The ballast in a CFL can't handle the dimmer.

Its not that you replace the dimmer,but that you need to use "cold cathode" florescent bulbs with them--andin the smaller sizes (candelabra mount), you can't get these (or LED) that are very strong.

My house has been almost completely devoid of incandescent for about ten years--more initially for heat (broken AC in the Vegas desert!) than power.

The only place they're left are in the refrigerator (don't want mercury there if it breaks . . .) and oven (heat). But the socket is bad in the refrigerator, and the oven is dead an needs replacing, leaving only the halogens in the stove hood. Inadequate LEDs in the ceiling fans family & dining room (3 25 watt equiv, all I can find), and just about everythign ese is CFL (and will slowly swap out to LED as they fail)

hawk

Well, there's always alcoholism.

Barring inclement weather, if all the commercial planes are grounded so that traffic is not an issue, it should be well possible to land planes visually for a purpose like bringing in the experts to fix the situation.

You can record for some purposes if you post a sign, in some states.

No. You have an expectation of privacy there. Hotels with signs about video surveillance have still gotten busted when staff recorded people in the bathroom.

Again, varies by state, both on and off the phone.

I don't know if this just works for me because I'm a giant mutant, but if I make a deep sort of dog-growly noise way down in my sternum then it makes my skull vibrate in a way that lets me visually perceive flicker all the way up to around typical LED refresh rates even on normal stuff like digital clocks. The numbers all sort of jiggle in different directions, in that case. LED-illuminated Christmas trees look ridiculous. They have absurd flicker because they just run at 1/2 of the mains frequency.

They're always crying about how poorly freddie and fannie are doing but they could, say, pay off all the student loans for less than the price of a bailout, or bail out a bunch of these actual homeowners directly rather than giving people actual cash. So yeah, it's all a lot of cockery.

the two words mean different things. was doing something else.

if there's pines there it's because they wanted them there

broken window

No, I suggest that you do that. In most of the BLM land, there's long since no native trees.

I don't know the particulars of your state's arrangement. I know that the BLM awards permits on fairly specious bases, however, and does not do a particularly ecologically-friendly job of "managing" the land.

They're basically farming those trees on our land, at our expense since the prevailing rate would be much higher.

Santa Cruz and Kelseyville actually, so better and worse respectively. The Santa Cruz Mission is just up the hill as you go from downtown to the East side. Now I live on in a town named after a man whose wife is reputed to have poured water in the gunpowder to help the natives rise up and kill her slaving, murdering, raping husband. Ah, American history.

To suggest that the government is a single entity which has a right to dispense with that which belongs to all of us is disingenuous at best.

Our government has a right to that authority which we the people grant it, no more. But that land is meant to be for public use, and is being monetized to the detriment of the public.

The best thing to do would be to look at the USFS budget and see where the money is spent. Sadly, their 2015 budget overview is 70 pages long, and "surprisingly" doesn't begin with a simple pie chart that shows where the money is going. And I have other shit to do this morning. Then we can decide what the priorities really are.

Your point is well-taken, but I'm talking about the USA era, not pre-USA. I come from what used to be Ohlone land and I now live in what used to be Pomo land...

Yes, exactly like the Bureau of Land Management, the greatest land grab perpetrated against the people of the United States. IN WHICH rather than homesteading, the land was declared the property of the federal government, and they monetize it by selling land-raping permits (oil, coal, fracking, timber, and cattle grazing — the latter of which is not precisely land-raping, but simply -suppressing, since a portion of that land was cleared from forest specifically for the purpose of cattle ranching, back in the late 1800s and early 1900s.)