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"Clayton Episode 1...The Farting Menace" |
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14 Aug 2003 08:12:41 PM |
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The Blackout |
It's the fault of all you evil godless New York atheists!!!!
It was God trying to strike you all down!!
I hope you're happy with yourselves!
:-D
Hope you're all alright.
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| User: "Nakas" |
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| Title: Re: The Blackout |
14 Aug 2003 10:24:18 PM |
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"Clayton Episode 1...The Farting Menace" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKoptusnet.com.au>
wrote in message news:3f3c332d$0$15133$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
It's the fault of all you evil godless New York atheists!!!!
It was God trying to strike you all down!!
I hope you're happy with yourselves!
:-D
Hope you're all alright.
Just yesterday there was a post about "dark atheists". Coincidence?
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| User: "Maverick" |
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| Title: Re: The Blackout |
15 Aug 2003 06:08:44 AM |
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"Clayton Episode 1...The Farting Menace" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKoptusnet.com.au>
wrote in message news:3f3c332d$0$15133$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
It's the fault of all you evil godless New York atheists!!!!
It was God trying to strike you all down!!
I hope you're happy with yourselves!
I was wondering... I heard on the news that the power is coming back in some
areas now, but that the cause of the blackout is still unknown. If it's
unknown, then how did they fix it? I realize that somehow, this question
must be incredibly stupid, but somewhere along the way I'm not getting it.
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| User: "Kooter" |
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15 Aug 2003 10:07:41 AM |
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"Maverick" <sh100@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ha3%a.4073$Y5.1115@nntpserver.swip.net...
"Clayton Episode 1...The Farting Menace" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKoptusnet.com.au>
wrote in message news:3f3c332d$0$15133$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
It's the fault of all you evil godless New York atheists!!!!
It was God trying to strike you all down!!
I hope you're happy with yourselves!
I was wondering... I heard on the news that the power is coming back in
some
areas now, but that the cause of the blackout is still unknown. If it's
unknown, then how did they fix it? I realize that somehow, this question
must be incredibly stupid, but somewhere along the way I'm not getting it.
I'm not an expert on power grids but I'd imagine that all power generation
subsystems are connected together so that outside systems can take up the
load when one is overloaded. The substations are connected by step up and
step down transformers. If one station took a big lighting hit the power
surge would travel downstream frying every transformer and possibly every
generator that it passed thru.
It's not really necessary to know what the original problem was to be able
to figure out what the local problem is. You just look for a transformer
that's not passing current.
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| User: "Eric Pepke" |
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| Title: Re: The Blackout |
16 Aug 2003 04:46:52 AM |
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"Maverick" <sh100@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<ha3%a.4073$Y5.1115@nntpserver.swip.net>...
I was wondering... I heard on the news that the power is coming back in some
areas now, but that the cause of the blackout is still unknown. If it's
unknown, then how did they fix it? I realize that somehow, this question
must be incredibly stupid, but somewhere along the way I'm not getting it.
Would you rather they waited?
The report on the 1965 blackout did not come out until 1973.
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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15 Aug 2003 09:26:34 AM |
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In article <ha3%a.4073$Y5.1115@nntpserver.swip.net>, Maverick says...
"Clayton Episode 1...The Farting Menace" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKoptusnet.com.au>
wrote in message news:3f3c332d$0$15133$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
It's the fault of all you evil godless New York atheists!!!!
It was God trying to strike you all down!!
I hope you're happy with yourselves!
I was wondering... I heard on the news that the power is coming back in some
areas now, but that the cause of the blackout is still unknown. If it's
unknown, then how did they fix it? I realize that somehow, this question
must be incredibly stupid, but somewhere along the way I'm not getting it.
Last night on the news they were saying that they thought it was caused by a
lightening strike in Canada. Now they're saying that it might have started in
Ohio.
Robyn
Resident Witchypoo & EAC Spellcaster
#1557
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| User: "Hypatia Kosh" |
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15 Aug 2003 02:31:32 PM |
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Robibnikoff <nospam@newsranger.com> wrote:
Last night on the news they were saying that they thought it was caused by a
lightening strike in Canada. Now they're saying that it might have started in
Ohio.
The way they pointed fingers across the border all evening long was highly amusing.
-Hypatia <*> Kosh
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REAL Men Love Jesus!
