Showing posts with label Las Vegas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Las Vegas. Show all posts

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Motel design turns into "Death Ray"

A Las Vegas hotel is having trouble because of its design.
Modern buildings try to maximize efficiency by using glass that provides plenty of light but blocks as much heat as possible,
Combine that with a curved design where the inside of the curve faces south and you have focused reflected sunlight that is much greater than natural light.
Just like a magnifying glass, the hotel collects and concentrates light and heat into small areas (foci) that sometimes happen to be where guests are trying to get a "little" sun.
The owners claim they knew of a potential problem but thought they had mitigated it by applying a special film to the glass, but the problem still had guests feeling like they were literally burning.
They are reportedly still working on a solution.

Idiots!
This is a failure at a level so basic, it is like building a bridge without performing a wind loading test.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Failing media find new revenue source?

I recently typed in "the armed citizen" as a search term when I was looking for stories of people using legal firearms in legal ways to defend themselves and others.
The first hit came back with an "oops!" in Chrome telling me the site was down.
I looked at the cached version and discovered they were involved in a lawsuit started by the Las Vegas Review Journal.
The Journal has apparently been filing multiple lawsuits for copyright infringement and has allegedly even obtained copyrights after a story has been linked or repeated on another site in an apparent attempt to justify a future claim.
At first, I thought the Journal was just another leftist news outlet trying to strangle the flow of information that backs up conservative thinking.
Now my opinion is that they are just another failure, grasping at straws that are in other people's wallets.