LED lighting, and a small ranty rant,

[kandrathe]

Well as long as you are generating your own power, who cares? No one's business but your own. Energy independence for realsies. Now you may blow out your energy generator, or overdrain your battery, and may do some damage to your system with that kind of hypothetical stunt.

But you do have the all important FREEDOM of choice. But what you and I don't and never had, and never will have, is FREEDOM from consequences. But anyone who believes the two are the same is probably a full 'tard anyway.

I'm not against it. If it makes economic sense, then it will eventually be the way people go. I love distributed systems, but the independence of each node does cost more. In return you get a more resilient network -- assuming someone still bothers to connect and use the overproduction. The trouble is always that places like Arizona work really well, while places like Minnesota sometimes work out ok, but not enough to overcome the huge freeze. Much of Canada would be in the same boat.

People in power seldom surrender their power. I'm pragmatic enough to know what may be possible. Isn't it better to "incent" people to follow the right path, rather than make illegal the "wrong paths" as determined by government bureaucrats along with all the consequences of "breaking the law". Things like, felonies which remove you from the voting roles and employment.

Misleading title much? Seriously did you read your own link? The takeaway from that article was the guy got busted for a drug charge. The gub't just slapped on the 'illegal bulb' charge in the same way Capone was charged for tax evasion.

Yes, I read it. It's not really that misleading if you review the whole case. He never had anything to do with growing pot. He sold equipment that ended up being used by people who grew pot. They found a way to railroad him into jail. When Incans become illegal in the US, someone smuggles them into the US, and was making a huge amount of money, they'd put them away. They will find a way. Same with the raw food people. It's not the way the government wants you to eat food. It must be processed. So, the people that sell raw food get tossed in jail.

Now I've seen you do better than this, and you are certainly passionate about the topics you care about, and that's great. I say that sincerely, I wish more people would just pay more attention in general.

Ya, me too. It is pretty simple to me. Every law is a restriction on someones freedom, and unless it is a law that addresses harm, then it is an unneeded law.

Simply put. The law supposedly prevents me from wasting a small amount of energy by making certain bulbs illegal. I can still have the heat on, with my windows open. I could take hot showers 5 times a day. I could heat an Olympic pool all winter. The law is stupid, and risks creating a political battle over something innocuous -- where effort would be better spent convincing the US and Canada to conserve more energy. We shouldn't waste our time on it.

Why is everything built in China? Because they have cheap labor, no regulations, and 145,000 companies owned and run by the military.

GE factory closes

"Everybody's jumping on the green bandwagon," said Pat Doyle, 54, who has worked at the plant for 26 years. But "we've been sold out. First sold out by the government. Then sold out by GE. "

She got it about right, but maybe in the wrong order. GE failed to remain innovative, and so got run over by new technology. The government just accelerated the curve such that these jobs couldn't be saved/replaced with new technology fast enough. Things are lopsided in favor of making them elsewhere, so often the outcome is just to shutter the old plants in the US (or Canada), rather than refit them and retrain the workers.

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Czy kiedykolwiek zastanawialiście się, czy promowanie dobrego zaopatrzenia tutaj jest wszystko, inteligentny, kiedy nikt tu mówi językiem, czy naprawdę ma środki, aby nigdy, nigdy, nigdy nie skorzystam z waszych usług?