'Serenity'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I was actually thinking about 9/11 when cell phones weren't working, or at least, you couldn't get through on them.
For Christmas, I got one of those crank radios for my go-bag (I GOT A GO BAG FOR XMAS. WTF??), and it can be used as a cellphone charger, so I'm not so worried about the actual cell charge.
Wasn't there somthing on NPR this morning about them wanting to charge the content providers because their delivery system was so good? The story said something about it being a poor idea since deregulations have killed competion.
I missed the story, but it is true that deregulation has killed competition.
one of those crank radios for my go-bag and it can be used as a cellphone charger
Ooooooooooooh. Linky?
There was also bitching because they are asking to charge both ends.
Ooooooooooooh. Linky?
I'll have to check when I get home.
Crimeny. I wander off for a while and in that while otherwise perfectly good Buffistas are going on about how a regular POTS phone are going to get them through a power outage, like 'dem phones don't run 'dem 'lectics, no how.
The cell towers run on electricty, O, my people.
Then we can all look forward to paying our monthly $700 telecablenet bills to SBComcastWarner.
I'll happily resort to Netflix and taking up reading as a hobby again before that day arrives. I also have 269 hours of Mutant Enemy shows on tape/DVD that will keep me entertained for a long, long time in lieu of new programming.
A POTS phone gets me through my power outage. I feel pretty confident assuming that the phone company has better business continuity than my apartment, and even if they don't, it's been a hell of a long time since I've been in an outage that large.
Time was that regular wired POTS had its own power generation system, separate from the grid. How wrong am I about this?