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US/Canada Power Outage Task Force Event Timeline

Posted by michael on from the alone-in-the-dark dept.

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."

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  1. Obligatory Line by Eberlin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    5:00:00 - Profit!!!

  2. Stuff that matters? by stratjakt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is stuff that matters.

    You guys wanna talk about dual use? Tommy Chong is off to the slammer for 9 months for selling pipes. Not drugs, but pipes.

    choice quote:
    He admitted once having "a drug problem with marijuana" but said he beat it by redirecting his energy to salsa dancing.

    Fuckin lame war on drugs. Yeah, Cheech and Chong are dangerous lunatics and definately need to be taking up cell space.

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    1. Re:Stuff that matters? by xchino · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      While it most certainly sucks Chong got busted, it has nothing to do with the technical nature of slashdot. That's something you find on fark.com. Also, if he wouldn't have geared his marketing gimmicks towards indicating these devices were to be used for marijuana, he wouldn't be in the mess he is in now. All it would have taken was a "For tobacco use only" disclaimer and he could have joined the hundreds of legal water pipe dealers.

      Aside from that, the measure of the sentence is ridiculous, apart from the idiocy of anti marijuana laws in the first place.

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  3. So who the hell... by GeneralEmergency · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    ...declared this to be an "SCO Nonsense Free Friday"?

    Stumped, I am!

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  4. Canada topic/icon? by Mr.+Neutron · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    This is a US and Canada story. I notice it has the USA topic/icon, but not a Canada topic/icon. Is there a topic icon for Canada? What should the Canada icon look like?

    -The Canadian flag?
    -A maple leaf?
    -A Mountie hat?
    -A hockey stick/puck?
    -Celine Dion's head?

    Any other ideas?

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