"The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under new policy guidelines to be sent to federal prosecutors Monday."
- Robert Felty
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"What's worth emphasizing is that this explosion occurred on the one hundred seventy-fifth time that T2 had run this reaction. No doubt they thought they had everything well under control - have any of you ever run the same reaction a hundred and seventy-five times in a row? But what they didn't know was crucial: the operators had only undergraduate degrees (Update: here's another post on that issue), and the CSB report concludes that the didn't realize that they were walking on the edge of disaster the whole time."
- Robert Felty
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Sure, this might apply to the newer solid state, compact power supplies... I'm curious what the numbers would look like with an old-school transformer-based "brick" where you're always applying AC to one side of a transformer.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, that's a good question. I just plugged in my powerbook G4 power adapter to the kill-a-watt, and interestingly, it registers .01 amps and 122 Volts, but 00 Watts. Using P=iV, we can calculate this to be 1.22 watts. There must be some rounding or precision errors which is causing this discrepancy. If we take 1.22 watts to be correct, then leaving the powerbook power adapter plugged...
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- Robert Felty
Transformers have gotten a lot better in the past few years. It's very simple to tell if you have an old-school power wasting transformer. Is it warm?
- Nelson Minar
What is inside newer power supplies? Is it not a transformer? When did that happen?
- ⓞnor
"The United States now has the most expensive health care system on earth and, despite remarkable technology, the general health of the U.S. population is lower than in most industrialized countries. Worse, Americans' mortality rates--both general and infant--are shockingly high."
- Robert Felty
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