Be careful how you change your bulbs. The 5 mg of mercury in a single CFL is enough to make as much as 50,000 litres of water undrinkable according to Canadian drinking water standerds. One or two lamps doesn't sound like much, but a million lamps means a lot of pollution.

As far as Fraking goes, the only controversy is how these companies continue to get away with it. Water means life. *Quality PSA.

>> ^Peroxide:

If you cut out all the back and forth rhetoric that inevitably spews between oil(and gas) corporations and communities who want clean air and water and a future, it all comes down to neoclassical economics' false dichotomy.
Corporations (and left and right wing politicians who over romanticize the free market) will tell citizens,
"you can either have:
a) a strong economy, or
b) a clean environment."
and
they
will
insist
we
can't
have
both.

In Canada for the last couple elections people have been scare mongered by this false dichotomy.
I tell you, there is a sustainable economy, there is a sustainable future: dare to dream. Let's all grow the f ck up and build the new economy that defies the bullshit neoclassical economic lies that have been entrenched in our culture. They will tell you the choice is between a job or cancer. Fuck. that. shit.
It's time for the next industrial revolution, the green revolution, I'm in. Change your light bulbs, then change your leaders.

This is the coolest thing ever. Or at least really fraking high on the list.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

^I don't see we why shouldn't have both proper regulation and a more level judicial playing field.


^To a certain extent, I think flimsy regulations can lull public concern and investment for the issue. I know I don't routinely examine my MUD provided water, I just assume all is ok. When I had my own well, I had to keep tabs on it to make sure we didn't get radon bleeding in...which happens all the time in the mountains. When you regulate from the business side, the bucks are invested in a side of protection you don't examine, and can't examine. Consumers aren't expected to protect themselves, and therefore the tools for doing so are more costly and more cumbersome. It is just clunky. It would be like if cars didn't have speedometers and instead needed pace cars to set their speed relation too, it's just unnecessary. It would be better to equip people with the tools to protect themselves.

With that said, FRAKING seems like a really bad idea. Back in the day, we had tons of problems with natural gas migrations into our water wells. We had to dig a 800foot well just to find good water, which isn't cheap. You don't need to help that situation any, for sure. Though, it would seem to be a hard thing to prove that a specific action caused a gas contamination vs natural occurring one. I wonder if they are tracing the fluid contamination over the methane?

Edit: And I should note, now that we have a water softener, I pay more attention to my water content now that I have the tools too

What the fraking hell?

Like Sean Connery, he was born that awesome.
>> ^MarineGunrock:

Holy shit, Johnathan Frakes was young. Apparently Stewart never ages.

Holy shit, Johnathan Frakes was young. Apparently Stewart never ages.

I keep rewinding to Frakes with LaForge's visor... can't... stop.

>> ^EDD:
Didn't you take a look at the clues posted on SciFi's youwillknowthetruth.com? The one outed by Thigh as the final Cylon really is the final one - I (along with thousands of fans) deduced it by following the clues a couple of days before the 11th episode aired.


I was just saying that BSG is well known for fraking with your head. Like the 13th tribe.

Man.. I thought it was all real.. But that last 30 seconds.. it's mostly magic trick (underwear/scarves) and willing accomplices.

Maybe they are random audience, but they certainly KNOW the guy is fraking with their belt, suspenders, etc.

reminds me of Stargate ep200 with inside jokes, poking fun at itself. I think that's what they are going for here. Though, they fraked up but not having badass KITT sytle shiny cylons with voice synthesizers. Too many skinbag cylons, not enough cyborb ones.