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The Last DC Power Grid Shut Down in NYC
cell-block-9 writes "Today the last section of the old Edison DC power grid will be shut down in Manhattan. 'The last snip of Con Ed's direct current system will take place at 10 East 40th Street, near the Mid-Manhattan Library. That building, like the thousands of other direct current users that have been transitioned over the last several years, now has a converter installed on the premises that can take alternating electricity from the Con Ed power grid and adapt it on premises.' I guess Tesla finally won the argument."
But Edison electrocuted an elephant, which quite frankly is just an awesome smear campaign.
Depends if you are an elephant or not.
Do ATM machines (where we enter our PIN numbers) run on DC current?
I did it for Johnny.
Frankly, I'm shocked that there was still a DC power system in use in the US.
Can anyone tell me how to set my sig on Slashdot?
Even trolls need electricity.
You never, ever, have to say "correct me if I am wrong" on Slashdot. Someone will gleefully correct you if you are wrong.
I'm sure Tesla wrote it down somewhere.
It breaks my pluginses, my precious!
...and even if you are right...
Just hope she doesn't use the same reasoning when she reaches for the strap-on.
I tend to agree. If I find something worthy of using a mod point for any reason, then I think it should be reflected in that user's karma. Why discriminate against humor? Because most of the "funny" posts aren't very funny at all (i.e. the quality of "funny" moderations is lower than the quality of other moderations)?
Because Slashdot is intended to generate informative and insightful discussion rather than humor?
Deliberately using the wrong category when moderating reduces the readers ability to filter the posts in the way that they want. Moderators are supposed to categorize posts. They are not supposed to care about the karma of the authors.
Good to see Wikipedia hold up under the mad scramble of 10,000 Slashdotters racing to be the first to update that entry to reflect today's event.
Haven't these bureaucratic fools actually seen what alternating current does to animals?!
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