@Damob: Ah yes, back to the days of <5% unemployment. Those were the days...
@artiofab: How did Siberia get more severe (read: colder, a lot colder) with all of the global warming? This is a serious question.
@im2fools: So...you're saying if we did something like...stop Al Gore alone from taking his private jet to one of his many enormous energy-guzzling estates...it would do about 10 million times more good than this enormous replacement for a hand mixer?
Interesting.
Interesting.
@cnewhall: I would say I've thrown away many more than 50 light bulbs in my life (I'm 31)...and I've thrown away...well...zero mercury thermometers.
The main difference is mercury thermometers weren't forced onto us by people telling us we had to do what they said or the Earth would die.
The main difference is mercury thermometers weren't forced onto us by people telling us we had to do what they said or the Earth would die.
@GitEmDoneSteveDave: You should ask the EPA what you need to do when one breaks, and you might reconsider your comment.
@Fulgurite: Yes but the BACK was not glass.
@Alluvian: When have you been shot at while hiking?
@Fulgurite: What is the point of having a glass phone if you are stupid if you don't buy an opaque rubber case to wrap around it at all times?
@OMG! Ponies!: Outside of his house on his patio, which is also not in public.
@OMG! Ponies!: Outside of his house on his patio, which is also not in public.
@vinod1978: You should google about natural oil seepage, because it is happening all over the world on the ocean floor including depths of well over a mile. I don't think we quite realize how deep and vast the ocean is because we can't really see it, but this same rig owned by BP drilled a well last year that was over 35,000 feet under the ocean.
@thinkfreemind: What about all the people who get jobs for foreign countries here in the US? Should they quit their jobs so that people in the company's home country can get their job "back"?
@WhatIf_GitEmSteveDave: Let's see...incandescent bulbs have better light, far far cheaper, and I can throw them away in my garbage (and not worry about them poisoning my children if god forbid we break a light bulb). tough choice here, but I think I'll just stick with what has worked or 100 years.
First we will need to fly or drive to the coast, and then drive boats out to the spill. All powered by evil oil. Thanks BP-Haliburton!
Netflix on the Ps3 was fine, liked the interface and general use/speed. The real issue with it (and why we don't have it anymore) was the absolutely horrid selection of movies to watch via streaming.
@Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: I don't mean to be a jerk, well ok yeah I do, but if a tree is dead on the forest floor you don't have much "cutting down" left to do.
@jdale: but your wood stove does burn hot enough to burn clean. And that thing up in the post is a wood stove, not a fireplace.
@Origamido: Yeah where I used to live and heat with wood, I paid $10 for a month's permit to take out already downed trees near roads and trails.
I guess the squirrels in the area had to find one of the other thousands (probably tens of thousands) of trees in that immediate area to live in.
Two permits got me enough to heat my house for a winter or more. Lots of hard work though.
@Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: I plan to invent fairy dust burning heaters that are 1,000,000 times more efficient than anything we've ever seen. So far we're both doing the same amount to save the environment. Congratulations.
@vinod1978: It goes up past the roof, or you aren't going to get a good draft. It's basically the same as a fireplace once it is to the chimney part. What makes it a stove is that it is enclosed in a firebox to be much more efficient, and the heat actually gets to the room through radiating heat from the firebox itself. Also some are made to cook on top of, heat water, etc...which you can't do easily with a regular fireplace.
