Cockroaches eat anything.

No, that's just a function of multi-tasking skill. [grin]

Interrupt the food supply.

Good point, but better still deserved target for disaster to awaken the sleeping giant

Lmao. The BW and I announce “oven off” or “stove off” when cooking is complete. I cook 90% of our meals so clearly our habit is from my absentminded leaving the oven on.

Potomac Power a division of Exelon Energy is the major provider.

Well that may be true or maybe not. With the wide variety of election fraud we just witnessed and the media pretending the idiots are a majority, maybe most of those headscratchers they put in power were installed. The fraud exhibited was not perpetrated by rookies or novices.

Yup or for a small fee I could find a mule to deliver.
Lol

LOL, I run one of these laptops because they are INCREDIBLY POWERFUL/FAST.

I don't have any games installed on them. Just computing power!

Who couldn't?

Hell, I'd even offer to buy one for any resident of those states and ship it to them -- for a fee ;^)

Where does DC get its electricity?

There is a plan. I don't know the who, when, why, or where but the plan is control. What better way to control us than to turn off the electricity.

I am sure if I wanted one I could get it. Might cost a bit more of coursr

Pretty stupid rule, but typical of government

I think they can only limit what can be sold, with penalties on the sellers. CA can't make it illegal to use, and even if they did, it is unenforceable.

I hope it wipes out their grid. Those idiots voted for all that crap. they need to own it and live with it.

Ha!

This is a marketing stunt!

Sweet!

Yeah, I get it. If it works for you that's very good. I just take advantage of my opportunity to use the expertise of someone who is obsessed with quality. I think eventually after he retires, he may do this sort of thing for a fun living, selling to people with more money than they know what to do with. For us, it's just a lot of fun.

I do that, too, but it's by mistake - being distracted by other tasks.
Fortunately my business partner usually catches and corrects my error ;^)

Used 3 yr old performance is fine for my needs. I decide which parts are good for my requirements (by reading independent reviews online) and then shop on Ebay for them.
Ebay enforces a full refund on the seller if they don't work - unless they are advertised as not working. I had such a refund on a gpu and the seller didn't want it shipped back. (As it happened, it was still under warranty and the manufacturer replaced it for the cost of shipping it. I'm using it today and they sell for about $200 used on Ebay. Sometimes you win.;^)
Used parts: Cpu, motherboard, cpu heatsink, gpu.
I bought new memory and drives from newegg.com.
I've been doing this for the past 10 years since there haven't been any performance breakthroughs in about 12 years. So far, so good. I had a used motherboard fail 5 years after purchase, used cpus and memory still good after 7 years (and to be sold on Ebay.)
Software issues today may be more of a problem for me since I won't 'upgrade' to W10.
Prices of used gpus have been affected by demand from farms of gpus being used to make cryptocurrencies. I haven't heard of other supply issues though.

More insanity from Commiefornia: after pushing to ban all internal combustion engines, they instructed Californians with electric cars not to charge them during the recent heat wave! That's with only a small percentage of state autos electric. What do you suppose will happen when most people there have nothing but electric autos? It'll be worse than the WW II gas rationing or the 1973 gas crisis, only there won't be anywhere you can go for a bucket of electricity.

They libs have just proven, they will definitely never have power to plug in all those electric cars, no matter what they say. They do not want peple to have power. Read Dr. Ileana Paugh as she speaks of her homeland Romania which became UN Agenda 21 complaint. We are geting cloer to "Anthem" every day.

PS. Those are sweet machines. Totally tricked out and overclocked for serious performance gaming.