Massive Electrical Failure Cuts Power To Nearly All Of Argentina On Election Day -- and Uruguay (bbc.com) 84
A reader quotes the BBC:
A massive electrical failure has left almost all of Argentina and Uruguay without power, according to a major Argentine electricity provider. Authorities say the cause of the blackout is still unclear. Argentine media said the power cut occurred shortly after 07:00 [03:00 PST, 11:00 BST], causing trains to be halted and failures with traffic signalling.
It came as people in parts of Argentina were preparing to go to the polls for local elections.
"A massive failure in the electrical interconnection system left all of Argentina and Uruguay without power," electricity supply company Edesur said in a tweet. Alejandra Martinez, a spokeswoman for the company, described the power cut as unprecedented. "This is the first time something like this has happened across the entire country." Argentina's energy secretary, Gustavo Lopetegui, said the cause of the power failure had not yet been determined. The Ministry of Civil Protection estimated that parts of the service could be restored in about seven or eight hours.
Edesur said that power had been restored over 75,00 clients in parts of Buenos Aires and local media reported that two airports were operating on generators in the capital. Uruguay's energy company, UTE, said in a series of tweets that power had been restored to coastal areas and to areas north of Rio Negro.
The combined population of Argentina and Uruguay is about 48 million people.... Tierra del Fuego in the far south is the only area that remains unaffected because it is not connected to the power grid.
"Local media have been showing voters casting their ballots in the dark, with mobile phones being used as lanterns."
It came as people in parts of Argentina were preparing to go to the polls for local elections.
"A massive failure in the electrical interconnection system left all of Argentina and Uruguay without power," electricity supply company Edesur said in a tweet. Alejandra Martinez, a spokeswoman for the company, described the power cut as unprecedented. "This is the first time something like this has happened across the entire country." Argentina's energy secretary, Gustavo Lopetegui, said the cause of the power failure had not yet been determined. The Ministry of Civil Protection estimated that parts of the service could be restored in about seven or eight hours.
Edesur said that power had been restored over 75,00 clients in parts of Buenos Aires and local media reported that two airports were operating on generators in the capital. Uruguay's energy company, UTE, said in a series of tweets that power had been restored to coastal areas and to areas north of Rio Negro.
The combined population of Argentina and Uruguay is about 48 million people.... Tierra del Fuego in the far south is the only area that remains unaffected because it is not connected to the power grid.
"Local media have been showing voters casting their ballots in the dark, with mobile phones being used as lanterns."
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Boris Johnson. Do I win five pounds?
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Boris Johnson. Do I win five pounds?
No, but your post will be printed in the Letterblocks section of Viz.
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You said you wanted to gain five pounds.
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Apparently this hasn't happened in Argentina before. Also Argentina is not Socialist in the sense of North Korea and Venezuela.
It's more like Europe, which has a higher standard of living than the US, better health care, and a population which is educated enough to truly understand the role of socialism in modern society.
When Trump sticks his hands out for government money and bankruptcy protection, that is socialism. So is "Social Security" (get it) and medicare, in other words we don't 40% of 70 year olds
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America whites have a lower standard of living, more expensive healthcare, worse health outcomes, and inferior education as a whole compared to their European counterparts. Sorry Charlie.
Re:What's unusual about this occurrence? (Score:4, Informative)
American degree attainment stats already best most of Europe, and once you take out blacks and mexicans to make it an apples to apples comparison, the USA completely smokes Europe. Europe is shit.
You lie like a dog.
MOST prisoners in Federal confinement? White. AND FAR MORE than in Europe.
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Wow. I remember when racism was dogwhistled with a little more care around here.
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Wow. I remember when racism was dogwhistled with a little more care around here.
At least throughout my time here, there's been open racism from a subset of the community. They rattle off statistics without any appreciation for recent or earlier history, then come to predictably absurd conclusions, and they sound smug about it in the process. If you haven't been seeing their comments on Slashdot all along, congratulations! But they've been here.
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They rattle off statistics without any appreciation for recent or earlier history, then come to predictably absurd conclusions,
The smug tone is indeed disturbing, but the facts are sound and crying "racism" does not change them.
Whatever the history, racial demographics explains much of the overall statistical differences between the US and Europe. Or between Argentina and less developed South-American countries. Haiti vs Dominican Republic is a particularly stark example. Yes, you can also explain it in historical terms, or poor education, and you could do the same for just about every country in sub-Saharan Africa. But as the
Re:What's unusual about this occurrence? (Score:4, Informative)
Slavery was terrible beyond imagination,
Your hyperbole is tedious beyond description.
but using it as an excuse for every current-day ills in the US does not hold water
Inertia is real. Successful families beget successful offspring. Black families were kept down by an assortment of official policies, and they still suffer from endemic racism. Pretending this isn't true is just a way to show off how privileged and/or racist you are.
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Your hyperbole is tedious beyond description.
