I have a flock of birds (not sure what type .. the loudest ones?) that have built a nest around / in the air conditioner in my bedroom window. They have been waking me up like a fucking car alarm going off every god damned morning at the crack of dawn for a week straight.

This made me slightly less likely to kill them all.

Thanks.

He's just the coldest cat on the air conditioner

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I think this is a case of the content catching the eye of someone and pressure being applied. I hate to bow to the lords of Mammon - as a compromise I'd like to keep it here without advertising, so at least it's not going away completely.

It's interesting, our biggest sponsor is an ad network for women. That's why you might see a few ads for hair conditioner and beauty products. Given our demographics I'm not sure how this happened- but they pay well- keep the server company fed - and the ads are actually fairly low-key mainstream stuff (no "whack the monkey, win a prize" type ads). So, I will sell my soul a little bit today. (is there any left?)

yeah i agree with you, especially as european languages come from indian.

lithuanians and londoners use the double negative, but the BBC doesn't.

but...

i do think it is "uneducated" to speak only in your "mother" accent.

learn a different accent and use that for business. Why should business adapt to 10923782937 accents? that makes no sense. educate yourself, learn how to talk in the business arena. NOBODY is born talking business english, even "whites" have to learn it.

I sleep with a trilingual linguistics graduate, and i speak lithuanian (the most archaic indoeuropean language still alive) so you know, i get your point. but i think "tolerance" goes too far into the realm of "impractical" and "lazy".

I used to teach swimming, and i would use a posh correct english accent in the health club and a broad south london accent in the public pools in the rough neighbourhoods. Why not?


In reply to this comment by SDGundamX:
I'm not against having a standardized vocabulary, spelling, or grammar. What was specifically the topic of the video that comment was a reply to was the uproar over a black teacher teaching kids that they were "uneducated" if they said "axe" instead of "ask." And it simply isn't true. It has nothing to do with education and everything to do with English having multiple dialects. And historically, the dialect spoken by white Americans has always been considered okay, regardless of how far from the supposed standard it is (which is why I brought up the Boston pronunciation of "car" as "ca-" and the non-existent Southern contraction "y'all") while the dialects of minorities such as Black Americans and Latin Americans has traditionally been frowned upon.

Thinking there is a standard English pronunciation is delusional. There are accepted standards (plural) of English, most of which are based on white, affluent speech. Now that English is an international language, however, that will surely change. Take India, for instance. They say things like:

"Open the air conditioner."

Instead of:

"Turn on the air conditioner."

Is it wrong? Not if everyone in India talks that way. As more countries embrace English and make their own personalized changes to the language you'll see less arguing about what is "educated" and "uneducated" English and more open acceptance of the fact that people who live in different places speak English differently--and get along just fine without needing "standard" English.

In reply to this comment by MINK:
i see nothing wrong with there being a "business english" standard, or "bbc english". Of course it's not ebonics or half spanish.

I learned Lithuanian to help me get work in Lithuania. I don't swear in front of new clients. I don't walk around talkin fakkin sarf landan aksent and insistin dat peeples rispek my rights, innit.

almost all jobs involve speaking to people, and therefore the way you speak is part of your job performance. What's wrong with that?

In the UK there was a trend for putting call centres in scotland because the scottish accent was judged to be the most trustworthy. What should I do, cry "discrimination!" and insist on more call centres in liverpool (an accent nobody can understand or trust)?

bear in mind i am not at all anti immigration, i just think that it's normal to have a separate language and etiquette for business, and there's no way that's going to be based on a fringe accent, it's gonna get melted down to "average".

People never used to say "gonna" on TV. Now they do. Things change. It's ok. There's many other ways to oppress minorities if that's what you want to do. Eradicating accent prejudice is never ever going to work.

I'm not against having a standardized vocabulary, spelling, or grammar. What was specifically the topic of the video that comment was a reply to was the uproar over a black teacher teaching kids that they were "uneducated" if they said "axe" instead of "ask." And it simply isn't true. It has nothing to do with education and everything to do with English having multiple dialects. And historically, the dialect spoken by white Americans has always been considered okay, regardless of how far from the supposed standard it is (which is why I brought up the Boston pronunciation of "car" as "ca-" and the non-existent Southern contraction "y'all") while the dialects of minorities such as Black Americans and Latin Americans has traditionally been frowned upon.

Thinking there is a standard English pronunciation is delusional. There are accepted standards (plural) of English, most of which are based on white, affluent speech. Now that English is an international language, however, that will surely change. Take India, for instance. They say things like:

"Open the air conditioner."

Instead of:

"Turn on the air conditioner."

Is it wrong? Not if everyone in India talks that way. As more countries embrace English and make their own personalized changes to the language you'll see less arguing about what is "educated" and "uneducated" English and more open acceptance of the fact that people who live in different places speak English differently--and get along just fine without needing "standard" English.

