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Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 1) 1146

LED costs more to buy and operate than incandescent.

Thus, the total cost of a 60 watt incandescent bulb over a 30,000 hour lifespan is $187.82.

Thus, the total cost of an LED bulb over a 30,000 hour lifespan is $144.49.

Um I think you need to reread what you wrote, a single LED offers a saving of more than $20, they offer less hasel and they are better for the environment (in terms of usage). Multiply that by every light bulb in your house or business and that is a significant saving. (Citation: your own post)

Comment Re:50% dumber. (Score 1) 495

Whatever happened to phones that just made phone calls?

They're still out there, just like cars with manual transmission, typewriters, and LP record players. They have their passionate advocates, but most people with more functional devices that can do all that and more just shake their heads in confusion and mutter under their breath about old people and move on.

One of these is not like the others... manual transmission is still very common (at least here in Aus) and gives better performance and petrol usage (and is cheaper).

Comment Re:See cheap companies (Score 1) 495

I am honestly interested why there isn't an Android fork that functions only as a phone, considering how many people on slashdot complain about having a fully featured phone I am surprised it doesn't exist.... Perhaps it is because "I want a phone that's just a phone" is the modern equivalent of "get off my lawn"?

Comment Re:50% dumber. (Score 1) 495

Um there is a difference between stopping mid sentence to answer an email, and having your phone on you so that you are contactable when needed. As you correctly state the former is very rude (a very rare) the latter where people check there email whilst waiting for a bus or similar is not rude and very useful.

Comment Re:Endless spam? (Score 1) 495

FYI Facebook and google don't send phone spam (at least not in Australia). In fact I have never received phone spam and have had the some phone number for five or six years now. I really wonder what people do to get their phones on spam lists.

Comment Re:Most of this will be about internal politics (Score 1) 519

The chances of nukes and bang bangs over this are very, very low.

Yeah, keep telling yourself that, if it makes you feel happy. And there was no way WW 1 was going to happen ... until it did. And there was no way WW 2 was going to happen ... until it did. Nobody wanted those wars, not the Kaiser, not Hitler, not Stalin, not the British and not the French. The Japanese didn't want it in 1941. They thought there was no way out. They were getting pushed hard.

Fact is, nobody remembers all the times sabers have been rattled and nothing much happened, and yes, there have been plenty of those times. But those times the russian roulette trigger was pulled and the gun went off - those will never be forgotten by people who are engaged.

History does indicate that Hitler did want large portions of WW1 (he just didn't want Britain and the US to fight).

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