New Testingstan

Just so I know, I this Batmang guy voluntarily acting like he is mentally deficient, or is he just naturally dense as lead ? He seems to be oblivious of the most basic social cues. ... Well, I suppose it's par for the course to have difficulties communicating with other people when you base your who...

The Ron Paul thread ?

Meh, I am not reading it : If I want to see people spewing thoughtless inane shit from their mouth on political and economical matters I'll just plug in the TV and switch to the 24/7 information channels... That, and tbh I couldn't care less about American politics anyway.

About the 1776!America thread : I have to say I was myself tempted to launch another thread in the same vein with " 2012!China is swapped with BoxerRebellion!China " as an OP just to see how SDN would ruin it with glorious over-generalizations, cultural ignorance and casual racism. Am I si...

Bribing a few wardens to smuggle them in, maybe ?

A literal translation from my native French, I'm afraid ("tension électrique"). Thanks for the correction.

Boil the water in the kettle, pour the boiling water into the "casserole" (?), put noodles in boiling water, continue cooking on the stove.

Pasta cooking time halved. May not be worth the effort, though.

@ The Spartan : My mother has an electric kettle. It can boil approximately 1L of water in roughly 2-3 minutes (I'm not sure), compared to 8-10 minutes on the gaz stove. With the kettle, a mug of water (approximately 0.2L) is heated is 30-50 seconds. This is in France (230 V, 50 Hz) with a 2000-2400...

I've run the numbers : http://i.imgur.com/kSDz6.png Explanation : if the electrical resistance is a fixed number (which it should be on a crude electric stove, maybe not if it is a sophisticated model), halving the tension gives a fourth of the power output / heat. Mind you, these calcs are good in ...