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From: Warren Oates on 19 Jan 2010 18:15 In article <00A97CB8.9EF82DE5(a)SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote: > There's a shop lamp in my garage -- 8' fluorescent. Those bulbs are > still burning 20+ years since moving in. The CFs need to show me the > same longevity before I'll be sold on them. > Have you read Gravity's Rainbow? He has this immortal incandescent bulb going on ... -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer
From: VAXman- on 19 Jan 2010 18:37 In article <000066f0$0$1570$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> writes: >VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote: > >> As I kid, I would dissolve Hg in nitric acid and then, drop a clean, >> shinny new penny into it. The Hg would bond to the surface. It was >> fun handing these to the school lunch room cashiers who would invar- >> iably assume they were dimes. After about an hour or thereabout, the >> Hg would oxidize and it would look like a dirty penny. Strangly, no >> one became mad as a hatter from this. > > >Last sentence should read "Strangely, no one *else* became mad as a >hatter from this" .... I dropped an 'e' and too many 'n' in shiny. That's happens when one types too fast and is distracted when proofreading what's then sent out to usenet. >.... images of Mr VAXman looking like Frankenstein in his evil lair >filled with old VAX computers with all sorts of flashing lights, >conjuring up more devilish plans to poison people, with sounds of an >evil laughter echoing throughout the lair :-) Did Frankenstein have a butt-length ponytail and beard and moustashe too? http://gigsofpixofgigs.com/Pivot/images/VAXman_on_rock_in_Central_Park_NYC.jpg Not sure what's greyer there, my hair or the rock. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG http://www.quirkfactory.com/popart/asskey/eqn2.png "Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"
From: Richard Maine on 19 Jan 2010 18:45 <VAXman-(a)SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote: > In article <1jck9jm.1pv5h8o8br0acN%nospam(a)see.signature>, nospam(a)see.signature (Richard Maine) writes: > >And that's not even counting the fact that the mercury emitted from > >coal-burning plants is in a far more dangerous form than that in a CFL. > Mercury (Hg, atomic number 80) is an element. There is no other kind. And it in turn is made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons (break it down further if you like). It does matter what compounds it is in. See Steve's post. Ok, my referring to it as the "form" was sloppy. Though sometimes things in addition to chemical properties matter also. Other aspects of what I sloppily called "form" also matter. -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgment. domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain
From: Jamie Kahn Genet on 19 Jan 2010 19:30 Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > In article <C77A3EC1.3C5D6%ghost_topper(a)hotmail.com>, > George Kerby <ghost_topper(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > CF bulbs are nasty little bastards that fail to come to full lumen > > output half the time and do NOT last as long as claimed. That, and the > > environmental damage make them the LAST selection I would make for my > > "lightning" needs, behind Telsa Coils and LEDs. > > <http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp> No sense in trying to introduce any truth here :-D Just read back there *shudder* -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
From: Jamie Kahn Genet on 19 Jan 2010 19:30
<VAXman-(a)SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote: > In article <michelle-59273E.06550519012010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> writes: > >In article <C77A3EC1.3C5D6%ghost_topper(a)hotmail.com>, > > George Kerby <ghost_topper(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > >> CF bulbs are nasty little bastards that fail to come to full lumen > >> output half the time and do NOT last as long as claimed. That, and the > >> environmental damage make them the LAST selection I would make for my > >> "lightning" needs, behind Telsa Coils and LEDs. > > > ><http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp> > > I'd prefer no Hg in the environment regardless of the opinions at Snopes. I'm guessing the moon landing was staged too? -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. |