Why do circuit breakers go up for on and down for off?

Feb 11, 2023 Last reply: 2 years ago 1839 Replies

The manufacturer will have done that.

I doubt turning it on would break anything.

No, it just requires you to get on with your neighbours. Your answer speaks volumes about you.

Because despite all having guns, you're rubbish at using them and can't get rid of the bears?

The National Forests and Bureau of Land Management lands dwarf the national parks. Theoretically you can't live there but there are a lot of square miles and not many nosy rangers.

Why the hell would I want to get rid of bears? Or cougars? Or wolves?

All that appears to be legal bullshit and popularity, and nothing to do with quality.

Not enough information in there.

It would be a bit like the Roman foot.

Looks like a bootleg turn is similar to a handbrake turn, except using engine braking instead of the parking brake.

You're playing with weight transfer and the engine to break the rear end loose. I've never tried it but I think you would need the handbrake with a FWD car.

Neither can boats. But, for heavy transportation, those ARE the best we have available.

You can erase hill obstacles, for boats, with canals. You can erase hill obstacles, for trains, with tunnels. It just takes engineering.

What's with the heavy breathing at the start?

Some of us need oxygen when we ski hard at 8200 feet with a camera in one hand and two poles in the other.

I was once approached IN SUMMER at 15C 1000 feet up a 2000 ft "mountain" by two men wearing very thick jackets, concerned I was going to freeze to death without a shirt on. I just laughed.

What if they were whole logs, you cut them in half, then made a wood structure inbetween and possibly filled the air gap? Quieter, sturdier, and more insulated.

I'm 47. When I was a teenager, my friend actually thought you could catch a cold from being cold. We were both helping out an 80 year old at his chicken farm, so I got the old guy to educate my friend.

Which is the way it should be. Weed out the weak. Nowadays the weak get treated, have weak kids, and so it goes on.

Your mum was alive in 1800?

Since those 48 were ok, the others were clearly wimps.

No they gave up on that, it's climate CHANGE now not global WARMING. Now they think extra CO2 is somehow bad, that stuff plants (as in our crops) breathe. I look forward to bumper crops.

Humans are warm blooded and don't require heat. It just makes us consume less food. So you just pick what's cheaper, more food or more firewood.

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