So, the 80 acres of forest land I own and pay taxes on should be taken away from me because I will never develop it into something useful?

If I don’t pay the taxes on it, it will get taken away by the government, but that’s a different matter.

The handles themselves freeze down and won’t pop up to allow someone to actually open the door. Freezing rain and sleet and prevent even traditional style handles are known to freeze up and stop working.

As an old and now retired medic, once again EMS gets left out. Our caudecus is twin snakes with a pair of wings attached to the rod.

Some say the snakes tell you we are real, honest to god, professionally trained medical personnel. And not just an overpriced taxi service.

The wings indicate we will fly to your medical emergency as fast as we can. Because the louder you scream, the faster we come.

And the rod is the gear shift lever that tells how fast we can shift from ‘This ain’t nothin’ to ‘Oh shit we gotta go. We gotta go NOW’ And ‘Inject ALL the diesel’ modes.

And finally our motto: “I’m always willing to bet your life I can keep you alive long enough so you can die on some doctor and not me”

That’s a question that the C-Suite needs to answer for. But the point is, if those switches are installed -for whatever reason- they do need to work correctly. And if they do not, that’s an indication of a failing management.

If the installation of the circuit was done correctly in the first place, all 3 switches will turn the light on and off.

If they do not, there is a problem and it needs to be fixed. If you don’t fix the issue, you have a major underlying problem in your company. And you are not worth my time.

Light speed? No! Engage Ludicrous speed!

RTFM is good and can be useful for newcomers, if you help them through finding and understanding the RTFM. Many of them are poorly organized and written. It can be hard to understand them.

I often go through r/fedora and I very seldom come across anyone belittling anyone else. You might not get an answer at all, but it’s seldom anyone will tell you to RTFM. I have little experience with stackoverflow, so I can’t say anything about them.

Put some respect on the sackcloth and ashes that Slack is. I did my Slack phase 20 years ago also. Soooo many config files…But if you understood those, Slack was near bulletproof.

20 years ago you needed to search the web and download all the drivers AFTER the windows install then install all of those.

Being told “RFTM! noob”, isn’t as common as it was 20 years ago. At least with Fedora where good help can be found. Still, there are a good number of questions that just don’t get answered either.

Reading the comments, it would seem most everyone here thinks that the usefulness of the steam is done when it gets used to turn a turbine at high pressure.

The steam can be used for much more than once. In the 1800’s and early 1900s when steam ran trains and ships, they built double and triple expansion engines that took the energy of the steam two and three times before it was done. It doesn’t need to be one and done. And when the energy is done being harvested for power generation, it can used for other things. Engineers today aren’t dumber than the ones in the 1800s.

I can remember a small rural Minnesota town that had their own coal fired electric plant. (Built back before the REA was a thing). They took the left over steam from power generation and then piped it to around 200 homes in the town and heated them with the leftover steam. While a bit costly to install, it was dirt cheap to run. Those homes lost all that when the power plant was shut down and they had to switch to either natural gas, fuel oil, LP, or electricity.

So don’t get hung up on just the power generation. Think what could be beyond that point.