Re: more on saving during power out

In article <C4533B6A.B9DAB%usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Snit <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> "Keith Ream" <Keith.Ream.mailSPLINTER@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> stated in post
> g0kl9h$n0j$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 on 5/16/08 11:54 AM:
> 
> > Snit wrote:
> >> "Keith Ream" <Keith.Ream.mailSPLINTER@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> stated in post
> >> g0ivko$tmb$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 on 5/15/08 8:39 PM:
> >> 
> >>> Steve Carroll wrote:
> >>>> In article <C452348F.B9A38%usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >>>> Snit <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>> "Keith Ream" <Keith.Ream.mailSPLINTER@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> stated in post
> >>>>> g0ineq$vc1$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 on 5/15/08 6:19 PM:
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> Snit wrote:
> >>>>>>> "Keith Ream" <Keith.Ream.mailSPLINTER@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> stated in post
> >>>>>>> g0ilvm$pvq$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 on 5/15/08 5:54 PM:
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
<http://pcsup****t.about.com/od/componentprofiles/p/ups_backup.htm
> >>>>>>>>>>>> >
> >>>>>>>>>>>>     -----
> >>>>>>>>>>>>     The UPS is Also Known As:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>     battery backup, uninterruptible power source
> >>>>>>>>>>>>     -----
> >>>>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>> Not sure why that irks you so.  Oh well.
> >>>>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>> I doubt he's irked because he is, unlike you, able to
> >>>>>>>>>>>> differentiate between a direct battery backup system and an
> >>>>>>>>>>>> uninterruptable power supply.
> >>>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>>> Thank you, Steve.   What I wrote comes from years of
> >>>>>>>>>>> experience, not a Web page, and I don't need to find one
that
> >>>>>>>>>>> agrees with me! Those who actually work with these things
> >>>>>>>>>>> know who's right and who's wrong, and they're ROTFL at Snit!
> >>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>> To summarize:
> >>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>> Snit's education is web based;)
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> Listen, Asshat, you are just running from the fact that you are
> >>>>>>>> wrong.  As far as education being "web based" what do you even
> >>>>>>>> mean? I have taken some online cl***** and some are excellent
> >>>>>>>> and others suck ass.
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> I do know I called APC, makers of battery backups and asked
> >>>>>>>> their techs what the difference was.  They told me there was
> >>>>>>>> none.
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> Steve is trying to mock the fact that I teach online cl*****. 
He
> >>>>>>> is, simply, an idiot.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> What do you teach?
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Online I teach Dreamweaver mostly.  I also teach face to face all
> >>>>> sorts of computer topics, everything from intro cl***** to web
> >>>>> surfing to software to use with digital photography to MS Office
> >>>>> and Mac and Windows and Photoshop and sometimes FM Pro (though not
> >>>>> for a while) and on and on.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Of course... and you're able to do all of this while posting from
> >>>> your house to usenet 24/7. I still like Clyde's line the best:
> >>>> 
> >>>> "If you're a teacher then I'm a Chinese abacus repairman".
> >>>> 
> >>>> LOL!
> >>>> 
> >>>> p.s. Remember when you crossposted to a newsgroup comprised of
> >>>> *real* teachers in an attempt to make ed look bad and they
> >>>> immediately began distancing themselves from you?  I loved that
> >>>> stuff;)
> >>> 
> >>> And what do you do for a living, Asshat?
> >> 
> >> He has, at times, claimed to be a stay-at-home dad, though he has
also
> >> claimed to find it demeaning because it is traditionally women's
> >> work.  Then again he says that being a teacher is not a "real job".
> > 
> > My mom was a teacher and I can tell you that it most certainly is a
real
> > job.  My dad was a lawyer and he did not do as much work as she did.
> 
> Teaching is very much a real job, but Steve Carroll repeatedly claims
that I
> should find a "real job" being that I am a teacher.

Wrong. I claim that I know of no other "real" teachers that have the 
time to post to usenet to the extent you have posted. Posting to usenet 
24/7 for years on end is not a thing a "real" teacher can do.

-- 
"Apple is pu****ng how green this is - but it [Macbook Air] is 
clearly disposable... when the battery dies you can pretty much 
just throw it away". - Snit