California regulators ordered rolling blackouts

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@tycho.net