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| User: "Lane Lewis" |
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15 Aug 2003 08:20:40 PM |
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"Hypatia Kosh" <berli@lycos.com> wrote in message
news:fb1e5579.0308151131.5f7c52a7@posting.google.com...
Robibnikoff <nospam@newsranger.com> wrote:
Last night on the news they were saying that they thought it was caused
by a
lightening strike in Canada. Now they're saying that it might have
started in
Ohio.
The way they pointed fingers across the border all evening long was highly
amusing.
-Hypatia <*> Kosh
--
REAL Men Love Jesus!
Especially since each company was supposed to protect itself. Apparently all
the companies that went down were at fault and there will be an
investigation hopefully to show just how inadequate the system is. They all
claimed that this would not happen again because they all put in safeguards
but it was worse this time then last.
Lane
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| User: "Dick C" |
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15 Aug 2003 09:47:52 AM |
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Maverick wrote in alt.atheism
"Clayton Episode 1...The Farting Menace"
<cjfat@SPAMBLOCKoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:3f3c332d$0$15133$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
It's the fault of all you evil godless New York atheists!!!!
It was God trying to strike you all down!!
I hope you're happy with yourselves!
I was wondering... I heard on the news that the power is coming back
in some areas now, but that the cause of the blackout is still
unknown. If it's unknown, then how did they fix it? I realize that
somehow, this question must be incredibly stupid, but somewhere along
the way I'm not getting it.
One plant went down, causing the other plants to try to make up for it,
which they were unable to do, so they overloaded and went down. The
plants and grids will be isolated and brought back up. The reason that
this did not happen immediately is that it takes time to bring the plants
back up, and the plants have to be isolated from the grid, sort of
like starting a car. If your car dies, you donot leave it in gear,
turn the key and go. You have to put it in neutral (or park, or push
in the clutch) then restart the car. Then put it back in gear and
start accelerating. The same goes with the power plants, except that
they are huge, thus take a long time to restart, and nuclear plants
take even longer, apparently. Then as they come back on line, they
send power out to small areas at first, then more and more until each
plant is operating at its' capacity. The grids are then tied back
together and life will go on.
--
***** #1349
"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it."
Andre Gide, French author and critic (1869-1951).
Home Page: dickcr.iwarp.com
email:
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: The Blackout |
18 Aug 2003 08:04:38 PM |
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:47:52 -0000, ***** C <dickcr@localnet.boo.com>,
Message ID: <Xns93D84F73C1803dickcrlocalnet@216.168.3.50> wrote in
alt.atheism;
Maverick wrote in alt.atheism
"Clayton Episode 1...The Farting Menace"
<cjfat@SPAMBLOCKoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:3f3c332d$0$15133$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
It's the fault of all you evil godless New York atheists!!!!
It was God trying to strike you all down!!
I hope you're happy with yourselves!
I was wondering... I heard on the news that the power is coming back
in some areas now, but that the cause of the blackout is still
unknown. If it's unknown, then how did they fix it? I realize that
somehow, this question must be incredibly stupid, but somewhere along
the way I'm not getting it.
One plant went down, causing the other plants to try to make up for it,
which they were unable to do, so they overloaded and went down. The
plants and grids will be isolated and brought back up. The reason that
this did not happen immediately is that it takes time to bring the plants
back up, and the plants have to be isolated from the grid, sort of
like starting a car. If your car dies, you donot leave it in gear,
turn the key and go. You have to put it in neutral (or park, or push
in the clutch) then restart the car. Then put it back in gear and
start accelerating. The same goes with the power plants, except that
they are huge, thus take a long time to restart, and nuclear plants
take even longer, apparently. Then as they come back on line, they
send power out to small areas at first, then more and more until each
plant is operating at its' capacity. The grids are then tied back
together and life will go on.
Good description. However, the first generator comes on to an isolated
area and the other generators match phase and frequency. Continue
matching other networks adnauseum.
Stoney
"Designated Rascal and Rapscallion
and
SCAMPERMEISTER!"
When in doubt, SCAMPER about!
When things are fair, SCAMPER everywhere!
When things are rough, can't SCAMPER enough!
