Wind turbines to provide the comparable megawatts for millions of homes ARE a frivolous waste. The huge amounts needed for wasteful, programmed, energy-addicted peeps IS a huge logistical clusterfuck of resources there, notarobot.

Your example of one family with a turbine and a solar array is fine and all (the upfront cost for such a setup is a shitload of funds and the upkeep of his dual set-up is probably a complete bitch of a money-pit to maintain) but were talking efficiency for the masses here.. Your 'research' should be based upon something besides what seems more of an emotionally passionate ideal moreso than anything practical for the many.

Personally, I think this virgin-trail-run Bloom box bullshit is simply another snake-oil scam. Much more work need be done to ever make them practical. What really should done in the realm of a practical kind of "reality" (otherwise known as a construct...reality that is) is to revive anti-trust/monopoly laws to hobble the robber-baron's once again...

Go listen some Bucky Fuller perhaps and try to awaken from the pipe-dream of monkey-business-as-usual instead of towing some lazy cop-out nouveau-hippy green-party line??

That looks like a lot more work, when I already get fantastic coffee just following Aerobie's instructions. I can be almost done with my cup before this method is finished.

That said, I'll give it a whirl over the weekend.

And back on point, it's amazing how quickly the time passes here. No way does it seem long enough for the Sift to be eight years old...even considering I missed the first year and a bit. Kudos to everyone involved.

The description sounds like it's the story of Percy Schrieber, one man's fight with Monsanto. Forgive me, but if that is in fact accurate I'm not sitting through a 1 hour accounting. Percy Schrieber's story is nothing like those described by Shatterdose and others. He wasn't sued for his crop getting cross contaminated. He wasn't sued for continuing to replant seed from his previous crop as he had been doing for years and years.

Percy Schrieber deliberately and intentionally set out to plant Monsanto's GMO canola on his own fields, and went to MORE work to accomplish this than most any other farmer that'd been growing that variety. What is more, he has freely admitted this. I can NOT understand how he still remains a rallying point for folks claiming Monsanto is suing farmers just because their seed crop was cross contaminated by their neighbor. I have yet to be pointed to an example of Monsanto doing that to anyone in North America. Until I am pointed to one, I'm getting pretty tired of the completely baseless accusation being declared and accepted as proven fact and matter of course. Monsanto IS a massive corporation, and no doubts has all manner of dirty deeds to it's name, but this particular charge seems to be entirely fabricated to me and that drives me nuts. It renders all manner of valid complaints and concerns less valid all to quickly.

Yeah, this video is ignorant.

The majority of debt is held internally by the government. It's not at all like going to a bank and asking for more credit. More accurately, you've been going through a tough financial patch and you borrowed against your retirement savings and the money you set aside for your kids college. You know you need to pay it back but for now, you need the money to keep the lights on and make the car payment. Turning off the lights is not an option and selling the car will make you unable to work to get back on your feet. In fact, if you invest in a truck and some new equipment you expect to be able to get more work and be better off next year.

A person can educate themself on the reality of public debt in much less time than it takes to make an ignorant video. One wonders then, why there's so much ignorance. Or is it just manipulation of the ignorant?

Man, fuck future me.... all he does is expect me to do shit now.

And while we're at it, fuck past me too. If that lazy bastard had done a bit more work, I wouldn't be in this situation.

I will add--although I am happy that this is actually common now, I think more work can be done in this area.

Maybe because I grew up on a cattle ranch, but I never got anything out of hunting besides food and more work piled on the many chores we already had.

I generally disdain people that talk about hunting like it's a foot ball game. It reminds me of the out-of-state hunters that would come in for sport acting all stoked and shit to kill something. They were generally ass-hats that showed little respect for animals or boundaries.

If the pole were wider, it would work out. You'd just need to match the circumference of the pole to the track of the lawnmower. Probably be more work to setup than just doing it yourself though, but much more fun.

I always feel like the asshole making more work for Lucky any time I post these kinds of technical things. Sorry Lucky. You're the unsung hero of my man dreams, if that's any consolation.

Laziness I can understand. I don't understand this, because his success rate per unit of expended energy is soooooo low. Plus, they end up in untidy piles rather than a neat stack, so he'll have to run all over the place to pick up the ones that bounced far away from the conveyor.

When you're so disgruntled that your "and not a single fuck was given" attitude is just making more work for yourself (like, 3-4 TIMES more work) ... maybe you need to take a deep breath and pull yourself together or something.

I'm a little in disbelief of this, partly in due to it looks like they need constant encouragement. Why teach a dog to drive when it will be more work keeping them encouraged to be at the wheel

Clearly a bug in the matrix... Physic engine needs more work.

Yeah, sorry. Three or four lights. Our container was like... 2x2x4 inches or so, maybe? The bottom face was square, and then it was twice or more taller than that, anyway. So we'd usually get one light about a half inch or an inch from the bottom, but centered with respect to the square side, then another one roughly in the *actual* middle of the water, then another one close to the surface. And then, the weird one was that we'd get a fourth close to one of the upper corners.

The middle and bottom ones were pretty consistent. Wouldn't always get the other two. And I might actually be misremembering getting the top center one. We were using a kinda novel way to measure the spectrum to measure the temperature of it. If we'd put a little more work in, it probably would've been a publishable result. But, lazy-ass undergrads.

It's not something you really think of. I just figured, they come in, scoop them up, throw down a layer of soapy ammonia and all it good. But I never considered the all the possible bio-hazards involved especial to the structures of the house. I'm getting a new appreciation for what some of these companies like disaster clean-up companies go through. After the Bio-hazard team cleans up and removes everything, then all that stuff needs to also be rebuilt and replaced. So much more work than what we are led to believe really happens.

Such a good movie. It's a shame Blatty didn't do more work behind the camera.