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Venezuela Falling Behind
Christopher Frank writes "Seems Venezuela's lack of power has finally caught up with them! MSNBC has the story: 'If you thought Venezuela's political crisis seemed to be dragging for an impossibly long time -- you were right. In a bizarre mass-malfunction, Venezuela's clocks are ticking too slowly due to a power shortage weakening the electric current nationwide. By the end of each day, the sluggish time pieces still have another 150 seconds to tick before they catch up to midnight.'"
Well at least you can technically put off getting older.
1) Have 90% of your economy in one industry. 2) When you don't like the present administration...go on strike. 3) ??? 4) Profit!
You'll have that sometimes...
EVERYTHING THAT HAS to do with time-keeping has slowed down.
So, basically what we're dealing with here is an entire country suffering from a sort of prolonged "Time Out" syndrome like Zack would sometimes cause on Saved By The Bell. Clearly, the problem will not be solved unless the Venezuelan government actively pursues an ingenious solution by Screech Powers.
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That my friends, is an understatement.
How do I know this? Well, I am from there ;o)
Excuse me, I must go a have a nap before I finish this post...
will work for Karma
finland leads the world in overclocking
;-P
and venezuela leads the world in underclocking?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Due to magnetic irregularities in regard to the south magnetic pole water swirls counter clock wise. Since there are negative magnetic waves there the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (Venezuela) manages the atomic clocks that synchronize the world. If the atomic clocks go out of sync then this could spell disaster on a international scale. Some one Who knows about the dangers of Time should be dispached at once. Lord knows what could happen if some evil learns to Master time.
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
An air traffic controller casually told Reuters that his office corrected its clocks every few days or months, without incident so far. :)
Does this scare anyone else?
So the moral of the story... don't fly to Venezuela
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As an ignorant Venezuelan I have to ask... where the hell is Oklahoma?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
First post...FUCK, I'm an hour late. Goddamn clock.
"'I wake with the sun,' said Rene Osurna, who works at a shipping company. 'And if you're two minutes late to the office, and everybody else is too, there's no problem.'"
You work at a SHIPPING COMPANY and you don't care what time it is?! Are you on powerful anti-depressants? If you're two minutes late to the plane with your packages, there IS a problem.
The book "Legends of Caltech" tells of students who played a trick on their math professor as follows: The Professor (Tom Apostol) gave very carefully scripted lectures designed to end precisely in the time allotted. For a few weeks, each day students would go in the lecture hall before class and 1) Change the clock to run 10-15% faster. 2) Set the clock backwards a few minutes so it caught up at the beginning of lecture. When the Professor (who didn't wear a watch) noticed himself seemingly falling farther and farther behind, he tended to get more and more incoherent as he tried to finish the lecture which he "knew" he had enough time to do.
The Country of Venezuela is now the property of the United States government.
The nation and it's inhabitants were surrendered to U.S. law enforcement pursuant to a federal prosecution and felony plea agreement for conspiracy to violate criminal copyright laws.
Venezuela pled guilty to conspiring to violate federal copyright laws by illegally "modifying" the digital time-keeping mechanism of clocks. Under the DMCA (Digital Millenium Clockwork Act), the modification of clocks to display an unauthorized time is illegal, no matter what American or non-American police state you live in. "If people were allowed to make their clocks show whatever time they wanted, it might allow them to read a time that the manufacturer never intended, like 14 o'clock" declared Ayatollah Ashcroft in a press conference today. "Not only is that illegal, it's wrong, and naughty. Next thing you know they'll be bathing in the nude or teaching women to read."
As a result, the country of Venezuela is now the property of the United States government. The country and it's people will immediately be put to their rightly intended use: the production of inferior quality candles to be used in Catholic rituals.
I don't know where it is right now, but it used to be on Broadway. *badda-bing*
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"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything" -- Josef Stalin
... is the best place to stay at the end of the world. It will come several hours late.
Is this another example of special relativity? Or just another example of clocks malfunctioning which might lead one to believe that "time slows down".
I don't have a clock you insensitive cl...
...oh wait.
I read Slashdot for the
Try using a US analog clock in a country like Thailand that has 50Hz power. You loose 10 minutes every hour!
Make sure to use a converter as 120v clocks don't like 240v.
Venezuela's department of tourism slogan was recently chaged to "We don't even need accurate clocks, because in Venezuela, it's always BOOTY TIME!"