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Re: Save me dolphin! Save me!
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| Quadibloc 2007-05-27, 3:25 am |
| Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2007-05-23, Kevin S Wilson wrote:
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> Since around 1977, Austrian electrical sockets have had switches on
> the faceplates, so the appliances don't need to have built-in
> switches. About 1/3 (the cheaper 1/3) of monitors sold in Austria are
> like that.
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Presumably, the monitors have automatic power-off energy saving
features, at least. After all, one can hardly expect people to crawl
around on the floor to get at the switch on the wall plug every time
one uses one's computer.
Or are electrical outlets in Austria placed typically at a more
convenient height on the walls?
John Savard
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| Adam Funk 2007-05-27, 1:25 pm |
| On 2007-05-27, Quadibloc wrote:
> Presumably, the monitors have automatic power-off energy saving
> features, at least. After all, one can hardly expect people to crawl
> around on the floor to get at the switch on the wall plug every time
> one uses one's computer.
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> Or are electrical outlets in Austria placed typically at a more
> convenient height on the walls?
I've never been there, but I think they're about halfway up the wall.
Is that right, TimC/huma?
--
Fortran: You shoot yourself in each toe, iteratively, until you run
out of toes, then you read in the next foot and repeat. If you run
out of bullets, you continue anyway because you have no
exception-handling.
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| Tonto Goldstein 2007-05-27, 8:25 pm |
| Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2007-05-27, Quadibloc wrote:
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> I've never been there, but I think they're about halfway up the wall.
> Is that right, TimC/huma?
Sometimes.
They also come in ground-dwelling and hanging-from-teh-ceiling
(although, less common in domesticated settings).
We also have these things called "power" "boards" with many outlets
which can be placed in more convenient locations (that'd be the butt, Bob).
Some of these "power" "boards" feature individual on/off/other switches
for each and every outlet affixed thereon, such allowing the individual
selection of appliance(s) to enliven.
It'll be so much better when we have electricity.
--
"Truth matters, God doesn't & life sucks."
-- House, M.D.
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| On 2007-05-27, Adam Funk (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> On 2007-05-27, Quadibloc wrote:
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> I've never been there, but I think they're about halfway up the wall.
> Is that right, TimC/huma?
In Austria, UPSen are state mandated, and they are required to be
mounted behind all the dangles of cables ("dangles" being the
pluralisation used in Austria when referring to cables). That way,
you are able to switch off your cooter by erroneously pulling out one
of the cables coming from the UPS with your toes instead of having to
hit the power button in a controlled fashion.
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TimC
You cannot kill Tim without fracturing eternity. -- sjc on AFDA
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| Adam Funk 2007-05-28, 5:25 pm |
| On 2007-05-27, Tonto Goldstein wrote:
> We also have these things called "power" "boards" with many outlets
> which can be placed in more convenient locations (that'd be the butt, Bob).
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> Some of these "power" "boards" feature individual on/off/other switches
> for each and every outlet affixed thereon, such allowing the individual
> selection of appliance(s) to enliven.
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> It'll be so much better when we have electricity.
Yeah, those gas extension leads are a real pain when you forget to
unplug them!
--
Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp
out of the blue, no explanation.
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| Tonto Goldstein 2007-05-28, 8:25 pm |
| Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2007-05-27, Tonto Goldstein wrote:
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> Yeah, those gas extension leads are a real pain when you forget to
> unplug them!
We worship teh gas-pipe snake, as it dances and hisses.
--
"Truth matters, God doesn't & life sucks."
-- House, M.D.
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| Adam Funk 2007-05-29, 9:25 am |
| On 2007-05-28, Tonto Goldstein wrote:
> We worship teh gas-pipe snake, as it dances and hisses.
But it doesn't fit the tune very well:
I know a girl who lives on the hill
She won't do it but her sister will
She likes to boogie
She do the gas-pipe snake boogie
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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples
then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea
and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will
have two ideas. [George Bernard Shaw]
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