matt1122

LCDs in general use less power, either nominal or peak usage, CRTs will always use much more.

I meant if you are using an LCD you won't save much if any power using blackle over google.com.

I guess it's important to note she has a point if she focuses on the wastefulness. CRTs are worse for the environment, but if you have a good working one with no issues and you throw it in the garbage to get a pretty new LCD, the environmental cost of the new materials for the LCD and the amount of toxins in the CRT which are released into the landfill could in theory *maybe* outweigh the benefits of lower power consumption?

I'd like to show her how much power the CRT consumes versus an LCD, and tell her that she is in effect polluting the environment with excessive electricity usage. Some-odd 20-30W for a LCD versus 150W+ for a CRT of similar size.

Not to mention CRTs contain considerably more mercury and also contain lead and barium which aren't present in an LCD.

They're also flicker free, which is probably good for your eyes.

This reminds me of Blackle.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you're using an LCD you don't save any power using this site. The back light is still on behind the black.

375,830.857 Watt hours saved my ass.

As my final post in this topic for the night, I will state the following:

Anyone who still goes out to buy an AM/FM radio and uses a CRT monitor is not cool.

First Quotable Line -> "Breast is best!"

So uh... you like stuff?

Chuck, you have much more radical views than other people. That doesn't make them hippies.

I think he has a point here, some of them are just hippie-wannabes.

I still don't get why he wouldn't just sign the ticket. He was obviously being belligerent. Maybe we should have just tazed his kid repeatedly until he agreed to sign.

Bring back the tar and feather.

Send money to:

Jena

c/o Charlie's Bedroom

And I will see what I can do.

"What'll we get for ten dollars?"

Grats and thank you for being you, Jeremy!

lrn2tazer

lrn2aim

god that sounds painful

It seems a little extreme, and I might not have tazered the guy at that point - but he was being uncooperative. While it was just a speeding ticket, when you refuse to sign it you will be arrested. When he refuses to listen to the officer and starts walking towards the car and puts his hand in his pockets, he's borderline headed towards resisting arrest in the mind of a young cop who isn't going to take a chance that he's going to get hurt while writing a routine traffic ticket. Basically, the cop decided to not take *any* chances. He got tazed. He'll get over it.

If the cop was just doing what he felt he needed to in order to remain safe, he was within his rights.

If they completely wipe yahoo off the face of the earth, I'd say yes.

Sucks that we need them to keep our population up, hm?

Use them to build a wall between us and Mexico.

:rolleyes:

Will Aston Martin be sold - maybe not today or tomorrow, but ford has been posting such great losses... I suspect AM will be sold sometime in the very near future, even if the current bids aren't enough to make it happen.

As for Ford selling Volvo - Volvo is a great asset to ford. Not because of profitability so much, but more because of the R&D and technology that Volvo has made available to ford. Look at how many of Ford's cars that are on the market today are based upon the P1 or P2 platform and how they are rated within their class compared to their predecessors. Ford should not sell Volvo, but Ford should consider pushing Volvo's quality back up to what it used to be, or perhaps even higher. We'll have to wait and see how the new generation S80 and V70 models hold up to see if this is going to happen or not.

It was a bit ugly anyway

Lies, that car is beautiful. The pictures don't do it justice. It was here in York at a dealership during their open house or something earlier this year, and man... I want that car. But with an engine in it! THAT WORKS.

only if they can spell.

That would be a givin.

Ohhhhh the irony.

Yeah, I could and would be willing to do that.

Yangotang, suspended 1 hour for saying something stupid.

I can do wiki. Our employee manual at work is PHP/HTML enhanced wiki. I hate programming that but for Volvospeed I wouldn't mind.

Oh, are you talking about a Volvospeed Wiki or a Volvospeed entry in Wikipedia?

You crackers would have the meet while I'm in PA, wouldn't you. <_<

I'm not blaming anyone. I think you're right, he will get screwed by the law.

Woman walking alone in the dark vs trucker... Poll that to America and I'll tell you right now where 80% will vote. It doesn't matter that it was dark and probably not his fault, most jurys will vote on the emotional side anway.

That's why Jury's are lame. Down with democracy, Chuck Norris for president.

I don't think he should have to prove anything or we should blame him for leaving, no matter what the law says. Maybe he will get screwed by the law, but what he did is hardly heartless.