for the guy that will replace the card .... RoadTrip!!! lol
I definately agree would be cheaper if was available on site.
BTW, they should be back up now.
A "natural disaster prone location" would, by a normal person, be
taken to be one where there is a high probability of being visited by
nature's Fuckup Fairies. Such as flood plains (eg much of the Thames
estuary) and the sides of active volcanoes (Naples). Most places have
a very *low* probability of being visited by the fuckup fairy.
Mobiles are usually (much) cheaper than a landline in such places. Inbound calls are usually free too, so they are becoming quite common (relatively), even in underdeveloped areas, at least according to my understanding.
- S
David Cantrell wrote:
A "natural disaster prone location" would, by a normal person, be
taken to be one where there is a high probability of being visited by
nature's Fuckup Fairies. Such as flood plains (eg much of the Thames
estuary) and the sides of active volcanoes (Naples). Most places have
a very *low* probability of being visited by the fuckup fairy.
Yeah, I've been telling them for years that everyone should just vacate Oklahoma, and Kansas. Between tornados and severe storms, these states should be off limits. Of course, we all know people on the west coast are nuts. Must be the earthquakes shaking their brains around.
Jack
Unless you live in a natural disaster prone location.
So don't do that.
There is literarily no place on the planet that is safe from natural
disaster.A "natural disaster prone location" would, by a normal person, be
taken to be one where there is a high probability of being visited by
nature's Fuckup Fairies. Such as flood plains (eg much of the Thames
estuary) and the sides of active volcanoes (Naples). Most places have
a very *low* probability of being visited by the fuckup fairy.
The recurrence time for Mount Vesuvius is roughly 2000 years and counting. By contrast,
the serious Earthquake repeat time on the East Coast of the US is more like 400 years, and overdue, so I guess
I should move to Naples. (That doesn't count New Madrid, for which there is serious argument as to the order of magnitude of the recurrence time.)
One thing I remember from days trying to measure Earthquake induced deformations of the crust geodetically is that most Earthquakes that kill people occur on previously unknown faults.
By the way, the British Geological Survey says that the recurrence time for a serious Earthquake in Britain is about 500 years. (Britain, not the UK; Ireland apparently has a very low occurrence rate for both snakes and Earthquakes.)
This is again off-off-topic, so let's take this off-list.
Regards
Marshall
And anywhere in Florida within 50 miles of the coast.
-- Ben
Hmm... Florida and the entire Gulf Coast and probably Eastern US...
Hurricanes, and the West Coast, Earthquakes... and the northern US, severe
winter storms. Where does that leave? Utah? Everyone move to Utah!
Aaron
Aaron Wendel wrote:
Hmm... Florida and the entire Gulf Coast and probably Eastern US...
Hurricanes, and the West Coast, Earthquakes... and the northern US, severe
winter storms. Where does that leave? Utah? Everyone move to Utah!Aaron
Inland Pacific NW. Minor (but really minor) earthquake issues. The occasional windstorm and flood is the most we really worry about.
Also, where I live, if the power goes out hard (for example, during the last Hurricane),
the cell phone will not have service either.
hello
What about GPS ?
simply sending such data would help more then a "unreliable mobile phone call " right ?
(we have enough places where i live and its not a small city , there is no connection like
the whitespots on the german DSL map. )
regards
Marc
I wonder if having a spare card there would have been cheaper than
this outage and resulting flights and labour?
It unquestionably would have cheaper to have a spare for that card at
that location. What might not have been cheaper, though, is having a
spare for *every* type of card that could fail, *everywhere* those
cards are deployed.
> Yup, there is a defective card in the Bahamas. They should be flying in
> this
-- Brett