San Francisco. The Land of Fruits and Nuts.
The only thing the government does really well here is issue parking tickets, usually around $75 for minor infractions. But you can get several if you leave your car all day.
That takes a lot of time. I usually just pay.
Circuits are ring wired in the UK too, aren't they? And use some sort of giant terminal blocks, no wire nuts.
We mostly use 12-2 Romex for house wiring now. Originally we had knob-and-tube, and then individual wires in conduit.
Romex leaks a lot of e-field so it's easy to trace wires inside walls.
A fuse in the plug protects against a damaged cord, though.
Mostly, but the UK isn't the only jurisdiction that uses ring wiring.
They don't need to be that big at all.
Correct.
So did the UK.
DJ Delorie snipped-for-privacy@delorie.com wrote
But the reality is that the rest of the world does fine without that and doesn't get any more electrical fires due to the lack of a fuse in the plug.
Well, I pay some insurance that provides a remote lawyer. If I really can't park there, it is a real nuisance, so I try to fight. It is the second year, I think.
We have one resident parrot, Qunicy, a blue-green pionus. Nasty beast.
I know why it happens, just not why people use a furnace with gas. It's a waste.
Actually I helped develop the SkyCovione vaccine.
So nor more than my single phase, so no benefit.
No, I meant within your house. If you want 24kW, you can't draw it all from one phase.
You have heard of the war with Russia, right?
Maybe Clarkson exaggerated, but they filmed a huge city block completely empty "because of the poverty" which they proceeded to race cars around.
People still use that? My parents use a dish and I use the internet.
And you would have thought they would have made an effort to make a worldwide standard when they went digital.
"Ice forms in the fridge part". Refrigerated food is damaged when frozen. It's not fit for purpose.
Looks like a lovebird had an accident with a paint tin. Here are my parrots:
What language are you speaking in that last sentence?
You wait till Scotland gets independance, you're all going to freeze.
What if you parked it wrong on a month's holiday abroad near an airport? Maybe just give them the car instead?
It takes no time to ignore.
The only time I paid a ticket was when my garage paid it for me without asking. I'd broken down and asked the garage to come collect it. They were busy and took 3 hours to get round to it. Just as they were collecting it, there was a truck ready to tow it away, so the mechanic thought he'd save me some trouble and paid.
If you have to park illegally because there aren't enough correct places to park, that's the government's fault for not providing them. What do they want us to do, drive 50 miles back home and not do what we went there to do?
In the UK it's now guilty until proven innocent. But a photo of the parking sign having rusted away last century gets you let off. And they still haven't replaced it. But they find the money to install f****ng speed bumps at TWELVE GRAND EACH.
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