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Re: Google AdSense shame

BrainDonkey — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:11:57 -0000

Welcome to the club...

Google's appeal process is a joke. Everyone gets back the same email, saying invalid clicks. They claim you either are fraudulently clicking your own ads, or you are directing irrelevant traffic. I dont think they appeal process actually ever is seen by anyone.

And now, you are banned forever. So you wanna start a new site? You can't, except if you want to lie about yourself. you need a new domain, new IP, new business name, new phone number, new taxID, new bank account, new address...

OR

Let google die by shooting themselves repeatedly, and go get a Yahoo Publisher account.

Re: My Views on Carbon Offsets [Updated]

BrainDonkey — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:50:10 -0000

Coincidentally a few hours before you posted, I had a similar issue/question about offsets. You got a lot more detailed of course, being the green geek on the block. well said and cleared up some issues for me.

I do still feel there is a danger though that this method of "buying your way out of jail" can breed a lacksidasical way of thinking. Oh i did bad, i'd better pay some money. But it is true, that the lemmings need a leader, and offsets can be that leader that will hopefully steer them away from the cliff.

Re: Chinese Water: A Picture is Worth... [Updated]

BrainDonkey — Thu, 10 May 2007 19:34:22 -0000

Ditto on the horrible. I just blogged a few comments about this photo you posted, and the one thing that occurred to me after the loud OMFG i let out, was that the chinese must be pretty hardy people. To be able to drink that stuff, and live...

Re: Gravitational Vortex Power Plant is Safe for Fish

BrainDonkey — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:35:06 -0000

The current prototype pumps out 50,000kw so this would only power about 5 homes in the US. The upside to it is that it is quite cheap to build one at a cost of about $50k (roughly). So at $10k per house, and the average house spending $1050 bucks per year, a unit would be paid off in under 10 years. That ain’t bad. Plus its clean. However, this is only a prototype. You also have to wonder how much it can be improved.

Re: Hydrothermal Cooling: Improving on Air-Conditioning

BrainDonkey — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:47:06 -0000

I just blogged this as well and had the same thought as mike. I would assume it will increase the lake temp, though maybe not if ONLY Toronto is doing it. Even so, a small increase might be worth it to gain all the electricity and heat production savings this might bring to city, and all the downstream benefits as well.

Re: A World of Reasons to Ditch Bottled Water

BrainDonkey — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:06:31 -0000

The argument of how damaging bottled water is on the environment is lost on most people and only resounds with the green thinker. They are ignorant and want to stay that way. Except when you start making it about money, then they people pay attention.

So, here is my take on it. A cheaper spring water costs 2 cents resulting in about $2.50 a gallon. Average of 22 gallons is $55/year, but, that number 22 is averaged over all of america, and I don't drink bottled water, nor do most of you, so... What is the number the average bottled water drinker drinks?

1 liter a day would be very conservative resulting in 96 gallons a year, which is $240/year. Fantastic under the sink RO systems, cost $150. The filters cost worst case $100/year if you don't price shop at all. That means after 1 year your ahead, using conservative numbers. Buy a cheaper RO, you win in a few months. Need water for going out, bring it, buy a metal bottle like kleen kanteen. But really do your own math.

Re: A World of Reasons to Ditch Bottled Water

BrainDonkey — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:12:10 -0000

bah i meant 2 CENTS PER OUNCE above. damn fingers.

Re: Walk Score: Cool Green Google Map Mashup

BrainDonkey — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:38:41 -0000

Thats a pretty cool find. So i'm guessing the fact that it can't calculate a walkscore for my house is a bad sign... (and not surprising)

That's why im overweight!!! Now i have even something new to blame it on! rock on!