Re: Distros specifically designed for children

Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> wrote:

Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:

Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:

At the moment, all cars that take unleaded petrol take the same
size fuel nozzle at the petrol station.  You do not have a choice
when you buy a car, what size nozzle you can accomodate.  You do
not have a choice, when you go to a petrol station, to use a larger
nozzle which could deliver fuel faster.  The tyranny!

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That's a leftover from the days of the transition away from leaded
gasoline to unleaded gasoline.  For quite some time, both were
available (from different pumps, obviously) and the smaller unleaded
nozzle opening was meant to prevent folks from accidentally filling
their "unleaded only" vehicle with leaded fuel.  Doing so would very
quickly subject them to a very expensive replacement of a clogged
catlytic converter.  The leaded gas nozzle simply did not fit into
the opening, and served as a huge "hint" that one was trying to pump
the wrong fuel into the tank.

 
It still keeps you from filling Diesel into your gasoline car.

Yeah, that too, or at least it serves as a hard to ignore signal that
one is about to pump in the wrong fuel.  An idiot could still carefully
add diesel anyway, but at that point it is clearly intentional and not
just absentmindedness.