xdude
Who switched off the lights?
magenta
I did. It really made me appreciate electricity.
Speedhump
Was going to but had major problems with Emirates, booking flight tickets online so totally forgot :(
xdude
i did as well.. but could see very few ppl really followed it..
Snow
I don't have lights...
Misery Called Life
We did, den we sat in the patio, at a friends place....n den it rained! Waz quite beautiful!
XPClone
Why are you typing like a 14 year old?
RobbyG
- XPClone wrote:
Why are you typing like a 14 year old?
Look at your avatar. He's mimicking you momentarily.
:?
desertdudeshj
Why would I want to switch off my lights. I like my lights, so much so that some of them are on 24/7 ;)
kanelli
We did! Played Monopoly by candle light.
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Chocoholic
- desertdudeshj wrote:
Why would I want to switch off my lights. I like my lights, so much so that some of them are on 24/7 ;)
Idiot!
Speedhump
- Chocoholic wrote:
- desertdudeshj wrote:
Why would I want to switch off my lights. I like my lights, so much so that some of them are on 24/7 ;)
Idiot!
Sounds like the national living opposite me, around twenty very bright wall lights plus four glaring spots on every night for 12 hours....it's like sleeping in Santa's grotto.
Misery Called Life
- Speedhump wrote:
- Chocoholic wrote:
- desertdudeshj wrote:
Why would I want to switch off my lights. I like my lights, so much so that some of them are on 24/7 ;)
Idiot!
Sounds like the national living opposite me, around twenty very bright wall lights plus four glaring spots on every night for 12 hours....it's like sleeping in Santa's grotto.
Santa's Grotto .....:lol: :lol: :lol:
Misery Called Life
- RobbyG wrote:
- XPClone wrote:
Why are you typing like a 14 year old?
Look at your avatar. He's mimicking you momentarily.
:?
:D :lol:
Chocoholic
- Speedhump wrote:
- Chocoholic wrote:
- desertdudeshj wrote:
Why would I want to switch off my lights. I like my lights, so much so that some of them are on 24/7 ;)
Idiot!
Sounds like the national living opposite me, around twenty very bright wall lights plus four glaring spots on every night for 12 hours....it's like sleeping in Santa's grotto.
When they're out, why don't you sneak round and replace all the bulbs with energy saving lights instead!
gtmash
- Chocoholic wrote:
- Speedhump wrote:
- Chocoholic wrote:
- desertdudeshj wrote:
Why would I want to switch off my lights. I like my lights, so much so that some of them are on 24/7 ;)
Idiot!
Sounds like the national living opposite me, around twenty very bright wall lights plus four glaring spots on every night for 12 hours....it's like sleeping in Santa's grotto.
When they're out, why don't you sneak round and replace all the bulbs with energy saving lights instead!
That's the dream. Having expats work for free.
Speedhump
- gtmash wrote:
- Chocoholic wrote:
- Speedhump wrote:
- Chocoholic wrote:
- desertdudeshj wrote:
Why would I want to switch off my lights. I like my lights, so much so that some of them are on 24/7 ;)
Idiot!
Sounds like the national living opposite me, around twenty very bright wall lights plus four glaring spots on every night for 12 hours....it's like sleeping in Santa's grotto.
When they're out, why don't you sneak round and replace all the bulbs with energy saving lights instead!
That's the dream. Having expats work for free.
LOL, funny!
I have thought of buying an air rifle and sitting up at night having fun.
But in truth I've got used to it, so I actually forgot what it's like to sleep in the dark, it might scare me.....
desertdudeshj
- Chocoholic wrote:
- desertdudeshj wrote:
Why would I want to switch off my lights. I like my lights, so much so that some of them are on 24/7 ;)
Idiot!
:laughing2: :laughing1: :laughing5: Oh man its so wasy to get you guys all wriled up even for the simplest thing.
Oh BTW wdoes it make it better if it was a light saver :D
Chocoholic
Energy saving light bulbs don't require as much power and they last soooo much longer than normal bulbs.
desertdudeshj
- Chocoholic wrote:
Energy saving light bulbs don't require as much power and they last soooo much longer than normal bulbs.
Oh plz choc. Please spare me sermon. I don't think you're very good at diffrentiating sarcasm from reality !
Chocoholic
Not when it comes to something that is serious and affects us all.
Maybe you need to grow up a bit hey!
desertdudeshj
Whatever ...
Chocoholic
Pfff typical 'I don't give a crap' reply - as expected.
With people like you around our planet is pretty much doomed.
sharfraz
I normally dont waste much on these...
there are people over here who dont even know about it...
:?
rudeboy
now theres a new technology out. its new for UAE but old for the west. technologys called Smart Homes. seen it some places in uae. you can switch the lights off at your home while you sit in your office.