/end humour alert
alt.atheism military veteran #11
{so much for the 'no atheists in foxholes' rubbish}
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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15 Aug 2003 10:53:17 PM |
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:08:44 +0200, "Maverick" <sh100@hotmail.com>
posted in alt.atheism:
I was wondering... I heard on the news that the power is coming back in some
areas now, but that the cause of the blackout is still unknown. If it's
unknown, then how did they fix it? I realize that somehow, this question
must be incredibly stupid, but somewhere along the way I'm not getting it.
"There are some things man was not meant to know."
--
"The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but
moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically
false, and at the least an error of faith."
- Catholic Church's decision against Galileo Galilei
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rukbat at optonline dot net
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: The Blackout |
18 Aug 2003 08:04:36 PM |
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:16:20 +0100, Therion Ware
<autodelete@city-of-dis.com>, Message ID:
<57npjvg6li2ecv7aj2pff72vgnta21he6c@4ax.com> wrote in alt.atheism;
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 12:08:43 GMT in alt.atheism, Lane Lewis ("Lane
Lewis" <lanejlewis@hotmail.com>) said, directing the reply to
alt.atheism
"Maverick" <sh100@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ha3%a.4073$Y5.1115@nntpserver.swip.net...
"Clayton Episode 1...The Farting Menace" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKoptusnet.com.au>
wrote in message news:3f3c332d$0$15133$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
It's the fault of all you evil godless New York atheists!!!!
It was God trying to strike you all down!!
I hope you're happy with yourselves!
I was wondering... I heard on the news that the power is coming back in
some
areas now, but that the cause of the blackout is still unknown. If it's
unknown, then how did they fix it? I realize that somehow, this question
must be incredibly stupid, but somewhere along the way I'm not getting it.
The system was supposed to automatically isolate the problem area but
it didn't do that. They can manually isolate the problem area and then when
it's cool restart the individual grids.
The real problem is that the whole system is antiquated for today's
needs and the power companies have no desire to update it. Monopolies need
regulation that congress has yet to provide.
Just seen one of our experts on the BBC here announcing "it couldn't
happen here". So I'm off to buy a generator....
( chuckling )
I've got one along with an auxillary power distribution panel.
Stoney
"Designated Rascal and Rapscallion
and
SCAMPERMEISTER!"
When in doubt, SCAMPER about!
When things are fair, SCAMPER everywhere!
When things are rough, can't SCAMPER enough!
/end humour alert
alt.atheism military veteran #11
{so much for the 'no atheists in foxholes' rubbish}
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| User: "Bob Dog" |
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| Title: Re: The Blackout |
15 Aug 2003 04:01:27 AM |
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"Clayton Episode 1...The Farting Menace" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message news:<3f3c332d$0$15133$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>...
It's the fault of all you evil godless New York atheists!!!!
It was God trying to strike you all down!!
I hope you're happy with yourselves!
:-D
Hope you're all alright.
I haven't seen what FlOX had to "say", but Headless News on
CNN and BBC World prattled on an on about how "this wasn't
a terrorist attack". The only potential terrorist here
would have been (if they were still influential) Enron.
No ***** it wasn't a terrorist act. Or are there terrorist
gas siphoners that caused your car to stop after you drive
500 miles? 9_9 With a million AC units going full boar
during rush hour, what else should people expect?
Probably the only reason chaos didn't ensue is because this
kind of blackout has happened before.
Bob Dog
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| User: "Therion Ware" |
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15 Aug 2003 04:13:53 AM |
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On 15 Aug 2003 02:01:27 -0700 in alt.atheism, Bob Dog
(bg12345@apexmail.com (Bob Dog)) said, directing the reply to
alt.atheism
"Clayton Episode 1...The Farting Menace" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message news:<3f3c332d$0$15133$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>...
It's the fault of all you evil godless New York atheists!!!!
It was God trying to strike you all down!!
I hope you're happy with yourselves!
:-D
Hope you're all alright.
I haven't seen what FlOX had to "say", but Headless News on
CNN and BBC World prattled on an on about how "this wasn't
a terrorist attack". The only potential terrorist here
would have been (if they were still influential) Enron.
No ***** it wasn't a terrorist act. Or are there terrorist
gas siphoners that caused your car to stop after you drive
500 miles? 9_9 With a million AC units going full boar
during rush hour, what else should people expect?
Probably the only reason chaos didn't ensue is because this
kind of blackout has happened before.
I wonder if there'll be an increase in the birth rate about April next
year?
--
"Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You."
