Den 2019-06-24 kl. 02:20, skrev Tom Gardner:> On 23/06/19 23:04, A.P. Richelieu wrote: >> Den 2019-06-22 kl. 02:31, skrev Rick C: >>> On Friday, June 21, 2019 at 7:36:19 PM UTC-4, Clifford Heath wrote: >>>> On 21/6/19 10:47 pm, Dimiter_Popoff wrote: >>>>> On 6/20/2019 8:29, Clifford Heath wrote: >>>>>> It took a very long time to realise that this wasn't a bad parody. >>>>>> >>>>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BB6wj6RyKo> >>>>>> >>>>>> If you were the engineer who implemented this, kill yourself. >>>>>> It's not a sin; you have no soul anyway. >>>>> >>>>> I still have difficulties believing it is serious.... (watched >>>>> about the first 2/3 in disbelief). That having read and having >>>>> no reason to doubt your post.... >>>>> >>>>> What on Earth is a "reset" supposed to do to a bulb? >>>> >>>> It makes it forget all paired devices, returning it to factory-new >>>> state. I guess you use it if you don't want a hacker extracting your >>>> WiFi credentials or something after you sell or dispose of it. >>> >>> Sell? There's a market for used light bulbs??? Amazing! Is it a >>> market like the stock exchange? Can you buy futures? Light bulb >>> futures! Very illuminating. >>> >> >> In the Soviet Union, there used to be a market for BROKEN light bulbs. >> >> They were sold as BROKEN at 10-20% of the price of a working light bulb. >> Anyone can figure out, why people would buy them? > > Reportedly, in order to obtain a working light bulb, > you had to present the one that was to be replaced. > > Having been through the Iron Curtain 6 times as a > kid (only E. Germany/Berlin), there is some > credibility to that notion. >Almost. That would work in the office. If you needed a bulb for the home, it was a little more complex. You bought a broken lamp at the market, then went to the office and replaced a working bulb with the newly bought broken bulb. You could then bring the working bulb home. After that, you told the janitor that the bulb in the office was broken. He replaced the broken bulb with a working bulb, and then went on to sell the broken bulb at the market, LOL. Everybody wins! AP
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"A.P. Richelieu" <aprichelieu@gmail.com> writes:> That would work in the office. > If you needed a bulb for the home, it was a little more complex.The New York Subway and some other public places in the US used bulbs with left handed threads, so they wouldn't fit in normal fixtures. People who stole the bulbs discovered this, and didn't bother stealing any more of them.
