Blackout in NYC

[Tyler Durden]

Sarad wrote...

>For a moment think of all the iraqi's with  power
>grids taken out now enjoying the 120+ farenhiet sun. A
>few hours of luxury was gone and it was breaking news
>in bbc.

Although I appreciate the sentiment, your not really getting this. The 
timing was such that long-term impact was minimal. But if the blackout had 
come earlier in the day, and lasted for a few days, that outsourcing 
operation you work for might have been affected (ie, closed). Wall Street is 
here, for one, and Wall Street these days needs power.

Also, NYC now just assumes that power will be there. In 1975 the riots were 
fairly interesting...the wrong set of conditions could have made this MUCH 
more interesting (I was on a plane that landed a few hours after the 
blackouts began. I made my way to my residence as quickly as I could just in 
case things were going to get interesting again...)

As for the racist undertones in BBC and Amercian newfocus, I totally agree.

-TD


>From: "Major Variola (ret)" <mv at cdc.gov>
>To: "cypherpunks at lne.com" <cypherpunks at lne.com>
>Subject: Re: Blackout in NYC
>Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:46:59 -0700
>
>At 07:49 AM 8/15/03 -0700, Sarad AV wrote:
> >There wasn't much of traffic congestion on the
> >manhatten roads when they showed the images on bbc.
> >The manhatten road network is used in examples of
> >deflection routing. Also roads every where should be
> >like that :-)
>
>Mutually perpendicular, you mean?  Or congested?
>
> >In India during  summer-we have around 8 hours of
> >power cut daily.
>
>Think of the market for UPSes, man!
>
>Or for a thermoelectric generator that runs on cowdung!
>
> >For a moment think of all the iraqi's with  power
> >grids taken out now enjoying the 120+ farenhiet sun. A
> >few hours of luxury was gone and it was breaking news
> >in bbc.
>
>Yeah but the traditional Arab dress deals with the sun, whereas
>the traditional Victorian/American attire doesn't.
>
>The *real story* is how this is a symptom of the Empire Declining.
>
>For Californians, its more of a "its your turn now" feeling...
>
>IIRC New Zealand had a city w/out watts for a few days, a few years ago.
>
>....
>"Flex your power" Flush Davis

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