- Attrib: Pauline Reage.
Inexpensive VHS & other video to CD/DVD conversion?
See: <http://www.Video2CD.com>. 35.00 gets your video on DVD.
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| User: "JPG" |
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15 Aug 2003 06:11:44 AM |
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:13:53 +0100, Therion Ware
<autodelete@city-of-dis.com> wrote:
On 15 Aug 2003 02:01:27 -0700 in alt.atheism, Bob Dog
(bg12345@apexmail.com (Bob Dog)) said, directing the reply to
alt.atheism
"Clayton Episode 1...The Farting Menace" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message news:<3f3c332d$0$15133$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>...
It's the fault of all you evil godless New York atheists!!!!
It was God trying to strike you all down!!
I hope you're happy with yourselves!
:-D
Hope you're all alright.
I haven't seen what FlOX had to "say", but Headless News on
CNN and BBC World prattled on an on about how "this wasn't
a terrorist attack". The only potential terrorist here
would have been (if they were still influential) Enron.
No ***** it wasn't a terrorist act. Or are there terrorist
gas siphoners that caused your car to stop after you drive
500 miles? 9_9 With a million AC units going full boar
during rush hour, what else should people expect?
Probably the only reason chaos didn't ensue is because this
kind of blackout has happened before.
I wonder if there'll be an increase in the birth rate about April next
year?
Way too hot for that kind of thing - especially if you can't have
shower afterwards (although you could still have a smoke !).
JPG
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| User: "raven1" |
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15 Aug 2003 02:41:43 PM |
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:13:53 +0100, Therion Ware
<autodelete@city-of-dis.com> wrote:
I wonder if there'll be an increase in the birth rate about April next
year?
Heh. I was born 9 months after the 1965 NYC Blackout.
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| User: "Old Noah" |
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15 Aug 2003 09:44:48 AM |
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Therion Ware wrote:
On 15 Aug 2003 02:01:27 -0700 in alt.atheism, Bob Dog
(bg12345@apexmail.com (Bob Dog)) said, directing the reply to
alt.atheism
"Clayton Episode 1...The Farting Menace" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message news:<3f3c332d$0$15133$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>...
It's the fault of all you evil godless New York atheists!!!!
It was God trying to strike you all down!!
I hope you're happy with yourselves!
:-D
Hope you're all alright.
I haven't seen what FlOX had to "say", but Headless News on
CNN and BBC World prattled on an on about how "this wasn't
a terrorist attack". The only potential terrorist here
would have been (if they were still influential) Enron.
No ***** it wasn't a terrorist act. Or are there terrorist
gas siphoners that caused your car to stop after you drive
500 miles? 9_9 With a million AC units going full boar
during rush hour, what else should people expect?
Probably the only reason chaos didn't ensue is because this
kind of blackout has happened before.
I wonder if there'll be an increase in the birth rate about April next
year?
Nah, too hot.
Glenn Arnold
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| User: "Therion Ware" |
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15 Aug 2003 10:06:07 AM |
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:44:48 GMT in alt.atheism, Old Noah (Old Noah
<oldnoah@att.net>) said, directing the reply to alt.atheism
Therion Ware wrote:
On 15 Aug 2003 02:01:27 -0700 in alt.atheism, Bob Dog
(bg12345@apexmail.com (Bob Dog)) said, directing the reply to
alt.atheism
"Clayton Episode 1...The Farting Menace" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message news:<3f3c332d$0$15133$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>...
It's the fault of all you evil godless New York atheists!!!!
It was God trying to strike you all down!!
I hope you're happy with yourselves!
:-D
Hope you're all alright.
I haven't seen what FlOX had to "say", but Headless News on
CNN and BBC World prattled on an on about how "this wasn't
a terrorist attack". The only potential terrorist here
would have been (if they were still influential) Enron.
No ***** it wasn't a terrorist act. Or are there terrorist
gas siphoners that caused your car to stop after you drive
500 miles? 9_9 With a million AC units going full boar
during rush hour, what else should people expect?
Probably the only reason chaos didn't ensue is because this
kind of blackout has happened before.
I wonder if there'll be an increase in the birth rate about April next
year?
Nah, too hot.
"Slip sliding away, slip sliding away
You know the nearer your destination, the more you slip sliding
away...".
--
"Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You."
- Attrib: Pauline Reage.
