I looked into long life incandescent bulbs for my car since I hate replacing them (who has hands that dainty), then I just said fuck it and bought some LED ones as they last much longer than even the long life incandescent ones and are brighter than the regular incandescent ones.

I blame children. A couple of years ago mine discovered that if you flip the switch up and down fast you get a strobe effect. It sort of works with CFLs but it does end their life pretty quick. Previous to that I think I had replaced 1 CFL bulb in the bathroom in the previous 7 years. Also the quickest way for them to quit doing that is to make them pay for a new bulb and tell them they can do it some more but they get to keep buying bulbs.

I did once but that was like 12 years ago. I was troubleshooting an error with SQL Server and one Google link looked like it might be promising. What was shown in the little blob of text was the error code, and some description of it. So I clicked on it and found my self at a porn site. It just so happened the my boss walked by and asked what I was doing. I explained what happened and then hit the back button, showed her the link on Google that looked perfectly reasonable and then clicked it so show that this was inadvertent. That however has been the one and only time it has happened to me.

About 1/2 the energy of a .30-06 round. So likely closer to elephant with a bad case of explosive diarrhea but after consuming mostly Mexican food first.

Sounds about right. Having worked at a gas station while in highschool and college in the 90s the profit on a single gallon of gas was typically in the $0.00 to $0.03 range. It was all about the inside sales: pop, chips, overpriced milk, smokes, silly expensive 3.2 beer.

Considering that the ones in my city are all aluminum ones they are already valuable as scrap and no one seems to be stealing them I wouldn't worry too much.

As far as efficiency goes there doesn't look to be much difference at the moment between sodium vapor lights and LED lights. That said LED lights will probably become the clearly superior option in the future. As far as the solar panel I would suggest having it be large and have a reflective bottom (not shiny but brilliant white) so that the light that bounces back up to it will get reflected back down. This should help decrease the amount of light pollution and also make it so less light needs to be produced.

Man I which where I live was at a 5 on the Bortle Scale. It looks more like it is sitting at about a 7. Thankfully I own some land about 2 hours away that is a 3 on the Bortle Scale.

I hope you saved those e-mail chains so when management comes looking for some one to hang you can prove they need to be the ones wearing the noose.

That they are. I think a lot of them while written with good intention were written by people who don't fully understand the topic they are legislating on.

The hunting regulations for what is acceptable ammunition is a rather odd one for example here in Minnesota. It use to be that there was a minimum caliber and and case length requirement that at least attempted to ensure that you were hunting with humane cartridge for big game with a few special exceptions for some abnormally powerful rounds at the bottom end though one of the things excluded was .223 (and 5.56x45) since it didn't meet the minimum caliber requirement (.25) and a lot of people apparently wanted to hunt with it. So a few years back instead of adding an exception for that ammo they redid the requirement so that it now reads that acceptable ammo must be at least .22 caliber and be of center fire ignition. So now it is legal to use all sorts of awful stuff for hunting that would be really ineffective. So now it would be perfectly legal to go elk or bear hunting here and use .380 ACP fired from a plastic gun or something chambered in .25 ACP.

That would be the correct parsing. Sometimes my brain gets ahead of my typing and I miss a word and even upon rereading I will read that word in where it doesn't exist.

If their lucky. If not they get the same close encounter with the splitting maul as well.

What about spraying them with a garden hose on full blast?