The Dirty Secrets of Your TradeSo, Television is a hot bed of lies, deceit and made up competitions. We can't say that we are that surprised... every job is full of this stuff. It's not like the newspapers currently kicking TV whilst it is down are all that innocent.
We'd like you to even things out a bit. Spill the beans on your own trade. Tell us the dirty secrets that the public need to know.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 10:31)
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JuanTheMan RE: Light BulbsYou are of course, spot on the money. Incadescent lightbulbs produce 10% light, and 90% heat, so the energy saved replacing them with energy-saving lightbulbs will just have to be used by your central heating making up the difference.
Don't forget all the extra harmful gasses in energy-saving lightbulbs that don't exist in incadescent ones, like mercury. And who prefers the "boot up time" (plink...plink...plink...[dim light for 2 minutes]...nasty flourescent light) over incandescent bulbs?
So why are the bulbs being phased out, given that their replacements don't actually save energy overall and are crap? Well, as I'm sure you've guessed - it's all about the "dirty secret" of Global Warming. I'm not about to get into a discussion about whether it's down to humans or not - what we can all equivocally agree on is that not one government actually cares about the environment. What they do care about however, is the huge amount of revenue that can be made by whipping up public support for a cause that can net them huge amounts of money in "green taxes".
Whilst we're on the green tax thing - here's another government concept that's full of dirty secrets: Road Charging and Congestion charging.
1) The government's announcement that there will be a "debate" on whether we get Road Charging or not is a total lie - we WILL get it, because it's one of the conditions of being part of the Galileo Project (Europe's answer to GPS) - it's how they're planning on funding the whole project.
2) The road charging "trials" are also a complete lie - they are supposedly "optional" and "fair". In reality, neither is true, since the local authorities which are being targetted are effectively bribed with the promise of £1.4bn in extra Transport funding if they implement it.
3) The city-centre congestion which will be used to justify congestion charging will be in the most part, falsely generated. This is fairly easy to do, mainly with traffic light timing cycles and selective road development - and was used to great effect by TfL when introducing the London congestion charge (as well as introducing it in half term week, genius).
There are many more but I'm sure my post is already too long.... like my cock
(, Fri 28 Sep 2007, 18:32, Reply)
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