Guitarhacker
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Remember when?
Oh, it's been a while now, but I remember when they came out and introduced plastic shopping bags as the "environmentally sensitive" thing to do...remember? It was to save the trees and reduce pollution and save the planet..... yadda yadda yadda..... Now they have changed their minds..... they want to BAN the plastic bags... in favor of what? Paper, or worse yet, bring your own bags... made from what? Plastic, paper or canvas? I'm thinking it will be the same thing in 10 years with the toxic light bulbs....wait until the toxic chems start getting into the landfills and the lakes and water supply... they will wish for the edison light bulb again..... the LED lights also have toxic stuff in them so....are they the solution or........ was edison the best we had? 
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marcos69
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Re:Remember when?
2011/05/20 22:48:46
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Eggs used to be bad for you.
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bapu
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Re:Remember when?
2011/05/20 23:21:16
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Bass Am notes were once verboten too.
Now they're all the rage. The kids love 'em.
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Russell.Whaley
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Re:Remember when?
2011/05/20 23:28:35
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I wonder if Am notes have the same mercury levels as CFLs. Or are they a completely different element, bapunium, maybe?
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craigb
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Re:Remember when?
2011/05/21 03:58:28
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Edison was always less than Tesla.
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trimph1
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Re:Remember when?
2011/05/21 06:42:57
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back to cloth bags and candles...oh...and horse and buggy....  
The space you have will always be exceeded in direct proportion to the amount of stuff you have...Thornton's Postulate. Bushpianos
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Re:Remember when?
2011/05/21 06:51:43
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trimph1
back to cloth bags and candles...oh...and horse and buggy....
It's interesting (to me anyway  ) to think that the era of the horse ended only 50-60 years ago, but stretched back a thousand years before that. Sometimes I think we're moving way too fast...
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Re:Remember when?
2011/05/21 08:49:24
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marcos69
Eggs used to be bad for you.
There was a study that said coffee is bad for you. Then another study said coffee is good for you... then another study says .... (and so on and so forth).  I don't give a damn... i will have my coffee when i want it...
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Re:Remember when?
2011/05/21 08:51:50
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Guitarhacker
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Re:Remember when?
2011/05/21 08:53:19
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Telsa was way ahead of his time.... imagine what he would be working on with the technology available today..... I think we'd have teleporters.
HAARP.... probably springs directly from Telsa's notebook.
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Beagle
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Re:Remember when?
2011/05/21 09:05:08
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Tesla was right. Edison wanted public distribution of power to be distributed as DC. Tesla wanted AC. there are many technical reasons why DC distribution would be a nightmare.
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Guitarhacker
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Re:Remember when?
2011/05/21 09:09:22
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Telsa was working on wireless power transmission, which would have made power pretty cheap. He just needed to solve the inefficiency problem.
He was right about AC vs DC...edison's grid would have been a nightmare. On a recent TV show on this topic, the 2 men were competing against each other and it was amazing to hear the politics, distortions, and outright lies used against the other's concepts and ideas.
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Re:Remember when?
2011/05/21 09:10:49
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Guitarhacker
Telsa was working on wireless power transmission, which would have made power pretty cheap. He just needed to solve the inefficiency problem.
He was right about AC vs DC...edison's grid would have been a nightmare. On a recent TV show on this topic, the 2 men were competing against each other and it was amazing to hear the politics, distortions, and outright lies used against the other's concepts and ideas.
pretty much no different from today.
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Guitarhacker
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Re:Remember when?
2011/05/21 09:12:39
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you're right..
Well... got lots of stuff to do before the world ends... so.... check ya later!
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Re:Remember when?
2011/05/21 10:32:35
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People forget that Tesla also created the flourescent bulb (as well as a competitive incadescent for the world's fair - a completely new design that worked just as well as Edison's, but was cheaper and easier to make - and he did it in just a few weeks!).
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bapu
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Re:Remember when?
2011/05/21 10:35:23
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And David Bowie played Tesla in The Prestige.
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