Sep 16 2009

Solar Plant to Power 3 Million Homes

Category: Politics, Society, The EnvironmentJoz @ 9:58 pm

is being built!!… in China :|  COME ON AMERICA!!!, we can’t just depend on Google for everything.  Remember when we used to be cutting edge? *sigh*

Anyway, it’ll cost China $5 billion.  /me gets out his pencil and puts on his elementary-school-student math hat:  Now, $5 billion to power 3 million homes.  That’s about $1.7 billion for one million homes.  America has about 110 million homes.  110 times 1.7 billion equals $187 billion…

…so, that would cost us $187 billion to do for all our homes.  The war in Iraq wasted $700 billion.  So, if we spent only 25% of that money on solar power here in the US, we’d have every single home powered for free.  Figure we use more electricity than the average Chinese home, and that construction costs are higher here, maybe that’ll push it to 50% or 75% of the cost of the Iraq war?  Hell, take that other 25% and start powering apartments and businesses since we’re done with homes, and since we’re still spending money on Iraq, maybe by the time that’s all done and paid for we could have had free infinite power for the entire country.  Are we running out of money to power everything in my math here?  Hmmm.. I have those Afghanistan war costs somewhere here…

Oh and by the way, this would reduce our carbon footprint by about a gazillion times!  Maybe we could all have electric cars, and never have to pay for the energy to run them - even less pollution!  You might not even mind paying extra for them, because you’d NEVER EVER HAVE TO BUY ENERGY TO USE THEM!!  The lord and earth would love it and say

Finally, they’ve not only seen the light, but they’ve used it!

The second coming of Jesus Christ might even occur due to such delight.  He might be like “Whattup, I know some of you thought I was supposed to come back when stuff was real bad or whatever, but meh, I had to use it now instead cause I just had to personally give props.  Word!” *poof*

But NO, we couldn’t possibly spend that much money on that!!  Are you crazy?

*rolls eyes*

I have a feeling that “we couldn’t even possibly spend that much money on it” even if there were no war.

Anyway go ahead China, let the clowning begin.  I’ve got my smile on and my eyes closed, ready for that pie in the face…


Sep 14 2009

Fuck Kanye West

Category: Music, Mysteries, SocietyJoz @ 10:17 pm

Kanye,

You are the biggest douchebag there fucking is.  You make it an embarrassment to be a fan of yours.  I had a backlogged post to finish about high regards for your 808’s & Hearthbreak album - deleted.  I was even going to buy that one and maybe future good ones, but fuck that, I am going to continue pirating your shit for the rest of my life.  I don’t even want to go to your concert anymore.  Lady Gaga should drop out of it too.

WTF were you thinking?  How could you do that to somebody, especially her in this situation.  I guess you just fucking shut off your hearing completely as to what the person is even saying up there because you’re just thinking about what stupid shit YOU’RE about to do, and it is some stupid shit.  You’re such a jackass.

Even the President thinks so, ouch.


Sep 08 2009

Bike + Dog

Category: Fun, My LifeJoz @ 11:06 pm

I wanna get this bike, and then I wanna have this dog ride around in the back with me.glidep8

bikedog


Sep 08 2009

Egg Industry

Category: Chicks, Food, Society, The EnvironmentJoz @ 10:49 pm

Oh for the love of God.  Save watching this video for when you are already in a bad mood or sad.  Viewer discretion advised.

Via TreeHugger.


Sep 06 2009

Childhood Indoctrination

Category: Politics, SocietyJoz @ 1:07 pm

Right-wingers are up in arms over the President addressing America’s children in a back-to-school video.  They think he’s going to indoctrinate them into socialism (even communism according to some freaks), and some of these parents are having their kids not go to school that day.

My take on this is: if a sitting president has a positive approval rating, it shouldn’t really be a big deal.

Actual indoctrination of children that goes on all the time:

  1. Making them say a pledge of allegiance starting before they can even write, when they don’t know what the hell it means.
  2. Forcing a religion onto a child.


Sep 05 2009

Surface Area Required to Power the World (via Solar)

Category: The EnvironmentJoz @ 4:03 pm

In case you haven’t seen this, check it out:

area-required-to-power-worldThey also have a map there of the area required to power the whole world by wind.

Oh, the Lord must be pissed.


Sep 05 2009

Apple’s Half-Assed Green

Category: Technology, The EnvironmentJoz @ 3:55 pm

So they like to claim that they are pretty green, and it’s true that they’ve done some good stuff with reducing the size of their packaging and the materials they use in their computers.  I like that you can buy stuff at the store and just have the receipt emailed to you.  And they are certainly much better than those jackasses in Redmond with their packaging (PLASTIC, and a puzzle just to open, they totally played into their stereotype with that one… unbelievable).  But anyway, back to Apple, something irked me not too long ago.

I wanted to upgrade my iLife to the new version. I was ready to buy it and download it, you know, like as if I lived in the 21st century. Guess what, you can’t. You have to either order it online, or go to the store and pick it up. Now, don’t give me any file size bullshit. If I can buy and download the entire 9GB Adobe CS, then Apple, the much richer company, can handle offering an iLife download.

I had called them to verify that I can’t buy/download it online, and the lady on the phone indeed said that this was not an option. I asked her why not, because then lots of people will have to waste gas going to the store to get it and it’s a waste of packaging. Her response was that I can order it online and have it shipped to me. To which I did a “arrgghhh, but that’s even more of a waste because there’s gonna be an extra box around it, plus shipping it all over the country.” To which she giggled(!), agreed, and said that hopefully they’ll have a download option in the future. WTF Apple!?

This all came rushing back to me after I read about this ridiculousness.

/me does his best sarcastic sorry-sounding Apple voice:

<Apple> oh… but… what about this…?

<Joz> Not bad, but COME ON!!


Sep 05 2009

If you own a Harley Davidson

Category: SocietyJoz @ 3:23 pm

You’re an asshole.

Even more-so if you run that piece of shit between 10pm-9am.


Sep 05 2009

That Space Smell…

Category: PlacesJoz @ 3:21 pm

Returning from a record-long 44 days without blogging.  Welcome back, Joz.  Thanks very much!

I didn’t know space had a smell, did you?

Yes, I know, Fox News article link, I sin, I apologize.


Jul 22 2009

Leg Behind Head with no Hands

Category: SportsJoz @ 1:41 am

FINALLY, the proof.  Joe Rogan only mentions that BJ Penn can put his leg behind his head without using his hands every single time BJ walks out to the octagon.

Also of interest is BJ Jumps out of the Pool.

I had a dream last night that he beat Kenny by decision.


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