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Old 09-22-2010, 05:10 PM
 
Location: Land of debt and Corruption
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I was born in '87
I was close though!
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Old 09-22-2010, 05:46 PM
 
Location: lake zurich, il
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I was close though!
As my parents say, "Close but no cigar."
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Old 09-22-2010, 05:48 PM
 
Location: lake zurich, il
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Oh My God!

That was AFTER MTV!
I was born after and before many things, just like you. Not really that incredible.
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Old 09-22-2010, 05:59 PM
 
Location: Orlando, FL
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Stop calling me a kid who doesn't know anything....I'm a grown man and a tax-paying citizen of this country....seriously
You were born in the 80s, which means you missed out on some great music, some great movies and some horrible fashion. That's about it.

Love & Happiness, Al
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Old 09-22-2010, 06:06 PM
 
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Abbie Hoffman sez:

Ifya don't know what Jarts are, then I don't trust ya.
we had fun throwing those things around when i was a kid.

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In small pockets.
Havent noticed many poorer folks with solar arrays or windmills.
Until its affordable for everyone, its not gonna happen.
what the utilities are doing is setting up solar farms, like wind farms only with mirrors, to generate solar power on a large scale. there are a few experimental farms here in arizona as well as in nevada, and there is one planned for california. as i said, it is already happening, but it takes time to build the infrastructure.
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Old 09-22-2010, 06:12 PM
 
Location: Silver Springs, FL
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we had fun throwing those things around when i was a kid.


Holy cow, those things were scary in the wrong hands!!!!


what the utilities are doing is setting up solar farms, like wind farms only with mirrors, to generate solar power on a large scale. there are a few experimental farms here in arizona as well as in nevada, and there is one planned for california. as i said, it is already happening, but it takes time to build the infrastructure.
Well aware of all that, my original point was that a national grid such as that wont happen in our lifetimes.
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Old 09-22-2010, 06:24 PM
 
Location: lake zurich, il
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You were born in the 80s, which means you missed out on some great music Nope I can't stand modern music, my favorite music is that which comes from the late 60s, 70s, and early to mid 80's., some great movies There are some great movies today, just like there were some great movies back then. Luckily we can still watch movies from all the way back to when movies first came along. and some horrible fashion thank god. lol. That's about it.

Love & Happiness, Al
The past is never truly left in the past. It can be carried over.
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Old 09-22-2010, 06:31 PM
 
Location: Orlando, FL
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The past is never truly left in the past. It can be carried over.
Yeah but it's the digitally remastered past. Watching a video of Woodstock isn't the same as being there when it happened

I would have paid good money to see Aerosmith live back when Steven Tyler was still hot.
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Old 09-22-2010, 06:48 PM
 
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we had fun throwing those things around when i was a kid.



what the utilities are doing is setting up solar farms, like wind farms only with mirrors, to generate solar power on a large scale. there are a few experimental farms here in arizona as well as in nevada, and there is one planned for california. as i said, it is already happening, but it takes time to build the infrastructure.
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Optimistically treating European Commission partially funded data1, we find that for every renewable energy job that the State manages to finance, Spain’s experience cited by President Obama as a model reveals with high confidence, by two different methods, that the U.S. should expect a loss of at least 2.2 jobs on average, or about 9 jobs lost for every 4 created, to which we have to add those jobs that non-subsidized investments with the same resources would have created.

The study calculates that since 2000 Spain spent €571,138 to create each “green job”, including subsidies of more than €1 million per wind industry job.

The study calculates that the programs creating those jobs also resulted in the destruction of nearly 110,500 jobs elsewhere in the economy, or 2.2 jobs destroyed for every “green job” created.
http://www.juandemariana.org/pdf/090...-renewable.pdf
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Old 09-22-2010, 07:29 PM
 
Location: lake zurich, il
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Yeah but it's the digitally remastered past. Watching a video of Woodstock isn't the same as being there when it happened

I would have paid good money to see Aerosmith live back when Steven Tyler was still hot.
Oh I bet. What I wouldn't have given to have been alive and have gone to woodstock. If I got to see 1 band from the past when they were in their prime, I would choose Def Leppard. I was thinking of saying the Beatles but the sound may have been a bit too grainy back then. Their music is great (obviously) but I like clean sounding music so remastered is the way for me.
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