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Unplug Your Laptop Forever in 7 Steps

Posted March 04, 2012 7:45 AM

From HowStuffWorks Daily Feed:

How freeing would it be to unplug your laptop from the grid...forever? Learn more about unplugging your laptop forever in 7 steps.

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03/04/2012 10:26 AM

Maybe its the cynic in me but I find it funny an article trying to tell a user how to unplug a laptop from the power grid must do this in eight different web pages and a pop-up to maximize the number of internet commercials seen by the user.

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03/04/2012 11:41 AM

There's nothing that wastes time like stating the obvious and making it sound like some revolutionary new idea.

Howstuffworks and E-how are nothing but total wastes of time and bandwidth and an excuse to advertise. They'd be of some small help to someone living on another planet, maybe.
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03/05/2012 8:59 AM

I figured that if you are correct, which you are in this case, it's not cynical.
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03/04/2012 2:20 PM

7 steps to eliminate the 1 step of plugging the laptop into the wall socket. Brilliant!!

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03/04/2012 2:22 PM

Well that was 3 minutes of my life I won't get back.

Here's me thinking this article might actually be something worthwhile.......

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03/05/2012 2:36 AM

And if you use the heat from the Thermopack to make electricity to help recharge the battery.............

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