I guess I'll be having air soup for dinner.

Or they might just traverse the vastness of interstellar space to demand we resume production of Single Female Lawyer. Who knows what extraterrestrial tastes are?

I'm sure you've all heard this before, but it bears repeating here:

Perhaps one of the most interesting words in the English language today, is the word fuck. Out of all the English words that begin with the letter 'f' ...fuck is the only word referred to as 'the f word... It's the one magical word. Just by its sound can describe pain, pleasure, hate and love. Fuck, as most words in the English language is derived from German ...the word fuieken, which means to strike.

In English, fuck falls into many grammatical categories:

As a transitive verb for instance.. John fucked Shirley.
As an intransitive verb... Shirley fucks.

Its meaning is not always sexual, it can be used as...

An adjective such as... John's doing all the fucking work.
As part of an adverb... Shirley talks too fucking much.
As an adverb enhancing an adjective... Shirley is fucking beautiful.
As a noun... I don't give a fuck.
As part of a word... absofuckinglutely -or- infuckingcredible.
And as almost every word in a sentence... Fuck the fucking fuckers.

As you must realize, there aren't too many words with the versatility of fuck...such as these examples describing situations such as:

Fraud: I got fucked at the used car lot.
Dismay: ahhh fuck it.
Trouble: I guess I'm really fucked now.
Aggression: Don't fuck with me buddy.
Difficulty: I don't understand this fucking question.
Inquiry: Who the fuck was that?
Dissatisfaction: I don't like what the fuck is going on here.
Incompetence: He's a fuck-off.
Dismissal: Why don't you go outside and play hide and go fuck yourself...

I'm sure you can think of many more examples.

With all these multi-purpose applications, how can anyone be offended when you use the word. We say use this unique, flexible word more often in your daily speech.

It will identify the quality of your character immediately.

Say it loudly and proudly: FUCK YOU!

Same here... early eighties Goldstar is our office cooking appliance. Aside from a melted butter scalding accident back in '93, it hasn't caused any bodily harm. Nice satisfying physical 'DING!' when your soup's done, and no clock to set. Some old tech just won't die.

I was beginning to think this was Starcraft Forever

Yes, it does.

Fine, call it an electrograph then.

Yikes! Guess he got lucky and picked a circuit on the same phase? Or did he check with a meter that each conductor of both circuits had 0V potential between them. Kids, Do not try this at home! Guess wrong (50% or 33% chance, depending on single-phase or 3-phase service), and best case scenario (240V short across both circuits) you pop a breaker and take down not only your machine, but also anything else on one or both circuits. Just accept that you are going to lose your Frogger hi-score, and unplug the damn machine.

A. You won't get zapped from 48VDC. If you are extremely sweaty you might feel a slight tingle, but nothing to get excited about.

2. Just wire up some big batteries in parallel and you don't have to worry about voltage drop under load. As long as the rectifiers can keep with the current needed to float the batteries at 48V (really more like 52V in practice) you're fine. As stated by an earlier poster, this is proven technology in use by telcos for a very long time.

D. This whole article is about datacenters. I hope Joe Twelvepack hasn't just slurpped down 7 Bud Lights and wandered in to wire up some servers, but if he has I doubt a dedicated power connector is gonna keep him from fouling something up. There already exist standard 48VDC connectors. They're called lugs. Just remember, the positive terminal goes to ground. Actually I have seen modular plugs for this purpose, but any tech worthy of working near such equipment should be able to terminate a color-coded cable easily enough.

Never thought about it like that before. It's a good definition though. If an entity has the power to allow (or not) another entity to exist, that entity is sovereign, and the lesser entity is subject to it. Everything else is just details. Take Iraq for example. The United States decided not to allow that country to exist any more. They won't be allowed to rule their own country independently until the US is happy with the way it is run. So really, even if and when US troops leave that area physically, the sovereignty of that nation is just an illusion because it doesn't make economic or political sense to destroy that country right now.