California regulators ordered rolling blackouts

Wed Jan 17 22:30:25 UTC 2001

> It has begun. Welcome to the 3rd world.

>From CNN's article today about the MIR space station, we have this 
timely quote:

  "Cash-strapped Russia, where whole regions are regularly plunged into
   darkness due to power cuts..."

 (http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/01/17/mir.launch.reut/index.html)

-matthew kaufman
 Tycho Networks/DSL.net
 matthew at tycho.net