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New "low energy" bulbs ARE a con
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How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostYou can buy 5 florescents for £1 down my local supermarket. Also, don't forget to give up meat and breed like crazy as you know this makes perfect sense.
I was trying to read the resistances on some minute resistors the other day (using the colour bars, without a colour chart to compare them with) and had trouble telling brown from black and red from orange, etc, under my underpowered florescent light. So I tried again under the table lamp, which has one of the old illegal light bulbs in. That was an improvement and the colours changed and became more distinct and differentiable, but even so neither were as good as decent sunlight, as I discovered the next morning. I'd also tried it under a small white LED, and that wasn't much cop either.
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostI'd also tried it under a small white LED, and that wasn't much cop either.My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.Comment
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View PostBye Bye Rosie Off You Go Birmingham Via Great Western
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B*B*R*O*Y*G*B*V*G*W
How about : Babroy Gabivrow?
Okay, they aren't proper words, but then again neither is Roygbiv and I use that one. Mostly because I could never remember the rhyme.Comment
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Originally posted by zeitghostThey're blue leds with a phosphor.
Crap light.
You can get LEDs with an R, G, and B led in them, which gives white.
But it's still crap because Leds are almost monochromatic.Comment
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View Postneither were as good as decent sunlight,
so if I can just find a way of getting a portable hydrogen fusion reactor into a small glass bulb about 4" in diameter at a retail price point around 20p I'll be rich, rich, richComment
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Originally posted by zeitghostComment
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Gosh, the "environmentalists" may have spun us a porkie pie ?
But I thought they had the moral and scientific high ground, and could lecture the rest of us, carte blanche, with justifiable righteousness.
You mean, perhaps they are not as honest as they would like us to believe ?
Oh dear.
I'm very disappointed.
Very disappointed indeed.Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Originally posted by Board Game Geek View PostGosh, the "environmentalists" may have spun us a porkie pie ?
But I thought they had the moral and scientific high ground, and could lecture the rest of us, carte blanche, with justifiable righteousness.
You mean, perhaps they are not as honest as they would like us to believe ?
Oh dear.
I'm very disappointed.
Very disappointed indeed.
Now I realise that if you pay scientists to frighten the bejesus out of us, they will get quite good at it. Pay them even more and they are capable of frightening , lecturing and patronising the bejesus out of us.
ranty rant
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