My only excuse for that terrible line of prose is that it was dawn here, and I had barely started my first coffee :-)
but using [racism] as an excuse for every current-day ills in the US does not hold water
Inertia is real. Successful families beget successful offspring.
Now we are getting into the old "nature vs nurture" argument. Most things are a bit of both, and the two are not independent.
There is no doubt some merit to those points, but it sounds like you are looking only for arguments to support one side, and unwilling to even consider differences in nature. It is a sort of denialism, like those unwilling to consider the possibility of anthopogenic glo
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"racist" is often just a dog-whistle for virtue-signallers, who wan to show everyone how superior they are.
I would not pretend to know your motives, but perhaps you should be asking yourself if you are filtering your judgements in order to appear virtuous?
Re:What's unusual about this occurrence? (Score:4, Insightful)
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The solution is school vouchers - allowing us to break the public school monopoly. Hopefully you're for this.
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Like the PGE wildfires caused by stealing the tree-trimming tax and calling that profit.
What a coincidence (Score:2)
Gee I hope that's not one of these attacks which went astray
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0... [nytimes.com]
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More likely to be squirrels. Is this particular election even notable, or is it just Jack Johnson vs. John Jackson?
Sounds too familiar (Score:5, Interesting)
We had a similar set of outages in Turkish elections, and their blame was put on cats entering transformers:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry... [huffpost.com]
These kind of election irregularity patterns seem to be becoming a norm. That is really unfortunate.
It's just the Pigeonhole Principle (Score:1)
When outages of some sort happen each and every day, of course there will be overlap with other events. Anyone who studied computer science im college (which admittedly is probably very few people here these days) will know that this is just an example of the Pigeonhole Principle.
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If you just type out the formula using regular words and symbols, people can read it just fine.
Re:Sounds too familiar (Score:4, Funny)
Not to worry, Erdogan had lots of feral cats rounded up and accused of stealing state secrets and fomenting reactionary ideas like freedom. We won't be seeing those cats out of prison for awhile. Erdogan is nothing if not thorough. Actually, he's almost but not quite above slime mould on the evolutionary scale of competency.
Hey Erdogan, if you don't completely tank Turkey's economy this year, remember there is always next year. Go get'em tiger!!
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FTFS:
Argentina's energy secretary, Gustavo Lopetegui, said the cause of the power failure had not yet been determined. The Ministry of Civil Protection estimated that parts of the service could be restored in about seven or eight hours.
If they don't know the cause, how can they know when it will be fixed . . . ?
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They applied "Protocol 7": PT N 7 - Recuperación de Colapso Total del SADI.
For the first time ever.
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See Argentina and Uruguay. (Score:1)
This is what happens when you're a sanctuary [wikipedia.org] for Nazis escaping after World War II. That's why you can't have nice things, like electricity and free/fair elections -- 73 years later. :-)
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This is what happens when you're a sanctuary [wikipedia.org] for Nazis escaping after World War II. That's why you can't have nice things, like electricity and free/fair elections -- 73 years later. :-)
I dunno . . . for the US, it worked out very well. We got a rocket that sent us to the moon.
"The Russians put our camera made by our German scientists and your film made by your German scientists into their satellite made by their German scientists." -- Ice Station Zebra
Hmmmmm (Score:2, Interesting)
Turkey... Venezuela... Russia... now Argentina.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action".
Thank goodness Uncle Sam would never dream of interfering in the internal political affairs (or elections) of any other nation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/wor... [bbc.co.uk]
https://gazettereview.com/2019... [gazettereview.com]
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0... [nytimes.com]
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Aren't you reading the news? Apparently it was THE RUSSIANS who brought down the grid in the USA. I know because of all the authoritative sources that tell me so.
It's hardly possible they could be mistaken. But I know they aren't, because they would have published retractions and apologies by now.
Russian Hackers Attacking U.S. Power Grid and Aviation, FBI Warns (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news... [bloomberg.com]
Russia Hacked U.S. Power Grid — So What Will The Trump Administration Do About It? (NPR)
https://ww [npr.org]
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My point precisely. I infer that you do not appreciate irony.
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The US overthrew the government of Iraq, and is actively trying to provoke war/regime change in Iran and Venezuela.
And the US has incestuous relationships with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
That's all the founding members of OPEC. Coincidence?
It sure is funny (Score:1)
that this coincides with another article today on Slashdot:
America Planted Malware In Russia's Power Grid, Says NYT [slashdot.org]
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Why did God invent geography?
So Americans wouldn't look quite so bad at history.
If this happens here ... (Score:2, Troll)
Philippines (Score:2)
Who did this (Score:1)
I am really surprised that it does not get more media coverage in the west.
Who is behind this ? is the the US ? The Russians ? Or China ? It is likely a state sponsored entity, and western media are afraid to scare their population. The US or EU would end up with civilian unrest, possible war if it happened here.
We are so dependent on electricity. And young people without google and the Internet would know nothing about anything, neither have any friends any more.
Tinfoil Hat (Score:3)
"Vote for me and you'll get power" (Score:1)
....one hell of a campaign speech.