[Outages] internet is broke!

[Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.]

Blake Pfankuch wrote:
> Did you power cycle your dsl modem?  Oh wait not tech support anymore.

Whenever I see one of these "the Intartubes are broke" things in 
Internet email, I am reminded of an event eons ago when I answered an 
alarm on a TJ Radio station (Microwave link) order wire to discover that 
it was the PBX repairman at the distant end announcing that pursuant to 
Circuit Order mumble he had shut down the station there.

I had to convince him that the order wire rode the radio link, and that 
the battery pack in the radio case would keep the station on the air for 
  quite a while after the plug had been pulled from the wall socket.
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