LEDs are only expensive if your electricity is free.

Clearly not. If my electricity is $0.01/kWh, then it will take 8.5 years just to pay for a $10 LED. Is anyone paying only a penny per kWh? No, but I just refuted your claim. FWIW, I'm paying about $0.10 a kWH-- including the delivery charges, which people forget about-- so it would take me about a year to pay for a $10 LED. A lot of people aren't getting even a year out of theirs, so you can see why they are upset.

The mains switch at the panel, or the circuit fuse? If the latter, those LEDs seem to have a dangerous failure mode that causes a short circuit instead of an open. For the former, you have a problem with your service that is due to either power surges or an overload on the amp rating of your service. Either one is a bit unsafe and should be looked into.

This seems feasible. There are already form factors designed for track lighting and small spots that use DC bulbs. Seems like if you replaced these (usually tiny, expensive halogens) with LEDs, they'd probably last forever.

That's the one funny thing I've noticed. Seems like the manufacturers should be slapped with a class-action lawsuit for their rating of CFLs per their equivalents. I've seen ~600 lumen bulbs labeled as "60-watt equivalent". Meanwhile, LEDs seem to be sandbagged; the best LEDs I've purchased so far were at Goodwill for a DOLLAR and even though they said 40-watt equiv, they were as bright as the 60 watt incandescents they replaced.

I can agree that Sylvania makes a good CFL, for a CFL. Philips is OK, and GE is terrible.

Philips look good, but they only seem to last slightly longer than an incandescent. GE bulbs die within a 1,000 hours if they aren't installed screw-down, and many of them have a disgusting pinkish hue at half brightness for the first 30 seconds.

Many LEDs will work with conventional dimmers. CFLs, no. But CFLs stink for anything that isn't an indoor, non-fan, non-3-way, non-enclosed, fixture or lamp with a vertical screw-down socket.

While still a cartel that should have been broken up much earlier, with incandescents it's true that out of low cost, efficiency, and long life, you get to choose two. "Long life" (now pretty much outlawed in the USA) and especially "rough service" bulbs (which are sold through a loophole) use a thicker filament. A thicker filament remains intact longer, but is less efficient. The "low cost" part comes in with the halogen bulb. Its design rejuvenates the filament so that it lasts longer, allowing for a thinner filament, but it costs more to manufacture.

There are AR-15 variants that fire .22 LR, but they're normally in NATO 5.56 or .223.

I assume the key people weren't ones camping out in the middle of NYC for weeks.

Because of Acts 15.

If you're as old as I am (41), I have to tell you that public schools are a lot different now. We had the Chronicles of Narnia in the library and watched the animated film for LWW. We also had stuff that would be banned in Catholic schools (the Judy Blume books, for example).

Also, you're the third person to put words in my mouth.

I find your response typical of the internet atheist, who likes to use a straw man instead of a proper argument.

I haven't shoved my religion down anyone's throat, Captain Red Herring. You don't even know what my religion is, do you?

My answer is that it's immoral for even a private school to ban books rather than welcome discussion. But it's a violation of human rights, on top of it, for a public school to ban them.

I never pulled out the "I-don't-read-the-FAQ-so-I'll-complain-about-the-lack-of-choices" faux pas before, so I thought it might be fun this time.

No, you're not. Do you live in the woods? If you live in a town that has municipal trash collection, IT IS A MONOPOLY. Some communities contract a firm ostensibly to reduce traffic on roads, even.