Daylight savings

SwampGas · 04-07-2005, 08:17 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/....ap/index.html

Congress wants to extend it 2 months so they'll save 10,000 barrels of oil.

All oil stuff aside (because 10k is nothing), I think we should stay on daylight time. I like it being light until 8 or 9 in the summer. In fact, I think we should attempt to change the rotation of the earth so that it's always like that.

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Diskeater · 04-07-2005, 09:34 PM

> Congress wants to extend it 2 months so they'll save 10,000
> barrels of oil.

10,000 barrels a day.

Course, according to that article, we use 20 million barrels a day, so 10,000 isn't that much. But whatever.

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SpaceTiger · 04-07-2005, 10:30 PM

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"The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use," said Markey

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Wow. I hope he doesn't really believe that extending daylight savings time will increase the amount of daylight we have. It probably will alter the amount of electricity we use because it will change the hours in which businesses are active (night activity uses more electricity), but this quote astounds me.

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Danoz · 04-07-2005, 10:36 PM

> 10,000 barrels a day.
> Course, according to that article, we use 20 million barrels
> a day, so 10,000 isn't that much. But whatever.

I've learned that government loves expending resources to do very little to make it look like they're doing a lot to fix a problem the people are concerned about. You may have to read that sentance twice, but you get the idea <img src=smilies/cwm11.gif>

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pipes · 04-08-2005, 03:13 AM

> I've learned that government loves expending resources to do
> very little to make it look like they're doing a lot to fix
> a problem the people are concerned about.

Like halfass work.

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Ganheim · 04-08-2005, 04:33 AM

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Like halfass work.

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Reminds me of another quote:
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"If you don't like your job, you don't complain. You go in and you really half-ass it. That's the American way."
-- Homer Simpson

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Seems to ring even more true today than when I first heard it. The writers for The Simpsons were very clever people.

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Isildur · 04-08-2005, 07:32 AM

> In reply to:"The more daylight we have, the less electricity
> we use," said Markey
>
> Wow. I hope he doesn't really believe that extending
> daylight savings time will increase the amount of daylight
> we have. It probably will alter the amount of electricity
> we use because it will change the hours in which businesses
> are active (night activity uses more electricity), but this
> quote astounds me.
>

Hopefully he meant "The more daylight we have during what we set as our period of greatest activity, the less electricity we use."

Otherwise that quote is either really funny or really scary. =P

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Slicer S. V. · 04-08-2005, 12:12 PM

> In reply to:"If you don't like your job, you don't complain.
> You go in and you really half-ass it. That's the American
> way."
> -- Homer Simpson

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uhm... that, like, explains a few things. a couple people at work are about to get fired and lately the busses they've been turning out have been messier and messier. just last night we found a bus that didn't go anywhere, and these two people were the last to clean it... it looked like they didn't even take a mop down the aisle, let alone under any seats <img src=smilies/headshake.gif>

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MasterHD · 04-11-2005, 05:39 PM

> i so hate people with bad work ethics... i need to move to
> a different country. anyone living in a country where
> people still have decent work ethics and common courtesy?

I hear Europe still has a few countries like that. <img src=smilies/cwm27.gif>

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Ganheim · 04-13-2005, 03:05 PM

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i so hate people with bad work ethics... i need to move to a different country. anyone living in a country where people still have decent work ethics and common courtesy?

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You're looking for a dream land that no longer exists. It's a universal thing for the elders to say "things were better in my day". I forget what it's called at the moment, but I'll probably remember the word the moment I log off.

Anyway, I guess that's why you just have to take pride in a job well done, and whether or not other people do something to be proud in, you should. That's something I always try to remember.

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