Snow
- rudeboy wrote:
now theres a new technology out. its new for UAE but old for the west. technologys called Smart Homes. seen it some places in uae. you can switch the lights off at your home while you sit in your office.
that's really stupid. Imagine somebody hacking your Smart Home system and gaining access to your house's electricity 24/7.
desertdudeshj
- Chocoholic wrote:
Pfff typical 'I don't give a crap' reply - as expected.
With people like you around our planet is pretty much doomed.
Yes I really don't give a crap. Planet can go to the dogs for all I care. 8)
Personally I'm sick of this green schmreen crap. Its just another big industry. I'll take a good ol' Petrol Chugging V8 with the carbon footprint as big as Alaska over a hybrid anyday 8) 8) 8) .
So all you greenies out there can kiss my black methane producing @ss :wink:
RobbyG
- desertdudeshj wrote:
- Chocoholic wrote:
Pfff typical 'I don't give a crap' reply - as expected.
With people like you around our planet is pretty much doomed.
Yes I really don't give a crap. Planet can go to the dogs for all I care. 8)
Personally I'm sick of this green schmreen crap. Its just another big industry. I'll take a good ol' Petrol Chugging V8 with the carbon footprint as big as Alaska over a hybrid anyday 8) 8) 8) .
So all you greenies out there can kiss my black methane producing @ss :wink:
As long as you keep your 'smog' ass in the desert, its fine by me :lol:
rudeboy
- Snow wrote:
- rudeboy wrote:
now theres a new technology out. its new for UAE but old for the west. technologys called Smart Homes. seen it some places in uae. you can switch the lights off at your home while you sit in your office.
that's really stupid. Imagine somebody hacking your Smart Home system and gaining access to your house's electricity 24/7.
they cant.
they using network. am not talking about any network. am talking about the secure networks which police and armies use.
can you really hack a wireless network?
Speedhump
- rudeboy wrote:
- Snow wrote:
- rudeboy wrote:
now theres a new technology out. its new for UAE but old for the west. technologys called Smart Homes. seen it some places in uae. you can switch the lights off at your home while you sit in your office.
that's really stupid. Imagine somebody hacking your Smart Home system and gaining access to your house's electricity 24/7.
they cant.
they using network. am not talking about any network. am talking about the secure networks which police and armies use.
can you really hack a wireless network?
dumbest post so far this year by anyone, including my ripping into gtmash by mistake.... :D
they will allow you to use the wireless frequencies that the police and
army use....hahaha....
and no, no-one has ever hacked a wireless network ;)
they only thing I would say is I'd like to see someone steal electricity over a home network, wired or wireless....
Snow
- Speedhump wrote:
- rudeboy wrote:
- Snow wrote:
- rudeboy wrote:
now theres a new technology out. its new for UAE but old for the west. technologys called Smart Homes. seen it some places in uae. you can switch the lights off at your home while you sit in your office.
that's really stupid. Imagine somebody hacking your Smart Home system and gaining access to your house's electricity 24/7.
they cant.
they using network. am not talking about any network. am talking about the secure networks which police and armies use.
can you really hack a wireless network?
dumbest post so far this year by anyone, including my ripping into gtmash by mistake.... :D
they will allow you to use the wireless frequencies that the police and
army use....hahaha....
and no, no-one has ever hacked a wireless network ;)
they only thing I would say is I'd like to see someone steal electricity over a home network, wired or wireless....
They'll give a scare by turning on the TV in the middle of the night. Or switching off the lights when you're hosting a party. In other words, they'll ruin your life.
RedKite
Al Gore ....the HYPOCRITE...left spotlights on his trees at his home in Nashville , Tennessee
Did You people all turn off the light?
And turn the day into night?
" Well stuff all the poor!!"
Said wealthy Al Gore!!
As he left all his trees shining bright!!
The idea was to save Planet Earth
And remember what this world was worth,
But in that one hour,
Did we save that much power?
As burglars hailed darkness with mirth !!
The Real Meaning of Earth Hour
By Keith Lockitch (March 23, 2009)
On Saturday, March 28, cities around the world will turn off their lights to observe “Earth Hour.” Iconic landmarks from the Sydney Opera House to Manhattan’s skyscrapers will be darkened to encourage reduced energy use and signal a commitment to fighting climate change.
While a one-hour blackout will admittedly have little effect on carbon emissions, what matters, organizers say, is the event’s symbolic meaning. That’s true, but not in the way organizers intend.
We hear constantly that the debate is over on climate change--that man-made greenhouse gases are indisputably causing a planetary emergency. But there is ample scientific evidence to reject the claims of climate catastrophe. And what’s never mentioned? The fact that reducing greenhouse gases to the degree sought by climate activists would, itself, cause significant harm.
