And I’m not going keep my receipt for every light bulb I buy to claim the warranty.

The utility room analogy is actually pretty irrelevant, since every single light bulb burning out(and there have been many), has happened when turning on the power switch.

Being able to dim light is a biiiiig part of it, too. If you’ve lived the X-10 lifestyle for 10 yrs, you don’t want to go back to a life with non-remote-dimming. It’s frickin’ bright. They *do* have dimmable ones, but they don’t sell ‘em at home depot, so you can tack on shipping costs as well.

How does one cash in on their “Warranties” anyway… THey owe me some bulbs!

I have somewhat of an opposite effect — we replace incandescents more often than CFLs, but it’s hard to make a fair assessment because we don’t use an equal number of them.

We do have a light on in the utility room 24/7 because the built-in light died, there’s no switch, and having to go across the room everytime you use it would suck. I think a CFL there was a good choice… close enough to the breaker box that it seems to not get surged [i have no idea of proximity really matters!], and since it’s on 24/7, there’s no stress from turning it off/no. I don’t think it’s been replaced yet, and it’s been a long time.

Also, since they don’t run as hot, they can be hit by more direct rain, for outside lights with cracked/missing globes. I have one that I have NOT been able to replace the globe on. As in, they don’t sell them at Home Depot, can’t special order them, and I haven’t been able to find ‘em online… Short of buying a whole new outdoor light, the CFLs helped there… the incandescents would burn out almost every rainstorm from the thermal shock

They need to hurry up with affordable LEDs that are actually BRIGHT.

http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200907/1246487551.html
http://www.ticketnews.com/Live-Nation-is-sued-over-fees-and-No-Fee-Wednesdays-at-PNC-Bank-Arts-Center-in-New-Jersey709213?utm_source=ticker
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/freehold_concertgoer_sues_live.html

Other photon may only persist for minutes. Reflected sunlight would be an example of that. It takes about 8 minutes for those photons to travel to earth. Then they reflect off of something, and the energy gets absorbed by our retinas.

It’s still light pollution, and I don’t care about the semantics.

Many are to blame for this. The Ticket sellers, the venues, the bands and the fans. The Ticket sellers add the service fee. The parking/facility fees go to the venue. Maybe 10 years ago, the venues needed TicketMaster, but in this day and age, there’s absolutely no … Read Morereason a venue should not be able to manage it’s own ticket sales over the internet. The bands(or their promoters) choose the venues, but ultimately, that’s still on the band’s head. I can go see some perfectly good shows at WolfTrap. Granted, there’s still a service fee, but it’s less. And lastly, the fans are to blame for actually paying these exorbitant fees.”

@Greg- the only way for that effort to continue was for others to begin conducting business the same way: refusing to play venues that only sold tickets through TicketMaster. PJ got essentially no support in that effort, and in that climate, I’d have probably also thrown up my … Read Morehands and said, “Fine, fuck it if no one else wants to step up.” No one band was ever going to beat TM, but I give them credit for trying to get the ball rolling. The fact that no one else was willing to turn it into a snowball rolling downhill isn’t on them as far as I’m concerned.”

Seriously though, had that effort continued we might not be paying the extortion ticket rates we’re paying today, is all I’m saying. I remember them publicly admitting defeat and giving up, didn’t know the other details about it.”