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26 replies on “Right Angle: Backstage (07-27-2021)”
In this area, we have our masks on and use eye drops daily due to the smoke and ash in the air all around us. A real bummer and a bad fire season.
Also, I wonder why the dem’s didn’t ask for Texas Pride, Lone Star, a real Texas beer.
The question is not: Why doesn’t Bozo have to wear a mask when everyone else does?
The question is: Why is ANYONE wearing a mask and submitting to the non-scientific fascist diktats?
This is America. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WEAR A MASK. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO TAKE AN EXPERIMENTAL SHOT.
Just stop. Do not comply any more.
Get some ivermectin and stop being afraid.
And use the BW.com to avoid the screwtube commercials.
“Why did the rest of us have to wear a mask and he didn’t?”
Because you allowed it to be forced on you.
Always enjoy Backstage.
The (lack of wisdom) behind masks on airplanes. Pressurized tube, A/C circulates the volume of air between 3 and 5xs as frequently as typical a/c and scrubs the air. Imagine 200 people exhaling for 6 hours without some type of CO2 scrubbing.
But yea, keep that mask on peasant.
Festus was great.
Bill, the Leftist don’t WANT us driving our own car. EVs or otherwise. They want us taking public transport and are loving the effects of this chip shortage. And the proles can only take public transport if we have prior approval and the destination is a state approved activity.
I know you guys have already recorded the shows and it only really came out this morn but maybe next week you folks can talk about California, OR, WA and a couple other states outlawing gaming computers.
For games of chance at gambling establishments or the kind you cool kids use for Call of Duty?
The Call of Duty type. Because they “use too much electricity” to be allowed by the peasantry.
These are the same states that have HOA and localities that ban drying clothes outsides, right? Forcing people to use those highly efficient dryers.
Then those types would crap themselves to death if they saw how much electricity my computer gear uses. Besides a lot of other stuff I have a single box that uses +1200W, that one machine uses almost as much as having a space heater running 24/7/365. That room has to have AC running nearly all the time and never needs to be heated in the winter.
And I do virtually no gaming at all.
I’m curious, how do they intend to enforce this ban? Not allow people to buy ready-made gaming systems? Most serious gamers, the kind that would be an issue power-wise, build their own systems. Are they going to stop Amazon etc. from shipping certain components to their states?
What about people with legitimate uses for that gear outside the gaming world? A machine configured for audio/video processing and animation is virtually indistinguishable from a gaming machine.
I see a huge black market in computer gear on the horizon.
If CA is among those states, Bill Whittle better hurry up and upgrade his systems to the max.
That’s the trick. You’re not allowed to sell pre-built gamin rigs in CA. And places like Amazon and Dell won’t ship computers models ID’d by the ban to CA addresses. It’s still legal to buy all the pieces parts and assemble you’re own rig.
Yeah, I know re animation. I don’t see where this ban is either legal or enforceable. I hope it get struck down quickly.
I hope it gets struck down quickly too. Because it’s a very dangerous precedent to force retailers and vendors to comply with arbitrary “green” laws.
For instance — What about someone who has their own off grid power equipment (like solar or wind) and sells back their excess electricity to the utilities? Are they not entitled to use their own power as they see fit?
If they can ban gaming computers, they can force the auto manufacturers not to ship or sell certain models of vehicles in their states.
I don’t think this will last but … If it does I’m seriously considering offering a trans-shipment business to repackage and reship gaming or other banned systems to those states. I looked at the specs they’re using to determine if something is banned or not and it’s an algorithm based on components. If I separate enough components from the gaming system package so it no longer meets the ban and ship those components in a separate package for the end user to re-assemble I don’t think they can do anything to me according to their own silly law.
Etc.
It’s like the “bullet button”. Someone will find a way to negate the stupidity of the law and make a buck at it while they do.
Steve had an article at PJ about this yesterday. Includes the points about gamers building their own systems plus others. This is virtue signaling at its highest. Don’t fix the electrical systems, come down on the little guys. But the couple hundred data centers that use enormous amounts of energy, crickets.