Politicians and environmentalists, including those behind Earth Hour, are not calling on people just to change a few light bulbs, they are calling for a truly massive reduction in carbon emissions--as much as 80 percent below 1990 levels. Because our energy is overwhelmingly carbon-based (fossil fuels provide more than 80 percent of world energy), and because the claims of abundant “green energy” from breezes and sunbeams are a myth--this necessarily means a massive reduction in our energy use.
People don’t have a clear view of what this would mean in practice. We, in the industrialized world, take our abundant energy for granted and don’t consider just how much we benefit from its use in every minute of every day. Driving our cars to work and school, sitting in our lighted, heated homes and offices, powering our computers and countless other labor-saving appliances, we count on the indispensable values that industrial energy makes possible: hospitals and grocery stores, factories and farms, international travel and global telecommunications. It is hard for us to project the degree of sacrifice and harm that proposed climate policies would force upon us.
This blindness to the vital importance of energy is precisely what Earth Hour exploits. It sends the comforting-but-false message: Cutting off fossil fuels would be easy and even fun! People spend the hour stargazing and holding torch-lit beach parties; restaurants offer special candle-lit dinners. Earth Hour makes the renunciation of energy seem like a big party.
Participants spend an enjoyable sixty minutes in the dark, safe in the knowledge that the life-saving benefits of industrial civilization are just a light switch away. This bears no relation whatsoever to what life would actually be like under the sort of draconian carbon-reduction policies that climate activists are demanding: punishing carbon taxes, severe emissions caps, outright bans on the construction of power plants.
Forget one measly hour with just the lights off. How about Earth Month, without any form of fossil fuel energy? Try spending a month shivering in the dark without heating, electricity, refrigeration; without power plants or generators; without any of the labor-saving, time-saving, and therefore life-saving products that industrial energy makes possible.
Those who claim that we must cut off our carbon emissions to prevent an alleged global catastrophe need to learn the indisputable fact that cutting off our carbon emissions would be a global catastrophe. What we really need is greater awareness of just how indispensable carbon-based energy is to human life (including, of course, to our ability to cope with any changes in the climate).
It is true that the importance of Earth Hour is its symbolic meaning. But that meaning is the opposite of the one intended. The lights of our cities and monuments are a symbol of human achievement, of what mankind has accomplished in rising from the cave to the skyscraper. Earth Hour presents the disturbing spectacle of people celebrating those lights being extinguished. Its call for people to renounce energy and to rejoice at darkened skyscrapers makes its real meaning unmistakably clear: Earth Hour symbolizes the renunciation of industrial civilization.
Keith Lockitch, PhD in physics, is a resident fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute, focusing on science and environmentalism. The Institute promotes Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand--author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.
desertdudeshj
Not to mention that " The Green Movement " is just another money making venture like the people offering cures for the millenium bug. Also not to mention the fact the cows and forest produce more green house gases than whole of humanity combined !
Some people just need to cling on to an issue to make them feel all better about themselves and to somehow cancel out all the other "bad" sh!t they do. So by plonking in a few lightsavers they feel they are doing "their" part.
Misery Called Life
While the Burj, went off for an hour, to commemorate earth hour, elsewhere the Coldplay concert which generated 600 tonnes of carbon waste more made up for the Burj.
The fallacy is that apparantly the concert is "Carbon-Neutral" (wateva that means), jus cuz the organizers will invest part of the proceeds in a wind farm in NZ, they will also air an earth video :laughing5: , and install recycling bins all over the place--Since wen do u recycle plastic! :scratch:
kanelli
Maybe Al Gore's spotlights for his trees charge by solar power during the day?
Everyone should care about not wasting and at least make an effort to have a smaller footprint with our daily living. The evidence about the impact on the earth and our environment is out there right under our noses, and it is ignorant to bury our heads in the sand about it.
Speedhump
- kanelli wrote:
Maybe Al Gore's spotlights for his trees charge by solar power during the day?
Everyone should care about not wasting and at least make an effort to have a smaller footprint with our daily living. The evidence about the impact on the earth and our environment is out there right under our noses, and it is ignorant to bury our heads in the sand about it.
Try telling that to one or two of the knuckle draggers that have posted above (well, one in particular has tried to wind people up). The sad fact is that nothing will change until it is made law in as many countries as possible, for both business and private persons to reduce energy consumption in specific ways. That's reduce...not cut completely as the article that RedKite quoted seems to want to scare us with, and which mentions 'harm' to us, how? Nobody says cut power to hospitals for example.
'Harm' to our lifestyles, that's what everyone is so scared of. Only laws will make it happen I think. We all have
at least one energy extravagance we feel guilty about.