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[OT]They found the cause of the blackout

It was the RIAA. It seems that many New Yorkers were file sharing yesterday, so the decision was made to implement Sen. Hatch's plan of nuking file-sharer's computers. Unfortunately they got a little carried away. Clay [sic] Sherman had this to say on Good Morning America this morning:

"I agree, it's unfortunate. However, extreme problems require extreme measures. File sharers must realize that they cannot remain anonymous, and that if we suspect them of illegaly [sic] sharing music over the internet, we are prepared to go to whatever lengths necessary to stop it - even it it means cutting service to their power grid."

An attorney for the RIAA was unavailable for comment.

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Now you know.

And while we're on the subject of Terminator Hatch, go here and dl Orrin vs the Machines [I Want To Ask You A Bunch Of Questions mix].

Try it. You'll like it. heh

wicked, and president Bush said it was a wakeup call, something about the infrastructure being out of date too ! To bad the east coast can't read this just yet

is this for real?

Wouldn't that make for a great headline !

DARN BLACKOUT ! I was right in the middle of downloading a whole album!

I heard a slightly different version. It was because they sent Niagara Electric a cease-and-desist notice. The "lightning" the Canadians reported was actually a shotgun blast aimed at the guy delivering the subpoena.

And CNN says terrorists had nothing to do with it...

Hahahaha, It could happen,the way things are lately.

I heard that Cary-Sue fired up that massive hair dryer of his to start work on that "natural" hair do of his, and the massive surge of power took down everything from Canada to Detroit in 4 minutes!
-bulkeraser

This is BULLSHIT!!

Seriously, this is crap. They wouldn't shut down NYC because of filesharing. People were stuck in unairconditioned elevators for hours in 93 degrees because of this blackout. It couldn've been because of simple P2P.

Read the rest of the thread there, you'll see.

You're getting too radical....ugh

gdZiemann..lol..you da man
-bulkeraser

I'll tell ya what just happened! Benjamin Franklin just came up out of his grave over the cost and use/abuse of our POWER!!! POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!!!

*Sighs* I was wondering how many hours it would take before the RIAA got blamed for the whole outage. I don't think it was ever doubted who was responsible...
At any rate, it's always good to have a sense of humor about things like this.

LOL!!!!!

I go with Great Scott's Benjamin Franklin theory.

The REAL Ben Franklin, that is. ROTFL!

oh c'mon, i hate the riaa as much as anyone else but to say they caused the black out.

humorous to think about.

no it's true! and just this morning hillary rosen chased down a 10 year old listening to a walkman and tackled the kid around his knees to make sure he wasn't listening to pirated music! I also hear they're planning a bombing campaign on Canada since the lawsuit this is going to be tougher there! oh yeah and cary "the boy named sue" found out his own daughter had downloaded a song so he had her hand chopped off for stealing. They're getting serious about this.....

lol you guys are great, btw expose, i think you took this a bit too seriously

I have a device for blowing power grids, its a simple voltage multiplier, some caps and a couple of transformers. I think it puts something close to a megavolt into the lines

In this case however, the grid crashed because its hopelessly outdated and not that well planed. The princible of power grid construction seems to be to tack a bit on whenever its needed. They also make great antennas for the 11-year EM bombardment from the sun. Because more power is being traded long-distance now, local grids (which the power must go through) are overloaded. You overload a grid and it becomes unstable. Fortunatly all that happened was a few things exploded the the power went down, there are some conditions where the entire output of the grid can be directed into one local substation and make every appliance in a city simutainously catch fire

Guess ya'll didn't see the parody I posted earlier in the General Topics forum right after it happened. Oh well.

I wonder if they'll see a one-day spike in record sales? Then I'd guess they'd be vindicated...

...I heard that Cary-sue Sherman's teenage kid, upon seeing his download interrupted, and angrily inserting a secret command into his computer, sat back suddenly and, covering his mouth, uttered, "Oops!!" as the screen showed a successful completion of his hack...

I was in the middle of writing a new filesharing protocol!

Heh, too funny. I strongly believe they are responsible for this worm going around too.

er, Expose: it's called a joke dude.

We gave them too much power, when you have too much power you can get away with alot of stuff, and if the RIAA did cause the blackout(i really doubt it) the government will jus give them a slap on the rist, they are just like the police, now a police officer can shoot you in the back 20 times and say he thought you were reaching for a gun (when u never really had a gun and u were just walking away) and nothing happens to him. the RIAA can ruin millions of peoples lives and say you were sharing files "it wasn't our fault he shouldn't of shared that song, thanks to him we were making $99,999,100 instead of $100,000,000, it was self defense, we were protecting our rights". FIGHT THE POWER, the RIAA is just the tip of the ice berg

There is a logical explanation to why there is now power:
The RIAA forgot to pay the power bill, it seems that they are going bankrupt with all the lawyers they are hiring.

