[ot] fastest and safest way to discharge a rechargeable battery?

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Jay Nugent wrote:
> Greetings Ric,
>
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Ric Moore wrote:
>
>>> What happen if someone threw a fully-charged into a cup of water? Or say
>>> some water spilled onto the full-charged battery...
>>
>> The CRM114 Discriminator just went off. Klaxons are wailing at the NSA,
>> dogs are straining at leashes and search lights are sweeping the
>> compound about now. You're not planning on getting on an airplane any
>> time soon are you?? Asking questions like this, in a public forum, might
>> get you put on someones list, ya know. <grins hugely>
>>
>> A beat-down with nightsticks by humorless jackboots at the airport
>> lounge is not a remote possibility in this age of Fear, Uncertainty and
>> Doubt. It could become a personal and in-your-face possibility.
>> <a knowing nod>
>>
>> I guess we'll get to watch the action when some teenaged tourist videos
>> the entire episode going "Hey! That's RUDE man!", yelling at the
>> uniformed assailants, and later posts it on youtube with moral
>> indignation.
>>
>> Meanwhile, the international man of mystery walks calmly through the
>> metal detector, smirks and tips his fedora to the attendant as he boards
>> his international man of mystery flight to Kowloon, for a nice lunch of
>> dim-sum and champagne. First class, but of course. He is later served on
>> washed silk table linen by an equally international Dragon Lady of
>> mystery. She whispers "I am your dessert." He nods back, knowingly.
>>
>> Meanwhile back in the states, our Mister Chang is dining from a
>> compartmented tin plate, using an orange plastic spork on a C-130 also
>> on an international mystery man flight to Guantanamo, after they removed
>> his hood and half of his handcuffs to allow him to eat.
>>
>> "I was just curious about the possibility of doing it!", he cries to the
>> hooded and armed characters surrounding him. "We're gonna water-board
>> this one for sure, Sarge... as soon as we arrive.", drawls one of the
>> grim jackboots with great severity and with a measure of anticipation
>> for the upcoming enjoyment of the event. His smile is hidden beneath his
>> hood. He knows himself to be of the dark side, an international man of
>> mystery.
>>
>> These pain killers are grrrrrrreat! Ric
>
>   You need to be writing short stories, Ric.  You are wasting your
> talents sitting in your rocking chair out on the front porch in your night
> robe, drinking JD and watching the deer run across the fields.  That's
> just WASTEFULL man!  Fire up vi and get to writing!  Hitler wrote an
> entire book while he was in lockup, ya know, and HE didn't have that
> wonderful tool 'vi' ;-)

/me isn't sure what to make of a thread that mentions Hitler & Ric in the 
same post, but there is some rule where its supposed to end.

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