What Are You Doing Right Now? (143 Viewers)

[swag]

What's the deal if it rains?

Rain, shine -- doesn't matter all that much. The power goes out in India several times a day, and people don't even notice.

India is a country with a weak central government but entrepreneurial fringes. So there are complete failures to deliver the centralized basics reliably at times -- electricity, water, even roads -- so these private markets develop to fill in the gaps. People who sell generators, water, etc. So even the newest buildings are losing central power all the time but frequently shifting over to internal generator power. And back and forth.

It's kind of a trip to an outsider. But you gotta admire how people find a way to make a buck filling the gaps.

 

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[WΏΏdy?]

Back from the match,won it as usual but took a shot on my buttock and it hurts like hell

 

[WΏΏdy?]

Ive never seen a power cut in pune or mumbai if it rains,unless ofcourse if something blows up.

Then again we have the most expensive electricity rates in all of india

 

[.zero]

Ive never seen a power cut in pune or mumbai if it rains,unless ofcourse if something blows up.

Then again we have the most expensive electricity rates in all of india

The first things to go in a severe weather or other situation is the cell phone lines

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

Back from the match,won it as usual but took a shot on my buttock and it hurts like hell

That always happens with cricket bats, isn't that true, Kevin?

Ive never seen a power cut in pune or mumbai if it rains,unless ofcourse if something blows up.

Then again we have the most expensive electricity rates in all of india

Define "expensive."

 

[WΏΏdy?]

The first things to go in a severe weather or other situation is the cell phone lines

Well for Reliance and AirTel networks it is true even when the weather is fine and everyone is happy

 

[WΏΏdy?]

That always happens with cricket bats, isn't that true, Kevin?

Define "expensive."

Who is kevin? Are u giving byrone a low blow mentioning the player who betrayed SA?

I dont really know how u calculate a unit of electricty in america or in india...i just know that stat because it was all over billboards during the last elections where everyone promised the our state will not pay the highest electricty rates in all of india....they did win and the rates increased.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

What you just described, Sheik, is called "India".

So an American is telling a Indian who's lived in India all his life what India is?

What's the deal if it rains?

It's just an excuse for teh govt. to cut power. Like a tree fell on power lines and cut it, or a transformer short-circuited. It's just not done blatantly, and there are many instances where I've had power while it rained all night long. It's very irregular and intermittent.

Rain, shine -- doesn't matter all that much. The power goes out in India several times a day, and people don't even notice.

India is a country with a weak central government but entrepreneurial fringes. So there are complete failures to deliver the centralized basics reliably at times -- electricity, water, even roads -- so these private markets develop to fill in the gaps. People who sell generators, water, etc. So even the newest buildings are losing central power all the time but frequently shifting over to internal generator power. And back and forth.

It's kind of a trip to an outsider. But you gotta admire how people find a way to make a buck filling the gaps.

Well we do notice. And people are speaking against it. So it's actually got better than before. But I agree with the filling the gaps point.

The first things to go in a severe weather or other situation is the cell phone lines

I've never experienced that. It works without a hitch when it rains.

 

[.zero]

I heard that the government cut all the cell phone lines during 26/11

 

[WΏΏdy?]

I heard that the government cut all the cell phone lines during 26/11

I think it was just mumbai,and to be specific it was just colaba in mumbai

Edit : 26/11

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

Who is kevin? Are u giving byrone a low blow mentioning the player who betrayed SA?

I dont really know how u calculate a unit of electricty in america or in india...i just know that stat because it was all over billboards during the last elections where everyone promised the our state will not pay the highest electricty rates in all of india....they did win and the rates increased.

That sucks.

And the Kevin thing:

I heard that the government cut all the cell phone lines during 26/11

Why would they do that?

 

[.zero]

I think it was just mumbai,and to be specific it was just colaba in mumbai

Edit : 26/11

Yea I meant Mumbai

It wasn't just Colaba. My cousins live in Vile Parle and they said that the lines were cut all over the metro

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Why would they do that?

Due to the terrorist attacks that day?

 

[.zero]

That sucks.

And the Kevin thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdFLPn30dvQ


Why would they do that?

To prevent widespread panic, also the news travels slower so media outlets can't report the situation as fast. It didn't matter because the police never had the situation under control until the damage was already done.

 

[.zero]

Due to the terrorist attacks that day?

Yea

fucking Kasab, and his inbred paki friends

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

Due to the terrorist attacks that day?

I don't know, don't ask me...

To prevent widespread panic, also the news travels slower so media outlets can't report the situation as fast. It didn't matter because the police never had the situation under control until the damage was already done.

Seems relatively logical.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Yea

fucking Kasab, and his inbred paki friends

Indeed. I hope they castrate him!

I don't know, don't ask me...

It's cool.

 

[swag]

So an American is telling a Indian who's lived in India all his life what India is?

Damn right! You can't pull your propaganda on me!

 

[.zero]

I don't know, don't ask me...

Seems relatively logical.

People here would shit a brick if the government even thought of doing such a thing. Think of every organized group (political or not) raising hell - including the original 9 members of the Wu-Tang Clan

 

[Bezzy]

So lovers and friends what's up around here?

Ordered a funghi Pizza