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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Where are the 'idiot steps' , as you put it, for when an incandescent light breaks ?

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In a bold move Republicans have seized control of the House of Representives and forced Nancy Pelosi and her minions to flee the Capitol.

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
...and setting us on the path of ruin which has finally caught up with us as our supposedly great nation slides down the pike into the gutter with other third world juntas.

The bloody and ruinous legacy of monsters like Hamilton, Adams, Lincoln, and Marshall haunts us still...

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
...one to curse the Liberals for creating an environment that makes us dependent on light for illumination in the first place.

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Originally posted by Hero:
[...] exported liberty to the entire world.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Where are the 'idiot steps' , as you put it, for when an incandescent light breaks ?

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Electricity use is the main source of mercury emissions in the U.S. CFLs use less electricity than incandescent
lights, meaning CFLs reduce the amount of mercury into the environment. As shown in the table below, a 13-watt,
8,000-rated-hour-life CFL (60-watt equivalent; a common light bulb type) will save 376 kWh over its lifetime, thus
avoiding 4.5 mg of mercury. If the bulb goes to a landfill, overall emissions savings would drop a little, to 4.2 mg.
EPA recommends that CFLs are recycled where possible, to maximize mercury savings.

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Originally posted by Hero:
Light has always been a conservative notion. God created light, then Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. God, the original right wing religeous type and Edison, inventor and businessman (ie conservative entrepeneur).

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Originally posted by citizen:
Certainly Edison was right wing. He stole the invention of the Lightbulb from Nikoli Tesla and passed it off as his own, like nearly all 'his' inventions in fact.

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
...one to curse the Liberals for creating an environment that makes us dependent on light for illumination in the first place.

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Light has always been a conservative notion. God created light, then Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. God, the original right wing religeous type and Edison, inventor and businessman (ie conservative entrepeneur).

Liberals are the ones who wants us in the dark. www.lightsoutsf.org

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Originally posted by Hero:
[...] exported liberty to the entire world.

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Still some way to go before this has happened.

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Originally posted by Hero:The only thing Tesla ever invented was wacky conspiracy theories.

I note for the record that Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb in 1879. That same year Mr. Tesla, working as an assistant engineer in Serbia, had a nervous breakdown.

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In addition, Edison was not the first to patent the modern design of the lightbulb. It seems that an inventor named Joseph Swan demonstrated the same carbon filament lightbulb in Newcastle at least ten months prior to Edison's announcement. In addition, Swan received a British patent in 1878 for the same bulb that Edison patented in the U. S. in 1879.
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Edison lost in the British courts for infringement of Swan's patent. As part of the settlement, Edison was forced to take Swan in as a partner in his British electric works. The company was called the Edison and Swan United Electric Company. Eventually, Edison acquired all of Swan's interest in the company.

In the United States, Edison didn't have the chance to put up a fight. The U.S. Patent Office had ruled on October 8, 1883 that Edison's patents were based on the prior art of a man named William Sawyer and were invalid. In addition, Swan had already sold his U.S. patent rights to the Brush Electric Company in June of 1882.

So why does Edison get all the credit for the invention of the lightbulb?

Very simple, he owned the power company - what was to eventually become General Electric.

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Originally posted by citizen:
Edison LOST a court battle in Britain to Joseph Swan who held a British patent dated 1878:

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Those thirteen free states were ruined by becoming fifty free states united into a single nation that not only freed the slaves in this country but exported liberty to the entire world.

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Ruined by building the strongest, most productive nation in the history of the world.

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Ruined by building a nation capable of beating the Nazis and the bad Japs and then kind enough to help rebuild the Germans and good Japs and turn them into friends.

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Ruined by extremely long periods of peace on this continent.

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Ruined by ever increasing life spans and standards of living.

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Ruined by creating a nation where women and men are free to be equal and were different races and religeons can co-exist in harmony (or at least indifference).

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Ruined by creating a nation that provides more aid and comfort to persons displaced by tragedy then any other nation in the history of the world.

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Maybe you don't understand the meaning of the word 'ruin'.

Its " Total destruction or disintegration, either physical, moral, social, or economic."

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In any event I note for the record that you remain alive and free to say stupid stuff...which is just more proof of the legacy of ruin you are free to enjoy.

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