Ooooooooooooh. Linky?
I'll have to check when I get home.
Well, look who just popped open a fresh can of venom.
Xander ,'Empty Places'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
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.
Jesse - Jan 06, 2006 12:34:15 pm PST #8360 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Gus - Jan 06, 2006 12:38:00 pm PST #8361 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 06, 2006 12:39:34 pm PST #8362 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
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.
§ ita § - Jan 06, 2006 12:40:12 pm PST #8363 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Betsy HP - Jan 06, 2006 12:40:24 pm PST #8364 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Time was that regular wired POTS had its own power generation system, separate from the grid. How wrong am I about this?
Hayden - Jan 06, 2006 12:41:19 pm PST #8365 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
The cell towers run on electricty, O, my people.
There used to be regulations in place to ensure the inviolability of that network in case of huge electrical disaster. Nowadays, you're on your own.
brenda m - Jan 06, 2006 12:41:28 pm PST #8366 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I have two tin cans and some string. I'll be fine.
Hayden - Jan 06, 2006 12:42:43 pm PST #8367 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Time was that regular wired POTS had its own power generation system, separate from the grid. How wrong am I about this?
Eh, I'm being a Cassandra in my last post. This is still true. For the time being.
Trudy Booth - Jan 06, 2006 12:42:45 pm PST #8368 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
The new fresca is non-caloric and uncaffeinated. Me, I find the taste too light to cover the faint (splenda?) aftertaste, but if you can deal with that, it's a nice compromise. I mean, I like ginger ale, but-- too many empty calories.
They changed Fresca? I thought they just expanded the line? And wasn't it always without calories or caffine?
amych - Jan 06, 2006 12:44:30 pm PST #8369 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Eh, I'm aware that the phones make use of the magical electron fairies, but the fact remains that 90% of the time when the power is out at my house, the wally-phone still works and the other one doesn't. Not perfect in case of a nuclear war that really truly knocks everything right the fuck out (but in that case, who cares?), but it's good enough when a tree limb comes down.