'Not Fade Away'
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.
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?
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.
I have two tin cans and some string. I'll be fine.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Yes. This. I think I've only had the land line and the power out at the same time once in my life. The cable used to go out whenever the wind blew the wrong way (though it's been years since outages were that rampant) and it certainly doesn't work without power.