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- getoffmybridge, on 05/05/2009, -11/+197Repost from yesterday. Some treehugger you are, wasted electricity to repost this!
- ahatter, on 11/06/2007, -4/+154Yeah africa has electricity to.
- OfficialJoe, on 11/06/2007, -1/+92I live in South Africa. We have a huge problem with electricity supply countrywide. It is so bad that we have routine "load shedding" (bunch of jerks..haw haw) which implies that large sections of the city is without power for up to 6 hours. At one stage I would know the routine so well, I would travel between different coffee shops just to get my work done as the power is being switched off.
When all of this started about two years ago, there was a large demand for diesel generators, but at that very same point we had a critical fuel shortage as well. So we were kinda screwed both ways.
Yet, when I drive around and I see Table Mountain in all its splendour, I know that I live in one of the most beautiful countries in the world. I'd rather endure the shortage of electricity than move elsewhere and give up this privilege.
Living in SA is like being married to an eternally beautiful woman that has bad PMS - you cannot leave her because she makes your heart beat strong, but you sometimes want to slap her really hard because she is so full of *****. - inactive, on 11/08/2007, -7/+85I didnt see this yesterday so ill digg it
- muckb777, on 11/06/2007, -1/+71wouldn't the message only work at night?
- bittermang, on 11/06/2007, -6/+56You'd never know that from watching National Geographic.
- inactive, on 11/06/2007, -1/+50Wow, first I find out they have electricity in Africa and now I find out there are Diggers as well. I'm going to need a minute for all of this register. Next thing you'll be telling the world isn't flat!
- inactive, on 11/06/2007, -0/+37Ha ha, nice try... I saw that guy throw the Coke bottle off the edge of the Earth.
- BestJaxx, on 11/06/2007, -3/+40How does white people=electricity?
- kettlechips, on 11/06/2007, -1/+36The other light bulbs were stolen.
- Rikushix, on 11/06/2007, -1/+34What a quaint analogy.
- nnagflar, on 11/06/2007, -3/+29It's called a blackout for a reason.
- inactive, on 11/06/2007, -13/+38that was frontpage yesterday ffs.
- DemonWasp, on 11/06/2007, -0/+21Yes, it stays running. I'm pretty sure it doesn't eat up 650 watts constantly though, since that'd cause some problem: what do you do with all that wasted energy? It has to turn into heat! When your computer isn't doing anything strenuous, it'll eat up a "resting" amount of power, and the power supply will consume somewhat more, losing some power to inefficiency (expressed as heat). When your computer does something requiring more power (such as gaming), it will consume more power, again increased by the inefficiency of your power supply.
Your 650W power supply probably doesn't eat much more power than a 300W power supply connected to the same computer - it all depends on the efficiency of the power supply. - subxero37, on 11/06/2007, -1/+20Hmm, there's apparently an electric company called White Power. (Sorry for the poor quality.)
http://content.ytmnd.com/content/f/2/1/f217dadddf3 ... - homer420032003, on 11/06/2007, -0/+17How do you think they charge the camera's batteries?
- Me1000, on 11/06/2007, -2/+17I thought they just trusted duracell!
- Azimuth1, on 11/06/2007, -7/+21Funny that Japan has vastly superior consumer technology to the US. Barely any white people there either.
- Lugano, on 11/06/2007, -0/+13Dugg for the great analogy :)
- JacNet, on 11/06/2007, -2/+15They even ***** up your links!
- theOster, on 11/06/2007, -3/+15seriously - who's on digg on sunday? get out of the ***** house, people
- hierophantus, on 11/06/2007, -0/+12Clearly there is a conspiracy. Otherwise I would see Ron Paul articles on Digg's front page. Which I never do. Ever. At all. Hell, I've never even heard of the guy. Could somebody maybe, I don't know, mention him in the comments or something? Be sure and mention whether or not I should Google his name, plz/thx.
- Trax91, on 11/06/2007, -3/+15Ain't flat
- griz, on 11/06/2007, -0/+12Dugg especially for being a "top down" lit billboard. Uplit billboards are a menace.