NEWSFLASH NYC.
I was in the dark for about 24 hours due to the large power grid failure in the northeast. My only media outlet was instantly my shitty battery operated radio, so it was like I was in the 1950s. I had to walk 6 miles home from chinatown to 71st street due to lack of public transportation and traffic lights and contend with no running water in the apartment. There was no shower, no water, no toilet to flush, because the building relies on electric pumps to pump the water to the tank on the roof. They kept dismissing a terrorist or hacker threat but they did not know ANYTHING about what happened.

Just then the whole RIAA thingy took a backseat.

I've always thought the RIAA had terrorist ties to Al-Qaeda and this blackout proves it!

Osama must've promised them a hefty pay raise if they gave him a demonstration of how to take down a major US power grid.

(j/k folks)

so was I nyer82

I think it was code warrior

To be honest i'm very skeptical this even happened.. i'm 100% for boycotting the RIAA, i hate them.. but lets not get too extreme here or else our arguments will not be taken seriously by the media... A power blackout couldn't of been responsible for this.. first off, how so? secondly, the measures affected people who were not file sharers, and thirdly, this measure only halted some file sharing in only a peice of the country.. this arguement is ridiculous and makes no sense what so ever

i thought it wasnt the workk of terrorists...

I'd just like to say that these wussies who are whining about the blackout need to relax - that's what it's like *all the time* here in Hickville, Alabama. If the power goes out (as it often does, due to fallen trees, lines, and just really crappy power companies), it sometimes goes unfixed for a couple of days at a time. And 93 degree unairconditioned my ass. You guys suck for being such wusses. BTW - when I was a child, I had to walk *34 MILES* to get to school, only to have to quit in the 4th grade to help my family's farm survive, and *then* have to kill Lassie due to Alzheimers. So there.

I win.

Haha, and the best part is: I got the last word, because everyone else is done with this topic! lmao...I own.

hehe...93 degrees...that's a joke right?! Texas is more like 109, heat index is more like 120. and air-conditioning is expensive to fix...so I don't have any...anyway I'm outside during the day, working! there's no a/c outside! 93 degrees. I wish... but damn Alabama is worse cause it's humid over there...lol

in the words of my father..."I had to walk 10 miles to school every day in the middle of July, through 5 feet of snow, uphills BOTH WAYS!!!"

Is CodeWarrior still embarrased for what he said about Asians? Please don't be, come back, we enjoy your comments. I least I do.

This can't be real, it's got to be a joke ... right?

Nothing in life is real. It's ALL a joke. Especially the RIAA. heh.

And Synapseskip, Alzheimers? Nah. I think those rumours about you, Lassie and Rin-Tin-Tin were true.

Cheers!
Jon

I did read something in the paper recently saying the police department is considering greatly reduceing the penalties for police officers who accidentially shoot innocent people, to almost nothing actually, because of fears police might hesitate when they see a potential terrorist and give them time to hit the detonator They are also being ordered to look for people wearing thick clothes in hot weather (suicide bombers) and, even more vaguely, anyone with "glazed eyes". Paranoids. If thats how bad things are getting in the UK, the situation in the US must be rediculous.

yeah, it's pretty stupid here, too. The govt jumped right on the 9/11 incident, and played on everyone's
fear, to relax regulations safeguarding our rights to privacy.

No surprise. If I was a diehard conspiracy theorist, I'd say they let it happen, to give them some ammo for cracking down.

The blackout? Hey, shit happens, especially in the midst of a hot summer, with all the fans and A/C running full tilt. I wasn't surprised it happened at all.

The real reason the power died? My cat chewed through a lamp cord, and the resulting short caused a massive chain reaction.

LOL

The worst part is, the RIAA just got word that those people were sweating in those broken-down elevators and Lars O-Ring wants his royalties from the sweat they used up. That bitch thinks he invented everything.

Lol, this is hilarious. Next thing you know, the RIAA will bitch about album sales being down more that weekend than any other weekend. Well DUH, you can't listen to a CD without power and unless you have a portable player with batteries or a car player, then why waste $20 that a lot of people in NYC probably needed on the 7-8 hour walk home. Crackheads.

Oh, and in case you're wondering, the possibility is high that whenever they do update the power system, they'll install devices to monitor your usage of said power and then bitch, moan, and probably arrest you if you run a cord to your friends house.

Ok i admit it. I turned of the power so i could sneek in to the RIAA head-courters and stick my Big12inch up their corporate A$$.