The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long. And you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy.
Farce.
My wife and I threw the wedding we both wanted. We planned the whole thing together. It was her second marriage but my first (and hopefully only). It was huge and expensive. The food was fantastic. We invited everyone we wanted to be there. We're huge jazz nerds and we had an eighteen-piece big band. Our parents planned nothing (it was our money, after all). We're still paying for it two years later.
We loved every moment. Neither one of us would change a single thing.
We do not operate under the assumption that every day is going to be like our wedding day. We do not suffer fairy-tale delusions. Marriage is work. We're parents now. It's more work.
Don't kid yourself. People have been disagreeing with you right and left. That's the general equivalent to being downmodded.
...agreed.
Please, stop speaking for all geeks.
Erm, geek bride or no, most women have been planning their wedding since childhood. My lovely geek bride had no problem at all with "a day of attention seeking" as you put it. And she's plenty smart
You probably mean flair. Flare would not be a desirable characteristic of a wedding invitation.
Better question: does Greedo shoot?
Nobody in this thread suggested that it be a wholesale replacement for current energy sources. Supplementing generation capacity with alternative methods is a good idea.
"Stop innovating! It'll never work!"
The amount of anti-progress rhetoric on this topic is really staggering. I don't really understand. Why isn't it exciting that the technology exists? Why shouldn't we use it while it's getting better?
I'm fairly sure he meant that the additional panels would be added to his home. Brian, care to clarify?
And you're right. Doing this probably won't shut down a coal plant, but it's likely to prevent as many firings of a gas generator at that plant. Since coal generation is more or less fixed capacity, the utility company periodically has to turn on natural gas burners to keep up with spikes in demand. I have a lot of experience in financial power markets and these sorts of transactions are very common.
So, by installing additional panels on his home, he's prevented some additional fossil fuels from being consumed.
So what's the downside? Why not do this?
This is wrong. The senator was attempting to return to Washington. The Senate is in session today at 2 PM. The Constitution is quite clear here.
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