I was under the impression that electrolysis isn't a fast process

Depends on how much current you use.

20 years ago, I'd have been able to tell you how many litres per second an amp will produce.

Maybe he did the calculation on one of those old pentiums.

Yes, an option. He could have declined to take it.

P.S. That might be how you use commas in Polish, but it's not in English.

what real-world thing do you drag one way and then the whole thing vanishes?

A spliff.

Let's face it, even modern ones are a pain in the ass on a small device. I don't have hands like a bunch of bananas, not even close, and I'm always hitting the wrong thing.

If swipe-to-unlock on a handheld device with a touchscreen really has been so blazingly obvious since half-past forever, why was Apple the first to commercially implement it in 2007 , for heaven's sake?

Probably because that was around the time when touchscreens became feasible on mobile devices and other input methods were abandoned to cut costs?

Oh, come on. There are other options. In front of it, behind it, and ... ummm ... above it. yes, above it, on a little shelf. A white shelf. That's innovation!

Well said. If GP's position was applied to cars, they'd all have to have a different layout of pedals. If they were allowed to have pedals at all...

Win 8? They'd have to pay me to use that.

If you think it is too much, then there is Linux.

Thanks for pointing that out, I'd never heard of it. *eyeroll*

I drive a Prius

After Smarts, those are the worst driven cars on the road.

I nearly got run over by a woman in one - she ran a red light. I whacked the car as she went past and she stopped and yelled at me. She claimed the red light she'd jumped only applied to bikes. Now that might be technically true - it was a one-way street with a contraflow bike lane. But it's electric, see?

Anyone know how much damage a Smart Car can be expected to suffer when tipped like this?

It's approximately nowhere near enough.

People who drive Smarts are retards. They seem to think that because it's small the normal car rules don't apply so it doesn't matter if they block crosswalks, ignore lights, park on the sidewalk (at 90 degrees, so it doesn't count).

Or drive the wrong way down one-way streets.

Fuck the lot of 'em. The only thing wrong is that the owners aren't inside when they do it.

I can say this as a trained economist and historian. (armature status today, but still.)

You're an electrical engineer too?

I stopped the security updates in XP years ago after a bad update trashed my system, and yet I have never knowingly been infected

FTFY.

You can have legal partnerships of more then 2 people.

Even UK graduates (whom you're apparently not impressed with) don't make that error, fatty.