Old Man Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Or people from Manchester are Mancunians. "Manchurians" would seem to be more appropriate. Similar to how people from Denmark are Denmarkians, and New Zealanders are Kiwis. And Kansans are Jayhawks. And Illinoisese are Hoosiers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Where are the Cornhuskers from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Where are the Cornhuskers from? Nebraska Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings What are you paying for the LCD monitors? You can get pretty good ones for $200 apiece nowadays. It was actually 179. There were 20 of them. so it was a $3500 investment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings And the difference in power consumption? Were these fluorescent or LED backlit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted November 22, 2011 Report Share Posted November 22, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings "Manchurians" would seem to be more appropriate. Similar to how people from Denmark are Denmarkians' date=' and New Zealanders are Kiwis. And Kansans are Jayhawks. And Illinoisese are Hoosiers.[/quote'] Indianans are hoosiers. Illinoisians are not worth mentioning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klytus Posted November 22, 2011 Report Share Posted November 22, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Wow' date=' corporate is really playing hardball with the union here.[/quote'] Of course they are. For as much as OWS is bringing economic inequity to the forefront of the spotlight, the Big Boys™ still have all the muscle and the momentum. Ergo, they are going to get all they can for as long as they can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted November 22, 2011 Report Share Posted November 22, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Indianans are hoosiers. Illinoisians are not worth mentioning. Noisies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted November 22, 2011 Report Share Posted November 22, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings People from Kentucky are Hillbillies. The classier ones are Hillwilliams. Not all hillbillies are in Kentucky nor is everyone in Kentucky a hillbilly. People from Indiana are called Hoosiers. The word "Hoosier" was an etymological riddle for a long time, but in recent years linguistic researchers at Indiana University (where else?) have announced they are confident it derives from an old English dialect word hoos meaning, originally, "something big" that came to mean "hill" and "Hoosiers" originally meant those who dwelt on, or among, hills. In other words - hillbilly. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary hears a hoos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted November 22, 2011 Report Share Posted November 22, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings And the difference in power consumption? Were these fluorescent or LED backlit? LCDs, Flourecent. The power consumption was much better, like 30% Thing is in Oregon it works out to about $.06 per KWH, and the quick and nasty formulae I used (based on my own power bill) came out to about a net gain of like $167 a year (almost one complete monitor); but in Hawaii - the website had their power at near $.15/kwh and the savings was greater closer to $320 a year or almost 2 monitors. This was a bulk purchase from Dell. Didn't include any deals either. My research was pretty slack. All I remember was Hawaii had significantly higher power rates than Oregon. And LED monitors are even better, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John T Posted November 22, 2011 Report Share Posted November 22, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Not all hillbillies are in Kentucky nor is everyone in Kentucky a hillbilly. Both groups are known as "tourists". Yes, I'm kidding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted November 22, 2011 Report Share Posted November 22, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Not all hillbillies are in Kentucky nor is everyone in Kentucky a hillbilly. People from Indiana are called Hoosiers. The word "Hoosier" was an etymological riddle for a long time, but in recent years linguistic researchers at Indiana University (where else?) have announced they are confident it derives from an old English dialect word hoos meaning, originally, "something big" that came to mean "hill" and "Hoosiers" originally meant those who dwelt on, or among, hills. In other words - hillbilly. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary hears a hoos Per Wikipedia, Jacob Piatt Dun's "Hoosier from Anglo-Saxon hoo" theory is no longer accepted. The evidence is confused, and, as with other variations on theories about English archaicisms sneaking across the Atlantic suffers from a lack of people in England using the phrase. (Too bad someone didn't try to link it the Moundbuilders via "Sutton Hoo." That would have been a cool urban myth.) Even more damning, there were people named "Hoosier" around and about well before the nickname was coined. Wikipedia points me at French huisier, literally "houser," now normally used for the office of usher or bailiff (because they open and close doors), but with a probable original meaning something like the English usage "peasant." Check out the chapter on early land claims in the Northwest Territory here. Indiana was pretty solidly "huisier" in the early days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 22, 2011 Report Share Posted November 22, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings All I remember was Hawaii had significantly higher power rates than Oregon. That's because, in a state with a massive surplus of solar, wind, hydrodynamic, and geothermal power, we generate all our electricity by burning foreign oil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted November 22, 2011 Report Share Posted November 22, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings That's because' date=' in a state with a massive surplus of solar, wind, hydrodynamic, and geothermal power, we generate all our electricity by burning foreign oil.[/quote'] Sounds about right. JG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted November 22, 2011 Report Share Posted November 22, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings That's because' date=' in a state with a massive surplus of solar, wind, hydrodynamic, and geothermal power, we generate all our electricity by burning foreign oil.[/quote'] Well stop that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klytus Posted November 22, 2011 Report Share Posted November 22, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings That's because' date=' in a state with a massive surplus of solar, wind, hydrodynamic, and geothermal power, we generate all our electricity by burning foreign oil.[/quote'] ~headdesk~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 22, 2011 Report Share Posted November 22, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings It gets better; the electric company is starting to actively resist the installation of photovoltaic panels on residences. (There's sort of a valid reason for that--fluctuations in demand on the grid over large areas or neighborhoods, as clouds go by or whatever, would certainly put a strain on the grid. But it would help if the grid didn't, like, suck.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 22, 2011 Report Share Posted November 22, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Need to work on hydrolysis plants and large-scale hydrogen transport. Start exporting that energy in the form of H2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 22, 2011 Report Share Posted November 22, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings I was thinking batteries, at least specific to the residential photovoltaic vs. grid demand problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted November 23, 2011 Report Share Posted November 23, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings It gets better; the electric company is starting to actively resist the installation of photovoltaic panels on residences. (There's sort of a valid reason for that--fluctuations in demand on the grid over large areas or neighborhoods' date=' as clouds go by or whatever, would certainly put a strain on the grid. But it would help if the grid didn't, like, suck.)[/quote'] I'm remembering something about an abandoned wind farm? (I could be mistaken quite easily) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 23, 2011 Report Share Posted November 23, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings A few decades ago the electric company put up a couple of windmills to see if a switch to wind power was feasible. They were relatively inefficient and unreliable and couldn't compete with historically low gas prices at the time. Today there's a wind farm on Maui, another on the Big Island, and several others in the works... that are being actively resisted by local environmental groups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted November 23, 2011 Report Share Posted November 23, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings A few decades ago the electric company put up a couple of windmills to see if a switch to wind power was feasible. They were relatively inefficient and unreliable and couldn't compete with historically low gas prices at the time. Today there's a wind farm on Maui, another on the Big Island, and several others in the works... that are being actively resisted by local environmental groups. Something about birds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 23, 2011 Report Share Posted November 23, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Eyesore, noise, NIMBY, county vs. county, native rights, birds, whales. Depending on who you ask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted November 23, 2011 Report Share Posted November 23, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Eyesore' date=' noise, NIMBY, county vs. county, native rights, birds, whales. Depending on who you ask.[/quote'] The Environmentalnuts natural desire to have us all be cavepeople... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John T Posted November 23, 2011 Report Share Posted November 23, 2011 Re: Musings on Random Musings Heaven forbid a whale should choose to leap into a windmill for no discernible reason. Think of the mess... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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