On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:05:27 -0600, dpb wrote:

Jules wrote:
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Mentioned it elsewhere on this ng., but I still like US plugs purely for
things like phone chargers, where you can fold the power pins away and
make them nice and compact. Other than that, they are a bit of a disaster...

Well, I don't know...we seem to have a "veritable plethora" of devices
operating somehow _despite_ all that disaster (whatever it may be)...

That article didn't even show a proper US plug. It showed an out of
date non-polarized two prong receptacle. No one would install those
anymore. Our standard three prong polarized receptacles and two and
three prong plugs seem to work just fine.