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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: Pissed_Macman on 15 August 2003, 08:20

Title: No Power In The East
Post by: Pissed_Macman on 15 August 2003, 08:20
I'm trying not to crack up because I know a lot of bad stuff is going to happen there when the sun goes down, but it's so damn funny because New Yorkers are always saying they wish LA and Seattle would fall into the ocean whenever there's an earthquake.
Title: No Power In The East
Post by: mobrien_12 on 15 August 2003, 10:49
Do they really say that?
Title: No Power In The East
Post by: Stilly on 15 August 2003, 11:33
this makes me laugh because all us gun carrying, death sentencing rednecks down here in Texas have our own special power grid  :D    :D    :D
Title: No Power In The East
Post by: avello500 on 15 August 2003, 11:38
your in texas. sorry to hear that.
hows your ass feeling? j/k
Title: No Power In The East
Post by: Stilly on 15 August 2003, 17:08
I was watching the news channel and they got their power back

and I didn't hear of any looting either

[ August 15, 2003: Message edited by: The Stiller ]

Title: No Power In The East
Post by: M51DPS on 15 August 2003, 19:18
I'm over in North East Ohio, smack in the middle of the power outage. It really sucked because it was hot yesterday, meaning I no longer had fans. Mine went out around 4:30, then didn't come back until sometime around 10:30. According to the news 3 people died (two in New York and one in Canada) and they don't know what caused the blackout (they've been talking about technical error, fires, lightning, and even government conspiracy). All of the sudden bush's solution to the national energy crisis doesn't seem to be working. Plus he said in his speech that he sees no need to modernize the power grid. Somehow, I don't trust him.

[ August 15, 2003: Message edited by: M51DPS ]

Title: No Power In The East
Post by: Canadian Lover on 19 August 2003, 08:41
guuess what else?

alot of New Yorkers and Toronto citizins got stuck on there subways for 7 hours! I'm trying not to laugh eather!!!
Title: No Power In The East
Post by: M51DPS on 19 August 2003, 20:48
Hey, was anybody else hit by the blackout? At all?
Title: No Power In The East
Post by: jasonlane on 19 August 2003, 21:21
Have they decided how it actually happend yet?

I hear something about the telephone communications between the control centers and powers stations. Was this just a lack of communication or was the system actually down.

If it was fried was M$ to blame, for example Blaster brought down the 311 telephone network in NY earlier that day, no?
Title: No Power In The East
Post by: Calum on 19 August 2003, 21:44
interestingly areas where microsoft computers control mission critical parts of the grid were affected by blackouts at times coincidental with the msblast outbreak. areas where BSD and QNX are responsible for mission critical parts were unaffected, as would of course be expected, or at least i have heard it said...


http://promote-opensource.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=204 (http://promote-opensource.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=204)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/333505 (http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/333505)
Title: No Power In The East
Post by: jasonlane on 19 August 2003, 23:57
Hmmm, you would hope that mission critical systems would be running on something like QNX and not M$ crap.

But then again if the system failed ultimately because of non-critical systems, i.e the ability to coordinate the working of the grid through a crumby communicatons network, then perhaps M$ will get taken to the cleaners.
Title: No Power In The East
Post by: lavacube on 21 August 2003, 00:08
My god please! *prays that M$ get's fucked*
Title: No Power In The East
Post by: CommonSense on 21 August 2003, 00:37
MES Headquarters (aka my house) in Parlin (aka Sayreville, home of the ho-hum John Bon Jovi), New Jersey had an outage that lasted all of about five seconds on Thursday afternoon.  We're mainly on the PJM power grid, which serves NJ, PA, Maryland, DC, and some other areas.

Not all NY-area people want California and Seattle to fall off into the ocean; I personally love California and would rather be there.

Seattle, on the other hand . . . (shrug)  And Texas, for that matter . . . let 'em secede, like they've always wanted to.

Plus, we'd be rid of Microsoft.  And Bush.  Then America might actually have a chance of being a real democracy.  You know, like Canada (aka What America Was Supposed To Be).
Title: No Power In The East
Post by: Pissed_Macman on 21 August 2003, 04:12
Oh yes, Canada, a great democracy where the government can pressure private radio stations to take completely harmless radio shows off the air. Yeah...
Title: No Power In The East
Post by: Laukev7 on 21 August 2003, 05:03
quote:
Originally posted by Macman:
Oh yes, Canada, a great democracy where the government can pressure private radio stations to take completely harmless radio shows off the air. Yeah...


Ever read the Patriot act?

Oh, and check this out:

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ (http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/)

[ August 20, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev 7.5 ]

Title: No Power In The East
Post by: jasonlane on 22 August 2003, 01:03
Jeez what is with Americans and Canadians, hey YANKS stop picking on Canadians, I mean that's the way around it usually seems to work.

Can't we all get along.

This is also another good one:

informationclearinghouse (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/)

[ August 21, 2003: Message edited by: Zardoz ]

Title: No Power In The East
Post by: CommonSense on 22 August 2003, 08:23
quote:
Originally posted by Macman:
Oh yes, Canada, a great democracy where the government can pressure private radio stations to take completely harmless radio shows off the air. Yeah...


Let me guess:  Stern fan?

It was a public service.  Stern's sucked for the last few years anyway.  First he becomes a starfucker, then he lets Jackie the Jokeman go, then 9/11 hits and he shows his true, reactionary colors

And this is coming from a former rabid Stern fan, too.  He's become a tired old fuck.  The CRTC was right to put him out of Canadians' misery.

Besides, if Canadians really insist on suffering, they can tune in on the Buffalo (for Toronto), Burlington (for Montreal), or Seattle (for Vancouver) affiliates anyway.
Title: No Power In The East
Post by: Stilly on 22 August 2003, 21:29
quote:
Originally posted by Webmaster:

Seattle, on the other hand . . . (shrug)  And Texas, for that matter . . . let 'em secede, like they've always wanted to.

Plus, we'd be rid of Microsoft.  And Bush.  Then America might actually have a chance of being a real democracy.  You know, like Canada (aka What America Was Supposed To Be).



bush is not a real texan

and Texas never really wanted to secede. it was only a country for about 10-20 years and during that time most of them wanted to annex to the US.
Title: No Power In The East
Post by: Pissed_Macman on 22 August 2003, 12:56
We should just give Texas to Mexico, it would fit in nicely, well except for the millions of racist rednecks who hate Mexicans. That could be a drawback.
Title: No Power In The East
Post by: Calum on 22 August 2003, 14:01
fuck it. cut them loose and throw them a paddle. oh yes, texas is landlocked, isn't it? welli reckon letting them get on with it would be better for them and for the US. giving texas to mexico would be very interesting though...
Title: No Power In The East
Post by: M51DPS on 23 August 2003, 08:37
Check this out. The US at night.

(http://members.aol.com/psychobunny79/images/blackout.jpg)
Title: No Power In The East
Post by: hm_murdock on 23 August 2003, 11:04
Texas isn't landlocked. it's got several hundred miles of very, very nice coastline
Title: No Power In The East
Post by: Calum on 23 August 2003, 16:21
sorry, that's what comes of me being a foreigner! :-D
Title: No Power In The East
Post by: suselinux on 25 August 2003, 06:06
web page (http://www.it-director.com/article.php?articleid=11175)