of the rebates end up being sent.
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Makes me want to stick my photos of Stonehenge up for sale "just because" and to park outside and take more photos to sell (not going in to pay the admission fee of course).
Geeze - you mean we might all have to go back to sitting as a family around the dining room table playing board games! Marvellous idea.............
Ok so they say that sea levels are going to rise dramatically in the next 100 years, which will have a major impact on the land masses that we have today and the way we live. Instead of just using this new technology to provide water for those countries that need it, use it to pump millions of gallons of extra water out of the oceans and herlp keep the sea levels down. The increased evaporation of water from the new lakes should increase cloud cover, increase rainfall, and lower temperatures. Also if we placed powerful enough water inlets in one location and maybe outlets in another we could generate our own ocean currents. Just wishful thinking, but I have wondered for years why we couldn't use solar power or wave power in Africa to pump water inland. The desalination does not have to be on the coast either - the key is to pump the water inland, once there I'm sure the creation of jobs in the desalination industry would help the ecomony...
Wind powered generators on the roof are becoming fashionable. I guess they are still expensive, but if they can take some of the load off that might help. Still, as with solar power you need to have the elements in your favor (wind/sunshine) to make them work. And given the cost of implementation is it going to be cost effective - is the cost of generating your own power going to take 20 years to recuperate with the savings on your bills. If air circulation in the server room is a problem, you might find it worthwhile to install a few cheap ($20) box fans to help circulate the air, and to also run the servers with the covers off to help keep them cool. Messy but cheap....
When you think of how much it costs to process a mail in rebate it doesn't make sense - after all they have to have a huge number of people to process the claims sent in, then to process the checks sent out, then in accounting to reconcile the differences since the checks barely last 90 days. For the most part the cost of processing far exceeds the rebate amount. So what's the point? It can only be to con the consumer into buying something at a lower price, knowing that a good proportion of consumers will futz up their rebates or forget about them until it's too late. So does that make it ethical? Are they deliberately offering rebates hoping that most of the consumers who buy the product are stupid? There is no other explanation is there.... I would much rather have a lower rebate and make it instant. But I guess that would hurt the unemployment rate in places like Young America, MN (is there such a place?) where many of the rebates end up being sent.