I deffinatly agree with you that the Sheaffer fountain pens are about some of the best. I upgraded my $3.50 Sheaffer fountain pen to the $20 version, which I found has a much better grip. Unfortunatly for people who are not accustomed to writing with fountain pens, they take a bit of getting used to. The force you to hold your pen essentialy in a proper way. Then again ultimately this is better for your hand.
Maybe regulation/deregulation is not as much the issue as redundancy in the power grid. I would think that it would make sense for there to be enough reduancy and backup systems in a power grid as large as the one described so that black outs such as this one do not occour.
On the other hand, the need for redundancy, or possibly for areas to draw power from other sources is expensive, and does not fit the model of a profitable buisness. Regulation could help by fueling money into redundancy and requireing a certian ammount of backup systems in place so that major black outs occour. Also, as far as I understand, the power grids is large cities have not grown to keep up with demand in said cities making blackouts or atleast brown outs more plausable.
Then again, this is only news because black outs of the magnitude happen so rarely. In all likelyhood this was a freak accident on the level that will not happen again for another 30 years or so. Hopefuly the people in charge of both the power grid in most areas as well as most major metropolitan areas have backup plans for when events such as this one occour. One can only hope.
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Or they're just too lazy to get haircuts, or couldn't be bothered.
They'll ship it to Norway for $9. Its also nice that books are somehow exempt from VAT.
I deffinatly agree with you that the Sheaffer fountain pens are about some of the best. I upgraded my $3.50 Sheaffer fountain pen to the $20 version, which I found has a much better grip. Unfortunatly for people who are not accustomed to writing with fountain pens, they take a bit of getting used to. The force you to hold your pen essentialy in a proper way. Then again ultimately this is better for your hand.
Maybe regulation/deregulation is not as much the issue as redundancy in the power grid. I would think that it would make sense for there to be enough reduancy and backup systems in a power grid as large as the one described so that black outs such as this one do not occour.
On the other hand, the need for redundancy, or possibly for areas to draw power from other sources is expensive, and does not fit the model of a profitable buisness. Regulation could help by fueling money into redundancy and requireing a certian ammount of backup systems in place so that major black outs occour. Also, as far as I understand, the power grids is large cities have not grown to keep up with demand in said cities making blackouts or atleast brown outs more plausable.
Then again, this is only news because black outs of the magnitude happen so rarely. In all likelyhood this was a freak accident on the level that will not happen again for another 30 years or so. Hopefuly the people in charge of both the power grid in most areas as well as most major metropolitan areas have backup plans for when events such as this one occour. One can only hope.