29 May
2008
29 May
'08
2:45 p.m.
On Thursday 29 May 2008 16:29, der Mouse wrote:
This is more than just talk, they put it into law:
http://billstclair.com/blog/kiss_your_bulbs_goodbye.html
Idiots. :-(
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
After working
on a SMPSU (or any power supply for that matter, but
especially a switcher), I usually power it up to test throught a
light-bulb. [...] Has saved me from "secondary catastrophic
failures" on more than one occation.
And I've heard people talk about banning incandescent bulbs entirely.
Stupid ideas spring eternal....