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DATE | 2015-03-22 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] in the hands of god, we are all...
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From owner-hangout-outgoing-at-mrbrklyn.com Sun Mar 22 09:47:40 2015 Return-Path: X-Original-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Delivered-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) id A0EC2161323; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:47:39 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: hangout-outgoing-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix, from userid 28) id 8EBFC16132B; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:47:39 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: hangout-at-nylxs.com Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE706161323 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:47:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [10.0.0.19] (unknown [96.57.23.82]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4372D1265D for ; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:47:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <550EC7E2.3030704-at-panix.com> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:47:14 -0400 From: Ruben Safir User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hangout-at-nylxs.com Subject: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] in the hands of god, we are all... References: <550E4064.9060908-at-panix.com> <20150322073222.GG23768-at-linuxmafia.com> <550E7470.9080804-at-my.liu.edu> <20150322082236.GI23768-at-linuxmafia.com> In-Reply-To: <20150322082236.GI23768-at-linuxmafia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hangout-at-nylxs.com [NYLXS: HANGOUT] X-BeenThere: hangout-at-nylxs.com X-Mailing-list: hangout-at-nylxs.com Precedence: list List-Id: NYLXS General Discussion Forum List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe:
On 03/22/2015 04:22 AM, Rick Moen wrote: > If hypothetically it were necessary to yank a smoke detector battery to > shut up a false alarm from cooking, I'd make a particular point of > putting it back when I'm done cooking.
FWIW, mine doesn't have a battery. But if the average joe keeps pulling the device off the wall and putting it back, 2x a day, it will not work in short order.
They are not designed well...largely because they are more concerned with making money on mandates then producing usable goods.
> > I'm sure (even though I've not tested this) that a smoke detector moved > to 3' off the ground will still sound from smoke filling the corridor > from a real fire. > > If my house were mostly populated by short people instead of my 5' 11" > Scandinavian self and my mesomorph wife and mother-in-law, I'd remount > all smoke detectors to within people's reach.
You can't reach my ceilings either, which is weird because they are actually lower than my old house, but still much taller than my standing on a tall bar stool. Are they 13 feet high ??
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