40 The Female Future Arrives - 16 hour major telecomms outage in Australia (www.smh.com.au) posted 1 year ago by NoEyesNoGroin 1 year ago by NoEyesNoGroin +41 / -1 Optus offers free data but customers could seek thousands in compensation The telecommunications industry ombudsman warned she was prepared to force Optus into large compensation payments if it refused to settle claims. 22 comments share 22 comments share save hide report block hide replies
All I know is that some coffee machines in offices weren't working because they needed access to the Internet to work.
We really are the descendants of the Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B!
EDIT: Turns out cats don't get fed without Wifi either!
Everyone laughed in that episode of Futurama where the robots rebelled and the humans had to relearn fire and the wheel. It's not so funny now.
South park's B-plot in the last episode touched on this topic as well. The regular maintenance guys were all rich as fuck since everyone else didn't understand how to do simple repairs of their own property.
Fine, what color should the wheel be?