- richardhenry, on 11/06/2007, -1/+12Must suck having such 'terable' spelling.
- EntangledPhysx, on 11/06/2007, -0/+10650 watts is its peak operating power output. There are built in regulators to maintain constant voltage when parts of your computer consume higher amounts of current (amperage). So when your computer is using less power, it uses less amperage, and thus less wattage (constant Voltage on the rails, with variable amps, so wattage used will vary since wattage = volts x amps). For instance, when your PC is idling, it could using as little as 100 watts or something along those lines.
- EntangledPhysx, on 11/06/2007, -0/+10unless its all black with white behind only the text
- kilps, on 11/06/2007, -0/+10To put the pic in context - here in South Africa there is only one electricity provider (Eskom) - a few years ago the gov took away their licence to build new power plants in the hope that the private sector would build them (Eskom is state owned) - however no one came forward - now we are stuck running out of electricity (occasionally resulting in load shedding [planned outages] when something does go wrong - was a big thing in Cape Town when one of the reactors at the Nuclear Plant had to be shut down)
So basically Eskom is wanting people to use less so people don't blame then as often for bad planning wrt the electricity grid (some blame is to be put on them) - themastersb, on 11/06/2007, -1/+11Yeah, but a lot of people here have the memory span of a goldfish
- SkippyDoorknob, on 11/06/2007, -0/+9If you paste a link into your comment and save your comment, the links will be ok. But if you then edit your comment, the links become broken. It's a bug.
- alexhud, on 11/06/2007, -7/+16yeah this was in the top 10 yesterday. people bury all the Ron Paul stuff and not ***** that was up yesterday.
- SyntraFTW, on 11/06/2007, -1/+9Lol?
- fivestarsoul, on 11/06/2007, -1/+9If you see a link to something you've already seen, try not clicking it. It is obviously still popular, so your bitching is for naught. So ***** off.
- Haapi, on 11/06/2007, -3/+10Just back off, eh? I read Digg via RSS, so it isn't like I'm picking and choosing what topics are presented, and this is the first I've seen it.
Why, oh why did the generation of USENET cross/duplicate-post whiners live to reproduce? - volacide, on 11/06/2007, -0/+7Yeah but when you're not gaming you're torrenting new games, so how would that work?
- Crispuk, on 11/05/2007, -0/+7Get over yourself.
- Haapi, on 11/06/2007, -0/+6I believe most states' traffic laws are to treat that situation as a 4-way (n-way) stop.
Of course, most people are just idiots at 4-way stops, anyway. - inactive, on 11/06/2007, -0/+6that's why my comp is never off
- eternal464, on 11/06/2007, -4/+1099% of the time i use my computer it is not gaming related, yet my 650 watt power supply stays on and operating all day every day. someone should invent a variable power consumption computer.
- SteveCUBE, on 11/06/2007, -1/+7http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39 ...
- AlexM, on 11/06/2007, -1/+7This was literally dugg yesterday...literally...I think it was actually on the Top 10.
- iticu, on 11/06/2007, -2/+7You realise the amount of comments also contributes to what gets onto the front page?
Just bury it, retard. - toxicshok, on 11/05/2007, -0/+5and I'm kind of pissed people like you ruin the good name of Ron Paul.
- fires, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5It's not really as bad as you make it sound. We haven't had load shedding for quite a while now. Other fast growing countries and cities experience load shedding as well as they grow faster than their power suppliers can keep up.
- skyfire1, on 11/06/2007, -3/+8By ninjas.
- jmpeagle, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5random related comment about electricity reliability in S. Africa.
I talked to a guy from there once who noticed how chaotic it gets at a busy intersection in America is the power for the stoplights go out, whereas it is so common in S. Africa that they have all just learned to then treat the intersection as a stop sign where they alternate whereas in the U.S. it seems to be who can muscle there wy into the intersection first. - Samizaza, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5http://faculty.uaeu.ac.ae/myagoub/Remote2/World_Li ...
At least we use electricity very wisely here in the U.S. - koweja, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4Johannesburg would be my guess from the file name.
- humperdeath, on 11/06/2007, -1/+5T.I.A.
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