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- paul on Cartoons De nuon reclame gezien met die leuke lampjes in de Sahara? Website gekeken? http://www.nuon.nl/acties/verspilling/top-5-verspillers.jsp Bij mij begon er iets te jeuken toen ik op de Nuon site las dat ze met 300 miljoen spaarlampjes 'de hele sahara' willen verlichten. Met mijn vmbo-niveau (theoretische leerweg) kan ik dat nog wel uitrekenen... 300.000.000 spaarlampen op 9.065.000 km2 Sahara? = 33 lampen per vierkante kilometer... = 1 lamp moet 30.000 vierkante meter verlichten... sterk lampje hoor... Maar de hele reclamefilm en onderliggende berekening kloppen ook niet Met z'n allen - inclusief industrie en transport - gebruiken we aan energie 2698 PetaJoule per jaar (CBS 2007) http://statline.cbs.nl/StatWeb/publication/?VW=T&DM=SLNL&PA=37281&HD=080706-1219 Huishoudens doen daarvan 920 PetaJoules ( 1 PJ = 278 kWh) aan gas en electriciteit... 30% van 920 = 276 maal 278 miljoen kWh = 76.728.000.000 kWh Dat lijkt veel maar "de hele sahara" is wel 9.065.000 vierkante kilometer groot... Dus die 30% die wij met z'n allen verspillen is dan 8464 kWh per jaar per vierkante kilometer Sahara Nuon zegt nog: Dag en Nacht... Dat betekent (8464/(365x24)) 966 W per vierkante kilometer... 100 spaarlampen ( van 10 watt) op een vierkante kilometer? Dat is 1 lamp op 10.000m2 Kijk nog eens naar dat plaatje: dat klopt dus echt niet met de afbeeldingen in de reclame.---------------------------------------------------------- Ach waarom zou je in de Sahara een boek willen lezen, terwijl we hier al niet kunnen rekenen... Nuon wordt aanbevolen door WCeend!
- Roland Hesz on Profit. That's the problem. Should change the law.
- John on Bipartisan idiocy At the end of the day, they're all politicians, and they're all American politicians. Guns and warfare are all they know. It's sad, but I don't expect anything to change just because a spineless Democrat is in charge. Afterall, they've been in charge for a year+ now and done nothing.
- John on Acrobat If only that were true. It takes almost as long to start as Photoshop and has so many unnecessary additional bits embedded in it that I think Adobe have lost sight of the fact that it is meant to be a document reader. I now prefer Apple's built in Preview app for reading PDFs because I can be several pages in before Adobe's reader has finished telling me about all the crap it is loading.
- Chris G on Acrobat And it's just a document viewer for chrissakes - just imagine if the Adobe Acrobat team had written an operating system...
- graucert on ‘Disneyland’ comes to Baghdad with multi-million pound entertainment park If you thought that was scary, did you see that an advisor to McCain is lobbying for casinos in Baghdad's green zone? I saw it on Raed in the Middle's blog (but it was also on DailyKos the other day): http://raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com/2008/06/yes-democracy-is-alive.html What Happens in the Green Zone, Stays in the Green Zone here's the original YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L27uHysoQP0
- John Sinteur on I set up a new web site today…. - not a lot of legitimate follow-up mail for whatever purpose people were registering for Most honest marketeers have found out that confirmed opt-in is the only way to stay off blacklists, so that's not a surprise (and actually a good thing) - a lot of emails to john.doe@niet.com, all english names, unlikely to have been people who used niet.com to create a fake address. Those are from backscatter from a few years ago when niet.com was used with random english names @niet.com as a "From" address by a spammer. Sometimes addresses fall into the wrong hands because a business or site goes belly-up and the inventory gets sold off Of course they do - does that make the new "owner" of the list any less of a spammer? Given that a lot of spam has a forged From address, aren’t you exposing people’s legitimate email addresses to further harvesting here? If the address shows up on niet.com, the address was already in a spammer database. I'm not making links of the addresses, so any harvester has to wade through plan text to find them. The added "risk" is acceptably small.
- Maarten on I set up a new web site today…. Taking a quick look through, I was struck by a few things: - not a lot of legitimate follow-up mail for whatever purpose people were registering for - a lot of emails to john.doe@niet.com, all english names, unlikely to have been people who used niet.com to create a fake address. - on the other hand, not a lot of evidence of simple user name dictionary attacks Sometimes addresses fall into the wrong hands because a business or site goes belly-up and the inventory gets sold off. Privacy laws should prevents this, but there are cases where the original personwho asked for your address is not really at fault. Given that a lot of spam has a forged From address, aren't you exposing people's legitimate email addresses to further harvesting here?
- John on Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom Sounds like Viacom is fishing for evidence. Hope they have some big discs, or are ready to process a live stream that will go for months. As for videos that have been taken down, I hope the folks at YouTube had the smarts to actually delete them - best not to keep content that has been taken down in case some dumb judge comes along and demands you hand it over. I suspect a court order will mean that there is no copyright violation though, as long as Viacom deletes it all once they've finished their fishing expedition. A smarter move would have been to use an independent intermediary to do the research though. Still sad that the courts don't understand what user generated content sites are, and how they work.
- Roland Hesz on Bill Gates was misquoted Yes, he will look stupid. They will all say: "Look the stupid guy, he was so stupid built a company that ruled the PC market for a couple decades and retired a billionaire! How stupid he was, oh my!" Meh...
- Jan-Mark on How to… It is not working. Re re-re-re-ed windows, but it's still not working. Man I feel like an Idiot...
- Jan-Mark on Bill Gates was misquoted Man, is he going to look stupid, come 2020!
- Maarten on CNN priorities Maybe you should start shamecnn.com or shamethemedia.com where you let people submit screenshots like this. (Not sure how you'd filter out the photoshoppers....)
- Maarten on How to… Hey, why didn't FlashBlocker block that YouTube vide....oooooooohhhh.
- Blaise on How McCain and Obama will change your tax bill How would the national health care Obama plans affect the taxes vs McCains health care.
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$300 WATER BILL?!?!?

Jennifer and Jim kept getting huge water bills.

They knew beyond a doubt that the bills weren’t representative of actual usage, and no matter how they tried to conserve, the high bills continued.

Although they could see nothing wrong, they had everything checked for leaks or problems: first the water meter, then outdoor pipes, indoor pipes, underground pipes, faucets, toilets, washer, ice maker
machine, etc.

One day Jim was sick and stayed home in bed, but kept hearing water running downstairs.

He finally tore himself from his sick bed to investigate, and stumbled onto the cause of such high water bills. Apparently this had been happening all day long when they were not at home. Knowing that
few would believe him, he taped a segment of the ‘problem’ for posterity

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