{"id":1318,"date":"2005-04-07T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2005-04-07T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-07T18:57:00","slug":"i-think-there-is-something-in-the-water-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"I Think There Is Something In The Water Today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that disconnects peoples brains. At least that is the impression I get reading the papers.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/business\/technology\/11332747.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the San Jose Mercury News<\/a>, at least the headline on the front page, &#8220;Thanks to Moore&#8217;s Law, we&#8217;ve got tiny cell phones, iPods and Xboxes.&#8221;. [Steve Martin Voice] <i>Nooooooooooo<\/i> [\/Steve Martin Voice]. Moore&#8217;s Law is an observation of technology, not a guiding force. In fact, it is more of a postulate. Geeze. These folks probably believe in Cole&#8217;s Law as well.<\/p>\n<p><!--more OK, What's Cole's Law?-->Cole&#8217;s Law: Thinly-sliced cabbage and mayo. Do I have to explain everything?<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not just the Mercury News headline writers. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/04\/07\/daylight.saving.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">an article in CNN on Congress proposing extending Daylight Saving Time<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use,&#8221; said Markey, who cited Transportation Department estimates that showed the two-month extension would save the equivalent of 10,000 barrels of oil a day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Steve Martin Voice] <i>Nooooooooooo<\/i> [\/Steve Martin Voice] Extending Daylight Saving Time will not give us one minute more of daylight: it just shifts the clock, which at best just has an impact on how much of the normal work schedule is in daylight. Unless you have a solar collector and a battery system, not one whit of daylight is actually saved (and even then, no more daylight is saved then if the clock wasn&#8217;t shifted). <\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that disconnects peoples brains. At least that is the impression I get reading the papers. According to the San Jose Mercury News, at least the headline on the front page, &#8220;Thanks to Moore&#8217;s Law, we&#8217;ve got tiny cell phones, iPods and Xboxes.&#8221;. [Steve Martin Voice] Nooooooooooo [\/Steve Martin Voice]. Moore&#8217;s Law is an observation of <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1318\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[130,41,131],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","category-lj-xfer","tag-cluelessness","tag-observations-2005","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}