California ("Land of the Free" Bans Large TV's

it won't happen.

they'll just put a tax on the tv's larger than 40"--like a luxury tax.
 

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Just stick wheels on the TV - call it an all electric vehicle - Arnie won't know any difference :p
 

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Barman58 said:
Just stick wheels on the TV - call it an all electric vehicle - Arnie won't know any difference :p
Click to expand...

As usual, Nigel not only cuts to the quick, but has the right answer.:)
 

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Antman said:
We are missing the opportunity to fuel coal-burning power plants with dead politicians.
Click to expand...

ah ha ha ahhaahahahaaaa (verbatim maniacal laughter?)

there isnt enough of em....
well, if they keep up with these asinine laws...

OT/> maybe/> being an owner of said big-a** TVs, and not living in that all to 'eco-friendly' state of CA, uh... sucks to be them?.. :confused:

maybe we could saw of the entire state, and they can go 'chill' with Russia... or Guam (depends whichever way they float, i imagine). that would cut the US' energy consumption *shrugs* :cool:
 

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holo88 said:

maybe we could saw of the entire state, and they can go 'chill' with Russia...
Click to expand...
At least they'll have good computers to play with:
LANL's Roadrunner, LLL's upcoming Sequoia, and other neat stuff... :cry:

ASC's national laboratories collaborations with Russian Institutes


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Barman58 said:
Just stick wheels on the TV - call it an all electric vehicle - Arnie won't know any difference :p
Click to expand...

LMAO....... good one Nigel ;)
 

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its a continual ''work in progress''....
It'll never pass you need atleast a 40in to get Arnolds head in view. Don't really care movin to Texas soon. The state with 2 fast lanes 1 on the highways and the other on deathrow.
 

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TheSchaft said:
I believe that the ban - if it occurs and stands - is on plasma TVs because of the power consumption. Large screen LCDs would be OK, as I recall.
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From all of the studying and such that I have done, I believe that the "dramatic" increase in power consumption of a plasma these days for the average family equates to about $20 in 1 year over an LCD. I recently was shopping for a new TV and did quite a bit of research. At the end of the day I went with a Panasonic Plasma as the extra energy cost was well worth the significant performance gains over comparably priced LCD sets. And to be honest, didn't notice 1 bit of difference in my energy bill over the LCD tv that the plasma was replacing.
 

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If this policy is one concerned with saving energy one interesting potential case would be that of someone who upgrades their old inefficient CRT TV to a large screen Plasma TV thus reducing consumption.

Simple Knee-jerk reactions rarely if ever work :)
 

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In a constant energy crunch the State entertained a bid recently to create 3 wind farms that would have lessened their need for power by almost 15%...
Nancy Pelosi and her crew had the proposal shot down citing enviornmental impact concerns...

California...land of fruits and nuts.
And some of them even get elected.
 

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patio said:
...........
California...land of fruits and nuts.
And some of them even get elected.
Click to expand...

Another one

Q) What does California and a Granola Bar have in common ?

A) If you take away all the fruits and Nuts all you've got left are the flakes.

(Mind you they don't have the monopoly of stupid politicians -- G. Bush, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown immediately spring to mind but the world is FULL of them. These 3 however were the most dangerous recently involving people in dubious wars without any purpose of what to actually do and with no exit strategy -- however that's definitely another topic as we're getting dubiously close to Politics).

Cheers
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Lotsa dubious goin on there...
 

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