Monday, May 08, 2006

compound ignorance

It seems that nearly every story I read about people being Tasered, or police departments adding Tasers to their arsenals, includes some form of this sentence:

He was hit with 50,000 volts of electricity.

OK, yeah, sure. But what about watts? amps? ohms? other units named after dudes? I fear the latter measures are ignored because the voltage sounds so impressive, but the effect is embarrassing.

Here's an easy briefing on the subject.

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