[34432] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: California Seizes Power Contracts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bradley Dunn)
Tue Feb 6 02:18:33 2001
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Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 23:10:12 -0800
To: "Brian" <bri@sonicboom.org>, <linneweh@concentric.net>,
"nanog" <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>
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At 10:29 PM 2/5/2001 -0800, Brian wrote:
>Seize is really a poor word choice by the article's author imho. They all
>just wanna scare the crap out of us..
We should be scared. California's power industry is being nationalized.
Regarding the word choice, "seize" is accurate. The Governor himself used
the word when he stole SoCal Edison's contracts last week:
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010202/n0261195.html
"I am using my emergency powers to seize options to buy very inexpensive
power that would otherwise be lost forever," Davis said in a statement.
No, you can't configure your router for that. Sorry for the non-operational
content.
Bradley
