My second objection is the way that CFL's were handled, sold etc. I'm a grumpy old man and I don't trust anyone anymore. Salesmen lie.

Fuck em all but 6. You need 6 for pall bearers.

We have power and lots of it here. I'm not going to pay 20 bucks a bulb for the next big thing so some tree hugger can feel good about themselves. I've changed less than 10 bulbs in a decade here. That's 7.80 at current prices. Don't give a shit about changing to some other bullshit new light. I tried the last "craze" to cfl bulbs and was really pissed off when I found out about the mercury. I like the light the incandescents give off and that they're instant on without any environmental hazards in my house.

Don't give a shit about power prices anyway. How much do you really think it costs to run a 60 watt bulb at .08 a kwh?

I bought 96 bulbs for $75. a lifetime supply for me. I have changed exactly 6 bulbs in my bathroom and two in my storage area in 7 years.

I live in a cold country. I don't care about a trivial power cost. I need the heat. Doesn't matter if it comes from a bulb or natural gas. Shit, I heat with computers sometimes!

This whole bulb fiasco is a money grab and to bail out dumb governments who didn't plan for electrical growth.

My province added 150 windmills this year and will add 300 in the coming two years. We have wind, coal and natural gas. Changing a few light bulbs will make very little difference here.

You can pry my incandescents from my cold dead hands!

I have about a dozen machines in my house and most run XP. I don't need any of that damn UAC or the latest version of Office. I upgraded one machine to windows 7 because I didn't want to get stuck with 8. Everything is behind a firewall. I have tons of software that works perfectly well.

Millions of people have woken up to realize that they don't need a new computer. Replacements will be the only market now. Microsoft will die a very slow death. It might take a decade or more, but they are in decline.

Business buys volume licenses to give them the ability to install older operating systems.

I always wait a day to see if the freebie app will screw with my phone. If it does, it gets deleted and life goes on.

7 - 12 hr nights
7- days off
7 - 12 hr days
14 - days off (sometimes 4 - 8 hour days in that week)
So basically two hard weeks on shift, 3 weeks off (already paid) about ten times a year. Everyone does this gig for the shift and the time off. Work a holiday like Christmas? Double time and a half.

It is weird, but a very good gig.

Then I get seven days off.

There are many companies taking advantage of the naivete of internet users for their own advantage.

Why are we freaking out about all this? Like we're gonna stop driving and using electricity any time soon?

In 50 years I'll either be dead or senile and won't really care anymore.