28k will get you almost 13

Posted: May 6, 2009 by datechguy in oddities
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At least it does in Australia according to The Australian:

BRISBANE environmental lawyer Jo Bragg and her partner, Gary Kane, spent $28,000 on three roof panels to generate solar power for their home in the inner Brisbane suburb of Highgate Hill.

After receiving a federal government rebate of $8000, they hoped to recover their investment in a cleaner planet within a few years by selling excess power into the mains electricity grid.

In the three months to April, they used 1384 kilowatt hours and produced 388 kilowatt hours of excess power, for which they received the princely sum of $12.96 after taxes.

Via Tim Blair who has this measured reaction:

HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAA! HA HA HA HA HA!

Subtly is all.

Update: You might say, but Techguy Blair is wrong it wouldn’t take 385 years to get the money back. After all lets say they were paying $150 a month for their electric bill. That means instead of $13 a quarter it would be $463 a quarter, so they will be showing a profit in just over 11 years.

Of course you should also add the interest they might have made on 28k over 10 years too. In a Cd getting just under 4% they would have made $1000 a year and the amount would have increased by compound interest. That turns things into 25-26 years.

Morning Joe: Heeere’s Mika

Posted: May 6, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Mika’s back is funtime over?

6:02 a.m. She Really Likes Sarah but it’s MSNBC so she is being diplomatic

6:04 a.m. This is Understandable? Would that say that about Rush?

6:06 a.m. Sox Yankess, Barnicle and Mika win that one.

6:11 a.m. The Ad frankly doesn’t say anything, no reason to vote D or not vote R? Silly

6:12 a.m. Rush and Sarah. She doesn’t have to re-brand. It’s all the media stuff.

6:14 a.m. “The arc of the young female anchor?” That explains a lot. I think Mika really wants to say something but has the discipline to not give away the game.

6:19 a.m. Well that is right seeing how well the government is handling bailouts I’m sure they’ll do great running another chunk of the economy.

6:40 a.m. Barnicle nails it but without Joe this conversation is much too one sided

6:43 a.m. Capheart talks about elites? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. This guy is so full of it.

6:45 a.m. “She’s not smart enough…” Oh he doesn’t think republicans should be conservatives.

7:01 a.m. That is simply awesome, hire him to make shirts for the show.

7:13 a.m. Hey Joe made it in!

7:16 a.m. Joe is not going to be able to keep a straight face after seeing that.

7:22 a.m. I don’t think that’s what Luntz said. A slightly twisted question for Cantor. And Joe is right they have to explain why this stuff is wrong.

7:52 a.m Of course there is an alternative, leave what we have.

8:02 a.m. Joe apparently reads the NYT but doesn’t read Elder of Ziyon, but Perez does.

8:05 a.m. Perez correctly says that the whole world is better with Iraq stopped permanently.

8:07 a.m. Barnicle can’t believe what he is hearing, Perez is on fire today.

8:27 a.m. Earpiece fixed just in time to go.

8:33 a.m. To pay back the Tarp money you have to prove you don’t need it?

The difference between polls and math

Posted: May 5, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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I hit polls on my last post, today Mark Steyn in response to Andrew “Birth Canal” Sullivan shows how math actually works:

If you have a million people, 90 per cent of whom are ethnic European and 10 per cent immigrant – and the 90 per cent have a fertility rate of 1.3 kids per couple (the Euro average) and the ten per cent have a fertility rate of 3.5 (the Euro-Muslim estimate), the 90 per cent will have 380,250 grandkids and the 10 per cent will have 306,250. In other words, two generations are all they need to catch up. That’s why cities from Malmo to Brussels are already on the brink of majority Muslim status, as government “Integration Ministers” implicitly acknowledge.

Where Mr Walker gets remarkably incurious is when he coos:

Immigrant mothers account for part of the fertility increase throughout Europe, but only part.

Yes, but what part? Here’s some more numbers. Let’s say you have 950,000 ethnic Europeans whose fertility rate is 1.3. And 50,000 immigrants move in with a fertility rate of 3.5. You’d have an overall fertility rate increase to 1.41, or almost ten per cent, entirely due to a tiny segment of the population. In fact, if 900,000 ethnic Europeans’ fertility rate declined from 1.3 to 1.2, but 100,000 immigrants with that 3.5 rate moved in, you’d still have a ten per cent increase in the overall fertility rate, even though 90 per cent of the population has bought a one-way ticket on the Oblivion Express.

This is why Radical Islam is such a danger, I’m not worried about them getting the nukes from Pakistan, our guys will take them out. I’m afraid that in a generation or two they will own the nukes of France and England.

And that’s before we consider the two other factors: Islam’s numbers in Europe grow through births plus continuing high immigration plus a rapidly expanding rate of conversion.

Europe is growing more Muslim every day. We can debate the speed, but not the direction. I wouldn’t pretend to Andrew Sullivan’s expertise in Governor Palin’s birth canal. But on my little hobby horse I think I’ll stick with my thesis. I’d be happy to take him for falafel at my favorite restaurant in Amsterdam in 2025. And afterwards he can buy me a drink at his favorite gay bar. If he can find one.

I will likely not live to see it even if I wasn’t overweight, but my kids and grandchildren will and God help them

Lies Damn Lies and Polls

Posted: May 5, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Over and over we are shown polls saying that President Obama is incredibly popular, practically an unstoppable force. Considering we have a press corps that won’t challenge him, comedians that won’t joke about stuff like this and people who are so afraid of being called racists that the conversation stops if he is criticized this isn’t a surprise, but thanks to Tim Blair we have this clip to remind us of what a motivated person can do with polling.

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