Inexpensive VHS & other video to CD/DVD conversion?
See: <http://www.Video2CD.com>. 35.00 gets your video on DVD.
all posts to this email address are automatically deleted without being read.
** atheist poster child #1 **
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| User: "Bob Dog" |
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18 Aug 2003 02:11:05 PM |
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Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote in message news:<laarjvgi66j515i9cno3eppalguquhu0o7@Pern.rk>...
On 15 Aug 2003 02:01:27 -0700, (Bob Dog) posted
in alt.atheism:
Probably the only reason chaos didn't ensue is because this
kind of blackout has happened before.
No chaos ensued in (64?) (65?) when it happened the first time.
Everything was pretty orderly, in fact. The next one, in (78?), there
were little problems, like a sniper. But some of us were without
power for almost 2 weeks after hurricane Gloria, so a day or two is
annoying, not anything to get upset about.
Perhaps how people behave in a disaster is a reflection of
society. Back in the sixties, spree killers (like in 1978)
were unheard of, and police violence against civil rights
and anti-Vietnam campaigns hadn't happened yet.
Bob Dog
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| User: "Gregory Gadow" |
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15 Aug 2003 08:37:05 AM |
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Bob Dog wrote:
"Clayton Episode 1...The Farting Menace" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message news:<3f3c332d$0$15133$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>...
It's the fault of all you evil godless New York atheists!!!!
It was God trying to strike you all down!!
I hope you're happy with yourselves!
:-D
Hope you're all alright.
I haven't seen what FlOX had to "say", but Headless News on
CNN and BBC World prattled on an on about how "this wasn't
a terrorist attack". The only potential terrorist here
would have been (if they were still influential) Enron.
No ***** it wasn't a terrorist act. Or are there terrorist
gas siphoners that caused your car to stop after you drive
500 miles? 9_9 With a million AC units going full boar
during rush hour, what else should people expect?
That seems to have been a case. An electrical fire at an aging power plant (the Niagra Falls power plant, apparently) causes the plant to go in to
emergency shut down. The primary power grid, sensing the power going down, automatically responds by pulling power from neighboring grids. Being close
to overloading, those grids pull power from their neighbors, and so on. Unable to maintain the load, overload safeties cut the power and find that all
of their neighbors have likewise cut in the safeties. The entire region is off-line.
--
Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"If you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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15 Aug 2003 10:52:14 PM |
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 06:37:05 -0700, Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net>
posted in alt.atheism:
That seems to have been a case. An electrical fire at an aging power plant (the Niagra Falls power plant, apparently) causes the plant to go in to
emergency shut down. The primary power grid, sensing the power going down, automatically responds by pulling power from neighboring grids. Being close
to overloading, those grids pull power from their neighbors, and so on. Unable to maintain the load, overload safeties cut the power and find that all
of their neighbors have likewise cut in the safeties. The entire region is off-line.
The grid segments should go off line faster than the generators do.
--
"Damn. Looks like all of usenet agrees that you don't have the logical
faculties to prove the statement 'dogshit is not peanut butter' if we
gave you a jar of each and a box of crackers" - John Hattan to Tic
(random sig, produced by SigChanger)
rukbat at optonline dot net
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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16 Aug 2003 08:34:54 PM |
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 08:38:08 -0700, Douglas Berry
<gridlore@mindspring.com> posted in alt.atheism:
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 03:49:59 GMT, a wanderer, known to us only as Al
Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid> warmed at our fire and told this tale:
On 15 Aug 2003 02:01:27 -0700, (Bob Dog) posted
in alt.atheism:
Probably the only reason chaos didn't ensue is because this
kind of blackout has happened before.
No chaos ensued in (64?) (65?) when it happened the first time.
Everything was pretty orderly, in fact. The next one, in (78?), there
were little problems, like a sniper. But some of us were without
power for almost 2 weeks after hurricane Gloria, so a day or two is
annoying, not anything to get upset about.
The 1965 and 1977 blackouts were marked by massive looting and public
disorder in New York City. It's one of the reasons why the NYPD
called in everybody.
I was part of "called in everybody" in 77. We didn't. There was more
crime then than in 65 (no crimes reported all night, from what I
recall), but more than zero still isn't that much.
