They could always land at Meig's. Oh wait... F'ing Daley.

Some of them are. Most? I'd like to see a breakdown of that. I recall reading that TSA fees alone recently went up double digits of $ and since I consider the TSA not to be legitimate in the first place, that's a good place to start.

I just bought return tickets to England. $293 flight, $768 taxes and fees. So yeah...

When the LEDs were being half-wave rectified, they were probably being overdriven at peak. When you used the bridge rectifier, you were doubling the power that was going through them.

There's probably a resistor there anyway. Power is probably 5V, possibly 12, 3.3 or anothe r value and LEDs are typically 2.2V so you need to drop that with a resistor. Make it a little bit bigger and the light is dimmer.

He wouldn't. I was talking about the government agencies, not the executive or legislature.

On the downside, you did miss a great opportunity to play out a Monty Python sketch.

How do you make that atomic?

You're not incorrect. I don't know why we're not seeing a move to this already. It wouldn't even be too hard to retrofit to existing installations if they're wired properly.

Though the heatsinks on the lights don't get as hot as incandescents. I can unscrew an LED immediately with bare fingers where an incandescent needs to be allowed to cool. Still, wasted energy...

Who says?

It seems more likely than the electron decay postulation (though butterfly effect and all, I guess). It's not unlike the whole "toilet flushing in the opposite direction in northern/southern hemispheres" urban legend where it turns out that other factors far outweigh the Coriolis effect.

And then a step to the right?

That *can* work but everyone who's found themselves pinched in that trap thought it wouldn't happen to them.

To be fair, the government's been pumping out money like crazy and suppressing interest rates also.

Depends on the depth of the pockets. My razr rests flat against my thigh, well below the bend.