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    The Las Vegas Strip, Before and During Earth Hour

    Earth Hour: Turn Off Your Gadgets and Do Things in the Dark

    Earth Hour Wants All The Lights Off, But We Want Them On
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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    03/30/09

    In reply to The Las Vegas Strip, Before and During Earth Hour
    They should have taken multiple shots of the city during the Earth Hour to see if any of the lights in the background got turned off when people were like "WTF?" and then Googled what was going on and then turned off their lights.


    It's kind of disheartening though that none of the houses appear to have joined in. At least the casinos would have had a reason to keep their lights on because those lights help draw customers into their casinos.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    03/30/09

    In reply to The Las Vegas Strip, Before and During Earth Hour
    I wonder how much energy they saved with the warm up "costs" that many of the metal lamps have, after needing to restart them after they cooled to room temp.
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    Image of kakarotthemonkey kakarotthemonkey
    03/30/09

    @JartMaster_GitEmSteveDave: Must you be a Negative Nancy?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    03/30/09

    @kakarotthemonkey: I'm more of a Sour SteveDave.
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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    03/30/09

    In reply to The Las Vegas Strip, Before and During Earth Hour
    Ah, what a great savings, and my awareness is now at 110%.
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    03/30/09

    In reply to The Las Vegas Strip, Before and During Earth Hour
    I'd really like to see greater participation next year. Come on people this is not that hard!!!
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    Image of sickpup sickpup
    03/30/09

    @Software_Goddess:


    They might get more participation if the whole movement hadn't been hijacked by lunatics.


    I'm in favor of being more eco-friendly. However, I don't believe in man-made global-warming, and I certainly don't support most of the ideas being floated around for the Copenhagen conference.

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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    03/30/09

    @sickpup: Why do people have to be like that? You know that turning the lights off is good for the environment whether you believe in anthropogenic climate change or not, so why not do it? Besides, turning off your lights is only going to decrease your power bill. OK, maybe the amount it affects your power bill is minimal, but it is in the negative direction, nonetheless. Even then, why not just do it for other reasons, such as it being the one chance that some people would be able to see stars from their house? If people actually participated, wouldn't it have been wild to be able to go star gazing in the middle of the city?
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    Image of wanago wanago
    03/30/09

    In reply to The Las Vegas Strip, Before and During Earth Hour
    The last pict is now my screensaver. DISCO!
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    Image of CaseyG CaseyG
    03/30/09

    @wanago: The system... is down. The system... is down. The system... is down.


    The Cheat... is grounded!

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    Image of FredicvsMaximvs FredicvsMaximvs
    03/30/09

    @CaseyG: Light switch raves FTW!
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    Image of An Le An Le
    03/29/09

    In reply to Earth Hour: Turn Off Your Gadgets and Do Things in the Dark
    confession: my gf wouldn't let me turn the light off as we were doing it. tried though.
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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    03/29/09

    @An Le: That's why you don't let the right hand tell the left hand what to do.
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    03/28/09

    In reply to Earth Hour: Turn Off Your Gadgets and Do Things in the Dark
    I love how people who don't care about the environment like to pretentiously tell everyone how they are better than the pretentious people who do care about the environment. Why is liking the planet to not suck a bad thing?
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    Image of Takamofo Takamofo
    03/28/09

    In reply to Earth Hour: Turn Off Your Gadgets and Do Things in the Dark
    I already live without electricity! What am I supposed to do?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/28/09

    In reply to Earth Hour: Turn Off Your Gadgets and Do Things in the Dark
    Do what now? Make love? For an hour?


    Oh lofty our goals are.

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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    03/28/09

    @Kaiser 'Devolving Texas' Machead: No kidding. What am

    i going to do for the remaining 57 minutes? Tend to her needs? Ha!
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    Image of Curves Curves
    03/28/09

    In reply to Earth Hour: Turn Off Your Gadgets and Do Things in the Dark
    I sit in the dark most of the time anyway, but in the spirit of the hour, I will unplug my nightnight at 8:30.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    03/28/09

    @Curves: And my night light too.
    (At least we dont have to worry about turning "Preview" off for an hour.)
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    03/28/09

    In reply to Earth Hour: Turn Off Your Gadgets and Do Things in the Dark
    Does playing WoW with the lights off count?
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    03/28/09