--
"My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid
consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and
ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who
works on the basis of reward and punishment. "
- Letter to M. Berkowitz, October 25, 1950; Einstein Archive 59-215
(random sig, produced by SigChanger)
rukbat at optonline dot net
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| User: "spakka" |
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15 Aug 2003 06:37:06 AM |
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"Clayton Episode 1...The Farting Menace" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message news:<3f3c332d$0$15133$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>...
It's the fault of all you evil godless New York atheists!!!!
It was God trying to strike you all down!!
I hope you're happy with yourselves!
Has anyone crucified a jesus lately? Fess up now.
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| User: "Old Noah" |
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| Title: New Holiday (was Re: The Blackout) |
15 Aug 2003 10:00:14 AM |
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Clayton Episode 1...The Farting Menace wrote:
It's the fault of all you evil godless New York atheists!!!!
It was God trying to strike you all down!!
I hope you're happy with yourselves!
:-D
Hope you're all alright.
I think we should shut down the grid once a year just to remind
ourselves of how dependant we are. Maybe on labor day.
I had a great time! The neighbors came over. Grilled a couple of steaks.
Ate up the ice cream before it melted. Got out my telescope and looked
at a globular cluster and a couple of nebulas (nothing like genuinely
dark skies, then the moon screwed it all up, before I could find Andromeda)
I didn't drive anywhere, but everyone I talked to who did said it was
amazing: Drivers were actually courteous to each other!
Glenn Arnold
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| User: "Marc Fleury" |
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| Title: Re: The Blackout |
15 Aug 2003 08:05:11 AM |
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Clayton Episode 1...The Farting Menace wrote:
It's the fault of all you evil godless New York atheists!!!!
It was God trying to strike you all down!!
No, NYC was just collateral damage. God was trying to tell Ottawa to
forget about this same-sex deal.
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Marc.
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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| Title: Re: The Blackout |
15 Aug 2003 09:29:35 AM |
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In article <3f3c332d$0$15133$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>, Clayton Episode
1...The Farting Menace says...
It's the fault of all you evil godless New York atheists!!!!
It was God trying to strike you all down!!
I hope you're happy with yourselves!
Hey, don't look at me. I live in New Jersey!
:-D
Hope you're all alright.
No problems here - I only lost power twice for a total time of about three
minutes.
Robyn
Resident Witchypoo & EAC Spellcaster
#1557
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| User: "Meteorite Debris" |
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| Title: Re: The Blackout |
15 Aug 2003 02:35:03 AM |
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 11:12:41 +1000 the ET form known as Clayton
Episode 1...The Farting Menace<cjfat@SPAMBLOCKoptusnet.com.au> sent a
radio signal across the vast expanse of deep space -._.--._.--._.--
.._.--._.--._.
It's the fault of all you evil godless New York atheists!!!!
It was God trying to strike you all down!!
I hope you're happy with yourselves!
(Apologies to anyone caught in the dark)
God must be losing some of his power. In the days of Sodom he would
slide cities away into history with spectacular visual effects
provided by liquefaction and earthquakes. Now the best this pathetic
deity can manage is to turn out the lights :-)
--
apatriot #1, atheist #1417, rot-13 on email reply
Chief EAC prophet -
Evil Atheist Conspiracy
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~pk1956/
Shhh. Be very quiet, I'm hunting automorons. Heh heh.
"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever
conceived." - Isaac Asimov
Fingerprint for PGP Keys at key server or go to
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~pk1956/
RSA - 71 BA 7C 45 B5 4A 5F EA 72 DB EC 7F 7F A8 70 99
DSS - 9217 21A9 9C3F EB0B E302 AD0E 69C5 0F06 402E 0943
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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| Title: Re: The Blackout |
15 Aug 2003 09:23:40 AM |
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In article <MPG.19a7150bdb58a3989be6@news.optusnet.com.au>, Meteorite Debris
says...
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 11:12:41 +1000 the ET form known as Clayton
Episode 1...The Farting Menace<cjfat@SPAMBLOCKoptusnet.com.au> sent a
radio signal across the vast expanse of deep space -._.--._.--._.--
._.--._.--._.
It's the fault of all you evil godless New York atheists!!!!
It was God trying to strike you all down!!
I hope you're happy with yourselves!
