Daylight savings changing?

Ghryphen · 07-21-2005, 01:10 PM

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With gas prices high, US lawmakers have begun looking at expanding Daylight Savings Time as a means to save energy.

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Congressional leaders from both parties have signed off on a proposal that will change daylight savings time in the United States as early as this year. All that is left is a signoff by President Bush. If the proposed solution becomes law, DST will be extended two months, from March to November.

http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/07/20/1...id=185&tid=218

Raiyven · 07-21-2005, 02:10 PM

what!?
so this was cheaper than finding a better source of renewable energy, i see. excellent job ;p

Variable · 07-21-2005, 03:09 PM

I'm not exactly against it, daylight savings time is useless these days; but I'd much rather they just give me my fusion powered hovercar and be done with this fossil fuel business. I don't think El Presidente will sign off on it though, I dunno why. It seems like something beneath presidential consideration...

sh@rp · 07-21-2005, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Variable

but I'd much rather they just give me my fusion powered hovercar and be done with this fossil fuel business.

W00t for fusion powered hovercars !

SiFi · 07-21-2005, 05:55 PM

hovercar? Pah! Give me a hovertank! Or a spacecraft, whatever works. But Aye for the doing away with fossil fuels business

sh@rp · 07-21-2005, 06:26 PM

Or, a Hover-AstonMartin

And then we don't even need the hovertank

SiFi · 07-22-2005, 09:37 AM

We will always need hovertanks

Stang · 07-22-2005, 04:17 PM

Well there goes Halloween geez! I mean come on its suppose to be dark on that day!

DOWN WITH THE PLAN!!!

Variable · 07-23-2005, 10:09 AM

So I was googling for some hover tank pictures thinkin' I get a righteous shot fo the old XCOM hovertank to throw in here, when I found this:

http://www28.brinkster.com/lidzky/nz/units/Hover%20Tank.jpg

That was on a site with other current and totally viable military weapons. I ask you...do we really have a functional hovertank? Does Jester get to drive one? Did Asha build it? Inquiring minds want to know.

Gambit · 07-23-2005, 10:56 AM

Hmm... That would be the STEALTH hovertank, since the link or pic or whatever is totally invisible.

Variable · 07-23-2005, 11:20 AM

Damn the man, tryin to bring a good thread down. I'll look for the site it was on and get back to you.

Ghryphen · 07-23-2005, 01:32 PM

I don't think they allow direct linking, so try copy and paste into a new browser window.

I found a pic too

sh@rp · 07-23-2005, 03:31 PM

o0o I drive that one Gryph

07-21-2005, 02:10 PM	#2
Raiyven Big Bad Thread Boogeyman Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Burlington, ON. Age: 42 Posts: 406	what!? so this was cheaper than finding a better source of renewable energy, i see. excellent job ;p __________________ "For in that we are both especially daring and especially thorough in calculating what we attempt, we can truly be distinguished from other men, for whom ignorance is boldness but calculation brings hesitancy. Rightly would they be judged strongest in spirit who recognize both dangers and pleasures with utmost clarity and are on neither count deterred from risks." - Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: 2.40, "The Funeral Oration of Perikles" (431 BCE)

07-21-2005, 03:09 PM	#3
Variable Forum Regular Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Augusta, GA Age: 42 Posts: 245	I'm not exactly against it, daylight savings time is useless these days; but I'd much rather they just give me my fusion powered hovercar and be done with this fossil fuel business. I don't think El Presidente will sign off on it though, I dunno why. It seems like something beneath presidential consideration... __________________ The world will not end in a blinding flash of light or virulent pestilence. It will end with me choking the life out of it with my bare hands.

07-21-2005, 05:55 PM	#5
SiFi Forum Regular Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: ([]*[])The Frozen North Age: 42 Posts: 230	hovercar? Pah! Give me a hovertank! Or a spacecraft, whatever works. But Aye for the doing away with fossil fuels business __________________ Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent -Dionysius of Halicarnassus

07-21-2005, 06:26 PM	#6
sh@rp Forum Regular Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Baltimore, Maryland Age: 38 Posts: 271	Or, a Hover-AstonMartin And then we don't even need the hovertank __________________ Proud Member of the XMEN

07-22-2005, 09:37 AM	#7
SiFi Forum Regular Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: ([]*[])The Frozen North Age: 42 Posts: 230	We will always need hovertanks __________________ Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent -Dionysius of Halicarnassus

07-22-2005, 04:17 PM	#8
Stang Team Captain Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Everett, WA, USA Age: 50 Posts: 3,859 Xbox Leaderboard: 1^st	Well there goes Halloween geez! I mean come on its suppose to be dark on that day! DOWN WITH THE PLAN!!! __________________

07-23-2005, 10:09 AM	#9
Variable Forum Regular Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Augusta, GA Age: 42 Posts: 245	So I was googling for some hover tank pictures thinkin' I get a righteous shot fo the old XCOM hovertank to throw in here, when I found this: http://www28.brinkster.com/lidzky/nz/units/Hover%20Tank.jpg That was on a site with other current and totally viable military weapons. I ask you...do we really have a functional hovertank? Does Jester get to drive one? Did Asha build it? Inquiring minds want to know. __________________ The world will not end in a blinding flash of light or virulent pestilence. It will end with me choking the life out of it with my bare hands.

07-23-2005, 10:56 AM	#10
Gambit Forum wh0re Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: DFW area, TX Posts: 744	Hmm... That would be the STEALTH hovertank, since the link or pic or whatever is totally invisible. __________________ XMEN member Card-carrying DTM OKL Fish-napper Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained. -The Tao of Programming

07-23-2005, 11:20 AM	#11
Variable Forum Regular Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Augusta, GA Age: 42 Posts: 245	Damn the man, tryin to bring a good thread down. I'll look for the site it was on and get back to you. __________________ The world will not end in a blinding flash of light or virulent pestilence. It will end with me choking the life out of it with my bare hands.

07-23-2005, 01:32 PM	#12
Ghryphen THZ Founder Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: WA, USA Age: 50 Posts: 3,927	I don't think they allow direct linking, so try copy and paste into a new browser window. I found a pic too __________________ The Hounds of Zeus \| Allied Tribal Forces

07-23-2005, 03:31 PM	#13
sh@rp Forum Regular Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Baltimore, Maryland Age: 38 Posts: 271	o0o I drive that one Gryph __________________ Proud Member of the XMEN