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To: null and void
And by the way, she's managed to figure out how to keep her cell phone from ringing, but not how to get it to ring again.

Some of the older set have trouble figuring out that the on and off button are the same, or that that's what the little circle with a line in it means.

Speaking of which, why is that what a circle with a line in it means? Who came up with that silly symbol?

4,879 posted on 03/06/2013 11:39:37 AM PST by ArGee (An open mind is like an open window - if you don't have a screen, you get flies.)
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Speaking of which, why is that what a circle with a line in it means?

It's an interrupted circle. Circle and circuit come from the same root word.

It was intended to combine 1 and 0 to symbolize on and off.

Blame the International Electrotechnical Commission. Yes, that is correct, it really was designed by a committee, and a committee composed of people with no common language at that!

4,895 posted on 03/06/2013 2:21:31 PM PST by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable tyranny.)
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