You seriously think this is the government's fault? oh my

you mean like adjusting the TTL for the DNS records that you know you will be changing, well in advance of the day of the change?

Lesson Learned.

As if he wants to have hours long conversations with his personal gadget repairman.

It is reasonable to ignore as much as we can. That line of thinking worked out well in the Gulf.

Roof -> generators Above water level (1st floor and up) -> Electrical stuff Basement -> rats and other Texas style vermin ??? profit

And after Mars, it's off to Uranus. Soon to be renamed to Urectum.

You've got a better chance of your XBOX dying

Good thing I still have my US Robotics Courier V.Everything that I purchased for my BBS when I got the sysop discount.

Now I can put it back into operation to test web site performance.

And to think my wife wanted to toss it since it'll never be used again. Same reason I'm hanging onto my 5 1/4" floppy. I need a bigger basement.