Posts by Russell Brown
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We had some evidence from the UK that home owners were removing dedicated CFL fittings and putting standard light fittings in becasue they didn't like being forced into having dedicated CFLs.
Ah yes. Garth George claimed in his Herald column to have been making plans to stockpile the old bulbs. You can't fight butt-headed stupidity, I guess ...
The proposal to ban the incandescant bulb actually started in Australia ..
Fascinating. I never knew that.
So David Parker was pretty much forced to launch the idea here. When I left the EC the officials here were still trying to work through the details of how to not to ban the incandescant bulbs in stoves, fridges, halogens, heat lamps (both for people and animal raising) etc etc. Is not quite as simple as you might thing.
Wasn't it phrased as a phase-out rather than a ban anyway? Having abandoned the scheme, Brownlee has gone notably quiet on providing the information that was supposed to let people decide for themselves.
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Because the chance of someone going across to a Beatles site, setting up an account, and then buying it, is far less than someone browsing at Amazon or iTunes and going..ohhhh...click. A huge proportion of music sales are driven by browsing.
The major labels discovered this in the pre-iTunes days. They tried to be their own retailers, and the result was deeply lousy.
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It's my primary ammunition to persuade the Keeper of the Purse that we NEED as PS3 (or an X-Box or a Wii - I'm not that fussy. As long as it does blu-ray, I'll be happy)
So what you're saying is, you'll have anything, as long as it's a PS3?
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Hat-tip to The Standard for this:
Keith's post has made me angry all over again about National's axis-of-stupidity attack on rational energy efficiency initiatives. One might hope that having won the election with the "OMG! the commie lightbulbs are coming!" message they'd settle down and do something more intelligent.
But no.
I should add that we have a houseful of CFL bulbs. Every time an old one went, my darling would replace it with a more efficient one. I generally didn't even notice.
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I don't think Paul really did those all those things, Kracklite, although he ought to have let people get on with the conversation they wanted to have, after his initial comment.
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Instead, we put restrictions on telecommunication devices, and we don't whinge about it being the heavy hand of the nanny-state molesting us.
Oh, it's way worse than that, Keith. We take instructions on what telecommunications devices to allow and what to restrict from an agency administered by the United Nations. I think that tells you all you need to know, comrade.
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I actually liked 'Fuck Earth Hour' better as a title.
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Man, this is the amazing stuff Obama has on his plate:
The prospect is floated of a systemic risk regulator that could just seize basket-cases like AIG and Lehman -- to prevent them taking everything else down -- without having to shower money on failure. Possibly a good idea. But who does it? What are the rules?
And reports that Wall Street basically threatened to withhold support for the Geithner bank package unless the Administration backed the fuck off bonuses.
Complicated.
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I second the groaning.
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Estrogen means something beyond clinical and scientific considerations? How on earth can it?
With you 100% there, Dyan. When people write scientific papers that mention estrogen, they don't mean "the value-laden post-modern meaning of estrogen", they mean bloody estrogen.
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