Sorry, but that’s not correct.
How many plugs does your dryer have? Mine (and every one I’ve ever seen) has only one. The 120v for the motor is derived from one leg of the 240v being supplied to the dryer.
I knew a woman once who’d received an email purporting to be from a representative of a well-known international company asking for her help moving some money from some insalubrious third-world African dictatorship to somewhere more business friendly. If she’d provide her bank account details, and contribute up-front to the cost of the bribes necessary to secure the release of the funds, naturally she’d be entitled to a cut of the proceeds to the tune of $SoMuchMoney.
It was, of course, a classic Nigerian Fraud, and she saw that part of it. However, she was determined to turn the “employee” over to the well-known company and then claim a nebulous and ill-defined “reward” she was sure they’d give her for helping unmask the corrupt individual besmirching the company’s good name with their dodgy financial shenanigans. :smack:
I knew a kindergarten teacher who thought gravity was due tie the earths spin I guess because of how spinning rides and movie space stations work.
And I had some friends who did a presentation on how to time travel using… Time zones. They got an A.
(Not the same class)
I can attest to this. When I first moved into the house I’m presently renting, the dryer would spin, but it didn’t generate heat. The solution was to replace the heater circuit.
My 4th or 5th grade science teacher insisted sound was faster than light. I’m not really sure what her logic was, but it had to have been interesting.
Light is faster than sound. That’s why some people appear bright, until you hear them speak.
Bob Costas tells the story of the basketball player Marvin Barnes, who refused to take a flight from Louisville to St. Louis that left at 8:00 a.m. and arrived at 7:56 a.m. because he didn’t want to get mixed up with time travel.
I still remember an argument I had with a buddy in college:
Him: Every song the Rolling Stones has done is about either sex or drugs.
Me: Untrue. What about Street Fighting Man?
Him: Who wrote Street Fighting Man?
Me: Jagger and Richards.
Him: Well, there’s your proof!
I once had a friend (an otherwise intelligent adult) who thought things actually happened three hours later on the west coast than on the east coast. So if a New Yorker made a phone call, the phone in California didn’t ring until three hours later. But then the caller would hear the response three hours before it was made.
I see what you did there.
Did he somehow not know who Jagger and Richards were? That’s the only way it makes any sort of sense to me (and even that is stretching).
Still remember a teacher in elementary school that said carbon dioxide was lighter than air because it is part of air. I knew she was full of sh-t and I was quite cross that I could not correct her!
Parking ticket logic: (Someone) parked in a 30 minute zone in an empty parking lot at the civic center and when they returned an hour later found a ticket. All of the other spaces were still open. Why did they get a ticket?
I went to Cairo to oversea the construction security team for the new embassy building. The resident Seabee at the embassy was a nice guy who set up a team dinner for us all. Now, when you go to the third world, you are well aware of the dangers of eating local produce or drinking water from the tap.
So we all go out to a restaurant, and I notice that Billy has ordered a salad, which caused me to raise my eyebrows. Of all things you don’t want to eat in that part of the world, raw vegetables are at the top of the list. I asked him if he always ordered salad and he said “Yep.”
Next day, he wasn’t at work and his wife said he was deathly ill with diarrhea and vomiting. When he finally made it back to work I asked if he was aware of the danger of eating raw vegetables. He said that yes, he knew all about that.
“Well, if that’s the case, why did you order raw vegetables at dinner the other night?”
“No, I didn’t.”
“Billy, I watched you eat a salad and asked you about it.”
“Yeah, but that was a salad, not vegetables.”
Turned out that he got sick almost every time he went out to eat locally. :smack:
Sure, a man from a developed country like Germany or Denmark might be more attractive than someone from Ghana or Sierra Leone, all other things being equal. But along what you said, I think it’s fair to say that the average Western woman (or most other women) doesn’t follow things like, which country has stealth fighter jets.
We received 35 resistors for analysis. They were reportedly manufactured by AVX, but the markings looked weird. My job was to determine if these were really AVX resistors. So I purchased 10, new AVX resistors, and compared these to the 35 “suspect” resistors. I performed chemical analysis, electrical characterization, cross-sectioned them, X-rayed them, etc. I did not observe any differences.
Yesterday’s conversation with my supervisor:
Supervisor: “So you proved the 35 suspect resistors are manufactured by AVX?”
Me: “No. I simply didn’t see any differences.”
Supervisor: “So that means the 35 suspect resistors are manufactured by AVX.”
Me: “No.”
Supervisor: “Huh?”
Me: “I simply didn’t see any differences between the 35 suspect resistors and the 10 new ones manufactured by AVX.”
Supervisor: “So that means the 35 suspect resistors are manufactured by AVX.”
Me: “No. I simply didn’t see any differences. My null hypothesis was that there were no differences, and I did not reject the null hypothesis.”
Supervisor: “Huh?”
This went on for 15 minutes.
He still doesn’t understand.
Let me start by saying I do know how thermostats work.
That out of the way, if your house is significantly below the desired temperature, it seems like setting the thermostat to 80 might actually heat it up faster.
If you’ve had the temp set back significantly (let’s say 55 when you desire 68) for long enough - the whole house (walls, furniture, etc) is going to be at that temp. The furnace will heat the air to 68 degrees, then shut off. A lot of the heat in the air will ‘transfer’ to the solid parts of the house, causing it to cool off quickly, and the furnace will kick back on. This cycle will occur until the mass of the house hits 68. On the other hand, if you set the thermostat to 80, you’ll potentially have fewer furnace cycles and may reach optimum temperature quicker.
I have no idea if the above is true, but it feels possible. And, yeah, I know that’s not why people do it - they think a setting of 80 puts out hotter air than a setting of 68.
Turn the heat/ac on to a higher/lower temperature so it gets hotter/colder faster.
I don’t understand this either. You said your job was to “determine if these were really AVX resistors”
It doesn’t seem like you did that. Maybe that is why he is confused?
Understandable emotional reaction - but if you haven’t unwrapped the second mouse, and still have the receipt, can’t you return it at the store because you changed your mind? (Or do you want to Forget everything about this?)
‘Are these AVX resistors?’
‘I don’t know. I’ll purchase resistors that I know are AVX, and compare these resistors to the known quantity.’
…
‘I have conducted a through examination on the known AVX resistors and a sample of the unknown resistors. The unknown resistors are identical to the AVX resistors in every measurable way. This does not prove that the unknown resistors were manufactured by AVX. It proves they are identical to resistors manufactured by AVX, and they may have been manufactured by AVX; but they may not have been manufactured by AVX.’