h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

No, it's all right. If I fiddle around with my PC again it'll probably explode.

Has anyone else ever plugged a 115V power supply unit into a 240V mains system ?

Yes.

My mother fried her camera in Germany doing that... And why do you Europeans have to use so much voltage anyway?

Just to confuse people.

Why d'you americans have so /little/?

yeah, and the fact that we make so much money from converter plugs

Oh, and because we like to be unique. 240V is part of britain's heritage. It has joined the Royal Family and ITV Digital as parts of our history.

Note that all three items listed above are completly useless.

Well, we like to save power... Considering we use 1/4 of the world's power, it helps...

And what, may I ask, is ITV Digital. Now as for worthless techno things in America's history, let's start with AOL.

You like to save power? What? By using a lower voltage (and therefore a larger current), you're actually wasting 4 times as much energy to resistance in your house wiring than we are.

So there.

Besides which, a 1.5 kW heater is a 1.5 kW heater is a 1.5 kW heater, no matter what voltage you run it at.

Using less energy doesn't come into the equation anywhere.

Don't argue with an engineer, man.

I thought something was up with the "power saving", except I'm c*** at Physics so I kept quiet.

ITV Digital is (was?) a satellite provider that recently went bust due to one of the deals that it made with the FA (England's Football "authorities").

*Knock, Knock*
A zombie comes shuffling in with a trunk full of gold and a letter.
If opened, the letter will read:

"Dear sirs;
I would like to hire your Mercenaries to cause Massive amounts of Mischief at the Galactic Prison Fascility where I am being held. I will not pay ransom for Red Dog, but I will hire you to terrorise the Police. I'd like a campaign of confusion similar to the one on the Lurcher Fan Club that I waged against the Golf Police:
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Telephone rings.
Um, If you're there, pick up.
I'm sorry. I fixed all the damages to the course.
However, the Police are going DOWN!!! They are DOOmed, what officer? Oh, nothing, just calling a friend...Gotta go. Just Ignore the fireworks...
See you manana. The federales are resisting my feminine wiles, so I gotta go make some moltov coctails and recruit a few inmates for the insurrection.

(Lurcher)
knows all about gophers, she can work out their trajectory to the nearest inch.
Does the gopher no good at all however, so we get very little trouble from them.
,however,is a different sort of trouble.


Subject: The 19th Hole at The Lupine Park Golf Course
Posted 3 Weeks Ago by ex- Rambling , wearing black arm band in remembrance of Tuc
This is a reply to this Posting.
Post: 818

I'm working in the coalmine, digging in the ground, I'm working in the coalmine, woops!(do the softshoe shuffle and the watusi) *segue into a funky, up-beat rendition of "Looking out my back door"*


*Meanwhile, at the war front, Ex-R has manage to use her cell phone to call up reinforcements and order Pizza...*


(It culminated with the distruction of the Jail)
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Will pay 15 mil in cold, hard gold.

If you decide to take this assignment, go here.http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/F59026?thread=182251&post=1992925#p1992925 It's a basic prison, that you can tear up.

assignment has been taken ex-r, allow me to post to the official merc page and we'll get on that.

BTW, when posting h2g2 links, start with the ID letter, for example:

~ U185566
~ C123
~ F123456?thread=123456

That way, you don't annoy all of the people who use a different design, or even site (e.g. 360) to you.

360?????I already knew that Axe, but thank you. Besides, I like torturing you alabaster freaks...

Yeah, 360 - "changing the world by degrees" (evil site)