Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Government gift card, Digital TV

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Hah,  I used my government issued digital tv card to by a digital TV converter today at Walmart.  Guess What?  I get the same number of channels over digital (0ver the air) TV, as I get on Analog (over the air) TV.   ZERO!

Oh well,  I guess I’ll alway’s have the thing,  should someone ever decide to put in a broadcasting station we can receive.

EBAY follow up, retro

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

My latest opinion of EBAY is,  they are still cheating!  I tried a few bids before they banned guns,  and was very unhappy with the results.  When they banned guns,  I promptly deleted my account.  A week or so ago,  in a moment of weakness,  while wishing for new fishing lures for spring,  I created a new Ebay account and have been running bids on various fishing lures.   All I can say is,  IF THESE AUCTIONS AREN’T RIGGED,  THEN EBAY HAS A REAL PROBLEM WITH THE TECHNOLOGY THEY’RE USING TO RUN THE AUCTIONS.   Not to mention some of the bidder’s I’m running into, live somewhere way outside of reality.  Items auctioning close to double what they can be purchased for,  are not uncommon!

There are NO happy Ebay customers on this end of the cable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nuclear Energy

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

The latest edition of Imprimis, has an article by William Tucker,  making a very good case for the use of Nuclear Energy in the USA.  Definately worth a read,  even if you’re not interested,  you will probably learn a lot!

“France has been providing 90 percent of their Electicity with Nuclear Power for 25 years,  without an accident.  And stores ALL of it’s Nuclear waste in a single room”

“Three Mile Island did not blow up,  (physically impossible),  it did melt down.  No one was injured,  and the amount of radiation released was less than a chest x-ray”  This is because the Three Mile Island plant was correctly built.  Chernobyl melted down,  and spewed radioactive material across the globe,  because it was NOT correctly built. 

Bottom Line: When dealing with Nuclear Power,  one must do things correctly.

The US produces 50 percent of it’s electricity from Coal,  A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TO GLOBAL WARMING. 

Natural Gas, is the cleanest form of Energy.  We have comparibly limited supplies.  Russia and the Middle East have basically unlimited supplies of Natural Gas.  The former Soviet Union, China, India, and Europe,  has access to a boundless supply of cheap, clean energy in Natural Gas. 

If I’ve picked your interest at all,  take the link to Imprimus .   You might even decide to subscribe,  it’s FREE!

~~>GB

Now This, is Global Warming

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

This snipped from Ballseye’s Boomers.

Scientist’s predict the end of life on Earth.

I guess this “kind of” vindicates Al’s weird theory. ;-)

Solunar Tables, for hunting/fishing

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Free Solunar Prediction and Forecast tables, created for your U.S. or Canadian location.

Cool,  every little trick helps.  You get,  Sun Data, Moon Data, major Activity Times, Minor Activity Times,  and a General Predition of daily fishing quality. 

Blu-Ray wins, HD DVD down for the count!

Monday, February 18th, 2008

That’s what they’re saying here.