… and those states want and love those data centers because they mean jobs and infrastructure. Above and beyond the power consumed by the data equipment, those places have massive air conditioning systems to keep that gear cool enough to function. They’re double power suckers in that regard.
I don’t have a variable rate from my power provider but if I did I would seriously consider a Tesla Powerwall. That equipment can be configured to suck down electricity in the “super-off-peak” hours when rates are cheaper, then release it back into the local electrical system during peak hours when power is more expensive.
I have a fairly robust generator system for outages so if the price of a Powerwall comes down and off-peak and super-off-peak rates become available to me I would probably seriously consider that. If the Powerwall paid for itself in a couple/few years it would be a no-brainer.
This thing with banning certain IT equipment to end users is ridiculous. I don’t have any figures but I’d be willing to bet that people sitting at home playing games on high end packaged gaming computers uses far less than 1% of total grid consumption. This is just a way to put the pinch on the “little guy” so he falls into line. It brings home the social narrative of “green-ness”. I’m certain that’s the purpose as it has no significant benefit to macro electrical and environmental conservation.
The same goes for almost all modern, domestic recycling operations. The household waste stream in the U.S. is less than 2% of total waste generated. If you put things in the blue can or not, the large scale impact is nil and null. In fact, there are some pretty serious arguments that recycling household waste does more harm than good for the global environment.
Yet I know that if I try to point that out to my fellow conservatives, even those who are close friends and respect my opinion, they’ll just turn their ears off and wait for the conversation to take another tack.
Household recycling has been with us for a generation and has become an almost religious ceremonial right. It had its purpose during the energy crisis in the ’70’s when due to the electrical aspects of producing usable aluminum and other modern metals it paid to recycle them. That doesn’t pay anymore. There is no energy crisis unless the Left artificially creates one.
Recycling serves a significant purpose no longer but people have been trained to do it and feel good about doing it, as now the attempt is being made to train them to obey the Greenies and not buy packaged high end gaming systems.
I was certainly remiss in not bringing up the power suck for Data Centers as I both work for and have clients that mfg large HVAC Chillers. And while those are sold / purchased on total life cycle cost for most of the world (I.e. not China), which has in turn caused demand for more efficiency (lower power consumption) an argument can be made that the push for lower “global warming potential” refrigerants increases power requirements. Thus negating any possible benefit of the lower GWP fluid. Which was always silly as equipment mfgs and users go to great pains to keep the working fluid inside the vessel due to cost and efficiency. If you are bleeding off your working fluid, you are not doing a very good job of chilling water.
The push for lower GWP refrigerants is always one that galls me as I recall earlier in my career when we would have open beakers of Freon on Trichloroethane that we used as solvents. Now we take much better care of our environment, but it is never enough.
Aye, “Never Enough” seems to be the end goal of our political foes. Perpetuating the puerile, parasitic and preposterous serves their political interests in exactly the same way that the opposite serves ours.
Even when, as you point out, the market drives the very thing they demand. Market forces though far more effective and imperative than laws do not seem to satisfy the Left to any discernable degree.
This sort of proves by default that their goals are not what they say they are. Like the fact that anyone anywhere who is concerned about something like GWP fluids should be the loudest and most enthusiastic support of nuclear energy too.
When words do not match deeds, the words are false.
The other 199 of you are obedient sheep. Sorry Scott. I’m w/ the Slack Jaw Yokel.
So am I. Refusal to wear masks is our obligation as the first step to fight the tyranny.
But Steve, modern Americans NEED instruction on their socks
Larry made Gloria Allred cry once. It’ was glorious.
Once payday comes around, I’m giving monies to Larry Elder.
Ditto!
Olympics? Don’t care, don’t care, oh god don’t care.
OK the world is officially ending California Recall might actually work, No one cares about the Olympics and Chip Manufacture is a National Security Issue and unspecified topics from Steve. Sounds like a good week. Get well soon Steve and Bill check out Juan Browne “blancolirio” also known as Mover a former fighter pilot who now is a Commercial Pilot on a Boeing 777. He is the real deal and has a home in Northern California as well as Louisiana.