The totally off-topic thread

[PLANT]

Get over 500mb and then it will let you install.... Unless it needs android 6 to install?

 

[suze2000]

Our bloody reliance on being green. Shame on our State Government for making SA this vulnerable.

I don't understand this complaint. When I was a child, power outages were not an unusual occurrence. We kept candles and took it in our stride. The North-east of the USA was out for two days in 2003. This affected 50 million people. Not to diminish the inconvenience, but as long as nobody panics, the power will likely be on by the morning.
The only people who should be seriously concerned by this is the hospital and emergency services. I have seen notices from Vodafone on FB stating that they have moved resources from providing mobile internet coverage to making sure voice services are maintained so people can call emergency services, and I assume other telcos are doing the same.
And finally, the latest info on The Age is "The Clean Energy Council has quashed rumours of a connection between the blackout and the state's significant renewable energy generation efforts."The blackout in South Australia appears to have been caused by extreme winds which have caused damage to large electricity pylons at multiple locations across the state, policy manager Tom Butler said."

 

[amaroo]

I don't understand this complaint. When I was a child, power outages were not an unusual occurrence. We kept candles and took it in our stride. The North-east of the USA was out for two days in 2003. This affected 50 million people. Not to diminish the inconvenience, but as long as nobody panics, the power will likely be on by the morning.
The only people who should be seriously concerned by this is the hospital and emergency services. I have seen notices from Vodafone on FB stating that they have moved resources from providing mobile internet coverage to making sure voice services are maintained so people can call emergency services, and I assume other telcos are doing the same.
And finally, the latest info on The Age is "The Clean Energy Council has quashed rumours of a connection between the blackout and the state's significant renewable energy generation efforts."The blackout in South Australia appears to have been caused by extreme winds which have caused damage to large electricity pylons at multiple locations across the state, policy manager Tom Butler said."

When was the last time a State was blocked out?

SA has been pulled back into the stone age... lol

 

[Foreigner]

[FONT=&quot]Gillette found that most men take about [/FONT][FONT=&quot]170 strokes of the razor t[/FONT][FONT=&quot]o shave their faces in the morning, and 120 of them are re-strokes over the same area they’ve already shaved.[/FONT]

 

[drron]

I take zero strokes each morning.

 

[love_the_life]

How's the ankle drron? (Though that should really be over on the Medical thread)

 

[drron]

Not all bad for SA.
At least the last person to leave doesn't have to remember to switch the lights off.

Hurriedly thinks he may have to rethink plans to fly to ADL next week or wear flame proof suit.

 

[Pushka]

I don't understand this complaint. When I was a child, power outages were not an unusual occurrence. We kept candles and took it in our stride. The North-east of the USA was out for two days in 2003. This affected 50 million people. Not to diminish the inconvenience, but as long as nobody panics, the power will likely be on by the morning.
The only people who should be seriously concerned by this is the hospital and emergency services. I have seen notices from Vodafone on FB stating that they have moved resources from providing mobile internet coverage to making sure voice services are maintained so people can call emergency services, and I assume other telcos are doing the same.
And finally, the latest info on The Age is "The Clean Energy Council has quashed rumours of a connection between the blackout and the state's significant renewable energy generation efforts."The blackout in South Australia appears to have been caused by extreme winds which have caused damage to large electricity pylons at multiple locations across the state, policy manager Tom Butler said."

We just closed a non green power generator that would have kicked in. That is why. If you lived here you would know the story and not the media stuff. The sources you have quoted have their own agenda.

 

[Happy Trails]

My wife brushes her hair, exactly 50 strokes, each night.
Then she does the other leg.

 

[Foreigner]

Obviously different strokes for different folks!

 

[RooFlyer]

I hear those marvellous wind turbines that deface much of the SA landscape couldn't generate because the wind was too strong (contrast a while ago when they couldn't generate because there was no wind).

We in Hobart know all about the first circumstance. Some greenie put some hideously ugly wind turbines atop an ugly building on the waterfront. (Generated b-all power of course ...) A week or so afterwards, the wind blew a bit ... and this was the result:

 

[RooFlyer]

We just closed a non green power generator that would have kicked in. That is why. If you lived here you would know the story and not the media stuff. The sources you have quoted have their own agenda.

ROFL. And Tasmania put a gas fired power station up for sale last year, because our almost total reliance on hydro was the way to go, of course. Nasty fossil fuels.

... until the dams fell to about 12% after a carbon tax inspired generating splurge, followed by a drought, and not only did they have to quickly take the gas job off the market and fire it up, but for a while about 30% of the state's power was generated from diesel generators that were hired in. Oooh, love those fossil fuels now!

 

[GarrettM]

Just brushing my teeth and noticed the for first time the significant increase of grey hair through my sideburns. Not that I am particularly troubled, but I can't believe I hadn't realised until now.

 

[straitman]

Does anyone know why I can't install Uber on Samsung Galaxy S5 with 472MB free? Is Uber app bigger than that?

I have lots of photos and now videos of daughter that I need to manage.

The problem is that it's a Samsung Galaxy :!:

 

[anat0l]

The problem is that it's a Samsung Galaxy :!:

Oh be nice.

The only thing left for you to say is, "you'd better get rid of that before it blows up in your hand!"

 

[Pushka]

I don't understand this complaint. When I was a child, power outages were not an unusual occurrence. We kept candles and took it in our stride. The North-east of the USA was out for two days in 2003. This affected 50 million people. Not to diminish the inconvenience, but as long as nobody panics, the power will likely be on by the morning.
The only people who should be seriously concerned by this is the hospital and emergency services. I have seen notices from Vodafone on FB stating that they have moved resources from providing mobile internet coverage to making sure voice services are maintained so people can call emergency services, and I assume other telcos are doing the same.
And finally, the latest info on The Age is "The Clean Energy Council has quashed rumours of a connection between the blackout and the state's significant renewable energy generation efforts."The blackout in South Australia appears to have been caused by extreme winds which have caused damage to large electricity pylons at multiple locations across the state, policy manager Tom Butler said."

We still get blackouts and brown outs. And the highest price for electricity. This is/was the whole friggen state. We still dont have power at home so goodbye fridge contents. Another Insurance claim.

As far as the cause? The winds haven't arrived yet.

 

[whatmeworry]

The night-life in Adelaide at the moment.

 

[JessicaTam]

We just closed a non green power generator that would have kicked in. That is why. If you lived here you would know the story and not the media stuff. The sources you have quoted have their own agenda.

If, as has been reported, the transmission system has been compromised by a tower going down near Pt Augusta, then the blackouts would still have occurred regardless of how the power was generated.

 

[JessicaTam]

If, as has been reported, the transmission system has been compromised by a tower going down near Pt Augusta, then the blackouts would still have occurred regardless of how the power was generated.

Just seeing ABC24 reporting 22 (24?) transmission towers have been torn down.

Edit: 80,000 lightning strikes across the state. Yikes. :shock:

 

[anat0l]

People are pretty quick on all the memes about the SA blackout situation.

I'm not sure whether this is a humorous way to deal with an emergency situation, or it's a genuine dig (jeering or political).