Ok then: use the grid power to create Hydrogen, keep that in a tank until it's needed to re-generate electricity :-)

...or a plugin for same....

(from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

It certainly wasn't.

Changing things at random in the hope of fixing a problem is called the Las Vegas method of programming.

"If this bus goes below 150 dB, we're dead".
I suppose it'd be called "Volume", and the next one "Volume 2".

Extra Light Beer = mc^2 ?

The coat of arms may only be used by others than the city with the explicit permission of the municipal government. In general permission is not granted to others, because the coat of arms designates the city of Amsterdam. Individual elements, such as the three Saint Andrew's Crosses or the escutcheon may be used by others without permission.

Er, how about a watch that is powered inductively from the keyboard?
We may have moved from one box into another...

Did anyone save a copy of that photo?

This was the thing that bugged me most about the "improved security": I get increased privacy but FB gets to pimp out my friends.
I'll pay more attention to those pencils in future ;-)

I have a friends list called "sandbox". It is possible to add "untrusted" friends to a list like that (my sandbox is empty). My sandbox has always had less information than my "public" profile page! It definitely does now, since FB decided to pimp out my friends by making my friend list public.

I remember meeting someone whose "typical" immune system didn't work properly but who was able to function pretty well with the help of an "older" one. I don't know biology but assume this is more of the same?

If the poster could have got the code working in all cases, rather than (apparently) some special case, do you not think he would have written the best possible code and not added a comment to say otherwise?
I think you are following a "false" (i.e. unlikely enough to be a bit absurd) argument here.
And hats off to the coder with humanity enough to make other coders' jobs easier if things should get to the point of having to fix said code: at least we know where to look first.