OR you can print out and sign the form from the Apple web site, mail it in, and wait for the PIN to be mailed to you a week later. Your call…

And Paris filled their underground stone quarry with exhumed skeletons… Who did it better?

I would guess it’s partly due to the many “sales” held from Thanksgiving to post-Christmas inventory clearance, and the end-of-year push at auto dealers to get car sales.

You look like a Hare Krishna follower.

That gap is just an issue with the installation and has either already been there or maybe the electrical box behind is not fastened. But it is unlikely to be the cause of the @not charging” problem.

Diagnostic steps:

1. Plug in something else that’s us know to work correctly, like a desk lamp. If it comes on, the problem is with the computer power cable or the computer’s internal power supply.

1a) plug the computer in somewhere else to check. If it comes on, the plug itself may have bent prongs that don’t touch the contacts in the other outlet properly. 1b) If you can swap the power cord (typical IEC plug for a composer power supply, or a different wall charger for a laptop), try with the new cord. 1c) If it still doesn’t come on, take it to a computer place.

2. If the lamp doesn’t come on, it’s most likely the circuit breaker that shuts off automatically if too much power is pulled from the outlet. To check that, find the circuit breaker box (in a very old house it might be a fuse box) generally in a closet or in the basement. If the circuit breaker panel does not have a cover, you can see all the wires DO NOT TOUCH IT. You can electrocute yourself. Get someone else to do the next steps. (If it’s a fuse box — rows of round things with a glass cap — you should probably let someone else do it.)

3. There should be two vertical columns of square breaker switches. These are usually not labeled very well, so you will need to figure out which one is connected to the problem outlet. But if you’re lucky, the chart might have a label like “#10 - living room”. if so, skip to step 5.

4. Outlets for plugs are usually controlled by the smaller breaker switches, 15 amp or 30 amp (in the US and Canada). The bigger double ones are for things likes stoves/cookers, big heaters, and air conditioning units. For circuit breakers, when they are tripped, the square switch for that circuit is not aligned with all the other ones. You can sometimes see this, and sometimes it’s easier to run your finger down the vertical columns and feel for one that’s out of line.

5. When you think you know which one is tripped, flip the switch all the way opposite to the others, then flip it back to the same direction as the others. It takes a fair bit of force - these are not like light switches.

6. Go and check the outlet with the lamp again. If it comes on, you’re done. If it does not come on, it might be a different breaker than you thought. (If there are breakers from different manufacturers installed, they don’t always line up, making it harder to tell which one is tripped.) Repeat steps 4 and 5.

7. If there are no obviously tripped breakers, it might be that the wiring behind the outlet inside the electrical box has come loose. Don’t try to fix it. You can electrocute yourself. Tell your parent so they can call an electrician.

This is the end of steps for someone who is not used to working on house wiring.

If you mean to turn any individual molecule directly into any other one, then likely no, because the first molecule would not have the exact elements required to make up the final one, and also, there’s no method available to manipulate individual molecules like that.

If you mean to convert a reasonably large amount of one molecular substance to a reasonable amount of another one, then yes, since you could always break it down fully into constituent atoms and then use the methods that were required in the real world to create the target molecule. But then you would just be synthesizing the final molecule from scratch, without really any reason to call it “made from the first molecule”, especially if other new components are required and/or others that were present in the first molecule are not required.

If you mean if there’s a process that goes short of complete breakdown of the first molecule? Probably not for every possible input/output pair.

Malcolm being handsy as usual…