    In reply to Earth Hour: Turn Off Your Gadgets and Do Things in the Dark
    I had an Earth Minute already today - my phone rang and I didn't answer it. So I think I'm good.
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    Image of Jesus Diaz Jesus Diaz
    03/28/09

    @weatherman: I have these constantly.
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    Image of mykalt45 mykalt45
    03/28/09

    In reply to Earth Hour: Turn Off Your Gadgets and Do Things in the Dark
    Why is everyone so cynical? It's a nice thing to do. Who knows if it really helps, but at least it brings awareness.
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    Image of Islandkiwi Islandkiwi
    03/28/09

    @mykalt45: People are bitter because they don't have anyone to boink.
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    Image of mitch_93 mitch_93
    03/28/09

    In reply to Earth Hour: Turn Off Your Gadgets and Do Things in the Dark
    Meh we have it still going and i didnt do nothing bout it except sitting at home with 5-6 lights open and my computer roaring away next to my old time screen and all. I really can give a shit bout the earth cause face it:

    Earth time is just an excuse to delay the inevitable destruction of earth. I say live how we were before and just let it happen. I would rather it to happen now instead of later cause i really dont want to give life to a generation with no hope.
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    Image of itchytooth itchytooth
    03/28/09

    @mitch_93: Can't you see? The earth hour people knew you would rebel and use as much electricity as possible. You're falling right into their trap. Are you gonna let them manipulate you like that?!
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    Image of switchblade saints switchblade saints
    03/28/09

    In reply to Earth Hour: Turn Off Your Gadgets and Do Things in the Dark
    these earth hour deals seem like an empty gesture created by the pretentious folks that have a brief moment of guilt as mother earth has mascara running down her face while their SUV's roam the earth.


    then they have an earth hour and can go another year drinking the lattes as smug as possible and feel OK with it.


    dooooouchebags.

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    Image of Sora57 is OK Sora57 is OK
    03/28/09

    @switchblade saints: douchebags are biodegradable, though.
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    Image of Matt0505 Matt0505
    03/28/09

    @switchblade saints: Or of course, unless you're someone like myself who is a vegetarian, hasn't used ONE plastic bag this entire year, and drives a Toyota Yaris.


    Choke on that.

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    Image of godwhacker, your incandescent leader! godwhacker, your incandescent leader!
    03/28/09

    @switchblade saints:

    right now there is a truck in front of my house. a special truck.


    it's turning the remains of the two trees in my front yard into wood chips. before that there was a bucket truck here that was used along with chainsaws to cut down the two trees in my front yard. all these things were and are burning fossil fuels. for no other reason except to please me, and facilitate my plan to make my front yard more usable.

    and after all this is done. i will pay the man for doing this, and know that i have stimulated the economy, and helped an independent businessman.

    then when 8:30 pm CST comes about i will turn on all the lights in my house, fire up my grill, my stereo, open all the windows and turn the furnace on, and bask in the glow of a day well spent.

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    Image of Sam Scott Given Sam Scott Given
    03/28/09

    @Matt0505: a yaris?

    lets see...

    1. mine the raw ore metals that compose the hybrid battery in Japan...

    2. fly that to a smelting facility in america...

    3. fly those bars to BACK japan to be inonized tnen turned into batteries...

    4. transport them to the toyota manufacturing center...

    5. transport that "hybrid" to stupid american consumers...

    6. then, you'll STILL be using gas, granted, half of your normal amount, but you still have to drill and seperate the crude oil.


    or...

    1. toyota makes a car

    2. toyota transfers the car

    3. see the prius' step 6, only you're using the normal amount.


    tl;dr: prius' suck more than normal cars at being "green". both are bad choices. go ride an effing bike.

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    Image of Curves Curves
    03/28/09

    @godwhacker, intolerant and proud of it!!!: I will be over at 8:30. Have the beer cold and make my steak rare.
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    Image of FredicvsMaximvs FredicvsMaximvs
    03/28/09

    @Sam Scott Given: Hey, could you tell me where to find one of these ore and/or ingot flights? I'd sure like to see one. Are they open on top like a dump truck? Do they have signs on the back that say "Not responsible for rocks coming from, uh, air..."?
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