Insomnia has its downsides ... we get accused of certain things, most of which we're not guilty of ;) (Imperfect taste? Yes, as charged. "Advertising" in polls? Ha! If / when we have polls that are actually advertisements -- like those IBM ones -- they should be pretty darn obvious.)

Sometimes I'd rather respond as if a comment is innocently asked, because the answer might be useful to everyone, whether the original post is intended as a troll or just asked out of a bad mood / misplaced cynicism. (The world has plenty to be aptly cynical about!)

Since you have different DC voltages you either need DC wall warts (not achieving anything), per outlet transformers (sounds expensive and turn the socket into a wall wart) or one circuit per outlet (sounds expensive and needs big conduits). And because of fire risk, property damage and whatnot you'll never get to use the same plug, tripling each outlet. Then you need something fancy to flip each socket at the source and what part of the socket is powered at the sink in a safe way, for every outlet. And I doubt 9VDC/500mW-2A matters much economically, if you want the aesthetics embed the wall wart in the wall, it'll probably be less hassle than the alternatives.

Microsoft licensed Java from Sun, but there was problem that compliance to license meant passing compatibility tests so Sun later sued Microsoft. Microsoft paid their way out of that situation but later dropped J++ itself. It reused some of that tech in other products.

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this ITER space ship of which you speak, will it do the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs.

Or are you mentioning something irrelevant?

Yeah we sure helped employment in Iraq

use it as an anal lube for random encounters and you'll definitely lose weight, from AIDS