| ... we had our own backup nuclear power plant. Of course, the rampup time on that was three years, so we also had a coal plant that could go online in three days. To bridge THAT gap we kept a large staff of athletes on treadmills that could begin producing several gigawatts of electricity within a few minutes, and of course we had two acres of Energizer batteries hooked together ready to go online in three seconds.
I kept trying to point out that we didn't have any plan for bridging the three second gap, and I finally made some headway just before we went bankrupt. It was a dot.com that was going to make a fortune by providing a marketplace for exchanging interior decorating ideas, but the founder was a little too obsessed with absolute 24/7/365 uptime. You know how dot.coms get their priorities mixed up... |
