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From: Phil Carmody on 2 Feb 2007 20:35 Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> writes: > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > > > unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > > >Eeyore wrote: > > > > > >> The standards do not use the word 'unplugged'. > > > > > >What word meaning unplugged do you find in your standards then? > > > > According to MP, the specs say 'power off'. Power is never > > off unless not-plugged-in in these days of computer boards. > > Your ability to misunderstand is quite remarkable. And her ability to not see the switch that says 'off' too. Or [ O | ], but you get the point. Almost everything I own has a switch that isolates it from the mains. Off = off. Not standby. Off. No current. No emissions. Phil -- "Home taping is killing big business profits. We left this side blank so you can help." -- Dead Kennedys, written upon the B-side of tapes of /In God We Trust, Inc./.
From: MassiveProng on 2 Feb 2007 20:39 On Fri, 02 Feb 07 15:20:42 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: >In article <45C3495D.93DE0786(a)hotmail.com>, > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >>> So, if it's on its own circuit, how can the stove affect the >>> wiring of the plug of the radio? >> >>You clearly don't understand how RF energy propagates. It doesn't matter >which >>circuit it's on. > >Exactly. And it can't be the house wiring. You're an idiot. You proved that when you stated that you are plugging a stove into a pigtail. That tops retarded consumer move list at No 1.
From: MassiveProng on 2 Feb 2007 20:40 On Fri, 02 Feb 07 15:23:56 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: >In article <c76aa$45c347bc$49ecf7f$10679(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, > unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >>> In article <a0629$45c29c9e$49ecf9f$6118(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, >>> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >>> >>>>MassiveProng wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>On Thu, 01 Feb 07 12:46:52 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>It isn't the burners. It is the computer board in the stove that >>>>>>is bad. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The stove has a clock, a cooking timer, and maybe some thermal probe >>>>>monitoring ports. That isn't a computer. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>>If you want good AM reception, you need a good loop antenna. That >>>>>>>will keep the reception constant. Otherwise you have a serious issue >>>>>>>with your house wiring. >>>>>> >>>>>>I dismissed the wiring because no other object plugged does >>>>>>this. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The stove is not like ANY of the objects you describe. You have no >>>>>AC powered object in the house that is wired like, or gets its power >>>>>from the same branch... as the stove. It has its own SEPERATE AC >>>>>run. >>>>> >>>>> So you didn't even get that right. >>>> >>>>Might be a gas stove, dumbbell. >>> >>> >>> It's an electric stove. >> >> >>Your hands aren't all that weak then, unplugging >>a NEMA 10-50 or equivalent requires some strength >>especially considering the cord usually comes out >>of the plug at a right angle. > >It comes out straight up from the floor. I've learned >how to cope with weakening hands. My problems now >are the arm muscles; it seems I can't pull nor push anymore. >So I now have get down on my hands and knees and, instead of >pulling up, I wriggle the thing back and forth. > >One of my projects is to find an electrician and have him a damned >switch on the thing. > Probably be cheaper to get one to FIND and SOLVE the problem. D'OH!
From: MassiveProng on 2 Feb 2007 20:45 On Fri, 02 Feb 07 16:47:17 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: >In article <mjd6s2dfqhcfoni7hf6tnlhaq4l0ceho8d(a)4ax.com>, > MassiveProng <MassiveProng(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: >>On Fri, 02 Feb 07 12:40:44 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: >> >>>You people sure seem to have to think in absolutes. >> >> Like you and your stove. > >I would have been superstitious about the stove, except another >bit god I know can't use his modem when his stove is plugged in. > If he is on a modem, he is hardly anything even close to a "bit god". Sheesh.
From: MassiveProng on 2 Feb 2007 20:49
On Fri, 02 Feb 07 17:14:03 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: >I've thought about getting a new stove but I haven't figured out >how to find one that doesn't interfere with radio. That should tell you something. Well... that *would* tell any cognizant human something. The diagnosis doesn't get any more simple from that point. |