Goodbye 100w, 75w Incandescent Lamps

[Jim Redelfs]

Aw, you're just a mean, evil Capitalist. How DARE you play the market like that to your advantage? There should be a law...

[JoeSpareBedroom]

I know. My son works part time as a lifeguard. He had to haul a 300 lb pig out of the pool a couple of days ago. Actually, not out of the pool. She got halfway up the ladder, and absent the bouyancy of water, she fell flat on her face on the cement. Two lifeguards helped the pig to her feet. Instead of "thank you", they got "You boys need to do a little more weight training".

[JoeSpareBedroom]

Why be humble when I'm the best driver on earth? I've been conquering upstate NY winters since 1970. I know what all other drivers are thinking before they know what they're thinking (if you can call reactive responses "thinking"). I am aware of everything around me. I control the space around me with an iron fist.

I am as a god. For $800 an hour, I can teach you. That's what the aggravation is worth.

[JoeSpareBedroom]

Trailers are for people who think Fingerhut is an upscale shopping experience.

[Don Klipstein]

You think a high mountain area is going to provide polluted spring water or polluted snowmelt runoff? And if that ends up being the case, what is the blame? Nuke power plants don't get built on high mountaintops. If water coming from a notable mountain is going to be polluted by industrial activity, it will probably be mainly from fossil fuels!

- Don Klipstein ( [e-mail])

[Don Klipstein]

You sound pretty good, except for taking a bus to work and riding a bike home. Is your employer buying a bike every workday for you to commute homeward on? If that is not the case and you use the bus to take both yourself and your bike to work, please say so! Also say where you do this - not everywhere do "the buses" take bikes as well as people!

- Don Klipstein ( [e-mail])

[Don Klipstein]

Only a few hours ago I took a delivery of a mass amount of food from a restaurant that I work for to a nearby hospital.

Although I am known and make myself known as a cyclist for commuting and delivering sandwiches etc. from this restaurant, in recent years I have done the Christmas dinnwer delivery to that hospital by car, since I manage to afford to acquire one and to pay for insurance for a non-commuting vehicle and to buy gas for it for the roughly 4,000 miles per year that I usually drive it! (Note to my insurance company - I use it for only 6 deliveries per year! At non-holioday times parking is usually so bad in my big-city semi-downtown delivery area for me to use a bicycle even if to deliver 10 cases of soda, and I occaisionally do resort to walking with a handtruck on one hand and a bicycle with big well-supported baskets on both ends being towed by the other hand! If I get run into a delivery better done by car other than the few above, my dayjob boss lets me use her car since I normally don't drive my car to my day job!)

So for the Christmas dinner delivery of 2007 to that hospital where I in unusual fashion drove a car rather than a bike to the supplying restaurant in order to use it as a delivery vehicle as I now do only 6 times per year, I did that delivery run as I now like to do it:

Climate control in the car was OFF! Check out Philadelphia PA USA weather conditions for 9 PM 12/9/2007 - good for refrigerating food! If I gave more thought then, I would have opened the windows!

I was wearing a long sleeve shirt with nothing under and nothing over, due to having a bicycle messenger metabolism that allows me to work just fine when the temperature in degrees Celsius and rounded to whole numbers can be counted on one hand! The only thing I wore for that run above the beltline other than a shirt was a cute Santa Claus soft doll of a size good to put into a shirt pocket with head, beard and arms exposed! And from the beltline on down, I only wore underwear, slacks, socks and shoes and only of lighter grade weights on the light side since I have to sometimes wear the same in August or July in Philadelphia PA (at great consternation when trying to not get OUTRIGHT ROASTED!)

- Don Klipstein ( [e-mail])

[Tim Smith]

Where do you get the bikes to ride home, and what do you do with the bikes once you get home? :-)

[Wayne Boatwright]

Oh pshaw, on Wed 26 Dec 2007 12:08:16a, Tim Smith meant to say...

At least in the greater Phoenix area, most public buses have bike racks mounted on the front. It's a common practice for bus riders to bike part of their way to and from work.

There are all sorts of ways to store bikes, in garages, in apartments and condos, etc.

When I lived in Chicago, it was common practice to keep one's bike in their apartment.

[Floyd L. Davidson]

Yep, virtually all of it proven to be *false*.

So now we do know just how little you understand about that topic!

[salty]

Nuke Power plants get built directly adjacent to major waterways. That's how they cool the reactor.

[Floyd L. Davidson]

You are *grossly* misinformed about what "directional drilling technology" is and what it can do. The coastal plain of ANWR is 15 to 45 miles deep, and extends east/west for approximately 100 miles. Directional drilling could not even begin to cover even the narrowest part (where at least 7.5 miles would be required), never mind the widest areas.

The Alpine field, near the village of Nuiqsut and the western most producing field in the Prudhoe Bay complex today, was discovered in 1996 and uses directional drilling exclusively. It came on line in 2000. ConocoPhillips, the operator, then constructed a satellite well site, Fiord, five miles north of the Alpine pad. Later a second satellite field, Nanuq, was constructed 4 miles south of the Alpine field. Rather clearly the maximum reach for horizontal drilling does not exceed 2 miles.

Note that even if there was directional drilling capable of doing what you claim, it would *still* have a dramatic and negative impact on the Porcupine Caribou herd. That is because the topology required for your suggested method would necessarily circle the 1002 area with roads and pipelines. Which of course is not significantly different than building a lattice of roads and pipelines as is actually necessary for production.

[Floyd L. Davidson]

Actually, yes it would! But that is because it does not do what he thinks it does. Probably most new production wells on the North Slope today (if not all), use directional drilling. The method is to drill a vertical hole from immediately above a reservoir straight down into the center of the reservoir. Typically multiple wells heads can be spaced at 10 feet apart on the surface. Each well might typically be a 7000 foot deep hole on the North Slope. From that depth drilling goes at an angle, from 70 to 110 degrees to the vertical hole, off to the side. Current technology allows literally steering the drill, and it can go up, down, or in a cork screw! What it can do of significance is find and tap relatively small pockets of oil that would never drain into a single centrally located well hole. It greatly increases production from most reservoirs and from individual wells.

I'm not sure what the actual distance that can be covered horizontally, but the last time I looked it up was a couple years ago and it was less than 2 miles.

[JoeSpareBedroom]

Hush, Don. You're late to class, and you're wrong. Read Kurt's response, which came before yours.

[HeyBub]

Oh, but the number of abortions DID increase. At least double. The first numbers I can find showed about 600,000 in 1973 which went up to 1.2 million in 1982 (the year of interest). How many in Florida? I can't find that. But dividing 1.2 million by 50 states yields 24,000 per state. Florida, however, is the 4th largest state in population, so 50,000 abortions in Florida in

1982 sounds reasonable. As for deaths during abortion, NARAL estimates about 1,000 per year prior to Roe in 1973. 1,000 out of 600,000 isn't a significant amount.

[HeyBub]

We dust off the War Prayer:

O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle - be Thou near them! With them - in spirit - we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe.

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with hurricanes of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it - for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet!

We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts.

Amen.

[HeyBub]

It's not illegal to discriminate based on income - unless you're a politician and are talking about taxes.

And a golf course would be a good use for a superfund site.

[JoeSpareBedroom]

Nobody here is interested in your sexual fantasies.

[JoeSpareBedroom]

Golf courses ARE superfund sites by design.

[HeyBub]

The people who did the grinding would begin to glow in the dark long before they finished the first rod.

The containment vessels used to move spent rods around weigh, oh, 30 tons and massive equipment is required to mess with this stuff.