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US/Canada Power Outage Task Force Event Timeline
bofus writes "The U.S./Canada Power Outage Task Force issued the Aug. 14, 2003 Sequence of Events at noon today. While no conclusions are drawn at this point, it does paint a pretty good picture of what happened and when it happened."
Ah, so the Canadians weren't responsible for the blackout... as the nice mayor of New York originally contended.
Think he must have watched a bit too much South Park!
There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer. -- J. H. Goldfuss
You left out:
Friday September 12, @03:58PM: Server goes down due to unusually high traffic.
if(!cool) exit(-1);
12.04 - power on
14.11 - power off
Comment: Yes I realise the username 'fuckfuck101' makes me sound intelligent, no you cannot buy it from me.
"We're can't say for certain what happened and when, but we can say with almost 90% certainty that when the power went out, people went without power. We think it might be related to some electrical do-hickey thingy that someone was supposed to be watching carefully in case it broke, but we're not confident enough to make that bold a statement... nor to claim that anything actually 'broke'.
"But what we *can* say is that we feel strongly that we feel something different should have happened. An appropriate amount of blame will be laid... oh yes... and we'll make the bad people pay."
Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie!" until you can find a rock.
It's not just us. The English used to have a saying: "Poor Canada: so far from God, so close to the United States."
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
The tragedy of Canada is that they had the opportunity to have British culture, French cuisine, and American technology. Instead they ended up with American culture, British cuisine, and French technology.
"It's a highly technical term that refers to the frequency of the AC sine wave of electric power that is delivered over your lines."
Wait a minute, could that be the problem? I hear in Canada they use cosine waves. ;-)
-Chris
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