Measuring power

Paul Makepeace paulm at paulm.com
Wed Apr 29 11:07:15 BST 2009


On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Jasper <jaspermccrea at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/4/29 Paul Makepeace <paulm at paulm.com>:
>
> >
> > If you're feeling brave you can separate the live wire from the rest
> > _reasonably_ safely. The trick is using a very sharp knife and bending
> the
> > cable and nicking the outer sheath at the outside 'edge' of the curve.
> What
> > tends to happen is the sheath tears and with successive small slices will
> > tear more & reveal enough for you to work the rest of the sheath off
> safely.
> >
> > Rubber gloves & mats too, obviously :-)
>
> Oh, go on, use your teeth, and stand in a bucket of water.
>
> People wonder how anyone with an entry in the Darwin awards could be so
> stupid.


More stupid than running a server farm where individual machines can't be
switched off? ;-)


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