In reply to this comment by MINK:
i see nothing wrong with there being a "business english" standard, or "bbc english". Of course it's not ebonics or half spanish.

I learned Lithuanian to help me get work in Lithuania. I don't swear in front of new clients. I don't walk around talkin fakkin sarf landan aksent and insistin dat peeples rispek my rights, innit.

almost all jobs involve speaking to people, and therefore the way you speak is part of your job performance. What's wrong with that?

In the UK there was a trend for putting call centres in scotland because the scottish accent was judged to be the most trustworthy. What should I do, cry "discrimination!" and insist on more call centres in liverpool (an accent nobody can understand or trust)?

bear in mind i am not at all anti immigration, i just think that it's normal to have a separate language and etiquette for business, and there's no way that's going to be based on a fringe accent, it's gonna get melted down to "average".

People never used to say "gonna" on TV. Now they do. Things change. It's ok. There's many other ways to oppress minorities if that's what you want to do. Eradicating accent prejudice is never ever going to work.

Actually, calvados, electrocution = death by electricity. Anything less is being shocked.

But My base had the same problem - only no one was seriously hurt. Of course, My base also was not serviced by anyone. I was there in the relative beginning of the latter half of 2004. My base was hardly anything more than hooches and tents.

Out shower trailers, though, were fed by tanks of water (no pumps) that were elevated above the showers. Those tanks were filled by taking water out of a stream that ran through the base and filtering the water.
But we did have one trailer that shocked you when you touched it from the outside. I never could figure out why - but the electrical systems in that whole base were shoddy at best. I was constantly repairing them in my down time - often to the reward from VERY grateful Marines.

To clarify: My base had zero support personnel. It was Infantry, us (artillery) and the cooks. Sure, there were the water dogs (the guys that pumped and filtered water), ammo techs and medical support - but there were no Marines there for facility repair and construction.
During the day time, we had electricians (Iraqi Locals) that would come in and repair broken systems, but they only stayed during the day - and they could only fix so much shit at once - there were only two of them.

Word got around somehow that I was did electrical work before I joined. I would have people come to my hooch at night asking me to fix their lights or air conditioner. I would do it every time, mostly because there was no one else that would do it, and partly because they would "pay" me with shit they had like candy bars, Playboys, or whatever else.

It's pretty sweet what you can get when you hook up the chow hall guys with A/C, though. I was eating stuff I never knew the base had, like frozen pizzas.

It's hot as hades, I don't have an air conditioner, and my beg ain't working.

I'm ready to kill something right about now

It was really starting to sink in, huh.
Yeah, I guess the first thing you'd want to buy for the few measly pennies you've managed to get a hold of is toothpaste and candy. Poor woman, she might not even have had enough for shampoo and conditioner.

Fahad,

I understand the benefits of reciprocal anti-tariff agreements. If that was all the WTO did it would be fine. But the WTO goes far beyond that in imposing regulations on member countries, and these, for example, both usurp the role of the FDA and make countries adopt draconian copyright law.

It uses the threat of economic loss from tariffs as leverage to coerce countries into joining and adopting all sorts of unrelated measures (analogous to the IMF's loan "conditionalities" that require privatization of everything regardless of the will of the people)

>> ^LittleRed:
No! Conditioner is clearly better. Without it, it's impossible to brush long hair.


Nor uphold a glorious moustache.

No! Conditioner is clearly better. Without it, it's impossible to brush long hair.

air conditioner = best part in whole movie

Funny, weird and ironic -
Helicopters and planes fighting fires that are caused by "Climate Change" caused by burning Fossil Fuels, like gas, of which Helicopters and Planes use a lot of, especially fighting fires...
Is this a grand leap of logic I'm making?
Parallel to the use of Air Conditioners heating the surrounding air outside, to cool the home because of the heat, of which the outside is heated from air conditioners...

I'll stop now.

"Even small air conditioners can consume thousands of watts per hour"

The narrator obviously has no clue about physics. One watt is one joule (unit of energy) per second. Total energy consumption would be measured in joules; the rate of energy consumption would be measured in watts; the rate of change of the rate of energy consumption would be measured in watts per (time).

Lithium bromide is no safer than other coolants used in air conditioners. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_bromide
Bromide is harmful because it displaces Iodine and interferes with the production of thyroid hormone (among many other ways it can poison you). Lithium is used as a psychoactive drug. Lithium was used as a food additive in the USA until 1948 when manufacturers were forced to stop adding it to food. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_pharmacology#Lithium_and_culture

The device in the video is far too bulky to be adopted in an urban area and provides the same net impact on the heat of the surrounding area as running an ordinary AC from solar panels.

Thanks.

Reminds me of the power outage in Chicago, I think, back in 2000. It was pretty miserable and a few people died as a result. I think that was the same summer when Bush signed (or vetoed) some sort of law regulating the power capacities of air conditioners.