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

If nobody's looking, I fail to see the point in picking it up.

And when as dim wanker like Commander Kinsey steps on somebody else's uncollected dog poop he still won't see the point.

Since John Larkin seems to think that fiddling with a circuit until it more of less works is "electronic design", his opinion isn't worth much.

You have to put together real hardware before you can be sure that it is going to work, but if you known what you are doing, it mostly does.

Poop smeared everywhere appeals to you?

Probably so. It's a common syndrome.

Another example of why a libertarian society is a pipe dream; it requires adults.

It varies by culture. The Russians don't understand register lines or elevators. Everybody just rushes and pushes.

There are some Youtube videos of North Koreans reaction to the USA. They are shocked by how nice we are, how we smile and help strangers and hug our kids in public.

No excuse to enforce safety on people. My life, stay the f*ck out of it. The seatbelt protects me, nobody else. And don't start that s*it about I might fly through the windscreen and kill you, the chances of that are 0.0000000001% of f*ck all.

The car can't know I'm not wearing a belt. My friend is a taxi driver, he legally doesn't have to wear one incase a passenger in the rear seat uses it to strangle him to get a free fare. So he simply went to the local scrapyard, cut the end off a seatbelt, and plugs that into his car. His car thinks he's wearing it. Tech can always be defeated by humans, because humans are cleverer than tech.

Honda are Japanese, I expect better from them. But I too have had a CRV, a lot older than yours, made in 1998. Automatically turns on 4WD eh? BULLSHIT. Two wheel drive until they start slipping, then it engages the other two wheels, by which time the first two wheels are jammed in the mud. Why not just leave the 4WD on all the time!? The extra fuel used to run a bit more mechanism is f*ck all. F****ng greenies spoiling everything as per usual.

To solve a problem with a warning light, remove the bulb. I drove a car with broken ABS for years. It needs ABS for the safety test, but if they don't see the warning light....

Cars are vastly more reliable than they were 50 years ago. I don't suppose you remember filing and gapping points, replacing fouled spark plugs, replacing oil and filter every few thousand miles, fixing flats, topping off the battery, things breaking.

I take my car in once a year for service. It has never failed to go and never had a flat tire. The headlights are original, 2008.

I've almost always had FWD cars. RWD is s*it, uncontrollable s*it.

It could, but that would make it more expensive. Nobody wants to spend money saving idiots from winning a Darwin Award.

Not exactly true. Humans can be stupid enough to mislead mechanisms that could protect them. We could make the mechanisms harder to fool, but that would make them more expensive, and why impoverish sensible people to protect the lives of fools?

They are less surprised by the gun massacres. Presumably they think that it's US undercover security dealing with a bunch of subversives.

Inside a box full of oil.

You were stood still!

Everything's an emergency, crisis, nightmare, or treacherous. FFS, it's about time people learned to take it easy.

I'm quite happy sleeping naked outdoors in the snow on top of a mountain, but I prefer a nice quiet non-damp house for my possessions and pets.

It's maths, but I'll oblige.

Your mum reached her fifth birthday in 1800. This is 2023, so I guess if she had you when she was just over hundred, and you're just over a hundred now....

Slightly nutty?

At what percentage?

We now have one of those sort for our British and Scottish leaders. Neither of which was voted in by the populace.

A what?

Just strip off and get intimate with your neighbour.