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12 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - CU-Boulder encouraging... · 0 replies · +1 points

All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine.

12 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Judge rules Boulder \'... · 0 replies · +4 points

Frenchman: You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person! I blow my nose at you, so-called Ah-thoor Keeng, you and all your silly English K-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-niggits! [makes taunting gestures at them]
Sir Galahad: What a strange person.
King Arthur: Now, look here, my good man--
Frenchman: I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
Sir Galahad: Is there someone else up there we can talk to?
Frenchman: No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!

13 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder performing art... · 0 replies · +1 points

The St. Julien has an occupancy rate in the high seventies and an average daily rate around $250. Both of those metrics are extremely high for any hotel. The St. Julien has no real competition - the Boulderado is the only other downtown hotel and it's not in the same league (though it can charge almost as much). Boulder has just over 2,000 hotel rooms for a population of 100,000 - that's a ridiculously small amount (Austin, for example, has twice as many per capita, and that market is also considered to have an inadequate supply). The facts disagree with you, and any hotel operator would salivate at the opportunity to build a third downtown hotel - the demand is that strong. If you want to argue against a downtown hotel because you're a NIMBY, fine, just don't say there isn't demand for a hotel because that's 100% completely incorrect. Argue against the increased traffic, that's a legitimate concern.

13 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Erie charter school on... · 0 replies · +2 points

Correlation: noun \ˌkȯr-ə-ˈlā-shən, ˌkär-\ The state or relation of being correlated; specifically: a relation existing between phenomena or things or between mathematical or statistical variables which tend to vary, be associated, or occur together in a way not expected on the basis of chance alone.

Paranoia: noun \ˌper-ə-ˈnȯi-ə, ˌpa-rə-\ A tendency on the part of an individual or group toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others.

13 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Lance Armstrong will b... · 0 replies · +1 points

The modern mantra:

If you're not cheatin' ...

You're cheatin' yourself

13 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Xcel flooded with sola... · 2 replies · 0 points

You are correct. But the math still doesn't add up for solar looking forward. Current global energy consumption is around132,000 TWh. A typical solar panel produces about 13.7W per square foot. For solar to produce the net power produced globally today would take about 8.5 trillion panels. This would cover about 5.38 million square miles and this would be if they all worked 100% of the time, 24/7. But since they don't, we would need three times that amount to produce power around the clock as the world turns. Now we would need about 16 million square miles (about 30% of the land surface area of the globe) and over 25 trillion solar panels! At the low-end cost of 50 cents per watt, it would only cost us $3.6 quadrillion, or about 50 years worth of the global GDP in 2011 US dollars. And they would all need to be replaced every 25-30 years, optimistically. Now consider global power consumption is projected to double in the 50 years (after all, a third of the world's population has never flipped a light switch) and you are close to the theoretical limit of 444,000 TWh for solar (that's if every molecule of sunlight were captured over every square inch of the world's surface).

Solar has is uses, but it will always be a complementary energy source, best suited for small point-of-use applications, like solar gardens.

13 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Xcel flooded with sola... · 4 replies · +1 points

Some information presented without comment from the Department of Energy:

Federal subsidies for electric power, fiscal year 2010
Oil and Gas: $654M
Hydro: $215M
Coal: $1,189M
Nuclear: $2,499M
Solar: $968M
Wind: $4,986M

Federal subsidies, cost per megawatt hour, fiscal year 2010:
Oil and Gas: $0.64
Hydro: $0.82
Coal: $0.64
Nuclear: $3.14
Solar: $775.64
Wind: $56.29

13 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - CU-Boulder to bar guns... · 0 replies · +6 points

Ever wonder why massacres never happen at the shooting range?

13 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Rescuers help teenage ... · 3 replies · +6 points

Water transfers heat 25 times faster than air. Stay in 90 degree water long enough and you'll get hypothermia.

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13 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Judge: Accused Boulder... · 0 replies · +1 points

Hopefully Mr. Crisco will get some help.

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