The Last DC Power Grid Shut Down in NYC 533
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."
That's as maybe (Score:5, Funny)
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A powerful, electrifying news story (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:uh (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure Tesla wrote it down somewhere.
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Re:A powerful, electrifying news story (Score:5, Funny)
You're obviously not aware of current events.
Signed,
AC
(How apropos: my catchpa is betatron [wikipedia.org]
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Circular gets the square (Score:2, Funny)
Ah, yes, the old "I've been doing it this way for twenty years" reasoning. I can't think of a more dumb way to prove something than to say the reason is because "we've been doing it this way".
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the AC/DC debates of the turn of the 20th century. (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:MOD PARENT "FUNNY"! (Score:5, Funny)
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 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.
Re:DC vs AC (Score:1, Funny)
Woohoo! Long live AC! Death to DC!
This political advertisement paid for by The AC's for Death to DC's Coalition of Southern France, founded in 1894 by the Supporters of Nikola Tesla.
Re:Tesla won but... (Score:3, Funny)
Shot to the gonads perhaps?
I hope... (Score:4, Funny)
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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.
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Go Safe, Go Direct!
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I think your humor subsystem needs to be rebooted.