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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.
Cell phone technology isn't redundant enough to ensure adequate service like POTS (that's plain old telephone service).
POTS still has its own 'lectric generation system.
Okay, now. Let's call somebody. All your buddies are on cell or 'net. The gob'ment ... they work for the FEDA. You are fux0red.
(and here I was wondering what the "T" was for)
Is it cheating to take painkillers before a biofeedback session? I think not, since I'll be hooked up to devices to measure my magical control of myself.
I think I'm going to walk down the hill to get ginger ale. I need a change.
Let's call somebody. All your buddies are on cell or 'net. The gob'ment ... they work for the FEDA. You are fux0red.
Well, Jesse's on cell. I can call all my sensible friends. Or I can use my laptop battery and dial outside the blackout zone and connect to the internet that way.
Not that I've ever done that in a blackout.
Or I can use my laptop battery and dial outside the blackout zone and connect to the internet that way.
That's how we figured out what the heck was up with our power outage last month. We have an emergency dial up connection for just that sort of event.
Or I can use my laptop battery and dial outside the blackout zone and connect to the internet that way.
Augh!
The internet is down, chica. What now?
We have an emergency dial up connection for just that sort of event.
I used to, but it's certainly possible that I've signed up for a temporary AOL account on the fly.
I now realise that Earthlink DSL provided me with dialup backup, but the cablemodem doesn't.
The internet is down, chica. What now?
Life is no longer worth living. I just type my suicide note into my PDA and end it all.
I now realise that Earthlink DSL provided me with dialup backup, but the cablemodem doesn't.
I was just having that same thought.