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RE: Moscow: global power outage
From: Michael.Dillon () radianz com
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 14:46:00 +0100
Or maybe one of those upteen bazillion Generators
Upteen bazillion is not a number. And if you check this BBC news story http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4578599.stm you will see that generators are available because they used them to get the underground trains into the nearest station in order to evacuate in an orderly fashion
that Soviet Government
The Soviet government was formally dissolved on the 8th of December 1991. On the 26th of December 1991 the Supreme Soviet repealed the declaration that had established the USSR then voted to dissolve itself.
touted a year or so ago.
By my calculations, a year or so ago is *AFTER* the end of the Soviet government. At 14:30 in London, it is still difficult to reach Russian websites (extremely slow) which suggests that although there are still connections into Russia, the main bandwidth circuits are not yet functioning. Yet another example of why it is not a good idea to rely too heavily on any centralized infrastructure or systems. --Michael Dillon
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