(Apologies to anyone caught in the dark)
God must be losing some of his power. In the days of Sodom he would
slide cities away into history with spectacular visual effects
provided by liquefaction and earthquakes. Now the best this pathetic
deity can manage is to turn out the lights :-)
Well god must like the town where I live in New Jersey, because I had power -
while my parents who live two miles away did not ;)
Robyn
Resident Witchypoo & EAC Spellcaster
#1557
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: The Blackout |
14 Aug 2003 10:26:54 PM |
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 11:12:41 +1000, "Clayton Episode 1...The Farting
Menace" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKoptusnet.com.au> posted in alt.atheism:
It's the fault of all you evil godless New York atheists!!!!
It was God trying to strike you all down!!
I hope you're happy with yourselves!
:-D
Hope you're all alright.
Inconvenienced - left work 90 minutes early, but got home at the usual
time. (Took 15 minutes to get out of the parking lot and 200 feet to
the main road. The interstate was moving - when it was moving - at
about 10 MPH for most of the trip.)
Bothered - no air conditioning or lights, and we didn't open the
refrigerator, until after 9 PM. (Didn't turn on the AC until around
11, to give things time to stabilize.) The internet connection was
good until the UPS gave out. From now on, the desktop stays off until
it's needed.) And I had to reset 5 clocks and the clock radio.
***** - my computer at the office was on the normal power line,
not the UPS line, so I lost almost an hour's work, and I wanted to
finish the project today.
But, from what I've heard, there haven't been any deaths due to the
blackout, so I guess we were lucky.
--
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can
solve them."
-Isaac Asimov
&
There are three kinds of men:
The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence.
- (Will Rogers)
(random sig, produced by SigChanger)
rukbat at optonline dot net
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| User: "Ghost Rider" |
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| Title: Re: The Blackout |
15 Aug 2003 01:11:39 AM |
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One fine day in alt.atheism, Al Klein fired a few neurons and wrote
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 11:12:41 +1000, "Clayton Episode 1...The Farting
Menace" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKoptusnet.com.au> posted in alt.atheism:
It's the fault of all you evil godless New York atheists!!!!
It was God trying to strike you all down!!
I hope you're happy with yourselves!
:-D
Hope you're all alright.
Inconvenienced - left work 90 minutes early, but got home at the usual
time. (Took 15 minutes to get out of the parking lot and 200 feet to
the main road. The interstate was moving - when it was moving - at
about 10 MPH for most of the trip.)
Get yourself a motorcycle. No more traffic jams.
Bothered - no air conditioning or lights, and we didn't open the
refrigerator, until after 9 PM. (Didn't turn on the AC until around
11, to give things time to stabilize.) The internet connection was
good until the UPS gave out. From now on, the desktop stays off until
it's needed.) And I had to reset 5 clocks and the clock radio.
***** - my computer at the office was on the normal power line,
not the UPS line, so I lost almost an hour's work, and I wanted to
finish the project today.
But, from what I've heard, there haven't been any deaths due to the
blackout, so I guess we were lucky.
I remember the Northridge earthquake in 1994. No power for a day and a
half. My wife went nuts with no TV. I went nuts with no computer. The
whole town went nuts with the loss of a major freeway route through the
mountain pass. It's amazing how you take stuff for granted, isn't it?
--
Ghost Rider
aa # 2011
EAC Nonexistent Director of Alcohol, Tobacco and Bad Puns
"How can you just obey?"
[Greg Lake, "Infinite Space" - Emerson, Lake & Palmer]
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: The Blackout |
15 Aug 2003 08:36:29 PM |
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 06:11:39 GMT, Ghost Rider <ghostman@ghost.com>
posted in alt.atheism:
I remember the Northridge earthquake in 1994. No power for a day and a
half. My wife went nuts with no TV. I went nuts with no computer. The
whole town went nuts with the loss of a major freeway route through the
mountain pass. It's amazing how you take stuff for granted, isn't it?
We were sitting at work today, bemoaning the fact that our provider
was dead, so we were without an internet connection. "How can we work
when we can't get to the internet?"
A consultant brought us back to Earth by asking what we did before the
internet existed. Of course, we didn't have desktop computers back
then, but it does put things in perspective. (I still remember, as a
kid, trying to fall asleep on hot summer nights. Only a few movie
theaters and fewer stores had AC in those days.)-
--
Zymurgist # 2
(random sig, produced by SigChanger)
rukbat at optonline dot net
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